tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34038612011-12-13T19:59:30.447-08:00Life 'n' Love"When I am with you and my thoughts are at rest and there is nothing to say, then I will know that my search has ended."Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-37813712110622117872008-01-10T20:47:00.000-08:002008-01-10T20:56:35.042-08:00Indian Govt beats Infosys by more than two times in revenue growth!Howzaat!! :-)Check this out for Indian governments tax receipts growth.Check this out for Infosys's quarterly resultsGrowth numbers for India governments revenues (primarily tax receipts) sound like 40-50%!!! What a JUMBO JUMBO growth rate to have.Comparitively Infosys's growth rate numbers are more like 18-20%.So here's the news Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-122768618296030652007-10-26T01:54:00.000-07:002007-10-26T01:56:55.458-07:00Today’s BS has an interesting article in it’s Editorial page… written by Rediff CEO Ajith Balakrishnan.Interesting point of view on how phenomenally talented people of Florence like Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Galileo etc produced a lot of work of art and science but never really managed to convert it to other forms of successes like financial or industrial success…How ideas and technology become Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-22980453561267321522007-06-30T22:13:00.000-07:002007-06-30T22:26:48.585-07:00Hey I want to sell power, computer games & medicines too!Was reading this story on rediff about the unrelated diversifications of Indian Corporate groups.Me and my partner Samarjeet regularly discuss this...I guess, upto a point it is diversification and beyond that it sounds like pure opportunism. It's like saying hey I have the money, I can win in anything. Are the rest of the players fools Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-22981678971067552612007-06-10T10:14:00.000-07:002007-06-12T06:04:41.325-07:00GDP growth and the caste conflict in IndiaTwo things have caught my attention recently.One is the fact that India is growing ever more faster on GDP and market terms. We achieved 9.4% GDP growth, reached $1trillion in GDP and $1 trillion in combined stock exchange market caps! Phenomenal achievement. (Also read that Amartya Sen and team of others are going to put together an index of Happiness asSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1168176418783694742007-01-07T05:16:00.000-08:002007-01-07T05:52:01.013-08:00Private Equity: Just an arbitrage or long-lasting value?Just read this Fortune article on Private Equities. It is simply the best article I have read in a long time. And here's Basab Pradhan's very well-thought out comments on it.The key focus of the Fortune article is to mention the advantages of a PE managed firm over a public company. My feel on these advantages are as follows:1) More of the Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1167752266188295172007-01-02T07:34:00.000-08:002007-01-02T07:37:46.203-08:00My New Years in this MilleniumI just realised that the last 6-7 years have been pretty mobile for me. It was fun trying to remember where I spent each of the last 7 New Years:2007 - Mumbai2006 - IIM Ahmedabad2005 - Chittorgarh, Rajasthan2004 - Home (Kerala)2003 - Some street in Denver2002 - Grand Place, Brussels2001 - Chennai2000 - HomeGood memories..Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1163761949114731392006-11-17T03:02:00.000-08:002006-11-17T03:12:29.163-08:00A case for the need for Consultants from Donal Rumsfeld's famous quoteHere is the quote:"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1163761318334112472006-11-17T02:59:00.000-08:002006-11-17T03:01:59.713-08:00Copyrighting my quote about the Internet"Knowing and not knowing are 60 seconds apart!"Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1163332321978110372006-11-12T03:35:00.000-08:002006-11-12T21:37:05.493-08:00Food sector Product/Service Idea for IndiaThe idea is simple. A healthy balanced diet food combo meal that is packaged and delivered fresh to your house/office mainly during lunch.Genesis of the idea: I have been eating in hotels for 10 years now. Just celebrated the 10th anniversary and I am sick of it. Not because of taste issues or because I am bored. These can be corrected by changing Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1160113915390946472006-10-05T22:44:00.000-07:002006-10-05T23:46:35.346-07:00India and China are VERY differentI had always thought of writing my opinion on this but never got to. But yesterday was the last straw. I happened to read or hear India and China being referred to in the same breath 4 times within one hour over TV and Newspapers.I do agree that there are some similarities like we are both branded as "developing", are fast growing compared to the so-called "Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1155099628191583862006-08-08T21:57:00.000-07:002006-08-08T22:03:22.656-07:00Due to Adnan Hajj, who photoshop-ped history, now people will say:"Where there is smoke,there is Adobe Photoshop"Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1152632382601470442006-07-11T08:29:00.000-07:002006-07-11T09:05:31.783-07:00Awestruck by MumbaiI am writing this at a very sad moment for Mumbai. 