Welcome 2013

The last year, 2012, had been a great year for me for a variety of reasons.

1. I changed to a new place of work, Amity International School.
2. My one project got selected to IRIS Science Fair where we won the third prize.
3. My other project got selected to the finals of National Children's Science Congress (result awaited).
4. My research paper got selected at IIT Bombay for SciPy.in conference.
5. I got admission to BEd.
6. I started to do my research work in computational physics again. Hopefully this time I will do justice to it and to the person who has shown confidence in my abilities.
7. Two more great things happened in my life which I will reveal in due course of time, when the time is right. But their seeds were sown in the year 2012.

Now I am looking forward to 2013 to fulfill some more of my ideas and aspirations.

Hope the same for you too.

My motto of life has become
 "THE ONLY EASY DAY WAS YESTERDAY"

Let us stop Rapes ... let us be the harbinger of change

Seems the mayan prediction was not wrong after all. They said humanity will come to an end and it did, atleast in India and specially in Delhi. Friends with the coming year a new beginning is being looked at by all and sundry but will it bring a new beginning to our nation and its women?? It depends on US. We cannot blame the government for inaction because it never acts anyways. We cannot blame the police for they have the history of making a mockery of the very justice system they are supposed to uphold. We cannot blame the political parties for they are here to play politics, doesn't matter what the topic is. It is WE and US who are to be blamed. It is our mentality and when we say OUR it includes we MEN of every generation and WOMEN of past generation (in general). MEN because we all are potential rapists, whether you like it or not this is the truth. And if a married man, like me, had ever forced his wife into having sex against her will he is already a rapist. So I am very much pained to say and accept that we all men are potential rapists. I included WOMEN of past generation (in general, BTW exceptions are always there) because most whom I have come across are still living in a world where girls should stay covered from head to toe and should stay indoors etc, etc which undermines the very philosophy of freedom, equality and basic human rights. Hence I included them.

Friends we need to change this mentality. Unfortunately it is now way beyond our efforts to make the MEN and WOMEN of past generations understand and sensitize about this ghastly act and how one needs a mental and attitude change to stop it all.

But our present and upcoming generations can be sensitized. It is we, who empathize and feel the pain, it is we and only we who can bring about the change. Guys this is not a movie where we shout and say that "yes we will not let her sacrifice go in vain...." and then everything fizzles away. To overcome friction we always need a force and she has provided the force. Let us not waste it and wait for another innocent girl to sacrifice her life for us to overcome this friction.

Remember one thing guys, NO ONE IS SAFE ANYWHERE. If it can happen to Damini/Nrbhaya, it can happen to any one and anywhere. So if you want your sisters and daughters and friends to feel and remain safe, it is we who will have to do pro-active policing and sensitizing of younger minds.

Guys on this last day of this year 2012, let us take a vow to do something, anything in our capacity and beyond to make this world a better place for everyone.