The weekend saw me doing one of those weekend trips that life has lately seen very few of.
The agenda: ACE2006 at the ISB.
One more city, right? Not.
Hyderabad 'Dakhkhan' as my grandparents would have called it, is cool. The cantonments remind me of the more innocent Bangalore of just four years ago, the roads are blissfully flat, and 'Gachi Bowely' is all wide open spaces and breezy campuses (Tangent: Is the plural of campus campii?).
To add to which, how can you go wrong with a city where you can get into a rick, and ask to be taken to Paradise?
Wednesday, 2 August 2006
Thursday, 27 April 2006
Overdoing?
For a change, I read a book BEFORE everyone's hearing of it.
The book in question? 'Opal Mehta'.
Not having read the book which the author has supposedly plagiarised from, I still think far too much is being made of the whole issue.
If you think she's copied, don't buy her book.. Your dollars won't be added to her burgeoning millions.
But, should Harvard even be thinking of ticking her off for this? http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513035
If you're Ivy League, and your reputation is the base of all you have, and you've encashed it mightily all these years... I suppose all this trivia would matter.
The book in question? 'Opal Mehta'.
Not having read the book which the author has supposedly plagiarised from, I still think far too much is being made of the whole issue.
If you think she's copied, don't buy her book.. Your dollars won't be added to her burgeoning millions.
But, should Harvard even be thinking of ticking her off for this? http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=513035
If you're Ivy League, and your reputation is the base of all you have, and you've encashed it mightily all these years... I suppose all this trivia would matter.
Wednesday, 26 April 2006
Landmark Day!
Landmark's first Bombay branch opens today.
And it is half a kilometre away from my house. <Gloat> <Gloat>
Which means 2 things:
1) I will now be found residing there almost permanently
2) Landmark Quiz in Bombay soon!!! (Dare I hope for one next year?)
Great books and great quizzing <Grin> <Grin> :)
And it is half a kilometre away from my house. <Gloat> <Gloat>
Which means 2 things:
1) I will now be found residing there almost permanently
2) Landmark Quiz in Bombay soon!!! (Dare I hope for one next year?)
Great books and great quizzing <Grin> <Grin> :)
Sunday, 30 October 2005
Life!
Its funny how your wishes are granted in the craziest of ways.
Like when your parents hear of 'that nice MS boy from Amreeka' who is in town. And he's gone back by the time the parental units get around to calling his parents :)
Or when mithai is delivered to office the day you've got a sweet craving.
Or when you blog about the absence of Heinleins in the city, and suddenly you then find them everywhere you look. Seriously. I found so many of his books, I haven't read them all yet.
Now if only the cosmos would get around to granting some other wishes.
Like when your parents hear of 'that nice MS boy from Amreeka' who is in town. And he's gone back by the time the parental units get around to calling his parents :)
Or when mithai is delivered to office the day you've got a sweet craving.
Or when you blog about the absence of Heinleins in the city, and suddenly you then find them everywhere you look. Seriously. I found so many of his books, I haven't read them all yet.
Now if only the cosmos would get around to granting some other wishes.
Wednesday, 11 May 2005
Of Books and Bombay
I'm Bombay born, Bombay bred, not to mention Bombay addicted. I've lived here for five-sixths of my life. Why then am I pining for Gurgaon which has been no more than the quintessential 'rainbasera'?
It's just that I have almost run through the cache of books bought in Delhi aeons ago. Reading them ever so infrequently, to make them 'last longer', hasn't helped.
Which made me realise that a fair bit of stuff I read is the 'crazy stuff no one's ever heard of'. Not too many Bombay bookshopwallahs, atleast. They haven't heard of Paul Gallico, for instance. Or Robert Heinlein. (Come to think of it, they've heard of Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Why this unfair treatment to the third of the Big Three?).
I found precisely three Heinleins here in over a year. And haven't found any of the Douglas Hofstadters or Jamila Gavins Delhi pals rave about. It isn't even in strange phoren authors that Delhi scores (though that may have been because of the floating international population)... it is also the Premchands and Amrita Pritams and Saadat Hassan Mantos....
My corner bookstore in Gurgaon was far more tuned to unusual books than even the Strand's here. Hell, I even found an interesting book from China at Nizamuddin railway station. My Bambai is losing out to the Dally.
To give Bombay a fair chance, Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. Or looking in the wrong place.
It's just that I have almost run through the cache of books bought in Delhi aeons ago. Reading them ever so infrequently, to make them 'last longer', hasn't helped.
Which made me realise that a fair bit of stuff I read is the 'crazy stuff no one's ever heard of'. Not too many Bombay bookshopwallahs, atleast. They haven't heard of Paul Gallico, for instance. Or Robert Heinlein. (Come to think of it, they've heard of Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Why this unfair treatment to the third of the Big Three?).
I found precisely three Heinleins here in over a year. And haven't found any of the Douglas Hofstadters or Jamila Gavins Delhi pals rave about. It isn't even in strange phoren authors that Delhi scores (though that may have been because of the floating international population)... it is also the Premchands and Amrita Pritams and Saadat Hassan Mantos....
My corner bookstore in Gurgaon was far more tuned to unusual books than even the Strand's here. Hell, I even found an interesting book from China at Nizamuddin railway station. My Bambai is losing out to the Dally.
To give Bombay a fair chance, Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. Or looking in the wrong place.
Tuesday, 10 May 2005
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