Tracing Newspapers

Hey Everyone,

This is a post that I wrote in May 2010.
Its been one and a half year but nothing much have changed since..
Some of the links in the blog might be dead by now..but that would not affect the big picture :)

It has been in my mind for quite a while,but recent mishap of Boeing 737 Dubai-Manglore, acted as spur and inspired me to write this post.

Oxford Dictionary defines Newspapers as 'Regular printed publications of loose folded sheets with news etc.'
what does it define news as?
News..'Information about important or interesting recent events, when published or broadcast'!
consider published here.

Let us take a very short ride into the past and trace how was the structure of newspapers in india a few decades back.

The history newspaper in India began in 1780, with the publication of
the Bengal Gazette from Calcutta(now kolkata).
The newspapers collected their news from the news agencies. India has
four news agencies namely, the Press Trust of India (PTI), United News
of India (UNI), Samachar Bharti and Hindustan Smachar. Newspapers and
magazines in India are independent and usually privately owned. About
5,000 newspapers, 150 of them major publications, are published daily
in nearly 100 languages. Over 40,000 periodicals are also published in
India. The periodicals specialize in various subjects but the majority
of them deal with subjects of general interest. During the 1950s, 214
daily newspapers were published in the country. Out of these, 44 were
English language dailies while the rest were published in various
regional languages. This number rose to 2,856 dailies in 1990 with 209
English dailies.y 2007, 62 of the world`s best selling newspaper
dailies were published in countries like China, Japan, and India. India
consumed 99 million newspaper copies as of 2007, making it the second
largest market in the world for newspapers.
Enough of these boring facts!

ahh..India sure has been a land mark in terms of consumption, But my
question here is what kind of consumption.


Let us trace these 'kinds'.
We wil skip to the beginning of this year in the vast timeline of newspaper..for things have changed very fast in the past few years which has brought a revolution.One of the major component being The Internet,it wont be of much use to trace what were newspapers like
in the days of Gandhiji!

Kinds of consumptions be divided into most simplest but widely covering
:-
Positive &
Negative.

Wil have to Agree what is Positive and what Negative varies according
to individual but I am talking about magnitude where any sane person wil agree 'Peace' as Positive and 'Terrorism' as Negative!

Over the years Newspapers hav undergone changes,lets not forget the
increase in its weight(pages)!
Out of tons of sections in the news paper...I may want to focus on its
very first page.

Its an amazing day...today you didnt even burn your breakfast...the coffee has the temperature you wanted with that smell of brew..you finally take your breakfast plate with your fresh edition of news paper and sit on your dinning table...You jus place that fat paper on the table and there it is..On the very first page The Mood Spoiler!
Headlines of your newspaper...
'5 year Old Raped by some dumb losers of life!'
or '1250 years building collapsed with 77 dead 155 injured but a dog
unscratched as it is said every dog has its day!'
or 'I am not Pakistani, i am an actor Damn it!'
and many other...
Want Evidence?
Evidence 1
Evidence 2
Evidence 3
Evidence 4
Evidence 5

Let me talk personally now...I hav been reading The Times of India for 5 years...and almost every edition since last couple of years!
Times is respected all over the world...but sincerely speaking even it has been under this cyclone...Lately Times has also been quite negative when it comes to the headlines on the first page..!
Frankly no one wants to hear his national politician guilty in some bribe case or its judiciary system being criticized or its incapability in controlling population..as his very first news sentence!

Positivity is needed!

I agree let it be a plane crash or a some high profile sting operation or any of the above negative news..people have the right to know!
but then i never said that editors should delete these news
completely...I just want these news to be just shifted anywhere in their 50 pages but the first page.

Then What should be on the first page?
something like this..
Positive 1
Positive 2
Positive 3

any news with 'general' positivity in itself may b published on the very first page!
Inventions...Go Green progress..national positive achievements..sports honor..successful deals..etc!
You never know this may evn help cure certain mental disease one of the major bein depression...Number of people havin mental stress in a street are more than the lamp post in that street!

So,it is my sincere request to all the news papers to be a little positive in its first page because terrorist can wait if you can create life in Lab!

