academics in PEC-deemed university

"what is the goddamn benefit of this bloody grade point system? ", asked the lawyer i met today. he is fighting a case of my friend's termination from college. the question startled me a little. not because of the aggressive tone in which it came from an uninterested chap, but because i was caught up in the whirlpool of thoughts ....

the question of positives and negatives of a particular system were streaming from various neurons and the electro-chemical signals had staggered into a war. blankness numbed my brain and all i could mutter was there are positives as well as negatives. what you want to hear??

anyways, the case is simple. being a good friend, i have seen him closely since my 2nd year. he's not an ordinary person. i've seen him toiling for 22 hours at a stretch during exams studying and still getting a poor grade. its simple. he's a real hardworker. but some people cannot just grasp confusing concepts of physics or UME. whats his fault?? darsheel zafary of taare zameen par ?? not really, but, no harm in striking a resemblance.

anyways, now the college grading. a D grade fetches 4 credits then how is the academic rule at SGPA>4.5 or 5 justified? considering the law A+B=C+D, someone has to get a D, now in this case, there is an equal possibility that the not-so-popular and the not-so-sycophant people lose their grades in this subjective grade getting battle. its a common thing that better grades have been given to bootlickers and other stuff, but the average man is again at a loss.

the laws clearly suggest that even if the person passes all the subjects with D's he may get terminated from the college. this happens with my friend... is this justified on moral grounds ?

the other technicality that 6 years be given to the person to finish his degree is also not complied in his case. talk about the arbitrary nature of senate's decision to terminate him, i am amazed what teachers and educators may achieve my debarring a person from college. see his effort. see the amount of work he may put to get things done. see the hard work. no.. they'd prefer being rigid and trying to set an example (and everyone should understand this that no matter how much people try to set examples, things dont change by making disciplined actions for isolated cases)

i could just tell the judge that 'bloody' he passed in all the subjects with 21 credits, how can they terminate when clearly its written termination is only if the credits are 15 or less..... now why doesnt senate comply to it's rules ????


PS::: if any PECOBIAN reads this and supports his cause, please convince your friends so that the students can do something to change .. students have the power to do anything .. if and only if they want to ...

convoluted game of acceptances, rejections and withdrawals...

A time comes in every one's life when he is disappointed for what he has worked so hard for, just like the negative of the 'conventional' camera. later does the negative get developed and then comes recognition, choice and publicity..
but this time, along with the above mentioned, comes madness.

i have tried arranging it chronologically, but believe me, everyday has been a suprise the past 2 months ....

2008
well, its a new game altogether, a game of research. research demands acknowledgment of your work through paper publications in journals and technical conferences. now, during my stay at STM, i had made a research paper, which, frankly, did not seem to me as a great work. my mentor had submitted the paper earlier, but had rejections from many places. my motive was to give a new 'look' to the paper and make it look acceptable.

i remember my initial discussions with my mentor. the work seemed incomplete and uncertain. i was then actually involved in finishing the work, testing and profiling the new algorithm suggested in the paper. a few modifications, in the understanding, also followed. anyways, the point was i was analysing and researching each and every aspect. now, the paper has had it's share of bad luck with lots of rejections from indian conferences (and international one's too).

this paper was finally complete and ready to be accepted. I, personally, wasnt sure of its fate because of a few problems (which i tried my best to cover up and conceal). anyways, it was indian conference level. that was my take.

now, this paper was sent in alwar's international conference. accepted. great boost for us. next I sent it in PEC, but due to internal knowledge of poor quality, another one was sent, while this was withdrawn. next comes selection of a modified version of this paper in amu's national conference and some bombay's international conference. okay .. cool nah !

JAN
then comes the big ones. the paper travels world and gets accepted in international conference in hongkong (conf. names withdrawn, due to google). 5 days later, when i was making mind of visiting HK, comes another suprise that it got selected for thailand conference, the same which had rejected it earlier.. persistence, luck or god? whatever. ... things are good.

FEB
after withdrawals from earlier ones, comes IETE journal suprise that 1 person had liked it and it may be published there. also, a better conference, CNSR, accepts it.
baaki har jaga se withdraw karke, now CNSR is final .. the work gets uploaded on iee digital library. what else is needed??

in the midst of it, i was going berserk... mad. how to make yourself completely mad?? comes, ieee ka journal's partial acceptance..... god knows what will happen the next 2 days...

