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Archive for July 2006

An explanation is in order

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

Being at office without any actual work to do is like being sleisha drunk. The brain comes up with hajaar arbit fundaes. (Incidentally, this is one of them.)

Hedging

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

Time zone risk can be mitigated through working hours arbitrage. Working hours risk can be mitigated through time zone arbitrage.

Yeh Shaadi Nahin Ho Sakti!

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

If the root of Kapadia is kapda, shouldn’t the root of Wadia be wada? Is Jeh Wadia nothing but a glorified wada-pav wala? Preity, my Preity, you deserve better than this. Come away with me instead.

The Barometer of Reform

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

Back in the days when I had internet access, I had picked nits with Gaurav over the suitability of telecom as a poster child for reform. I had said that telecom benefitted so much from network effects that it wasn’t fair to attribute the entire success of the telecom sector to reform- though of course [...]

Agreeing with Annie

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

In what seems like a long time ago, young Annie Zaidi attracted all sorts of flack for saying that there is no such thing as merit- or at the very least, that exams don’t measure it properly. Of course, the conclusion you would draw from this would be to improve the examination system rather than [...]

How I would use e-books

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

I prefer reading books the old fashioned way. I like to turn pages, and of course you can carry a book to the bogs or to bed. You can put it down when you’ve just read something impressive enough to make you gasp and pause before you start reading again. Unfortunately, old fashioned books are [...]

Photography and Storytelling

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

Photography is creative art, not performing art. The emphasis is not on how well the photograph conforms to standards of light, or composition, or distance or perspective, but on the story it tells. Photos in which your friends or family sit around and smile at the camera are stories as well, but they are limited. [...]

St. Valentine is a Fraud

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal have done more for lovers than he ever did.

Detachment and Creativity

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 25, 2006

To be a great storyteller, you need to be detached. The trick is that you have to be detached without being dispassionate. You have to be detached enough from the world around you to see everything as new and fresh. You’ll never be able to see the potential for a story in something if it doesn’t [...]

Telecom is a Special Case

Posted by: Aadisht on: July 1, 2006

Some time ago- I can’t remember the exact date- there was an argument at young Shivam’s blog about what the poster child of Indian reforms was- Shivam said it was BPO, while Gaurav Sabnis said that telecom was a better example. A link isn’t provided because that particular post was deleted when Shivam transmogrified into [...]



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