7-8 blasts have happened in the local trains here. The trains have stopped running for now and there's chaos on the roads.I was just walking around to see what's happening and found some crowding on the road. I approached it to find out more. Suddenly a man from among the crowd turns and asks me "Saab aapko kidar jaane ka hey. Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1152543959935205972006-07-10T08:01:00.000-07:002006-07-10T08:06:38.860-07:00The Emperor is nakedI just finished reading this very interesting article by Pankaj Mishra in New York Times.This according to me summarises a lot of the confusion surrounding India on whether we have become a developed nation/superpower or not. There’s this economic theory called Lewis’s Dual Sector growth model which is supposed to take countries from Developing to Developed. This model was theSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1152543474724884672006-07-10T07:56:00.000-07:002006-07-10T08:00:24.876-07:00Back to Blogging after a two year sabbaticalI am impressed by the sheer passion of Ravi in writing and in participating in this whole new expression revolution that blogging has now become. It has sufficiently inspired me to return to blogging after 2 years :-)Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1117000680008387362005-05-24T22:51:00.000-07:002005-05-24T23:04:34.983-07:00IIMcatwalk.comCheck out my latest initiative: IIM cat walk It is an attempt to build a community to share information on CAT, IIMs, other top B-Schools, and management education in India.I was always concerned about myself consuming the internet without contributing to its richness. This is an attempt to bring in rich content to the net.Don't forget to checkout the CAT Forum and register for it.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1086504225224737332004-06-05T23:42:00.000-07:002004-06-05T23:49:28.180-07:00Scary Movie Part 1
Post 2004 election India
Return of the RobinHoods
And just wait and watch for the rest of the parts of this movie for which we paid money and have bought the tickets.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1086503122258228082004-06-05T23:23:00.000-07:002004-06-05T23:27:32.883-07:00From BS editorial:
Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has ruled out the resumption of foodgrain exports this year.
At the same time, he has indicated that grain procurement operations would be extended to all those states where such arrangements do not exist, and that the public distribution system (PDS) would be expanded substantially.....
...Banning exports will merely mean Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1086502314760723012004-06-05T23:06:00.000-07:002004-06-05T23:11:54.760-07:00TN Ninan in Business Standard:
...Most of all, there is the bald truth that rapid growth by itself achieves quite a lot on the employment front. All of this could perhaps be short-handed to argue that there is precious little that is wrong with the reform programme, except that there hasn’t been enough of it.
This is certainly not to argue that there is no unemployment in India, but to Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1086501286975304662004-06-05T22:52:00.000-07:002004-06-05T22:57:25.200-07:00Communist anyone?
More from Sunil Jain's article:
As in India, in China too, there has been a decline in employment in state-owned enterprises, from 103 million in 1990 to 68 million now.
But in China this was made up by the increase in urban private industrial employment, from 6 million to 42 million in the same period.
I would love to hear the comments of Communists on this? Not that I Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1086500686117364062004-06-05T22:31:00.000-07:002004-06-05T22:49:33.813-07:00Public Policy: Is it really well thought out?
From Sunil Jain's analysis on Job vs growth in Business Standard:
In the textiles sector where India has a very low export share, for instance, years of tax-breaks for small units discouraged larger units from coming up and stunted the country’s ability to service large orders.
The share of big players is 93 per cent in the spinning sector, to cite Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-1072948494747437662004-01-01T01:14:00.000-08:002004-01-01T01:27:13.140-08:00New Music
Try out the site www.musicophile.com. It is the perfect site for a music lover who wants keep in touch with the latest in music world while also reading about who were the best of yesteryears.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-918221132003-04-01T21:08:00.000-08:002003-04-01T21:10:26.000-08:00If you are a software engineer or someone awed by the growth of the Indian SW industry, here is an interesting and differing viewpoint on how it evolved:
The Market for ProgrammersSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-895474902003-02-22T03:55:00.000-08:002003-02-22T03:56:27.000-08:00"There comes a time when experience becomes confidence"
- Indian cricketer Srinath on his performance in the world cup upto now.
Thought the context in which Srinath said this is not very important, this statement taken independently is one of the best I have heard in recent times.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-885761152003-02-04T22:08:00.000-08:002003-02-05T04:56:12.000-08:00Western or Eastern?
