Muses of Murari

I had this repeated experience. I go to Landmark, Forum Mall, Bangalore. Browse through books. Some one turns up. Quotes some book name and ask me if I’d read it. Negative answer and then starts introductions and continues with questions on work, family etc.,. After some 10 mins of speaking, gets visiting card and leaves. [...]

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A couple years of ago, I had an item in my ToDo list. That is to learn stock market and make money. So I bought a couple of books on stock market and started to read. Slowly I learned various aspects of it (still learning) through online blogs, forums and websites. After a while, I [...]

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I find it amusing – names of some of the Indian Nobel laureates.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan.
And also surprised to see this year’s Nobel peace prize winner!

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In his insightful article about virtual education, Robert X. Cringley wrote on these lines :
…. It’s that whole “degree from MIT” thing that allows that school not to worry about sharing its lecture bounty, because in the education system lectures are viewed as worthless unless they lead to a degree.
Why is that?
My friend Richard Miller [...]

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Every time I cross the traffic signal on my motorcycle in any important junctions, I unconsciously become conscious about my riding and also on the presence of traffic cops. Most of the time, these traffic cops ( in cases what I observed in Chennai & Bangalore ) would hide in some obscure places at sides [...]

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I am in kinda mini vacation. Spending more time eating (I put on more weight), sleeping, visiting temples, trying different eateries and more importantly listening to more & more family stories. These stories are not that kind that enhances one’s knowledge base but certainly increases prejudice against many of my clans. I know I shouldn’t [...]

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Like me, many among us feel many Indian government offices across the country are shabby and often we find ourselves being highly critical of the attitudes of many officers. Arrogant, unhelpful, scornful and many more adjectives can describe. Almost all the times, we just settle with personal rants and not take actions. But here, a [...]

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Last week started with one day trip to my relative’s place in Andhra. The trip itself not an eventful one, but, caught up with lot of family discussions, pranks, hot gossips & hush-hush stories. Well, you bet you need ‘em, at least to remind, we’ve such-a-such people connected to us in the name of [...]

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Could you please get me “Security Analysis” by Paul Graham. The attender replied “hmm.. you said by whom?” I said to him “Paul Graham”. “Oh! Graham. I will get it!”. Then slowly it hit me. Oops! I felt embarrassed. I quoted the wrong author name. But, the attender was kind enough to not to notice [...]

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Riding my red bird, on a highway like road, in a cold morning is a special experience. I am getting this experience everyday, on my way to work place. I take Outer ring road ( in Bangalore ), from KR Puram railway station to Devarabisanahalli (near Bellandur), not a picturesque route though, but gives a [...]

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