Sunrise : Sirivennela..!

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(Meaning in English) :

the Veena of Eastern side and on the strings of morning sun...becoming the sounds of woken up birds on the stage of blue skies.. when the rythm of that spelt twitter sound has become the initiator of world.. By making it the holy message of universal act..

(Extract from : Vidhata talapuna... song from Sirivennela.. lyric by Seetarama Sastry.. who else can write like that ?)


Song here from youtube :

Clouds and the Lord

The clouds ... of our wishes...
reaching God of Seven Hills. The Lord of the entire Universe...!

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The photos taken at Alipiri at the footsteps of Tirumala on 18th August 2011 at 9.00 AM, just after a moderate shower. A series of seven photos to show the clouds gradually vanishing... and the Galigopuram emerges from behind .

Is it not that... all our wishes vanish for the sight of God... and seeing God will remain as the only wish.

(Wolrd Photography Day : 19th Aug 2011)

Independence Day Celebrations at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Independence Day Celebrations at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Corruption... in the Minds too.

Dr. T.V. Rao commented on the wall of his facebook about the corruption. It follows :

India is corrupted not only by politicians, business people and Bureaucrats, Even the educated and highly qualified people live by cheating , by groupism neoptisim and favoritism, etc not to mentioned in a civilized society, Many senior professors act as great researchers, much of the money in India is going to drain in the name of research, Majority of the senior teachers are surviving because of the positions they occupy as guides and examiners, Students have no way but praise the teachers or they may fail them. India has many Deemed not to the universities but also deemed to be not teachers. You may reduce monetary corruption but can any one correct morally corrupted people

I've added my comment. I am including it as a blogpost to share with the viewers here.

True sir. As are some post graduates with corrupt minds. They pass exams as they know how to pass exams...! One guy who can not differentiate Salmonella from E.coli gets through the PG practicals. One girl who doesn't open her mouth or manipulates the reactions and the examiners all the time gets through. one guy ...... and the big list of examples. The professors want to appear "good" by passing these 'candidates' . These people, after passing, soon become faculty and "guiding" (spoiling) some more PGs, and will be 'acting' as research scholars. They may even produce false papers. Many hide their ignorance with arrogance. Students hesitate to confront them. Soon they become 'good' teachers... as you mentioned. And also as 'fastidious' examiners.

Dr. Prasanthi added :
Let us remind the beautiful quote of Swami vivekananda " neither money nor name nor fame pays u, it is only the character that cleaves u through admantine walls of difficulties"

I added :
Thank you Dr.Prasanthi for reminding a beautiful quote of the Inspiring personality. Unfortunately, most people do the reverse... without any dificulty they break the admantine walls of character to earn money and fame..!

Dr. T.V.Rao : My friends do not worry for not becoming famous by infamous methods. What really you are only helps in crisis.

Why moon appears bigger : Junior Scientist

Myself and Aditya (now 5 years and always inquisitive) were watching the moon on Saturday (Shravana purnima) and taking the above photograph with my sony digicam.
He asked my why the moon looks bigger when it begins to rise and why it appears small when it reaches up the sky.
I told him that - the light rays travel at an angle and hence the moon appears big when it begins to rise. But when moon reaches high up, the light rays travel vertically, so it appears small.

He pondered over it for few minutes. Then he asked me, 'when it is nearer'.

I told him that he is at the same distance both the times.

He appeared confused and asked, "if he is at same distance both the times, why the rays have to travel at angle"

I explained with some rough drawings. To my relief, he was pacified to some extent.

To refresh my physics, I searched the internet and found so many explanations to answer the illusion...only the 'possible explanations'..! My awareness (and the resultant confusion) is elevated regarding the subject...!
One interesting link is from wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

One night @ the call center

Just finished reading "One night @ the call center" by Chetan Bhagat.


Good narration. Most people naturally identify themselves in the roles for shyam, vroom et al.


Though the major part of the book is devoted to in depth analysis of the problems being faced by the team members of shyam, the last chapters describe the way out to solve or circumvent these problems.


Almost any of us will be in such situation one time or the other and the mind will thoroughly intimidated by the illusion of helplessness. Most of the time, we know the solution to our problems. But never have the courage to act it out. Most people like inertia. As most often we feel secure in such inertia, rather than working out the solution and face the 'unknown result' what so ever. We constantly seek pleasure in pleasing others...! We fear change. We fear 'disapproval'.


