The Great Ganesha

Started teaching again last night. So far so good. I've decided to blog about the teaching on a regular basis now. Sort of like blognitive therapy, if you will. The frustration and anguish associated with dealing with American undergraduates can, to put it mildly, get a little excessive. As I have said earlier: Teaching is [...]

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So - its been a few days of silence. The reason for that is I was using my Mem Day to do some touristy things in the city for a change. Went to the MoMA with the RX Geek. The new MoMA, that is. Went to the old one as well, back when it was [...]

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Three Iraqi tennis players were pulled out of their car and shot dead just for wearing shorts. Yahoo! News says
A witness, who asked not to be named, said the shorts-clad tennis players had just left some laundry at the cleaners, when gunmen stopped their car and asked them to step out of the vehicle.When two [...]

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Today, I found this article about Mark Inglis' (the double-amputee) decision to leave David Sharp to die.
Also, apparently yet another climber, an Australian named Lincoln Hall, who had summitted on Thursday, and who had lost a German team-mate, started to hallucinate and weaken on his descent. The Sherpas who were with him radioed the team [...]

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What's NOT made in China for a change, are civil rights. Yup, you heard right. Nick Bryant, the BBC's South Asia correspondent just wrote a book entitled The Bystander: John F Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality. The entire book was written during his sojourn in South Asia. So what does the civil rights [...]

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Because of the good weather last week, 42 people summitted including a Sherpa who beat his own world record of maximum Everest summits bringing it up to 16, a double-amputee who summitted -amazingly- on prosthetic limbs and a British diplomat who summitted 70 years after her grandfather’s failed attempt. I had blogged about all three [...]

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No, I still have yet to receive the book I mentioned below. But before I did that I did some of my own research into these claims. Bhaiyya Joshi, notwithstanding his conspiracy theories, did pique my curiosity on the subject.
So, where does one begin looking for these kinds of things? Of course, the only places [...]

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The BBC today came out with one of their "In-Depth" features on the "emerging giants" of China and India. Unfortunately, it seems that China is (as usual) whooping our ass in terms of economic growth, with the possibility that it might become the richest nation in the world by 2026. The usual downfalls to India's [...]

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Ordinarily, I would not even pay attention to things like “India invented mathematics” and “The vedas have formulas for ICBMs.” Statements like this originate from over-zealous chauvinism and Indocentrism, more than anything else. However, there is a book out (it’s not new) called The Origin of Mathematics by V. Lakshmikantham and S. Leela which claims [...]

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I am shocked. I mean, I don’t know what to say. I never thought I would get this far. So many people to thank for this: I’d like to thank my agent, my family, and of course, all of my little minions who surf the net for me and alert me whenever they find something [...]

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