Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2013

Let us welcome 2013 with full of hopes and advance yourself professionally, academically, socially! and hence economically.

To all my Teachers!

Thank You.. for making me what I am today..  You have been more than a teacher- a mentor, guide and philosopher! Thank You, to show me the way to lift my spirits to believe in me, inspire me.

Happy Teachers Day!

Karthikeyan

Lessons from "India at the Olympics 2012"

It is nice to see above Indians made the country proud bringing Olympics medal from 2012 event. 


It was a common belief that “India cannot expect to win more medals when the country has a poor Human Development Index (HDI) and low Per Capita Income.”  At the World scenario, competing in the Olympics is a big achievement. Straight away you can't win a gold medal, you have to go step by step,"  expressed by our sports minister.  He also mentioned "This is India's best Olympics so far we have ever had. We have improved on all counts, By 2020 we can get 25 medals, and this is a achievable target. Out of it, it can be 5 or 10 golds. “  [Source ]

In spite of all these excuses and beliefs our winners made Indians happy through hard work and honest efforts. 

Congratulations to all the Winners!

M.Karthikeyan.

My favorite quotes

 

The ultimate measure of a man is

NOT

 where he stands in the moments of comfort and convenience

BUT

where he stands at times of

challenge and controversy ..

   -Martin Luther King .

“Thinking is Easy,

Acting is Difficult,

and

to PUT one’s "Thoughts into Action"

is

THE most difficult thing in the world”

-Gothe.



Respect the Earth Hour 2012

Dear All,

Earth Hour 2012 : Dare the World to Save the Planet




We only have one planet. You can help protect it. Participate in the world’s largest single campaign for the planet: Earth Hour. It starts by turning off your lights for an hour at 8:30 pm on March 31, 2012 in a collective display of commitment to a better future for the planet. Think what can be achieved when we all come together for a common cause.

http://www.worldwildlife.org/sites/earthhour/index.html

M.Karthikeyan
Senior Scientist, DIRC
http://moltable.ncl.res.in/



Honest Work and True Rewards

*** One Should Read This Everyday ****

The true rewards of HONEST work are
neither to be SEEN nor HANDLED,
They are NOT measured by a GOLD STANDARD
nor by any material result.

They are not acclaimed by the applause of the crowd.
They lie within you; in your own knowledge that
you have done your BEST! that you have
striven to reach your own STARDARD of
your HIGHEST Powers.

You will often perhaps always, fail to reach your own
IDEAL but comforted ideals are not for
attainment; but for pursuit!

- Lord Moynihan


"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work,
some occupation in which he can put his heart,
and which affords a complete outlet to
all the forces there are in him"


"Money cannot buy by second best. I have put
one quality of effort that is my best"


"God do not count result, but effort"


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Chemistry: Our Life and Our Future (IYC 2011)

Chemistry is everything! Recently ACS (American Chemical Society) released a video (2 mins) as part of its International year of chemistry celebrations IYC). I was inspired by ACS efforts during Aug-28 to Sep-1,2011 at Denver (Once a gold miner’s town, now is a growing metropolis!) to popularize and celerate chemistry on this occasion. There were many talks related to IYC and one particular entitled “Exploring Our World through Chemistry,” symposium in honor of the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie’s Nobel Prize was interesting. Can you make machine to speak chemistry? In the future, your mobile phone would be smart enough to understand chemistry and search the world of chemicals known to mankind. Name it blackberry, iPhone, iPAD, laptop, desktop, high performance supercomputer all will speak the language of chemistry, since the world without chemistry is world without LIFE!.. Same chemistry can eradicate life on earth, think of pollution, global warming, chemicals in war, natural disaster (chemical, biological, nuclear), radiation, etc., "handle with care" is the principle in chemistry.. same applicable to our lifestyle. Excess of anything is good for nothing. Some thoughts for the day (to be continued)