I do not really know whether this rant has any more than personal appeal or not, but still, it remains as a deep concern to me at least. It is pretty tough to start this piece, as the starting point dates back to 21st November 1983, precisely when I was born. Let me save you… Read More Where do I stand – The crisis of the privileged
I guess the announcement came pretty late, because by when I was prompted to wear my seat belt, put the seat back in upright position and open the window seal, I was already uber-excited by seeing a piece of green land infested with beautiful domes and surrounded by peacock blue water from the window of… Read More Istanbul: The Black and White Thriller
Mr. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India has published a working paper on why bribing should be made legal to stop bribery. The paper can be found here: http://finmin.nic.in/WorkingPaper/Act_Giving_Bribe_Legal.pdf For general people, attached is my take on it, from a game theoretic perspective, as he also used game theory to… Read More Bribery – a game theoretic approach
Watching the genius at work is a sheer treat of eye. And, no doubt, a confession of another genius about that, is even better. After this, if the first genius is Srinivasan Ramanujan, and the second one is G. H. Hardy, there is hardly any space left for more awe. Complicite, the british group, performed… Read More Genius at work
Here comes the film for us, the common man. Yes, of course we loved Dil Chahta Hain and RDB with those convertible cars, we applauded when the dyslexic boy of Taare Zameen Par finds his passion for life, of course we got amazed by the unprecedented struggle of the slumdog who became the millionaire, no… Read More Udaan… Just like the Waving Flag
Of late there has been a perceptible trend to treat the bauls and their songs as merely a segment of the folk culture of Bengal, albeit one with a much larger fanfare than the others, presented for the entertainment of the sophisticated urban audience. In the process their popular philosophic tradition, of providing a heretic counterpoint to the sectarian scholastic scriptures of both Hindu and Islamic religious establishments, is often forgotten.… Read More Bauls, the misinterpreted movement of Bengal
After spending 2 years in Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, and in Mumbai for the last 6 months, the politics of language suddenly becomes an interesting object of study, armed with hands-on experience.… Read More The Hegemony of Hindi
Open source media is a bit tough thing to conceptualize and probably that is the reason for it to be in the nascent state even today, after so many years of successful application of open source software movement. Open source software movement is based on the Open Source philosophy which gives the author the right to retain her work with her, with a right to the end user to modify and redistribute the source code according to her need and, probably point of view.… Read More Open Source Media: Possibilities and Hindrances
The free and open source software movement has already made the way. Yet, other similar practices are still found waiting. Why is such activity missing in open source media initiatives? Or open source books? What are the hurdles that stand big in the path of social creation, social alteration and social consumption?… Read More Open Source Publishing: Possibilities and Hindrances
I have told whatever was my experience in this 4 months stay in Tamilnadu, to be more precise, in the National Institute of Technology. Now, a question can obviously arise, can we generalize the whole south Indian characteristics with this small sample? Statisticians may say yes, but I would say, not entirely. Obviously this cross… Read More Letters from Tamilnadu ~ 2
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