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authorRajeesh K Nambiar <rajeeshknambiar@gmail.com>2013-04-09 21:37:55 +0200
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Use consistent font for English text in ToC also
Signed-off-by: Rajeesh K Nambiar <rajeeshknambiar@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/asuseeepchotkeys.tex b/asuseeepchotkeys.tex
index 3c3f954..8187494 100644
--- a/asuseeepchotkeys.tex
+++ b/asuseeepchotkeys.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Asus eeepc 1005HA hotkeys and Ubuntu Lucid}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
My Asus eeepc 1005HA was working like a charm from the day I bought it.
It came with Windows XP pre-installed. Since I am not quite a fan of XP, I
decided to install some GNU/Linux distro. I left the Windows partition as
diff --git a/asuseeepcmigo.tex b/asuseeepcmigo.tex
index 221e3d8..d201872 100644
--- a/asuseeepcmigo.tex
+++ b/asuseeepcmigo.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Asus eeepc 1005HA and Meego 1.0.1}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
I bought my eeepc in last December and since then I have been using Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UMR) or Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE).
It was working good and with some hacks, I was able to use it to its best.
diff --git a/beinglonely.tex b/beinglonely.tex
index 73c4994..7de8092 100644
--- a/beinglonely.tex
+++ b/beinglonely.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Being Lonely (it is good if it makes you think!)}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
For me being lonely is the time to think and let your mind gaze through the rich grasslands of life. Even when I am in a crowd, sometimes I will go thinking. I never need to be alone to feel alone. Being alone is simply something which happens to me anywhere unpredictable. When I feel like that, what I would do is to try and draw conclusions on what I have observed.
Once, on such an occasion, I was trying to draw conclusions on the truth of GOD. I just tried to think how GOD can be. As He is the One capable of driving the whole universe, He will be either somewhere outside the universe at a centralized place or a distributed source. The existence of such a centralized source is something which is beyond imagination and almost impossible when we think that it is having a role in each and everything happening in the whole universe (just think of a big energy source which provides the force for our movements within the Earth and for Earth to move around the sun and so on). It led me to the conclusion that the force can be something distributed every where in the whole universe (just understand that it is a simple conclusion by a crooked mind! I am ready to believe otherwise if you can convince me).
diff --git a/blog1.tex b/blog1.tex
index ac3e364..499dff9 100644
--- a/blog1.tex
+++ b/blog1.tex
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
\newpage
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 1}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
On Monday, the 4\textsuperscript{th} of October, I got diagnosed with a case of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
(I didn't know it till Thursday). After 12 days, I find myself in one of the best places in
India for hematology related treatments and am sitting in a room worth Rupees 2k a day
diff --git a/blog2.tex b/blog2.tex
index 524fea5..af14a1e 100644
--- a/blog2.tex
+++ b/blog2.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 2}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
\subsection*{Monday November 01 2010}
Today is the 11\textsuperscript{th} day of my first chemo cycle. Still going good and other
diff --git a/blog3.tex b/blog3.tex
index a63c55f..95c9e32 100644
--- a/blog3.tex
+++ b/blog3.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 3}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
\subsection*{Wednesday November 10 2010}
I was temporarily discharged from hospital on Monday, the 8\textsuperscript{th} of November. First round of my chemotherapy
diff --git a/blog4.tex b/blog4.tex
index 74b23da..770fa2a 100644
--- a/blog4.tex
+++ b/blog4.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 4}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
When you are a leukemia patient, the world around you changes a lot. You will find yourself befriending lot of patients and will hear a lot of amazing stories. In a world where names are irrelevant, one of those stories I heard was of her. She is of my age and till recently, used to live right next door. I heard her story in bits and pieces from narratives of her mother, sister and at times, from herself. From what I could gather, she is practically the complete opposite of who I am. Hardworking, God fearing, socially conscious and above all, highly scholarly. In my short life so far, of 25 years, most of which I spent in Kerala, I am yet to see a woman who does not fear the opinion of others. May be the world is supposed to be so and manipulators and tricksters like me are an exemption.
