'Kiss of Love' - An Unwanted elitist protest

Now a  days we are seeing increase in the unique way people starts protesting for  a cause which they believe is worth protesting for  and now we are hearing a lot about this new 'Kiss of Love' protest initially started in Kerala to oppose some moral policing imposed by some rightist activists , although later the protest was cracked down by police, we are seeing people starting give support to this movement in different parts of country by holding their own form of the protest, although they are free to do their protest , now we are seeing them getting support from these pseudo secularists whose main intention is to oppose any thing and everything that seems getting support from right wing.

You can certainly kiss away all forms of protest, but kissing in public can never serve any purpose that will do away with social hypocrisy!
There was a time in the West when `bra burning` cropped up as a form of protest, but did it serve any purpose? True we live in a hypocritical society! It is also true, that there can be nothing apolitical. However, when some `conventional` political party takes exception to personal preferences, it is always with an ulterior motive to divert the youth from the burning issue of UNEMPLOYMENT.


 But by doing these uncalled protest in the name of freedom of speech and expression, The middle class elitist urban based youngsters of this country who are in most case involved in this protest (ex: Delhi, IIT-Bombay, etc ) have once again proved that they can fight only for causes that affect them and sound/look interesting.


If we just see the title given to this , i.e,  'Kiss of Love' it seems they have taken Love only as love between two individuals for the want of sexual experience, but not the real meaning of love which do not need be symbolized by kiss only , if they really want to kiss or do somethings let them do it inside their home, why create fuss coming to streets and giving problems to others by creating traffic jam and other non sense things,

  This is another form of elitist protest that is far removed from the concept of Love (the unconditional sacrificing form that is, if it exists at all.) i am fully in favor of sexual freedom, but freedom, unless demanded for one and all, is extended privilege. If these college going people really wanted to spread Love, they should have first protested against the caste matrimonials that appear in newspapers or carried out a march in favor of inter-caste marriages. But they can't do that, because they are partners in crime as far as maintaining the social hierarchy of caste is concerned.

So if they want to fight corruption, they'd get involved with Anna Hazare kind of campaigns (to fight big corruption, not the petty corruption that they are themselves involved with) If they want to fight caste, they'd carry out anti-reservation rallies instead of protesting against their college professors who deliberately fail dalit students.
Calling this protest as a love protest is equivalent to comparing the elitist FEMEN protest with the protest carried out by Manipur mothers against rape by army men. They say they want to fight social hypocrisy. I mean, Really ??? Then they should first look into the mirror and slap themselves.

Taken excerpts from post of Anjali Rajoria in Facebook.

Report writing with LyX / LaTeX

Hi ,

In this post I will be sharing about how to prepare a Project Report using Lyx and Latex.

In most if the Engineering Colleges , Professors asks Final Project report to be written in Latex .

First , What is Latex ?
LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

Why Latex..?
LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content.

LaTeX is usually pronounced /ˈleɪtɛk/ or /ˈlɑːtɛk/ in English (that is, not with the /ks/ pronunciation English speakers normally associate with X, but with a /k/   ex: Letech).

 For more  visit LaTeX Website .

With this brief introduction lets move on to LyX now.

Why LyX when you have LaTeX..?
    LaTeX is for passionate Linux people who are more interested  in coding rather than  using GUI's which are available . Since many of you don't want to learn LaTeX coding because of different reasons like time constraints, laziness,  not interested in learning something new just for sake of doing one report, you have something for you.. that's LyX.

So what is LyX all about..?
LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in.

For more visit LyX website or a Brief Tutorial.

With all this background lets Start writing a report in LyX.

For that first you need to install LyX in your system. Here is the link  to download : LyX download. Please install the latest version for your respective operating system.

It might also ask you to install the compiler, MikTeX , If it doesn't automatically asks you to install, please install from this link.

After installing Launch  LyX application in your system,

For all the small things you can refer help available in the application menu bar.It is better then most of the tutorials available on web to solve your specific issues. It's better to go through the tutorial available there before starting working, it is descriptive and gives in depth knowledge and confidence to write report.

For writing a report more than 10 pages its better to divide it into smaller parts and then include it in a main configuration file so that if we run into any trouble we can make suitable changes to that small file. Make sure that the Number of pages in the small file doesn't exceed  5 or 6 pages.
You can divide into small files  based on different chapters or subheading or based on your convenience.

On launching You will go to welcome screen, now we shall make some basic settings to start our Report writing project.

1. Go to File in menu bar, select new (or Ctrl + N ).
2. Click on Document in menu bar --> Settings, a Document setting popup will come.
3. In the Setting popup click on "Document Class", On the main area next to scroll bar, Click on the dropdown and select report . It gives more option for report writing and your report looks like a professional one.
4. If you are using any mathematical formulae or equation then select appropriate option in the "Modules" .
5. In "Page Layout" change the Format to "A4" or your appropriate choice.
6. In "Page Margin" Change according to standard set by your university.
7. Make appropriate changes in other option if you wish, or leave it to default values.
8. "LaTeX Preamble" is the area where you enter LaTeX commands, that need to be run before loading your page, more on that will be coming next.

Now go ahead with writing your report, for sure you must have a draft report ready with you and you should be knowing how many chapters your report contains, as suggested earlier make that many files you feel comfortable and include all in the one configuration file, which acts as your control file.

For the better understanding of how to write a report I have attached a template file here.
Download LyX template. or here

This file serves as basic project report from which you can make your own report. This contains self explanatory tips which are to be used while composing.

Few of the features included in the above template are listed below:

• One main configuration File named report.lyx which contains basic instruction and includes all the files the report should comprise of.
• Roman page numbering for introduction pages, Arabic numbers for description pages.
• Header and Footer which are editable by going into Latex preamble in settings.
• Title page which can be modified to respective project.
• A sample Certificate page.
• A cover and index page.
• Auto generated Table of content, List of Figures and Tables used in the project.
• Few of sample chapter pages and information about what to write in those.
• An Appendix file .

After going through the report , which is self explanatory if you find any problem feel free to contact me at remeberElecronics@gmail.com

Also for LaTeX Enthusiastics a LaTeX Template is also found here.
Download LaTeX Report template.

• Link 1
• Link 2
• Link 3

Thanks for reading..
Happy report writing :)