Category: engineering
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Easy to build but difficult to maintain, when it should be vice-versa!
If you look around any major construction work like metro, highway, airports, etc., you would notice one thing that the maintenance of these public infrastructures is most of the times shoddy, improper and not up-to-the-mark. It seems that construction of such large projects is easier and there is so much fanfare around the inauguration that…
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The legend of Bansal Sir of Kota- Part 2
This was the target sheet that I got when I started my journey of 2 years in 2006 with the Bansal Classes, as I entered 11th standard. Look at the dates carefully- TARGET JEE 2008, which was our sole aim at that point of time in life. Although I lost this sheet, but somehow got…
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Sustainable cities for a developed India- the perennial issue of water logging
A single day of heavy convectional rainfall in any city today is sufficient to cripple the city life for the next 1-2 days. There would be water loggings here and there, overflowing drains and sewerage system in every locality and heavy traffic jams. In summation, the situation paints a very sorry state of affairs. There…
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Theory and practical: mutually exclusive or a cyclical loop?
We have often heard from the people who have done hard work all their life at the ground level that practical knowledge is everything! All theoretical knowledge according to them is just for getting a college degree, which has no meaning in real life. At the other end of spectrum are the people, although in…