After nearly two hundred posts (or more accurately, doodles, notes and scraps) or so, Prof. Gadde Swarup tells us a little about himself, about what moved him on the strange route from Gudavalli to Princeton:
Since my Gudavalli days, I met many mathematicians, some of them like Gromov are considered great, and I even collaborated with [...]
Archive for May, 2007
‘From Gudavalli to Princeton’
Published by May 31st, 2007 in India, Personal and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsShubham is convinced the agitation of the Gujjars in Rajasthan spells the beginning of the end of discrimination:
I always felt that reservations and caste divide will kill this nation, but now maybe every caste will resort to these measures and try to feature in the backward category list. Soon everyone will have reservations and that [...]
Everyone I read seems to be on vacation! Jamesw talks about visiting Kursiong and Kalimpong.
It is a 10 year old bungalow. Bungalow is a word that was appropriated by English in the days of the Raj. In India it refers to a detached property; the number of floors is unimportant. We were in the first, [...]
The tricycle blog discusses conversion to Buddhism:
“Dalits should concentrate on illiteracy and poverty rather than looking for new religions. In fact we think that there are very few differences between Buddhism and Hinduism.” One can only wonder what B. Veeraiah, who fled his Hyderabad-area village after being tied to his mother and beaten all night [...]
Anti-Corruption Video from Himachal on You Tube
Published by May 29th, 2007 in India and Society. 0 CommentsYash Raj of myHimachal brings an interview with Gurudev Chandra Sharma on their effort to act on an complaint of a contractor against an official of Himachal Public Works. The conversation is in Hindi.
LOL! This is a funny cartoon!
Hat-tip: Sudipta
Yuvi, the stats whiz kid from India, who first analyzed Robert Scoble’s blog has done it again. This time, he has done it for Engadget site. Read his analysis on the Engadget site here. Jason Calacanis has already offered him a job. If you are a manager in charge of hiring smart kids, pick up [...]
Apurva explores the idea of representation:
Representation is not about putting more Black (or Latino or Asian) faces on the cover of a magazine (though that is connected) but is concerned with how conventions are set. If conventions are set on the basis of one community and ‘good’ is defined on the basis of that community, [...]
Asha Srinivasan, bridging the carnatic world and the western classical world
Published by May 29th, 2007 in India and Music. 0 CommentsPatrick Durek writes about Asha Srinivasan’s work in the field of music. He also writes about her latest work “By the River of Savathi”.
Kalpitha can be viewed as a metaphor of both Srinivasan the person and Srinivasan the composer: childhood in India, adulthood in America; Carnatic vocal study as a child, Western classical music [...]
Are we facing a Web 2.0 bust in India?
Published by May 29th, 2007 in Announcement and India. 0 CommentsSome tech analysts are predicting that the current hype about Web 2.0 in India will go bust but Trakin thinks that it is not going to be the case.
There are a lot of differences in online world back then and now. First and foremost, enterpreneurs have learnt their lessons from the last burst. There [...]
Swami Muktanand doesn’t like the moral police:
Do we see the moral police lift one finger when Dalits are treated worse than dogs? Do we see them protesting against the female foetacide and infintacide and abortions? Do they do anything about the corruption in the police and judicial systems? Do they stand up for any travesty [...]
Miraghe Sir tipped us off twice that Adivasi kids in the Satpuda ranges of Nandurbar district are starving – but there wasn’t much body of content to the post apart from that one bare fact, so I ignored it the first time. One tends to weigh things, right? Especially when one’s not starving. This is [...]
Anish tries to reproduce a ‘non-reproducible phenomenon’:
I have heard that there is an ‘Itr’ that smells like the dry earth quenched by the first rains. Difficult to believe. Also since its not only that particular intoxicating fragrance but the whole atmosphere – the wind, the birds, the trees, the clouds and everything else in proportion [...]
Sirensongs writes about the relationship between the Indians and the Tibetans in Dharamshala.
On good days, which is most of the time, everyone is united by a common interest: making money from the “spiritual tourists.” Ironically, all this comes just a few weeks after the Indian community had arranged a beautiful Hindu “long-life puja” for [...]
Just Another Indian writes a short poem for Manali (Vashisht). Interesting idea, I must say.
Manzoor Khan does a succinct review of Gurcharandas’ India Unbound:
If India was dismal, economically, under Pt. Nehru, then under Indira Gandhi, it was further wretched, with all manner of draconian controls being imposed on Indian industry. License Raj wouldn’t let companies expand or produce over a government-specified limit. Pricing was controlled. MRTP and FERA made [...]
Dnyeyam starts a signature campaign to ensure that the Dailt family, victims of the Kherlanji massacre, ‘gets free fair impartial justice’ and writes a letter to the President:
The brutal violence, killing, rape of the members of the Dalit family in Kherlanji village of Bhandara district is one small example of the “natural phenomenon” happening in [...]
Hemant Sareen interviews Jeet Thayil:
It’s a pleasure to be asked such a question, because it means you hear poetry as speech. [Not] just [as] words on a page. Reason why lots of us don’t hear poetry is because a legion of school teachers come between us and the poems. They tell us that poetry has [...]
Sheel reviews a book on Jamshetji Tata:
Jamshetji brought to the country iron, steel and hydroelectric power, but also made fine cotton when everyone else was making coarse yarn and revived the silk industry in the South. In 1877, he set up Empress Mills in Nagpur to make cotton cloth. It was the first major industrial [...]
Ratul Banerjee describes life in the Sunderbans:
Even the rumor so goes that at the moment an alligator bites the victim and damages his limbs, the fisherman is unawares of the pain – poverty, marginal living and the bitter struggle for existence in this animal kingdom had in fact made him a numb creature. The fisherman [...]
Nita visits four cities in China – cities without any dirt, dogs or birds:
India, with its billion strong population seems vastly crowded as compared to China. All our cities are choc-o-bloc with people due to migration from the rural areas. In China there is rural migration as well, but I heard that the Chinese government [...]
Dani manages to take a bath with elephants at Royal Chitwan National Park (Nepal). Sounds like a lot of fun. It is a world heritage site too.
Santhosh looks at the choices before poor parents in India:
It no surprise that the worst quality private schools are targeted at the poor. Typically, a poor uneducated parent who has high aspirations for their children, has limited information to evaluate school quality, both in-terms of inputs as well as outputs. Sujatha’s older son, who is [...]
Apu is amazed ‘how shortsighted these opponents of outsourcing are’, because outsourcing accounts for less than 4% of all layoffs and the U.S., ’stands to lose more than 10 times as much as India’ if the global trade environment is disrupted:
‘It’s easy to blame all our economic anxieties and problems on globalization, because that [...]
Nariyal Chutney on marriage proposals:
Who cares about the girl anyway? . I was more interested in speaking to prospective father in law.
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