Anyway, when I met her, she was in treatment for a relapsed ALL which took its toll on her during the final days of first year MBBS. It seems she used to complain about constant headaches and other issues now and then. However, her parents dismissed it for her compulsive addiction to studies (If I wake up everyday at 4 and study like she used to, I guess I would have been in bed sooner :)). Interestingly, she had to do blood smear (a pathology test) as a part of her practicals, with her own blood. She found blasts, but thought it was due to some mistake in the procedure. Later, after the exams, when she went to her ancestral home in north Kerala and fell sick and only then did they figure out the real culprit. Without wasting time, she availed treatment and for most of her second year at college, she was in Vellore than in Thrissur. But unlike me, she spent the time reading her textbooks and wrote exams the same year. To everyone's surprise, she came second in her class. It is quite difficult to get your head straight and think normally while in chemotherapy let alone studying for exams, that too for MBBS second year.
diff --git a/blog5.tex b/blog5.tex
index bba2ab3..7ffb2ae 100644
--- a/blog5.tex
+++ b/blog5.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 5}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
\date{Friday November 19 2010}
It has been 10 days since I got discharged after my first chemotherapy. I was supposed to get admitted last Sunday (14\textsuperscript{th}). However, India being a country of a billion people, it has less than the adequate medical facilities to cater to all of them. Hence, getting a bed in an hospital which excels in treatment for these kind of serious diseases was a headache. I am hoping to get a bed sometime this weekend! To add more to the news, my sis flew from the US to be with me for 10 days. She will be here till the 30\textsuperscript{th} of this month.
diff --git a/blog6.tex b/blog6.tex
index 1a41664..12821e1 100644
--- a/blog6.tex
+++ b/blog6.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 6}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
\date{Monday December 13 2010}
It has been almost a month after the last note. Considering that the last note took sometime to complete (around 2 weeks), it is still a long time with out any news. A lot happened during this period. My sister went back to the US, and Mom and Aunt came to help me and father. An alumni meeting happened at JNV on December 5\textsuperscript{th}. I was not able to attend. So I sent a message through one of my friends. Got discharged and readmitted for third cycle. Still playing rummy with Father and as of now, around 650 points down. Incidentally, I got one more paper published (Rasagna did all the work. Thanks to him). Since I have around 4 papers on different Pattern Recognition subject, I guess it is high time now that I started reading some basics. Still reading "Orientalism" By Edward W. Said.
diff --git a/blog7.tex b/blog7.tex
index 8fb26d7..08ba19d 100644
--- a/blog7.tex
+++ b/blog7.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 7}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
It is the 6\textsuperscript{th} of June and in Kerala, it is raining like hell it seems. Anyway, in Tamil Nadu, it seems they are having a calm and quiet summer. I never liked the change of seasons although I knew they were inevitable. Just like changing the place of your operation. For the last few years, I had bases in many different places. However, leukemia made Vellore my base for the last 8 months. I was admitted on the 7\textsuperscript{th} of October last year. So now it has been exactly 8 months. I did see different lives and people during these days, all of them nurses, doctors, patients and relatives. May be a very few other hospital staff too. Many know me by my masked appearance by now, and in turn I know many of them too. The friend circle did grow and I should say I have some good friends among them. From nurses who come from OPD, to those in wards and doctors who are PG registrars to consultants and department heads. I do turn many heads because of a simple reason. When I get admitted, I usually go there with a laptop and most of the times, many see books as niche or weird.
diff --git a/blog8.tex b/blog8.tex
index 26b1994..7c89fa9 100644
--- a/blog8.tex
+++ b/blog8.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Hospital Log 8}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
It has been quite long since I wrote anything. The stay at hospital this time is not allowing me to have a lot of time to write and even note down my hospital experiences. To give the minimum details, I got admitted for my Bone Marrow Transplant on June 15\textsuperscript{th}. On 16\textsuperscript{th}, they put line, then shifted me to the Stem Cell Transplant Unit, an isolation ward for BMT patients. Then for 2 days, I got heavy chemotherapy and the next 3 days Total Body Irradiation. TBI was given in two sessions for 3 days. After that on 23\textsuperscript{rd}, they transplanted or transfused the graft cells. So far so good. It was so for some more days, then effects of TBI started to show up. By the way, after chemo and TBI, I practically had no immunity system. To top it, I took kind of a risk with going for BMT with an unhealed chest infect (which is still there as residues).