Semester Term Memory Loss!

Hey Everyone,
             
  I have almost completed 15 months in Engineering now. Throughout this journey one of the most common phrase I have come across is "This X book by Mr.FamousAuthor will cover your syllabus and will help you score excellent MARKS in your exams". The minute professor says the name of the book, the faces of our, how shall I put it gently, yeah The First Bench Gurus, gets lighten up like they have discovered the secret of happiness in Life!


For most FBGs that IS the key to happiness, Go to a book store...Buy Mr.FamousAuthor's book..go home and start reading it..By reading I mean read it so fast and hard by the end of 2 hours you have 'by heart' each and every word of the 4 line paragraph with the places of full stop and commas and if focused a little hard they even remember the page numbers. In the next semester I had a doubt..so I went to the cleverest FBG and asked weather it was the same concept as the 4 line paragraph? He said and I quote "I dont remember that but the answer to your question is this" and then followed a 2 page long explanation in the same exact way as given in the textbook(with the commas and all). While my mind was still stuck on what he said...He doesn't remember what he did few months back!


What is the point of learning something when you cannot remember it? I got an answer from my inner self bathed under the tap of Mumbai University's education system, It is to score MARKS!
According to the latest research...and by research I mean my observation..
Most engineering students are facing a serious condition called STML, which stands for Semester Term Memory Loss!
In this condition, students tend to forget what they had learnt throughout their semester as soon as they come out the examination hall. The effect might not be immediate but the Memory Loss increases with the increase in time.


I am not sure about my other friends, but I know I am suffering from this condition. I dont remember a word of Chemistry I did 5 months back and its plain sad!
Why do I care about Chemistry when I am going to be an IT Engineer?
More on that in my next post!


So STML, I am on a mission to control it, not hoping to eradicate completely(I think that is humanly impossible). I have a three point way to control STML:


1. Take interest in what you read. Thousands of engineering srudents are learning the same concepts as you are and lakhs learnt it before you did. Have some respect for the white haired and bald syllabus setters sitting in kalina. Try not to get carried away by 'out dated syllabus' hype.


2. Read to Learn not to Score!


3. The most important: Break the ice between the book world and the real world. It is very important to link what you read with the things around us. Once the link is set. Magic happens!
You start learning and understanding the way you have never before.
Simple things around you can help break the ice. This is how it happened to me.
My sister and I at times have problems on deciding what mom should make us for dinner. I was learning the wonders of Java that time. I wrote a simple piece of program that would give me random 3 dishes on clicking a button. Now anytime we have a problem deciding what to eat, we know who to ask.


Mr.FamousAuthor's book thought me how to code but not what to code!


This is how I dicovered happiness for my stomach and upto some extent...Life ;)

What Engineering Really Teaches Us

What have I learnt?

here are a few things that i have learnt during my engineering days:

1. Patience: First thing i learnt in engineering.You wait till the examiner feels like taking your viva.It does not matter if you have been waiting in college since 8 in the morning and he arrives at 1230.He still needs a lunch break at 1245.
2. Time Management: How to juggle assignments, fests, vivas, practicals, proxy, chilling, stationery, and 75% attendance; what better way to learn how to fit it in 24 hours?
3. Image Processing: No, I don't refer to matlab or any such thing. I mean how to keep up a smiling and respecting face in front of the teachers even as the dole out mountains of assignments, and recognizing which lecture we must avoid at all costs today.
4. Vocabulary: The face may be pasted with an all deceiving smile, but the mind is free to use its certain choice words.
5. Sorting and Searching: Sort the textbooks at the start of the sem with an aim to study regularly. Search for the Easy Solutions at the end of the sem at each and every bookstore you know before your classmates poach them.
6. Comparators: Not how much portion that guy/gal has finished; rather how much free time he/she has left now.
7. Application of Technology: varied uses of BBs, WhattsApp, Pen Drives, Vodafone Internet Plan to access Google at the time of immediate knowledge requirement when your tried and rusted brain fails you on entering the examination center.
8. Digital Logic: He has done the assignment. Hence he is my best friend.
9. Female Chauvinism: They can draw, therefore they can dictate.
10. Career Guidance: Engineering definitely helps you decide what you are gonna do after your four years,viz. MBA.

