Wings of Fire

Mt Zx

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Mt Zx.

Bedreamcooler Zx

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Clawer Zx

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ColourMix Zx

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ColourMix Zx

Enlightenment Zx

2008-04-16T20:39:00.001+05:30

Enlightenment Zx

FlowerRiver Zx

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FlowerRiver Zx.

Shellshiner Zx

2008-04-09T19:11:00.003+05:30

Shellshiner Zx

Earleshipper Zx

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RGglowerwz Zx

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RGglowerwz Zx.

RGglower Zx

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RGglower Zx.

Om Namah Parvathi Sivayah

2008-04-03T06:21:00.002+05:30

Om Namah Parvathi Sivayah

Weaversdream Zx

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Weaversdream Zx.

Coralreel Zx

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Coralreel Zx.

Bluegroworm Zx

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Bluegroworm Zx.

Oceablueglow Zx

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Oceablueglow Zx.

Blisserpeap Zx

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Woveral Zx

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Bluemerang Zx

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Grglow Zx

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Petallica Zx

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Icflake Zx

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CPalace Zx

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Bluemcool Zx

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A Clarification

2008-02-20T02:14:00.002+05:30

Recently one of my friends friends came across my blog and asked me a question.
Then, one of my graduation classmates asked me the same question. The question in question is "Where are you getting all these images from? We tried googling, but did not find any website with these stuff.".
I thought I should really clarify stuff for people now.

All The Images In This Blog Have Been Created By Me. They Are My Own Art.
I Love Flash And Am Just Continuing My Hobby Since College.

egirishrg@gmail.com.

Grflora Zx

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Grflora Zx

UWeed Zx

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UWeed Zx

RGlow Zx

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RGlow Zx

Library Zx

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Library Zx

Glideeagle Zx

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MLite Zx

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MLite Zx

MSaiRoute Zx

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Weblue Zx

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Weblue Zx

Ishineeye Zx

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Ishineeye Zx

BlueGreenVapour Zx

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BiteApple Zx

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RShell Global Zx

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BlissTree Zx

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RButterfly Zx

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BlueFlower Zx

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BlueFlower Zx.

ColourPlayer Zx

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ColourPlayer Zx

Iglow Zx

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Iglow Zx

Waterline Zx

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Waterline Zx.

BlueRay Zx

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BlueRay Zx

Wintry Zx

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This is my latest creation!

Missed out on blogging

2006-09-16T17:15:00.000+05:30

as i stand here from my place at office, i see a beautiful view of the open blue sky, huge clean ground covered by green grass, amidst beautiful weather, but still I have a feeling @heart, i feel somethings missing, my hands feel cold, yeah its happening again, ........ this is the beginning of my being tense for some period before it subsides.

..................lotza unposted stuff goes here..................................

my hands have become so cold that its difficult to type now, so till this subsides, this thought will go on. coming back to the other parts of my life, yeah i still live alone in a single room, occasionally meet my ibm friendz at their houses or in that area on the road. and ppl whoever were close to me have left one by one @sap. jc left for mba@xlri, karthick left for his new venture, pawan compelted his term here, sreekar could leave shortly for ms, dont know whats to become of me :)).

watched my firzt movie at bangalore, this was my firzt movie after one year three months too :)), bommarillu rocked, could relate to most of the characters in the movie.

personal life went for a toss too between my last post and this one. and then got settled.

hope is the only thing thats keeping me going on, for everyday, the sun will come out and shine all the more bright!!

RB

2006-02-13T15:29:00.000+05:30

i have a dream, a dream of a million seas, a million blue seas said the king
and then, said the saint
i will make my fleet the most powerful in the world and conquer all of them
and then, said the saint
i have a dream, a dream of a million mines, a million gold mines said the king
and then, said the saint
i will be the richest king in the world and my kingdom the richest
and then, said the saint
i have a dream, a dream of a million wives, a million beautiful wives said the king
and then, said the saint
i will be the luckiest husband in the world and the most loving
and then, said the saint
i have a dream, a dream of a million horses, a million strong horses said the king
and then, said the saint
i will be the king to all the powerful warriors in the world and my army shall know no bounds
and then, said the saint
at this point, the king was a bit perplexed and looked at the saint
and then, said the saint
but maharaz, i have told u all that i want
at this point the saint puts his hand into his bag and takes out a small can
he gives it to the king and says "dude, all u need is a red bull"
"oh my God, red bull gives you wings".
*the views stated above r those of the author and this is no attempt in any way to spoil the image of anything or anyone.*

Article

2006-02-08T15:10:00.000+05:30

cat: u know? of late, i am becoming more and more famous

rat: so what? its due to ur kittens that u r fames growing

cat: but the kittens r after all my children

rat: i would not put it so

cat: and y not?

rat: itz bcoz the older kittens did most of the hard work

cat: do u mean to say that the new kittens are not working as hard

rat: i never said that, anywayz, who am i to say that

cat: u confuze me

rat: as indias pop keeps growing so will the size of the middle class

cat: yeah i heard of that one too, indias middle class pops now equals the total pop of usa

rat: u see, as the middle class grows, so will the number of aspiring kittens

cat: its not the only reason though

rat: i agree, and the craze is more the actual thingy

cat: is craze a good thing?

rat: maybe, again, who am i to tell whether craze is a good thingy

cat: u r pretty complicated

rat: i am actually not complicated

cat: atleast u appear so to me

rat: do u know why?

cat: i dont know

rat: thats because u havent moved exactly with the times

cat: what do u mean

rat: ur core still remains the same

cat: my core?

rat: yeah, ur core

cat: how do u say that?

rat: kittens have moved over milk, meowing and makeup

cat: do u want me to change then too?

rat: who am i to tell u to change?

cat: u r supposed to have an opinion

rat: i have one, but who am i to decide ur course?

cat: u know, u ask more than u tell

rat: thats how life goes on

cat: y dont ppl think like u

rat: they do

cat: oh really, do they?

rat: they do

cat: y dont they tell me then?

rat: thats because u havent given them ur number

cat: how r u talking to me?

rat: thats coz u and i r fiction, written by this dude called *guddu*

cat: oh, i forgot, hi *guddu* how r u

rat: now he remembers, anywayz, better late than never

*guddu*: hi cattie, hi rat, i am okay, blogging about both of u

cat: oh, thats wonderful

rat: whats so wonderful about fiction?

cat: y r u so questioning about everything?

rat: what did u just do?

cat: what did i do?

rat: again, u did it too

cat: oh questioning, thats in my blood

rat: and so its in mine too and in everyonez

cat: cant u answer everything straight?

rat: u tend to question more than me

cat: whatever

rat: though to answer ur question, if i answer straight, i would become a kitten too

cat: so u dont want to become one

rat: well that depends on some factors

cat: and what r they?

rat: this questions out of syllabus

cat: theres nothging called a syllabus

rat: that why u r so wild

cat: who r u to call me wild?

rat: see ppl get angry even when someone tells them their opinion

cat: oh, so it was an opinion

rat: yeah it was

cat: and y did u have to tell me?

rat: coz ven i was silent, u asked for it and when i tell it to u, u ask y i did, great

cat: well as i told questioning is in my blood

rat: that is not all thats there in ur blood

cat: well whats more in store then?

rat: a lot more

cat: how do u know?

rat: i know u since a long time

cat: what more do u know about me?

rat: that question is out of syllabus

cat: oh, here it starts again

rat: u started it

cat: agreed, i am hungry

rat: well, theres a huge pop waiting to get into u

cat: bbyee

rat: bbyee.

