The Fourth Nickname of My Life (1)
4/19/12 •
It takes some people years to shake off detested childhood nicknames. My son managed to do it smoothly at the age of 3. One look at my son’s face as an infant convinced me that he had a haughty demeanour. I therefore decided to nickname him Gatthu (Hindi:????? Kannada: ?????) which means “haughty” in Kannada. [...]
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Rules and Principles (5)
4/10/12 •
Kunal and Gaurav are right. In this post, I was talking of the trade-off between rules and principles in policy enforcement. Actually, when you think of it, rules vs. principles is not a simple dichotomy, but a spectrum of choices. Imagine that these choices are spread from left to right. At the left end of [...]
Three Stories and a Lesson (8)
4/01/12 •
Story One This was when I was in Bay Area for a few months on a project. I was a frequent traveler by the BART. In the train stations of the BART system, they have turnstiles where you one has to swipe the ticket both during entry and exit. Presumably, the idea is that if [...]
A Rant About Poverty Numbers (7)
3/22/12 •
The good Pragmatic Desi asked me to write about the release of the latest poverty numbers from NSSO. I do want to write a follow up post to my Pragati article. But the bad news is that I have accumulated a lot of heavy reading material in preparation for that follow up post which I [...]
A Tale of Love and Heartbreak (5)
2/14/12 •
I don’t know how many remember the story of Syed Modi, who was murdered in 1988. He was a star badminton player who had fallen in love and married Amita (Ameeta?) Kulkarni, also a badminton player. He was shot dead in Lucknow while returning from practice. Suspicion fell on his widow and on Dr Sanjay [...]
