It’s been a while I shared links. Here are few interesting articles I read recently : On western indologists and their flawed perceptions on India’s culture. Interesting to see western Indologists interpreting their Sanskrit scholarship as sufficient qualification to comment on literature as vast as India’s scriptures. Interestingly, the Sanskrit schools, Indology studies initiated during [...]
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Reading list (links)
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Gist
Tags:China·Gist·Huawei·India·Indologist·sachin
BlueRay to Choices and more links
June 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Gist
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 [...]
Tags:Economy·Education·Gist·Idea·marketing·parable·TED
School choice, Opera, spam, startups & more links
June 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Gist
This week’s links : School Choice. This is one of the significant things I discovered this week. This is a system, where government or individuals directly pay, via school vouchers, for the poor children to study in the schools of their choice. I think this system makes more sense for a country like India. It [...]
Tags:cnn·economist·Education·Entrepreneur·IBM·India·links·school·twitter
US-China tangle, Intel’s moves, smart grids & more links
June 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Gist
This week’s bookmarks Chinese newspaper editorial warns on India’s moves to check on China’s intrusion in Aurnachal Pradesh, India. Interesting take and some really bold statements made. via This week I got introduced to the whole US-China treasuries dead lock. More I digged in, richer information I got. I think this thought experiment explained at [...]
Tags:China·Energy·Intel·links·Microsoft·smartgrids·US
Quant Nerds, a forgotten reformer and Indian education (links)
June 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Gist
In few of the blogs I follow, some of the “Weekend readings” posts (links to interesting articles, blog posts etc.,.), the bloggers share, are really good ones. I like to post links of interesting articles I read & heard. If I don’t had time to read or did not pass though any good write-ups, I [...]
Tags:Aurobindho·Education·finance·India·quant·Spirituality
Social, media, communication & more links
June 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Gist
Where is Everyone ? – This article has brilliant images of how the communication transformed in the last 200 years. Interesting take on future, how the traditional media houses will die in the hands of new age online social networks. Warren Buffet takes charge – An interesting Chinese battery, mobile phone and electric car company [...]
Tags:Buffet·Education·Godhra·Gujarat·India·Intel·investment·links·media·social
Google PowerMeter, Mythology and more links
May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Gist
I am going to try this. I am going try to share interesting stories I’ve read and heard (podcasts) on internet. I am thinking to do it regularly. Google PowerMeter – The story behind Google power meter which many think great app in making. A brilliant hypothesis by Cringley on how Google & power companies [...]