Posted by: Aadisht on: August 27, 2009
Professor Jayanth Varma has posted his Financial Express oped on his blog, in which he tells us that a CDO is just a small bank, while a bank is a really big CDO: In 2007, when the first problems emerged in CDOs, people thought that these relatively recent innovations were the cause of the problem. Pretty soon, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 27, 2009
So about two years ago I had linked to the blog of a guy called Anil Menon, where I had got a whole bunch of fundaes which I used to make questions for my KQA quiz. This year, I found out that Anil Menon is actually a sci-fi writer. Here is an interview of Anil [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 21, 2009
Supporting freedom of speech and expression is a bit of a spectrum. On one end there is the complete commitment to free speech, consequences to anybody be damned. On the other end there is North Korea. In between, there’s the hypocritical commitment to free speech in Indian politics where Shashi Tharoor will criticise Modi banning [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 20, 2009
Wanted to post this for a long time now; but travel, viral infection and lack of photographic evidence delayed the same. Since the travel is not going to slowdown, I decided to go ahead and post this and add photographs later. Let me start with the Chinese love for all cute things – before which [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 18, 2009
This Independence Day, I achieved two long-standing dreams. The first was at the Landmark Quiz Chennai. We (me, Skimpy and Kodhi) won it. The three of us have been taking part in the Landmark or Odyssey quizzes since 2004. We’d do our August 15/ January 26 pilgrimage to Chennai and just miss qualifying, or qualify [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: August 8, 2009
Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. ~Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now My house in Bombay is in the centre of action with a children’s garden, wedding hall and some popular south Indian restaurants [...]