A Rocking third day of the fest....

After lasts day's exciting show today i went to the fest with much less energy as i didnt know much about the performers of the 3rd day.Also today's artists were going to sing only English and Bengali songs for which i dont have any passion. As usual we all reached the place at 5:00 pm. Today even more of my friends came so the enjoyment factor was going to be even more.

Days proceeding started with some peculiar type of fashion show. They tried to give some message through fashion like anti-terrorism , no-smoking etc etc. It was an unique thing that i saw or heard of. I paid attention to only the first .... no "anti-terrorism".. It was quite a good performance.

After an hour latter "Anjan Dutta" a famous bengali singer came to the stage. My friends were really excited about him. At the start he sung some boring songs. But after that he sang some really cool songs. I really liked them . Mesmerizing to say the least. The end was even fantastic. For the first time i liked bengali music..:-) . Though the songs were not rocking or
songs on which we can dance but they were certainly very cool and meaningful. His son Nil Dutta also sang some good songs. Excellent performance by the whole team.


After that a band called Pentagram came. I never heard of it .... But i knew that Vihsal , The music director was part of it. So i decided to wait a little longer to listen to it. Pentagram took the stage at 8:45 pm. After what happened there can't be described in words here. Vihsal came and rocked "Techno India". He was full of energy and started jumping all over the space . I didnt understand what he was singing. But it was certainly energetic. So excited that he even said to our faculty and guests that-"No one dares to sit down when pentagram in performing .. please get up and join us!!". He made everybody dance. Though he uttered certain nasty words which i certainly didnt like.

During the whole evening lots and lots of crackers where burnt in the sky. Each craker was cheered by everybody. Totally energetic enviroment.

I couldnt afford to watch the whole performance as i had to catch the last bus for my home. I wanted to stay longer but couldnt afford to. After i came home i heard that pentagram was shouting so loud that police came to stop them!! .. But they didnt stop then also.. They said they wouldnt listen to the police!!... They ended the show at 10:00 pm.

Unfourtunately it was the last day of the last fest in my college life ... so felt a liitle sad in the end.......As one of the anchors vijay truely said .."It was an emotional moment for the final year students"...

An exciting second day of cultural fest....

After yesterdays dull show i was thinking whether today will be the same. But luckily it was not the case this time. Today there was lot more crowd and all were full of energy. Many of my friends turned up today. We reached there at about 5:00pm. Initially the function was quite boring and nothing much was happening. But the atmosphere was good and we were enjoying and gossiping and taking lots of pictures.

When the real function started we were allowed to enter the privileged area(as we are the senior most in the college) ... totally near the stage. So we were able to see the artists clearly and enjoy a hell lot. Firstly a lady from last years "saregama pa " came and sang some energetic songs . The dancing had already started. Every one was pumped with energy.

After she finished the person for whom we were waiting all evening came-"Javed ali". He sung some beautiful songs (songs from yuvraj ,delhi 6 ,gajni ,rock on etc etc ). Though some of my friends didnt like it that much as some of the songs were slow but i enjoyed it totally . I even danced with some of my friends (For the first time in my life). My friends were surprised to see me dancing ..:-).

While dancing my mobile fell from my pocket. Didnt notice it earlier . When i realized it i started searching for it. I found it under a guys feet who was jumping upon it . Luckily not much damage was done.

Unfortunately we had to return earlier before javed ali could finish as we had to catch the last bus to our home. But i enjoyed it extremely.

A Dull first day of the cultural fest....

Today was the first day of the cultural fest 2009 . This is the last fest of my college life . So i decided to enjoy it to the fullest. In the excitement i went there early . But unfortunately none of my friends(except three) turned up. It was extremely sad to see that no one turned up as this was the last "masti" opportunity for us . They prefer to keep themselves buried in their home and study or waste time surfing internet.

Anyways we went inside to see the programs in the fest. The first was rock band competition. None of us liked it. Those guys were shouting their hell out and we didnt understand any word. We got extremely bored and decided to return home quickly and hence didnt even watch other programs after that.(Moral of the story- Worst programs should always be kept at the end of the day so that people dont miss good programs)

It was the most boring function that i ever attended. I hope next day would not be as boring...

Counter Terrorism

This topic may become extremely controversial because of my thinking that i think defers from everybody. Recently the amount of terrorist activities in India and all over the world as increased significantly and this reached peak during last year's 26/11 attack in India. This attack has made everybody to think on -"How to counter terrorism?". The country's intelligence and the police was under the scanner. All the politicians started blaming each other as usual. But my question is -"IS there any definite way through which we can stop terrorism ?".

