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On the shoulders of Giants

“Offer your strengths to others and you will be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you” Simon Sinek Right from my childhood I was perplexed by the oracle of Apollo of Delphi that Socrates is the wisest man ever born & Socrates famous statement “I know only one thing that I know nothing”It

Life as Random walk-Monte Carlo simulation of Life!!

(A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be predicted due to the intervention of random variables. Many physical phenomenon can be simulated this technique. In my Ph.D thesis I have used it to find the behaviour of electrons under various electric field conditions

My first project in second dimension!!

Though I went to Kurukshetra all the way from my relatively unknown village,Pandanadu(Kerala state) with the sole objective of doing my Masters degree so that I can pursue my dream of becoming a scientist abroad(Germany was my dream country!! Of course I read/ studied German history especially period of history pertained to Hitler only during

Why am I there in social media!!

On 27th November 2023 I wrote something on FB as a comment which I do not do normally.I reserve such things to my blog site www.balaprasad.com Since it is a long comment and for wider audience I thought of posting it separately here.(It is written based on the feedback of some of my friends in

My Revelations!!

Over the years some of the things revealed to me are listed.But as usual those thoughts are well articulated by Khalil Gibran (reasons elaborated in my old post http://www.balaprasad.com/why-i-love-to-quote-from-the-prohet-khalil-gibran/ )Following lines are from his work The Vision (p. 83-89). White Cloud Press. Kindle Edition My soul talked to me many a times : 1 teaching

A quest that is unquenchable!!

This was a new beginning a kind of rebirth.Idea given by Mr.Abhimanyu Chawla who was pursuing his M,Tech from VIT accidentally came to do his M.Tech thesis with me for a year,That transformed me and was beginning of a new life for me.What we envisaged that time is shown here.We share the credit/discredit of founding

My life in nutshell

(Another borrowing of words not the feelings) I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.A tear to purify my heart and give me understandingOf life’s secrets and hidden things.A smile to draw me nigh to the sons of my kind andTo be a symbol of my glorification of the gods.A tear to

lamentations of a budthu

(The words are borrowed but not the feelings.When you have issues with articulations it is better borrowed!!) He said: “My friends and neighbors and you who daily pass my gate, I would speak to you in your sleep, and in the valley of your dreams I would walk naked and unrestrained; for heedless are your

Life of a ZERO!!-Chronicles of a Budthu

Very often we Indians boast about Indian contribution to mathematics especially in Arithmetics i.e zero. Zero has a different connotation also.It means nothing or signifying nothing.This is the context in which it is written.(Whenever I think of nothing it reminds me the famous dialogue from play of Shakespeare “The king Lear” to his dear daughter