Reflections of Rajaram Bojji

I have been operating on Twitter and Facebook apart from running my own blogs for the past decade. What I observe is the same attitudes and compartmentalisation as obtained in real life take place  in these formats. You make groups and follow nor "unfollow" persons and the big shots and celebrities use it as just one way of communication , just one way, no response just as out happens in real life...they refuse to respond and some even block comments. The humans cannot get out of the basic anthropological compulsions and comfort of belonging to own clan or class. Now a days news print also recognise the need for readers to express their immediate , sometimes thoughtless but emotional outbursts, instantly web posting comments once their email is registered. You won't believe that such venemous language can be used to express yourself! Grace is missing on the web. Only a few digital publications like Moneylife run by Sucheta Dalal truly stand up without need t...

Well.  Swamy is generally thorough with his documentation and goes step by step, unlike Kejriwal. Now he will first tell Corporate Affairs Min to inquire and come out with a statement. He will then move a court to force the Ministry to file the inquiry report. Matters of fact and matters of interpretation arise. The former cannot be refuted. Documents stand how ever high a person is. Interpretations become subject of judgment, and once the case is converted as matters of judgment, the administration , loses its grip. Though the process takes longer, with slow fire burning, without the sparkle of sudden fire works , it becomes a persistent dagger, slowly getting deeper for a person who erred. I can only pity the young man Rahul, who could have seized the moment offered by Anna at Ramlila, and could have walked to Ramlila and took the center stage with the team and moved positively in the Parliament, the case. He could have become a national hero of youth for that a...

Individuals are not important but the issue at hand is critical. Hero worship is not the way country progresses. The fight to save our nation and seize the moment of opportunity to show case what is true India and who we are taking in to account our ancient values of  emphasizing on knowledge, honesty and  commitment to basic human welfare, has been delayed for the last 60 years. We failed to liberate in true sense to call ourselves, a Republic- where citizens are the ultimate bosses. It is not only at the time of voting that the citizen is remembered, but he has fundamental right to know why and how his appointees are functioning.  After voting, it does not mean, he has handed over the country and all the nation's assets , to the temporary trustees for 5 years,  to do what they please to do themselves in utmost secrecy, hiding files, and releasing only asset alienation orders , favouring own kith and kin. Who granted this right to keep public files, whi...

Converting the our legacy railways in to automated gravity powered systems, keeping the same rolling stock and tracks, can eliminate 90% of locomotives , signals and train control systems, and vastly save on operating expenses. It is feasible. The level of investment needed and returns summarized too. While working principles are based on Newton's laws, and duly peer reviewed for science and engineering, the financials are made up story by me. The papers were sent to also to DFCC and Railway Ministry a couple of years ago to go in to trash, of course. Amazingly, administrations will first dismiss , out of hand , the technology as " unproven& untested over 20 years" etc. Following the same technology path adopted by western countries almost half a century ago, it is obvious that either you have to be stinking rich to buy and maintain legacy technologies with marginal facelifts . China being rich could do. But Indians are not. But capital of intellect which the...

I personally held a belief that any a statement of absolute limit is a self defeating in the universe of unknown. Why speed of light should be limit for speed? Used to be my question in college  days. About two years ago also in Scientific American did publish one or two letters on this issue. Mathematics goes beyond the comprehensible reality of the present. Mathematics challenges human mind to explore new areas of thinking . I am very happy. When knowledge we gained in last 1000 years or less in evidence based science, is infinitesimally tiny relative to our close to infinite ignorance , in all humility one should allow oneself to walk the new paths though with caution & circumspection by not exhibit  bravado. R&D Magazine Extending Einstein's theory beyond light speed Wed, 10/10/2012 - 10:28am University of Adelaide applied mathematicians have extended Einstein's theory of special relativity to work beyond the speed of light. Einstei...

----------------------------                              FIELD MARSHAL SAM MANEKSHAW’S LECTURE                              AT DEFENCE SERVICES COLLEGE, WELLINGTON                                         ON LEADERSHIP AND DISCIPLINE                                                 11TH NOVEMBER, 1998        Commandant, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am fully conscious of the privilege, which is mine, to have been invited here to address the college. A while ago, I was invited to a seminar where the subject was youth, and people said that the youth of this country was not pulling its weight, that socie...

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure. Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. Congressional ...