' Think about ripples on the surface of a pond , caused by raindrops that have recently stopped falling'... read a line in the penultimate handwritten slide used by Sir. Roger Penrose , in his seminar titled : Mathematical beauty and its implications in modern science : at the S.Chandrashekhar memorial lecture held at Science City today , that I had the good fortune to attend . The above line was there in an explanation to a question : Was there an universe before our universe began ?
The hall was packed , almost 800 people came to attend , the hall could accomodate only 500 (luckily I was one of them) , the rest had to make do by watching on the t.v. that they put up outside the hall .
It was really a nice experience . I mentioned that line because it is still ringing in my ears , I love the word 'raindrops' and found the line very picteresque.

Felt really great to recieve comments on my blog from one of my oldest and dearest friends !!

I am going through a writer's block for quite some time now , and it is very irritating , and finally out of sheer desperation I wrote a poem 2 days back , after a very long time .

A strange feeling takes over me which I have named 'The Friday Night Effect' , that is it feels like my arms and legs have come loose and my mind is moving slower , an effect more identified as the result of intoxication , but for me I am yet to find the intoxicant .

I have decided to take up reading extensively again and this time my reading matter would be more specific to philosophy , languages and parts of quantum physics , the Kolkata book fair is scheduled to start from 26th Jan , planning to buy the Upanishads and books by Schopenhauer.
Feeling likw writing some more , but somehow not able to write , words are getting jumbled up and strings of thoughts are getting tangled up , friday night effect again maybe .
This night is going to be a long one , most of my Friday nights are beacuse I try to stretch them as much as possible .. so signing off for now , will return with another post if something else comes to mind .