From Varun's Griha

Varun's Karma Pristha

Contents 1 What is try2doit.com? 2 Writings: Articles 2.1 Most Recent 2.2 My favourites 3 Writings: Poems 4 Non-business talks and presentations 5 Try2doit Ideas 6 Research Systems 7 Days to remember 8 Resources 9 Live Stuff

[edit] What is try2doit.com?

Hi! This is my 'Activity Page', not homepage. It makes sense to have this page till there is intense activity in my life, the same is reflected on this page and others can be a part of the activity; otherwise as a 'homepage', this is pretty much useless. On Who am I?, you will find a grossly worldly answer here

Why is this called try2doit.com? 'Try 2 do it' is a very simple and pragmatic philosophy of life, the essence being trying to do the things which one is passionate about, feels about or want to find a solution to; not wasting too much time on the question 'whether i can do it or not?', 'how will the whole thing pan out'; Just start on and try to do it... want to read more in length, click here.

[edit] Writings: Articles

[edit] Most Recent

• Musings on Vivekananda's birthday:
  Written on January 12, 2009.
• Conversation with a Class 6th student:
  A real-life experience, a commentary on the Indian education system.
• The Primal Principle:
  A final view on what I understand by spirituality. Written in form of question-answer which I have found as one on the clearest way of discussing a concept. Not sure why it is not as popular as it used to be at the time of Gita!
• Own up ragging Incidents:
  A request to all college principals/directors/chairmans. (Viewpoint)
• Two fun solutions to the problem of the perfect:
  Humorous at first sight, what is underneath?

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[edit] My favourites

• A Prayer:
  

Written in less than 5 minutes, instincts at work!

• Elementary Education in India: How do we get a 20 year jump?: Analysis of the current primary education scenario in India. Written with folks at MIRG. pdf

• An Interpretation of Om Jai Jagadish: A 20 year old's interpretation of the eternal aarti of Shraddha Ram Pandit.

• all the old ones

[edit] Writings: Poems

I recently (mid 2008) developed a fancy to podcasts, good stuff to listen while I am traveling. Got inspired to record some of my poems, also because I am lazy, dont want to type in Hindi. The audio is not very good quality as yet, but still included.

• To my family txt

• Praarthna (Prayer) pdf | audio

• Mera Yaar Aisa to Na Tha (Guess Who is the yaar/friend?) pdf | audio

• Gujarat: Ek Agni Pareeksha (Gujarat: The fire trial of Ram) txt | Audio [1]

• Rahul ka pita (Father of a ragging victim) txt |Audio [2]

• Ki Naren tu thaka nahi (A biography of the Great Vivekananda-- incomplete) txt

• A young rebel (Wrote this when I was 20yrs) txt

Send comments to varun.aggarwal [at] gmail . com

[edit] Non-business talks and presentations

• Open-Source: A presentation at a NSIT-CSI event

• Enterprenuership: Lessons learnt: A presentation at NSIT for a teacher's workshop

• Legends of Diwali: Talk delivered at Diwali Nite (Sangam) at MIT, USA.

• An Engineer and the World at Large: Talk at NSIT

• Hinduism: An inclusive Religion: Set of three presentations which were part of a 0-credit course on Hinduism conducted at MIT during IAP 05 and 06.

Hinduism: An Introduction and my Approach ppt | Hinduism: An Inclusive Philosophy ppt | Why I need a religion: How it instructs me. ppt

• MIRG talks

• GECCO HUMIES

[edit] Try2doit Ideas

• Virtual Me

• homepage searcher

• teaching machine

• circuitopedia

• history teaching

• ragging research

• Enable analog

• Stable laptop

• Margin Scribbling

[edit] Research Systems

• Complex Systems, Analog Circuits and More...

• A boring list of my published papers.

[edit] Days to remember

12th January:

National Youth Day, birthday of Vivekananda

11th October:

The No Ragging Day, when Anup, a ragging victim ended his life by jumping in front of a train

23rd January:

Birth date of Subhas Chandra Bose. Read this for inspiration :)

11 September:

- The day Vivekananda gave his maiden speech at The World Parliament of Religions, proposing unity of all religions inc. the atheists

- The day Mahatma started his Satyagraha in South Africa, laying the foundation stone of non-violence

- The day thousands lost their life due to a senseless act of violence.

[edit] Resources

First year of Engineering

PASSION

Vivekananda's Vedanta

• the world is flat

• rti

• mit ocw/nptel

• vedanta

• microfinance

• history

• podcasts and mit technology review

• ragging

• books

• Inconveniant Truth

• Bose

• Software and Tools

• Internet Stuff

• Evolution

[edit] Live Stuff

• cure video

• Aspiring Minds