Throughout the last 4 years I have been fortunate enough to have had the company of friends who are not only smart people but have an intelligent and curious outlook towards the world. I think that it is relatively easy to be good at something, anything if only you start early enough and work relentlessly [...]
Author Archives: Ankit
Clash of the Titans
… A.A. moves his Knight to d5 Tress Vandeley: (Brilliant, brilliant. That’s a shrewd one right there. In one fell swoop he has managed to save the fork that was going to be threatening his Queen and Rook 7 moves down the line and build up a momentum which gives him strategic play in the [...]
I’m sorry Mr. Kone
So I got the following mail today (copied here as is), ————— Dear friend, My name is (MR Emmanuel Kone) i am the manager of auditing and accounting department Bank of African, I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($10.5m us dollars immediately to your acocunt. upon your reply I will send [...]
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Art-less
It bothers me to think that for all the mystique and hazy beauty that is often endowed to ‘Indian art’ by nostalgic emigrants and westerners too eager to latch on to the infinite ocean of eastern wisdom, it is actually quite a barren field where new ideas almost never come along and old ones are [...]
Science as a belief
It’s interesting how much one doesn’t know of oneself until he is asked specifically and has to think about it. So the other day Khatri bhaiyya asked me why I get so flustered whenever the topic of homeopathy comes up. As it turns out, I really do get irritated but if he had not mentioned [...]
So it goes.
Just finished reading Vonnegut’s famous Slaughterhouse Five. New York Times, in their original review of the book, said something to the effect that you’d either love it or push it aside as a science fiction book. I suppose great works have that capability of sharply dividing public opinion but I just found the book… listless [...]
Chicken…
…or Buffalo wings, as they are called in the country for which the rest of the world is an appendix, refers to the uncooked lump of meat skewered over the top of two drumsticks. Sure it has two eyes, a nose, and two ears but these are details not worth the time of anyone except [...]