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) .


Monday, August 30, 2010

उठो मगध आज

है इतिहास गवाह तेरे शौर्य की मगध,
है आज फिर मौका आर्यावर्त को वही नेतृत्व दिखाने का !!!
कहां गया तेरा वो ऐश्वर्य
है आज वक्त इतिहास दोहराने का I
बिलक रही माटी समुख अन्धकार है बड़ा ,
उठो मगध, है आज फिर मौका अन्धकार भगाने का I
चीत्कार रहा जन मानस आज मूकदर्शक है आकाश,
तूने दिया इसे जनतंत्र तूही इसे संभाले आज I
खंडित हो रहा है भारत, धर्म, भाषा का विष फैला आज,
मगध शूर क्या हुआ तुम्हे है,
जाग उठो ख़त्म करो ये उन्माद I
दिया पूर्वजों ने जो गौरव, करो तुम उसका सम्मान I
पुकार रहा इतिहास तुम्हें अब,
करो आर्यावर्त का उत्थान I

: shwetank

Saturday, June 19, 2010

A simple PhD Dissertation Could Be Security Threat... a must read story from The Washington Post...

This guy not even in his wildest dreams would have thought that his simple PhD topic will create a storm and make FBI and all the major financial securities agencies lose their sleep.... His University will be scared to even publish his thesis... read the following article of The Washington Post....

link :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A23689-2003Jul7¬Found=true

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat
Student's Maps Illustrate Concerns About Public Information

By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 8, 2003; Page A01

Sean Gorman's professor called his dissertation "tedious and unimportant." Gorman didn't talk about it when he went on dates because "it was so boring they'd start staring up at the ceiling." But since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Gorman's work has become so compelling that companies want to seize it, government officials want to suppress it, and al Qaeda operatives -- if they could get their hands on it -- would find a terrorist treasure map.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

LET'S OPEN UP ENOUGH OF PROTECTIONISM….

i don’t agree to the point of view that "HRD ministry is helping American universities to come to India and lure IIT professors into betraying their country." .. Why can’t we look at it this way that if foreign universities setup their "shops" (campus) it could help reverse brain drain or rather brain gain... and towards the point of luring IIT Profs. I think rather than being afraid of the wealthy giants we sud focus on making our facilities better and stronger so that we don’t lose out. I think we have had enough of protectionism policy, which was proved to be good at the time of independence... But now our country is more than 60 years old and our economy is capable of handling major recessions in the world... So, in my personal opinion it’s a time to open up take the world head on....

Friday, May 14, 2010

why to invest big scientific projects with no direct benefit to common man????

Big science projects have always faced questions. Probably one of the best answers to them was given by Robert Wilson, who went on to be the first director of Fermilab, housing the giant multimilliondollar particle accelerator, outside Chicago. In Congress in 1969, Wilson was quizzed about the value of the accelerator to US security and asked to justify the expenditure. He responded: “It has only to do with…the dignity of men, our love of culture. It has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets?...all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.”

Quote from :

Getting India Into Orbit

NASA’s change in direction may be a big opportunity for ISRO

Saswato R Das

Editorial TOI 13th may 2010

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Battle Nepal round two.....

There have been really very interesting developments in nepal in last few days.... the most significant one, at least according to me is Nepal government taking back their decision to give Nepali passport contract to an Indian firm…. A open blackmail by the Maoists. The second most significant development is a 6 days general strike taking the country to a standstill. I have a serious doubt about the public support to this china driven proxy war. I just read a article on BBC website….

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Nepal brought to standstill by strike

By Joanna Jolly
BBC News,
Kathmandu

People will react'

On Tuesday, shopkeepers in Kathmandu clashed with Maoists who were preventing them from opening their businesses.

"If it is too much, the local people will react," says Subarna Brajracharya, who owns a small shop in the capital.

"The people will not be in a position to tolerate this. They'll come out into the streets and start fighting the Maoists. I'm ready to do this myself."

Meanwhile, the stalemate continues with the Maoists refusing to call off the strike until the prime minister resigns and the government refusing to be forced out from the streets.

Both sides appear willing to continue the strike for as long as it takes for the other to break.

"While ordinary citizens suffer, political elites battle this out," says journalist Prashant Jha.

"The hope is there will be enough popular pressure on them to reach a deal so that the country can go back to normal."

Not only this report, if you go thru the comments posted on the most popular new agencies websites. You can easily get an idea that the mood of general public if quite different than what is being portrayed by Nepali Maoists… Is this attempt of china to overthrow the democratic system and establish a proxy communist Hippocratic government. Between all this a major question is that wat is the Big B INDIA doing.. we have major stakes in Nepal... Are we losing the battle… Is situation is slipping out of India`s control in Nepal….

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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.

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  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.