From an e-mail to one of my best friends. "...What I feel is that all these brands like western and eastern etc are just different ways of thinking and each and every individual is capable of thinking either way...
isolation of societies in the past, resulted in prevailing thought-strains decide the course and the break-up of the isolation today resulted in the mixing up of Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-869552152003-01-05T00:35:00.000-08:002004-01-01T09:13:15.590-08:00the sleeping man woke into the world, into the chirping of the birds, the morning sounds, the red line of the sun just about to rise, the blinding world of senses. He knew he was not doing the right thing.But man cannot be stopped. He woke again. And then again and again. Until it became a habit and then a necessity and then natural. Time went by. The wind of thought weathered the rock of truth. Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-811328982002-09-04T02:24:00.000-07:002002-09-04T02:27:36.000-07:00Now here's a demigod
One of the men I most admire turns 100. In Test Cricket your age is not what how many years you have lived but how many tests you have played. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is playing his 100th test tomorrow.
The best quality that I like in him is that he is so focused on winning the match, or taking the century or a wicket. He wants to do it all in cricket. By the time he retires Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-808244112002-08-28T07:38:00.000-07:002002-09-02T05:11:09.000-07:00Some movies I have seen in 2002:
A Beautiful Mind2001
Bridget John’s Diary2001
A Streetcar named Desire1951
A Silent Movie1976
The Count of Monte Cristo2002
Paisà1946
The Godfather I, II & III (watched it again)1972+
Stachka1925
Marathon Man1976
Catch 221970
Reality Bites1994
Crimes and Misdemeanours1989
Dog Day Afternoon1975
Léon1994
The Postman always rings twice1946
On the Waterfront1954
Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-807691662002-08-27T02:19:00.000-07:002002-08-27T02:19:09.493-07:00Overcast but not raining, sad but not crying, clouds without thunder, thoughts without anger
an anticipation of something to come, but a passive mirror-like existence,
No cause no effect, the quantum confusion of life…
Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-805181812002-08-21T05:06:00.000-07:002002-08-21T05:06:25.346-07:00Wish you a Happy ONAM.
(This is probably my first Onam away from home!)Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-805144112002-08-21T01:38:00.000-07:002002-08-21T01:38:07.156-07:00I was born a day and a year short of 100 years of Einstein. Actually I am as much of a genius as him. It's just that I am slightly cleverer enough to keep this a secret.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-804253472002-08-19T05:20:00.000-07:002002-08-19T05:20:35.460-07:00"I" am at war with "my" ego.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-799753362002-08-08T02:22:00.000-07:002002-08-08T02:22:04.540-07:00I really feel sorry for my apologetic nature.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-798851702002-08-06T03:10:00.000-07:002002-08-06T03:19:43.000-07:00Brussels has gone back to the winter days. Gone are the few sunny days we had in between when the temperature had even gone up to 35degreeC making me feel at home. Now it's like one of those December, Jan days with reduced visibility and temperature, cold rain and winds. There is no good reason why I should venture outside. Better sit and browse.
I resemble a browsing machine nowadays and my moodSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-796842762002-08-01T05:13:00.000-07:002002-08-01T05:14:52.000-07:00Hmm.. I have to solve this problem today… But I do not know the meaning of this word which is important here. Ok, will check on the net. Oh! So that’s what it means… BTW hey this quote is good. Where I had I read something similar? Ya in that book. What a fine book! I had absolutely no idea who murdered until Poirot revealed it in his unique manner towards the end. I remember reading the last Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-795430842002-07-29T03:18:00.000-07:002002-07-29T03:18:21.320-07:00To what ends are weekends?Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-794312782002-07-26T02:18:00.000-07:002002-07-26T02:21:11.000-07:00It's the people in their 20s who change the world, only it takes some of them 20-30 years.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-792654532002-07-22T11:24:00.000-07:002002-07-24T06:23:21.000-07:00Monday, July 22nd, 2002
Are there any Absolutes?
What follows is my personal opinion. And so it is a relative quest for the existence of absolutes, not an absolute quest. I have used female beauty just as an example. Probably this concept can be extended to other similar cases.
One of the questions that has interested me a lot is whether there is any absolute in the matter of female beauty, inSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-788635272002-07-12T07:23:00.000-07:002002-07-15T04:04:13.000-07:00Friday, July 12th, 2002
Infinite Ignorance
- Look into the past. Before us there were apes, and still before the single-cell life evolved(?) from the organic broth. Long before that the earth came into being. The earliest we think back upto is the origin of the Universe itself. The Big-Bang theory and the Steady State theory. Ever thought whether Universe is just the name for the matter or Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-788619202002-07-12T06:33:00.000-07:002002-07-12T08:18:52.000-07:00Friday, July 12th, 2002
I am a Celebrity
You are reading the weblog of a Celebrity(I am just being an ass). My name and views have been mentioned in passing(I am being modest) in a Rediff article. This article has now been linked from the Rediff front page. (By the time you read this, it might have vanished from there, in which case you can read the article using the first link).
