Pertinent Observations

One thing an MBA teaches you is to write a good CV. I’m going to IITM to recruit next week and am currently looking at some CVs for the purpose of shortlisting.
Yeah, it’s the first time these blokes are applying for jobs so you can’t really expect too high a standard from them in terms [...]

On the back of insipid performances by the so-called promising youngsters, Dada has been recalled. Good stuff I must say. Even though he hasn’t exactly covered hhimself in glory in the current domestic season (save one Duleep hundred), the selection committee might have felt that experience might come in handy on the bouncy south african [...]

Yesterday there was a huge traffic jam on my way home from office because some people were “celebrating Rajyothsava”! The drive home took more than two hours as against the usual one and a quarter!
For heaven’s sake, Rajyotsava was over almost a month ago! Don’t know what these buggers were doing yesterday!
And celebrating [...]

has written this really strong (strong as in the IIMB lingo sense) blogpost about people who are good for the country and bad for the country and stuff.
even if you don’t subscribe to his views, it makes for awesome reading!
warning: despite the entertainment value, leftists and pseudo-secularists are advised to think twice before [...]

Yesterday I was supposed to meet an old friend at 7 pm. She works in one of the larger IT firms and from 7 o clock onwards every 10 minutes she calls saying she’s suddenly stuck up with more work and she’ll be there “in another 10 minutes”. finally turned up at 8:30!
have seen [...]

The other day I saw an ad for Air Deccan which claimed 98.7% on time performance *. Shocking. Of course it doesn’t stay as shocking once you see the little star there. and the foot note says “on time performance = flight taking off within one hour of scheduled departure time”!
so one hour late = [...]

Two 190s in two days! This is awesome stuff!
But frankly, Pakistan needs to come up with better wickets for test matches. We already had a joke of an India-Pak series early this year (except for the last test of course), and now again you have teams scoring really heavily. Of course except for Taylor, [...]

I remember, in the mid-90’s, if India were chasing, the team’s fortunes would depend on one individual – Sachin Tendulkar. Power companies all over the country seemed to heave a sigh of relief whenever he got out – so many people used to switch off their TVs immediately, saving millions of watt hours.
Fortunately for [...]

There are two kinds of “funda” posts.
1. I want to put my ideas across on a particular topic. So I write this long essay and the comments will mostly be “CP” (class participation). It’s like a lecture.
2. I want to “introduce” an idea/topic and encourage debate/discussion on it. Here, I expect longer and richer [...]

Yesterday I found that there exists a firm called “Global Analytics”. Strong name. Wonder what they do though.

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