When the tea brews hot, the wise man will triumph
It’s all happening out there in America. Two years ago Barack Obama gave thundering promises about change. The rhetoric about change should have suggested that he was a closet socialist. Whatever notions one might have had about him being an uniting force have been shattered in the past 18 months. He has put America on … Read more
Do you remember the nineties?
When internet was just a hifi word When terrorism was something only reporters covering Sri Nagar talked about When we thought Rajni Kant becoming our CM was just a question of when When Shaktimaan was the only super hero we had heard of besides the Phantom in the comics When we found the very idea … Read more
Asal – An ajith bonanza
Asal is a real treat for ajith fans. I watched the movie yesterday. The opening was one of the biggest I had ever seen. After all he is the king of openings. And this time, this opening will surely convert into something big like Billa, for Asal is a clean action flick. The screen play … Read more
A model for everything
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. -Philip K. Dick The academic community is fond of models. It is true that modeling is the only way to understand several complex phenomena. But I believe that a large part of enthusiasm for models is due to the fact that models … Read more
Taming the hadoop
I am presently working on Edge Node File System a massively scalable distributed file system developed by Prof. Janakiram and Mr. Kovendhan Ponnavaiko of IIT Madras. I am working on a Java implementation of the file system. We are trying to compare the performance of our file system with other popular distributed file systems. Currently … Read more
To Chennai With Love
Getting lost in the several avenues and lanes of Anna Nagar, going in the wrong direction from Ambattur station towards Avadi, getting down at the wrong stop and walking down the entire length of RK Salai from Mylapore to get to City Centre, hiding my incomplete knowledge of Mount Road from Naizath and managing to take him to Richie street, sitting in hot marina sand at noon just to kill time ..
The Ten Commandments
It seems fashionable today to decry capitalism. People take it for granted that the current crisis is due to the system of free market itself. Why this is a false and dangerous accusation will be discussed in a latter post. I will just quote these lines I read somewhere. You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging … Read more
LINEAR INDUCTION MOTOR
A linear induction motor by its simplest definition is simply an induction motor with its stator rolled out flat open. It is not very difficult to construct and the working is quite easy to understand much like other induction machines. But constructing one on one’s own is indeed a valuable experience. It is a kinky … Read more
Should you see this?
I have requested nittians.com to include my blog in their site. Nittians.com is the aggregator of all blogs with nittian content in it. I started blogging only because taking a pen and writing down a diary entry seemed to be too cumbersome a process. Moreover a diary gives you a false sense of security and … Read more
THE OTHER BOY
(This story I wrote for an online short story contest some time back. It was rusting in my old blog. I am reposting it here. A lot of my views have changed since I wrote this. Still it is my first (and only ) story. So I am troubling you with it.) “Yes, I’m waiting … Read more
