27/12/09: What is meant by identity?
-"Olakh".

How would you identify yourselves within Patil Estate?
-By our names! Simple!

Just outside Patil Estate? Say, at BC?
-"Mahesh, from Patil Estate."

Correct! Anywhere in Pune?
-"Priti, from Patil Estate, Shivajinagar."

Right. Outside Pune?
-"Pooja, from Pune."

Right! What if you go out of Maharashtra?
-"Akshay, from Maharashtra."

Good. Imagine that you have achieved excellence in your chosen field from some big institutions in India and now you've been invited outside India, to say America, or Australia, or some such country. Then?
-"Poonam, from India."

Let's suppose that going out of the Earth will not be easily possible in the coming decade. :) So we'll have to end our questionnaire with the question given above. So now, what is it that associates a primary identity to your name in this world?
-"India."

I see. If India is so important, let's check what all you know about her.
National anthem?
-"Yup!"
Our flag?
-"Of course, yes!"
What do you know about our flag?
-"3 colours, their meaning, the wheel in between, its meaning, ..."
Haa! We all learnt it in primary school. Tell me something that all the smart kids in 7th, 8th and 9th std may know! :)
-"Well... Um... That..."
OK OK. Tell me, what if I wish to make a flag of my own? I go to a cloth store. Then? What do I ask for at the store?
-"Oh! How much cloth?! Well! The length and breadth of the flag! I think one of it is 12 or something..."
12?! OK good! Let's say the other one is 2/3rd of 12. So how much is it??
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From here it all started. And went on till finding the area of the flag, finding the cost of the cloth given the cost per unit area, and went on till a homework problem in which the dimensions and area of each of the 3 strips were to be found.

I hate to begin the class with "Today we'll learn some geometry..."
:)