I was supposed to have gone to Bhutan and Sikkim starting last friday. As I write this right now, I should’ve been waking up staring at the Kanchenjunga. And then those commie Bangladeshis decided to riot in Calcutta, just one day before I was supposed to start. Not wanting to take chances with these mad [...]
Waiting endlessly for a bus on my way to office, I was thinking about what might make the life of bus travelers better, and make them wait less. I was thinking if there?s anything that can be done in order to help people plan their bus journeys on a real-time basis. Here are my thoughts [...]
The situation with the sugar industry has gotten more bizarre, with the Allahabad HC stepping in and mandating that the mills buy sugarcane at Rs. 110 per kilo and start processing. While on first thought, it seems quite funny that the high court is getting into matters it shouldn’t get into, such as fixing of [...]
Not much seems to have gone right for the Indian Cricket League since the idea was floated. Firstly it was announced that the ICL players wouldn’t be allowed to play first class cricket, which meant that they weren’t really able to attract good players. Then, there was the problem with the grounds, with state associations [...]
Of late, Greg Mankiw has been trying hard to show that the US life expectancy is not as high as it should be because of a large number of “unnatural” deaths such as homicides, accidents, etc. Through this he tries to make a point that the healthcare system in the US is just fine, and [...]
A few months back, Steven Levitt had blogged about an idea for terrorism, and people blasted him for it, saying that he is abetting terrorism. Anyways, here is another. The motivation for this comes from Diwali celebrations yesterday at my cousin’s place. I was lighting a “rocket”, and had placed it inside a bottle. And [...]
I might have blogged about this earlier, but am too lazy to check, so here I go again. The concept is one of “name-person associations”. To start with an example, when you know that you are going to meet a person called say “Pamela”, what would you expect? If you’re honest, I bet that most [...]
My mother is a major follower of the Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi. So, at times, when she gets an opportunity (my absence is a necessary condition for this), she tunes in to the Sai Global Harmony channel on Worldspace, where among other things, they broadcast speeches of the Sai Baba. //
Last week, out of sheer enthu, I picked up that xerox copy of Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance which was lying torn and dusty in a remote corner of my bedroom, cleaned it and started reading it. I glossed over some of the derivations, ignored the quantitative part of this quantitative book, and found it [...]
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