June:::
the end of this game has been that we cancelled cnsr and did not get through in consumer electronics journal ... be greedy and get nothing ! ..

my best friend is ... billu

well, here comes a movie which concentrates on the essay we all learnt by rote and had written it in our adolescence. my best friend is ... blah blah blah blah ....
am talking about billu barber (pronounce as 'beep', why, because the whole movie is filled with beeps whenever barber or hajaam word comes in the movie.) The song mutes hajaam, and it seems like someone is saying haraam.

Anyways, the point is, its a good concept to focus on eternal friendship but the movie is a big time bore, because of incessant songs(which keep on coming for no reason). moreover, the movie is NOT a comedy.. but just a timepass flick. the whole movie has publicity of shahrukh's own self-image. its obvious that shahrukh's motive of doing this film is to endorse his brand and also show how politically correct and humble he is. but anyways, the movie could have been definately better without senseless numbers like 'mar jaani', a try of imitating rock on 'style' music and the stupid 'billu bhayankar' song.

the movie is okay if you are a mushy mushy person or you just remembered you also had a best friend in your life. another thing, it's not a priyadarshan styled flick. the comedian's like rajpal, asrani and om puri have no humour to display in the movie, while irfan is shown a subdued yet strong, average, pity endorsing fellow. a typical middle class fellow with small problems and big dreams to achieve .... while shahrukh's acting sucks big time (i cant understand why his lips tremble between dialogues.. kkkkk kiran is it ??? )

PS:: i realised its too much movie reviews on this blog, but i guess thats a good way of updating it while not boring people about my daily life stories or happenings ...

modernising Devdas.....

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bedtime story

it's a good day and i have finally decided to go on for a walk cum jog. the weather is cool too, with no sun but grey tones in the sky. after a good day's work, am jogging with quite a few people, some of which i just overtook. the day is good and i am loving the puffs of smoke coming from my mouth in this weather.

its decision time on whether to go straight or right. straight, there's a building and right has an empty road, a little foggy.. but uninhabited. first i think of going straight, going on the other side of the road and i see a yellow gate. in between the bars, i see other people walking normally. i decide to go right only, not towards the gate. in the midst of this, the people i was with have been left behind, some going straight while some have already turned right and on the other side of the road, though am not alone, i see some joggers ahead of me.

all of a sudden, people ahead of me start running faster.. and i catch up too. someone comes from the other side, hinting me to stop, analyse and stay put. i dont. in the grossly bizzare situation, i run faster, risking myself... people ahead of me are shot. killed. for a moment, i decide to run faster and go away from the building .. and even make one or two shots of sprinting in despair.

then my senses dawn on me that the best thing to do is lie down as there is some kind of terrorists and am an easy target with my back all exposed and me running....
just as this happens, i stoop lower and from nowhere someone makes an impact on my head, with his legs, shoots at someone and covers me while i lay dorsal on the road...... he says, dont move, am from nsg, my eyes, on the ground open up and see someone just tryin to shoot me but getting shot by the guy.. he's on me, protected me and now i close my eyes.. feeling anxious, but thinking why i committed that mistake.... my mind running ..

i realise that if i feel safe, i may not be here .. but somewhere else.. i open up the eyes and my mobile reads 5:15. .... am lying on my bed .. and its my dream ..

PS:: though am not perturbed ever by the terrorism n stuff (never in my mind .. comes such things.. seems funny now thinkin bou it ), i dont know why this came to me ... but the problem is if it came to me, what bout the sensitive and people who have ever witnessed things like these ....... what's in their mind ?

start of major

well, finally today was the day we kickstarting working on the major project. the college seems continuing with the torcher we have to bear in the class.. new one liners of nag are unleashed, everyday.. "I will kill you", "mai naag hoon", his praise of bihari people and desire to help one guy commit suicide in our batch are strong ...

while arun caught me today (bcoz of incessant mass-cuts) the more i experience the college, the more it seems to suck (its been 4 years, so now every teacher's personality is coming clearer). bagai was at his suckiest best today when he refused to sign on a document, forwarded by a professor of his dept only. (he said unke he HOD samajhkar sign karva lo) while the 3rd year juniors got it signed from Director of the college, our HOD is great.. ek sign se uski gaddi cheeni jaa sakti hai ...

My stories apart, big news around was the season of apology letters .. vats n nain, both guud frnds got apologies from atrenta (jisme i too had a good chance to get, and now, by god's grace, meri naukri ni lagi) anyways, am hoping vats does great in
iim interviews.. regarding nain, he will find something .. hopefully ....

coming to starting the project, it was a good day for science, but a bad one for emotions.. i just realised today that i am more of an idealist, introvert and innocent compared to even the most innocent guys around. well, innocent is not the correct word, but carrying yourself is the word. underestimating myself is sometimes what i do best.. but anyways, am not sorry about it..

traffic sense ...

well, its a day full of giving your time to your family... but anyways, i'd like to devote today on something general, which everyone sees, does and observes....
about the traffic sense prevailing in northern cities....

