Pertinent Observations

Archive for August, 2006

24 Aug

rebuilding relationships…

at several points of time in life, you end up in the unpleasant situation where your relationship with someone has hit the pits. there is a cold war on, and you haven’t spoken to him/her for a while. and you want to try and re-build the relationships. a few pertinent observations related to that…

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21 Aug

Reservations issue…

So the cabinet seems to have cleared the bill paving way for reservations for OBCs in central universities (including IITs, IIMs). Thankfully there is some sense in the cabinet and they have said (at least on paper) that the implementatino would be in a phased manner.
I was watching “Face the nation” on CNN IBM late [...]

16 Aug

left…

For a change the left seems to be talking sense. They are opposing the proposed amendment to the Right to Information Act. And the BJP is also opposing the move (this is pleasantly refreshing considering that the NDA government was held responsible for stalling the initial passing of the act).
The Congress has reacted saying [...]

12 Aug

probability distribution of terrorist attacks

Following the planned terrorist attacks 2 days ago on UK-US planes, security has been beefed up majorly all over the world. I reached Mumbai airport at 5:15 for a 6:20 flight to Bangalore and I boarded the flight on the last call. Procedures have been intensified, there are multi-colored stamps on the boarding pass, and [...]

10 Aug

cricket cribs….

yeah this post is late by 2 days but never mind…
on tuesday night i wanted to catch the fall of wickets in the England-Pak test match; and some highlights of the SL-RSA match. unfortunately no channel was showing either!
most of the sports news (and also other news) on all channels was dedicated to deano and [...]

10 Aug

last day…

today is my last day on this job. it was supposed to be yesterday, actually, but since yesterday was a holiday i’ve come today to wind up. have got a list of things to return. have to talk to the fin guy (i just found out that i haven’t been paid my july salary… grr) [...]

01 Aug

Bitching about your firm…

yesterday i was telling Fart that nobody likes to bitch about his or her own firm because that would reduce their personal brand equity. Fart responded that it is rather the function of how dependent your personal equity is upon the equity of your workplace.
now my argument is that most graduates of premier B-schools [...]

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