Muses of Murari

The 3G post continues. The mammoth 67 k odd crore rupees (approx $15 billion) exceeded A Raja’s expected figure. Although it is good news for the government, but not for for telcos. Really, its tremendous stress on telcos. They had honeymoon days with 2G auctions earlier and now as they are in post-honey moon phase, [...]

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For many eyes, it looks like Government would make a windfall of more than expected Rs. 35,000 crores from ongoing 3G auction. A. Raja’s projection of Rs. 50,000 crores, if materializes, might make him super minister overnight,  overriding his image made up of much controversial 2G license auctioning. Sure, government would be happy. Minister would [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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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