The himachali (and the other guys living uphill) dont like wasting their precious time on the road. however, i've noticed in them a kind of love for the road. for them, its prosperity to have a road... though there is no 'real' traffic uphill, these people like it being friendly with anyone on the road... and as you start descending from the hills, the attitude starts changing ...

punjab has a plethora of reactions ... while the rural guys love telling their tales of the day.. the ludhiana's and amritsar's are the ones which really lack traffic sense....... turban or not, you'll find attitude in the air... just try overtaking and you'll know the difference... you'll always see the other guy looking at you.. if you look back, his stare just widens and the face becomes like as if you're about to be cursed...... for the two-wheelers, people don't believe in headgear(some already have it in punjab) but cant live without a big pair of glasses and a hankerchief tied to cover the face (like a terrorist).... the bikes go so near the car you're travelling in that it may scare you to death if you're new to this.. while the bihari rickshawala's have their own story...

being in punjab has another problem .. the size of the cars .... the philosophy of bigger is better comes to test when the road is cluttered and they have to wait in queues... but thats what they have started liking.. staring at each other from their big cars ... and trying to show off their red-lights (on top of their cars)

come chandigarh, and no one is interested in you.. u'll seldom see stares.. people are sensible and have the requisite patience for the road .. but go further down, haryana likes it fast and zig-zag stuff ... talk about haryana bus drivers and this blog wont finish ...

go a little down and comes delhi ! the traffic paradise ... a person may pursue Phd on this traffic haven... though the general rule of the road here is to put your vehicle in any empty space possible.. even if there is a small opening, dont miss it.. keep on pushin the clutch and accelerator and going ahead .. you'll just do well ..

as you'd have noticed, the personality of people are visible from the road.... the uphill guys are friendly, straight and naive... punjab brings wannabe culture and fake attitude.. while delhi shows restless, insecure people having no time for themselves.... while chandi guys rock, happy and content ...

Rape in the final sem

being a hot topic to write, final sem has been a literal pain in the neck. it just seems harder than all semesters. 'nag' (now i'll use this as code name, cause someone told me whenever you type my honorable teacher's name, my blog comes up which i should avoid) is consistently giving us assignments to make in every class (for tues class its on RFID).

but the real rape which happened with us was in microwave. our thursday was just the usual assignment day. no one does the assignment on their own .... we just make the assignment in one of the earlier classes and submit it to the prof.. never does one know what are the questions or what are the answers .. its just rewriting whats written in the original (just like victorian days before photostats gave way to clerks).

EC is known for the failed attempts at mass-cuts. in every class, people stand up and go out of the class, trying to instill a notion of unity and confidence to perform a mass cut. same happened this time too ... never does the mass cut get executed.. just a normal thursday.. but the god's had contrived a different plan.

i collected the whole class's assignment and it seemed a neat bundle for the teacher to admire. the failed attempt to mass cut had happenned, too. now then sir comes in, takes the attendance. then we feel so happy to have completed the assignment that someone tells "sir, assignments..". the attention shifts to the bundle of ass. lying on the front seat and everyone is so happy to have submitted it.

sir starts asking who all has submitted the assignment and takes the attendance again. everyone is "yes sir, submitted". gurinder chips in, i have it in my room, i'll submit it at 12. the only one saying "no" is my fair lady, the college beauty, miss simran (hats off to her, going different from the crowd ). now then, he asks after the 2nd attendance, anyone who doesnt have assignment in the bundle ? no one makes any noise... (there's something in the air which is making me suspicious now..)

then comes the RAPE..... the next instant, we are told to sit less than 5 people on one bench. (acting fast, i scamper as fast as i can to sit behind dhawan, who had read microwave). he wrote 3 questions to do (2 from the assignment, and the best part was that we didnt even know the which 2 questions were in the assignment)anyways, he cleared that out. in our 4 years, never has such brutal treatment been seen.

as for me, (trying to be oversmart), i knew 1 answer and had copied a fair amount of the 2nd question when people sitting near me started snatching my pages and it ended him noticing me and telling the class that i'll average the marks you and your partners get.. from that moment, he never stopped staring at me (and i was cribbing in my mind while everyone must be copying).

