Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) .


Saturday, June 21, 2008

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

–Albert Einstein

Friday, June 20, 2008

आज एक ट्रक एक पीछे लिखा देखा ---
आरज कीया है.....

जानम ज़रा पलट कर देखो जीगर हम भी रखते हैं ।
अगर तुम ६० पैर चलते हो तो हम ९० पैर चलते हैं ।


वाह वाह वाह !!!

Monday, June 9, 2008

How insensitive our socity has become....



Top Stories

Pregnant lady's ordeal in Mumbai rain

9 Jun 2008, 0323 hrs IST , Vijay V Singh & Malathy Iyer
A 19-year-old pregnant woman, whose foetus had died in the uterus leading to heavy bleeding, was shunted around in rain-hit Mumbai as hospitals refused admission.

Delhi: Crowd watches as man bleeds

9 Jun 2008, 0424 hrs IST , Ashirbad S Raha
A crowd stood watching as a 35-year-old accountant lay trapped and bleeding under an overturned auto for about 15 minutes at Mayur Vihar Phase II in east Delhi on Sunday morning.

Minority Commission for J&K soon

9 Jun 2008, 1122 hrs IST
Minorities in the valley can get the same benefits as elsewhere in the country once the Commission is constituted.

Kolkata: Bullied by cops, man kills self

9 Jun 2008, 0358 hrs IST
At 2.45 am, when the rest of the city was fast asleep, a group of policemen came knocking on the door of Samar Kumar Mukherjee at 14-Kamarpara Row with a warrant over a loan-related dispute with a private bank.

Friday, May 23, 2008

a patna away from ganga..... near Doon river UK

in some freeky free time i jst gave a search PATNA and to my surprise wikipedia showed me a patna far away froms the banks of river ganga.... that to unexpectedly in UK.... ya its true....

Patna, East Ayrshire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Patna, population 2298, is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
It was established in 1802 by William Fullarton, to provide housing for workers on the coal-fields of his estate. Fullarton's father had worked as an employee of the British East India Company, and the town takes its name from the city of Patna in India.
The River Doon flowing through Patna
The River Doon flowing through Patna

Patna lies south east of Ayr on the A713 to Castle Douglas just north of Dalmellington between the villages of Polnessan and Waterside at the junction with the road to Kirkmichael and the River Doon flows through the village.
Patna Primary School is a general, non-religious school. A catholic primary school is in Waterside, named St Xaviers Primary School that is attended by pupils from as far as Dalmellington and Bellsbank, to Maybole. A secondary school, Doon Academy, is located in the nearby village of Dalmellington
Patna has at its advantage, a small library, a games hall, a football field, numerous country walks and a golf club and the river Doon is popular with local fishermen. Patna has it's own Petrol Filling Station which also retails Quad and Dirt Bikes including the popular Kazuma Brand along with a selection of Wulfsport Clothing and Safety Gear.


Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Thursday, April 24, 2008

a unfortunate side of IISc

I find it unfortunate and I am sure any sane person will definitely will also find it unfortunate. Three suicides and one failed attempt of suicide. These are not the figures of some jail in India. It’s the reality of the premier research institute of India. And most unfortunate instead of looking into the severity of the matter and taking steps to avoid any repetition of such events the answer is its student’s personal and family problems and institute has nothing to do with it. But then these people don’t realize one thing hearting oneself to a level to commit suicide is the most extreme step a human being can take. I agree to the fact that people can have their own problems but if the environment around you is good and encouraging then you live with some hope. So, the reasoning given by the institute falls week. Now coming to the measures taken to this mounting problem a full time psychologist for counseling but lack of a proactive system to identify such cases, worthless student council, a faculty community which tries to find the most comfortable position for them. One thing I learnt form this campus you can blame the world and sleep in your bed with a notion in the mind you are always correct and the other person is always wrong.

Can’t institute take more proactive stand in being little more sympathetic towards the student community, instead of looking at them as slaves and blaming them always for everything?

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Be a good grand father to live longer...

Here is the abstract of the paper in which people have got this finding...
Ref: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17650472


Selection for long lifespan in men: benefits

of grandfathering?

M. Lahdenpera¨ 1,*, A. F. Russell2 and V. Lummaa2
1Section of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland
2Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Life-history theory suggests that individuals should live until their reproductive potential declines, and the
lifespan of human men is consistent with this idea. However, because women can live long after menopause
and this prolonged post-reproductive life can be explained, in part, by the fitness enhancing effects of
grandmothering, an alternative hypothesis is that male lifespan is influenced by the potential to gain fitness
through grandfathering. Here we investigate whether men, who could not gain fitness through
reproduction after their wife’s menopause (i.e. married only once), enhanced their fitness through
grandfathering in historical Finns. Father presence was associated with reductions in offspring age at first
reproduction and birth intervals, but generally not increases in reproductive tenure lengths. Father
presence had little influence on offspring lifetime fecundity and no influence on offspring lifetime
reproductive success. Overall, in contrast to our results for women in the same population, men do not gain
extra fitness (i.e. more grandchildren) through grandfathering. Our results suggest that if evidence for a
‘grandfather’ hypothesis is lacking in a monogamous society, then its general importance in shaping male
lifespan during our more promiscuous evolutionary past is likely to be negligible.

About Me

hi I m doing my Ph.d. in life science from IISc. my field of interest is Virology, molecular biology, and molecular evolutionary biology.
i did my schooling at St. Xavier`s High School, Patna, then i Moved to Pune for my bachelors degree in Microbiology. After i finished my Masters in Biochemistry from MSU - Baroda, i joined IISc in dept of biochemistry with Dr. R. manjunath for my PhD.

I am working on ...

  1. regulation of classical and non-classical HLA expression upon Japanese encephalitis virus ( JEV ) infection.
  2. Activation of gamma-delta T-cell upon Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infection.