August 2008
13 posts
Aug 30th
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Legacy.
These 2 men (C. R. Mitra & K. K. Birla) are complete strangers to me. But in a way, it’s because of them that I have had an opportunity to experience a wonderful college life that has taught me lessons for life. It’s amazing how strangers in the past and present are helping you shape your future. Probably, that’s what is termed as leaving behind a legacy! You just have one...
Aug 30th
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I have a dream - II?
Now here’s a politician who can look into people’s eyes and talk about change, hope, individual reponsibility and the American promise in a way that can snap people out of cynicism irrespective of their party lines and stir them into thought & action. http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCrIeRkMhA How long do we have to wait to hear a politician talk about a much needed overhaul in...
Aug 29th
Aug 27th
Notes from Hyderabad.
Got a taste of Pani Puri at Keshav Reddys. Came highly recommended by a Mr. Rehan Jiwani… and deservedly so! A doc, apparently the Chief of Internal Medicine at Care Hospital prescribes strepsils and an expensive 2D Heart Scan for my throat pain and tummy troubles. Ended up with fever the very next day.   Sinha’s sandwiches (& enthusiasm to cook) make for amazing...
Aug 27th
The Perfect Show. →
1. All kids are beautiful. Why do you have to rub it into their heads that one looks better than the other… and that it matters! 2. Perfection of this kind… I think its an insult to the Olympian spirit and the girl behind the voice.
Aug 13th
Internet Startups & folks at IIM.
… The problem is this. These startups (a couple of internet startups that I came across thanks to Rehan), as concepts are rip offs. We are redoing the same thing just for localized content. It’s like a grocery store. A grocery store in US makes business. A grocery store in India makes business. It’s tougher for a store in US to do business in India. So let’s start one...
Aug 10th
ListenThis little piece is called The First Drizzle....
Aug 7th
ListenLife moves on. This is for the times when you...
Aug 6th
5.5 hours.
… that’s a lot of youtube for a day!
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