After that, My pen was moving in the air, sheet empty and i was looking down the whole 35 minutes in despair.... neeraj, trying to outsmart, like me, ended up copying the answer 1 twice and then realizing he'd done a big error. till then, arun( the honorable teacher) had told to collect his and jaskirat(who had showed him the answer) separately .. to evaluate whether there was anything similar.
lol .. neeraj and me were caught in the microwave propagated RADAR of arun.... but in general it was a 1 hour cruel, forced, unexpected and brutal assault on our student life. RAPE.

legs, belts, wooden-sticks and baseball bats ...

Q:anything they have in common ???
A: all are used extensively to hit at the bums of 'newly' placed final year students in pec.

call it hooliganism or sadism, i never understand the meaning of making a really happy person feel pain by bashing him with leather belts, legs and baseball bats...
its final year and the placements happened a month ago, so this memory was not fresh.. however, this 4th, things went back in time when people got placed in bhel. as the outside auditorium, Gupta sir had caught people bashing with belts.. he even managed to gather some belts from those 'pranksters'.

the action had to shift from outside audi to front of hostel parking ... now, the ece guys are not far behind.. come towards C block and witness a mob of 20-25 people standing in the balcony waiting for their prey ...

i scramble upstairs to find alok (the prey) and here comes the leader of the mob to escort him.. i slipped sweetly and spent 15-20 mins.. i had work with alok, so he called up after 30 min.. only to realise that he's turning me over to the mob (who beated me like hell, for me gettin into a univ.. ) after getting a nice thrashing, i am the part of the mob.... come any guy, he's gonna get bashed up .. where are the principles of non-violence, now (tit-for-tat has preceded over them).

anyways, it happens only in pec.... hope the practices change ... if not, happy slogging ..

Dr. strangelove and how i stopped worrying and loving the mem

well, all's well that ends well. or should we say gives a better start to life. now, then... my self-created mess ended when i got the best news of my life recently. Glimpses of my four years in college come in front of me, some good, some not that good but anyways, 4th feb is the day to remember for lots of things for PEC(as I told in the nss camp)

-news about me and others getting into good colleges for study
-placements of 27 people in the best PSU of india at package of quarter of 7 lac(in a middle of recession)
-college team winning 3.5 lac in some mechanical car development competition
-what else, lots of news may follow too . but am poorly informed..

also, the storm of presentating the paper passed away with my news and my mind just feels more clearer, more focussed and more rejuvenated. better news coming in place, the same paper got selected for journal, too .. lol (imagine making a paper and 3 associations accepting it .. am hoping that now ieee doesnt accept it in the journal .. if that happens, i'll definately be found in a nearby assylum)

god plays its part, too.. deciding to defer my registration everyday helped me not waste my money (cause plans of going to conference seem remote now, considering journal acceptance). also, I had plans of registering on the same day the good news was bound to arrive from US, unknowingly. luck by chance ?? you bet !
or should you say, the presence of the unknown superpower..

hey i forgot to mention one more good thing that happened today
ram killed ravana today on NDTV imagine . probably that made the day good for commoners like me ...... lol

oye its february !

whenever the word february crops up, it just reminds of the love in air. .. first comes basant panchmi .. (the start of indian season of love).. and then valentines..
sms'es start coming from all places and the hottest discussion topic becomes the grand plan of valentines day ... and preparations (of all sorts ) for the day ...

now then, I dont understand the greatness why a particular day is chosen to say all the random emotional feelings to anyone, (and sometimes for the heck of it)? anyways, this is the time of desperation, too, for the singles.

While girls would oft find that some people are really nice these days(which they seldom notice.. i wonder DO THEY EVER use their 2.5 kg up there) the boys, are busy finding and zeroing on the girl(read targets) to get on this valentines.. some get it, some dont.. but someday, 'some' of those some guys get it .. anyways..

the newly made couples and ex's patching up again are busy planning for a perfect date (strategy:nothing should go wrong), nervous and anxious.. loving it ..

while the existing couples dont find it a special day(though they may want it to be one, but at the end, its just like another meeting with their partners.. nothing to remember about)

as you can see, 3/4th category doesnt really need valentines to express their love .. but the rest, deserve the best time they aspire for ... happy val's 2 them..

as for me, am going for cousin's marriage (damn it being on sat. and in middle of shaadi season, my possibilities are canceled, so am not even thinking of it)
wat else ??
MORAL OF THE STORY::: i am a proponent of valentines (as long as i have a date.. ) if not, val's is just another day in life .. a forgetful one .... lol

the assignment orgy ....

