Life
Reflections on living deliberately — travel, food, nature, and the small things that make life meaningful.
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Poverty and its brutal consequences
Poverty invokes different kinds of reactions and responses from different people and it has many dimensions. That makes it a very fascinating topic for…
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Social media is not the barometer of nation’s mood.
Social media is increasingly influencing policy makers, politicians and bureaucrats in visualizing and shaping some of the key decisions that have a very comprehensive…
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Empathy and Economics
One of the most annoying thing in the pre-cable/satellite television era was Doordarashan mourning demise of political leaders or other eminent personalities. It meant…
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Lighting Up Young Minds
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. -Agatha Christie Indeed, a…
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Bihar: A Glorious Past and An Uncertain Future
As I walked past a small hut the chorus of ‘ek duni do.. do duni char.. caught my attention. The sound was coming from…
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Horrible Fast Track Chennai
I have been using Fast Track Chennai for almost a couple of years now, and I realized that I really need a better alternative…
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The Mind of the Market
For someone who works on ‘understanding markets’ and is familiar with previous works of Michael Shermer, picking “The Mind of the Market” from the…
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Gathering Past in Muzaffarpur
I was searching for the small magazine shop near Shyam Talkies but could not find any trace of that shop. This shop had been…
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Stink of Money
We looked from the car window to find ‘Raju Ka Hotel’ – no signboards, nothing, no sign of a decent eating joint on either…