Who says religion isn’t science ??

At this college there was an extra credit question “Is hell endothermic or exothermic”
This is what one kid wrote:

First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass.
If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since, there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell.
With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.
So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase until all hell breaks loose (i.e.,Hell is exothermic).
Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over (i.e.,Hell is endothermic).
So which is it? If we accept the postulate given by Ms.Therese Banyan during my freshman year, “That it will be a cold night in hell before I go out with you,” and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having a relationship with her, the second case cannot be true. Therefore, hell is exothermic.

The kid was the only one who got credit.

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alada ( It’s different! )

In my cellphone, this playlist comtains songs that are of course among my favorites, and are somewhat different from the dal-chawal music of the respective band or genre. Some of them are known hits, some maybe a bit obscure. So here goes ( order doesn’t matter, of course ) …

1. Kahin na Laage Mann by Mohit Chauhan / Shreya Ghosal – Pure Mohit Chauhan magic, unconventional music.
2. Lose Yourself by Eminem – Powerful lyrics, more than anything else.
3. Duur and
4. Kahani Mohabbat Ki by Strings – Songs for all seasons, with the uniqueness of Strings.
5. Summer of 69 by Brian Adams – The more you hear it, the more you like it.
6. Hero by Enrique Iglesias – Same as the last one. Just awesome.
7. Words by Boyzone. One of the few songs you fall in love with the first time you hear it. … “It’s only words, and words are all I have to take your heart away.”
8. Somebody’s Me by Enrique Iglesias – Everyone will relate with this song.
9. Wake Me Up When September Ends and
10. Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day – Though I don’t like Green Day in general because they lack in variety, these two rock, literally.
11. Fix You by Coldplay. I like Rock … with strong guitar riffs and drums, and meaningful lyrics. It’s final.
12. Numb by Linkin Park. Rap does combine well with Rock.
13. My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion – only a formality, saying ‘the titanic song’ would’ve sufficed, no doubt . This one would find place in anyone’s favorites playlist.
14. Teri Deewani by Kailash Kher – One of his first songs, … What can i say ? Awesome.
15. Breathless by Shankar Mahadevan – How did he do it ? I hear he ’stole’ three breaths in the 3 minutes of the song. Still, … it’s almost impossible.
16. Pagla Haoar Badol Dine by Shreya Ghosal / Nachiketa – A typical rabindrasangeet given an extreme makeover. You’ll cringe out of conservativeness the first time you hear it, but eventually would enjoy it nonetheless.

Just imagine what happens when you hear this list with ’shuffle’ on. A small sampling … in one shuffle, Lose Yourself came first, then Breathless, and then Pagla Haoar Badol Dine ( before continuing with others ) !! The list will surprise you in every shuffle.

Week 3 …

Well, more than halfway through. Now i’m really itching to have the classes started. Although things are making progress, and i’m also enjoying, sometimes it becomes really BORING.So, the update is like this -

1. The microchimerism project … we’ll be looking for cell types of the chimeric cells in tussue samples, … it’s fixed …
2. My pet project … did an alternative problem … the updated pdf is here … lat_inter1.pdf
3. The third one is still hanged, don’t know what’ll happen to it …

Week 1 …

Albeit second week after the exams, officially it’s the first week of holidays as most of last week went by slugging out preparing the stat assignment for submission. OK, i guess this time things are looking up quite a bit. The summary is something like this -

1. Would be visiting the SINP throughout the holidays, but not continuously, as will be working on 2 ( maybe 3 ) projects.
2. I guess nearly everyday have to shuttle between our own insti and SINP.
3. First, our microchimerism project. At least, for the presentation in November, things have to hurry up a bit. I guess, besides the RT-PCR thing we’ll be doing some sort of immunological analysis of biopsy tissues and inferring about the immune response invoked.
4. This one i’m really excited about. Was toying with this idea for about 6 months, finally making some headways into it. Pocha aka Abhik from our batch joined, we’re doing it with guidance from Prof. Arni S.R.Srinivasa Rao of our insti and Prof. P.K.Mohanty , SINP. … You can check about this project here – lat_intro.pdf
5. Learnt LaTeX, for preparing the above pdf synopsis. Well, … it’s pretty cool. Gives your article a weighty feel
6. Keeping my fingers crossed on the problem about the miRNA-TF network project getting resolved.

a certain ennui … eh ??

