Internship!!!

The word seems to be pretty vogue among all students. The word itself demands respect among us. The reasons which were offered to me-

1) They offer you real-time professional experience

2) Make u feel worthy enough to be paid.

So Is this post an epitome of internship credibility? No. This post is all about my frustness (frustration) that I experienced in all my past Internships. Why are they sooooooooo Highly rated among us?? In a usual classroom they are always people who inform us about the value of a professional experience. So what is this professional experience? Simply Its just working among more and more constraints. How can a constraint be good. Constraint is always bad. It CONSTRAINTS your brain. Let me put in some examples (to all those who didn’t experience it)

You can build a 20mt cantilevered space in a classroom. In real world money is a constraint. In classroom you can think of exact engineering in constructing a beam. In real world just copy the building codes. In classroom you can discuss your thought and if prof rejects it, you don’t have to push a panic button. In office be careful with every word you use. Classrooms are built so that you earn how to learn. Offices are built so that u learn how to earn.

Offices are better for those who live for bread. Classrooms are better for those who bread to live. Choose which category you belong to.

P.S. - Never abuse your profs. They were the one who taught you how to learn.

Development !!!

I have been wondering ' what is the actual purpose of my blog?'. The answer to that would be 'to make a collection of my randomly occurring not-so stupid meticulous thoughts'. I could however maintain a diary!! Yaa but it feels like a celebrity when someone reads your thoughts and even better if they comment on it,so please do. I also get a reality check. So todays post is about 'My strategic planning for the development of rural people dependant on Agriculture'. My dad is a Farmer, So that inspires me to think about it.
It is a well known fact that India has been achieving high growth rates and a more well known fact it is majorily limited to urban India. There has been rise in migration from villages. There have been many protests regarding this issue and many fingers are being pointed towards the authenticity of growth index. But I ask them WHY SUCH PESSIMISM?!! Migration from the field of Agriculture is the best thing that ever happened to this country. Land is constant but our population isn't. India faces the major problems in agriculture because of the small scale of farmlands . There isn't a market for heavy machinery oriented agriculture which leads to less economic output per person. So if migration increases and people are changing there occupations, its actually increasing the value output of farmer per unit land. If you look back into history, you will notice that there is no major economy which became 'Major' basing on agriculture. So my first point to future generations and potential parents of that generation to encourage migration form Agriculture
Second point has been much spoken about and has always been on the brochure of electoral campaigns of all the political parties. That use of science and technology to increase the yield of the fields. Yes! Once upon a time there was a green revolution in 1970's. India became self sufficient. But why such an OPTIMISM here. The government has been spending huge amount of economic and intellectual property on this cause only. The results have not been very encouraging,least of all mind boggling. I just wonder what the politicians plan to do!! They may be able to achieve higher yields but will that actually result in increase of income to farmers. The research should have been towards value addition of present output,ex- Ethanol manufacturing. This should actually impact the farmers economic condition. So my second point is value addition.
How many times have you eaten noodles?? Strange question. That is the impact of proper marketing. I cant comprehend the fact that our companies never tried to market our sweets or cuisines in packaged forms outside India. There has been beginning, all compliments to haldirams,ITC etc.. But still there impact is very localised. When Chinese could create a market for noodles all over the world,why cant India?? Third Point we should create a market for our products outside India. This will have a huge impact on economic condition of farmers. So to achieve this,first government has to encourage private companies into this sector. They will take this baton from the government. So to do so government should encourage companies to setup factories in rural areas. For government to do so we should not fall into the trap of opposition parties. To do so our people should have a proper knowledge of this happenings.

P.S.- This post was inspired by the lameness of Tata IDEA cellular operating services ad. If you remember 'JUNTA ne naa kaha toh NAA'.

KGP life

I copy pasted it from facebook... but this deserves a space in my blog...

1. You've never had breakfast at the mess.

2. DOSA for you isn't a thing to eat, but you feel like eating him.

3. You've suffered from Conjuctivitis/Jaundice in the Insti.

4. You've never had lunch at the mess.

5. You've never attended lectures before 9:30.

6. You think Sugar n Spice is the most stylish place in the world.

7. You're addicted to How I met your mother and californication.

8. More than half your t-shirts are from ecell, kshitij or sf.

9.You tried learning how to play the guitar, but gave up eventually.

10. Cheddis is the best place in the world.

11. You've never attended Snacks in the mess.

12. Your stomach grumbles every time you have Swagat food.

13. You've heard Comfortably Numb and Mauja hi Mauja coming out from the same room.

14.You've never attended dinner at the mess.

15. You wouldn't be alive if JCB Canteen wasn't there.

16. You've set the alarm in time for the first class in the morning, but then reset it for the first class in the afternoon, and then reset it for the snacks.

