The link

Every group of people: be it different category of friends(like school
friends, music buddies), relatives, siblings or work pals have this one thing in common:

There is this one person or max. two people whom I call the 'link'. They are the of the kind who make great things happen; be it an school buddies reunion, making birthday a very special moment or giving company when needed most.

The human instinct of emotional expression is suppressed by the superficial impression of putting up an image of behaving as per the age.
Humans will never age if they understand that such pretense of doing the
so called sensible thing of 'not expressing such views as you have done in
your mail' should be outgrown or better expressed, to be unlearned.

mess romance

Many a times,I have sensed your glance over me,
When,i steal a glance at you,once a while.
It is time we better agree,
Your shyness doesnt buy,so doesnt mine!

It is rude,you may feel, to stare at a stranger,
To talk about him,to enquire about him.
It is boisterous, you may suppose, to find out,
if he knows your name or not;
Seldom away from your gang of girlfriends,
You feel this is how a good natured Indian girl must be.
You feel protected,you feel you are right socially.
But your heart knows better,you heart cries out bitter
Suppress it you must, since you are as Indianised a girl as much
You would hate to admit...
Thinking of what you think has made me give up,
my rhyme;
Moreover,I would still like to say-
It is time we better agree,
Your shyness doesnt buy,so doesnt mine!

Mail to my class mates

SUBJECT: This week's seminar!!! *** MUST READ *** :-) :-) :-)


Hi all,

The subject line was structured just to capture your attention.

"DO NOT attend the Seminar of this week."

For reasons, contact any anybody who knows why :-)
Maximum no. of times you will have to ask is 17C1 = 17 (Since you are the
the person who wants to know, I assume, you will not ask yourself)

For all those who didnt come to Founder's day Rythmica concert(or in other
words, for all the 17 of you :-) ) , I have attached the instrumental
piece I was involved in.I played the Kanjira...To identify, it is the instrument
that is not heard at all in the whole piece!!! (except one 20 second solo
and 2 seconds later).

If you are highly impressed by the above literary humor writing style, I
endorse the book - 'Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy' for you to read(buy
it for yourself and dont ask me as I am not yet done reading the 5 novels
in 1 book)

NOTE: For more 60% of us, the first message about seminar is redundant, as
by the time they reach this mail of mine and manage to read it, there are
three possibilities:

1) The seminar is already over and you didnt get to my mail and were still
browsing through last week's mails in your squirrelmail.

2) You simply put it in thrash as you have a contention that Karthik sends
unimportant/non-contributing mails to you with more than 90% Confidence Interval.

3) You thought this was another of the 8-10 broadcasts to attend the
seminar and simply ignored or deleted it.

4) You have put it in folder named: " To read later" and never saw it.

5) You think this is some essay writing contest about which I want you to
assess my nomination and you plan to tell me about it after the mid-sem
next week.

6) So many things are conveyed in this mail due to which you forgot what
it was all about by the time you finished reading it(if ever you did managed
the feat).

Since this is quite a lengthy mail, I will remind one of us to again
remind you about not attending this week seminar.A classic case of
miscommunication could be when someone turns up next week and asks me why
I was so particular to convey 'to attend this Friday seminar'. I assume
that event will be just an outlier though it is inevitable at times to
simply perfectly communicate things without any confusion either in the
composer or the reader's mind in mails(similar to the presentations that we give)

I will write the rest of the nonsensical stuff in some other context.(as irrevelant as this gets)

Till then, take a break and read up on academics.

Thanks and regards,

Karthik

What are you exposed to

You are born in India.
You watch serials,movies and listen to songs.
There is growing unrest amongst the youth, what they want to achieve, what they study, what they know and what they can do, how much they want to earn and what they will do with the money.

You are Indian but there are lot of moments when you loathe Indian people. You want to be like the Shahrukh in Swades, the Aamir in Rang De Basanti. You hate corruption, you hate poverty, you hate brain drain and you want to control population explosion.

Our need, our role and action plan is always distorted. I know that we have scarcity of water. But we may not know who needs it the most, who is wasting it, who cares for it like you or more than you and what you can do about it. The only thing you may know about your wish is that 'You know the world will experience growing water scarcity over the years and SOMETHING is got to be done.' The intention is noble, but unless someone capitalises on it, it is as futile as the news articles for the guy who sells groundnuts wrapped in the same paper.

Mail to fate and its reply

You:
Why is it, that I am the person who has to suffer,
I have to get all the stale fruits and the withered flowers.

Why is it, that all the troubles and difficulties are generous to me,
The day I go out of campus, there is rain or the blaring sun to invite,
The moment I wish to sleep somebody has to call and discuss Maxwell's 3rd law.
The week I decide to take a vacation;
there is an international conference hosted by my guide.

There are moments when I am alone,when I am afraid or weary of work,

Are you cross with me dearest fairy of Fate, do you humor yourself with my state?

Fate fairy:
My child, dont keep whining and blaming your fate,
Your problems are heard, empathized but not the gravest of all.

There is fun in everything, as you may know that the darkness defines light in its absence as so does pain glorify pleasure.

I am closely linked to your Wish Fairy and assist her as follows:

You ask for courage, I give you moments where you have to tackle with danger,
You ask for true love, I give you moments of solitude to contemplate and re-invent your life.

You deal with adversities, you deal with pain,
for others your experience is what counts as your capability unexplained.

The old story of planting the invisible sapling

The government had assigned a job to three people to plant saplings in some area. A guy had to dig a hold, the other had to place the sapling and the third guy had to put water and fill up the hole.

The guy who was placing the sapling in the hole was absent one day.But the guy who digs and the guy who fills the hole were present. They just came to the site, dug the place and were closing the holes repeatedly.

Typical mentality of getting the work done without knowing why we do it.

techno comment

For years radio had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials;then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive-you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers;now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope.it saved a lot of muscular expenditure,of course,but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program. - Douglas Adams ,hitchhikers guide to the galaxy