Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Physics of BP

Cosmic Voices    Sunday, October 10, 2010    11 comments
Andhra Pradesh has a strange system of high school called as Junior Colleges. After 10th standard, students join these junior colleges where they do their 11th and 12th grades. In the summer of ‘97, I too joined one such Junior College. The Chairman looked scary and had a flair for expletives. He poached upon four lecturers from a nearby JC and used them to run his JC. BR and RP taught mathematics...

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Master of Sermon

Cosmic Voices    Sunday, September 05, 2010    11 comments
A common ritual in most organizations is the periodic congregations of motley group of people where a wise man talks and the wiser men sleep. It comes in various flavours like conference, meeting, training, etc. The sizes vary, venues change, topics differ, but the proceedings remain largely the same. Time, while ushering in a few changes, buttressed some practices. Like globalization flattened the...

Monday, July 12, 2010

D - 49

Cosmic Voices    Monday, July 12, 2010    12 comments
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Meals on Wheels

Cosmic Voices    Monday, June 28, 2010    3 comments
Though the quality of food on Indian trains has vastly improved, certain travelers refuse to give up the age-old ritual of elaborately packing food for their journey. Considering that we might soon have the Right to Food, disallowing these passengers from carrying their daily bread, which their mother on earth has prepared, would be against our democratic ethos. However, the collateral damage caused...

Saturday, May 29, 2010

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