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Thoughts on Leaving 2
Sonal, a friend of mine, had written the following a few months ago, when she left her job. I reproduce it below with her permission: It’s a weird feeling to work for an employer where you have put in...
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QOTD – 26-Mar-07
Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. - With thanks to Little Miss Muffet
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Quote of the Day – 10-Apr-07
A few years ago I read an article in which a car magazine modified the “sports” model of some production car to get the fastest possible standing quarter mile. You know how they did it? They cut off...
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Quote of the Day – 11-Apr-07
From Joel Spolsky’s Interview in “Founders at Work”. As you can see, totally loving this book. That was probably the biggest mistake we made. And that’s the advice I give everybody. All those little...
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True Wisdom
José Saramago (Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature 1998) in his Nobel Lecture talks of his grandparents: If I told her some bad dream, born of my grandfather’s stories, she always reassured me: “Don’t...
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Delhi HC and Sec 377
So, someone has seen sense in this great nation of ours! Read the entire judgement here. The judgement is beautifully written. I’ll quote the parts that I think have far-reaching implications here: Pg...
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#flashreads for Free Speech – II
A reminder that #flashreads will happen on 14th Feb. (You can see the #flashreads invite or read more about it here) RULES FOR CITIZENS A poem by Jeet Thayil Let us govern those who undertake the...
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#flashreads for Free Speech – III
Another reminder that #flashreads will happen on 14th Feb. (You can see the #flashreads invite or read more about it here) I’m posting one of my all-time favorite poems below. सबसे ख़तरनाक / पाश मेहनत...
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Some lines from Jo Nesbo’s Headhunter
1. Pg 39 A surprisingly large number of the world’s great works of art have been created by small men. We have conquered empires, thought the smartest thoughts, laid the most beautiful female stars of...
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Quotes from Barking, by Tom Holt
1. Pg 3 In every working day there is a still moment, a point of balance; a fulcrum, if you like, around which the scales pivot. The slightest nudge at this point decides whether it’s going to be a...
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