Greetings, amigos. Please set some time aside for an eclectic selection of posts
\nfrom the Indian blogosphere. This week we have 22 posts for you to sample, and
\nas usual, I’ve taken some time to go beyond the nominated posts and find other
\nnoteworthy pieces of prose. I’ve even broken them into topics. So for instance,
\nif you couldn’t care less about cricket (like me), you can skip the sports
\nsection completely. Apologies for the minor delay in posting. There was a power
\nproblem at home. You’d think a UPS mated to a spike-buster would do the trick,
\nbut noooo…<\/p>\n
On with the show, shall we? <\/p>\n
Satya argues for liberalisation Patrix, in a post that rules him out as a libertarian, opines that individual In another post, Patrix ruminates Harini talks about how Indians will marry anything and everything in as much Nitin Pai ridicules a foreign On Sepia Mutiny, Anna is miffed that a list of the best 50 restaurants in the Saket Vaidya, in a long<\/i> post, details Suhail Kazi has a meandering post on his journey and the trials and Anand Fellow atheist Sybil, who lives in Melbourne, finds that most of her Akshay Naveen, on the CCS blog, has suggestions for books that explain how markets Neelakantan takes Swaroop forgets to use the spell-check while writing that Saurav And Nandan thinks Sehwag is more like Selva Rajesh Jain believes that affordable Gaurav
\nof tertiary education<\/a> (yet oddly enough not primary and secondary education)<\/strike>
\nand thinks the government should stop trying to regulate everything. In
\nanother post<\/a>, he points out that the Punjab government is opting for a
\nschool voucher system after seeing a big drop in education standards. A model
\nfor the rest of the country to follow? This is an interesting blog that the
\nCartel<\/a> will watch closely. <\/p>\n
\nrights can and should<\/i> be subverted<\/a> in a time of national crisis.
\nShocking! Somebody tell him about Indira Gandhi and her Emergency. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
\nabout making safe career choices<\/a> or leaving it all to do something one
\nloves. <\/p>\n
\nstyle as possible. That
\nincludes marrying trees too<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\npolicy expert’s suggestion<\/a> to negotiate with terrorists in Kashmir. (Get proper<\/i>
\npermalinks, Nitin. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\nworld doesn’t
\nhave anything Asian in it<\/a>. (I want to make that list one day with my
\nrestaurant, but given how poorly Indians receive gourmet multi-course meals,
\nit may not happen if it’s in this country.) <\/p>\n
\nhis concern for the poor<\/a> and how he has fed many a poor person on the
\nstreet.<\/p>\n
\ntribulations on his way to getting
\na Social Security Number<\/a> in USA.<\/p>\n
\nreminisces<\/a> about witnessing large rallies in Kerala, God’s own country (how
\nI hate that term!) <\/p>\n
\ncolleagues have tried
\nsome drug or the other<\/a>. <\/p>\n
\ngoes on a train ride<\/a> in Mumbai and tries to explain some of the local
\nhistory.<\/p>\nEconomics<\/h4>\n
\nwork around the world<\/a>.<\/p>\nMarketing and Management<\/h4>\n
\npleasure in trying food<\/a> from different vendors, grateful that he doesn’t
\nhave to endure the standardised mediocrity served at McDonald’s. He also thinks
\nthat ready-to-eat<\/a><\/i>
\npackaged food<\/a> has more potential in India than ready-to-cook<\/i> food.<\/p>\nSports<\/h4>\n
\nGanguly’s six-match suspension<\/a> will help him get the break that he needs. To
\nignite a flame war, he even mentions the support for Saurav from some
\ncricket-loving Cartel members. Could he possibly be talking about posts
\nlike this<\/a>?<\/p>\n
\nDon Bradman<\/a> than even the legendary Sachin. <\/p>\nScience and Technology<\/h4>\n
\nis upset at Microsoft<\/a> being granted a patent on a method to access emergency
\ndata.<\/p>\n
\nbandwidth will lead the way<\/a> in encouraging development of ASP-modelled
\nsoftware solutions for SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises)<\/p>\nHumour<\/h4>\n
\nhas an excellent plan<\/a> for eliminating all crime from Mumbai. It involves a
\nstrategic identification of all the hotspots of criminal activity, and then
\nshutting them down one by one. Bravo!<\/p>\n