Writing after a very long time.

Its been pretty long since I started writing a blog, do not know why, though. suddenly realized its bad not to write your own blog, so have jumped in to waste electronic paper. So what is that am going to talk about? Let see, man I have been thinking for more than 15 minutes. Ok, yeah, this is about a bunch of 4-5 guys who planned a trip to Hyderabad. Hold on, this is not about Saroja, its about a group of software geeks who spend all their time in Bangalore and have been planning a trip to Hyderabad from don't know how long.

The preparations started on Aug 2007 and I am writing this on Oct 15 th, 2008. The last reason I heard from them is an agent who promised them KSRTC bus tickets, but all of a sudden over priced the fare. So, its will be yet another vice versa trip to Bangalore which I am planning in November. Lets see if this works out at least or I am sure I'll end up making one of those geeks write a blog about me. :)

We have been fooled in school

I was shocked to hear the news that "Hindi is not the national language of India". We all have been fooled in school, in our NCERT text books, stating that Hindi is our national language.

India as a nation comprises of various languages and cultures. Every individual represents his language and culture likewise language and culture are symbols of ones identity. India considers itself a federal republic because it comprises of different states which have their own language and culture. There was a strong cultural and administrative reason to form the states based on linguistic affiliation, because of the vast diversity in culture and language. Thus each state has its own official language which mostly differs from that of other states'. That language is the lifeline of the people of state and it represents its culture, since language is the media for communication and inheritance of culture.
Hindi was accepted as official language in some states and it represented the culture of only those states. Nowhere in the constitution is Hindi mentioned as the "National language". According to Indian Constitution, 22 languages are accepted as scheduled languages. Among these 22 languages a single language does not represent India's culture in its entirety. A situation where a single language can represent India's culture can only be made possible by suppressing India's diverse cultures. Hence Hindi is NOT the "National Language" of India.

Many of the languages like Bhojpuri, Pahaadi, Rajasthani, Haryanvi, etc have been systematically reduced to "dialects" of Hindi. Many other languages like Punjabi, Marwari, Gujarati,Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi have lost their entertainment industries and are happy entertaining themselves in Hindi, an alien language to most people living in those states. Students in most of the states have been brainwashed that Hindi is the national language of India. Loyalty and patriotism to the nation has been reduced to acceptance of Hindi as the sole "National" and "Link" language. Any Indian having a different opinion on this is branded as not being nationalist enough! A bigger problem this has created is the false sense of superiority in the Hindi speakers. Their expectation that the whole of India speaks Hindi, their reluctance to learn the language of the place they settle in, arrogance that they display in their interaction with fellow non-Hindi speaking Indians is the biggest threat to national integration.

Please be aware of this fact and make sure to speak back if someone speaks superior of Hindi and inferior of your local language.

Some F1 Facts

* F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!

* When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph!!!

* F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!!!!


* F1 car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up on the other hand we expect our engines to last us for a decent 20yrs on an average and they quite faithfully DO....that's the extent to which the engines r pushed to perform...


* An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour (Yeah that's right!!!)


* At 550kg a F1 car is less than half the weight of a Mini.


* To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added down force can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the track.


* Without aerodynamic down force, high-performance racing cars have sufficient power to produce wheel spin and loss of control at 160 kph. They usually race at over 300 kph.


* In a street course race like the Monaco grand prix, the down force provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down to prevent this from happening!


* The refuelers used in F1 can supply 12 liters of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of an average 50 liter family car. They use the same refueling rigs used on US military helicopters today.


* TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3 seconds. It took me 8 sec to read above point


* During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5 kg in weight due to wear.

* Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed to last 90 - 120 km.

* A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C.(Water boils boils at 100C remember) At top speed, F1 tyres rotate 50 times a second.

And that's not Magic…. Its only the Power of Human Imagination…

Courtesy: Naga

Happy Days Review!!!

For people who are wondering, what is "Happy Days", its a youthful telugu movie worth commenting on, as it will touch every ex-college student.
I was not that interested to watch this movie, but by chance went to the theater. To my surprise the movie was full. but we managed 10 INR tickets, get set to watch the movie from the third row.

