I read this inspiring news and this set me on fire, made me feel what wonders can success do in one's life. Topping the exams and coming in the limelight means a lot; it boosts your morale and gives you a new purpose of life.

This particular example is a perfect answer to guys like Hitler and Churchill who advocated slaughter of the physically and mentally challenged. We also have a lot of things to learn from them. I feel that we do not recognise our potentials to the full( or probably do not want to); we have everything but we do not use anything instead those who do not have takes it as a challenge and show us our mediocrity.

Hats off to Govind, chaapte rahon

Gilvester

Sunday, May 28, 2006 (Kollam):

A 15 year old in Kollam suffering from a congenital physical disability has scored a remarkable 95.2 per cent.

Govind never really expected much from his Standard X CBSE results. He suffers from a congenital physical disablity.

But despite his disability he's managed to score 476 out of 500 marks, which is 95.2 per cent. The secret, he says, is in keeping a cool head and regular study.

Govind cannot sit straight for over an hour and can't write fast. He gets exhausted after walking a short distance and often, his schoolmates carry his bag for him.

No different

But his parents Ravi Kumar, a psychiatrist and his wife Jaysree, who's an ophthalmologist, have ensured that he never feels like he's any different from the other kids.

"We have never interfered with his studies, allowed him to do whatever he wants. There was no tuition for him, only encouragement from our side," said Ravi.

Like his sister Parvathy, a second year MBBS student, Govind also wants to study medicine. But its not just books for the boy.

He loves football and Wayne Rooney is a hero. He is also a carnatic vocalist and spends time reading thrillers.

Not one to rest on his laurels, for Govind, these results mark only the beginning of a journey that will take him to much greater heights in life.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.
--Brian Foley ( Molecular Genetics Dept.University of Vermont )

I found this signature on an on an online newsgroup and it just changed my mood instantaneously. I am not aware why I am not able to do anything substantial since many days. Research appears to be difficult(atleast to me on my first venture).

It just amazes me that how tiny findings have changed the world completely and still there are many puzzles whihc are left for all of us to find out.
Another thing which lets me to think of the classical "Nature or Nurture" problem. Will all problems be solved if Ramanujam would have been alive till today? or any person who is motivated and applies his/her mind could crack?
I am in affirmation for the second option.

Go in for watching " Good Will Hunting" just to explore more about these issues.

" The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it"

How true and how profound?
I'll say more after your comments.

Why should you sneeze and why should you cough?

why should you smile and why should you laugh?

Why should sulk and why should you sigh?

Everybody does it, thats why thats why.

Why should you love and why should you hate?

why should you suffer and blame it on fate?

why should you weep and why should you cry?

Everybody does it thats why thats why.

Why should you always sleep in the night?

why should you always try to be right?

Why should you live and why should you die?

Everybody does it thats why thats why.


Source:
http://halfhearted-funny.blogspot.com/2006/04/evam-indrajit.html

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

- Rabindranata Tagore

CComb your life by smiles not tears,
Count your life by friends not years

How profound these words are?

I

Two roads diverged in yellow wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

How true? How profound?
It appears that it is a fundamental streak in human nature not to take risks, follow the crowd and do the things in the sterotypical ways.

more to write but feeling sleepy.

Now, finally the time has come. The time to imbibe all the energy so as to put in my level best for my project- the SURGE program.

The project is on a phenomenan called " codon bias" and hey it starts from tomorrow.
Common monu, you can do it.

I just have one feeling now- that there are many things to discover and they will be discovered in the same way as the old have been discovered. By old, I meant the phenomenal discoveries.

In the end, I have only one desire- to put into my level best and try to the best of my ability what really is strange about codon bias and yes what application we can think of. We have heart transplants, somebody would have thought about it. There are all kinds of things that could be done but what it needs is constant motivation.

yes, I can do it.

Story of a Mother with one eye
Son's Statement:

" My mom only had one eye. I hated her... she was such an embarrassment. She
cooked for students & teachers to support the family. There was this one day
during elementary school where my mom came to say hello to me.