*guddu*: the opinions posted above r purely personal and those of the author, intended for fun and not at all intended to spoil the image of anyone or anything.

Telugu Proverbs In English

2006-02-06T13:40:00.000+05:30

All these are Telugu proverbs.
1) Education coming Mind going
2) Sitting, eating mountains melting
3) Marriage coming Vomiting Coming No Waiting
4) Aunty property so-in-law donating
5) Rameswaram going Saneswaram not leaving
6) Smiling lady crying gent don't believe
7) Hands' burning leaves catching
8) Ramayan hearing rama sita a relation what
9) Jogi Jogi rubbing ash falling
10) Crow baby crow kiss
11) Gents salary ladies age don't ask
12) 100 lies tell do one marriage
13) For jaundice man all looks green
14) Village marriage dogs hurry
15) Gangi cow milk thumbsize enough
and the grande finale.............
16)No wife, No stomach son's name somalingam.

The Milligram Story Part II

2006-02-03T18:45:00.000+05:30

The stops came and went, the journey(my state of rest) embedded with moments of motion took me next to HAL / Airport, the next bus stop. Peeping outside, I see a small girl, in dirty rags carrying a baby and begging. And amidst the rush in the bus, I see a limping youngster trying to get into the bus. The people sitting in the front seat promptly got up and offered him the seat. He was carrying a file, loaded with documents (I guess), ......... one so typical of youngsters about to appear for an interview. He sported a familiar smile, flashing his teeth.........at once I remembered nalli dudes smile...........those were the days, I thought smiling within myself, the bus started moving again. Theres a long stretch of road after airport till we reach the next stop called Marathahalli, where the jamz are always minimal and the bus moves very fast normally. My memory(ram) got loaded with the graphics of nalli dudes room filled with bolero, jenny and pammy on the bed and nalli dude sitting on his pc, playing yeti sports.........the penguin throw, trying to beat my previous score..........ya know, this scene was so typical of amir khan looking out of his car window in dch and recollecting good memories with his friends.........okay okay, if i go on..........bolero will be the first one to say that i have started senti........ing in the midst of a nice blog. Marathahalli came, people got down in herds and as many got in again.............lo, it started again, I thought and heaved a sigh, a big one. I kept getting these words to my mind :: how did it all start, how did i end up going to a posh office in a remote area of bangalore, how did it all come here............images flashed before my eyes............of my getting through to ibm at college, and bolero, jenny and nalli all of them getting into tcs, nalli getting a couple of dresses as a present the same night, pammy into oracle and later one night when i was studying for m$, pammy telling me at around 11 pm that hes into m$.............why in the world did i end up here, away from my world, my family, my friends, iiit, etc., and then i recollected those dreadful nights of my first month at bangalore and at ibm, working all through the night and at the same time studying and preparing all the stuff that i hate the most and applying to everything possible and trying to increase my contacts, .............. i successfully worked my way through to saplabs and my life if not the best, started being better. Also, i let a 1kbmoment of spacetime of my memorycpu be spent on the time wasted for desperately trying to make it to G and m$..................to be continued.

Yeh Tara Woh Tara Har Tara..............

2006-01-20T16:52:00.000+05:30

Hello guys, there was a point in keeping a song as the content of this blog for some time. Apart from highlighting that we miss the simple things in life it tells us that together we are stronger...............yuppie i too am being philosophic, but life has changed a lot since iiit and i wish to get back those days again, amal visited me yesterday, and it was a good dinner........for more than my stomach my mind needed it, had a long chat about good old college life, ofcourse did some bc too, but in the end, i liked it, and got regenerated.

Once again, Yeh tara woh tara har tara.............to life.

A tribute to the boggubabai

2006-01-09T16:04:00.000+05:30

please take a deep breath before you mouth these dialogues out aloud.
evari peru chepithe, africa vallu siggu to tala vanchu kuntaro
evari peru chepithe, ammayilu rakhilu pattukuni vachchestharo
evari baady choosthe, fair and lovely vallu bhaya padatharo
evari smile choosthe, closeup vallu sambara padipotharo
evari voopu choosthe, manandariki chiraku vasthundo
evari peru chepithe, iiit lo librarian bhayamutho gaza gaza ladi vaniki pothado
evari peru chepithe, ranu who is he annado
evari manchitananni choosi, pammy sundu reddy rechchipotunnado

vaade nandi vaade maaaaa navveti nallanna

nalleee choodu nalleee choodu, kaki lanti rangu choodu, tyson lanti baady choodu,
baagaaa pattina voopu choodu, arigi poyina pears sabbu chooda roy.......................
utikaresina kampukotutunna aaaaaaa tella towel chooda roy.

The Milligram Story

2006-01-09T15:41:00.000+05:30

I got onto my daily bus to go to my office. As it happens daily, so it was that day, I managed to miss all the company buses that drop the employees directly at the company, thanks to the snoring fatman, a new joinee at my pg(paying guest for non-bangalore ppl). Anyway coming back to the scene in the bus. The 335A bus to itpl was full with ppl justling for space. It was the sort of bus with only a single entrance / exit at the front. I asked the driver for a ticket to graphite india, the nearest stop to my office. I took my ticket and waded my way to the back of the bus since my stop was just a few stops away from the last stop(whew!!!!, how many stops have i typed ??). And it would take a minimum of 45 minutes to reach my stop. I was standing with one hand held to the holding rod and the other in my pocket(some style, huh ;))). Barely did the bus move a few paces and lo, presto!!!!, another traffic junction and another wait started.
I got a seat after an elderly person got up, after getting frustrated due to the jam. Anywayz, the bus moved soon after and the next busstop was kodihalli. btw, i forgot to tell u, i stay in domlur layout and fyi, kodihalli is the next busstop while going on airport road.

The bus started after a few minutes (obviously due to a traffic jam, yeah in bangalore, the bus moves occasionally and the jams are the more frequent notable eventz).

High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!

2005-10-22T01:22:00.000+05:30

16% scored higher (more nerdy), and
84% scored lower (less nerdy).

