“Alu paratha, Anda bhujia.” I mumbled bellow my breath and let those 4 nostalgic words hang in the air in between us. As if on queue, he echoed: “दो Alu paraNtha, दो Ande ki bhuruji aur Chai, 40 rupees, 11 number” and moved on to the next customer. 11 is the serial number of myContinue reading “The Alma Mater”
Category Archives: Biography
The Rockefeller story
John Rockefeller senior is supposed to be the richest self-made man who ever lived. At its peak, Rockefeller’s net worth was around 1.5 percent of the America’s total wealth—the equivalent of about $280 billion today, or about three times the wealth controlled by Bill Gates. His story: As a young boy he sells sweets toContinue reading “The Rockefeller story”
A letter for my Son
Today is the last day of my son’s matric board exam. On the way to drop him at his school ( last day in this almamater) I asked him, ” what do you want to study in future?” His mother wants him to be an engineer. Because one of his cousin has just completed BEContinue reading “A letter for my Son”
Dumb stuff that smart people do.
Economics assumes that people are on the average rational. But Richard H Thaler didn’t agree. He would joke, “As far as economics is concerned, even smartest people used to commit the dumbest stuff. They go on making the same mistake on and on. People are always predictably, consistently irrational.” He had a lotContinue reading “Dumb stuff that smart people do.”
The Procrastinator
(Leonard of the town of Vinci.) “I always find uncanny similarities between the life and works of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Jobs.” Ramakanta Mahapatra It was 1476. He was 25, young and handsome but was also facing a trial that will put him in jail for sure in the Florence town of Italy. There’sContinue reading “The Procrastinator”
Dr Ramakanta's Ideas 