Patience

Almost all among us have heard the name Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, and have heard the great deeds performed by that great soul.
His dedication towards the path of spirituality began at the age of 16. He wept bitterly, when the seeds of his penances refused to bear fruit. Later when his name and fame grew, a friend asked him about that period of life. Ramakrishna replied:
'If a thief were to spend the night in a room with only a thin wall separating him from another room full of gold, do you think he would be able to sleep? When I was young, I desired God as much as the Thief would have wanted that Gold, and it took me a long time to learn that the greatest virtue in a spiritual search is patience.

Trademark Dialogues of The Ramaiah Teachers

Disclaimer:- These dialogues are what I've heard in the Institute. If I am wrong about these dialogues then kindly notify me.They are not meant to be offensive and nor are to be treated in any way as my views about the following people.
Koteshwar Rao:-
1.) The Hyphothesis(hypothesis. He stresses on the Pho) says that...yada yada yada.
2.) Antha Guala..........yada yada yada.
3.) Mandha........assal enduku vastunaroo?.......yada yada yada.
4.) Oooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttttttttt. Dvant(Don't) come back here......yada yada yada.
5.) His accent is merely played upon . So it would be difficult to imitate all what he said. Every single dialogue of his is supposed to be a part of this but alas! Writing has its limitations.
6.) He is one of the only 2 people in the institute who loves to listen to his own voice.
7.) Yem Andi...yada yada yada......yemmeeeeee....yada yada yada
Parthasarathy:-
1.) Is it the vone(one)?
2.) A typical Parthasarathy Equation:-PbCl2 + H2SO4 = KClO3 + FeSO4 + UO7
3.) Student:- Sir Why does Silver Shine?
Parth:- Becuse Silver is an Element....Uhhhhh........and because Graphite and Diamond are Carbon in actuallity.
4.) I've realised that he imitates Madhu like Hell while teaching.
Srinivas:-
1.) Yem Somy(Swamy) nuvvu?
2.) What Mr. Anmal(Anmol, was a guy in my class).
3.) Em aya Nishonth(Nishanth, another guy in my class).
4.) Endh Amma Shravani(Sravani, a girl in my class).
5.) Assal Formula Theliyakapothe Yem jeddam Aiya?
Surendranath Sir:-
1.) Yada Yada Yada
2.) Yada Yada Yada
3.) Yada Yada Yada
Shiva Prasad:-
1.) Vat(What)?.........Enjoying?.......Ahhh(The Ending note of a Cow's Moo).
2.) You...........take(at this point his hands come down as if he were chopping wood) that and see what happens..............Understood?
3.) We will solev(solve, Oh! The Limitations of writing) TMH exercise___ today...........understood?.............Ahhh*.
Ramaiah Sir:-
1.) You Teeaakkk(Take) that van(one)......
2.) Nuvvu em chesstuneeveee?
3.) Go to the Boartch(Board).
4.) Endh Aiya.......Phanti kottutun eevi?
5.) Laffot Gaddivi laga Thaiyar Avvuthuneeve?
6.) What are the Posssssibiliteeeess(Possibilities) of that Van(One).
7.) Adi Ravvale.......Nuvvu Chaiyale.........
Madhsudan Rao:-
1.) Em Aiya?...........Chepparo?
2.) Matladaru............
3.) Get up...........hmmm...........(nodding is head and pointing towards the door)get out........go................thoraga..........hmmm...........kickga(Quick Ga)
4.) That is the What.......that is the.....yada yada yada

Is IIT really worth another year?

This Q requires an A from a guy who is unbiased, in my view. In my view, I am one such unbiased mind as far as IIT is concerned. What I would say is that most of us have been brought up in an atmosphere where getting through the JEE is all that matters, and so Room for some Healthy Reservations on what are we doing and why are we doing it are unwarranted and in most cases, inexistant. I would say is after 2 years of the peak of our lives being spent in the mnotony of JEE preparation, its not worth another year only for JEE. Instead, best thing would be to join some college and give JEE another shot.
Many amongst my friends have not been able to put their JEE result behind them. For them, all that I have to say is WINNING IS NOT EVERYTHING BUT THE EFFORT TO DO SO IS.

