Read the post "Who Killed The IIT JEE" on Manish Chauhan's Blog The comments to this post are equally frustrated. I was more than surprised how all of these people missed and mis-interpreted the whole aspect of paper format. I am posting my interpretation which I presume is correct. According to the new format, the IIT-JEE paper itself will include "short write-ups on various topics followed by objective questions based on the write-up" which means two things 1. Students will NOT need to write any paragraphs or essays in the paper as is being presumed by so many people. 2. Students need not mug up or remember loads of information and rather need to further concentrate on building concepts. The paper will test how well they can answer questions based on their understanding of the passage given in the paper itself. Its a test of grasping power .. a very welcome change according to me. More so the changes are not proposed by government (unlike changes done by Mu...

A forward comparing Katrina and Mumbai Rains is making rounds these days... I could not find a better answer to it than the one Here http://chaoticmoments.blogspot.com/2005/09/just-adding-on.html#comments PS: I am in Hyderabad on an official trip ... little time to post .... hoping to post something as soon as I find time.

M/s Manhole Constructors Pvt. Ltd. Potholed Road, Pagdandi Marg Bambai The Commissioner Municipality of Poorna Dear Sir/Madam, Sub: Bid with reference tender dated xx/xx/xxxx for construction of Roads within Poorna With reference to your tender dated xx/xx/xxxx regarding construction of roads on your district; we would like to present our bid. The Municipality of Poorna City realises the need to build/repair the arterial and sub-arterial roads in the city. The construction is supposed to take place before the start of the rainy season. The roads to be repaired over a length of 42Kms had been originally constructed in 1942 and were last repaired 15 years ago. In addition, 16Kms of roads are to be newly constructed; they will connect the recently (5 years ago) inhabited parts of the city. We would like to offer our services for construction as well as repairing of roads. The roads will be constructed using – ‘TarSand’ – a proprietary mixture developed by our firm which comprises of tar ...

Mr. VK Pedia's blog , that I discovered yesterday has spurred me to post today again. Using the most solemn messages he has urged people to CONCENTRATE . I personally have always had problems with this word. When I was in class 5th, it so happened that my grandfather was reading a newspaper sitting on a chair beside me while I was reading my textbook. My right hand was simultaneously playing with a pencil. After 10 minutes, my grandfather could no more resist and remarked - "You can't do just one thing at a time; can you?". Years later when I used to study for my engineering entrance with Music blaring from my music system, he repeated that remark to my mom. And even today, while in office I cannot work with only one window open on my desktop. I usually will have a Yahoo! Or GMail window open while I am editing an official document and more often than not I would be composing a mail on these windows while I work on my document simultaneously. Multitaksing is something...

Media's over-enthused potrayal of a simple Darwinian concept of 'Survival Instinct' as the Mumbaikar Spirit has always agitated me ... so much irritating this term is to me that I could not even describe it in my own words. Thankfully, VKPedia has put his thoughts (which are the same as mine) very clearly - " 'To survive' is not copyright protected by the New Yorker or the Londoner or the Mumbaikar. It is the most basic of all instincts. In a life which is so subtly controlled by things beyond our control, this is what makes us report to work every single day. Volcano, earthquake or tsunami, I have some mouths to feed - at least one (my own). Not some media-devised snob value associated with living in one of the commercial capitals of this world." To read the complete post go to :- http://vkpedia.blogspot.com/2005/08/spirit-what-spirit.html