Today my cousin who is a final year engineering student in a well reputed college in central Kerala came upto me and asked whether I had an IEEE membership. Instantly I understood her need cos i have been hearing the same question from many, she needed a project for her final semester and her teachers would allow only IEEE projects. Now whats with this IEEE criteria ? There are many engineering colleges in Kerala who set this...

A 100 storied building to be completed in Cochin in 2010 ? I couldn’t believe it when I heard it for the first time. Kinfra is doing it and they already have appointed a consultant for the design work. The building will come up in Kalamassery. These are some of the highlights. 56 lakh sqft area 30 floors will be a 5 star hotel Parking space for 22000 cars Half a kilometer tall 5 floors convention and exhibition center Finally...

My Love Life – Part I Today I want to talk about my close friend’s love life. He is actually 3 months older than me but I am 1 year elder to him (Please don’t ask me to explain that – you need to know advanced quantum physics to understand it – and if there is anyone who has done PHD is quantum physics – they also need to know molecular biology) Both of us are 24 years old and pretty much followed the same path when...

Its only recently that I understood the American way of education. My friend Issac wrote GRE and went to the USA for his masters 3 years ago. A one hour voice chat session with him proved to be very informative. In India we have a free education system. All government education establishments provide free education. Even many private institutions are funded by the government. The students gets to study for free. But in the US education...

Sister Abhaya was found dead in her Convents well on March 27 1992 The Local Police and the Crime Branch Dismissed it as suicide Following an appeal to the high court by the local people CBI was handed over the charge in March 1993 Deputy Superintendent of CBI Varghese P Thomas Resigned saying that he was pressurized to write off the case as Suicide by his superior V Thiagarajan. Another local police man destroyed all evidence...

Recently there had been a lot of discussion and fights in the Malayalam movie industry about Corporate’s entering the industry. They call them monopolies, but I call them corporate’s. They are companies like Ad-Labs, Pyramid Saimira, UTV etc. The existing unions in the movie industry are not very excited with the coming of such companies. But for the audience and people with real talent its a welcome move. Film industry...

Part III: You Would not believe this… For those who have not read part 1 & 2; here are the Links: Part1 Part2 We finally changed out subject and started talking about Botswana. Botswana is the only African country that has a very strong currency (That is after 2 devaluations of the currency by a total of 25% in 2 years) and has been politically stable for the last 40 years or so…and probably the only country on this...