Aakar Patel

I usually read a lot of columns on Livemint. Somehow so far i have never come across Aakar Patel. I have to tel you this guy is amazing (not in a good way)!

See his articles here

Some of the piece he wrote.. why he likes south india

On a sect of muslims called Qadianis

He starts of in pretty reasonable fashion and then there are giant leaps of thought to arrive at incredulous opinions on the issue at hand. the ease with which he does it is quite awesome actually. He should be writing papers in the Trasnportation field. to be honest, looking at the enviornment out there, he will be a prolific author!

Wow

Well, the Bengalis deserve this for electing "The Queen" ;)

Life and its vagaries

Working on a backlog of things from the past. The memories are not easy to let go. But I am working towards it.

On a different note, once you start you life on your own, it is very easy to be drawn into competition. I have to work very hard to remind myself, life is not a competition with anybody. As long as I am satisfied with my effort, it will turn out fine. The days where i forget this, life becomes slightly more complicated and stressful. Hopefully I will learn to handle it better. 

Time will only tell..

New Zealand draws the match

Well, Kane Williamson gets a solid 100 against arguably the best quartet of pace bowlers (on current form) in the world. To be 21 and get the hundred augurs very well for Kane and New Zealand. May be a star is born!

People who do not know about cricket find it hard to see "Draw". But i was watching this match and was it fun or what. Draw can be as much fun as a victory (of course I mean a close draw).

In another match Jayawardene does his thing with a 180 against England. Good day for batting overall!!

Nageswaran hits the nail on the head

on the issue of Indian governance here!

what can you say abt UPA

They don't care enough to even do a decent budget. Now theyare trying to get back at Vodafone after they have wont the case in court. See the piece here

Nageswaran makes some nice points

as usual on the issues related to Fiscal deficit.

This however, is the crown paragraph of the article

(11) With all their acts of omission and commission, the two UPA governments have damaged India’s macro and micro-economy. Consequently, India faces the prospect of lower economic growth rate in the years ahead. Then, if the UPA were to be voted out of office in 2014, India’s lower economic growth rate might coincide with another non-UPA administration at the office. Voila! That would prove the authors’ point that UPA’s deficits have been good for India!

This is exactly how Congress gets away with all the mess it creates during their tenure.