Meeting A Legend

IIT Ramaiah.
The Demi-God of the masses. A kid in the 5th standard,here, may not know who is Bill Gates, but Ramaiah!......I wouldn't bet on it. I had always wondered why do they rever the man so much. I really didn't know why, till I finally met him. An experience with the Man changes you, maybe transforms you, but changes it does. It was the second time I would come across a person who was an Altruist. I can claim that the Integral of sin2x/acos(square)x + bcos(square)x changed my life, and he became my unofficial mentor. I rever him, and will always do. It is because of him that I believe that the Noblest of all Professions is that of imparting Knowledge, followed by the art of healing.
I met him yesterday, and I couldn't but feel bad that JEE was beyond me this year. Going into the details of that meeting is beyond me. Still Iwould always recommend that every single person from one's family should study there, it would be an awakening, and perhaps a defining experience of their Lives.
BLESSED IS HE WHO FINDS SOMETHING FOR WHICH HE CAN LIVE AND DIE, UNFORTUNATE IS HE WHO DOESN'T, CURSED IS HE WHO LOSES THAT PURPOSE.

How must Our mark be left Behind

A famous, aged Buddhist Monk was asked to deliver a sermon in Sarnath, where Buddhist Monks from across the World had converged to celebrate the 1000th birth anniversary of the Lord Buddha.
' May you all be Forgotten' were the only words uttered by him.
'But Why?' asked one of the gathered Monks. 'Can that mean that the example what we set here must never benefit a man in need?'
'In the days that everyone was just, no one paid any attention to people who behaved in an exemplary manner,' replied the Monk. 'Everyone did their best, never thought that what they did to aid their brother was a duty, but instead they accepted it as a part of their beings, their ingrained character and a law that Nature had pre-ordained behaviour. They shared their possessions so that they could not accumulate more than that what they could carry, for then journeys lasted lifetimes. They lived together in freedom, making no demands, giving and recieving and never indulging in petty strifes. If only we could achieve the same thing now: to make goodness so common that there would be no need to praise those who practiced it.'

The Wisdom of the Wire

Disclaimer:- This article is not meant to be an insult to the Local Constabulary and does not serve the purpose of undermining Police Authority over the Mango Bunch.Also this does not echo my views on the Police Force.
This article is basically dedicated to the subtle art of Transporting
A Wire. Amazing things what wires can do are, more often than not, known to us. The wire was made to be a gift by mankind for well.....mankind, but like all else, nothing comes absolutely free and so man had to face a major problem, which was transporting wire from one place to another.
By Wire here, I mean the GI wire. If you know what I mean then you must consider yourself amongst the plutocratic class of the greatest academicians. Believe me if I were to tell you that I would refer your name to everybody, whomsoever came to ask me for advice regarding Education. But to the Mango bunch, by which I refer to the common folk, of which I was part of till this eventful morning, my duty would be to direct their attention towards the uses of this noble piece of metal. The GI wire is basically the wire used for several noble purposes like hanging clothes for drying and clearing blocked drainages. Now buying about 20 feet of the wire entails a cost of 12 Rupees. Making an attempt to transport it was what I had been intrepid enough to do without a thought but at this moment suffice to understand that doing this deed again, I think, is not for gentle hearts. Even doing this the first time can make the bravest man quail if he is unprepared, and believe me when I tell you that I was….. unprepared.
The thing was that the usual mode of my conveyance through the city is a Honda Activa, when I drive. For those amongst the Mango bunch who don’t know what I’m referring to, its time you left your mundane lives at home and took a walk along the main road, pronto. You see, this Noble piece of metal, the GI wire, is usually available only in a hardware store, and the nearest one to my house is about a kilometer away. Now we all know that when we traverse a distance like that we had better be prepared to face the local police, who are known to be extremely diligent in their tasks. But there, I’m sorry to say, was where I failed. I didn’t carry my helmet and I went out in my usual home attire which is necessarily a pair of shorts and a loose T-Shirt. The first time I managed to slip past my man and continue onwards, with the same bravado a wanted thief shows when he sits drinking in a bar, seated next to the local Inspector, who happens to be a teetotaler. The object in question was available and it was given to me. You see, there were about three coils and the coils were about two and a half feet in diameter. Because of this unfortunate symbiosis between geometry and the real world, the wire refused to remain content in the space in-between my legs. I managed to flatten the bulge but the wire pointed out, rather too obviously, above the handle.
The drive back, right from the beginning, was quite uncomfortable as the wire was showing a remarkable tendency of slipping out the bike. This unfortunately became the reason for the constable’s interest. I spotted the pauvre con about a couple of hundred yards away as he did me. Fortunately, the constable did not have an accomplice. What followed next would go into the record books as a feat worthy of Indiana Jones. Without slowing down I quickly picked up the Wire and wore it around my body, imitating Gabbar Singh and his bullet belt in Sholay, and increased the speed of the vehicle. The constable seemed to have decided to take an interest in me and so walked across the road and stood directly in my way. Jai Vin Diesel and his role in The Fast and the Furious. In the last second I veered away from my man, narrowly avoiding his out-stretched fingers and went home, in one piece.
Moral of the Story: - Respect this noble piece of Metal cause though the price is less, it’ll extract the required price if you are unprepared. Cheerio.

