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Are we conditioned to label the marginalized as mediocre? | Puram
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Are we conditioned to label the marginalized as mediocre? Family Descent as a Signal of Managerial Quality: Evidence from Mutual Funds. As the authors point out, what this really means is that poor people from less privileged circumstances have a higher threshold to clear to achieve the same amount of success. Or, conversely, privileged people use their privilege in ways that are opaque to get themselves to levels of success they are otherwise too mediocre to achieve. By JD Vance and. September 22, 2016.
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The Noise of Time | Puram
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The Noise of Time. Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Muddle instead of music. We realize, even literary and art criticism can be literal death sentences during the Great Purge. Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. August 30, 2016. On Scotlan...
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Scotland’s Past and Tamil Nadu’s Future | Puram
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Scotland’s Past and Tamil Nadu’s Future. Why do countries exist? And what is their definition? Are they subject to change? Why do countries not hold referendums to decide the future of disputed regions around the world? Did not India promise a plebiscite at the time Kashmir was acceded to India in 1948? Why can’t Kashmiris vote like the Scots did in 2014? What about Tamil Nadu? Why is it part of India? It wasn’t ever part of India until the British came in, was it? This entry was posted in Uncategorized.
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More Referendums, not Fewer | Puram
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More Referendums, not Fewer. The alternative, direct democracy or the Athenian model as opposed to the Magna Carta version, has its own flaws. Quite often, indirect democracy saves us from ugly bigotry of the electorate. It’s quite likely that if direct democracy were practiced we’d not have outlawed untouchability or sati or child marriage. But human societies have evolved enough to deal with this complexity and not fall victim to such a binary solution space. Likely. For Tamil Nadu? July 1, 2016. Scotl...
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DMDK: Why is it sought after? | Puram
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DMDK: Why is it sought after? In particular, how useful an ally is the DMDK? Unless there’s some secret sauce that the DMDK hasn’t made public yet, the only reason well informed politicians have to talk the DMDK’s stock up is to make it seem dearer to the opposition. PS: Here’s the Data Source. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. February 9, 2016. Young vs Old Voters: Cleavages in Impact. Writing vs Thinking vs Writing →. Are we conditioned to label the marginalized as mediocre? The Noise of Time.
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Writing vs Thinking vs Writing | Puram
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Writing vs Thinking vs Writing. If one were to read/re-read JA Baker’s beautifully written 1967 classic, The Peregrine. One is reminded how distinct it is from most of contemporary writing. Baker’s writing so carefully and completely excludes the writer. His prose, in fact, does the opposite; the author seeks to become one with the birds he watches, never once corrupting that world with anthropocentrism. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. April 16, 2016. DMDK: Why is it sought after? Scotland’...
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Young vs Old Voters: Cleavages in Impact | Puram
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Young vs Old Voters: Cleavages in Impact. In the aftermath of Lok Sabha elections in 2014, youth and first time voters were thought to be crucial to winning elections in India. The BJP built its campaign around that idea and its success lent much credence to the young voter theory; exit poll data supported this assertion as well. It was easy to claim a generational shift in Indian polity. But is this true across India? For Kerala, the impact probability will increase by a factor of e (2.1) in the nex...
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Buying Elections vs Winning Elections | Puram
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Buying Elections vs Winning Elections. Does the success justify the Election Commission’s methods, though? Consider what elections have become in the last decade and a half. There’s very little campaigning on the street. Political graffiti on the street vanish during elections. It’s now possible to live in a middle class neighborhood in an Indian city and not encounter any campaigning in the campaign period. Whom does this affect? The Election Commission, at least its Tamil Nadu arm, also said something ...
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More precarious than you thought | Puram
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More precarious than you thought. The PWD of Tamil Nadu keeps a record. Of Observatory Wells in each district. A comparison of the current depth to August 2010 reveals interesting trends. Let’s look at the absolute depths for the years 2010 and 2015 (bear in mind, the Y axis is depth in meters),. Some other districts you’d suspect will have depleted their ground water, such as Salem, just shock you with the scale: 59%. Chennai, perhaps because the government made rain water harvesting mandatory, has not ...
