Long time no see!

So when we last met, I had promised a post about India and stuff. Thanks to the 'teaser post' I left behind, atleast I remember that much. Well for now I am not at all concerned about the whether India is what I think it is or you think it is... because...

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Discovery of a nation!

Through the time of our primary and secondary school education all of us have by ourselves built an idea of what our country represents. This might be the general notion the society in which you grew up has in their mind. A thing that happens when you start to travel outside your native land is, that you see how different things are; in different parts of the world. And in India, things are wayyy...

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So, why are we here?

Yes. Long time since I came this way. Has been so busy with my masters study and exams. Now that coursework is over, that abominable bubble of emptiness has started to fill me again, giving me time to actually sit down and think. A weird feeling it...

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The Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Characters in this satire are purely fictional. No infringement of copyrights intended. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story starts with Frodo:...

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Knowledge is to be shared; not horded. Tribute to Aaron Swartz.

After reading the following article by late Aaron Swartz, I had this thought. Lot of us doing our higher ed has access to many peer reviewed journals, and after what the world of which we are a part, did to this wonderful person, his ideas shall only...

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German PhD/ Testing Camscanner.

It has been a long time since my last post. phew.... how time flies! One frikking semester went just like that!I found a brochure from the German Academic service center (DAAD) lying around, regarding PhD in Germany. Since I remember many of my friends back home asking me about opportunities, and found lots of info on this thing, and I recently installed camscanner on my phone, but had not got a...

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