I knew it. Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-787256552002-07-09T03:23:00.000-07:002002-07-09T03:23:36.043-07:00Indian food makes my mouth water. Western food makes my eyes water.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-782746502002-06-27T09:47:00.000-07:002002-06-27T09:47:09.060-07:00If people want to find out what happens after death, they should commit suicide.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-781275572002-06-24T04:03:00.000-07:002002-06-24T04:06:46.000-07:00It makes me feel good when I hear news of Indian IT companies addressing social concerns and doing something positive in that direction. I am not very sure if companies are the right institutions for social improvement activities but for India anything in that direction is welcome.
I had heard a lot about TCSs' efforts in rural literacy in AndhraPradesh. Infosys ofcourse has been doing a lot in Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-780193392002-06-21T02:56:00.000-07:002002-06-21T03:14:12.000-07:00What are we doing in this tiny planet in a tiny galaxy in this infinite universe???
What is the origin of all this? What is going to be the end of all this? What are the boundaries? What is the purpose?
Should I do anything? Or should I just sit and observe? Should I seek? Or should I remain passive?
Should I look forward back or anywhere at all?
Is there anything eternal? I will die in some Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-779433052002-06-19T11:23:00.000-07:002002-06-19T11:26:31.000-07:00So India is going to have the rare distinction(?) of having bachelors as Prime Minister and President! Probably even a first in the history of the world for countries with similar structure of government.
One has been in politics for more than 50 years and the other not even for 50 minutes. I hope (forgetting what a President can anyway do) that Kalaam brings to Indian polity the most needed Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-777052962002-06-13T11:00:00.000-07:002002-06-13T11:02:48.000-07:00There is this enthusiastic female, cheerful, energetic. When she comes and talks its like "ek hava ka jhonka aya" (like a gust of wind she came). But she's left now. Me? I am a fallen tree.Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-777049972002-06-13T10:52:00.000-07:002002-06-13T10:52:30.920-07:00Whenever anyone asked me a puzzle, I used to forget everything else and just think of solving it. I looked at the others thinking they knew more than me and I am in the dark and lost. But I always managed solving those simple problems and return to normal life. I am not sure if I am just trapped in one such situation now. Someone asked me a puzzle, I forgot everything else and focused my Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-776576552002-06-12T09:14:00.000-07:002002-06-12T09:18:24.000-07:00Watched Samsara directed by Pan Nalin. It is shot in Ladhakh and is the story of a Budhist monk who is tempted to live a normal family life. Set in the backdrop of Ladhakh, it has stunning visuals, a simple yet profound story, very good performances by the cast, comparitively lesser dialogues and great appeal. It is in Tibetan and being in Belgium, the subtitles were in French and Dutch. Still Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-773338992002-06-04T08:51:00.000-07:002002-06-04T08:54:39.000-07:00Tuesday, June 4th, 2002
Live and Let Live
It is very irritating to read what is happening in India. Here is a poor nation trying hard to solve her problems. As it is, she has so many to start with – population, poverty, pollution. It’s a long list. And we have a democratically elected government, which is trying, irrespective of the problems within it or the effectiveness of its measures, to do Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-770652032002-05-28T08:19:00.000-07:002002-05-29T02:38:14.000-07:00Tuesday, May 28th, 2002
Simpson's Paradox
This is an interesting paradox from statistics. It is not exactly a paradox because there is no logical contradiction. It can be stated as "Aggregate proportions can reverse the direction of the relationship seen in the individual pieces". (There may be a better, comprehensive way to state it.)
Let me explain it. Let's say Me and Anand throw stones at aSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-768393922002-05-22T06:40:00.000-07:002002-05-22T06:40:35.810-07:00Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002
What can be done to avoid a war?
The possibility of a war between India and Pakistan is very real today. For anyone who understands the situation between India and Pakistan atleast to some level of detail, this is probably the last moment to think up some way we can solve this problem without a war?