I was so embarrassed. How could she do this to me?

I ignored her, threw her a hateful look and ran out.

The next day at school one of my classmates said, "EEEE, your mom only has
one eye!"

I wanted to bury myself. I also wanted my mom to just disappear.

So I confronted her that day and said, " If you're only gonna make me a
laughing stock, why don 't you just die?!!!"

My mom did not respond...

I didn't even stop to think for a second about what I had said, because I
was full of anger. I was oblivious to her feelings. I wanted out of that
house, and have nothing to do with her.

So I studied real hard, got a chance to go to Singapore to study.

Then, I got married.
I bought a house of my own.
I had kids of my own.
I was happy with my life, my kids and the comforts

Then one day, my mother came to visit me. She hadn't seen me in years and
she didn't even meet her grandchildren. When she stood by the door, my
children laughed at her, and I yelled at her for coming over uninvited.

I screamed at her, "How dare you come to my house and scare my children! GET
OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!"

And to this, my mother quietly answered, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I may have
gotten the wrong address," and she disappeared out of sight.

One day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house in Singapore.
So I lied to my wife that I was going on a business trip.

After the reunion, I went to the old shack just out of curiosity. My
neighbors said that she died.

I did not shed a single tear. They handed me a letter that she had wanted me
to have. "

Mom's Letter:

"My dearest son,
I think of you all the time. I'm sorry that I came to Singapore and scared
your children. I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion.
But I may not be able to even get out of bed to see you. I'm sorry that I
was a constant embarrassment to you when you were growing up. You
see........when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost
your eye. As a mother, I couldn't stand watching you having to grow up with
one eye.

So I gave you mine.

I was so proud of my son who was seeing a whole new world for me, in my
place, with that eye. With my love to you,

Your mother. 

Staying in Summers

One thing is clear to me-whoever wishes to stay in the summers over here is definitely an aspiring active creature who wants to do something good in his life. Also, one can ejoy those things which we normally are not able to avail off during the semesters.

I am entitled to do a research project in the SURGE program here at IIT Kanpur. Initially, it is a feeling of pride in my bosom but I just look forward to it not only as one another thing but a thing which I will try to pursue to the best of my abilities.

Things are becoming tough. Lot ost higns to do- but my prime focus should be on the project.

I have just gotten up. Time to bathe and get back to work. Common monu, you can do it.

Have a nice day.

test

Too often we don't realise
What we have until it's gone.

Too often we wait too long to say
" I'm sorry. I was wrong. "

Sometimes it seems we hurt the ones
We hold dearest to our hearts.

And we allow stupid things
To tear our lives apart.

Far too many times we let
Unimportant things get in our minds.

And by then, its usually too late
To see what made us blind.

So be sure that you let people know
How much they mean to you.

Take the time to say the words
Before your time is through.

Be sure that you appreciate
Everything that you have got.

And be thankful to the little things
In life that mean a lot

Yesterday, a fourth year student, Shailesh hung himself to death. Why, only because he got a 'F' in a course he was doing for the third time. It is the second incident of suicide in the past 5 months.

I do not understand how one can be so sensitive on one hand and one can be so heartless on the other. It is such an acute feelign of uncomfort that it fills the whole heart with paina and distress.

I don't know whether he did was right or wrong but definitely, the system has many flaws. I agree we got to excel but see studying to become a database is not the thing which should be envisaged from us. The faculty here behaves as if we are all thieves, we are useless. No one tries to understand us and motivate.

The faculty should enthuse a spirit in the students so that we get interested. Although, we should also be responsible but I think they have to play a big role. Faculty here teaches as if they have only one job- to distribute grades, exactly in the same way as a vendor sells vegetables in the market. It is such a bad situation that we can't help.

Students are so naive and soft when they come here but in the end what they become- negligent to studies, hard-hearted and merely a database kind of thing. Why?? was this the purpose to come to IIT? These three magic words transforms the expressions of any third person but it changes everything.