Pertinent Observations

Today, on the occasion of my father’s first year death ceremony, I discarded my janavaara (sacred thread)

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Recently, Tyler Cowen wrote in the New York Times saying that lack of free trade in rice and growing protectionism is not a good thing from the long-term perspective.
IAS Officer Gulzar Natarajan (now with the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation) took him on and elaborated as to why protectionism might be necessary.
I left the following comment on [...]

The “first” Bangalore Photowalk happened this morning. Eleven people turned up (including me). Thanks to Aadisht, Prabhu, Hari, Suvrat, Rajagopal, Baada, Tharunya, Priya, Madhavi and Nikshep for helping out in making this a grand success.
As planned, we met in front of the Apsara Theater at 8 am. I had mentioned in yesterday’s email that I’d [...]

I know i’m a bit late on this but I’ve been incredibly busy all day so wasn’t able to post this earlier. The Bangalore Photo Walk kicks off tomorrow morning at 8 am. We meet in front of Apsara theatre (between the theatre and the subway mouth) and then proceed down K R Road.
I request [...]

Some pertinent observations from yesterday’s game between Mohali and Mumbai

The new Mohali outfit (supposedly designed by Provogue) is a rip-off of the Chennai SuperStars outfit. That garish pink and grey. Though, one must admit that the new outfit did help turn luck Mohali’s way. And it’s definitely much better than the old one
They got their [...]

I was just going through the program list of the classical music season at the Fort High School grounds. What strikes me is that whenever two siblings in the same family are good at this kind of stuff, they pair up and advertise themselves after their town or something.
I don’t know who was the first [...]

Not only have they not won any games so far, the IPL team from Punjab lie at the bottom of the heap when it comes to the fair play rankings too.
Another case of cricket imitating life.

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Mumbai Indians I mean. Their team selection so far has been inexplicable, and their tactics while bowling even more so.
1. What can you say about a batting line up where the absolute bunny Ashish Nehra (the only runs i’ve seen him score was the four to win against New Zealand in New Zealand in 2003. [...]

The first Bangalore Photo Walk (ok the first that I’m doing, I don’t know if any others exist) will be from one of Bangalore’s most popular flyovers to one of Bangalore’s least popular flyovers. As mentioned earlier, it is going to happen on Sunday, the 27th of April 2008. Since this is the first walk [...]

The concept of a photo-walk was probably started by
chandrachoodan
in Madras some six months ago (the credit for this idea, he says, should go to Monica). Since then, it has become a monthly feature, and of late, has started attracting participants from outside of madras also (such as
sw_aadisht
).
I don’t know if such a thing is being [...]