Stuff that made me - in no particular order - think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to figure 
a) Economic Woman looks at different ways to see the world through worldmapper. The current way of seeing the world - even geographically - is skewed. Europe looks a whole lot bigger than it is, Australia a whole lot smaller. Even geography is politically appropriate.
b) TRP’s (or the equivalent) for Youtube - except that given the nature of the net it will be more accurate than TRP’s (which depend a lot on human intervention in terms of monitoring) - whether it manages to capture the vastness of the TG and it’s propensity to make things up on the net is a different matter.
c) It is nice to see the Indian Government get it right . It has been twice in a row that it has bucked international hype and saved itself from wasting more of tax payer money. The first was a reticence on the SWF . The second was staying away from the $100 laptop project. I remember having a conversation in 1995 with someone who wanted to put a computer in every rural school in India in the next 12 months — and the question I had was basic “Where is the electricity ?”. A vision is a great idea, but as SR put it once — to have sight (of issues) is as important.
d) The trouble with blogging is that you tell a lot about yourself to the world. Sometimes, when you decide to take potshots at others — you also end up revealing your immaturity…. Aamir Khan and the Big B blog ! Both seem to be obsessed with Shah Rukh Khan … I wonder why ? Oops … ok I didn’t read this earlier … That couldn’t have been easy …! Wow - in today’s day and age …it is nice to see such grace.
e) Salary delay for IPL stars - As part of the entertainment media they ought to know that normal payment terms are 60 to 90 days after telecast !
f) And, finally - it’s not the age, but the mileage
Image courtsey ( i hope) - Cricinfo.
Sannath Jaysuriya has been having a blast…..
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….on something and refuses to back down. In a country where backtracking seems to be the norm in public life, it is refreshing to see the occassional exhibition of a spinal cord. I hope that Aamir Khan refusing to apologise to the BJP for his comments on the Narmada resettlement issue kickstarts a sort of civic activism.
"If I speak for the rights of a poor farmer displaced by the Sardar Sarovar dam project, what wrong do I do? If a political party faults me in this, I won’t apologise. Instead, I think it shows the apathy they harbour for such concerns"
So true. The political class find it so easy to run roughshod over those who don’t buy their agenda.
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