A rainy day in Seoul

"bhalobeshe sakhi nrivrite jatone amar naamti likho
tomar monero mandire..."
Just listening this song, one of the Rabnidrasangeet.
Its raining for last two days here in Seoul.
But Today I am liking it most. I can remmeber
the poetry by dwijendralal "dhanodhanye pushpe bhara amader ei bansundhara"
I wish I could go back to my school days and enjoy the day with abhik, dibyendu..
and other forgotten-mates :)

Going back to basics...

Long time back I heard that Feynman once mentioned that

when you are with lack of ideas you should go back and teach.

Teaching basics can bloom some new ideas. There are some

friends at HRI who do not buy this concept as they want to 

concentrate on research and think that teaching could kill

 their times. Perhaps this is true for them who does something

 like string theory which deals with so many basic mathematical

 techniques. But for the poor fellow like me who deals with

 what is known a "phenomenology"; sounds like a joke as the

 meaning of this should have been the ideology which can

 explain the phenomena but what we do here is, create our own

 phenomena (by our own model) and try to have some signature

 for which colliders  will be ready (God knows when!!). In the

 process we are in avalanche breakdown of the learning 

process. We stop thinking of basic phenomena and explaining them.

I was thinking of what is the way to be back in the main stream

 of thinking process. Publishing more and more papers and 

more and more collaboration will pile up you own mind. In 

this juncture of career staying out side the country with out

having any discussion with people it is very difficult to search

 for something new. Then suddenly my mind stuck on

something; "Thermodynamics" which was the favourite 

subject during my undergrad. But I never applied this to my 

research. Simply there are many such areas which you loved

 to study and see. The most powerful idea of resuming your 

dream or rethink is to go and teach these basics. I am sure

 you can do that can see a lot more and explain much more.  

Idea just doesn't come by  sitting in your desktop and doing

 simulations for just another model. I pray for the opportunity

 to go to my basics and feel very very thirsty to be able to 

apply these which can be a real contribution.

KIAS, Seoul

Today is 7th February almost 16 days over I came here in Seoul, South Korea.

I haven't spoken to my mother for these days. Today I'm also sitting in the skype
but God knows if can succeed today or not. I am here in KIAS for a Post doctoral job.

People here are very friendly in spite of the fact that most of them can't speak English. Last Sunday we went to the near by Nepali restaurant called "New Delhi".
I had chicken biriyani there. I liked it and perhaps this is the only Indian or Nepali restaurant near by KIAS.

Earlier I had a plan to roam around the place but still couldn't make. Hope I would

get someone who is also interested in exploring this land. In size its perhaps smaller the MP of India but they dig it far and far to make a concrete city name Seoul. I stay in the 4th floor of the Dorm, Pajung but the kitchen is at 7th floor. If you get there then you can see the concrete city which looks very beautiful at night. I am waiting for camera stand to have some photos of scenery.

আমি বাংলায় ব্লগ লেখার চেষ্টা করছি. কতটা পারবো জানি নাহ .

Me, Manoj and Netram's

Today me and went to Katra, a bazar in Allahabad. There is a restaurant named "Netram's". Its famous for sweets and specially for it kachory. We had that. They served Kachory in a thali full of different kind od curry and chantines. The kachory doesn't test like a typical kachory that you will get in west bengal, but still if you are passing the road you should test that. The restaurant is around 200 years old. So it is a historical place like many others in Allahabad. Each thali of kachory has four hot kachories and curry which cost Rs 20/-; for each extra you have to pay five rupees more. Thats all about "Netram's". Of course you can test the other items also like "motichur laddu" etc.