Ramaiah, an Experience

Disclaimer: - The Stuff I Posted here is Just For The Sake Of Fun. No Harm Intended. Also This Stuff is not echoing My Views on The Following People.
First Year:-
If you are part of the last 4 benches in Ramiah,irrespective of how you obtained admission follow these rules for a life of misery and contentment.
I.) Parthasarathy Iyengar
The only person in Ramaiah who tries to check whether you did your homework.
1.) He never bothers to go into details of your homework. So jumble the order of the problems and in between the pages write something about Shakespeare's othello or Macbeth. Trust me it really works and you become his favorite student.
2.) Use his class to indulge in the best of penfights and book cricket.
3.) At the end of the day sell his notes to the nearest Kabaddi wala, cause it will be a lot of paper to preserve. Mourn for the loss of precious paper at the end of the day. Besides I used to buy new notebooks for his class after selling the old ones.
4.)Ask him any question you want........only don't expect answers.
II.) Srinivas Rao
1.) Go to his class without fear........only don't expect to learn anything.
2.)Don't harbour the 'misconception' that you don't know anything and swoon in the midst of your incompetance because its unfortunately true.
3.)Ask him any doubt you want.........only expect to get more confused.
4.)He's a sweet chap who'll motivate you if he finds you competant.........if anyone says this, give him a black eye.

III.) Koteswar Rao
1.) Don't get worried that you don't understand whatever he says........that's cause he doesn't understand it too.
2.) Expect to know a lot more about dead people than you know your Math.........its only cause he wants to timepass like you.
3.) There will always be the appointed successors of Koteshwar Rao who'll claim that they understand whatever he says..........only trouble they'll usually have is remembering whatever he said.
4.) You can ask him any doubt.........only expect
i) getting insulted
ii) being sent home with a prelude sounding something like ooouuuuuuuuuttttttt or pphhhhaaaa(poh which in telugu means go).
iii) Madhsudan scolding you
iv)Your parents scolding you
v) Madhsudan scolding your parents
vi) the remaider of your days in the insti to be spent in the last bench getting periodically insulted and humiliated.
The Second Year:-
I)Shiva Prasad
1.) Ask him any doubt, he'll definitely clarify it...........only problem is you can only ask him stuff from TMH. Anywhere else, and you will be left with 'possibilities'. But TMH, you'll find that he's the walking guidebook.
2.) Use his class to indulge in some really important stuff..........like filmi gossip and other rumours about the chaps in the front benches.
3.) Whatever you do only don't ask him whether he's married..........cause we already did and we got a negative reply.
4.)Don't expect to get shifted forward if you impress him. Its only a waste of your Time.
5.)You can freely converse with him after the Insti gets over.
II.) Ramaiah Sir
1.) Expect Ramaiah Sir to propose matches between the first bench boys and the the first bench girls.
2.) Expect to hear the word 'Phanti'..........cause it'll usually be directed at you.
3.) Ask him any doubt. Only expect to be:-
i) hearing the sentence "Go to the Boartch(Board)"
ii) screamed at if you don't divine the "possssibilities(possibilities) of that van(one)"
iii) branded as "Laffot Gadivi" and "Gadidha"
iv) having the same experience throughout the year.
4.) You will get pure motivation from him....................drop that lier whoever told you that into the ocean with a very heavy stone tied around his neck
5.) If you are a last bencher and by the heavens and hell put together, he likes you.......expect the second year to be a walking nightmare and also coming close to tying the knot with the board ( putting it in a subtle manner, marrying the board).
6.) Same policy with his notes as with Parthasarathy's.
III.) Madhusudan Rao
1.) Expect to see a barbarian enter the class. In fact we used to say "Tsunami Vasthunnadi"
2.) Expect to know more chemistry dung than the rest of the city.
3.) Expect PhD students asking for your notes......give it to them cause you are only preparing for JEE.
4.) Ask him any doubt related to the subject and he will explain it to you beautifully........ask him any doubt unrelated especially regarding the method of testing and the new pattern expect to:-
i) recieve a Whammy for your troubles
ii) watch a traffic constable in action i.e he'll ask you to pick up your bag and point to the door in a manner that would make a traffic constable burst into tears of joy and start composing poems.
iii) recieve another whammy from your parents
iv) be going with full 'escort' the next day to the institute
v) be very much present while your 'escort'(parent/s) is getting humiliated.
vi) recieve sarcasm directed towards you for atmost a week.
5.) Depend only on him for Organic.............. only expect to be repeating all the exams the following year.
6.)Expect to laugh a lot during his class............since the jokes are sooooo stupid that you can't help it.
7.)Expect to Build a fare amount of muscle and lose a lot of weight ............you keep on writing from the start of his class till the end which lasts a minimum of two straight hours.
8.)Expect to rever him..........you really can't help it(unless you are me).
9.)Expect to leave all your Chemistry tuitions in the second year.........only to regret it later.
IV) Surendranath Reddy Sir
1.) Expect to see a kindly face with a well kept beard enter your class.
2.)Expect a lot of diversity in the class' opinion about him.
3.)Expect to fall asleep the moment he enters.
4.)If you do manage to get through the first minutes, you'll definitely fall asleep after that.
5.)Expect his English to be very very good......so good that you can't understand a word of his mumbo-jumbo.
6.)Expect to hear an absolutely sweet voice..............in the peak afternoon or in the early morning.....Oh! That heavy Lunch or Empty Stomach.
7.) You are welcome to ask him a doubt......only the explanation you'll get will be so big that
i)You'll question the reason for your existance
ii)You'll accumulate so many doubts that you'll lose count
iii)the class will get over and he'll walk away just as calmly as he entered.
8.)Expect to be waiting for his projector sessions.........the only time of the week where you can openely and happily sleep without the smallest bit of disturbance.
9.) Expect to admire him. Its reeeeeeaaaaaallyyyyy hard not to.
10.)Expect to curse yourself for having taken birth and questioning the reason for your existance every single day at the end of his classes.
11.)Expect to understand fully what I call the Twilight Zone. The time of his class where you'll be halfway between waking and sleeping, between lifeand death at the same time.......courtesy his voice and the midafternoon sun.

