Author Archive
Recommended: Delhi Durbar
I finally picked up Krishan Partap Singh’s Delhi Durbar. Its the second book on my South Asian authors challenge. Once picked, it was difficult to put it down and I devoured the book late into a night in spite of a hectic schedule the next day. KPS (Krishan Partap Singh is such an mouthful of [...]
Interesting Reads – 25 June 2010
Economics and Finance The Long Now of Finance update. An ongoing attempt to see what the world of finance be in 10,000 years from now. Making it fun to save. A very interesting idea to enable savings products on top of the usual no frills account that financial inclusion typically provides. The average credit rating [...]
Misunderstanding Indian Culture
Aakar Patel, in his Mint column, quotes some very interesting data on culture but draws incomplete conclusions. I think that the real story underneath the data is very different and more complex. Aakar took Time Out; “the most comprehensive events magazine in the world” and counted the no of cultural events listed in roughly the [...]