Tumko hum dil me basa lenge on a lovely spring afternoon

Nature is just setting the mood ..The sky is cloudy ..might start raining anytime ...
a lovely spring afternoon...what an atmosphere specially for this ghazal.
perfect weather .. perfect timing..

Tumko hum dil me basa lenge

Tumko hum dil me basa lenge, tum aao to sahi
Saari duniya se chupa lenge tum aao to sahi

Ek waada karo ab humse na bicchadooge kabhi
Naaz hum saare utha lenge tum aao to sahi

Bewafa bhi ho sitamgar bhi jafa pesha bhi
Hum khuda tumko bana lenge tum aao to sahi

Raah taarikh hai aur door hai manzil lekin
Dard ki shamme jala lenge tum aao to sahi

struggle to survive .. Hope Floats

Last few days have been phenomenal on its own way..

How events change the course of our lives is an amazing thing ..
we watch things happen or sometimes we take decisions or make choices which seem the best at that time but years later the same thing turn out to be a disaster.

I have been reading and listening abt layoffs and people not getting jobs and how they are affected but i closely saw something happening to somebody whom i know for last four years....their life was good back home ...what makes people uproot themselves and their kids from a stable life ... is it the greed or is it the ambition to make big ? or is it just a search of better life and where does it all stop ?


The hope to be together .. the hope to just pull on with the situation .. the hope to fight the financial crisis .. the hope to make a living in a country that is not yours ...the hope to give a better living for the kids .. make people do things ...

God knows whats enstored for them .. or for all of us ...

But Life is most of the times the struggle to survive
with the hope that tomorrow will be a better day.

Seven Steps to Success in Graduate School

Though its coming too late... but its better late than never !!!

Seven Steps to Success in Graduate School (and Beyond)

Adapted from N. J. Halas

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The following is a list of essential skills that all successful researchers have developed. Without these skills, you cannot expect to succeed in research. If you fully develop your abilities in each of these areas, you will lay a strong foundation for the rest of your research career that will lead directly to success in research. The responsibility for the development of these skills is entirely your own.

Your research advisor can provide guidance and assistance, but your graduate education is your personal responsibility.

This list is meant to serve as a personal barometer for you to analyze your strong and weak areas.

• WORK
  Develop a sense of urgency and the habit of working hard at solving problems.
  

• THINK
  Understand, explain, and interpret your results. Continually ask how far you can push and extend your idea. Be contrarian: do not blindly accept claims and conclusions, but rather question whether they are really true and whether they can be extended or applied in new contexts.

• READ
  Investigate your area. Learn its history and context, understand its technical foundation and background. Learn to read technical papers with a critical eye, and with the expectation of being able to duplicate and extend what is described in the article. Follow your field by reading current journals. Know who did what in your field as well as related areas.

  Learn about other areas. Broaden yourself by reading articles in journals and magazines. Become familiar with other theoretical fields and application areas.

• WRITE
  Write concise and focussed technical papers. Write a larger and more comprehensive document (thesis). Learn how to write proposals. Learn word processing and text formatting appropriate for scientific documents.

• SPEAK
  Discuss your ongoing research with peers, colleagues, and visitors in an informal setting and at conferences. Learn how to make a well-organized, coherent, and engaging presentation of your research results in front of an audience. Understand the differences in speaking to a general audience versus a technical audience. Cultivate professional contacts and associations.

• MANAGE
  Time: Develop a sense of how long any specific task will take you to execute.
  People: Develop succesful working relationships with the people you work with.
  Research: Develop a research program, not just a number of disconnected projects.

• C0NTEMPLATE
  Anticipate where research is going in your area, both your own and of your colleagues'. Become a generator of research ideas. Learn to be able to judge when an idea is feasible and when a research direction is important or impacting. Keep track of ideas, perhaps in a research diary. Search for connections between ideas.