It doesn’t happen everyday … an Indian for Nobel … not that there’s any dearth of talent (in fact we have it better), but there are several other factors … anyway, it’s awesome. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, currently in MRC lab in cambridge will be getting the 2009 Nobel in Chemistry ( alongwith Thomas A. Stitz and [...]
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27 Jan
Slumdog … now what does that mean??
Well, i don’t think this film has its heart at the right place. Mixed reactions, to be precise. A film well put together, i must say, … story, actor choices, direction, music, editing, … all above average, outside the 3-sigma level ( can’t resist ), especially the fourth one outside the 6-sigma lim (here i’m [...]
29 Oct
Rotten egg #2
My second rotten egg jointly goes to – 1. P. Chidambaram, the Indian Finance Minister, for initially putting a brave face and saying large things when faced questions on what the gov is doing to combat the ongoing economic crisis, but at last throwing the towel in and looking all dejected a day before diwali [...]
17 Apr
Pritam – the (copied) music sensation of India !
Sample this – a music director, renowned for his variety, and a string of hit songs – 1. Ya Ali ( Film Gangster ), 2. Bheegi Bheegi ( Film Gangster ), 3. Shikdum ( Film Dhoom ), 4. Kya mujhe pyaar hai ( Film Woh Lamhe ), 5. Pehli Nazar ( Film Race ) … [...]
15 Apr
The cream
Now it feels cliche’ to even blog about this. First you introduce out of nowhere an extended class of underprivileged social rungs, the OBCs. Fine, but what the hell is the need to give THEM the reservation in ( especially ) education. Why ? The worst thing is that our political gurus do not want [...]
10 Mar
An alternative ending to the Long Bad Australian Summer, eh?
It’s long been sort of a ‘tradition’ of the Australian team, — every summer, bring foreign team, get them minimal acclimatization, with practice matches against lowly domestic teams, and before they get the hang of things even minimally, they are 1-0 down in the 4-test series against the ‘Gods-of-Cricket’ home team, losing cheaply in the [...]
29 Jan
Boo reservation
The topic has died down now a bit, eh ? Again, it’s a lot about generalizing at wrong place ( see Interpretation is everything ) . Hey govt, what you do is in general apply some relaxations to reserved categories candidates, in almost all places where you are directly involved. How do you know that [...]
7 Jan
Dig ‘em up !
The umpires could’ve awarded the match to Australia for Harbhajan’s ‘racist remarks’ on Symonds, … that would be better. Even better, why play matches, we give walkaways, and you win 4-0, you so-called world-beaters, you unsporting gits. Even if Brett Lee declares, “It all ( the controversial umpiring decisions ) evens up at the end”, [...]
25 Dec
A year which didn’t seem that long
Dard mein bhi yeh lab muskuraa jaate hai Beete lamhein hamein jab bhi yaad aate hai …… Hmm,…… true, just another year added to my life, but this one will of course be very special. 2007 has been quite off-beat and I did enjoy it. SPECIAL BECAUSE … 1. Only thrice in my life I [...]
9 Dec
Homeopathy, …… we’re still not there
Surely I am not taking sides. Just as ‘once upon a time Biology was termed ‘voodoo science’, now this branch of the so called larger group ‘alternative medicine’ is branded pseudoscience, thanks to some stubborn docs and equally, perhaps more, stubborn medicine-giants. Of course the underlying basics of homeopathy are somewhat ‘holistic’. To the current [...]
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