ORGY:
2 DISAPPROVING an orgy of sth a period when there is too much of something, usually a bad or harmful activity:


well, this week has been a mixed bag of sorts .. with loads of assignments, projects (and other work of mine), its been a real pain in the neck.
now then, it's monday (where we submitted an assignment of implementing a radio simulator on MATLAB.. worked whole sunday for that .. and i guess the work was research-kind thingy )
monday has bought 4 more assignments to my notice. come tuesday, rihani and saha need pieces of paper (termed by them as assignments, but by a friend as ASS-in-MINT)to be kept in their rooms and let them rot all year (before they finally decide to earn some money by selling it @6-9 rupees per kg.).

wednesday is off (but u never know if a teacher decides giving assignment for that day, too)

thursday is arun day when we submit derivations of all the equations he wrote today in class. any utility of such clerk-work ?? i dont think so..

friday brings another saha ass-in-mint to the fore ... wow na ??
now, then the week's packed up .. one ORGY we have in pec ....

search ..

someone just told me that when you type nagendra saha, this is the first link that pops up... since that am trying random searches to find out where i stand out in the world

some ways where i would figure in the first page of google

ankit jain clock recovery
ankit jain st kabir
ankit jain pec
ankit jain pecfest
ankitj7

hope thats enough publicity ... google will crawl onto this and link this as first page now ... lol

luck by chance ...

first time i'm writing in the mid of the day, but anyways, today's day started early. woke up at 8 30 and by 9 15 was off to see luck by chance ( 9 30 show wid paarth). a lovely movie, coherent property (script), brilliant creativity and direction. each and every frame (as they call in the movie) makes sense.
the story is optimistic and talks of how taking chances may get you what you desire. having a deep meaning and portraying it in a movie is difficult. however, zoya does that perfectly. the moral of the story is "fortune favours the brave." something we've seen in lot of motivational, war and heroic movies. but the brilliance of this movie is that it targets the commonness and makes one relate to either of the protagonist characters. be it farhan or konkona, both have strong characters and a subtle difference. the supporting cast also shows idealism, hard work, fire and the unsettled mind wanting to achieve something. in all, a brilliant movie with a strong message. and dont forget some eye candy, too. isha looks flamboyantly amazing, portraying an important class of character. In all, i am sure every role defined in the movie fits either in one of us and our lives. bravo !! 10/10

though, i'd like to point out some goof-ups for zoya.. hritik dancing with sport shoes-a big no-no. (havent seen in a long time wearing a semi-traditional dress in a circus type dance and wearing white sport shoes while dancing). konkona sen wearing a gold chain while bathing (and in the whole movie, no such chain is on her neck. however, stupid flaws apart, direction is brilliant with high amount of interest given to backdrop details and some nice creative shots...

now then, this whole story of taking chances reinforced my big decision taken up this weekend. apart from that, a lovely birthday treat by saurabh and fun with old friends was good to make me going. topping it all with the hint of flirting, today's ice-cream tastes nice ......

single ... and loving it

well, its the first time am writing bout my personal life on a public blog, but as most people who know me, know, that i am single... oft am been seen talking about this topic but seldom would someone understand that despite jokes, i am single and just loving it....

the joy of being single is deep inside.. while the external environment and moody neurons tempts to pick up the apple, its just self-restraint to the rescue..
here are some positive sensible things for the guys and gals feeling low on being single:::

1)Independance, democracy and freedom: a partner hampers your right to all the 3 things mentioned in some way or the other.

2)Give and take: believe me, a relation is a give and take thing(unless one of the partners is so stupid and idealistic.) IF YOU ARE just a little SELF-Centred(and i bet everyone is the one who does believe he isnt, is fickle), you'll end up sucking in it or making a compromise, which you may regret someday in life. so forget it dudes ..

3)tension,tension : oh she must have messaged ... her call .. i have to pick her up and drop her. her dog has died ... need i say more ????

4)okay u think you get chance to flirt, roam around and do fun things in your free time?
the catch is that people not in a relation feel desperate in their free time while those in one, realize that they need to free their minds from the thoughts which occupy the mind of a person in a relationship the whole 24 hours.

5) health, financial and lot of scientific hazards you get exposed to:
more of time on the mobile is fatal to the brain. it decelerates your learning process.(now you wonder why single people are smarter and more cash rich than you ?? )

stupid american studies (lack of projects in america is a reason for such studies, more on this later)
suggest that fucking a girl is directly linked to dissatisfaction in an individual. more you fuck, more you are dissatisfied with your life (which means more the probability of you committing suicide if that thought ever creeps into your mind.)

a person in a relation reading this still thinks he is not prone to any of these needs to look into the mirror and face the reality.

those who are single, just love this time cause life wont offer you this opportunity again. its great to be single, so just dont let your senses rule your mind and make a drastic mistake...