I feel that no matter what you do its next to impossible to stop terrorist activities. We may be able to stop some of these activities but more often than not we will fail. If the terrorists decide to strike more often than not they will succeed. How can police force or army scan each and every entrance to city on a daily basis.?. How can police scan each and every bag that we carry with us on the city road?How can police check each and every car parked in a city.? We can do these things for a couple of days but cant continue this on a long term basis. So its becomes impossible for police to patrol each and every corner of a city on a daily basis. So i think its impossible to stop terrorism.

But cant we stop terrorism then? The answer i think is Yes but the solution i guess might not be feasible during this time. Terrorism can stop if and only if terrorists themselves decide to stop them. So the infeasible solution that i was talking about is that we should change the mindset of the terrorists. Easier said than done or we have to wait for the birth of another Gandhiji....

Please do suggest solutions to terrorism which can be practically implemented so that we can get rid of this thing....

Finally it came.....

Finally the day came for which i was anxiously waiting -I received my Infosys offer letter . I was waiting for it since mid jan(as last year our seniors got it during this time). Infosys never made any communication with us after campusing . So i was even more worried . Also the global melt down was on my mind. But finally i got my offer letter . Checked my email at 7:00 am and was absolutely delighted to see mail from infosys.

My date of joining is Nov 16 and i am extremely happy on this.Many may feel its late but i like it.I will be able to relax in my home for some more time and also spend the festive season with my family.

Infosys has honured each and every committement that it made. "Infy is really a company with a conscience. It is very transparent and manages things in a beautiful way". Infy has proved this thing once again . Also smart buisness move my giving joining before any other companies.

The only sad point in this whole story is that i didnt getting the same date of joining as my friends.So wouldnt be able to go with them together.

I am extremely thankful to my friends who helped me during the tough campusing period.

I wish all other companies(who recruited) also give the offer letter to my batch mates hence honouring each and every committement they made like Infosys...

Australian Domination in Cricket Over?

In the past few months there has been lots of talk on "The end of era of Australian domination in cricket." particularly after the Australians where removed from the ICC ODI ranking by South Africa. Just because Australians are not playing well for the last 6 months we have concluded that their 120 months domination in the world of cricket is over? Do not you think its too harsh on the Aussies who dominated the world for so many years?

There are several reasons for the slump in Australian performance. Most talked about point on this regard is "greats retiring from the games" . You do not have control on this thing so no point discussing on it. But the major factor thats hurting them the most is their best two all rounders and power hitters "Andrew Symonds and Shane Watson" are out of action for many days. This affects their performance significantly . So once these two return to the team i guess they will again become the Number one again.

You may be thinking how can i be so confident that once these two return australia will become the number one team. Its not only this factor. The most important thing that i believe in the australian system is professionalism. They are the most proffesional team and this factor alone can drive them to the top rank again. Also the australian cricket adminstration system along with its facilities is the best . Even sunil gavaskar (Who does not like the aussies too much) appriciates the australian cricket system. So all of a sudden there system cannot become that bad that they cannot regain the number 1 position. I dont think their cricket adminstration and facilties have worsened .

So , Those who think that the australians are finished (at least for couple of years ) are absoultely wrong. They will definetly bounce back within 4 months (though i dont want them to). I can bet on it.

Arguments against my view are most welcome.

Examination System.

Just a few days back is sat for GATE(graduate aptitude test for engineers). After the examination i started thinking on -" Does the current examination system for competitive exams really filters out the best students appearing for the test?". In the current system we are given only one opportunity to show case our talent and that too within 3 hours. But can we really judge a student within 3 hours?. It may so happen that on a particular day a student does not do well. Does that mean the he is a weaker student than those who got more marks than him? I guess the answer should be "NO".

Now , if the current system is not OK then a natural question will arise - "what should be the examination system structure?". Instead of identifying a talent within a student on a single day we should conduct the examination on several days (say 3 days). We should then find the average of the marks obtained on all the three days. This system will be better than the previous system.Also this system eliminates the luck factor to a large extent.

Now if we increase the number of tests then certainly we will be getting better output(filtering most talented students). But as we increase number of tests then cost of the examination will increase . So we must find out a proper balance between the two.

But certainly the number of tests conducted for an examination should be greater than one.We have to get rid of the current system so that we get better output through our examination system.

Please post your comments on what you feel on my thoughts.

My first post.

At last i got some free time and finally i decided to start blogging. My friend rahul bhattacharya influenced me a hell lot to start blogging and i am thankful to him.You can see lots of my posts(where i will express my views ob various topic) from now onwards in this space and please comments on my views .....