Whats in a Name?!

I know this person called Amrita Maitra back at my college. While I have known her for a few months, I only noticed that her name had a nice curious property in it when i was staring at my inbox. The curious thing about the name is that her second name is a jumbled form of her first name (or vice versa).

I googled for more such examples and turns out google really aint that brainy afterall [or maybe, i dont really search effectively]...

I checked with AM and told her about my discovery, and how it was not very easy to find more names with this funda... She said, "I have a friend called Nisha Sinha :)... But yeah, I am not sure if there are names with more letters than in mine."

What do you think?

Gandhiji's Talisman

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

So simple, so true.... and we wonder why the recent suicides at kgp really happened?! Probably, they never saw anything apart from their syllabus in their school textbooks...

Life, Troughs and Kharagpur

They say Life is full of ups & downs. Who can deny that? How many times have we felt on top of the world today and found ourselves hit the rock bottom tomorrow?

There's this other school of thought which says "Whats life without challenges?"... I sported this on my Gtalk status message once and Tuhin Chatterjee replied, "Peaceful Life". Now who can deny that?

We all love it when life's smooth sailing and when we are down, we look upto something which can cheer us up and get us out of the mess.

I am currently in one such mess and have been wondering for a while as to what can get me out of this. This morning, when I signed on my attendance register at office, I realized that I had just about two weeks to complete this internship and then I get back to campus! and now, I know for sure what ll pull me out of the mess. I already feel the positive vibe.

I have always maintained that I love Kharagpur for some reason. People often ask me why [on earth]?!I have never been able to answer this before, but I guess now I know why..

Marriages, Heaven, Television and Dilemma

They say "Marriages are made in heaven". If you are a statistician however, you will firmly believe you can reject the null hypothesis ;)

Rakhi Sawant seems to be a keen statistician herself. Not only has she rejected the null hypothesis, she is all set to prove that marriages are made on television.

Well, my mom's totally into the concept, watching the program with a lot of enthusiasm. So much, that she cant hear what I am saying when the show is on. Feeling really deprived of the love and to catch mom's attention, I decided to drop my name in the competition too.

But as they say, life is never as smooth sailing. Now, my sister says she ll disown me :(

Pradbose Quote

We all agree that G-Talk status messages have more functions than just conveying the status of the person. Perhaps, the messages are getting funkier by the day and provides a good time pass when in between a boring Java Class.

A good friend (a recent friend too) had a nice status message which reminded me of how my gran talks to me off late. The message read "One of the King Georges of England--I forget which--once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night--I cannot recall at the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."

Dont laugh! You are gonna get there in just around (70-"your age") yrs.

Planning, Uncertainty and Life

They say Life is full of uncertainty and one needs to plan it well to counter these uncertainty. Well,
lets say I plan my life to reduce the uncertainty, cant an uncertain event just crop up and render my plans useless?

Lets just say, "Life is uncertain".

People and Fuel Price Hike

Last night, NDTV as usual was blowing the issue of "fuel price hike" out of proportions. However, I was glad to see a sensible reporter for a change, who mentioned "The world prices of fuel has increased from $40 to $70/ barrel. So a price rise of 4Rs/liter of Petrol is something which is both reasonable and expected." Well, thats sensible but not my point.

Just to add spice to this news item, they also showed video clips of a lot of motorists waiting outside a Petrol Bunk, waiting to get their tanks full before the price hike post-midnight. Well if you are from India, you wouldnt be new to this as most of us do so when we recieve such news. But then, how sensible is this action?

First, lets say you have a luxury car. Your maximum fuel capacity would be around 68 liters. That means you ll save not more than Rs. 240. Typically, what value would Rs. 240 for a guy who bought the luxury car at the first place!

Second, a car like Maruti 800 which has a fuel capacity of 32 liters, you ll save Rs. 128. This is as much money as he would spend if he forgets his lunch box at home on any day!

Third, a bike like Hero Honda which has a fuel capacity of 12 liters, you ll save Rs. 48. Duh! Roses for your girlfriend cost more than that!

On the other hand, lets say no one reacts to the price change like the way we usually do, then:
1) We will not have to wait that 1 extra hour in the queue.
2) We ll make life easier for a guy who has actually run out of fuel and wants to get home as soon as possible. [This guy is you and me]
3) Avoid the traffic jams caused by the long queues outside the petrol bunks which extend to the road.

I am tempted to conclude that this exercise of waiting makes little sense. Do you think I am right or am I missing something?