AT 60...

AT 60...

* Still far from basic healthcare sanitation and literacy levels
* Mockery of the Judicial system
* Politics an exclusive domain of the corrupt and fragile.
* Colonial hangover: A frenzied competition for 'select' educational courses in the country.
* Youth: a lack of sense of nation building among youth, who waste national resources and corroborate activities detrimental to the nation. eg: employing child labor while living in the suburbs of newer cosmopolitans
* Public sector is in a mess

BUT WE STILL HOPE....TO TRANSFORM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY...THE REPUBLIC OF HOPE

This is the most inspiring(boggling??) lyrics of a song i ever heard

...And you open the door and you
step inside. We're inside our
hearts. Now, imagine your pain as a
white ball of healing light. That's
right, it's your pain the pain itself is a ball of
healing light.

i don't think so

This is your life
Good to the last drop
doesn't get any better than this

This is your
life, and it's ending one minute at
a time.

This isn't a seminar
This is no weekend retreat
Where you are now
You can't even imagine what the bottom will be like
Only after disaster can we be resurrected
It's only after you've lost everything that you are free to do anything


Nothing is static
Everything is evolving
Everything is falling apart
This is your life
It doesn't get any better than this
This is your life
And its ending one minute at a time

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
We are all part of the same compost heap
We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world

You are not your bank account
You are not the clothes you wear
You are not the contents of your wallet

You are not your bowel cancer
You are not your grand latte?
You are not the car you drive
You are not your fucking khakis?

You have to give up
You have to give up
You have to realise that someday you will die
Until you know that, you are useless.

I say let me be never complete
I say may I never be content
I say deliver me from Swedish furniture
I say deliver me from clever art
I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth

I say you have to give up
I say evolve and let the chips fall where they may
This is your life

Doesn't get any better than this
This is your life
And its ending one minute at a time

You have to give up
You have to give up
(I want you to hit me as hard as you can)
Welcome to Fight Club
If this is your first night, you have to fight.

Movie:Fight club
Soundtrack:Dust bros.

So much seemed so less..

It was a cloudy morning,when i stepped out for a walk.I had been working all night long on my laptop and this was refreshing for a change.My health was not really good during the couple of past days(suffering from sinusitis which doesn't allow your olfactory senses to distinguish roses and cow dungs!!)I was really frustrated with this ailment of mine,which had no permanent cure as well.But that day,a very strange incident happened.A poor blind couple asked me to help them out find an auto.I looked at them with pitiful eyes,they were really helpless and poor.I thought I was the only person in the whole world troubled with ailment,an here what i saw was the real irony of life.I had so much more when i realized what actual misery can be.I felt like i was offered the best gifts by nature,which i had failed to realize and appreciate.This is a lesson I would remember all my life.

Spirit of RP

On a new road I started a tread
like a stranger I came, new people I met
didnt really realize I moved one year ahead!!

We all came to this place as a bunch of second years
Confusion in mind,with doubts and unknown fears
shifting to a new place, changing life's gears

it started with introduction and knowing em all
Feeling the difference of a hostel and a hall
feeling the oneness,the spirit overall
feeling a part of the honors in scroll

Cheering our teams in inter hall events
a sense of pride if we bagged a medal
Be it sports tech or socio cultural
we always tried out best,not to win,but triumph....

The days of dramatics,the wee hours of night
Bhaat maaroing at cheddis,sharing each other's insight
The B'day bashes and treats that followed
A journey so vivid,a life so colored

The frenzy of illu and rangoli
chatais and diyas ,combined beautifully
Nightout with pals,Hunger pangs@1 in night
There is always Carlosda,to provide some respite!!
Tempo shouts in a huddle,shouting as one might
come athletics GC,we are ready to run
life is awake here till the rise of morning sun

Two more years in this vibrant zone
Shaping our lives,to reach milestone
More of friendships and bondings to stay
"gentlemen by choice" is that what they say....

-Vaibhav Maheshwari
10 April
3:40 a.m.
Half in senses,half dreaming.
starry outside,
B120 RP Hall
IIT Kgp-721302

A mole's view of the cosmos

We are a way for the cosmos to know Itself

I had just completed my Drawing assignment of Mechanisms...and yes...this time no copy paste business!This was as original as Da Vinci's Monalisa ;) .Lights were turned off and I had to be in bed for the morning class(I hate em).I couldn't sleep for sometime ,though I pretended to do so in order that my roommate turned off lights.Suddenly something very extraordinary happened.I witnessed flashes of memories ,of all the places I had been so far.I could see my childhood days and memories of incidents which had a lasting effect on my mind.I could also see the hills, and the snowing sun.In my subtle mind,I thought it was a dream.I could wrap the 'time',and go beyond 'space'...I thought it was so wonderful,to be able to go back in time again.Suddenly,I realized it was no longer a dream and I was seeing all this while I was awake.

I had an urge to go out of the room to take a whiff of fresh air.The morning air smells obnoxiously pleasant in kgp I tell you!I was staring at the sky,Thinking about my Identity,whether I was the same person which had been in those time and places.It seemed so different!I saw the most beautiful night sky I had ever seen in my life that day.What is this universe....and its amazing things...the most amazing being this planet ....full of life which no other planet(till known) nurtures.I stood there for a long moment.I was in no state to answer what I saw or felt....it was just amazing.I stood there,wondering about the infinity of stars,some having systems of planets.....of which very few having life....and of the fewest of all,some may have another rational person like me....staring in some other direction of this vagueness,wondering about the mysteries unknown to all.....

It was more than what my small cerebrum could handle...I cought a small nap (still bewildered and confused).Oops ...it was 7 already,time to grab a toast and rush to the main complex!!