engineering and art!!!!

Amalgamation of engineering and art

Art and engineering go like tom and jerry-one overtaking the other at every point of time but both necessarily going together.

Individually art is to engineering what chocolate sauce is to vanilla ice cream-alleviating the taste buds of vision and aesthetics. Any engineering marvel however perfect may it be, in absence of an aesthetic touch would just be a mere body without a soul. Imagine a world without structures like the taj mahal, the pyramids of Egypt , the Eiffel tower and the thousands of other that are a quintessence of amalgamation of art and engineering.

Engineering is to art what color is to a painter- you need a medium to express your wildest of imaginations. Without the science of design it’s impossible to incorporate the passion of or art into its real form. Would the unique shapes of petronas towers or cars like Ferrari be possible with just mere designing?

We all know from the very commencement of the human civilization, art was the only medium of expressing thoughts & passing on the knowledge to their next generation. Cave paintings and murals are examples of art masterpieces before even civilizations existed. Man was and will always be hungry for more and more luxury and beauty. Then civilizations acted as the clusters of knowledge and art and emerged as the cradles of modern art and architecture. Structures of Mesopotamia , Maya, Inca, Harappa etc have left the modern Homo sapiens behind in the field of art. The power of design had always been there from history and gradually engineering provided art wings to fly high and established itself a well defined science distinguished well apart form art. And this resulted in the making of the well planned cities of the medieval era of the Romans, Greeks, Moguls, and various Indian dynasties.

Lets look into the present scenario. What does engineering mean? Its dictionary definition says the application f science to design various structures, commodities etc.

And art is a branch of creative activity concerned with creative and imaginative designs, sounds or ideas. The very word engineering makes people think just of buildings, bridges and roads. That’s just a small part of the infinite field! Why do people forget that hi-tech mobiles, laptops, clothes, machines, home appliances, electricity supply, furniture, footwear and even the sounds we hear on TV are lines of the vast spectrum of engineering and art clubbed together. Though all these include homogenous mergence of the two disciplines, nevertheless the present education curricula demarcate the two completely. Engineering is for capable people who study physics, chem., and math and arts is for people who cant make up till science- that’s the persisting social evil existing in specially our country. And its all about getting placements or a good MBA college after graduation. The very horizon of thinking and imagining beyond the specified limits of the curricula has been highly alloyed. Its futile to apply your brains because only cramming up can fetch you marks.

Art should not be something that is compulsorily imposed upon but an environment is desired which leads to an obsessive greed of art. The only way to tackle this problem is to introduce a subject of design in each engi. Branch. It should not be the everyday theoretical subject but should be designed an a manner so that it gives a platform for an engineer to become an imagineer. The exam conducted should ensure that questions are creative and no one have the same model or design. Teachers of this subject should be vigilant and should themselves be interested in the subject. Some ideas may be worth patenting! Competitions and presentations can further help. Tours and industrial visits stressing upon the designing aspects should be a part of the regular studies. On the other hand fine arts people should be molded during their graduation in a manner which would lead them to work hand in hand with engineers in shaping the stream of knowledge and to give an artistic cult.

For all future engineers-

“an engineer without art

is a body without heart

greed for beautification

is an ever growing concatenation

so awaken the imagineer in thee

and enlighten the aesthetics of humanity!”

the geeta

summary of bhagwad gita

whatsoever has happen’d was for thy good

whatsoever is happenin’ is for thy good

whatsoever will happen will be for thy good

what have thee lost that thou are cryin’ ?

what had thou brought to this hellish material world

that thou lost it ?

what had thou creat’d that has been destroy’d ?

whatever thou has taken is a part of this material world

whatever thou has given has also b’come a part of this materail world

whatever is yours today

perhaps belong’d to somebody else yesterday

and day after tomorrow it will be someone elses

CHANGE IS THE ETERNAL LAW OF NATURE !

frustration as a gift

Frustration as a gift

You’ll never know what the hell’s gonna struck on yourself from any of the four directions while you were making hay when the sun is shining and all is nice and bright, when your mind is full of thoughts assumed to be succesful in its self, when your body is active in following your corporate mind’s decision, all is felt right but one hurdle or an obstacle though as small as a bacteria will strike you and break your very foundation at base leaving you totally blind and then comes the time when you feel that all the thoughts were mere pieces of confetti to be thrown and forgotten, they were bloody shits, that all the plans which were assumed to be so very much great in itself were actually like those planned in the crowded Indian cities.

