Will be in Bangalore this weekend, starting Friday. I would have liked to meet a few of you but have just not been able to make the time. Drop me a line if your free and would like to get coffee. I am leaving the country on the 13th.

It’s a perennial theme in school life. To be popular or not to be. Some would argue that being popular is not a decision to be made. You are, or you’re not. And yet, personal perspectives could determine one’s style and hence, the outcome is a manifestation of a decision at some level.

So, at a certain level, the decision could be an answer to the ( Read more... )

Have you ever found yourself locked in a story? A story that must find its own plot and characters - characters who flesh out their ambitions and desires as the story unfolds - and eventually write its climax as well as the end. For there must be end to every story, long or short.

Now, one must not suggest even for a minute that life could be ( Read more... )

Last night, it was brought to one's notice that no trip to Singapore is complete without a drink at the New Asia Bar. Minor shopaholic and jelly-vodka weaknesses were overcome to cobble together a 3-person community of alcoholics anonymous.

Perched just above the 69th floor, we admired the creative genius of such stupendous numerological and ( Read more... )

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts. 
- Marcus Aurelius

The true investor is scarcely ever forced to sell his shares, and all other times he is free to disregard the current ( Read more... )

Among the trivial things in life that still amaze me is that this blog still receives comments. Mainly from people passing through my orkut profile, I presume. It is rewarding to hear encouraging words and there are signs that I might rethink my decision on posting through this medium, but that seems unlikely at this point.

Would like to know what ( Read more... )

Today's Sunday Times carries a guest column by David Brooks (original NYT article). Whether you get a parking ticket or not, would depend on a gazillion real life factors. Time, traffic, a fight with your spouse, a lost sock, vehicle malfuntion or whatever-god-wills. It might sound be unfair, even far-fetched to caliberate my cultural standing, and ( Read more... )

Guess what's the most queried term in AOL's search engine. Google. AOL eventually saw the irony, called it a "screw-up" and aplogized. The leak has become a search-query analyst's dream come true. What an outrageous intrusion of privacy? Yeah i know! Lemme see!

Check out Paul Boutin's assertion of You are what you search. Filling, delicious piece ( Read more... )

So. Its ceasefire. Like a belated birthday wish, that arrives in true melancholic lyricism of a Shakespearan tragedy. Minus the finality.

After an eleventh hour huff-n-puff effort to bomb each other black and blue, it was conclusively decided that they had bombed each other into, well, a darker shade of black and blue. Frankly, atleast the ( Read more... )

In an eminently thought-worthy post, Don Boudreaux describes the virtues & vices of contrarianism.

Being contarian is admirable because it keeps the mind open and exploring; it's of a piece with one of the finest of all intellectual dispositions: skepticism.

When I contradict myself (which happens at the same frequency as that of trains departing ( Read more... )