When the Building Came Alive

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Kasturi Dhama Apartments — the play area where many evenings came alive. The lights would go out without warning. For a brief second, the entire building would fall silent. Then, from somewhere in Kasturi Dhama Apartments, a chorus would erupt. “Yayyy!” It is difficult to imagine children celebrating a power failure today. But in the Bangalore of the nineties and early 2000s, a power cut did not always feel like an inconvenience. Especially in the late evenings, it felt like permission. Permission to stop whatever we were doing, leave the darkness inside our homes, and step into the building outside. Before Kasturi Dhama became home, we had moved through a few different parts of Bangalore. My family had begun in Srirampuram and Vyalikaval before gradually cementing ourselves in Malleswaram for the next few decades. My earliest memory is of living in a vatara —a Kannada word loosely used for a building or a cluster of homes—on 15th Cross, near Karur Vy...
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Functions and Operators

Don't get perturbed by the title. Simple maths to understand this is more than enough. I was in a daze in Dr. Kosbar's class listening to signal space representation of signals and other stuff. And then, there was a mention of Maths. He came up with a good one!

A function is travelling in a dark alley with a lot of money. An operator comes up to the function and asks the function to give all the money. The function refuses to give the money. So the operator says that if the function doesn't give the money, it will differentiate it. The function is not perturbed. It says "Hahaha! I am e ^x(e to the power of x)". The operator is not perplexed. Guess why?

The operator says: I am d/dy!!!!

What do you say for that???

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  1. AnonymousMarch 2, 2006 at 4:26 PM

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  3. Praveen KrishnanMarch 2, 2006 at 4:35 PM

    I never knew this article can give rise to so many complications!!!!

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  4. AnonymousMarch 3, 2006 at 4:20 AM

    why did u remove the comments?

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  5. Praveen KrishnanMarch 3, 2006 at 8:57 AM

    You know what Kanna had to say....First he says x and then he says epower x. I guess he thought he finally had it enough and has deleted it from the site!!!

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  6. AnonymousMarch 4, 2006 at 1:31 AM

    Of course, I'm sure you get a good enough share of jokes from Rosa.. There's one you missed last sem..

    Why do math guys confuse Halloween for Christmas...?

    coz Dec(imal) 25 = Oct(al)31

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