Finally A Blog

My first political utterance was 'Janta Party Jindabad!' i was two years old then. From 1980 when the Janta Party fell apart like a pack of cards refusing to stay in the same deck, to 1984 when the sympathy wave for Congress (I) swept the opposition of their feet, there has been an talk amongst political analysts of India moving towards a two party dominance. Slowly the opinions changed towards an era of co-alition governments with Janta Dal coughing up VP Singh as Prime Minister in 1989 with support of Left Front (Janta Dal was itself a part of National Front) and BJP. Then on, there was no turning back. Outside support, inside support, on the fence support, active supoprt, passive support, conditional support, unconditional support, support if burkina faso doesnt invade reunion islands, friendly opposition if finance minister takes a bath before coming to Loksabha and other such variants led the bloom of democracy. In 2004, i thought the consolidation towards bi-polar politic...

The intent is to write posts on following topics in near future (read that as before the week is out): 1. General Elections 2009 2. Krav Maga 3. Cricket in the 80s 4. Personal Finance PS: a slow friday's afternoon. The intentions to write the posts remained pure intentions. Got to add a post on Lalit Modi and IPL.

Its rather uncanny that of all the people i have come across, Professor Saras should find any mention in my writings. However, it gives me a chance to broach upon the chimera of ill-qualification that mars the education sector in inida. Just how much talent a person needs to execute a program to print 'Hello World' in C++ ? It was in second or third year of my engineering college when the internet was still a novelty to us. Privacy concerns were minimal, if at all. In an engineering college environment, especially if its College of Technology, Pantnagar, there are very few things to hide. A single computer had the internet connection available on it. Naturally, all of us new converts would flock thither to do internet. On one such day, the guy sitting on the next computer seemed frustrated. Upon enquiry, he revealed his inability to run 'Hello World'. After Vikram helped him by adding the right syntax, he thanked profusely and introduced himself as Saras, a studen...

As good books do, the good blog too starts with the self titled post. Think of the rock fan who has been waiting through out the show for his favorite riff, or Professor Paras who had been trying to execute the program 'Hello World' in C++. If they got what they wanted, it would be the same 'finally' which is reflected in the title. Its not fair on my part to introduce Professor Paras all of a sudden to an unsuspecting audience. I will write about him in the next post. first the story of Finally. It was long time back, ancient history for some, when i chose ratneshbolivar.blogspot.com as the blog url. Owing to thrilling combination of travel, job, attempts at job switch, laziness i didnt write any post then. One fine evening (that is today) when i am back from playing cricket (which took care of laziness), when i am back from visiting my parents (that took care of travel), delivery of project (which took care of job related bandwidth) and recession (which took care of a...