17. You've slept through Spring Fest/Kshitij.

18. You're wondering how few episodes of Big Bang Theory are there.

19. Your cycle's suffered multiple crashes. And so have you.

20. A crow has crapped on you on the way to the Tech Market.

21. You've riden through the streets of Kharagpur and contimplated suicide.

22. You know that if all else fails, there is always the grog shop.

23. Whenever you go to a Cafe outside Kharagpur, you ask for Frappe and Lemon Iced Tea.

24. You crib about missing City life in Kharagpur.

25. You crib about missing Kharagpur life in the City.

26. You have a book overdue by 2 months to the hall library.

27. You've fucked off a lecture because your friends/people from your lecture are watching IPL in the common room.

28. Your standard reply when you see the lecturer who's lecture you just skipped is "got cycle punctured".

29. Turning up at 9.15 for your 9 o clock lecture is considered by you to be on time.

30. You sleep through most of your lectures. And your friends take your picture and put it on Orkut/Facebook.

31.banda bandi load peace makhau tempo funde lele machau bakchodi chutiyaps compu poltu studapa god hugga mugga and yeah the third rhyming word to the above two!

32. You think that there will be some hot girls in the junior batch who you'll try and hook up with. And this happens every year.

33. You don't have water for 8 hrs and when it finally starts, it looks like its dissolved with coffee and dog crap.


34. Your parents have more of a social life than you.Your 14-year-old brother has more of a social life than you.

35. When preparing for Mid/End Sems, you consider 2 am early. And think you have enough time to prepare. And then go and play a game of Counter Strike/ Age of Empires before getting back to studies.

36. You've crapped and realised that the water supply isn't there.

37. Frappes.

38. You think they named it mess appropriately.

39. You confuse sunrise with sunset. And males with females.

40. Your definition of disco is PERPZ.

41. You bitch about TDS being a crappy society and you go to watch each one of their shows.

42. You abuse KGP politu stuff and never miss an opportunity to get involved and machau gandagi.


43. Chana Patties.

44. You still drink slice and wonder why the only production of it is done in Kharagpur. Plus you notice the red crappy stuff sticking to every bottle of it which looks like some liquified tablet.

45. You believe in Rock! If you want Pop, go call your Dad.

46. DC++ Zindabad. You've waited for days to download from the top sharer.

47. You'd rather sleep thirsty than fill up the water from the water filter. You'd rather be thirsty than drink water that looks as if its filled with crap and ketchup.

48. You didn't know Fried Maggi existed. But love the Fried Maggi from Chillies.

49. Bondhu's rocks!!!

50. Bhajans are now a very important part of your life. More important than rock, certainly.

51. You think Illumination sucks, but still do it every year.

52. You have spammed thousands of profs in US/Europe demanding an intern position. And sent a &%$# mail if he say it can be an unpaid internship.

53. You finished two seasons of Friends/Prison Break in two days just before the mid-sems. And finished two more seasons during the mid-sems.

54.You try your best to ensure the complete secrecy of your Birthday, or bluff that you were born in December/May/June/July... only to find your ass taken completely by surprise an unsuspecting midnight !!

55. Yent ra.

56. Nescafe.

57.Doing assignments means cogging assignments to you. And half your assignments are completed only the class before the class you've to submit the assignments in.

58. Slept through SOPs. Learnt how to sleep while standing in SOP.


59. You know a sentence with zig zag zig zag and ... insti ka baap hai!

60.You know more about vertical chatais, then horizontal chatais (mattress).

61. You have stood up on 7th floor of tables. (with your mates trying to throw it/you.)

62. You know 1,2,11,14 means yes, no, lol, and "start the game already" respectively.

63. You have worn 3 or more underwears on your birthday and have stuffed newspaper in your trousers on your birthday, to try lessen the pain. Only to be beaten up twice, and know the difference.

64. You still watch that 1960's or so Kgp video on LAN (the one that opens with a view of our fav railway station and starts with "You can take a an IITian out of Kgp, but not Kgp out of an IITian) specially when you are a final year. And you think that's boring. But still you continue to watch it.

65.If your mess golgappa was the worst Golgappa in the world(as if), you would still have it.

66) You have gone to 'sub committee' meetings with the sole purpose of raising a storm over a tea cup. And we can't forget to poltu machaing. And gandagi karing. And kuch huha bc roy sn hall blah blah.

67) Tech market is like a shopping mall for you. You've been noticing the decreasing number of pani puris which come for 5 bucks. First 10, then 8 and now 7! Do they want us to die?

68) Your idea of going to a treat is taking 3-4 taxis to GIH/GI/TPark, stopping the taxi on the way to stock up alcohol, returning after midnight and then jhandaoing at golC, and yes clicking thousands of pics of the entire process. And then thinking KGP Life is the best.


