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Random Thoughts…
1) Nowadays, I am frequented by ‘Why take risk?’ by people(or more exactly, risk kyun lene ka?). People seem to advise that things need to settle down before you make any move (career/stock buying etc. etc.). What I do not understand is if everything becomes clear (and hence almost-risk-free), wouldn’t competition in huge numbers jump [...]
Karma and Zen
1) In the corporate world, you often hear the argument which more or less centers around the Just-World fallacy. Typically, we’d like to believe in a Just-World where efforts result in benefits and hard work and dedication leads to success. Anything contrary to such a philosophy would result in cribbing at coffee corners and many [...]
A Stupid Rant
1) Mangalore Air Crash – It is a disaster. Tragic for families. Mourning can never be easy. But when you have politicians and media all over the television trying to pontificate (without any evidence) of what exactly went wrong, peaceful mourning can be close to impossible.
For some reason or the other, disasters happen. What is [...]
Favorite Movies
I have always loved movies. I was 8 when I first watched ‘The Young Master’ in a movie theater. With the subsequent cable and internet revolution, I was watching more and more good and bad movies. The following is a list of movies which I remember at the top of my head and which have [...]
What is Progress? – The Arundhati Roy-Maoist saga
As I read through Arundhati Roy’s magnum opus article in The Outlook on the Maoists and their plight, I was struck by one thought which was probably the underlying fundamental of the entire issue – What is progress? Rather, how do you define progress?
Some examples of progress are universally agreed upon. For example,
- The [...]
Ranting News
1) The much awaited and eagerly hyped marriage has indeed come to an end. No, I am not talking of the Indo-China bhai-bhai pact or the India-Pak Aman ki Asha initiative coming to fruition. The talk of the town has indeed been the Shoaib Malik-Sania Mirza nikah. The media as usual went ga-ga over a [...]
Faulty Atheism Articles
I came across two articles on Atheism recently from two different, but reputed authors.
One from Jug Suraiya in Times of India. (Atheism is the best worship)
The other from Manu Joseph in OPEN magazine. (The Decency of the Atheist)
As you can guess from the titles (do read the articles too!), the authors are trying to make [...]
Assorted Links
I have been urged by K to post all the links I post on Facebook (lately, have been pretty active on Facbook, so to say) on my blog. Obviously, I cannot post all. Here are a few that really interested me over the past fortnight (in no particular order) -
1) Peter Drucker on Excellence, Career [...]
IPL Economics
With the brouhaha around the new IPL teams and their steep prices, one wonders if it makes economic sense to buy these new IPL teams or has it something to do with human behavior (ego?) to own and run a team. (As an aside, I was talking to my friend the other day and he [...]
Other Sports in India (i.e, All Sports (minus) Cricket)
Let’s not bother complaining about popularity of other sports in India. Let’s just enjoy cricket. Only cricket.
Yes, you heard that right.
Let’s not bother.
On the eve of the kickoff of the Hockey World Cup in New Delhi, multiple thoughts cross my mind. First and foremost, how many Indians know that a hockey world cup is going [...]
