Lets face it..

~! Happy Diwali !~

10 Reasons to Celebrate Diwali!


The Festival of Lights is for All

Why do we celebrate Diwali? It’s not just the festive mood in the air that makes you happy, or just that it's a good time to enjoy before the advent of winter. There are 10 mythical and historical reasons why Diwali is a great time to celebrate. And there are good reasons not just for Hindus but also for all others to celebrate this great Festival of Lights.


1.Goddess Lakshmi’s Birthday: The Goddess of wealth, Lakshmi incarnated on the new moon day (amaavasyaa) of the Kartik month during the churning of the ocean (samudra-manthan), hence the association of Diwali with Lakshmi.

2. Vishnu Rescued Lakshmi: On this very day (Diwali day), Lord Vishnu in his fifth incarnation as Vaman-avtaara rescued Lakshmi from the prison of King Bali and this is another reason of worshipping Ma Lakshmi on Diwali.

3. Krishna Killed Narakaasur: On the day preceding Diwali, Lord Krishna killed the demon king Narakaasur and rescued 16,000 women from his captivity. The celebration of this freedom went on for two days including the Diwali day as a victory festival.

4. The Return of the Pandavas: According to the great epic ‘Mahabharata’, it was ‘Kartik Amavashya’ when the Pandavas appeared from their 12 years of banishment as a result of their defeat in the hands of the Kauravas at the game of dice (gambling). The subjects who loved the Pandavas celebrated the day by lighting the earthen lamps.

5. The Victory of Rama: According to the epic ‘Ramayana’, it was the new moon day of Kartik when Lord Ram, Ma Sita and Lakshman returned to Ayodhya after vanquishing Ravana and conquering Lanka. The citizens of Ayodhya decorated the entire city with the earthen lamps and illuminated it like never before.

6. Coronation of Vikramaditya: One of the greatest Hindu King Vikramaditya was coroneted on the Diwali day, hence Diwali became a historical event as well.

7. Special Day for the Arya Samaj: It was the new moon day of Kartik (Diwali day) when Maharshi Dayananda, one of the greatest reformers of Hinduism and the founder of Arya Samaj attained his nirvana.

8. Special Day for the Jains: Mahavir Tirthankar, considered to be the founder of modern Jainism also attained his nirvana on Diwali day.

9. Special Day for the Sikhs: The third Sikh Guru Amar Das institutionalized Diwali as a Red-Letter Day when all Sikhs would gather to receive the Gurus blessings. In 1577, the foundation stone of the Golden Temple at Amritsar was laid on Diwali. In 1619, the sixth Sikh Guru Hargobind, who was held by the Mughal Emperor Jahengir, was released from the Gwalior fort along with 52 kings.

10. The Pope’s Diwali Speech: In 1999, Pope John Paul II performed a special Eucharist in an Indian church where the altar was decorated with Diwali lamps, the Pope had a ‘tilak’ marked on his forehead and his speech was bristled with references to the festival of light

Have a Safe Diwali!

Source: Mail

Engineering nostalgia

Yesterday, as it was a cold & rainy weather, to keep myself busy I just happened to clean the dust fallen on my engineering day books. And as I cleaned them, just flipped thru its pages. I just went back to my college world for a moment.

Transistor - Diode - Zener diode - Resistor - Capacitor - Inductor - Ohm's laws - Kirchoff's laws - Right/left hand rules - Avalance breakdown - pnp/npn - FETs - JFETs - MOSFETs - FIR/IIR filters - OpAmps - MicroProcessor (8086) - Thermistor - Thermocouple - Strain guage - Peizo electric transducers - Fourier Transforms - FFT - DFT - Laplace transforms - Matrices - Integration/Differentiation - Maxima/Minima - Optical Instrumentation - Biomedical Instrumentation - VLSI design - Sine/Cos Wave - Phase shift - Threshold - PID controller - Microcontroller - Stepper motor - AND/OR/NOR/NOT/XOR gates - Digital shift - 555 Timer - OTDR - Encryption/Decryption - Computer Networks - Ring/Star topology - Process control - Frequency response - Log graphs - MATLAB - Keyboard program - CRO - Multimeter - Measurement - Counters - Signals And Systems - DSP - ADSP2181 on which we did our final year project - Project report - etc etc etc..

Wondering all this we studied only to get a B.E degree ?! These are not atall used today, after nearly 4 years of completing engineering.. Now I'm in a public static void main world !

Kyu aaj kal

Kyu aaj kal neend kam kaam zyada hai
Lagta khuda ka koi bura irada hai
Kal tha shehzada aaj dil fakeer hai
Lagta manager ka koi bura irada hai

Kyu mujhe itna kaam hai ya ..?
Aisa kaam mere upar hi aata hai ya ...?

BooBooBoo

Naguvudo aLuvudo ?

It may so happen that on a given day, with two different sets of close friends (like college-office, office friends-proj mates, etc) with the conditions that these two sets of friends don't know each other,

one may be happy... other may be sad
one may be joyful... other may be sorrowful
one may be proposing... other may be getting rejected
one may be winning... other may be losing
one may be coming... other may be departing
one may be getting engaged... other may be getting divorced
one may be getting married... other's spouse may be dead
one may be having a baby... other may be dying
one may be partying... other may be in a depression
one may be celebrating wedding aniversary... other may be performing death cermony

what would you do..? laugh or cry ? (naguvudo aluvudo ?)

Aint this cool..?

Me first

15 days in Bangalore and i'm already hyper. Hyper because of traffic. Just cant understand why the people of Bangalore have become so restless and apathetic, especially regarding traffic. This is nothing new, it was the same a year back too.

Consider this. A long wait for the signal to turn green. As soon as it becomes yellow, somewhere in the back a guy honks. As if the way is all clear for him. He knows he cant go ! Then I really wonder what pleasure he gets by doing so and disturbing poor chaps like us who will be in the bus after a tired day, sleeping. Not only him for that instance, even our bus driver also follow the suit. Why cant these guys have a little patience ! And the way they drive..ooph..Not even a dog can find a place between two vehicles.

And two wheelers, like me get sandwitched between these vehicles sometimes. We dont honk, as we know nobody's going to listen to us. But ya, we keep our patience, and do sneak haphazardly. Things wont change.

And when I am in the bus, I curse the ricks and cars. When I happen to be in a rick, I curse the busses and cars. When I happen to be in a car, I curse the busses, ricks, two wheelers, bullock carts. And when I am on my own bike, I curse all. (and there will be one person on road for sure who will curse me). Guess this cursing cycle continues...

And everyone wants to be the first to get rid of the traffic. Isn't it..?