The Girl And The Lover

2005-10-21T05:49:00.000+05:30

The Flag Z Beta

2005-10-21T04:53:00.000+05:30

Made by me, WingsOfFire.

Convos pics from pammys camera

2005-10-18T21:03:00.000+05:30

My pop(in background), Zulu (our dean), Meeee, Nalli, Shadab, Assy, Anubhav, Pammy, Bolero

Missing Gaming As Well

2005-10-12T02:55:00.000+05:30

Well, I am trying to recollect all the names I had used in the four years of gaming...........@ iiit hyderabad.

(aoc)WingsOfFire
(aoc)Wolverine
(aoc)_Fear_Hussar
(aoc)Smitha
(aoc)TheSpectator
(aoc)_PERL_Guddu

(quake)Zzzzz
(quake)Karvy
(quake)Vin
(quake)Oliver Mcdowell

(nfs)NetVista
(nfs)RacerX

i teach games well, pretty well.

A clarification [on demand :)))))))))]

2005-10-08T20:41:00.000+05:30

This is a small clarification.................on demand[i guess this is the most often heard phrase @ where i work], ................., The contents of this site and blog have many pieces of information that are picked up from the internet and modified according to the situations i encouter in my life and the ppl i have acquaintances with, and though u would say, "lifted".............i would rather put it this way :: "lifted, modified and creatively crafted".............. .

==========> Almost forgot, Jenny, thanks for your unlimited and continued cooperation in allowing all the jokes and stuff on this webpage :)).

A dude

2005-09-28T18:12:00.000+05:30

Btw, jenny is a boy, not a girl, and yeah, it was me whos created that nickname for him four years ago in college ;).

jenny in english (chinese)

jenny ::

English: He`s cleaning his automobile
Chinese: Wa Shing Ka

English: You cant park here
Chinese: No Pah King

English: Is there a fugitive here?
Chinese: Hu Yu Hai Ding?

English: Small Horse
Chinese: Tai Ni Po Ni

English: Did you go to the beach?
Chinese: Wai Yu So Tan?

English: I bumped into a table
Chinese: Ai Bang Mai Ni

English: It`s very dark in here
Chinese: Wai So Dim?

English: I thought you were on a diet?
Chinese: Wai Yu Mun Ching?

English: Your body odor is offensive
Chinese: Yu Stin Ki Pu

English: You know lyrics to the Macarena?
Chinese: Wai Yu Sing Dum Song?

English: Stay out of sight
Chinese: Can Si Yu

Wakay, bbye for now, Adios guys, catch up with u later.

King Of The Jungle ................... :))

2005-09-09T21:09:00.000+05:30

A lion woke up one morning feeling really rowdy and mean.
He went out and cornered a small monkey and roared, "Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?"
The trembling monkey says, "You are, mighty lion!
Later, the lion confronts a ox and fiercely bellows, "Who is the mightiest of all jungle animals?"
The terrified ox stammers, "Oh great lion, you are the mightiest animal in the jungle!"
On a roll now, the lion swaggers up to an elephant and roars, "Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?" Fast as lightning, the elephant snatches up the lion with his trunk, slams him against a tree half a dozen times leaving the lion feeling like it’d been run over by a safari wagon.
The elephant then stomps on the lion till it looks like a corn tortilla and ambles away.
The lion lets out a moan of pain, lifts his head weakly and hollers after the elephant - "Just because you don’t know the answer, you don’t have to get so upset about it!"

I am a hero ..................... a warrior

2005-08-27T17:49:00.000+05:30

My Inner Hero - Warrior!

I'm courageous, straightforward, and charismatic. I'm a born leader, but I'm also not afraid to face danger on my own. Nothing stands between me and victory... nothing that lives to tell the tale, anyway. If you need someone to charge into battle for you, call on me.

How about you? Click here to find your own inner hero.

A storm called Jenny :) [Its in pure telugu]

2005-08-16T21:23:00.000+05:30

Its in pure telugu guys................but its really awesome, so had to put it in.......if u know anyone around u who knows telugu, get it translated dudes.........................:).

Adi 1982 va samvatsaram anukuntaanu..sarigga gurtu ledu..Samaajam lo manchi igiri poyi anyaayam rajyam chestunna samayam...Janala gunde lothullo edo oka aasa..evado vastaadani..(Background lo Yadhaa Yadha hi dharmasya Glaanirbhavati bhaarati..ani moozic..)October anukunta edo taareeku, naaku sarigga gurtu ledoley, Sunday tellari.........Kevvuuuuuuu mani arusthuu, Mana charithra lo oka nunthana sekaaniki naandi prastaavana jaringindi..Appatinundi prapancham lo ekkadekka anyaayam jarugutundo ,ekkada badugu jeevi boorjuwaa dourjanyaanikibali avutunnado akkada pratyaksham avuntaadu...ee accha telugu Spiderman, kaliyuga Raamudu..bermuda jennygaadu..........emaina anukondi..POte..(Evarani adakkande..)..Hyderabad gallilo perigina mana hero jenny Secunderabad lo Inter Chadivi..Gachibowli lo IIIT Hyderabad lo BTech chesi..prastutam TCS ane company ni uddharinche prayatnam lo unnadu..tana ee sudheerga intro ni chadivi bore feel ayyinavaariki chinna kosamerupu..chadivinollandariki Ramayanam vinnanta punyam vastundi mari...inkaa vinaalanundaa......taruvaayi bhagam vachche vaaram...........:)).

Bye,
Girish.

Missing All Of U Guys .................. :)

2005-08-15T17:11:00.000+05:30

I dont know what to write about now, other than this topic :).
Heres a comprehensive list of all the friends since my childhood, I remember.

Class I :: Prakash, Sri Venkateswara Public School, Machilipatnam.

Class I :: Sudha (Neighbour)

Class II,III,IV :: Pradeep, Rohit Raj, Prashanthi, Sushma, Madhavi, Bhupender, Kiranmayi, Pavan, Abhyudaya High School, Hyderabad.

Class V,VI,VII,VIII :: BSSK Karthick, Pavan, Kalidas, Santosh, Rajeev Ranjan, Shanwar Kumar Harlalka, Bhargavi, Anand Mundra, Krishna Chowdhary, Roshan Mundra, Saraswathi, Dhanalakshmi, Arun Sundar, Arjun Sundar, Ritesh Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Manisha, Monica, Ajith, Gowri, Veena,
Andhra Association School, Calcutta.
Class IX,X :: Prakash, Bharath, Linveer, Praveen, Kaushik, Madhu Kiran, Rakesh, Sumanth, Ravi Teja, Sagar, Vishnu, Vivek, K Aditya, J Aditya, Jayaram, Harish, Christopher, Neville, Abhilash, Amit, Avinash, Nitin, Sreenivas, Sai Vinay, Rajnish,Abhilash, Abhyudh, Abhishek, Abhishek K, St.Paul's High School, Hyderabad.