DREAMS...

Honestly, out of all d options available …I never thought of writing blogs…but when I got an opportunity …I didn’t wanted to just let it go.. without trying my hands on it…so here it is my first blog..J

…DREAMS…

Being d generation next… we all have our goals set…we all know exactly what we are doing right now and what will our next steps be... basically we all think we know what we are doing with our lives right now and have a glimpse of our future set right in front of us…

But while doing the whole planning thing..most of us start forgeting or start compromising with the most important essence of our life….our Dreams…and d Dreams of which im talking about are not mere successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep..blah blah….what im talking about …are the ones which make you feel alive…the ones which you dare to see with your eyes open…and also the one which you often start rejecting on facing the reality…

But it is only Dreams which can make you realize the reason behind your existence in this world…Dreams which help you adding colors to your imaginations…Dreams which keeps holding on to you until you start giving them up…

By forgetting our Dreams we start compromising with the person we wanted to be…we forget that we are capable of doing anything and almost everything we want to happen to us….we forget a very important part of our existence…

Your dreams may seem stupid or silly to others…but why cares about others…it is your dream…and how does other people judging it make a difference to you….and after listening to these people we may land up in a bigger apartment with a bigger job and a bigger amount of pay check….but after throwing away your dream would all the comfort still make you happy….i doubt it…and happy and successful is a rare combination of people who have followed their dreams…

Catastrophe happens….it happens that you don’t want to and you land up in the wrong profession…with all wrong kind of people around you….but trust me…hold on to your dreams tight and they will surely come to your rescue and if not…they will surely give you a reason…a reason to live…a reason to go back home when you will consider its quite unnecessary…and will surely light your way back home…when it is dark and you are unsure of your way…just hold on to them…..and they will guide you through the rest….

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

KOMAL AGRAWAL

Story of a Birthday Gift!

Hey Everyone,
    
      Its less than a month for my birthday. Not sure, if to be excited or to feel sad over entering the last of the so called 'teen' years. With birthdays comes gifts(usually), which is what I am going to focus on. Yeah, I am going to ramble about gifts this time. Its about this one gift that makes me feel guilty, which makes me feel different, which makes me feel happy, which forced me to write this post!

How do you decide what to 'Gift' someone?

Very difficult question to answer.

I am trying to figure it out..I have started to look a little closely..and I think a pattern is emerging....but more on that later...

Lets talk about being at the receiver's end. We all have been there, during Diwali, New year's season, When you visit your aunties and uncles house(even though you dont know their name, they give you envelope full of crisp warm notes..ahh Gujratis..i love em') Your Birthday, Valentine's day(only if you are a girl....if you are a guy..you are on the other side my friend), When you become famous over some other guy's idea you read about on the internet, etc

Over the last 18 years of my life, I have been showered upon by a lot of gifts(not bragging), well I thank my parents and my relatives for all those pencils, eraser, colour pencils, compass boxes, train sets, basket ball, basket ball hoop(one year after gifting the basket ball), video games, watches, ipods(yeah, we're now entering the cool gadget stuff), digital cameras, laptop and many more they wrapped for me. But the most amazing gift I have received till now is not listed above.

Okay I would not drag like How I Met Your Mother(No offense..Its an Awesome Show!) and break the suspense..
I received this gift last year, I am not sure if that person wants her name to be disclosed here. The gift was *drum roll please*...
'A plain Note Book' !

It is an eco friendly 192 pages notebook wrapped in a thin transparent plastic and on plastic was written 'Explore 80 mins of your life :P'
I was awestruck by the simplicity and elegance of the thought. So sober yet awesome, not expensive but priceless, quite but inspirational !

One year have gone by and I still have that book. It is still blank and plain, fresh as it was a year back, untouched. I am not proud about it. Sometimes I flip through those empty pages and feel guilty for not inking it yet, sometimes it reminds me I can always have a fresh start and...
sometimes it makes me write a blog! :)

reflections

ok,now i m not a philosopher or anything like that,but some random thoughts have just come into my mind,and i would like to share it with you all.i dont mind if you disagree with me on a few of them,but please do comment and let me kno what you think,k....