diff --git a/by-anivar.tex b/by-anivar.tex
index 28838ff..8c4e650 100644
--- a/by-anivar.tex
+++ b/by-anivar.tex
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Anivar's email to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing}
\enlargethispage*{3\baselineskip}
%{\vskip 2pt}
-\begin{english}
Yes, I am writing this with tears. He was a close friend,
co-traveler, and colleague in SMC.
diff --git a/evaluatingfosscontributions.tex b/evaluatingfosscontributions.tex
index 3ae0407..354d6cf 100644
--- a/evaluatingfosscontributions.tex
+++ b/evaluatingfosscontributions.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Evaluating FOSS Contributions}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
Counting FOSS contributions for research grants actually threw open
a new area of investigation as such, I guess. It is about evaluation of the novelty
factor of contribution to FOSS project. As we know, in any field of research,
diff --git a/firstpost.tex b/firstpost.tex
index 0f7d1b7..8f4e34d 100644
--- a/firstpost.tex
+++ b/firstpost.tex
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
\newpage
+\begin{english}
\secstar{My First Post}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
Life is becoming hard nowadays. Sitting at home doing nothing, makes me read more.
I usually go for novels. But this time I decided to closely follow the top
reports and articles in news papers. Within a day or two,
diff --git a/gangwar.tex b/gangwar.tex
index a6c817e..81dd927 100644
--- a/gangwar.tex
+++ b/gangwar.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Account of a campus gang war!!!}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
This is an account of a mob in a well known self financing engineering college, from the words of students of the college. It is from MES College of Engineering, and most newspaper reports are not taking into account what the root cause of the problem is. I just tried to interact with some of my juniors there and got these details. This account is written on the basis of a chat conversation, which is published here. Some details I confirmed and crosschecked, basically those regarding the program at the auditorium and all. I just want to point out how a ordinary gang or group fight at college turned out to be a political (?) issue. I never call this as student politics, but student gang war.
There are more than enough issues at college, and without fighting for those, these student politicians (?) are fighting for head counts. I don’t know what leads these students. Anyway, I believe it is not the professionalism that all are expecting from young engineers.
diff --git a/pleaseread.tex b/pleaseread.tex
index 3e4888d..687feb0 100644
--- a/pleaseread.tex
+++ b/pleaseread.tex
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Please Read the Offer Document Carefully Before...}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
I hope all are familiar with the above words. After all those Shining India mutual fund advertisements, a warning like this is mandatory. I felt the same regarding the offer documents supplied at campus placements after reading a news in economic times about the act of Keane India on last Monday. A small account of it can be read over here\footnote{\url{http://www.itexaminer.com/Outsourcing/tabid/77/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/794/Keane-chops-400-staff.aspx}}.
I can imagine a little about what was there within the minds of those people who got sacked. I believe all of them were people who got placements through campuses (since Keane takes 80\% of their workforce from campus and it is not easy to send one with prior experience). All the offer documents I got (not many anyway. Only two) had one section called "Job Termination". There was a notice period specified before terminating the job. It usually varies according to your value and employers value. For me those values were in months.
diff --git a/politics.tex b/politics.tex
index 269252a..5d4f66c 100644
--- a/politics.tex
+++ b/politics.tex
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Politics in campus: the need of time}
\enlargethispage*{2\baselineskip}
%\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
I have read a lot, seen a lot and heard a lot about campus politics.
When thinking with the open mind of a student who is bothered about
the situation of the country today, I have a small comment to put forward regarding campus politics.
diff --git a/studentpolitics.tex b/studentpolitics.tex
index 139a396..50c992d 100644
--- a/studentpolitics.tex
+++ b/studentpolitics.tex
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+\begin{english}
\secstar{Again on student politics, freedom of expression and interestingly my views about women}
\vskip 2pt
-\begin{english}
In Facebook group of MESCE, there was an interesting discussion on an age old topic.
Fatima Ali (B Arch, student at MES I guess) started it. She wanted our opinion on whether
you like to be in a college like MES, ladden with strikes, gang wars and not much cultural