Indian banking & finance 2005

FT has an excellent coverage on India’s banking and finance sector.
Its great that India’s banking sector is not riddled with as many problems as that of China’s, but we still have a long way to go. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to be quite happy just to be ahead of our next door neighbours:

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What it means to be an Indian?

Nimbupani has an interesting post on “are they us“?, which is still having some active and lively discussions.
Very many years ago, I used to have a very simplistic exclusive view to what Indian means. “If you live in India, you are an Indian”. period.
One fine day, I had to fill in an [...]

Seasonality in blogging

Summer is a hard time to blog. Its easier to keep yourself in a room with a laptop, when the weather is freezing outside and its dark at 4pm. With lovely sunshine (I got back to Duesseldorf today and was reminded again how summer comes with lots of rain though ) and long days and [...]

A weekend with Potter

I went down to the Book Store early Saturday morn, to pick up a copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. And have ever since been curled up in my sofa with loads of potato chips, cola and an occasional pizza. Talk about heavenly bliss!
Click for more only at your own risk (spoilers ahead).

Viennese Memories 3

I finally get down to part 3. You can find parts 1 and 2 here and here.
It turned out to be a good idea that we had kept the museum visits for day 3 - because for once, the CNN weather reports were right and Saturday turned out to be a rainy and rather [...]

No offence intended

“Oh, I know a great joke. But, before I start, let me just say - please don’t be offended”. Before even waiting for an answer, someone goes on to narrate a crude joke about say, your country, your language, your culture, your beliefs or anything else that you may hold dear. If you have lived [...]

A day of silence

Silent Eloquence is observing a day of mourning, in view of the heinous bombings at London.
I offer my sincere prayers and wishes to victims and their families.

Discovering German joys

Came across this wonderful piece by Andrew Hammel in German joys via Washington Monthly via Venk@.
As someone who used to think working 12 hours a day and then some more on the weekends was pretty normal, I can easily say the one thing that took me the longest to adjust to here [...]

No confidence at the Bundestag

Gerhard Schroeder has lost a confidence motion in the Bundestag, the German Parliament, apparently, just as he had planned. This means that Germany will have early elections - probably in September of this year. It had a lot to do with the recent victory of the Christian Democratics (CDU) in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), [...]

Beethovan’s Symphonies MP3s

BBC has MP3s of Beethoven Symphonies, performed by the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda. They are available only till the 7th of July and you can get them here.