Class X :: Goutham, Dikpal, Goutham Ashokan, Shanti Swaroop, Sandeep, Sharma Tuition, Hyderabad.

Intermediate I :: Chaitanya, Sheik Aasim Zubaer, Sandeep Ratna Junior College.

Intermediate II :: Chaitanya, Sheik Aasim Zubaer, Sandeep Ratna Junior College.

B.Tech. I,II,III,IV :: Janardhan, Anubhav Agarwal, B Pradeep, Ajay Bedi, D Ravi Shankar, P Ravi Chandra, Arjun Kumar, Asheesh Pandey, P Nirupam Pratap Reddy, Akhil Kodali, Abhishek Dixit, Ranjith Kumar, Bhavani, Patnaik, Vardhman Jain, Karthik, Karteek, Vinod Kumar, Vinod Reddy, Vinod Gupta, Chaitanya Reddy, Chaitanya CH, Prashant Reddy, Vishnu, Sireesh, Shadab, Venkatesh, Ashwin Kumar, Amal, Jagdeesh, Paresh, Visesh, Rakesh, Khare, K Gaurav, Gaurav K, Amit, Piyush B, Piyush J, Naresh, Jayaram, Imran, Vidit, Sreejith, Kunal, Abhinav, Ramneek, Abhishek Anand, Nitin Gupta, Pankaj KM, Pankaj K, Jagmohan Singh, Jagannathan, Manjeet, Sandeep Chandna, Ankit B, Ankit K, Nipun M, Arvind Tiwary, Arvind Upadhyay, Manoj Kumar, Srikanth K, Durga Prasad, Paritosh Pandey, Vishal D, Vishal M, Ketan, Asutosh Parida, Puspendra Kumar, Sunil Mohan Ranta, Sanyam Sharma, Venkat Kumar, IIIT Hyderabad.

IIIT Hyderabad :: Vishwanath, Tata, Shashank, Vamshi Krishna, Praveen, Somesh, Santosh, Arun, Pankaj, Smrithi, Sebsibe, Vandana, SS Reddy, Vineel, Rohit Jaini, Surya, Sandipan, Sridhar, T K Pradeep R, Rohini, Pratyush, Ashok, Hemanth, A J Karthik, Bhanu, Manish, Manoj, Diwakar, Raghu C, Pavan, Vijaydeep, Pramod, Sarath, Aizaz, Balaji, Pradeep, M J Pawan, Mudit, Sagar, Lalitha, Santosh, Tiger, Vipul, Priyam, Thyiagarajan, Siddharth, Keerthi, IIIT Hyderabad.

Hey, Do Remind Me If I Have Missed Your Name !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Working :: Pavan Kumar, Sravan Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Ratna Kumar, Ravi, Deva, Satheesh, Kumaran Babu, Deepthi Pola, Balaji, Sukumar T, Raghunathan, Raghu Ram, Ramalakshmi, Mari, Jeyanthi, Sreekar D, Sreekar M, Hanumantha Rao, Gince, Anna Abraham, Ranjan, Rejath, Prem Kumar, Packia Raj, Geetha, Radhika, Balakrishna, Shishir Kumar, Harry Thomas, Maruthi, Narendra, Vinil Kumar, IBM.

Okay people, i will format all the above later,

Bye,

Girish.

President's address ............... India Inc.

2005-08-15T16:35:00.000+05:30

President's address to the nation on the eve of 59th Independence Day

August 14,2005 18:46 IST
Energy Independence

My Dear Citizens of India,
On the eve of the 59th Independence Day, I extend to you my best wishes for your happiness and prosperity. My greetings to all our people at home and abroad. Let us resolve, on this occasion, to remember with gratitude, the selfless and devoted services of our armed forces who are guarding our frontiers on the land, over the sea, and in the air.

We are also grateful to the paramilitary and police forces for preserving our internal security and maintaining law and order. I met 137 freedom fighters from 27 states and union territories on August 9, 2005, at Rashtrapati Bhavan. I saw their enthusiasm even at their ripe age, to bring back nationalism as a living movement. Today our country is free, because freedom fighters gave their best to the nation in their prime of youth. Honouring freedom fighters is honouring the independent nation and its spirit of nationalism. We must thank them with respect and make their lives happy.
Nature's Fury and its Management

While we are celebrating the 59th anniversary of our hard earned political independence, we have to remember the sufferings of our people affected by the recent rains and floods in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Orissa. The city of Mumbai and other areas in Maharashtra bore the brunt of nature's fury.

The people of these areas are meeting the challenge with courage and fortitude. The prime minister had visited some of the affected areas. I spoke to the chief minister of Maharashtra while he was visiting various places affected by the floods and I also shared my concern with other chief ministers. Maharashtra needs help at this critical juncture to mitigate the sufferings arising out of loss of life and properties inflicted by the fury of the rains and floods. All the states need to express their solidarity with the people of Maharashtra in their time of distress and suffering and collectively help in removing the pain of the people. Mumbai needs an urgent reconstruction to face unexpected heavy rains, as it happened this year.

Rainfall and Floods: Rainfall and floods are annual features in many parts of the country. Instead of thinking about interlinking of rivers only at times of flood and drought, it is time that we implement this programme with a great sense of urgency. We need to make an effort to overcome various hurdles in our way to the implementation of this major project. I feel that it has the promise of freeing the country from the endless cycle of floods and droughts. Also, as a measure for preventing flooding of streets in cities due to heavy sustained downpour, I would suggest the Ministry of Urban Development at the Centre and the state governments to mount a programme to rebuild and modernise the infrastructure and storm-water drainage systems including construction of under ground water silos to store excess water.

This water can be treated, processed and used at the time of shortages as practiced in many other countries. Fortunately India has adequate technology and expertise in making underground tunnels for the metro rail system. This technology can be used for constructing underground water storage systems.

Earthquake Forecasting: Another natural phenomenon that affects and causes damages of high magnitude without pre-warning in many parts of our country is the earthquake. To prevent heavy damage to the people and property, we need to accelerate research for forecasting earthquakes. Research work on earthquake forecasting is being done in many countries. We in India should have an integrated research team consisting of experts drawn from academia, meteorology and space departments for creating earthquake forecast modeling using pre-earthquake and post-earthquake data collected from various earthquake occurrences in our country. This can be validated periodically with the proven forecasting data available from other countries.

Earth Systems Science: Many of the countries in the world have experienced successive calamities driven by nature. Till recently, researchers the world over had been pursuing research in unconnected ways, in climate, earthquakes, ocean sciences and earth sciences, without realising the latent, but tight coupling between these areas. This new realisation has prompted many countries to pursue the interdisciplinary area of research, which is now known as earth systems science. It is in fact fast emerging as an area of convergence between earth, climate, ocean, environment, instrumentation and computer sciences. I strongly suggest that India should mount a programme in this emerging area of earth systems science. This will call for a dedicated, cohesive and seamless integration between researchers in multiple areas and in multiple organisations. Further, earth systems science does not obey political or geographical borders. It is truly a science and its intensive results would make our planet safe and prosperous.

