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Sunday, October 10, 2010. Play back or Drive. The ongoing India-Australia Test series has marked my resumption of Test match viewing, after having practically lost all interest in the game over the past 4-5 years. This post was prompted by Michael Clarke's soft dismissal by Harbhajan in the first innings of the Bangalore Test yesterday. The key to playing spin bowling well is to use your feet to reduce the element of uncertainty. There are two ways in which one can meet that objective -. And yes. It ...
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Sunday, May 29, 2005. Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.". Posted by shrikanth @ 4:30 AM. Wednesday, May 18, 2005. One of my profs in the college made an interesting remark today saying that frustration. Is what results when there is a mismatch between a person's talent and his desires. So,what say,folks? Or should we adopt the more 'conservat...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011. Cricket and the Arts. This is the provocative question posed by CLR James in his magnificent book Beyond the Boundary. Widely regarded as the finest cricket book of all time. James attempts to answer this question in a manner which is much too elaborate to be summed up in a blogpost. Nevertheless, he unequivocally concludes that :. These lines intrigued me. Cricket is ofcourse a ball game. But is it fundamentally different from the other ball games? For instance, Pele scored 1...
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Thursday, November 04, 2004. Well,Bush ended up winning rather comfortably in the end. A margin of over 3 million votes! That's huge considering the fact that he had lost the popular vote in 2000. I guess there were. Three major issues associated with this election:. 2 Economic issues like jobless growth,outsourcing. 3 Social issues like same-sex marriage,gun ownership,affirmative action et al . Are most vulnerable to a terrorist attack are NewYork,Washington-DC and California.And the. Feed for the blog.
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Sunday, May 30, 2004. Rural India asserts itself","NDA disconnected with the masses". These are some of the headlines that have been splashed across the front-pages of a number of newspapers and magazines over the last fortnight! As per the informed. Opinion of many of these self-styled analysts,the disgruntled masses of the countryside. Were solely responsible for the defeat of the ruling coalition.But it matters very little to these hacks that the facts are very much to the contrary! And the worst part...
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Thursday, March 24, 2005. Sat for the whole of the post-tea session at the Chinnaswamy stadium today. What's the big deal,one might ask.For me,it is a big deal as it was only for. The SECOND time that I was watching an international match live at close quarters. The first time being 12 years ago when I saw men from the ol' Blighty pulverise. The Indians in an ODI. Inzy reaching the three figure mark on his 100th test! If someone were to ask me to choose three of the most complete batsmen of the. Feed for...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010. On why our bank deposits earn even less income than a Risk-free Government bond. This was a question that had been vexing me for quite a while. My savings deposit earns an interest of 3.5% a year. Whereas, the 90 day Government bill issued by the Indian Government earns about 5% p.a currently. Shouldn't my salary account at a risk-ridden private bank yield me an income that atleast exceeds what can be earned by holding a "risk-free" 3 month government security? Feed for the blog.
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Saturday, October 16, 2004. Bush - A conservative? Cut'n'pasted this from the John Kerry-official website. The line of lifelong Republicans who have decided to vote for John Kerry keeps getting longer. The latest new Kerry voter is Clyde Prestowitz, who was counselor to the secretary of commerce in the Reagan administration. Here is his explanation of why conservatives should vote for John Kerry. The conservative case for Kerry "Clyde PrestowitzWashington, DC. The Bush approach is completely at odds with...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010. On Risk, Return and Batsmanship. In Finance, one of the cardinal sins is to undertake an investment decision without assessing the forecasted return in the context of the risk exposure. Risk and Return are inextricably linked. I'd rather have my money earn 3.5% in the Savings account if an alternative market investment promises a 10% return with a standard deviation of 50%! A common metric often employed to evaluate portfolio performance is the Sharpe Ratio. Batting Average =...
