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Or maybe it was Janta Ki Adalat.Anyways it was the one with Rajat Sharma as the host. Or janata’s lawyer. The  Aamir Khan has all the qualities that I would usually admire. For one he makes good movies. He has the spirit of questions thrown at Aamir were that he is arrogant, crazy, control freak , doesn’t like other movies of bollywood and Aamir Khan handled them with aplomb.He was poked on his tiff with Shahrukh Khan and if he has ghost directed many movies.He was mostly tactful and sometimes blunt. continue reading…

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnsxymuKAV8

 If you check out some of the American lists on world cinemas greatest directors, two Indian names can be expected to be there.One is Satyajit Ray and the other is Gurudutt. So I decided to watch the movie Pyasa , knowing very well that he made a very different movie which turned out to be a box office flop but later on went to acquire a cult following. continue reading…

I always thought that Indians would be good at value investing. I mean we love bargains and like to minimize our expenditures. And if there is any community which would be best at value investing it has to be Gujjus. Mohnish Pabrai makes the same point in his book Dhando Investor. Dhando ( dhanda or business) as practiced in Gujarat has always been minimizing the downside risk while retaining the upside potential pretty much what value investing preaches , or so the author claims. continue reading…

http://www.thebeatlesinindia.com/

No these are not the beatles, but the actors in the movie Darjeeling Limited.They do look little bit like Paul , John and third one can pass off as either George or Ringo.These characters in the movie are also on a spiritual trip to India – to rediscover their lost souls or something( Beatles also did something similar). The remarkable thing is that when you watch movies made by the americans or europeans on India you realize that these hapless chaps just don’t get our country.

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http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/979152/Opinion-Perspective—year-holds-advertising-seen-Pythagoras/

Sometime back I read in a newspaper supplement  either Hindustan or Times ) a defense of astrology by one of their regular astrologers. The employment of astrolgers by newspapers is in itself something they have to defend but that is another blog. So the astrologer gave the example of Pythagoras who apparently believed in numerology. Can Pythagoras be completely right about Pythagoras theorem and be all and all a mathematical genius and yet be wrong about numerology. I mean if a genius like Pythagoras believed in numerology then it has to be correct.

Well the answer to if Pythagoras can be completely right about one thing and completely wrong about another is – yes , yes and a thousand times yes. Aristotle believed that earth is the centre of the universe. Galileo dismissed the axioms of Kepler which were later used by Newton to arrive at his three fundamental laws. Newton believed that alchemy was a greater science than physics (yes I know it’s a little ironic). Almost every great scientist has been so completely wrong about something that it is a little hilarious.

But you have to admire the neat trick of using the name of Pythagoras to make the gullible readers believe in the gibberish that is astrology. Even if they don’t know any other scientist – they would have heard of Pythagoras thanks to the one theorem. So why not use the hard wired tendency to believe authority to dupe people. The question remains that do these astrologers believe their own lies as well.

- Amaresh