1.all humans are intelligent,its just that we like to act foolish coz its fun!

2.you kno the gr8s of math rite,like ptoly,pythy,appy,berny and pascy,well i just feel that they only stated the obvious laws of geometry,i could have proved them(given the chance) except that it was all obvious.they proved the obvious!and they get painted in history!!

3.people say that competition brings out the best in us.i say that its bullshit.i would much rather have the best on my side as my friends and colleagues than against me to bring out the best in me.i'll give u an example,manu without rooney are crap,but when he plays,nani valencia,fletcher berbatov all play at their very best,y?coz he is the best,and he is on their side!

4.people also say that opposites attract.but according to me the cosmic law is that like attracts like.its common knowledge that we tend to become friends with whom we share our interests,but rarely do we find any pair which has nothing in common.if u want an example from love,then chew on this:would u ever fall in love with some1 who is exactly like what you have been trying not to be like all through these years....

5.humans have a wild imagination!we can conjure up any damn thing,and we have no moral laws governing it as well,trust me:we can imagine anything,we just need to have idle time.

6.our subconcious mind is one sonovabitch.it'll remember even the smallest of details but wont help us during our exams!

7.carrying forward from the last one,i no longer feel we have these 3 minds:conc,subconc and unconc,we now have smart,dumb and pervert.

8.every1 likes to make new friends.every1 also likes to make new enemies just as much.

9.nothing is constant except death.everything else has an exception,even death can be eluded for sometime,but not forever,(not yet anyways....)

10.if given the choice,take up commerce.there at least u can think about the future and act in the present,here in science we are thinking,acting,improving and scrutinising only the bloody past!

11....and the most true saying that i believe in:shit happens in life (both phisically and figuratively).

Maturity

Maturity

How many times have you had to listen to 'grow up,be more mature' ?

Several times i assume.I have been told like a gazillion times.And guess what,it pisses me off.

So i have tried to gather maximum information from various varied sources and have come up with the following guidelines to become more mature:

10 ways how to........become mature.

0.(the most important one)be yourself:being mature is uncool if you are trying to impersonate somebody else

1.(for guys)get a girlfriend:nothing can make you more mature, look better and talk smarter

2.(for the same guys)get the girlfriend, don't doodle on a crush

3.start talking with more people:you learn as you talk.It might be difficult at first,but it gets easier as you take further initiatives.Start by calling up your friends

4.be well read:know what is going on in the world,with knowledge comes confidence

5.be funny:but don't be demeaning.Everyone loves the funny guy,but nobody likes the degrader

6.be genuine:if you like something,don't shy away from praising,but if you don't,then be diplomatic;but never be forced to do something that you wont't be happy doing.

7.learn to say NO:say no if you can't do it(guys,not THAT)

8.know that nobody is perfect:well, because nobody ever is

9.(for those guys):hey dudes,what you waiting for-GO GET HER!

10.the secret:nobody is completely mature,its all a ploy to fool us.

So,maturity comes with age,time and experience,and there is a world of a chance that the person who called you immature,very well isn't mature him/herself.

Be happy,its fun to be a kid sometimes.......:)

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Hope

Hope. Like all things good and bad we humans have been able to concoct our own version of how it came about. Hope was personified in Greek mythology as Elpis. When Pandora opened the Forbidden Box she let out all the evils except one: HOPE. Apparently, the Greeks considered hope to be as dangerous as all the world’s evils. But without hope to accompany all their troubles, humanity was filled with despair. It was a great relief when Pandora revisited her box and let out hope as well.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, especially when confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
There is something inside us that others cannot get to, it’s ours alone. No matter what is taken away from us, no matter what ups and downs we go through, our hopes, dreams and aspirations remain intact within us. Hope provides us with a sense of destination and the energy to get started and continue to pursue our dreams.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Abraham Lincoln, Mary, Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know what it would exactly look like.

