Poonam...

Aaj achanak Poonam ka yaad aa raha hai..Ab aap puchenge, "Poonam kaun hai?". B. Sc. 1st year mein wohi pehli larki thi jisse mai mila tha. B. Sc. Physics Honours mai woh meri classmate thi. Jis din use mai pehle mila, dari, sehmi si, class dhoond ke nahi mil raha tha use. Hamari dosti hui, chali phir usne B. Sc. chod diya, phn pe contact raha, phir contact aur nahi raha. Kuch yaadein chahe anchahe mujhe yaad aa hi jaate hai, aisa nahi hai ki mai yaad karna chahta hun. Lekin yaad aa jata hai, aur isiliye mai ye post likh raha hun.

Malum nahi kaisi hai wo ab. Uska chehra abhi tak mujhe yaad hai. Kuch toh jaroor raha hoga ki abhi tak mai use bhula nahi paya, kya tha na mai tab samajh paya tha na abhi bhi samajhta hun.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES COLLECTION...Managing Pressure and Remaining Cool

(a) "All your strengths should bundle up and operate from inside"...sacred words of the master...BLACK BELT 2007 Japanese Movie


(b) Even small accomplishments require hard work. The smallest of accomplishments is better than biggest talk. ---SHIV KHERA, "You Can Win"

(c) The darkest hour will pass, the Sun will rise, and we will have a new beginning. We will see the world with a new perspective.

(d) I am fighting with the loneliness inside me. Finding and trying new ways to fill up the emptiness inside me. Do not know whether all of my ways are acceptable in the eyes of society or good to me. But I have to keep on trying and if some ways fail, I am going to make some modifications or invent a new way.

Managing Pressure and Remaining Cool---

Right, I need to invent and try new and better ways to manage this daily routine.

Dr. Subhradip Ghosh (via Ashish Kundu)...

  90% of the work that you do in PhD will go waste. Only 10% will amount to publishable material. It's not only work that goes waste, it's time also that we spend that 90% work that goes waste.


I love reading the Bible. The words of the Bible have a soothing effect on the mind. It acts like a medicine. I enjoy reading the Bible as I enjoy doing many other things.

Call of Astronomy

It was only a few years ago, I remember very well, I was telling myself and to others that I am going to spend my life doing astronomy. And so I am here today living that dream of mine.

And nowadays when young people tell me the same thing, I feel so delighted. Astronomy is a passion. And when young people realize at some point in their career that it is astronomy that is their inner calling, there can be no stopping back.

I feel people who do astronomy are very special kind of people. I strongly feel that some people are born for doing astronomy. That not everyone can choose this line as their career.

I am through half of my PhD life and I ask myself...........

I am through half of my PhD life, and today I stopped and asked myself if I am able to perform to the extent that I dream to deliver. Frankly speaking, now my motivation for work is that I have to make my future secure. I need a few international journal publications so that I can get a good Post-doc position. Then I have to settle down with a good job.

The reasons stated above a indeed valid and I am working to push myself through all sorts of difficulties and failures. I am indeed arriving at new results, and doing some new work. But, I am not fully satisfied with the amount of work I am doing.

The codes that I write sometimes run slow, sometimes they diverge and gives so much of headache. In spite of all these I am pushing myself through to come up with some results. Again we have to explain these new features and the reasons might not be crystal clear to me. But I have to get through these and get my work recognized.

Hence I ask myself, if this is the way research is done. When we start out Phd life, we have a grand notion that we would do a grand research work. So when would I be able to do that truly fulfilling and
'Grand' work and arrive at the truly interesting and worthy 'Grand' result?

I thought over this issue for some time and I realized that what I am undergoing is indeed the way research should be done at least in my case. Why so?

Because I feel there is no 'Grand' Path to doing research. Every great actor, does not give a great performance in every film he/she does. Every actor like Sharukh Khan or Shabana Azmi for example, began by doing small roles whatever came on their way, and slowly they rose to stardom. It's very important to keep working, on whatever small open areas you get and keep on publishing and on the way, grand things will come. Not every paper an established researcher writes becomes a hit and earns lot of citations.

So, I feel I need to keep on pushing myself and even if I land up with some grand results and become famous, if I become complacent after that, I shall have a downfall.

So, in the end it goes quite well - 'Stay hungry, Stay foolish'.