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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 [...]
Sachin 200-dulkar – The Master
I was a 14 year old teenager, who had just finished his Xth board exams when I watched an innings. An innings I would remember for a long long time. In a bad way. It was the 1997 India-Pakistan match at the Chepauk stadium. A lot of hype was built around the match in line [...]
Telangana Issue – A Comprehensive Overview
The furor in Andhra Pradesh woke me up from my blog slumber to write this post. I am, in no way claiming to be an expert in political matters of Andhra Pradesh. This blog is a viewpoint to present the data and let the readers make their own decision about the validity and viability of [...]
Sachin ‘Twenty’dulkar
Only a few sportsmen in the entire recorded history can lay claim to the ‘Legend’ status. Of those few, there remain only a handful who have attained ‘super-natural iconic’ status – Diego Maradona, Don Bradman, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer among others. But none of these sportsmen have played with consistency and enthralled millions over a [...]
Cricket Commentary and Commentators
The common complaint nowadays while watching cricket, apart from India losing, is the extent to which the standards of commentating a cricket match have fallen. I agree, but only partly. Some of the great moments in the game have been wonderfully captured by equally good, if not great commentary of those times. I still recall [...]
Limited understanding…
I have a limited understanding of a number of things. I also have no understanding about multiple things. In fact, the equation is ‘no understanding’ > ‘limited understanding’ > ‘a little more than limited understanding’. Total understanding of any one thing tends to zero. Having got the disclaimer out of the way, my thought structure [...]
Favorite Books – A List
I had a couple of requests, both on the blog as well as off it to list out good books that I have read. This blog tries to address the request. A note of caution though. I believe every reader’s taste and perspective is different. Therefore, it follows that the books I liked (and which [...]
Books – To read or not to read
I love reading books. I was by no means a voracious reader till my late teens. After that, I devoured every book that came my way (fiction and non-fiction alike) and enjoyed them thoroughly. But as I realized later, over the past 4-5 years to be precise, I did not like all books. In fact, [...]
Incentive Theory – A Primer
Incentive theory is primarily a psychological term, explaining the relation between motivation and behavior of the individual, as shaped by profitable intent. Let me explain. The heart of economics deals with incentives. Incentives shape the behavior of an individual. These incentives need not necessarily be monetary. They can be non-material forms like love and respect [...]
Signaling Theory – An Introduction
Signaling, as per Wiki, is defined as In economics, more precisely in contract theory, signaling is the idea that one party (termed the agent) conveys some meaningful information about itself to another party (the principal). (Advanced economics students might want to classify this under behavioral economics). Back in 1974, Nobel laureate Michael Spence introduced the notion of signaling in economic [...]
