October 2011
1 post
“Educators in every country except Russia tend to be constitutionally timid, and,...”
– Bertrand Russell, in Education and the Social Order
March 2011
5 posts
vidyax asked: Thank you for the follow of my other blog, good sir!
“It is important to stress, however, that neither our intellectual humility nor...”
– Richard Howells, in Visual Culture
vidyax asked: Just felt like saying hello, because I hadn't said that to you in a while. How be? :)
Pierre Bourdieu →
Got introduced to him while reading about Visual Culture. Interesting thoughts.
koltesagar asked: My god, is there any place on the web you don't visit?
February 2011
1 post
3 tags
“Online learning appears to be this technology enabler for higher education. It...”
– Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, Louis Soares, Louis Caldera, talk of the Disrupting College. Download the full report at Disrupting College
January 2011
4 posts
“Managers who focus on gross margins will miss the opportunity at the bottom of...”
– The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid By C.K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart
“The first instinct of a journalist when they hear your story is to reach for the...”
– Is this how Competition got the Pedastal?
Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies | Both Sides of the Table
Chhattisgarh: Call-wait Message
“When our learning is transparent, we become teachers.”
– ~ George Siemens - Learning and Knowledge Analytics
November 2010
2 posts
“Fact is, walls or not, all the world’s a classroom. Fact is, life’s...”
– What’s this classroom thing all about?
“Fundamental rights have themselves no fixed content; most of them are empty...”
– Observations of Prof. Food Bhat
October 2010
1 post
“Documentary films have often sought to activate a sense of urgency about a...”
– A Sociological Eye on Education | An inconvenient truthiness
September 2010
1 post
“People who are way out of sync with the digital maelstrom of the moment...”
– Seth’s Blog: A little out of sync
August 2010
2 posts
“It targets people. It focuses on users. And Apple lets them decide how and where...”
– Apple Doesn’t Target Markets. It Targets People
6 tags
“I see the market moving in that direction and we are looking at this as well,”...”
– Oh yes, we will get used to it. It’s called the Problem of choice.
Soon, no fixed interest from fixed deposits - Hindustan Times
July 2010
4 posts
How [Not] to Take a Self Timer Portrait →
I promise to follow the rules!
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire...”
– E. B. White (via xixidu) (via asuph)
“The rules for men and women are the same: right hand, a complete grip and a firm...”
– A Formula for the Scientifically Perfect Handshake
“I have been told by some people in the Obama Administration that the way to stop...”
– NEA - NEA Friend of Education Diane Ravitch’s Speech
June 2010
7 posts
“We’re at an interesting spot because WordPress.com is one of the largest...”
– Matt’s response, when asked, “What are the challenges ahead for you?”
Matt Mullenweg talks about blogging’s future, WordPress and Houston technology | TechBlog | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
3 tags
“‘If philosophy is to be other than an idle and unverifiable speculation, it must...”
– ~ Dewey, John
“Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be. And...”
– Bertrand Russell, in “Education and the Social Order”
1 tag
“The McDonald’s Corporation most likely drew on these advances when it...”
– Why McDonald’s Fries Taste So Good Long read, but interesting!
“This phenomenon, where people in India seem to always find a way to muddle along...”
– The jugaad myth - Pragati. An innovation deficit has seized us, and we are blind to the fall that awaits us as we celebrate “jugadability” as an achievement.
“If you’re lucky you will fall in love with some interesting processes and...”
– What to expect, Robert Genn
1 tag
“How much you understand can never be a barometer of how much the same thing will...”
– Just my thoughts!
May 2010
3 posts
“At the end, the lesson is one of a paradox. As the power shifts increasingly...”
– Inherent Truths and Value of Community
1 tag
“One great skill to acquire is to ignore rants. And a greater one is not be...”
– Skill Acquisition
“We are to take care of ourselves — that much we can do — and give up attending...”
– Swami Vivekananda, Work & its Secrets
April 2010
2 posts
“We are not to allow ourselves to accept any declaration made from the platforms...”
– Swami Chinmayananda in the Mandukya Upanishad with Karika. The quote seems recursively self-negating.
“Scott Berkun gives several other examples in a recent BusinessWeek article. He...”
– An argument against disruptive technologies | VentureBeat
March 2010
2 posts
“Whenever a friend succeeds a little, something in me dies.”
– Gore Vidal, via The Difficulty of Being Good, by Gurucharan Das. (I continue to enjoy this book!)
February 2010
3 posts
“If you believe in God, Pascal had said, and He turns out to exist, then you have...”
– ~Gurcharan Das in “The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma”
January 2010
4 posts
6 tags
Dhol, Tasha & Tutari - Traditional...
2 tags
“Plan B is enforcing Plan A.”
– John Travolta (Ryder) in “The Taking of Pelham 123”
“Leave your fine cinematic sensibilities behind if you want to enjoy the...”
– A wonderful message from An Unquiet Mind
The Avatar (2009) Potpourri: Medium Is Not The Message | An Unquiet Mind
December 2009
2 posts
“Critics do matter but I feel bad about certain critics who are tired of watching...”
– Irrfan Khan, Actor, in HT Cafe, 29 December 2009
The Problem of Having Many Blogs
She: I read your latest post.
Me: Which one?
November 2009
3 posts
The Gift
The greater gift to humankind is the ability to remember. But, the greatest gift to humankind is the ability forget.
I Am Alone
I am alone, I think. In many worlds.
I am alone in knowing and being aware of what it means to be an Indian, knowing the shortcomings, *and* knowing when (and where) to make fun of those drawbacks, and when not to.
I am alone
“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort...”
– Times Higher Education - The failure of History
October 2009
6 posts
Facebook Warns of New Viruses [Alert] →
And what about the virus that Facebook itself is? Sigh!