That will be the great time to remember god. So I bless you for those great times in future when your mind is full of frustrations but god’s image is illuminating the darkness existing in your very souls.

surat- in love with tthe city of diamonds...

Bol Surat Bol
gone are those days..........
people have changed, gods worshipped have changed, no. of stars seen in sky have changed, i have changed you have changed everything has changed, then why why surat lag behind.....times have gone by and many new cultures have come up in the once so called sleepy port town of south gujarat. it has now turned to be the state's most cosmopolitan city emerging as the capital of money..let's look into some changes quite noticeable to elder generation of people -

the gone bys its in
-finding the everyday needs from exclusive brand collections at iskon or
crowded 'shanivaari' and city area markets. shopping from vishal big bazaar and the likes

-having a sip of tea with colleagues when tired enjoying the ambience with 'RICH' crowd to
at any of the stalls at SVR,athwa or varaccha have a hundred rupee coffee at CCD,CC or
brewers.

-taking girlfriend to a nearby garden zoom in a luxurious car to dumas or r highways nearby

-movies both new and old at kinnary or push back,pop corns, games, food, a whole
moti talkies road day at multiplxes

-undhiyu puri and jalebis-hot favorites for pizzas, subs, burgers club sandwiches
any occassion.. and hukkahs.


-ghaari, and suttarfeni to enlighten the monginis cakes, S&S brownies, chocolates
taste buds also lack to delight you


-a challenge to cross ring road in five minutes a pride in seeing the flyover never end
while you even reach destination

-early morning fafdas, khaman and farsan late night junk at bismillah and surroundings

-a month long kite flying festival starting a two day kite festival with leftover crackers
in december of diwali and DJ dance at night



-gujarati dramas at gandhi bhavan english DJ in hotels

-garba in every society free for all and in the open garba in Air conditioned halls, for few,
,traditional songs hindi songs


-traditional methodology of schooling international schools with state of art infra

-"happy new year" somewhere in OCT-NOV "merry christmas and happy new year" - 31st DEC






.......but somethings never change
all this has changed the life of a 'surati' but there are somethings which no one can change......lets analyze if all agree with this or not-

* the same age old surati accent and innumerable abuses in a single line- anyone in the state atleast can make out a surati from any other just be talking to him!
* the registered trademark way of spittin pan or gutka anywhere and everwhere between the two fingers held in 'V' shape on lips
* the ever jolly attitude and care free but helping nature
* shops opening late at 11 in morning then two hour lunch break in afternoon and then early closure after seven or so
* sunday means to spend what you earn in the weekdays and you cant even find a crocin or a recharge voucher on sundays and festivals-true spirit of celebrating non working days!
* no one knows what the white lines on roads are, what traffic sense is. the person in white if he stops you just pay in 40-50 bucks and zoom off!
* however rich we are we will remain modest wit our clothes-wear highly emroidered jeans(to help the embroidery units you see!) with big monkey wash patches and will always bargain or fight with the poor auto driver for a rupee
* style for a boy- big colored hair,great bike,stunts on dumas road,a girlfriend
* style for a girl-straight blonde hair,ultra slim body and tight variably faded jeans,variety of bike drivers(boyfriends) and chatter chatter
* we will not look beyond south gujarat university to send our kids for higher education
* we will eat a highly oiled 'locho' or jalebi after walking a mere km in chowpatty or SVR
* we will never compromise with the brand of tobacco we usually eat
* vanita vishram is our favorite all time place for melas and shows
* people make romance on roads and in public places and if we lack a spouse to do so we detour our enjoyment in seeing them at chowpatty. lake view, dumas or any other and still expect our children will never do this and commet this media and western culture spoiling our traditions
* we'll feel proud of surat, its diamond industry, its flyovers and infrastructure as if we have made it with our own mastermind

well what changes and what not depends on We the people. The world today is changing very rapidly. today theres something new in life and tomorrow it becomes outdated. What as individuals have to realize is to live life to the maximum and enjoy it to the fullest without disturbing the basic requirements of the human body and its society..