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A tale of two IPOs

December 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · market

It looks like IPO craze is back, but this time, the pattern suggests that more informed people are jumping into it, coupled with smartly set IPO price bands.
Recent IPOs – JSW Energy and DB Corp – are interesting case studies. When I read JSW IPO analysis report, I was somewhat impressed given that clear roadmap [...]

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Smart Energy

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology

Smart Grid -  AT&T ties up with a smart grid player, Silver Spring to use former’s network to transfer information from latter’s equipments. In short, lets say smart meter installed at certain locations and it transfers data, for example, load factor to utility’s center through IP services over telco’s wireless network. That is one simple [...]

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Reading list (links)

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Gist

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 British [...]

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Random musings

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Random

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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Price rises blues

September 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Reflections

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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‘Hurry up kid, you need to catch up with Indians’

June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion

America is nervous about its future generation. It thinks its future generation is not equipped enough like that of India’s and China’s in the area of education to face new dynamics of 21st century. This is some kind of irony. Here, in India, there is huge hue and cry about poor educational system and the [...]

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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 is [...]

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Regulator in Education sector

June 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion

I had this idea for a long time, given the pathetic primary schooling and skewed higher education in India. We need to get the government out and give some independent body full power to bring in what is needed. This is exactly Mr. Kapil Sibal, new HRD minister, echoed in his interview to CNBC TV18 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 – [...]

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