69. The single most used word which encapsulates life here is.....drumroll..... frust.You are so frustrated with the length of the word frustrated because you use it so many frustrating times that you get frustrated and end up making a short form of the word so you don't get frustrated saying frustrated all the time. Wasn't that frustrating?

70. Frussssst.Acads, Food, Profs, Wingie for not returning your set square which you need in TA Lab and it's already 1:35 and you're gonna be late, Dhobi banging on your door all the time, Lack of the fairer sex,Bad water supply when you finally decide to have a bath after a week, Bills, Study material, Recharge, Smelly clothes, Pending assignments, Seniors telling you to do work for them, frequent quizzes.Need more?

71. You either have really long hair or no hair at all(Either way, you look like a dork, so what the hell).

72. Spring Fest. Enter bandis. Enter you with james bond music and pressed clothes(okay, pushing it too far). Sexual tension(or so you hope). Hesitation. First Sight?(No love?) Tryst at making conversation. Sweat glands overgrowing. Ignored. Leaves. Sulks. Next day. New pressed clothes...

73. You find sexual innuendos in your assignments.

74. You thought getting into IIT was difficult, trying getting out, bitch.


75. Dep Sento(Yo Archies!). Hall Tempo. GC fight. Insti ka baap.

76. You've lost your ID Card and\or registered late for a semester. You know the hassles of the Academic Section, Bank, Account Section, HOD, Dean(s), random prof(s).

77. You came in your 1st year with the hopes of a DepC only to find out that GC and DC are more important.

Empty

It’s hard to blog when you are in a city and it’s even harder if you are working. I didn’t realize this during my lazy and pointless nightouts at Kharagpur. You never get that personal space here, in my case it’s almost impossible. I always wondered in my school days ' I like writing but why am I not able to Write'. Now I think my wonder has lost its glamour. I travel more than 50 Km daily and my petrol bill has almost made me bankrupt. I am so optimistic that I am confident of completing 8 jobs in a single day. I want to emulate Amir Khan's feat of 8pack abs during my six months of stay. I want to make use of the guitar that was left behind by one of my lovely seniors. I want to bell cat 2009.I have other 4 academic jobs and want to excel in each one of them. I want to catch up with all my friends and I want to keep the promises that I made to them during countless online chats. I want to run my company. At the end of it all 'I want to write'. Sorry for citing so many excuses for a delayed post. I know there’s a saying ‘where there is will there is way’. Trust me, my will is endless but my time is not.
So today at Christmas Eve I am empty, both mind and pocket. My mind is filled with vacuum. I haven't been thinking for past 20 days, I have allowed my surroundings to take over me. It’s like I have become a puppet of my own goals. I have lost track of my goals too, I am just doing whatever people want me to do. I have been split among my professional workspace and personal relations. It’s tough to be alien to both of these. When I planned my stay at city from my room in Kharagpur, it was all perfect. I planned each one of my minutes and priorities were all set. But now that I am here, I realize it’s all misplanned. All my plans are proved to be as brittle as glass. So my mind is empty .It is reluctant for a while!!
Then after a while it again starts to plan. It's so mean!! It wants me to try again but with a revised plan that it has generated. It has a thorough knowledge that it is asking me to achieve almost impossible and it is sure that I will fail. But it wants me try and fail again. Again go through all the agony that I have mentioned already. It wants me to do it so that I will be that Spider. Remember that spider and king story. Yes, my mind believes that I am like that spider.
But what do I wish today ' I hope it was empty'. I wish it was happy in that emptiness.

p.s. : I hope it achieved everything it wished, with that emptiness.

tears in my eyes

                  Pardon my grammer today.I am writing this post in a rush,in first place I shouldnt be writing it but should concentrate on my submissions which are long due.But I cannot draw a single line without expressing my feelings.I know they wont serve any purpose.I know they are just another set of tears for you guys.Please forgive me for a 'yet another post' on this issue.

                 I cant take it.I wont take it but what can I do?I dont know! I have heard similar news  many times in past few months.Everytime my heartbeat takes a sinesoidal wave.I just wish it didnt.I want to be just another person who will show sympathy but cant offer help,As he is too busy with his own personal sinesoidal waves.I dont pity the dead,I pity the people they left behind.I pity the responsibilities they didnt complete.I pity my thought that wants to get rid of these responsibilities as soon as possible without thinking of those dead.I pity myself.My freind asked me what did you achieve by writing it ?I am not able answer his query because I dont know the answer.I may be  a pseudo patriotic but  still it hurts.

                 So if anyone knows the email id of Rahul Gandhi.Please forward it.

I wanna write something....