I can understand people who will say that war is the only solution. ButSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-766199722002-05-16T07:39:00.000-07:002002-05-16T07:39:19.376-07:00I opened the door and looked out. There were stars and darkness. I wondered why there is darkness when there are stars? Maybe they are too far. And in their distance, too much distance is so similar to absence, the default is darkness. If there is nothing, then there is darkness. I walked out and turned around to find that the door was no more there. My door to the world has been lost. Am I Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-765316912002-05-14T03:47:00.000-07:002002-05-14T07:27:01.000-07:00Tuesday, May 14th, 2002
Language
I was just reading this at itismylife and felt like writing on a thought, which has occupied my attention for some days now.
It is just that we take language for granted and don't think of the reality, but just ideas and the language. To be more clear, there is some reality out there in the world. We perceive it through our senses and we have an internal Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-761143242002-05-03T03:15:00.000-07:002002-05-03T03:19:07.000-07:00Friday, May 3rd, 2002
One World: An old Idea revisited
An aside comment in the previous entry led to an e-mail discussion with a friend and it resulted in this thought:
"How were countries formed? Some religion based, some language based, some race based etc. And now we are speaking of countries having people of many religions, languages, races etc and being proud of this fact too!!! Also they Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-759551352002-04-29T01:14:00.000-07:002002-04-29T01:23:47.000-07:00Monday, April 29th, 2002
World Economy and India
I have a gut feeling that something is wrong with Economics. I don't mean the way it is going, recession etc. Economics itself is futile or rather the human activities we study under economics are futile. I also have another gut feeling. There is something wrong with this concept of the world divided as countries. It's something like the animal's Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-755091212002-04-17T09:25:00.000-07:002002-04-17T09:25:50.756-07:00Monday, April 15th, 2002
An Important Discussion
Myself and Harish(my project-mate) had this very interesting discussion with an erudite colleague of ours. He has studied Philosophy in detail and was very thorough in what he said. I hadn’t thought out much of what I said and now have relaised my ignorance of much of Religion.
The discussion was about his disbelief in Religion. He says that Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-754255772002-04-15T08:36:00.000-07:002002-04-15T08:37:31.000-07:00Monday, April 15th, 2002
Villa of Disharmony
There amidst those small, middle-class houses and huts stands a mini-palace. Huge walls protect it, gardens add beauty to the surroundings, the maali is working to further improve it. The central three-storied concrete structure is huge, though not very good looking. People passing it look at it with envy. I, the invisible, enter into this house.
Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-754225752002-04-15T07:00:00.000-07:002002-04-15T08:17:28.000-07:00Monday, April 15th, 2002
Further on Complexity
Continuing from the previous blog, I think, now I should start the process of complex thinking. Are we on the right road? First of all, does the world require a road at all and should people think about all this?
I think, thinking about these is unavoidable, irrespective of whether it is required or not. This is the one assumption I have to make. Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-752809232002-04-11T03:19:00.000-07:002002-08-19T10:34:38.000-07:00Thursday, April 11th, 2002
Why things are complex
Thinking simplistically is the one mistake people often do. Let me take a serious look at the world around. Where is the world going?
After the initial primitive existence of man there was this stage called the Dark Ages, when pursuit of knowledge was curtailed and authority was established in the name of God and feudalism, to the advantage of Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-752441402002-04-10T06:24:00.000-07:002002-04-10T06:29:25.000-07:00Wednesday, April 10th, 2002
I can pose as Nostradamus Part 1: Short-Term predictions
Apartment building will not have corridors anymore. The door to the balcony will be the front door. People will stand on the two pedals of their Personal Flying Machines and just fly out. These machines for all commercial purposes will be called flymas(short for FLYing MAChines) and pronounced as falmies*.
ThereSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-752439692002-04-10T06:18:00.000-07:002002-04-10T06:18:04.220-07:00Wednesday, April 10th, 2002
I can pose as Nostradamus
Future prediction is an easy job. Lots of people before and after Nostradamus have given it a try. Only, he was clever. He mastered obscurantism.
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb,
The third big war will begin when the big city is Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-752091702002-04-09T09:39:00.000-07:002002-04-09T09:39:30.036-07:00Tuesday, April 9th, 2002
Wisdom and Practicality
Darks clouds close in from the horizon.
"You mean you haven't read the Vedas! One-Fourth of your life is wasted. Have you read the Upanishads?" the Scholar to the Boatman taking him across the river in some rural village in India.
"No". It slowly started to drizzle.
"Half your life is wasted. What about the Bahagavadgeetha?". The downpour Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-752000162002-04-09T03:48:00.000-07:002002-04-09T03:56:36.000-07:00Monday, April 8th, 2002
Benin & the Indian Bomb
Running out of the subway, I ran into the bus-stand and not seeing the bus, asked the African gentleman "42?".
