Science goes out the window!

"...ignorance and fanaticism are forever hungry, it needs feeding..."
- Henry Drummand(character) Inherit the Wind(1998)

"Miracle Water" the headline said, and millions flocked to taste it. Once again we proved to the world how ignorant a large majority of our countrymen are.

This is how the story goes, some person went to the water body in question, and drank it to find the water "sweet". now thats his own choice of words. Sure enough, sea water is supposed to be salty...so this ignoramus spread the word. What is naturally salty is now SWEET!!!! "what could it be..hmmm.... GOD HAS MADE IS SWEET" how bout that as his thought process? whats worse millions think the same way.

What state is the science in this land, where any unexplained phenomenon is automatically claimed to be the work of god? In the day of the Rajahs i can understand, lack of sufficient knowledge, and backing of science. Similarly, i would not have been surprised if this had happened in Bihar either, but in the city which is home to places like the BARC and other advanced sciences facilities? Its a shame.

All we now need is some paranoid fellow to say that his problems are cured because he drank this water...Then is when the problems start to flow in. People from all over the country are going to want in, depsite all the advertizing of the fact that its unhealthy, and the over crowded city will just keep filling. whats a worse case scenario, the people predomintently in that area, will claim that its their religion and that no other religion should be allowed. ladies and gentlemen, another ayodhya issue, and over what?, sewage water.

Thats rather far into the future, or maybe not , eitherway, presently i hope the hospitals are readying themselves for truck loads of people who come in to get them selves treatment for the bacteria that infests them, and for those who are immune resulting of flithy living, should get their heads checked, and may be get into a course for science.

How they picked up their tails!

A few days back the HC instructed the govt. to fill all the pot holes that are a dime to two dozen in the city, or the officials would be pulled up! So dont be surprised if the roads are suddenly a flurry of activity on it. the dead line is up in 10 days!!!

i was on my way back home, and the Bombay-Pune highway, that was a disaster due to the rains, is now being worked on in a hurry! its hilraious, they are working at amazing speed, and this would be "impossible" had it not been for the HC order. "nai sahib...vae-l lagel". the trucks are out, they are puttin in tar, the road rollers touching speeds they arent build for. AND for this it took a HC order!

Its a sad state of affairs when the officials who are paid to do a certain job, need to be frightened to do i. thats the one biggest wrong thing bout this country. no body thinks it their job. they maybe equipped to do it, but if it means moving a muscle more than what they are "supposed" to do, they wont do it.

we passed our 59th year of independence, what do we have to show for it?? for all practical purposes, we just show that we cant manage anything, without big papa coming to tell us to do it. the other things(the frills so to speak) would have been possible (in this era) even if we were a colony of england.

College life..

college is gettin better, from the mundane place it was...to a more hip college. The socities, are moving gettin a move on, the magazine is going to be great fun. as it is, writing for tp is good news for me, and now when its gonna be done in group its better. Looking forward to it.
the techincal soc, had its first run in this year, with a seminar on robotics. i remember the one last year, not very different. altho the response was quite sad, but my class(se comps) turned up...nearly 75% of the crowd was my class. i love my class!!!
Apart frm good points...everyday, i manage to find a sour side of the college. today was just as bad as any other, the office staff, are gigantic megalomaniacs...when its their time to work, instead of finding ways to make it easier for us to be done with all these stupid formalities, they just make it more difficult.One could always assume that this is how an office weilds power in bombay, but then again, its ridiculous.
Lectures are one hell of a wasted excercise, except for the attendance, thanks to certain profs, and when 1 hour is too long, how in gods name does one sit for 2???
thats college life for today, hoping something cool comes along, for the next few days, and me come back to write.

Ahem..may i have ur attention plz

emm....my first blog...in the public domain...how does it feel?...not really different. except that there is this thing that people might just read this shit, and then go...'hmm....what a n00b", to them...a thank you is due...coz they are taking time out of their life....TO READ MY BLOG! very nice!
And why not read it, i spent a lot of time and THOUGHT in making this ...and getting a friggin domain name is so tough! what didnt i try...omg, lets see, something was taken, so was anything, then i tried no name, then really no name, jeez...i think ....I THINK i landed with damn-no-name.
so score....so in future NO one asks me...y i put it that way...the comp made me.
right now, i think this is more than nuff, so me leaving, come bak and read later ..ta'