        Saw  order of phoenix for fifth time... will see dostana today........got out of exam hall one hour before others....... finished an hour before that..... the girl adjacent to me was cute.... she is doing her masters and still drew margins on question paper.... but not  a great soul...  she malpracticed.....  after 21 yrs in Indian education system still I can’t do it..... my friends think I could...but I don’t think I will ever be able to ....I was highly tempted to do so....than informed JD about internship...he said good...and was very anxious about my stipend...when I told him the amount...he was like 'the people hiring you, seem to be foolish'..... Obviously they are...they studied under you.....   came back to hall ...gave back the calculator to Tarun....enquired about CAT.... reviewed the paper...checked out the blog in hope that anyone would comment......disappointment....so I thought 'why shouldn’t I scribble something myself'....it’s my blog after all... so guys that’s the story.... wish me all the luck for my Air Conditioning exam... which is not gonna be cool...... dreadful PJ

An entrepreneur inside me

 This post is long due to me. I always wondered when am I the most happiest? I always knew the answer but my conscience never allowed me to oblige it. The answer glared at me today. So what exactly happened today? I attended a Talk ‘An overview of our general approach and activity to startups' by Joy laskar. Joy laskar is the Schlumberger Chair in Microelectronics and also a Director at GeorgiaTech. What a personality!! I was invited by one of the friends from E-cell. Basically a courtesy call but I took it seriously. He didn’t even expect me to come and gave me the glare, which I think meant 'don’t you have anything better to do than attending Talks, get a life dude!! exams are from next week'. None can stop me from attending lectures on startup's, that’s the only passion in my life other than architecture, advertising, bureaucracy, writing etc.

                           It is a passion, believe me. I walked all the way to vgsom and was alone. None of my friends were really interested and even dude (dilip) turned me down. I think Argon18 would oblige my passion basing on my attendance record (25%).So what exactly cheered me up at this talk ?It was Joy Laskar. He didn’t speak on the organisational structures in a start-up which I hoped for. But he basically answered the question 'How should you convince venture capitalists that your enterprise would fetch a revenue of one billion and would get listed at NASDAQ in next five years?'

                          So the basic question how did he propose to do it? His first statement "Always put forward the market not the technology, VC's are not interested in a technological innovation but the market potential it has". Bang on!!The way he proposed it, might be rude for all those innovators but for me it was like 20yrs down the lane. Then he emphasised on how small is the VC world and the meager probability of getting a venture, which is in fact tending to zero. As start-ups are increasing at much higher rate than the VC's. Analysis of capital fund distribution. The ideology and psychology of investors. The mentality of a herd even in most enlightened communities.

                          Then he started drifting from startup culture into IC industry. How a nerd from G.Tech without any experience in marketing could get 25 million worth customers. He showed the picture of this nerd holding a integrated chip which at first glimpse looked like a plum cake to me. Then he showed a graph which according to him was an ideal example of whatever he wanted to explain, which by now you should have understood that I couldn’t get a word. Except for the words analog and digital for which I should thankful to my robotics experience. He emphasised on importance of credibility among the investors. Which according to him once lost will never be found. He also told the importance of explaining your business idea to as many tom, dick and harry's you can meet. This according to him made you well prepared for that one important presentation.

                          By this time, Time started playing the role of devil’s advocate. Joy Laskar had to rush up the things, so at last he emphasised on the importance of ‘Elevator Pitch’. My first reaction 'What’s that?'He modestly after explaining the importance of it, realised that crowd wasn't very amused. So he asked "Do any one of you know Elevator pitch?"Luckily to save the face of the crowd, someone answered it. It was a very simple concept. If anyone had an idea about baseball and did understand the meaning of a Pitch. If he had known how much time it takes for an elevator to traverse few floors. Then he should have cracked it. By now many of you have must have cracked it, rest consult a doctor. It was a great concept. His interrelation of Horserace and Elevator Pitch was hilarious and intuitive.

                          On the whole it was an evening that an entrepreneur would cherish. He then answered few questions, there were really few questions in fact only one. A student queried “how successful are college start-ups in gaining VC's?”The answer wasn’t astonishing but joy laskar made it even obvious. His answer "I am very good to drop-outs, as you see all the major ventures Yahoo, Google, Wipro, Apple etc. are all products of them. We people who are unfortunate to graduate are the people working under them and end up bald”. He reiterated that we hold a deadly combination of being in the age of change and being in the country with huge market potential.

                           So what made this experience happiest for me? It was the thought. I came up with so many business ideas during my walk back to the Hall. I don’t know how successful these ideas would be, if at all they are implemented .But the thing that ideas struck my head amazed me. It made me think!! It really made me think and I was happy to do the brainstorming. I like that feeling of stress and reluctance to leave the problem still I get a perfect business idea. I like the feeling of thinking unconventionally. Focus on the areas which may give me an opportunity . I like the feeling of creating something in society which would make their life’s comfortable inside the existing constraints. I like the thought that no one else could think about it. I like the entrepreneur in me.