Unlike research in strategic areas, wherein nations have to maintain superiority over other nations, earth systems science is the ultimate realisation of human kind to collaborate, since no nation is safe, if its neighbours are not. Nature's fury knows no borders.
Dear citizens, on January 26, 2005, I discussed with you the potential for employment generation in eight areas. I am happy that a number of actions are evolving.

Energy Independence

Today on this 59th Independence Day, I would like to discuss with all of you another important area that is 'energy security' as a transition to total 'energy independence'.
Energy is the lifeline of modern societies. But today, India has 17% of the world's population and just 0.8% of the world's known oil and natural gas resources. We might expand the use of our coal reserves for some time and that too at a cost and with environmental challenges. The climate of the globe as a whole is changing. Our water resources are also diminishing at a faster rate. As it is said, energy and water demand will soon surely be a defining characteristic of our people's life in the 21st Century.

Energy security rests on two principles. The first, to use the least amount of energy to provide services and cut down energy losses. The second, to secure access to all sources of energy including coal, oil and gas supplies worldwide, till the end of the fossil fuel era, which is fast approaching. Simultaneously, we should access technologies to provide a diverse supply of reliable, affordable and environmentally sustainable energy.

As you all know, our annual requirement of oil is 114 million tonnes. A significant part of this is consumed in the transportation sector. We produce only about 25% of our total requirement. The presently known resources and future exploration of oil and gas may give mixed results. The import cost today of oil and natural gas is over Rs 120,000 crore. Oil and gas prices are escalating; the barrel cost of oil has doubled within a year. This situation has to be combated.
Energy scurity, which means ensuring that our country can supply lifeline energy to all its citizens, at affordable costs at all times, is thus a very important and significant need and is an essential step forward. But it must be considered as a transition strategy, to enable us to achieve our real goal that is -- energy independence or an economy which will function well with total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports. Is it possible?

Hence, energy independence has to be our nation's first and highest priority. We must be determined to achieve this within the next 25 years, therefore by the year 2030. This one major 25-year national mission must be formulated, funds guaranteed, and leadership entrusted without delay as public-private partnerships to our younger generation, now in their 30s, as their lifetime mission in a renewed drive for nation-building.

Goals and Policies

Now friends, I would now like to discuss with you some goals, strategies and policies for a major national mission to attain energy independence.

Energy Consumption Pattern in India in 2005: We have to critically look at the need for energy independence in different ways in its two major sectors: Electric power generation and transportation. At present, we have an installed capacity of about 121,000 MW of electricity, which is 3% of the world capacity. We also depend on oil to the extent of 114 million tonnes every year, 75% of which is imported and used almost entirely in the Transportation sector.

Forecasts of our energy requirements by 2030, when our population may touch 1.4 billion people, indicate that demand from the power sector will increase from the existing 120,000 MW to about 400,000 MW. This assumes an energy growth rate of 5% per annum.

Electric Power Generation Sector: Electric power generation in India now accesses four basic energy sources: Fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal; hydroelectricity; nuclear power; and renewable energy sources such as bio-fuels, solar, biomass, wind and ocean.

Fortunately for us, 89% of energy used for power generation today is indigeneous, from coal (56%), hydroelectricity (25%), nuclear power (3%) and renewable (5%). Solar energy segment contributes just 0.2% of our energy production.

Energy Independence in Electric Power Generation

Thus it would be seen that only 11% of electric power generation is dependent on oil and natural gas, which is mostly imported at enormous cost. Only 1% of oil is (about 2 to 3 million tonnes of oil) being used every year for producing electricity. However, power generation to the extent of 10% is dependent on high cost gas supplies. We are making efforts to access natural gas from other countries.

Now I shall discuss another fossil fuel, coal. Even though India has abundant quantities of coal, it is constrained to regional locations, high ash content, affecting the thermal efficiency of our power plants, and also there are environmental concerns. Thus, a movement towards energy independence would demand accelerated work in operationalising the production of energy from the coal sector through integrated gasification and combined cycle route. In 2030, the total energy requirement would be 400,000 MW. At that time, the power generated from coal-based power plants would increase from the existing 67,000 MW to 200,000 MW. This would demand significant build-up of thermal power stations and large-scale expansion of coalfields.

Changing Structure of Energy Sources: The strategic goals for energy independence by 2030 would thus call for a shift in the structure of energy sources. Firstly, fossil fuel imports need to be minimised and secure access to be ensured. Maximum hydro and nuclear power potential should be tapped. The most significant aspect, however, would be that the power generated through renewable energy technologies may target 20 to 25% against the present 5%. It would be evident that for true energy independence, a major shift in the structure of energy sources from fossil to renewable energy sources is mandated.

Solar farms
Solar energy in particular requires unique, massive applications in the agricultural sector, where farmers need electricity exclusively in the daytime. This could be the primary demand driver for solar energy. Our farmers demand for electric power today is significantly high to make solar energy economical in large scale.

Shortages of water, both for drinking and farming operations, can be met by large-scale seawater desalination and pumping inland using solar energy, supplemented by bio-fuels wherever necessary.
The current high capital costs of solar power stations can be reduced by gridlocked 100 MW sized Very Large Scale Solar Photovoltaic or Solar Thermal Power Stations. In the very near future, breakthroughs in nanotechnologies promise significant increase in solar cell efficiencies from current 15% values to over 50% levels. These would in turn reduce the cost of solar energy production. Our science laboratories should mount an Research & Development Programme for developing high efficiency CNT based Photo Voltaic Cells.

We thus need to embark on a major national programme in solar energy systems and technologies, for both large, centralised applications as well as small, decentralised requirements concurrently, for applications in both rural and urban areas.

Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel. However, there would be a requirement for a 10-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country. Therefore, it is essential to pursue the development of nuclear power using thorium, reserves which are higher in the country. Technology development has to be accelerated for thorium-based reactors since the raw material for thorium is abundantly available in our country. Also, nuclear fusion research needs to be progressed with international cooperation to keep the option for meeting the large power requirement, at a time when fossil fuels get depleted.

Power through Municipal Waste

In the power generation sector of the energy economy, we need to fully use technologies now available for generating power from municipal waste. Today, two plants are operational in India, each plant generating 6.5 MW of electric power. Studies indicate that as much as 5800 MW of power can be generated by setting up 900 electric power plants spread over in different parts of the country, which can be fueled by municipal waste. Electric power generation and creation of clean environment are the twin advantages.

