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Untitled 14 Jan 2011 | 07:55 pm
Cricket and the Arts "What is Art?". This is the provocative question posed by CLR James in his magnificent book Beyond the Boundary, widely regarded as the finest cricket book of all time. James att...
Untitled 28 Nov 2010 | 12:04 am
On Risk, Return and Batsmanship In Finance, one of the cardinal sins is to undertake an investment decision without assessing the forecasted return in the context of the risk exposure. Risk and Retur...
Untitled 21 Nov 2010 | 03:15 am
Ranji - the most underrated cricketer of all time? The name Ranji immediately conjures up a smallish brown man of royal lineage who lit up the English cricket fields with his brilliantly unorthodox s...
Untitled 7 Nov 2010 | 04:32 pm
On Income "Inequality" I stumbled upon an article lately on my Google Reader feed that ranted somewhat predictably about how income "inequality" has risen significantly in the United States and how t...
Untitled 31 Oct 2010 | 04:46 pm
Puncturing Inflated Legends Here's another cricket post! I've been spending a lot of time on Cricinfo lately, where they've been busy compiling All Time XIs. These exercises are fun as they help you ...
Untitled 10 Oct 2010 | 08:30 pm
Play back or Drive The ongoing India-Australia Test series has marked my resumption of Test match viewing, after having practically lost all interest in the game over the past 4-5 years. This post w...
Untitled 30 May 2010 | 04:35 pm
On why our bank deposits earn even less income than a Risk-free Government bond This was a question that had been vexing me for quite a while. My savings deposit earns an interest of 3.5% a year. Whe...
Untitled 12 Apr 2010 | 12:27 am
On how malleable "economic" Theories can be Back in business school, I was told that the spread of any interest rate over the "risk-free" short term government bill rate is a function of maturity ris...
Untitled 30 Jan 2010 | 08:14 pm
On the Misjudgment of Probabilities A somewhat rambling, indulgent post. I'm writing a blogpost after quite a while which may account for the rather stodgy turns of phrase. Finished reading Nassim T...
Untitled 29 Aug 2009 | 06:04 pm
Changing Social Equations : Witnessed through the prism of movies I've always felt that motion pictures are much more representative of a society's collective impulses than any other art form. It is ...
