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I am an engineering dropout, and it is a badge I wear with a lot of pride. As students of the ancient history of India know all too well, there were only two and a half career choices available to...
View ArticleFinding Your Garlic
It’s the peeling of the garlic that gets to me. Doing the dishes is just fine. If anything, I worry that I have become addicted to it. There is a soul satisfying pleasure to be obtained by looking at a...
View ArticleImagined Realities
The process of transliteration is oddly unfulfilling, and so is the act of explaining it. For a satisfying explanation depends on both parties knowing both languages well enough. Consider the word...
View ArticleYou cruel, cruel thing, cricket.
Back in the day, many many years ago, I had a small superstition. Sachin, and this was a deeply held conviction, would do well if he skied a ball early on in his innings. If he did so, but he wasn’t...
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A Walk With Time
My grandparents used to stay right behind Good Luck Cafe in Deccan Gymkhana. And for as long as I can remember, my grandfather would set off every evening for a walk on the tekdis. It used to be a long...
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The Growing Irrelevance of Examinations
It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you are on when it comes to examinations. You hate ’em. If you’re a student, you hate preparing for examinations, and you hate writing them. If you’re the...
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Textbooks have become (mostly) pointless
Imagine you lived in a Google-less world. Or, if you’d like an alternate phrasing, imagine its pretty much anytime before 1999. If you wanted students to have a reasonable amount of information about a...
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Technology and Education
What is education all about? It’s about learning, and it is usually involves a person delivering knowledge to another person. What is the education industry all about? It’s about signaling to the world...
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Taking stock of education: 2009-2016
I teach for a living, and have been doing so since 2009. I’ve dabbled in other things over these seven years, ranging from working as a consultant, joining an organization on a full time basis for...
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J1, The Flying Duck and Pal@table
Every single day of every single week, I remain besieged by one central question. It is a question to which I give a great deal of thought, and it is a question that gets increasingly difficult to...
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At Face Value
I got a facial done yesterday, for only the second time in my life. The first was not, as one would have expected, on my wedding day. I got ready for my wedding by shaving twice – once in the morning,...
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Going, going, gone
WASTED YOUTH The raindrops pinged off the dirty windows of the darkened bedroom – the last refuge in a city which was slowly being washed back into the sea from which it had been stolen. Powerful...
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Light my fire
Of the few things that your author thinks he does rather well, he prides himself the most as regards his ability to think things through. He’ll be the first to man up and say that he doesn’t always...
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A Review of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Keen eyed readers of the blog will note – or, strictly speaking, keen eyed readers of this blog who-also-happen-to-be-well-aware-of-the-literary-world will note that this is the first time an attempt...
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In Praise of the Pani Puri
Every now and then, your author, contemplative soul that he is, contemplates life. What, he might sometimes wonder, is the meaning of it all? Why, he might continue in similar vein, do we exist at all?...
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Happy New Year. Or Happy Wednesday. Pass The Booze, Please.
One of the (many) problems with keeping the same email address for about a decade is that every spammer on the planet has attempted to flood your inbox at least once. I have created many spam filters,...
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A Review of How Asia Works
Here’s a name I’m willing to wager you haven’t heard of before you lucked out and started reading this post: Friedrich List. Said gentleman, as you probably (and for the sake of your social life,...
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In Praise of the Vada Pav
Childhood, any child will tell you, isn’t all that it is made out to be. All those romantic notions of playtime, no responsibilities, and hour after hour of nothingness simply aren’t true. They aren’t...
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For The Love of the Game
Over twelve years since that match. The one in which a pretender made bold, and tipped away the crown. The one in which the monarch abdicated. The one in which, over the course of five pulsating sets,...
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A Review of David and Goliath
Why does one read Malcolm Gladwell books? That’s a little like asking why one watches a movie like, say, Inception. Of course the primary thesis isn’t one that you can easily agree with, and it is...
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