To begin with we start with a quote made famous on Choksey.org.

While It wasn’t exactly a Pattu honours presentation it was the outcome of a Patu honours study. It perfectly describes the level of knowledge of all pattu students. And we think It sets the tone perfectly for what follows.

 

 Ashutosh pande speaking on Dark Matter: :“Dark matter is a certain something”…this was his opening line

 

Now onto more original quotes…..

 

v     Rick mukerjee – asking Arjun to repeat something in his talk on topology

 

“ could you repeat that, I have understood, but I would like to understand again.”

 

 

v     Patu – to Aseem paranjape after a lecture on the properties of ‘hermitian forms’… apparently in a philosophical mood.

 

“but, aseem, But what if there was no (hermitian) form?”

 

v     Patu - to Sudharshan after a lecture on fundameental theorem of algebra

 

“I know that you have proved it for all n but can you prove it recursively for all n less than n”

 

v     Chirag Dhara- in a talk on quantum computation

 

“ the quantum information can be defined as information stored in quantum things.”

 

v     Kovid Goyal after a very exciting lecture…or so he thought

 

“That why I entitled my lecture ‘rabbit from a hat’ because it is as exciting as pulling rabbits from hats”

 

v     Hardick panjwani in a talk whose title we have forgotten

 

“Group theory is useful tool but if you don’t know group theory you cant use it….as a tool”

 

v     Aseem paranjape – speaking on his work at IUCAA summer 2003

 

“ It is easily shown…” – 13 times

 

v     Sushant Raut –  beginning a talk on differential geometry

 

“ differential geometry is like an ice-cream … it can be quite yummy - Ed: it seems sushant strongly denies uttering such a statement...we include it anyway and apologize in case it is untrue( but we trust our sources)”

 

 

v     Sushant Raut – talk on Riemannian geometry

 

“ There are only 20 components which are identically non-zero”

 

v     Pattu while preparing his TY 2002 farewell.

“ They are leaving xaviers so we should give them a gift. I though I could organize three lectures for them”

 

v     Pattu’s TY ‘farewell’, Feb 2002 – After 1 hour of Aditya Raghavan, and 2 and a half hours of pattu ….everyone’s ready to finally leave…

 

Pattu: Where is everyone going? Kovid has still got to present.