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student innovations

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

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when the rivers are asking for banks to bend

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

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when anger makes you helpless

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

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when a seed is sown

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

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among many branches that you had

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

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you did not ask

you did not ask, if you are right or wrong, when life became a journey into deep woods of nothingness, you did not need to be reminded that way ahead could  end up in lake, from where one may never come back,

drowning in this lake is not worse than  floating alive on the surface,

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do you wish me to remember

do you wish me to remember

why the dust rises so often  now a days

when you come back

and gets into your eyes

you rub your eyes and despite all warning

persist

as if the dust will come out

worried about hurting the lids

over the deep gazes

but then you have often hurt yourself

do not do it again

will you let dust settle till some tears wash them away

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when the swans dont dance

when teh swans dont dance

but the waves get into a trance

who bothers, who waits

but for some one, the ship seldom sails

when the waves are placid,

the tubulence invites

and anxiety placates

and she thinks, its all waste

tantrums have lost their edge

but the winter bites

sweater you gave is not warm enough

may be i should take a cold water bath

instead of fighting cold, i should  assimilate it,

is that why you are volcanic, asked the boat

what could  have wave said,

she smiled and moved towards the other shore

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the change that i forgot to keep track of, is on us,

the change that i forgot to keep track of, is on us,

the storm has passed

but when you were standing in the doorway

i was wondering

if it is like the rain that occures in spurts

some times on , some times off, but the drizzle continues

i am not wet, though it rained whole night

i was standing under the tree

which has sheltered me always

every time when

i have needed the shade,