curiosity, concern, compassion and collaboration
ki jikra itna bada bhi na tha,
ki nagar mein shor mach jaayey
koi apni asliyat bhuley
aur koi deewana ban jaye
aap mat dhundieye in chingaro mein kisee aag ki khushboo
kya pata, koi jindagi ki manjil bhuley, aur koi patanga ban jayey
shukra hai, ki abhi baaki hai ummeedey jamaney ko badalney ki
kya farak nahin padta, koi gumnam rahey, ya koi lifafa ban jaayey
don’t put the curtains on the windows again
who knows some rays may get trapped inside
and then may lighten those corners of your heart
in which you had conserved the darkness of yesteryears
light the candle
arrange the flowers
put the table mats
which i wove for you from waste plastics
but only to add colours that you might otherwise miss
why do not you take care of lost souls
who have been shortchanged by time
in the safety of their own nests
asked the visitor to my door today,
what could i say,
how could i tell that the pains
of some are more intimate than that of others
ut then any thing otherwise will be untrue
should politeness take precedence over truth
always?
i went back to those footprints
which ihad left outside in the courtyard
which you had cleaned, and covered
with sweet nice coat of dung mixed with clay
if i erase these prints, i will leave new marks of erasure,
i decided to erase the prints of past
to leave the print of present
next time you paint the courtyard again
to welcome new times, seasons, scents of blooms,
u decide what you will do with these marks
what is being done by NIT surat students volunteers:
a) the tech-project portal will be at sristi site and not nif because nif does not deal with projects from formal sector or professionals.
b) we should have ratings by experts distinguished from the one by the peers. two separate ratings.
c) the most popular projects may pop out or be seen in a different window just for those who wish to see which are such projects,
d) should the plagiarized projects be removed or kept with such a label? see what your friends say?
e) we should make it possible for projects at one institute be taken up for value addition at another institute. so, some relay function should be developed so that one can see how the ideas in one place by one student moved to another place and still another place and got developed further. That will be the real value add ( chinzah: similar platform/option should exist for scai projects, we can adapt this portal design easily for scai projects too. we need to track scai project and site activities every week).
f) there should be a good search engine installed at site so that it can link not only projects having common words but also common theses) this is a longer term project and will take a few years perhaps),
g) we can send a log list to every student whose project is visited by any user. If the students want, they can get visitors log.
h) there should be ‘ideas for project‘ link: here nif or any small scale industry or even others can post ideas on which they wish students to take projects, they can also mention what support ( workshop, mentoring, financial support etc., ) –feed forward
i) licensing link: here those who wish to license some technologies at the site can post their request and the portal can mediate a tech transfer at fair terms; here faculty guide may also have to be involved. do we have link for faculty guide under each project?
j) all those projects which are open source should be marked by a bold tag and can be highlighted in a separate window. our hope is to have at least 70 per cent projects as open source.
To suggest that majority of technology students buy projects from outside is quite unfair. Surely there are a large number who do it, thanks to indulgent faculty members, but then i am sure there are many who are trying to be original.
It for the above reason that i started four years ago a small project of poooling student projects abstracst and full reports from various collges. Volunteeers of NIT surat have fanned out to 200 colleges already and i am getting very good repsonse. I also discussed this idea with Dr Kolaskar and Vivek of Maharashra Knowledge corporation who have also promised help.
If each TUC coordinator can help in thsi task, we can accomlish thsi task even more rapidly.
I am hoping to get 50k projects by the end of 09, and we have to get eventually 600,000 projects on this national techProjectindia portal.
this will provide an opportunity to link the problems of msme as well as grassroots innovators with the students. This portal will also enourage students to build upon each others’ ideas, put premium on originality and help harness the power of kho kho model of product development.
Hope that this idea will grow and we will then have a larger pool of ideas to select, secreen and nurture
volunteers are welcome
anil
when the rivers are asking for banks to bend
so that they can overflow
and fill the tanks
that are dry for long
quench the thirst of fields beyond
you may not forget
your prmise to blend
with the sea of hope and aspirations of many
who did not have the privelege of overflowing
and stayed here waiting for the banks to bend
when anger makes you helpless
you can not but think of but revenge
think of me, o Kaali, who will faithfully be ready
to be sacrificed at your altar
and whose blood will wash your feet
donot then show karuna
and convert the drops
of my blood into flowers
whose fragrance will fuel your anger one moment
and impel you to embrace me the next
man mein bhar lo swar karuna key har pal
do asshiward un sab khsan ko, jinse ho man vihwal
karuna ki kanjoosi na ho, naynao mein ho daya drishti
mahak jaaye saara jeevan, mahak jaayey saari sristi
when a seed is sown
do we bother whose seed it is
earth claims it
plants that have withered away
are not even around to submit their say
and the ploughman just opens the furrow
how do i tell you, o wind
whether you should bring clouds
now or later
when you even do not know
warmth of whose heart will propel you
in which direction
among many branches that you had
i could have perched on any
but could i
i needed to be there alone
but the tree is not mine, nor the sky
i fly but even wings are not mine
they have their own limits
but not my heart
i can be there above and around you
for ever
no matter
if the tree lives or dies