Cosmi

Oct 21 1996:“Mississippi has got water volume that’s 24 times that of Colorado.” While dad was reading it loud from the atlas & I was grieving about the fact, that India vs Australia Titan cup day/night semifinal encounter had fallen, just before the social studies exam. I asked dad with ostensible curiosity, “ If Mississippi has water that’s 24 times that of Colorado, then why Mississippi did not create the canyon?”  More than interested in knowing why Mississippi didn’t create canyon, I was interested in letting the dad know that I am listening to him but won’t give semifinal match a miss, for  whatsoever  reason in the evening. Coming from a country that’s acutely afflicted with good grade syndrome, early they   say, that life demands sacrifice before bargain & once sacrifice is executed well both intent & content wise, the bar goes & its only gain, however living life teaches otherwise, just iterate, observe, improvise, think what’s re...

  Life filters, Thought filters...& eventually the radius of circle of concern shrinks down to sync up with circle of influence .....or it could be silent march other wise,which ever is true , hope shall prevail ! Amen. As I was cleaning up data from HDD ,I chanced upon to discover the ignited mind in archives ...........A poster that I made almost 5 years ago :) START: 8:00 pm Thoughts :     10:00 pm Thoughts  " The foundation of any great nation,civilized society & cultured family ,requires three critical resources: intellectual mothers,responsible fathers & intelligent n encouraging teachers. To generate these three resources, quality education that could ensure empowerment  needs to be spread across the length & breadth of the country & among various economic stratum of  society."  11:00 pm  Thoughts :...

It’s all about coming out of inertia It’s been long time since I penned down something, not so well taken time but I read somewhere ”vision without implementation is hallucination” & realized that globe cannot get greener & artic sheet can’t stop melting by adding few more write-ups to the web, nor one can reverse the dent in ozone layer by adding few more trees. Though “ Little drops of water & little grains of sand; still makes the mighty ocean & the beauteous land .”                         Anyways that’s not something that brought me here; it has to do with a recent debate that I just finished watching on 2014 union elections , which rejuvenated the long lost debater in me. Series of thoughts of all kind are mushrooming in mind . Of all the thoughts the predominant one is what is culture in true sense?   How it grows...

Problem :Write a function to find square root of a number /* Steps: Use binary search to find the square root. 1. Initialize, start = 0, end = number, mid = (start+end)/2. 2. Set prevMid = 0, as the previous mid value. 3. Find diff = absolute difference between prevMid and mid. 4. While mid is not the square root of number (i.e. mid*mid != number) and difference diff is greater than 0.0005,   repeat the following steps:   a. If mid*mid > number, then the square root will be less than mid. So, set end = mid.   b. Else, the square root will be greater than mid. So, set start = mid.   c. Set prevMid = mid   d. Re-evaluate mid   = (start+end)/2.   e. Re-evaluate diff from prevMid and mid. */ - - - -

(Painting By Takshila Vidushi) "Where the mind is without fear & the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world hasn't been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection ! Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake." By Guru RabindraNath Tagore (Ever since childhood this poem of RabindraNath Tagore has been synonmous to supreme level of perfection for me.Its incredibl...

Last Sunday while zapping the channels of my idiot box I chanced upon to watch one of the greatest epic of our times –MAHABHARAT. It did’nt take me much time to recall the waves that it created across the nation- when it was telecasted for the first time.I was too young to comprehend it,yet I used to watch it with paramount interest,sitting next to dad & imitating his stimuli to what character speaks Later in my teens ,unlike most of my friends who used to enjoy watching top tens & horror shows , I was inundated to discover that zee was going to re telecast Mahabharat .This time, I was grown up enough to understand it,so I religiously watched all the episodes with same interest. Watching such an epic in formative years has great influence on one’s approach towards life .Today to me ,Mahabharat isn’t just another epic but it is a thinking process, where the mind is the battleground, THE KURUSHETRA ,where all kind of thoughts hover, the state of mind that we...