January 2011
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Ormakal
This article in The Hindu’s Open Ed brought back fond memories of a Utopia I lived in for thirteen years.
I was not brought up with a scientific temperament. Somehow, questioning the very basics of what I was studying never occurred to me. Given the constraint of a few formulae and a few neat, challenging practice problems, I found it pretty easy to score well in exams. The gratifying...
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Sidvee's Twitter Year →
To all those people who don’t get Twitter. By the founder of @kweezzz, @sidvee.
Couldn’t have asked for a better piece.
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I love my India, therefore I criticize →
Let me just echo this sentiment once (From The Hindu’s Open Page)
An unsettling trait was people’s tendency to settle for mediocrity. In outwardly nice office buildings and homes, we would find frayed interiors, and messy bathroom facilities in urgent need of repair and cleanup. In fact, finding a clean and adequate toilet became an urgent challenge for us! But those who worked or...
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Enormously Fascinating
It’s that time of the year again, when semester timetables go viral, and consequently, expressions of collective shock or smugness make the rounds in hostel corridors. The cause is of course, the number of vacant periods in a week, or the number of subjects that have a Lab period.
As it turns out, quite clearly, I have nothing to cheer, or jeer, about. Zero vacants, with one Lab period...