Power System Loss Reduction: Apart from generating power and running power stations efficiently without interruption, it is equally essential to transmit and distribute power with minimum loss. The loss of power in transmission and distribution in our country is currently in the region of 30 to 40% for a variety of reasons. Of about 1,000 billion units of electrical energy produced annually, only 600 billion units reach the consumer. This is the result of transmission loss and unaccounted loss. We need to take urgent action to bring down this loss to 15% from 30 to 40% by close monitoring of losses, improving efficiency and increasing the power factor through modern technology. By this one action alone, we will be able to avoid the need for additional investment of around Rs 70,000 crore for establishing additional generating capacity.

Transportation Sector

The Transportation sector is the fastest growing energy consumer. It now consumes nearly 112 million tonnes of oil annually, and is critically important for our nation's economy and security. The complete substitution of oil imports for the Transportation sectors is the biggest and toughest challenge for India.

Use of biofuels: We have nearly 60 million hectares of wasteland, of which 30 million hectares are available for energy plantations like 'Jatropha'. Once grown, the crop has a life of 50 years. Each acre will produce about 2 tonnes of bio-diesel at about Rs 20 per litre. Biodiesel is carbon neutral and many valuable by-products flow from this agro-industry. Intensive research is needed to burn bio-fuel in internal combustion engines with high efficiency and this needs to be an urgent R&D programme. India has the potential to produce nearly 60 million tones of bio-fuel annually, thus making a significant and important contribution to the goal of energy independence.
The Indian Railways have already taken a significant step of running two passenger locomotives (Thanjavur to Nagore section) and six trains of diesel multiple units (Tiruchirapalli to Lalgudi, Dindigul and Karur sections) with a 5% blend of bio-fuel sourced from its in-house esterification plants. In addition, they have planted 75 lakh Jatropha saplings on railway land, which is expected to give yields from the current year onwards. This is a pioneering example for many other organisations to follow. Similarly, many states in our country have energy plantations. What is needed is a full economic chain from farming, harvesting, extraction to esterification, blending and marketing. Apart from employment generation, bio-fuel has a significant potential to lead our country towards energy independence.

The other critical options are development of electric vehicles; hydrogen based vehicles, electrification of railways and urban mass transportation.

Conclusion

By 2020, the nation should achieve comprehensive energy security through enhancement of our oil and gas exploration and production worldwide. By the year 2030, India should achieve energy independence through solar power and other forms of renewable energy; maximise the utilisation of hydro and nuclear power and enhance bio-fuel production through large-scale energy plantations like Jatropha.

We need to evolve a comprehensive renewable energy policy for energy independence within a year. This should address all issues relating to generation of energy through wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and ocean. The nation should also work towards establishment of thorium-based reactors. Research and technology development of thorium-based reactors is one of the immediate requirements for realising self-reliance in nuclear power generation and long-term energy security for the nation.

We should operationalize a 500 MW capacity power plant using integrated gasification and combined cycle route within the next three years from the existing pilot plant stage.
Bio-fuel research should be extended in collaboration with R&D laboratories, academic institutions and automobile industry to make it a 'full fledged fuel' for fleet running in the country in a time bound manner. This should lead to a mission mode integrated programme encompassing various ministries and industries. Also, there is a need to formulate a comprehensive bio-fuel policy from research, development, and production to marketing.

Energy security leading to energy independence is certainly possible and is within the capability of the nation. India has knowledge and natural resources; what we need is planned integrated missions to achieve the target in a time bound manner. Let us all work for self-sufficient environment friendly energy independence for the nation.

Jai Hind.May God bless you all.

Dbz rox big time :)

2005-08-13T21:27:00.000+05:30

Hi dudes,
Just found this cool image of goku.
The creator seems to be as creative as me, hehe ;).
Byeeeeeeee,
Girish.

How stupid are you dude ?

2005-08-13T21:20:00.000+05:30

Click The Above Image[Link]

Hey, They say I am the next Einstein. :)

05:05 PM And A Cool Link

2005-07-30T15:46:00.000+05:30

Hi dudes,
Whats up ? Nothing ? Then go ahead and read my blogs, ;).
Jenny got an A in fyp and I am very happy for him :).
Congrats raa anna. Convo ki vachchinappudu party ivvali.
Still sitting in my office cubicle, i want to play age desperately now.
Hey, just try doing the following once :: click this link and replace your_name
with your actual name :: http://www.logogle.com/ggl.php?hl=ja&lo=your_name.
Bye,
Girish.

Missing RB dudes.........;)

2005-07-24T16:19:00.000+05:30

Hi dudes, todays a sunday and am idle as usual............;). Was thinking of old days @ iiit,.......badly missing them, the friends, the movies, the gaming, the BC (hehe ;) ) and finally RB too. I think Jenny can better describe my love for RB and the biryani served there. Blogging after a long time and sitting in my office, I could not think of a better subject to blog about. Hey, I just remembered a joke I read yesterday. Okay, as per public demand, take a look @ it ::

An American enters into a bar and sees a Chinese guy having a beer. He walks over and gives the Chinese guy a huge back hander which lays the poor guy out on the floor."What was that for?", says the Chinaman."That", says the American, "Was for bombing Pearl Harbour!"The poor Chinese guy is lost. He says "Hey wait, I`m Chinese, not Japanese, it was the Japanese that bombed Pearl Harbour."The American says "Chinese, Japanese, you`re all the same to me." So the Chinaman gives the American a huge back hander that lays him out on the floor. The American is shocked."What was that for?""That was for sinking the Titanic"."The Titanic!", says the American. "The Titanic was sunk by an iceberg!"And the Chinese says "Iceberg, Goldberg, Spielberg, you`re all the same to me!"

okie, tokie dudes, tata birla bye bye ;)

Some Help For The Newbies Towards Tutorials

2005-07-24T16:11:00.000+05:30

http://students.iiit.net/~egirishrg/tutorials/

Yippieeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....................:)

2005-06-28T17:21:00.000+05:30

Hey dudes,
I have just checked this mail from a friend.
Recruiters and people in general took a long time to note us .......... IIIT Hyderabad.
We are here, we are coming for u.........................;).

For the latest news on the subject, please refer :: http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/jun/28spec.htm

Subject: India's best technical school survey

Hi,
Please go through following ET link ....
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/summary/1118349.cms

For more detail on survey, please refer to following link http://www.dqindia.com/ Dataquest-IDC-NASSCOM Survey: India's Best T-Schools

Yes, the IITs top the Tech schools. But surprise: missing from the Top 10 are BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee and DCE, edged out by the NITs and the Thapar and Netaji Subhas Institutes Bhaswati Chakravorty Saturday, May 21, 2005

There are T-Schools and there are T-Schools. But which is the fairest? What sets the best apart from the good? Who's the laggard? Here's your opportunity to find out. The second T-School survey conducted by Dataquest-IDC-Nasscom throws up some interesting results. Sit straight and fasten your seat belts as we zip you through some of the key highlights of the study.