Once you choose the path of hope, anything’s possible. As Harvey Milk said- “The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it”.
Whenever there are decisions to make and choices to make do not consult your fears, but your hopes and dreams. Don’t think about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but what is still possible for you to do.
Unfortunately, not everyone hopes, many prefer being cautious, they are afraid of not fulfilling their dreams. They say that the brave do not live for long, but the cautious, they do not live at all!

A man without hope is like an engine without fuel, it’s just a mass of complicated twisted metal, pistons, cylinders and pumps. What can it do? Nothing.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, the quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. My hopes may not always be realized, but I always hope.

Hope is called ‘umeed’ in Hindi. The same word in Japanese means – destiny. Our hopes are synonymous with our destiny. They give a course to our life. Without them our life is like a meandering river that will never reach the sea.

frustrated engineers

okay this is an old fb note......before the bloging mania began

frustrated engineers will date from second sem onwards

from birth till preschool,we heve the best innocent fun ever,

then in the first years of school we make friends,

then as the years roll on...we discover a newfound attraction towards the opposite gender,

then we have our first bomb of frustration................10th boards

we go through with all support from friends and family and teachers.........first wave of frustration cleared......

then we discover new found avenues in college life.............but some of us think its still to young to date.....

then comes our first real mountain of frustration..........cet...........but we are just to damn invoved in beating the others to a good college........

cleared..........whew..........3 months of actual bliss...........

we enter engg degree college.........another new world in the first sem..........

but,we realise one thing..........once in,we are def gonna get out with a degree.........so wats the new challenge for the next 7 sems????????

then the real frustration starts setting in.......traveling to a suburban college daily.......day after day.....day in day out........monotonous....no real aim in going to college...............nothing to drag you so far away from your bed every morning............

so these bright budding frustrated engineers seek a way out.........dating............that too not a serious one.....

dating just for tp.............just to while away time..............no hurt meant by either party,coz both were frustrated..........a totem to hold on to.........and thus begins my experiment..........does this theory actually work??????????

lets find out........in the time to come.......

comments welcome,dont get too personal,views highly respected..and no hard feelings meant.........

11 Best Tips To B.M.S Students . . ! !

. . 11 Best Tips for B.M.S Students . .

One: Don’t Miss the Boat 

Two: Remember That We Are All In the Same Boat

Three: Plan Ahead. It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built The Ark.

Four: Stay Fit when you’re 60 Years Old, Someone May Ask You to Do Something Really Big

Five: Don’t Listen To Critics; Just Get On With the Job That Needs To Be Done

Six: Built Your Future on High Ground.

Seven: For Safety’s Sake, Travel in Pairs.

Eight: Speed Isn’t Always An Adventure. The Snails Were On Board With The Cheetahs.

Nine: When you’re Stressed, Float a While.

Ten: Remember, The Ark Was Built By Amateurs, The Titanic By Professionals.

Eleven: No Matter the Storm, When You Are with God, There’s always a Rainbow waiting

And 

No matter What 

Keep Smiling, It Not Only Makes You Feel Better, But Also It Enhances Your Looks.

frustrated teachers

hey guys,

this is my first ever blog

i am gonna be blogging about anything and everything under the sun

constructive comments are welcome

so.......

my first blog is gonna be about frustrated teachers

we have all heard about frustrated students,but why limit the frustration to us only?????

in fact teachers have the capacity to get way more frustrated than us

and they remove it on the one and only option available to them..........us....

yes,we are the teachers' favorite target

they are in a bad mood,give us an assignment

they had a bad night at home,screw our case

they had a fight with a colleague,shout at us

the hod shouted at them,take us to the hod and make him shout at us

didnt have a good lunch,wont let us eat in their presence-to the extent that they dhaapo our dabba,and to get our own lunch back,we have to beg and plead with them,while they sit and weep melodramatically about us not respecting them..............arre avoid yaar,i am hungry-give my dabba back

not had a good holiday,we write 8 tutorials again

havnt finished the syllabus,they feel we are making them come and give us extra lectures on their holiday-u kidding me.....sleep and let sleep re.......

i just have this message to our beloved teachers.......chill maro yaar.itna load mat lo.....load lena hamara kaam hain........and we dont have anything against you'll,so dont grudge anything against us please...............love u teachers,as long as you'll dont **** around with us