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Thoughts as they come will be honestly captured here for your consideration. These reflections or ruminations are on topics that do not have a specific Category on this site. My essays on the various categories will be posted under the respective headings. |
Grease is sticky!
Written by V V Ranganathan, May 20th, 2010
Posted under: Musings
Yes, this Greece is sticky too. And this troublesome glue could entangle India too.
Ancient Greece is the cradle of western civilisation. The land of Plato, Pythagoras, Homer, Aristotle, Socrates and many other famous souls, Greece, the land of Olympics, is today in great trouble. With the largest maritime fleet in the world and the queen […]
Making Sense of it after all
Written by V V Ranganathan, March 17th, 2010
Posted under: Musings
Nandan Nilenkani posted his first entry on his blog “ Making Sense of it all” on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 at 11:01 pm and it is filed under About the book – Imagining India.
Of the 34 Responses to “Making sense of it all”, his first blog on the book, by a conspiracy of happy accidents, […]
Tiger, tiger, burning bright …
Written by V V Ranganathan, January 7th, 2010
Posted under: Musings
Exactly an year ago, one of India’s then celebrated entrepreneurs, made a confession that his entrepreneurial journey was indeed “… like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten”. His admission on 7th January 2009 that he committed a series of gigantic frauds (more than a billion dollar) shook India and […]
Is the Price of Gold right? Or is the Oil price wrong?
Written by V V Ranganathan, December 2nd, 2009
Posted under: Musings
Can Gold prices reach $ 1200 per ounce? Will Oil touch $200 a barrel? These were questions I had put forward in an article “Oh! My God “published on 22 August 2008. The GOD I refer to is Gold, Oil and Dollar. The less we speak about the last one, the better.
Gold was then at […]
Airline Pilots Glorified drivers?
Written by V V Ranganathan, September 11th, 2009
Posted under: Musings
It is a bit poignant that I have to write about airlines on 9/11 when ground zero is in mourning. Barely some five months ago, Rajya Sabha MP P V Abdul Wahab from Kerala was accused of calling the pilot of an Air India aircraft a ‘glorified driver’. What followed was such a hue and […]
