Rumi Nations

I wish I had the voice of Homer To sing of rectal carcinoma, Which kills a lot more chaps, in fact, Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked. Yet, thanks to modern surgeon’s skills, It can be killed before it kills Upon a scientific basis In nineteen out of twenty cases. I noticed I was passing blood (Only a few drops, not a flood). So pausing on my homeward way From Tallahassee to Bombay I asked a doctor, now my friend, To peer into my hinder end, To prove or to disprove the rumour That I had a malignant tumour. They pumped in BaS0 4 .

I am skeptical about all the song and dance about the falling rupee. Is India's economy on a fundamentally different trajectory than China's? What is the direction that the experts are hoping India's economy should take? What is going to be the path of India's development? The weak rupee probably makes it costlier to go on those frequent trips to Davos -- at least for the private sector who have to pay for their trips themselves. In all this tsunami of talk about the collapse of the rupee, we seem to have all forgotten about the China story which otherwise somewhere seems to be there almost as an alter ego.

Hardware is visible. Software is not. Probably that explains the appeal of hardware to the detriment of software. I mean look at the rough human counterpart of it. We go for looks to get our first impression. I mean, in our society we look at the faces (and, well, elsewhere too) of folks ... passersby. We might talk to only those few that we know or have business with. And our visual sense is quite acute too. And males prefer females with good-looking faces. Nice symmetric and soft features and whatever else it's that tells our brain that a face is beautiful. And then the definition of beauty varies from culture to culture ... at least to a certain extent.