किसी का पसीना, तो किसी की थकान हूँ मैं किसी का आराम, तो किसी का विराम हूँ मैं गुज़रते के लिए भले ही अंजान हूँ मैं पर हाँ, मेरे अपनों की एक गहरी पहचान हूँ मैं कभी हर कमरा खिलखिलाया है मेरा कभी हर कोना जगमगाया भी है कभी अंधेरे ने जकडा है मुझको सन्नाटे से मन छटपटाया भी है कितनो को आते देखा है मैंने बोहोतों के जाने पर रोया भी हूँ फिर भी...

बचपन  की  तलाश  में  निकला  हूँ न  हारा  हूँ , न  भागा  हूँ  बस  कुछ  दूर  निकला  हूँ ढूंढ़ना  है  उन  आंखों  को जो  हमेशा  जगमगाती  थीं थामना  है  उन   हाथों  को जिनमे  दुनिया  सिमट  जाती  थी दौड़ना  है  कुछ  ऐसे, की  गिरने  पर  भी  रुकूं  नही हंसना  है  कुछ  ऐसे, की  ज़माने  की  कोई  फिकर  नही सोऊँ  तो  कुछ  ऐसे  की, बीता  कल  याद  न  रहे जागूं  तो  कुछ  ऐसे, की  ज़हन  में  बस ...

One of my friends had once asked me a question, how do we measure intelligence? I would come back to it soon but before that I would like to address an even more fundamental question, What is intelligence? How do you define and is it even possible to put a grade label on something so vast. Probably an example might suffice. How do you manage a crowd of people who are about to leave a...

From atom to electron, protons and neutron, to quarks and finally to strings ... increasing depth of human reach. And increasing hope of understanding God's mind. String is to matter as alphabet is to language. Both are fundamental and there cannot be anything deeper than them. What is a string made up of with respect to matter, is just as demanding a question as, what's an alphabet made up of, with respect to language. With...

मेरे  ही  तसवुर  से  निकला  खाब  का  टुकडा  है  जैसे, आईने  में  झलकता,  किसी  और  का  चेहरा  है  जैसे, यादों  की  ओट  से  झांकता  कोई  मासूम  परिंदा  है  जैसे उम्मीद  के  सहारे  संभलता  कोई  अपना  है  जैसे गुज़रते  वक्त  को  ताकता ,  लंबे  किसी सफर  का  मुसाफिर  है  जैसे पास  आने  को  तरसता , भीड़  में  खोया कोई  यार  है  जैसे उससे  किए  वादों  को  भुलाऊँ  मैं  कैसे आखों  की   खोती  चमक , लौटाऊँ  मैं ...

How would you know that time travels in forward direction? That each passing instant is not going in the backward direction. What is direction, by the way, when we are talking about time. With only time in picture it does not convey any meaning. For example imagine a universe devoid of matter, and having only time. How would time pass in such a place. Time is highly dependent on events. Something must happen after or...

Jeene kee life ka yahi to hai tashan! Insanity and bollywood are very close, if not the same. Take for example some new feathers in its cap. Bachna aee haseeno, Ugly aur pugli, Rock on... Bachna aee haseno, is about a guy who fools around with three girls and is himself dumped by the one whom he loves. Simple innocuous crap. But we never stop here, this guy works in Microsoft .. haha and comes...

Clock strikes 10, we drive our way back home, after a 5 day long week of almost 12-13 hrs a day, we have all the right to be tired and feel somewhat accomplished despite the ticket count in our task queue. Some sleep, some watch movies ..and some..of course!! But then slowly silence looms large, for 2 days. The place, thats your home, is far too quite and peaceful, it takes few hours to adjust...

Nature's concurrent programming Imagine a world were one child can come only when the one coming before has died! I mean imagine a world with compulsive and not just seeming serialization. It would be grossly inefficient. Concurrency is conspicuously obvious in nature. When you are sleeping your subconscious is assimilating and sorting out whatever you experienced today. Earth is moving with much urgency to let the long forgotten half get some sunshine! Ice is busy...

Smoke is rising higher than buildings, buildings of stone and of ambitions, leaving being soot of regret and remains of dreams. What set the fire, one might wonder. What let the goals crumble down. What let the fighters to quit. As one walks through the debris, eyes start to look for a house, even a small one would do, to protect from the cold to set in. To protect oneself from getting plagued by the...

Knowing the path and walking the path Mind is a recording instrument, good enough for lightening fast retrieval. Where we actually do iGoogle, and loads of memories come bouncing back... feelings and experiences being elaborate and essential meta information. That information makes us FEEL the way we do, but just as they happened in the Universe of your cogent choice, likewise they might very well be absent in someone else's choices. Its all a plan...

Knowing the path and walking the path Mind is a recording instrument, good enough for lightening fast retrieval. Where we actually do iGoogle, and loads of memories come bouncing back... feelings and experiences being elaborate and essential meta information. That information makes us FEEL the way we do, but just as they happened in the Universe of your cogent choice, likewise they might very well be absent in someone else's choices. Its all a plan...

Innovation Fruitful according to me is "good" and not necessarily optimal, combination of QUALITY and QUANTITY. We say a meeting was fruitful if a "lot of" issues were taken up and quite "many" of them got significantly, if not completely, resolved. Innovation similarly is the fruit of "fruitful" thinking. Innovative solutions are not always the best but are definitely different from most. What makes a particular thought process fruitful? Again it is the blend of...

Inertia A flat table is holding a huge wooden cube. An attempt to move the box is met with resistance, which Newton preferred to call inertia, inertia of rest to be particular. But in inanimate things like this wooden block it is just the mass that contribute to inertia. However the more you want to accelerate its movement the more force you needNow look at another block, half as heavy but accelerating thrice as fast....

Kite Runner The moment you close the book, almost always forcefully, you tend to look around. With eyes searching for Amir, Hassan, Ali but you are surprised not to find them. Well they should be here only, probably there is something wrong in the roads, Russians may be you imagine, then slowly you come back to the world to which you belonged, before you had started reading the book. Oh! those are all characters in...

Animal Farm George Orwell strikes a strong sarcasm on the human society set up with this short 128 page novel. It turns out that few animals group together for a Rebellion against the oppressive Human master. They win and start a whole new animal owned farm. They do well till the vices creep in, farm gets broken into stratas which have nothing but friction between them. Leaders are killed, pretenders rise. Workers are sucked of...

Man is not a social animal Did you know that the QWERTY keyboard was designed in a manner, that it could slow down the typists so that the typewriter doe snot get jammed. But we are good in making assumptions, especially about things that have a past backing them up; and we simply made millions of keyboards thinking that what we are making is customized to increase the typing speed. Consider another such assumption that...

The Fountainhead Art or literary creation like any other human artifact needs to be sufficiently innovative, different, timely and must target mass audience in order to be successful. By innovation in literature I mean that the writer must use his work to put forward a new problem or solution or, an old problem or solution with a fresh outlook.The settings should be described vividly and the content must add some different angle to the readers'...

Ovid's Morpheus M : You donot treat the computer as others do, you treat as if it were part of you, you talk to him and he answers, he explains and you understand better, and it has been happening for years .... ever wondered why? beacause you are not very much different from ur friend. Your domains are not just overlapping they are pretty much the same, N : What the hell are you talking...

Order Trinity: "Because you have been down there Neo, you know that lane you know exactly where it ends and I know thats not where you want to be" Is art losing to mechanization because of our need for speed and equality? There might be a time when equality would eat up all diversity. When each room will have same dimensions, same almirahs, same amount of light and air, just to make the pricing easy....