No surprises. IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur, in that order, establish themselves comfortably in the top four and live up to our expectations. However, one look at our list of top 10 may surprise the reader. Here's why. The Institute of Technology at BHU (The Banaras Hindu University)-dislodges some of the better-known technology institutes to occupy the #5 slot, while institutes like Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (formerly DIT) strongly establish themselves in the top 10 listing.

The Top 20 Overall Rank College Composite Score
1 IIT Kanpur 77.5
2 IIT Bombay 75.6
3 IIT Madras 73.8
4 IIT Kharagpur 73.1
5 IT Benaras Hindu University 72
6 IIT Guwahati 71.6
7 NIT Warangal 70
8 NIT Trichy 67.6
9 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala 66.7
10 Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DIT), New Delhi 64.5
11 Nit Suratkal 64.2
12 Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad 62.1
13 Punjab Engineering College 60.3
14 IIIT Hyderabad 60.2
15 Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani 59.9
16 IIT Roorkee 59.2
17 NIT Rourkela 58.5
18 NIT Kurukshetra 57.5
19 IIIT Allahabad 57.1
20 Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi 57.1

It's imperative for us at this point to inform our readers that IIT Delhi refused to participate in the survey-there are some whispers about why the institute might have opted out of the survey, but we prefer to stay out of that debate for the time being. The inclusion of IIT Delhi could have made the final rankings look very different.

Some of the strong contenders for the top 10 spots were, however, relegated to the next 10 in the list. Key among them are some of the regional engineering colleges-now renamed National Institute of Technology-and the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani (at #15). Unfortunately, Delhi College of Engineering, once considered a jewel in the crown, just about manages to find a place in the top 20.

The Making of the Best

What separates the best from the Tier II and Tier III technology schools?

The Dataquest-IDC-Nasscom survey has considered four parameters-placement, infrastructure, intellectual capital and industry interface-for evaluation, and arriving at the final rankings. And, of course, there's the perception, where the recruiter's feedback on the institute is taken into consideration.

The Top 5 On Parameters

Placement Rank College Score

1 IIT Chennai 31.2
2 IIT Kanpur 31
3 NIT Suratkal 27.1
4 NIT Warangal 26.4
5 Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DIT) 25.9

Intellectual Capital Rank College Score

1 IT Bhu 11.8
2 IIT Guwahati 9.3
3 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology 8.3
4 IIT Bombay 8.2
5 IIT Kharagpur 8.2

Infrastructure Rank College Score

1 IIT Kanpur 14.8
2 IIT Bombay 14.8
3 IIT Kharagpur 14.8
4 IIT Guwahati 14.8
5 Krishna Institute of Engineering And Technology 14.8

Industry Interface Rank College Score

1 IIT Kharagpur 3.2
2 IIT Bombay 3.1
3 NIT Trichy 2.4
4 Jadavpur University 1.8
5 IT Bhu 1.6

On the placement scorecard, IIT Madras snatches the first position from IIT Kanpur, our topper in the study, and beats IIT Bombay as well (at #8). If you are still trying to grapple with the final rankings, here's a little more to add to that feeling of disbelief. Not just NIT Suratkal and NIT Warangal, but even the low profile Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), from Delhi, managed to beat IIT Bombay on the placement scorecard. If IIT Bombay has managed to find itself at the #2 spot in the overall ranking, it is thanks to a phenomenal recruiter's perception. IIT Bombay, along with IIT Kanpur, scores a full 25 in this category.

NSIT comes in at the #5 spot on the placement scorecard. This Delhi-based institute has been getting some big names from the IT industry to its campus the last couple of academic years. IT major Infosys, in fact, lapped up around 108 students last year. The highest compensation offered in the academic year 2004-05 was Rs 8.5 lakh per annum. The placement score: 25.9 as opposed to the highest score of 31.2 in favor of IIT Madras.

Infrastructure MattersToday, infrastructure has emerged as an undeniable component of any benchmark. The survey clearly reveals that being a top technology institute does not mean that you have the right to ignore the infrastructure facilities in the institute. Take for example IIT Madras. This South-based IIT ranks at #3 in the survey, but performs rather poorly on infrastructure, to come at #28. Even BITS Pilani seems to have taken a leaf out of IIT Madras and follows close at #30. Here it becomes a bit of a necessity to say that despite scoring well on the recruiter's perception scorecard, coming just after the top four IITs, BITS Pilani failed to make it to the top 10 in the overall ranking. Obviously, the institute has been resting on past laurels.

The Knowledge ThrustThere is a strong caste system in the Indian technology education domain and the survey helps us identify the Brahmins, or those T-Schools that are trying to create knowledge. In other words, we are talking about intellectual capital.

Today, world-class education implies a combination of infrastructure, faculty, brand equity and intellectual capital. Research, with its impact on industry and the society at large, counts for a lot of the worldwide rankings. And this is something that even Tier I B-Schools in the country are aiming for. Intellectual capital creates global educational institutions. However, our survey results indicate that there is a disparity in the overall rankings and the rankings based on intellectual capital.

The top five T-Schools on the intellectual capital scorecard are IT BHU, IIT Guwahati, IIT Bombay, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology and IIT Kharagpur. A quick search down the list would find IIT Kanpur struggling to stay at #36. In case you are staring at that number in disbelief, let me assure you that this is not a printing error. The #1 T-School's performance in this front is quite a horror story. Are our premier engineering and technology institutes forgetting the worth of research and intellectual capital?

The Perception Factor Rank College Score

1 IIT Kanpur 25
2 IIT Bombay 25
3 IIT Chennai 24.5
4 IIT Kharagpur 24.5
5 IT BHU 22.4

According to the HR heads' perception, IIT Kanpur and IIT Bombay topped the list At this point it may make some sense to revisit the debate on why IIT Delhi chose to stay out of our survey. Only a couple of weeks back a popular Delhi newspaper reported that a former director of the institute has alleged that the institute has become a victim of lack of appropriate initiatives from the faculty-a probable reason why IIT Delhi stayed away. Without going into how true these allegations are, what is important, nevertheless, is to keep in mind the close correlation between creation of intellectual capital and faculty development.

The presence of IIT Guwahati, IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur in the top five and NIT Warangal at #7 is some consolation, but this does not take the responsibility away from IIT Kanpur and the NITs, which should ideally set the examples for others to follow. The lack of intellectual capital may not have an immediate impact on placements or recruiter's perception, but is likely to affect faculty development and curriculum updation in the long run. So, the next time you see the likes of TIETs in the top 10, do not rub your eyes in disbelief. Incidentally, TIET ranks at #3 on the intellectual capital scorecard.

