End of my stay @PRL :'(

The official duration of my visit to PRL is going to expire on June 30th. However I am leaving before that as I have to do some visa formalities in Bombay. In the last three years I have visited many institutes, but did not get attached to any one of them like I have got to PRL. I hardly feel like leaving this place, but have no choice. The crowd, the hostel, the food, the facilities were superb here. I found them much better than those in IITB. One good thing here is that it's a small institute with less number of people and all are more or less familiar to me. But in a place like IITB where there are five thousands students in around twenty departments, most of the people are unfamiliar to me. Moreover, being a lazy person, the city Ahmedabad suits me much more than Bombay. There are many such factors which made me fall in love with this place. My love for this place helped me do some good work, learning couple of new things also, which hardly happened during my stay at IITB. I wrote a paper on left-right symmetric models with spontaneous D-parity breaking which is being finalized now and will be put in arXiv tomorrow or may be next week. I will post the technical details of the work very soon. Thanks to my supervisor here as well as my friends for various useful discussions which helped me to finish the work. I would love to come back to this place again and again and get some good work done. And leaving aside work, I always have many reasons to visit PRL, may it be cricket, volleyball and....

Trying my hands on Volleyball for the first time :)

As far as I remember this is the first time I played Volleyball. I did not find it as boring as I had imagined. I always enjoyed playing cricket, football and badminton, but never thought of playing Volleyball. In fact I was very much pissed off when people in PRL talk about volleyball every time. It seems to be the most popular sports here and no wonder a sports-freak like me had to try it one day. I played three games continuously and it was not as tiring as football or badminton is . May be after practicing for one week, I will learn it more. Its all about proper timing and placement of the ball inside the court, not so difficult :)

Cricket@PRL....:)

I was in PRL (Physical Research Laboratory), Ahmedabad last two days. It was really fun (not from research point of view by the way..:P). After so many lonely days in Gandhinagar, I found myself among so many PhD students there. The crowd was really cool. I stayed in the hostel there with one of my friend. It was ten minutes walk from PRL. The best part was cricket. They play cricket every evening(during weekend). They have a small concrete court (which was basically made for basketball) with six halogen lights (good enough to illuminate it). I played cricket after a long long time. Although it was real fun, the whole body is paining now...:(. I came back today although people there insisted to stay back for today's cricket. Hopefully will visit PRL again..(may not be for research purpose but surely for cricket)...