FIRST WEEK IN TIFR

The next day, Monday the 19^th, we were introduced into the room AG-66 where we were going to have the introductory lectures of each and every department in TIFR. They were all one or one and a half hour lectures and most of the time the people outside that specified department were less interested which showed up extremely on the day of Biological Sciences lecture. Most were trying to evade it but were put there by Mandar Sir. But among these uninterested fellows was Janu Verma (Delhi University) who attended all lectures with utmost attention. He sometimes will ask for “THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION” for an experiment or “EXPERIMENTAL JUSTIFICATION” for a theory (even in biology).

But among these lectures were good lectures by Dr. Sudip Bhattacharya on X-ray Astronomy and Shiraj Minawala on “Introduction to String Theory”. Now here was a fellow without a ppt presentation and a topic which is quite difficult to understand but his energy and demonstration just kept me and the others through the seminar. Apart from this I was studying detectors and radiation for my project.

The time in TIFR was flowing like anything. We all VSRP guys had formed a good cammaderie and were seen together at the canteen, lobby and at the Sea Shore. At about 6:30 we will all reach the sea shore and stay there for about an hour and talk about almost everything. In these talks there were also the physics duels between Sooraj and Arnab. We used to enjoy these as nobody will leave his stance on that particular topic. Sometimes Ashim (BITS, Pilani) or Sujan (IIT Kanpur) will join and make it more enjoyable.

One more thing that we were enjoying was the internet. Everybody had computer at his disposal and we were enjoying ORKUT, GMAIL, YOUTUBE… It was like a project in the holiday mood. On Sunday, 25^th we all went to Elephanta which and more will be in the next post.

Here I will like to make a few references of Shanti Swaroop who was nicknamed SATTI because of his STUDSAT and of he being a satellite revolving around the girls. When we thought about starting a talk, he would have crossed the barrier and talked with almost the whole group. But he was a in a habit of spinning yarns and will do that about almost everything. We will get into it a later post…..