The call from the "God" in the story may appear dramatic. But such 'inner call' always will be shouting at us.

We just don't want to listen to it. So we don't hear it.

Till one fine day ...

Once upon a time

The interesting story received by mail from one of our friends : story about a software engineer, who tried to live out the moral story learnt during his childhood. Read on...

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Once upon a time,

....there was a software engineer who used to develop programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market.

One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and fell in the river. Encouraged by the Panchatantra story of his childhood ( the woodcutter and the axe )

He started praying to the River Goddess. The River Goddess wanted to test him and so appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers. The engineer told her that he had lost his computer in the river.

As usual, the Goddess wanted to test his honesty. She showed him a match box and asked,

Is this your computer ?

Disappointed by the Goddess' lack of computer awareness, the engineer replied, No.

She next showed him a pocket-sized calculator and asked if that was his.

Annoyed, the engineer said

No, not at all !!

Finally, she came up with his own Pentium machine and asked if it was his.

The engineer, left with no option, sighed and said Yes.

The River Goddess was happy with his honesty.

She was about to give him all three items, but before she could make the offer, the engineer asked her, Don't you know that you're supposed to show me some better computers before bringing up my own ?

The River Goddess, angered at this, replied, I know that, you stupid donkey! The first two things I showed you were the Trillennium and the Billennium, the latest computers from IBM !. So saying, she disappeared with the Pentium!!

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Moral:

If you're not up-to-date with technology trends, it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're a genius than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at symbiosis.
One of my student forwarded this piece of advice from Chetan Bhagat...Must read for everyone ofcourse..!

" Don't just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships,mentalpeace are all in good order.
There is no point of promotion on the day of your breakup.
There is nofun in driving car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions .

Life is one of those races in nurseryschool where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in yourmouth.if the marble falls there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are like marbles. your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. else you may achieve the success but this spark, this feeling of excitement will start to die..."

True indeed...!
Somewhere it reflects Paulo Coelho or Robin Sharma.
It reflects, infact, our day to day life in a nutshell.
Intimidated by 'success' (at least urge to succeed) and drowned by day to day chores, with no time for enjoyment or relaxation, one day we realize how much we lost in terms of relationships.

Most of the time, i consider that the inability to say firm "NO" will eat away the time and disturbs our schedules.
More and more committments creep in.
More and more targets pile up.
we spend less and less time with wife and children..
show less and less enthusiasm to enjoy time with family...
we become irritable, restless..losing balance to success.
but we pretend to be happy .. burning away the emotional stamina and mental energy.
Making efforts to crawl the to the top of a pole which is slippery with oil...!
Illusioning to achieve some imaginary goals... set by others. ..!

Heart : A Beautiful Garden

A beautiful and thoughtful reflection collected in my mail box :

Once a Junior School teacher asked her students to bring some potatoes in a plastic bag to school. Each potato will be given a name of the person whom that child hates. Like this, the number of potatoes will be equal to the number of persons they hate. On a decided day the children brought their potatoes well addressed. Some had two, some had three and some had even five potatoes.

The teacher said they have to carry these potatoes with them everywhere they go for a week. As the days passed the children started to complain about the spoiled smell that started coming from these potatoes. Also some students who had many potatoes complained that it was very heavy to carry them all around. The children got rid of this assignment after a week, when it got over.
The teacher asked, "How did you feel in this one week?" The children discussed their problems about the smell and weight. Then the teacher said, "This situation is very similar to what you carry in your heart when you don't like some people. This hatred makes your heart unhealthy and you carry that hatred in your heart everywhere you go. If you can’t bear the smell of spoiled potatoes for a week, imagine the impact of this hatred that you carry throughout your life, on your heart?"

* Our heart is a beautiful garden that needs a regular cleaning of unwanted weeds.
* Forgive those who have not behaved with you as expected and forget the bad things. this also makes room available for storing good things.

True Love

collection from my mail box :

It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman, probably in his 80s, arrived to have
stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.

I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him.
I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound.
On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.
While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry.
The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I inquired as to her health.
He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's Disease.
As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late.
He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.
I was surprised, and asked him, 'And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?'

He smiled as he patted my hand and said,

'She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is.'

I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, 'That is the kind of love I want in my life.'
True love is neither physical, nor romantic.
True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.

'Life isn't about how to survive the storm, But how to dance in the rain.'

We are all getting Older
Make the best of your LIFE.