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I remember watching a Barkha Dutt episode of “who are these people”. As usual it was low on logic and high on entertaining rhetoric – it was about the privacy of celebrities. How their private lives is nobodys business but their own. Now that topic is for another blog some another day but what is inescapable is the fact that all public figures project an image of clean with an empty closet personal life. Tiger Woods projected it for perhaps a lucrative deal from Accenture ,Amitabh Bachann projects it so that he can get farmer status for tax benefits ( I know it doesn’t fit I just felt like writing that) and politicians project it so that they can get votes. continue reading…

The theory of randomness and chance has been made popular by trader and scholar Nassim Taleb in his books fooled by randomness and black swan. But, I know of at least one thinker who had put forward similar theories few centuries ago – Machiavelli. Basically his theory was – that in life you are playing a duet with lady fortuna. Sometimes, she is calling the shots and sometimes you can manage to take the lead and make her play a subordinate role through your efforts. But, she is always a factor. If there is one endeavor where lady luck is absolutely calling the shots – it is finding love. continue reading…

As far as Punjabis are concerned, they are the numero uno in our country. They think they are the most street smart, the best looking and the wisest when it comes to making money. But the truth is that they are a distant second in all of the above. A bihari will run rings around a Punjabi any given day. Kashmiri men and women are much better looking than Punjabis and when it comes to making money, you will pick a Gujarati or Marwari over a Punjabi any day. continue reading…

Or in the words of Buffett – don’t ask your barber if you need a haircut. Or in still simpler words – don’t ask the faculty of a GMAT training centre about the career prospects after MBA. His incentive is to get you enrolled, and thus would create a bias in his mind no matter how honest he is as a person. continue reading…

Kurt Cobain yells out in the end of smells like teen spirit – a denial !!!!!!

And wordsworth once said “ my heart leaps out in thousand joys , as it beholds a rainbow in the sky”. Or he said something to that ilk I cant exactly remember – the point is that a rainbow is an illusion but since it is pleasing, Wordsworth is ready to believe it. continue reading…

It is fashionable to bash our media but shouldn’t we be grateful to them and not just for the entertainment they provide.

After all, what did we have before this media. What chance would Natha farmer have in the good old days of Doordarshan.  Chetan Bhagat says that the Star World generation is being led by Doordarshan generation. He is implying that it was boring ( I guess); but more than boring it was heavily censored. Something like the Harshad Mehta scandal would get a tempered down 30 second coverage while Narsimha Rao’s visit to a local school village where he inaugurated some Gandhi Yojana will get 3 minutes. Because Doordarshan was the monopoly supplier, and it was controlled by the reigning powers in Delhi, you would only get to see what the government wanted you to see. continue reading…

Since I know that most of the people who visit this blog will not open the links mentioned in “About this blog” post;  So I will explain the 25 principles discussed by Charlie Munger one by one.

The first one is about Incentives. continue reading…

It is weird writing an about this blog post, after more than 150 posts. But we just started the blog without any particular idea in mind. Like Seinfeld was a show about nothing, we had a vision of a blog about nothing. Well, I am lying. We actually didn’t know and just started like that. continue reading…

http://www.hindustantimes.com/We-the-bad-guys/Article1-583658.aspx

heard this song while traveling in foothills of himalayas in a taxi.

it is a real gem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTs4SK7Xmk