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Faltu matters

Friday, May 26, 2006

Dear Readers, it has been somewhat frustrating to merely comment on everyday faltu matters, be it the recent Reservations struggle in India or Immigration and other assorted battles here in America. Some of my recent notes on Rajkumar films, Kannada writers and geneal history themes have not found their way here. It is also not [...]

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Submitting a dissertation

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

If you thought writing and defending a dissertation was hard, there are more difficult rituals associated with this process. First, to get your dissertation committee to read your dissertation. Approval is easy, since you could argue, reason with your committee but getting it read isn’t. You have no agency in this matter. But in the [...]

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Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

Saturday, May 6, 2006

Economist, public intellectual and former US ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith passed away last week. Myrdal and Galbraith were two economists who loomed large on me during my undergraduate ‘econ’ studying days. Both were unconventional, not the favorites of their fellow professionals and Galbraith, as one commentator characterized, wrote mostly literary-political works. In fact, [...]

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When is plagiarism actually plagiarism?

Thursday, May 4, 2006

I resisted responding to plagiarism charges against U R Anantamurthy in the comments section of Churumuri, simply because any debate on this issue seemed pointless. All of us would simply assert our positions and then we agree with those who agree with us. Ever since Samskara was published in the early 1960s, such plagiarism talk [...]

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Vikram Akula

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Time has a new list of hundred influential people, who are shaping our world through their power, talent or moral example. Vikram Akula is on this list.
Vikram is a fellow Univ. of Chicago alumnus and received a Ph.D. in political science in 2004. In 1997, he established SKS Microfinance to offer [...]

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Stories of our times

Saturday, April 29, 2006

The two big stories in America today seem to be the miss-steps and misfortunes of two college students: Kaavya V and Reggie Bush.
Kaavya’s stealing have been well chronicled, lampooned and now, she has even inspired a plagiarism competition.
Churumuri reports a statement by that wise sage who goes by the name of William Dalrymple. He apparently [...]

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