They call themselves intellectuals, but they can’t even prevent a certain firang called Steve Waugh come down here, do something substantial, teaching them a lesson in practicality and being responsible to society.
When they were asked why most ( coz ‘all’ would sould politically too incorrect ) of the celebrity people of Kolkata refrain from getting hands on about doing something to the society, one Rupa Ganguly tactfully sidled the question, another hotshot fusion-guru weirdo called Bickram Ghosh even apologised, saying a certain ennui holds them back, and finally an unnamed tolly star was spot on, … they are afraid to go out more coz then then they’d lose their novelty value to the common people. Well, ok, but i guess people would love to see their idols among themselves,setting examples. It’s only a feeling of insecurity prevailing in the so called ‘celebrities’, … and of course it is justified. After all, what do you expect in someone who’s got a lot more than his/ her mediocrity deserves ?? a constant fear of losing the luck he/she gained in the lottery of life. Well, that’s the ‘ennui’ ( Bickram boy knows his english well, i must agree ), nothing else.

Random …

random tings that are crossing the mind …
1. feeling guilty about being so lazy about blogging … not that i had nothing to write, but just plain laziness …
2. Abstract algebra exam on 4th, … i can NEVER be that much meticulous like during +2, agreed, but i feel things are falling into place inside the dura-pia-arachnoid …
3. fake ipl player’s blog, … just awesome, a treat for badshah-haters a la me …
4. Summer projects, … the pet project’s in cold storage, desperately screaming to be revived … many ideas galore otherwise, all feasible, … but … let’s see …
5. Bein the mess convener, for the coming yr, … reflecting about being the person whose j***t will get burnt more than anyone else in the next one year …

6. No gym, again feeling guilty, … the only problem’s the waistline. Crusade gave a funda that if you stop gym then fat accumulation happens more in front of the belly than the sides … hm, i can see

Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye !

From the get-up it seemed at first a comedy, with none other than Paresh Rawal in a triple role. But it turned out quite opposite. There was humor, but it’s dark humor. Guess it’s not ‘award material’, but its heart is certainly at the right place.  To me it looked like symbolism. Lucky is the protagonist who sees the world his own way. From childhood he faces petty commonplace people like whom we come across everyday, … some hostile, some as friend, some patronizing … but the common and repelling thing about everyone of them is all are driven by their own selfish motives and try to exploit Lucky’s curcumstances. They do not have heart, and Lucky faces them with quiet desperation. And this very desperation keeps him afloat throughout.

Acting’s okay. There couldn’t have been a better Lucky than Abhay Deol. As an actor he is far better than his histrionic father or  his two brash elder brothers. Needless to say, Paresh Rawal excels as usual. Other actors have been well cast, and none disappointed.

I don’t know why …

Ok, ok, i know all that cliche’ stuff like the youth should feel more strongly about the politics and all that things like ‘Raise your finger’ by John Abs and ‘Jaago re’ … i have nothing against them, in fact my rationale supports them … after all, you can’t run a country with such a proportion of young people in its population efficiently with selfish old haggards … we do need ourselves at the helm … but still, i don’t know why, i won’t vote this time. In fact i’ve not got any voter id at all … why i have my passport and PAN card so i don’t really need a voter id as an id proof … once got a form for that, but didn’t fill it up. Don’t know whether i’ll vote some day or not … my parents also never did it …

Funny situation … not that i worry about it too much or am having any ideological conflicts inside my mind. I just don’t care about it now.

The Vitriol

It was the last drama in the drama festival organized by the insti, and it was staged by our boys’ hostel, the BHOS. Well, the representation was great, complete with dev-d songs ! and the subject … i don’t know what they actually tried to say. On the surface it was the cliche’d ‘you can seemingly not give a damn about the system but actually you’re meekly surrendering to it all the time’-type thing, but there are lots of situations and metaphors that need explaining.I

It’s on a hotshot, a little corrupt corporate guy, named P ( for protagonist, of the drama ), who has a flirtatious secy (who also acts as a pizza deliv. girl, a maid servant, and a poor woman), a jealous colleague Q ( who’s also seen as an intelligence head), a pair of peons, his father … all make appearences as other characters in the drama. P is held guilty by the system, though no one knows of what, and in course of time he finds himself lost amid the numerous hostilities that plie up against him and succumbs.Of course everything happens metaphorically. There was a vivid protrayal where his boss is showed as a judge who sits with cotton in his ears and a sunglass in eyes, with a balance in hand … he chooses to not see/ hear anything, … portraying the ‘andha kanoon’.

It’s really a job well done, … hats off. But i guess for some people things were a bit too much !! And the main thing is the significance of the name … everyone’s got different interpretations …

cheerio :P

Well,  well, I drank for the first time last night. It was the insti convo and there was an elaborate ‘maal-party’ on the hostel roof this night as a treat by the last yr passed-out batch, … and had some 3-4 shots, of different kinds  …. Ok, it ain’t that bad for the first time that your parents tell you, … a bit medicine-like in taste ( I opened with vodka). I liked Smirnoff the most, followed by Rum. Beer is, well, as some say, is like horse-pee, … I’d never ever have beer in future.

I don’t know, maybe, once-a-month won’t do you any world of harm J … it’s ok, as long as you can hold your own against the dizziness and the immediate aftereffects.