Training to Engg students at BPIT, Rohini

On June 2,2010 we started a six week training for Electronic and Communication Engineering students of fifth semester of BPIT college in Rohini, Delhi. http://www.bpitindia.com/index.html

The unique feature os this training is efforts by Mr R.K.Tiwari (Training and Placement Officer) who wanted a training by a professional engineer who has hands on experience and not by a team of professional trainers who are in training business. It is rare to find people like Mr Tiwari.

On Day 2, we started with brief introduction of the training leader and the training team (that is me and my colleagues who actually work on development projects). After that we asked each of students to introduce themselves, tell the other students why they choose B Tech in ECE and what is their vision for future.

Well, it took over 2 hours and some very interesting comments came from students

One girl mentioned that she enjoyed the session learning about her class fellows dreams and desires. She was not aware that so many of them wants to be in civil service like her.

One girl shared that she enjoys teaching and supporting poor students and for a long time, she walks home from bus stop saving Rs 10/- on rickshaw ride and giving it to poor students of a press-wala near her home. 

One boy mentioned that his aim was to work hard and party harder. He is enjoying party harder but work hard is missing and result is three back papers.

Only 5% students have keen interest to pursue electronics. For rest of them it was Civil services, Lot of money, good job, job with lot of power. 

During last one hour of the class, we asked what project they wish to do in next six weeks. First project was suggested by me and another  32 projects suggested by students. I selected 16 of them which were feasible during six weeks and where resources were available.

Students voted for all sixteen and top six were selected for training. Sanya (one of the students) co-ordinated for this event.

For me this is a challenging task to create interest in electronics and ensure that this workshop is mixture of fun and excitement.

We closed the session at 12.00 noon with a promise to be on time at 9.00 AM on monday, June 7th,2010

One Step From Jungle To The Zoo

Three Kind of Lions - Jungle, Circus and Zoo

Lion of Circus - He gets good food and good grooming every day. In lieu of that he need to follow the instruction of his ring master, perform every day and keep every one including his owner, ring master and viewers happy. In case of any illness, circus owner takes care of all medical assistance also. However the day circus owner finds that he is beyond useful life and even medical treatment will not help him perform in shows, he is discarded, killed or sold. Also in case circus goes into losses or a Govt regulations ban it, it is problems for the lion of circus.

Lion of Zoo - He gets good food for all life and also medical treatment. He is relaxed and need not perform for most of his life. There is no ring master. However he is in cage. Every one is afraid of him, even when he is in cage, however he has no real power. There is no risk of Govt Ban or losses as usually zoo are govt funded. They get lot of support, food, water, comfort in all conditions. Any adverse situations like hot weather and you find coolers being organised for them. Lions in zoo can not pro-create. Some experiments to create jungle like conditions for pro-creations have been done with almost zero success rate.

Lion of Jungle  - He is free and do what he wish to do. However he needs to hunt for the food every day. There is no safety and security. However statistics says that he does not face any real issues in real life and manage to find food every day and is usually more healthy and happy and usually gets more and better quality of food than the ones in zoo and circus. Well there are some problems and they are usually very serious as he has to manage every thing on his own.

Govt or Public have started supporting lions in the jungle. With every passing year, support is increasing as almost every one ie Govt and Public realizes that Zoo and Circus can not sustain with out the lion in the jungle. He is the one who creates every thing including wealth for Zoo and Circus. He is the ALPHA MALE. The recent ads from AIRCEL on "save the tigers" is one such example of Public/Media efforts to support lions in Jungle.


Almost all lions from Zoo and Circus envy Lion from Jungle. They also want to go back to the nature  and have fun, but do not have guts or opportunities. They do talk about about safety and security at circus or Zoo.

teaching 'simple electronics' to St. Gregorios School, Dwarka

Hi, on April 26,2010 I conducted a 4 hours training workshop on electronics for class IX students of a School in Dwarka. This was just next to Metro Station of Sector 11.

There were 21 students and five team members and all of us enjoyed and learned. For me it was a really great experience of  interacting with students. It was after 35 years that I spent over 4 hours in a physics lab.

For four hours session, it took me total of three days, preparing electronic kits, some documentation and lot of communication.

The team included Gurpawan Mand of Cool Junk and two engg students Swati and Pankaj from Ludhiana College of Engg, Punjab, Parul Jain, an Instrumentation Engg from NSIT.

I think we enjoyed (Students, Pankaj, Swati, Gurpawan and me)  it together and infected each other with our excitement, energy and enthusiasm.

A student has sent following mail at end of the session and that says it all 

Sir ,

Today We enjoyed a lot . It was very very very very..................very very very.................... much interesting . I learnt a lot . Thank you very much .
Sripada Chaitanya
IX - 'B'
St. Gregorios School 

I CAN ...

Why some people are more lucky and get what they want

Well there are two ways that one can live the happy life. Ordinary way and Extra-ordinary way.

Ordinary way

if I  have Lot of Money or Exciting holidays or Wonderful Spouse or Peace of mind or .....

Then I will work with 100% confidence

And finally I will be  happy.

Extra ordinary way

I will be Happy

I will work the way a happy and excited persons works - Give 100%  to the work that I do.

Get what I want - Money - Exciting holidays -Wonderful Spouse - Peace and .....

Check out the following link and know why some people are more lucky

http://twitpic.com/1dsc3l 

Disha 2010 Presentation on Entrepreneurship Jan'10 -- Indus Khaitan

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Disha 2010 Presentation on Entrepreneurship Jan'10 -- Indus Khaitan

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iweekend

iweekend is a wonderful concept by iweekend.org, a spain based organization. Around 50 entrepreneurs participate in this 2.5 days event. On friday evening session, few entrepreneurs present their ideas, other vote for them online thru their laptops. Based on voting 7 entrepreneurs are selected for next round. They have to face Q&A from other entrepreneurs and again there is one more round of voting. Top 4 makes to next round.

In the final round, an invited guest (in Amity, Noida - IIM, Banglore faculty) asks few questions from selected entrepreneurs and they reply to it. Again there is a round of voting and then finally two entrepreneurs are declared winners.

Next 2 days, all entrepreneurs form 2 teams with two selected ideas and work to create a complete business plan as a team. They in turn are mentored by VCs, senior entrepreneurs and other leading industry persons.

In short this is a wonderful experience. More as as my idea was declared winner #1 at Amity, Noida.

It was also organized at IIM, Banglore, IIM, Ahmedabad apart from Amity, Noida in March 2010.


See the video of my presentations in next few posts

Building up on ideas at iweekend

Building up on Ideas : Stage 2 from Dreamcast.in on Vimeo.

Final presentation at iweekend

Idea 1 - Final Presentation from Dreamcast.in on Vimeo.