nanopolitan

Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution: If you don't like getting your paper rejected before it even reaches peer review, ask David E...

Ravi Balakrishnan did a recent story in the Economic Times on the brand equity of "spiritual" gurus all across the globe. In a si...

Update (27.8.2005): Urmi Goswami reports in to-day's Economic Times that the JEE could be in a simpler format from the academic year 20...

Via the excellent kitabkhana : Ram Guha's article in the Telegraph, in which he draws (once again) a moral equivalent between the left...

First, Dilip D'Souza started it with an article at Rediff about liberalization's inability to make a dent on poverty in India : Th...

This interview of Richard Dawkins is an absolute gem. Salon will let you read it for free if you are willing to see three screenfuls of a s...

Jaya Jha confesses to " [h]aving been a pretty strong "anti-ragging" person myself ". Through her, I found a link to thi...

Here is another interesting piece of the blog puzzle. The New York Times reports (catch it before it goes behind NYTimes' awful pay-per...

Via Patrix : Forbes.com has a nice list of Ten laws of the modern world . Among other things, it includes a truly delicious entry called An...

Via Mall Road 's Shivam Vij : Amy Waldman has a report in the New York Times on the much diluted (some would say 'sabotaged' )...

Via the always excellent Rajesh Jain (who got it from one Yuvaraj): a paraphrase of remarks by the legendary Warren Buffett , aka the Orac...

In comments on a post at Satya's excellent blog on Education in India , Naveen said, "[we] also tend to forget that the traditiona...

... and going! Remember the commercial in which a toy bunny powered by Energizer batteries keeps going and going -- sometimes into commerci...

We have already seen some examples of angst that is rather unique to academics. Here is one which is somewhat more general: "[a] littl...

... the US House of Representatives! (via Economic Times ) The Congressmen passed a rare resolution commending "their significant co...