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Flipkart and Start-ups

February 24, 2012

Thanks to Vijay, who is helping build Exotel, I get to hear of so many interesting start-ups. Quite a few of them seem to have one thing in common: Flipkart. I understand that this could be a selection bias, but I am inclined to think that Flipkart is an early customer of a lot of [...]

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On volunteering

February 22, 2012

People often work tirelessly towards a cause they deeply care about. In MANNA in the Wilderness of AIDS, a book about how the Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) was set up; an organization which supplies food and forms a support system for those suffering from AIDS, co-founder Prof. Kenwyn Smith (one of our faculty at [...]

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Progress and Obsolescence

February 20, 2012

As some of you go about building your companies, or are thinking about building your notions, I thought of sharing this with you. This something that has been on my mind for a while now. It is also not directly related to start-ups, though I hope reading it will help shape a perspective which will [...]

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Data Collection: Now and Then

November 27, 2011

I was reading Suicide by Emile Durkheim (this is a link to a summary); a 450 page behemoth with numbers and inferences about suicides. Durkheim’s work has been seminal to the understanding of suicide from a sociological perspective. Durkheim admits in the introduction to the book that attempting such a task such as recording suicide can [...]

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A possible workout playlist?

October 4, 2011

Yesterday I was asked to make a workout playlist, which is supposed to charge up one’s senses and make them jog their heart out. Of course there were some considerations that had to be taken into account. Firstly, I don’t work out. So, at best, this list would be me indulging in wishful thinking. Secondly, [...]

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Where can I find all the works of MF Husain?

September 20, 2011

Art Appreciation (by Prof Anunaya Chaubey) is one of the courses that I am pursuing this term at the Young India Fellowship. One of the assignments is to visit the National Gallery of Modern Art, pick a painting and write about it, keeping in mind various criterion discussed in class. I liked Satish Gujral’s Ecstasy, MF Husain’s [...]

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Passing Opinions

September 17, 2011

Censure comes from Latin and means to pass an opinion or assess. Film censorship becomes necessary because a film motivates thought and action and assures a high degree of attention and retention as compared to the printed word. The combination of act and speech, sight and sound in semi darkness of the theatre with elimination [...]

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Do other countries have Mosquitoes like they do here in Ghana?

August 1, 2011

Term 2 has Media, Culture and Globalization being taught by Prof Radha Hegde. This obviously means that there’s a lot of reading to be done. There’s also a lot of watching that has to be done. This is the first course I have been a part of which showed an R Kelly video (Snake). The [...]

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Gandhi, Modernity, modernization

July 24, 2011

The 2nd semester at the YIF has a course called Gandhi’s critique of Modernity. This obviously means that there is tons of reading to be done. I thought of sharing some of the articles on this blog for benefit of others. “Gandhi After Gandhi After Gandhi” by Ashis Nandy. In the essay, Nandy speaks about [...]

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Initial thoughts on Anish Kapoor’s Flesh

July 17, 2011

I had written a tiny piece for my writing class last week. The assignment was to take an art object and describe how we felt when we first saw it. To begin with I wrote about an Air Conditioner. After further discussions, I decided to write about another art object, this one more mainstream as [...]

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