Ragam '09 - Snapshots

Ragam, this year, exceeded all expectations and was the best so far!

Here are a few pics taken during RAGAM, courtesy Bharath. He btw won the photography competition during ragam!

It all begins here.

Rajpath.

Yadu, Philip and I, judging dumb charades.

Vegetable carving.

Benny Dayal performing in the OAT.

The OAT was so crowded that people had to climb
adjacent buildings to watch the show!

NITC dance team at Choreo Nite.

Ragnarok Gaming Centre - Sponsored by Intel and Acer, and in

association with Zapak gaming.

Breathe members judging Western Orchestra.

Western Orchestra.

Shankar Mahadevan! It was one of the best

pro-shows at Ragam.

The crowd goes WILD!

English JAM finals.

Face painting.

Breathe - The Delicate Sound of Floyd.

Breathe - superb performance by them too!

Couture Boulevard (FS)

NITC team at Couture Boulevard.

Thats the final RAGAM for us final years :( Hope next year too the Convocation is scheduled for some day close to the ragam dates.

Ragam - A Cult, A Culture

This year, Ragam, our cultural fest is going to be held from the 25th to 28th March ...and its going to be BIG! With pro-shows by Shankar Mahadevan, Darshan Doshi and Benny Dayal, its gonna be a huge crowd puller. And for the first time, a UK based band, "Breathe - The Delicate Sound of Floyd" (a Pink Floyd tribute band), is gonna perform at NITC. Three years back we had Parikrama and Silk Route perform in the OAT. In our second year, it was Shaan who set the stage on fire. And last year we had Karthik. But this year's Ragam is gonna be the best so far. You couldnt have asked for a bigger fest for your last year at college!

Will also be meeting some of my good old friends from other colleges during ragam. Then ofcourse you have lots of interesting competitions good cash prizes. You can also have a great time at the Ragam Informals stage. I will be spending a lot of time there. So you know where to be during the last weekend this month! Go book your tickets! ;)

PS: 2nd sessionals starting from tomorrow! Looking at the bright side... These are the last sessionals at NITC! :D
PPS: Some snapshots of ragam 09

Links:
Ragam Website.
Breathe The Delicate Sound of Floyd
Benny Dayal

Earth hour

Earth hour is an initiative of the WWF. Every year they select a time when in cities around the world, people switch off all the lights in their apartments and offices, thereby helping save energy. This year the earth hour is on 28th of march at 2030 IST and millions around the globe will participate. I hope you will join too and the lights in your room will be switched off from 830 to 930.
You can follow the earth hour on twitter for more updates. And yea, here's the link to my twitter page! I shall remind my twitter followers to switch off the lights... ;)

Do check the vid...




Remember! We have to hand over the earth to the next generation in the same condition as we got it, if not better! :)
Dont just keep complaining abt the hot weather...ACT or its only gonna get worse!

PS: Its Bharath's Bday too... So can give him some more GPL in the dark! Hehe...

Links:
Earth hour site
Energy saved in 2008 Earth hour.
On Flickr
Youtube channel

Academia.edu

I came across this site a few days back. The site shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format, displayed according to their departmental and institutional affiliations. It also enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area - the latest people, papers and talks.

Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 24,000 academics have added themselves in the last four months. Some professors on the site include:
- Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
- Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
- Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
- Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
- Steven Pinker - http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker


Independent researchers can add themselves at another portion of the tree.
Very soon all the colleges will be included in the tree and that is going to be very helpful for many.

PS: Slumdog Millionaire won 8 oscars today, Rahman 2!

Alter ego

I had told in one of my previous posts about how jobless we are in our final year. To support my point, some of my friends here, who call themselves 'The Cycle Dudes' have made a video, which is like a trailer to a movie. Its done pretty well considering the materials they had at their disposal. The "movie" is called Alter Ego. You've got to watch this "home-made" trailer.








Theres a tamil version of the trailer too ;) with some tamil songs in the background.







Check out the videos. Trust me, you will appreciate their job! Its much better than some of the lame trailers we see these days.