"Gone".
"Oh no".
I turn and enter into a couple nested shells of thought.
"I too miss... bus..." smiling African gentleman "I look at schedule of 29 and go for a walk. hihi...".
"Bad luck!" I am happy to have someone who is interested in aSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-751984202002-04-09T01:53:00.000-07:002002-04-09T03:59:46.000-07:00Sunday, April 7th, 2002
Optimism?
People who are acquainted with the intensity of my thought(whatever foolishness the content be), like my sister, say, I will go mad by the age of 60. (I ignore the ex-colleagues-posing-to-be-friends, who remove the reference to 60 and use present tense in the previous statement.)
But going by the extent of physical activity I involve in nowadays, I am Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-750684882002-04-05T03:40:00.000-08:002002-04-05T03:46:38.000-08:00Friday, April 5th, 2002
What is
There are many aspects to Brahminism:
-Their origin from the face of Brahma - The Creator as written in Hindu scriptures.
-Their role as one of the four castes in the Chaaturvarna system(The division of society into four castes - Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra).
-Their dedication to the study of the Vedas, Philosophy, Teaching, Astrology and Medical Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-114128902002-04-03T05:22:00.000-08:002002-04-03T06:31:56.000-08:00Wednesday, April 3rd, 2002
The Quest - Method & Limitations
Pursuit of the unknown is challenging. One can do it in any of the many ways. But whatever it is you are pursuing, a positive result is never a neccessary outcome. That we needn't worry about this is adviced in Bhagavadgeetha:
"Karmanyevadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachana,
Ma karmaphalaheturbhurmate sangostva karmani" (II-47)
Meaning: Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-113764302002-04-02T06:26:00.000-08:002002-04-02T06:28:07.000-08:00Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002
Brahminism - The Ideal
For some time now I have been thinking about this concept of Brahminism. Brahmin, as a word means a person who has full knowledge of Brahman, that is God.
How things happen in India nowadays is that anybody who is born in a Brahmin family is a Brahmin. Nobody else is. I was never very satisfied by this order of life in India. I always felt that oneSreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-113446322002-04-01T07:43:00.000-08:002002-04-02T00:59:11.000-08:00Monday, April 1st, 2002
Time for a change
My blogs till now resemble some kind of a travelogue. I am not so bent on travelling. It is just that I landed in Europe at such a young age and have some friends here, who love travelling - Niraj(who is already covered 7 European countries) and Suresh. But still, when I actually went to these places, I really loved it. I think with places like, Paris, Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-112151502002-03-28T08:46:00.000-08:002002-03-29T01:33:18.000-08:00Saturday, March 9, 2002
Switzerland
...then slowly the Lake Geneva and the distant mountains came into view. It looked serene. And the green, grass filled plateau, and hills with huge houses and acres of land surrounding, green and bare(no trees, no garden. Just bare green grass). The whole country is hilly. We changed train at Bern and slowly moved towards Interlaken. Interlaken, between two Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-112147862002-03-28T08:34:00.000-08:002002-03-28T08:34:20.940-08:00Saturday, December 1, 2001
Rome
In the 4th country at the age of 23!
From the moment I landed I saw a different picture of Europe. More people for starters. More filth, dirt, cracked streets, cars passing red signal without another thought. Compare it to Brussels where as in many other countries, on zebra crossings without a signal, the cars have to stop for pedestrians! The two faces of Rome Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-112145992002-03-28T08:28:00.000-08:002002-03-29T01:28:05.000-08:00Saturday, October 13, 2001
Paris
Paris city looks good from up here. The vast city, the Seine snaking through, the tall buildings of the Esplanade, Arc du Triomphe, and the infinite small and big buildings. All visible from up here. I am on top of the Eiffel Tower. Standing at just below a 1000 feet, theory says I can see 42 miles in either direction. Theory is not exactly what is in my mind Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403861.post-112143492002-03-28T08:19:00.000-08:002002-03-29T01:27:44.000-08:00Monday, October 1, 2001
An Indian comes to Belgium
Coming out of one's own country is good in many ways. It probably widens one's outlook. It shows one new ways of life, new people. It gives one reason enough to change and to come out of that conservative shell that becomes the normal way of life. Since I have been changing cities in India every five years, it is not entirely new to me. India Sreekanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095679861284085251noreply@blogger.com0