The movie doesn't have any special story as such. Happy days means that your college days are your most happy days. The movie starts with the freshers welcome and ends on the farewell.
The movie was so much fun to watch, just because it made me remember most of my college days.
The same well known dialogue, "You mighty mighty senior, me dirty dirty junior, May sir I sir please sir know sir your sir name sir sir sir". And yeah our Tek Salute too was there. And thirdly, the assignments were written for the seniors.

Next, it was formation of gangs in a class. One character portrayed to be selfish than friendly. One, who is a son of MLA, one normal guy who has to listen to his dad's lecture everyday. And yeah, their counterparts in girls.
I personally liked a person named Tyson. He on his first day would ask a senior, about the seniors own girl friend.
Let me not elaborate more than this, even though there is nothing much to elaborate.
If you are fresh out of college and if you miss your college life, just go for this movie and relinquish your college days which are far from rewindable now.
After watching this movie, you will surely appreciate the title as it makes a lot of sense and to prove it, ask yourself.
PS: Prakash Raj has got the rights for this movie in Tamil.

APJ Abdul Kalam - What a Leader!

There are so many resons for me to be proud of being an Indian. One of them is to have a leader like Dr APJ Kalam. He is the perfect example of how a leader should be. His vision, goals and thoughts are so motivating. He always makes sure he is not a politician, but one among us.

Some lines from his famous speech in Hyderabad.

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalaam's speech in Hyderabad
"I have three visions for India. In 3000 years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards, The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and Tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others.

That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of Independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.
My second vision for India's DEVELOPMENT, For fifty years we have been A developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10 percent growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today. Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves as a developed nation, self-reliant and self-assured. Isn't this incorrect?

I have a THIRD vision. India must stand up to the world. Because I believe that, unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. Only strength respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-in-hand. My good fortune was to have worked with three great minds. Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space, Professor Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him and Dr.Brahm Prakash, father of nuclear material. I was lucky to have worked with all three of them closely and consider this the great opportunity of my life.I see four milestones in my career:

For the full speech please click here.

It is worth reading many times.

Salutations to our best ever Indian President. We will make your dreams come true because we too are having the same dream. And as you said, You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Jai hind!!!

European Grandprix 2007.

The European grandprix last sunday was a dramatic event, with so many incidents happening all around the track, during the entire span of the race.
Some of the action and trauma:

1. Hamilton crashes in qualifiers.
2. Raikonen's Ferrari crawls to a halt in a stage where he was driving great.
3. Markus Winkelhock making his debut for Spyker-Ferrari had the wet tyres before the start of the race and during the rain time when everyone were in pits to change tyres, this guy was leading the race for almost 2 laps, until the safety cars arrived. What a momemt for a spyker driver making his debut and still manages to lead the race for 2 laps.
4. Kimi going into pits to change wet tyres, but suddenly comes out and continues the race. He was actually was giving way for Massa to change tyres as they were very close to each other. Kimi would have wasted nearly 5-6 seconds in that.
5. A series of clashes, and the only person to slightly escape was Hamilton during rain.
6. The best moment came in the last 10 laps when the rain God made it clear to the Ferrari team they are not going to win. Fernando Alonso was nearly 6 seconds behind Massa, but overtook him after a heart-pounding chase. What a great sight it was. To provide you with the same pleasure, here is the video of Alonso overtaking Massa.





7. After the race Massa had lots to talk about Alonso, obviously he felt it was unacceptable for Alonso to overtake him so closely. but as far as Alonso was concerned, he had it. Fernando Alonso, The European Grand Prix Winner.

Goran Ivanisevic...

I like watching international Tennis mathces very much. Tennis is a great sport which encapsulates a person's capability to show aggression and to stay cool. And whenever I think of Tennis, the first name that comes to my mind is Goran Ivanisevic ( why not Federer? ;-) ). I am a die hard fan of Ivanisevic, right from the day I started watching Tennis.

His 2001 Winbledon campaign was too memorable. Anybody in this world who knows about tennis will know this guy, for his great serves. He has a great service and I have seen many matches where he has taken a game with four aces in a row. Goran, along with his serve is a masterpeice, though his game is not extraordinary. He is very active on-court and does lots of things that people usually do off-court.Here is a sample video of what happened in a match between Goran and Rafter.