Creating the Right InterfaceAnother aberration that the survey revealed is on the industry interface front. Most B-School surveys reveal that every top institute is working hard to improve its industry interface? However, the top T-Schools in India do not confirm to this trend as per survey results. Comparing a T-School to a management institute may not find favor with many of us, but in reality, there is no reason for differentiation beyond a point. Today, every top institute is vying for a place in the global market.

The top 10 on the industry interface scorecard show some new entrants-Jadavpur University at #4, BITS Pilani at #8, and an unknown Marathawada Institute of Technology at #10. And if you are looking for our topper, it's just about managed to stay in the top 30.

How They Stack Up

S No College Overall Rank

N o r t h
1 IIT Kanpur 1
2 IT BHU 5
3 Thapar Institute of Engg & Technology 9
4 Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology 10
5 Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology 12

S o u t h
1 IIT Madras 3
2 NIT Warangal 7
3 NIT Trichy 8
4 NIT Suratkal 11
5 IIIT Hyderabad 14

E a s t
1 IIT Kharagpur 4
2 IIT Guwahati 6
3 NIT Rourkela 17
4 Jadavpur University 25
5 Sit Kolkata (Fomely IIIT Calcutta) 27

W e s t
1 IIT Bombay 2
2 Govt College of Engineering, Pune 24
3 Sardar Patel College 26
4 IIIT Pune 34
5 Bharatiya Vidyapeeth College of Engineering 42

The Differentiator

A key differentiator in any survey is the perception of recruiters, and our survey is no different. This part of the study goes a little beyond crunching hard numbers. A perception ranking can be nebulous and can change dramatically if the respondents change. This explains why perception was given only 25% weightage inour study.

What clearly sets apart the Tier I schools from the Tier II and Tier III ones is the recruiter's perception. Although the survey gave 40% weightage to placements, it's important to realize that recruiter's perception has a definite and undeniable effect on the placement pattern of an institute. It is also a critical component of brand equity and contributes significantly to the brand building process (read IITs).

Interestingly, while SSN College of Engineering in Chennai failed to make to the perception chart despite making it to the Tier I list (the perception score given in the survey is an average that was allotted to all institutes recruiters chose not to rate); IIT Guwahati, which came at #6 in the study, features way below at #21 on the perception chart. This IIT has not only failed to leverage the IIT brand name, but has also fallen victim to the political uncertainty in the state.

Last wordThe Dataquest-IDC-Nasscom survey findings is most likely to send some of the Tier I schools into a tizzy. However, instead of breathing fire down our necks, these institutes would do well to ponder a little on where exactly they have erred. In the meantime, we extend our heartiest congratulations to the champs.

Bhaswati Chakravorty

Banda(B.Tech.) does not pay

2005-04-16T01:02:00.000+05:30

One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus garage, started his bus, and drove off along the route. No problems for the first few stops - a few people got on, a few got off, and things went generally well.

At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Five feet five, built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground. He glared at the driver and said, "Banda(B.Tech.) doesn't pay!" and sat down at the back.Oh, did I mention that the driver was five feet five too, but thin, and basically meek? Well, he was Jenny,in fact. Naturally, he didn't argue with Banda(B.Tech.), but he wasn't happy about it.

The next day the same thing happened, Banda(B.Tech.) got on again, made a show of refusing to pay, and sat down. And the next day, and the one after that, and so forth. This grated on Jenny, who started losing sleep over the way Banda(B.Tech.) was taking advantage of him.

Finally he could stand it no longer. He went to China's Shaolin and learnt karate, judo, and all that good stuff. By the end of the summer, he had become quite strong; what's more, he felt really good about himself.

So on the next Monday, when he was back to job, when Banda(B.Tech.) once again got on the bus and said, "Banda(B.Tech.) doesn't pay!,"Jenny stood up, glared back at him, and screamed, "And why not?!?"

With a surprised look on his face, Banda(B.Tech.) replied, "Banda(B.Tech.) has a bus pass."

Jenny before and after going to China

2005-04-16T00:50:00.000+05:30

One day in a TCS training session in Hyderabad, the following event might take place.
Trainer: "All right, now I`d like you to make a sentence using the words GREEN, PINK and YELLOW. Who`d like to try?"
A trainee raised his hand. It was Jenny from Secunderabad.
Jenny: "Early this morning, I looked out the window, I saw the GREEN grass and PINK roses in the garden. I went outside and I feel the warm YELLOW sunlight around me."
Trainer: "Very Good! Mr. Janardhan".

After returning from Shanghai, in another training session ::
Trainer: "All right, now I`d like you to make a sentence using the words GREEN, PINK and YELLOW. Who`d like to try?"
Jenny raised his hand again.
Jenny: "I try! I try. Can aaah?"
Trainer: "No, no, not you"
Jenny: "Aaaiiyaaa... let me try lah... I can do lah... you think I`m stupid meeeh..?"
Trainer: "Okay.. go ahead"
Jenny: "This morning I heard the phone GREEEEEN...GREEEEEN... I PINK it up and I said YELLOOOOW?"

Big Chief

2005-04-15T12:41:00.000+05:30

There was this tribal chief who was straining to blow a fart but it wouldn't come out.So he sent his little messenger boy to the doctor and he says, "Big chief, no fart." The doctor gives him a can of beans and tells him to come back tomorrow to tell him what happened.The messenger boy comes back the next day and says, "Big chief, no fart."The doctor gives him 10 cans of beans this time.The messenger boy comes back the next day and says, "Big chief, no fart."The doctor gives him 100 cans of beans.The messenger boy comes back the next day and says, "Big chief, no fart."The doctor gives him 1,000 cans of beans and says, "If this doesn't work then nothing will."The messenger boy comes back the next day and looks at the doctor.The doctor anxiously asked, "Well, did it work?"The messenger boy says, "Big fart, no chief!"

The Games I Play

2005-04-04T18:00:00.000+05:30

Getting into IIIT Hyderabad was one of the best things that happened to me.
It was here that my liking for pc games grew into a passion.

Age of conquerors, mythology, now awaiting AOE III, Quake III Arena, NFS 5,6, Underground I and II, Counter-Strike Czero, Cricket, FIFA, BZflag, TuxRacer,.............. the list might be endless, you name it, we play it in the lan here.

Being a jack of all trades is not enough to get recognition here, u have to play decently enough for fame. So regular practice sessions are necessary.

If u r not a gamer, you might be bored by now............ sorry for that, I am an avid gamer by heart and soul, ....... wake me in the middle of the night and i will be ther for u to play with, then and there.

Hey, I almost forgot one important thing ................... I play every night and sleep in the morning.

Playing so many games has its own good and bad toll on u.

The more u play, u get better concentration on things, u become dedicated, ur reaction time decreases hugely and ofcourse, u become a good gamer. :)

Hello World

2005-03-31T23:43:00.000+05:30

Hello World