Shilpa episode not to impact India-UK ties
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Shilpa episode not to impact India-UK ties
Shilpa episode not to impact India-UK ties - Thursday, January 18, 2007 -   |
“You know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, I sometimes wonder what it must feel like to die little by little over a long period of time. What do you think?”
Unsure exactly what she was getting at, I changed my grip on the hand strap and looked into her eyes. “Can you give me a concrete example of what you mean by that-to die little by little?” “Well... I don’t know. You’re trapped in the dark all alone, with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and little by little you die....” “It must be terrible,” I said. “Painful. I wouldn’t want to die like that if I could help it.” “But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn’t that just what life is? Aren’t we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they’ve taken away our food and water, and we’re slowly dying, little by little ... ?” I laughed. “You’re too young to be so ... pessimistic,” 1 said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic ... pessimistic ...” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.” ----------------------------------------------------- Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Pessimism - Thursday, September 07, 2006 - |
Thirteen Conversations about One Thing
Thirteen Conversations about One Thing
Tries to be a good movie. Often touching. Often meaningful. Its shot somewhat on the lines of Crash (though it released 4 years earlier) ... Not quite there, but still worth a dekko... Go watch it. Else, wait till Zee Studio shows it again. Thirteen Conversations about One Thing - Thursday, August 03, 2006 - |
"People are generally bad at accepting the importance of context and chance. We fall prey to what the social psychologist Lee Ross called “the fundamental attribution error”—the tendency to ascribe success or failure to innate characteristics, even when context is overwhelmingly important. In one classic demonstration, people shown a person shooting a basketball in a gym with poor lighting and another person shooting a basketball in a gym with excellent lighting assume that the second person hit more shots because he was a better player. This problem is compounded by the tendency to extrapolate big conclusions from small samples, something that behavioral economists call “the law of small numbers.” In the decade or so that Airbus has been a serious competitor to Boeing, this is its first really bad patch, and its difficulties are due mainly to making one bad bet while Boeing made one good one. That’s a minuscule sample size on which to base any kind of conclusion. But this is exactly what we like to do: sports fans assume that a few excellent performances are proof of a player’s underlying ability, while investors assume that a mutual fund’s record over one year is a reliable indicator of the manager’s skill.
Because we underestimate how much variation can be caused simply by luck, we see patterns where none exist. It’s no wonder that management theory is dominated by fads: every few years, new companies succeed, and they are scrutinized for the underlying truths that they might reveal. But often there is no underlying truth; the companies just happened to be in the right place at the right time. In 1999, after all, it was hard to find a business book that didn’t hold up Enron as the embodiment of one important principle or other. Of course, some strategies and structures work better than others, but real meaning emerges only over the long term. " -------------- The New Yorker, Issue of 2006-07-31 So true ... - Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - |
I know he has done some good interviews in the past. But this one is the pits. I'm not commenting on whether our FM is right or wrong on the issue being debated. But the way Karan Thapar carries on and on, it is difficult to not get irritated. The following extract summarizes the interview rather aptly. P Chidambaram: You must give up this habit of quibbling Karan. Karan Thapar: I am not quibbling. P Chidambaram: You are. I think you are and many of your viewers will think you are. Yes sir, I totally agree. But I would think quibbling is too mild a word ... Karan Thapar sucks ... - Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - |
Mumbai, its time for some "resilience"
The rains are here!
Mumbai, its time for some "resilience" - Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - |
What really is the point?
What is the point? - Saturday, March 11, 2006 - |
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