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Jhumpa Lahiri certainly deserved her Pulitzer. I recently read the assortment of short stories in her literary debut book,
Posts for August, 2004
August 31st, 2004
Interpreter of Maladies
Patrix | 
Books | 
23 Comments »
August 30th, 2004
Jai Hind, too late?
In all the Olympic brouhaha, I totally skipped mentioning India’s Independence Day. Not that, I am expected to do so to prove my patriotism but sometimes attending the I-Day parade at your school is the closest we ever come to reminding ourselves that we are Indian. The fact that I am even mentioning this day [...]
Patrix | Society Culture | 11 Comments »
August 30th, 2004
What’s The Use of Rankings: Maybe Not Too Much!
The leading 2004 Olympic medal winners by country are:
Source: BBC Sports
Yet, adjusting for population size, the medals table looks different! By all medals won per million people, Australia is the best performer, followed by Cuba and Estonia and other mostly smaller countries by population. By this measure, the US ranks 37th and China 58th!
Patrix | Science | 9 Comments »
August 27th, 2004
Google Adsense
After the latest addition on the left, there is a new entry on the right as well to balance out the act. Google Adsense makes a quiet (yeah, right!) entry on my blog. Of course, if you think that I have sold out and succumbed to the dangers of commercialization, you are right. Typepad expects [...]
Patrix | Personal, Recommended | 24 Comments »
August 27th, 2004
Photo album added
If you haven’t observed, I have put up my first of the photo album on the left. This series is just part of a collection taken during my North India study tour (10 cities in 21 gruelling days). All the pictures were taken by my Minolta and the quality of the pictures can be blamed [...]
Patrix | Personal | 12 Comments »
August 26th, 2004
And, now another Olympic Moment
I swear this is the last of the Olympics post but thankfully most of it is not even my writing. If you wonder what goes on behind the scenes at Olympic Moments, heres’ a partial glimpse: [via NY Times]
The scene is a conference room at NBC Olympic broadcasting headquarters in Athens. Three people sit at [...]
Patrix | Media, Sports | 10 Comments »
August 25th, 2004
Olympic Commercials
Do I already hear groans about another Olympics post but if you know me now, you will understand I am unlikely to relent until after the Olympics. If you have are in the habit of grabbing your meals or checking your email the instant a commercial break hits, you are unlikely to understand what I [...]
Patrix | Ads, Sports, Television | 15 Comments »
August 24th, 2004
How to win more medals at the Olympics
The secret to winning more medals is actually very simple. The rise of China up the medal tally is enough to know that such a strategy is indeed possible. Consider this for a second, if you want to emerge as a serious contender for the medals at the Olympics, you better be good in either [...]
Patrix | Recommended, Sports | 38 Comments »
August 23rd, 2004
Just Dodge it!
No Olympics have been further from controversy ever since its inception. The dam that separated politics and the Olympic finally burst when 11 athletes were massacred at the Munich Games and were followed later by tit-for-tat boycotts in 1980 and 1984. This Olympics haven’t been any different. Iraq and Afghanistan marched in the opening ceremony [...]
Patrix | Sports | 14 Comments »
August 22nd, 2004
You know that it is Olympics time
… when you start sporting greenery on your head to avoid looking like a loser.
…when you start running around with a matchstick held above your head and expect applause each time you light the kitchen burner.
… when you attempt to set the WR for the 100m on the treadmill.
… when you, in fact, set it [...]
Patrix | Recommended, Sports | 21 Comments »
Movies I've Watched...
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2009-06-21 15:30
Michael Cera is the only bright spark in an otherwise listless comedy.
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2009-06-10 19:00
Love political movies so loved this one too. Frank Langella plays a terrific Nixon.
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2009-06-05 16:45
Outrageously funny. Not recommended for watching with your kids or parents.
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Crowdsourcing Writer's Block
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