Month: February 2008
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Mighty push for Open Access
Apparently Harvard University has mandated that all research publications made by its faculty members be made available for “free” (as in free beer??) online. It is a mighty push for a movement which recently started gaining a lot of momentum. In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the Faculty of Arts…
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Self betterment for greater good
The study published here proposes that individualistic actions on behalf of people prevent a larger group of people from greater fluctations. One thing is always true, the more individualistic the behaviour of those involved in the market is, the more stable the whole system becomes. The compare youth hostel showers to equity markets (or any…
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मैं और मैरी तन्हाई
A beautiful piece of poetry from the song Yeh Kahan Aa Gaye Hum from the movie Silsila. The lyrics of the song have been written by the brilliant Javed Akhtar. The song is also especially good. मैं और मैरी तन्हाई, अक्सर यह बातें करते हैं तुम होती तो कैसा होता, तुम ये कहती, तुम वो कहती…
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स्वागत है
If you are one of those three (lemme count.. one, two, three, yup, thats all) people who do visit my blog and read tolerate the nonsense that I put up here, you would have noticed that the blog was out for a couple of days. Here is an official reason. I had not been able…
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Belated B’day
It was on Jan 31st, 2005 that I started writing this blog. Since then a lot has happened. I have moved from a wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted one. I have written more than 300 posts. There have been around 10k hits on my older blog and around 2k on this one. However, I have…