Expect what I've told you to expect and you'll be well prepared to face the challenges of this place............but also expect me to be very wrong at some places. Many of these things have happened to me and other boys in my class. But that's the spirit of the insti. Live every day as if it were your last. TC and C Ya

Adios Hyderabad

The time's come for me to bid adieu to the city of my birth and the place where I've spent 17 years of my life. The place where I've seen the happiest of times and the most embarrassing of times. I've never really forgotten the sights and the sounds of this city although its been two whole years since I've savoured her streets.

Her Streets where the true essence of being a Hyderabadi is discovered (in my case rediscovered). Where the fiercest of Football and the most Vocal form of Cricket in indulged in. Where you sign of the day moaning in a couch after recieving a couple of whammys while playing 'Marampeeti'. Where you learn, first hand, what does the Nawabi (a.k.a bindass, extreme complacency, absolutely laidback and cool) style mean and not to forget where you have Hotel Paradise and the Agra Wala Bandi.

Though I've never experienced first hand the delights of the Haleem they sell at the Paradise Hotel, I've been assured several times over and over again by my non-veggie friends that the stuff is awesome. This is also reemphasised by the fact that a few friends of mine who are absolutely into the thing of keeping themselves fit, have ended their day moaning on the floor of their respective houses after downing a few extra spoonfuls of that stuff.

The bandi on the other hand, its an awesome place where I suspect that he's laced the stuff with some potent drug. You just can't keep off that place if you are in the vicinity and the stuff there simply grows on you.

And not to forget the Charminar, which gets the full vote as the stinkiest place I've seen in my life. I've still not forgotten that day when I was asked to 'experience Old Hyderabad in its Element'. If someone would say that to me today, he'll end the day with his eye blackened.

And last but not least HPS. The most awesumest of schools in the world, where there is everything from guys who don't know the spelling of 'books' to guys who have been so much in the library that the Librarian remembers their faces more than he does his wife. Where there is only fun and fun and fun. Where there are the dumbest teachers to the strictest teachers.

This is how I'll mostly remember Hyderabad. With Love and the slight twinge of Nostalgia. Cheerio Hyderabad and TC. Hope you remain untainted till the changing of the world.