Muses of Murari

I do not minimise the difficulties that lie ahead on the long and arduous journey on which we have embarked. But as Victor Hugo once said, “no power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”. I suggest to this august House that the emergence of India as a major economic power in [...]

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A decade ago, when UK government auctioned 3G spectrum, it had reaped a whopping $35 billion dollars (around  INR 150,000 crores in today’s money). This was considered huge success after a poor auctioning of 3G licenses in US and New Zealand in that period. In fact, UK auctioneers, after seeing the scarce resource going so [...]

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Anyone living in India would agree that the prices of common commodities are zooming up for past few weeks. Everyday, my cost conscious and married friend dominate our chatting with the issues related to price rises. Since, I kinda leading bachelor life now-a-days, I was not aware of cost of vegetables or provision items. Recently [...]

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I haven’t read much this week due to work pressure. My google reader items piling up in hundreds every day! Here are couple of reads and videos : Blue ray failure? – Robert Cringley tries to reason out the lame take-off by Blue-ray. You want to understand how economies go boom, go bust and repeat [...]

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