The Great Ganesha

Being of the academic persuasion, a side-effect of essentially having no real-world experience yet (I’m working on it), I find it quite amusing that people are so swayed by the so-called university rankings lists that come out every fall. In fact, many, many years ago, when I was applying for my undergrad here in the [...]

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The title results from having recently seen Munnabhai Part 2. But seriously, I just wanted to send Gandhiji some belated birthday greetings. On October 2nd (yesterday) he celebrated his 137th birth anniversary. Happy belated birthday, Bapuji. My family has some close ties with Gandhi, as I’ve written about in an earlier post. The matriarch of [...]

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