Tiger's pawn

Another ‘slumdog millionaire’ plot hit me recently and to no surprise it is again a a bulls eye hit. With so many takers all over the world for Indian success stories ‘The white tiger’ is able to win the ‘Bookers prize ‘apart from all other recognitions from the west. Why these people applaud all these stories that we don’t really want to admit.

What here we have is a story of ‘Balram halwai’ rising from the poverty and darkness of villages of Jharkhand to being a social entrepreneur in Bangalore. The incessant attack on our illusory morality, the fight between being logical and being practical makes mockery of the rich Indian values that we all claim to hold.

The book presents a vivid account of the poverty, the rituals, the darkness that still prevails in the villages of India and the fight of a person to break his consanguinity , a ‘Rooster Coop’ as he describes. Cogitated sub plots present descriptions that one feel incontrovertible. Then there were many new adjectives that I came across like ’Vitiligo lips’, ‘The moongoose’. The narration is full with arguments of which this one I liked the most

‘Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?’

Overall a good, well layout fast story which I would rate 3.5 out of 5. If I had read it before Q&A I could have of course rated it higher. Now there seems lot of repetitiveness. Though I hope some director must have started out his new venture on the plot because slumdog success is our new mantra and we don’t want to miss it again at the hands of some firangi.

Cracking GATE

this is d eve of 10 of feb nd i hav just given GATE IT in d morning
i dont hav ne idea whether ill b having arank or nt but just thought to tab down all those advices which i nculcated 4 myself during dis busy month
lets write dem down as bullet points
caution--i gave GATE IT which was last that happened in d series so i dont no,whether d ideas wud b helpful for oder aspirants 2,also dese r specifically meant 4 my collg students (becoz i no how we r,what we r,nd our on avg study habits:P)


1.start ur GATE prepration a month b4 .b4 that wud b 2 early nd ull get fatigued,aftr dat u wl always feel u got late(though u r still nt)
2.stratedgy is most important.scan last yr papers nd make out wat u hav to study 4 next 20 days.
3.keep ur last 7 days 4 revision(without revising,u wont gain nething)
4.wen u prepare keep a register wid u,nd jut keep noting in it,various facts,examples,def,formula.its d most helpful tool of d last days.
5.conserve ur energy nd avoid wathing movies in last 7 days(dis i followedbt depends from person 2 person)
6.do last yr gate papers (at least d last 5 yrs,a hell lot of concepts get repeated)


to tel u gys i left computr network nd comp architeture.
so u also dont hav to study evrything
just study smartly.

den goin on per subject scan
discret maths--folow this schaums DM its gud nd its enough
automata--last chapter in shaums discrete,aftr this peter linz.
digital logic design--moris mano nd some parts from malvino
programming--no need to study being a IT student
OS--nothing bttr den Gherke
SE--do from ne bk;only dese topics r to b done--cyclometric complexity,errors,type of models,pert,er,dfd,cohesion coupling,softare testing,verification,validation
algo--usually easy.ne bk u can follow.i used to follow coreman.just do 2 things.know how d algo works nd its complexity
html,xml--1 question each comes
grphs is a imp topic.
data structures --ifollowed schaums.its gud nd sufficient
den take up a TMH MCQ
solve it regularly
in OS seamaphore,paging,scheduling r imp.
Automata shud nt b left
DBMS-i followed korth.do at least relational alg nd queries

i think dis is all i gt to tell u at d moment,and yes "just stick to course,nthing wud be asked from outside" nd stay +ve
WHEN U AIM OF STARS U'LL SURELY REACH D MOON :)

P.S after 1 month I have the result now. All India Rank 284 cracked.