Done and over with!

We managed to finish the CS226 project in time! It was like crazy ... this has been one of those quarters I haven't liked at all. The courses just didn't turn me on. I still have two more things to go: a report for the CS226 project and another project for MSE339. Lets see.

Slept right after the presentations were done with (around 3 PM) and woke up at 11 PM. Feel fresh now - will probably spend the night working on the report and will start the next project from tomorrow.

Former American president Reagan passed away today. The man is widely credited for bringing a premature end to the Cold War. Some credentials these ...

Rediff is carrying an article series about "Operation BlueStar - Twenty Years Later". Have been following that and doing some research on the background of the dispute. I was really surprised to read about the insane levels to which the situation in Punjab had deteriorated. Kashmir seems trivial (relatively) when you have articles talking about how Punjab was days away from declaring independence. I read up a few Sikh websites as well and they paint a completely different picture - of how the Indian Army brutally murdered so many of their brethren under the pretext of the operation. In fact most of these websites portray Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale as a martyr. Who knows ...

The good thing is that in spite of such a troubled past, Punjab today seems to be happily integrated with the rest of India. This gives me hope that maybe someday the other pressing problems of my country may also be solved.