On the 13th of March the Heidelberg Indian Students Association (HISA), led by its President Mr. Aprameyo Pal, organized Holi celebrations at the DKFZ (Deutsche Krebs Forschung Zentrum) Heidelberg and I was there for the weekend. This is the second time I was attending a function organized by HISA, the earlier being Diwali October 2009. [...]

Hallo readers I hope everything is going well with you all..Things are beginning to move with my  project and its getting difficult to keep track of the weeks flying by.. its quite hectic, but thank God, the snow is gone and the sun is back, so it feels good again to get out of the [...]

The last few days have been really strenuous with the work but also very great as I bond more with my german colleagues and get to know them better. It has been a time of helping out each other and coming closer. I got hold of a complete set of used furniture for a fair [...]

Since I had just successfully finished hunting for a room ( the one where I live is a temporary accommodation) I thought it should be interesting to write on this topic – though it’s a very very general and broad area that demands for itself a separate PhD study! A roof above his head has [...]

So, after a rather long break I have now made time to write down my next article. Firstly, I wish all the readers a warm and prosperous new year 2010, though ‘warm’ is a word that is currently least applicable in Germany. Yesterday the mercury sunk to -10 degrees, which is something everyone has got [...]

The christmas markets in Germany are a great sight to see and a major attraction. They start off well 1 month before Christmas and hence they make a wonderful option to go out on a weekend to relax and have fun in an otherwise cold and dull winter.. The market in Erlangen has been put [...]

The past week has seen some really wonderful moments happen in my workplace. To begin with, one of my colleagues was leaving as her contract comes to a close and she is moving to Munich for another job. She threw a party at the Kegelbahn (bowling alley) at a place called Tennenlohe near Erlangen. And [...]

Hallo dear readers, The last 2 weeks have been very hectic and also very very exciting for me. Now, I’m fully into my experiments in the lab at BVT, Paul Gordon strasse and also there have been some wonderful moments in my hostel. I found out that the place I live, Wichernstrasse, is actually a [...]

On the 8th of this month, I attended the International Week organized by the Fachhochschule (Technical University) Dortmund. It was a week-long event, but the DAAD South Asia division had a lecture to be delivered by its chief Dr. Dorothea Jecht on this particular day about opportunities for students to pursue higher studies and research [...]

Hello readers I had been away from this blog for quite a considerable length of time as I was busy moving to Erlangen and settling in. So many things have happened in the past 2 weeks that its impossible to describe everything in detail without making this article an endless essay. But I shall still [...]