Time to retrospect; during my school days, we had our daily prayers and we used to recite this poem by Tagore every day. At that time, we did not realize the real significance of this piece of Nobel winning literature. Now, after 7 years, I feel nostalgic and saddened. I understand it was not only a poem, but a thought, an attitude which our freedom fighters had and wanted the same to be inculcated in the future generations. His poems and thoughts are still alive between us, children recite them daily in schools, but why does that ideology die when we grow up? Where does the feeling of “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high” go? Forget the world, why is India is still breaking up into fragments by narrow domestic walls? Because, we were never taught the true meaning of these lines, they were just a routine activity for us. Our class teacher used to punish us if we did not attend the daily assembly, but were we ever told, why do we need to attend the assembly in the first place?! Not really. At least not in school. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for January, 2010
Indian Republic Day – “Where the Mind is Without Fear”
India vs China – A Bird’s Eye View
Recently I can across this amazing blog post by Mr Sujai Karampuri, CEO, Sloka Telecom (It’s an Indian startup in the telecom sector). It is one of the new breed of companies in India Inc who actually innovate and not provide services to the west.
His post addresses an answer to one of the most common topic these days,
India is rising, India will be a superpower in the next 10 years, west is going down, India has an edge over China with it’s English speaking people etc.
But is India actually in a position to take over the west? Can it manage to transfer the center of gravity of the worlds largest companies (Like MSFT, CISCO, IBM) to India and itself start new ones?! I don’t think so with our corrupt politicians, lack on Read the rest of this entry »
Why is March 14, 2015 9:26:53 important?
I recently came across this question, Why is March 14, 2015 9:26:53 important? I wondered, “Is it a trick question?, Some body’s birthday? or The world is gonna end in 2015 now?!”. But it was actually very different, it turns out to be an “important” day for my geeky mathematics friends. Mathematics?! Yes.
Here is why, Read the rest of this entry »
Epic Fail in Ubuntu – X Windows (The Copy Paste Bug)
I have been using Ubuntu 9.10 for a while now and one major copy-paste problem in Ubuntu (GNOME DE) struck me!!
The problem is, if you copy some text from a file and you close that file (i.e. close the source), the copied text also disappears! Initially I ignored the problem, but after a while, I had it! It was really very annoying if you copied some important link and you close Firefox, the link was lost!
When I went out and searched for the problem then I found this, the actual bug report on the Ubuntu Bug Tracker. According to the Canonical guys, it is a system feature of the X-Windows System, as per its design, it does not have any persistent store mechanism and that sucks! (Here are the X-windows Clipboard manager specifications which is presently deployed on Ubuntu 9.10) Read the rest of this entry »
Who is lukeywes1234? – The Power of Web 2.0
He is just a kid who had some videos uploaded from the Super Mario Bros like The Super Luigi Super Show: Luigi’s Room, The Super Luigi Super Show: Luigi’s Computer etc.
lukeywes1234 is one of the hottest keywords on the internet these days. Another star of the Web 2.0 world!
He requested YouTube users to subscribe to his channel, he had an target of 50 subscribers till Feb, 2010.
And here comes the shocker! Read the rest of this entry »
