The Delhi government apparently feels that women are rather thick in the head. Considering that it is headed by a lady, we must now take this as a conclusive fact. I am reacting to the continued insistence of the government in making helmets for two wheeler riders compulsory for men , but optional for women.
This piece of news was too good to resist. Regular readers are familiar with this...
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Friday, 27 April 2012
How the stock market works
"Company X crushes estimates; Shares Soar" screams the headlines in Forbes, a respected business magazine. "Company X profits slip 35% as spending continues" proclaims the equally loud headlines of The Wall Street Journal, a respectable business newspaper. Both refer to the same company - Amazon - and the same piece of news, the first quarter results of the company. Flummoxed ?? Read...
Sunday, 22 April 2012
1984
Alas, George Orwell's prophecy has come true. Its 30 years late, but its now a reality. His book, 1984, I mean. For those unfamiliar with the aforesaid gentleman and book [having been born subsequently :) ], here's a helpful link as to what it is all about.
The sudden realisation dawned on me through the innocuous act of installing the Ghostery plugin to my Firefox browser. I had innocently thought...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
What you can get with a billion dollars
In the last post, I asked a rhetorical question - What would you do with a billion dollars ?
Well, I read in the Economic Times today, that it was all too real a question to two people. They were faced with precisely this problem.
Read here , what they actually did. I found this a moving piece and would strongly commend reading ...
Saturday, 14 April 2012
What can you get for a billion dollars
You have a billion dollars burning a hole in your pocket (Gils, Zeno, and a few others have that problem !). Take your pick. What would you buy ? 800 patents, dating back to the early days of the Internet. Or a red hot new internet rage that everybody is talking about but which has no revenues. Or boring old Yellow Pages. What would you take ?
These are three transactions that actually happened...
Friday, 6 April 2012
Wealth and Morality are not mutually exclusive
Not for nothing is Archbishop Desmond Tutu widely known as "South Africa's moral conscience". The Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1984, Archbishop Tutu was one of the leaders of the anti apartheid struggle in South Africa. He headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of apartheid which so enabled South Africa to move on from the past and not start a war of vengeance. He speaks often...
Sunday, 1 April 2012
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
Immortal words from an immortal movie. If you don't know where this quotation is from, click here (excusable because this was before you were born)
I am however writing about more prosaic things. Like the American nomination of Jim Yong Kim for the Presidency of the World Bank. Readers of this blog may recall that I had railed about the practice of nominating an American for the head of the World...
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