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Travelogue – Sydney, Australia – Part 1
As part of a month long work assignment, I traveled to Sydney, Australia. Work was incredibly hectic (it was a 2 month assignment, squeezed into one) and the client was demanding but all that pressure faded whenever I stepped out into this beautiful city. It’s probably one of the most beautiful cities I have been to [...]
Indian Lovers Party – It’s Revolutionary!
A question to start with – Whom are we talking about in the following sentence? – “There was no one like him, is no one like him, and will never be anyone like him” If your answer was Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar or even Rajnikanth, you couldn’t be more farther from the truth. The answer [...]
Theory of Outrageous Predictions
This is a theory which we can all use, with very limited or zero downside but unlimited upside. Let me explain. Make a prediction about anything. Just about anything. The trick lies in making an outrageous prediction and not just a normal prediction. For example, you can predict that Bangladesh is going to win this [...]
IPL 2011 Player Valuation and Analysis
The next auction of the IPL season is upon us. In fact, it is due tomorrow, Jan 8th 2011. I considered doing an extensive post on IPL player valuation including some mathematics, but then again, a combination of sleep, laziness and the Test series (Ind vs SA and Aus vs Eng) kept me away from [...]
Deepak Chopra – Interpreted!
Deepak Chopra is supposedly one of the leading Indian Gurus in Spiritualism. In this blogpost, I try to interpret some of his twitter messages (interested folks can follow him @deepakchopra on twitter). These tweets (in italics) were tweeted between November and December this year. 1) Everyday reality is a waking dream where you project yourself [...]
Update – Fav Books and Fav Movies
You can access the entire list of my Fav Books here and Fav Movies here I updated the list (finally!). Fav Books Two Non-Fiction, One Fiction and One in the Behavioral Economics category iWoz – Steve Wozniak (Fascinating insight into one of the world’s premier minds) (Non-fiction) Go, Kiss the World – Subroto Bagchi (Wisdom personified!) (Non-fiction) [...]
Corporate Jargons – Video time!
I came across this recent movie making service (free) called Xtranormal very recently and I have already become a huge fan of it. In this post, I tried to experiment movie making with a topic that is so widespread that the UN is planning to list it as one of the world’s most dangerous viruses. It’s called Jargon. [...]
Retrospective Determinism*
*Jargon alert. Loosely called ‘Hindsight bias’. How often have we looked at past events, somehow saw/derived a pattern from these connected events and concluded that the final eventuality had to happen? Many a time, we indulge in this process known as retrospective determinism. Let me explain. a) The US govt. looked at all the events [...]
India and UN Security Council
This week has to be hailed as one of the greatest weeks in 2010 for India. Three news items have been splashed across different channels of the media. It was as if we won Independence all over again. Anyway, enmeshed between the news of India’s comprehensive win in the India-Australia test series and the massive [...]
Random Rant about Pawar and CWG
1) If there was one Indian government body that was respected by one and all, it was the Supreme Court of India. Even the most crooked politician used to sit up and listen when Supreme Court gave its orders. Sharad Pawar seemingly has begun to buck this trend (and the herd shall follow) with an [...]
