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		<title>A Mahlerian Resurrection</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To use music as a vehicle for metaphors is all but too familiar a concept for the modernista. But the ability to convey ideas and thoughts far more than a crass shot at adolescent emotions like love, that takes a composer who has the ability to reflect within and come out with a piece of music [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=599&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memorian (Part III)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So continues the series of posts on undergrad life; writing out of a sense of duty towards my friends from that time, this might possibly be the last one on the subject. Sitting in the last bench meant that we also developed a tact for using mobile phones in class, with an arbitrarily high success [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=464&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mellin Transform: the group perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on the same theme as the previous post, where the Fourier kernel was shown to be the unique eigenbasis of the set of unitary operators representing the translation group, here I talk about the natural next step. Given some function , one interesting thing to do is to translate it and see what happens. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=548&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fourier Transform: the group perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 16:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After another substantially long break, here I am. And this post (and hopefully a follow-up on the same theme) is something I have been planning to pen for a while now, except that time has not been kind to me. Unfortunately though, today I decided to clear the accumulating pile of papers on my desk, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=505&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long time, I stumbled across this iconic image, and thought I would put it up here. In 1990, after 20 years of cruising through outer space, mankind&#8217;s only trace fingerprint that existed beyond the solar system, the spacecraft Voyager I was commanded to turn around and take this picture. And that &#8220;pale blue dot&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=487&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monica!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insipidity is a bad thing for a blogger, but at times, it is a force that tests the real threshold of one&#8217;s inspiration levels; and yesterday, I had one such revelationary moment. And,what, may you ask, is the source of this sudden burst of motivation? Simple, pre-valentine&#8217;s crush , on the actress Monica Dogra.. yes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=471&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam (Part II.. Finally!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After much cajoling and fussing, here I am, reminiscing about the 4 years of BTech. I never imagined I would write this Part II; there was always some corner of my mind wishing that I never wasted 4 years doing engineering. But today, I can safely say that it was worth it; not because I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=461&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>QED a la Gribov</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been quite a while since I last posted; mostly because I was caught up with some work at the Atomic &#38; Optical Physics Lab in IISc. My first &#8220;real&#8221; taste of experimental physics was, to say the least, spectacular; learnt a lot, did some stuff&#8230; even had fun! And I do have a couple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=448&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monsoon arrives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 11:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am indebted to the status message of an old friend on Facebook for inspiring me to write this post, for bringing back memories of monsoons past, of the way life itself has been a reflection of the monsoon rains. Thank You! *** Ethereal&#8230; a word that I find hard to understand without reference to some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=427&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I am finally out of college, the realization has started to dawn on me that I really miss college life, the friends, the mottled hostel room&#8230; everything. This post is dedicated to all my acquaintances from Amrita, the one who made life possible, the ones without whom 4 years would have gone down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vivisheksudhir.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1728948&amp;post=415&amp;subd=vivisheksudhir&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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