Archive for March, 2007

Online resources on OBC reservation debate in India

Published by Vivek March 30th, 2007 in India, Social Movements and Social Policy. 1 Comment

This page has a list of resources online on the OBC reservation debates in India. This list will be constantly updated
This page contains an assortment of views on the reservation debate.  As far as possible, I am documenting all articles I come across representing any point of view.  As you will notice, a large [...]

TN Budget trivia

Published by Vivek March 24th, 2007 in Tamil Nadu. 0 Comments

Political parties do things in style, and the TN Budget of 2007-2008 was no exception.  Among other things, I found the last line of the budget speech interesting.  Along with the date in English (23 March 2007), it had a tamil date as Panguni-9, Thiruvalluvar Aandu 2038.  Till I read this I did not realise [...]

A chirpy note on TN budget 2007-08

Published by Vivek March 23rd, 2007 in Economics & Economy and Tamil Nadu. 0 Comments

Tamil Nadu has many significan policy success stories – in part due to getting the budgetary priorities right
We are living in a time when positive media coverage of budget is restricted either to tax cuts or for reducing fiscal deficits. Despite the fact that enormous proportion of India’s GDP is spent by the government, media hardly [...]

Map my word dictionary in Google Personalize

Published by Vivek March 21st, 2007 in Software & Utilities. 0 Comments

Map wy word creates a graphical output of various meanings of a word and enables us to find related words with a click
Note: This feature has been disabled in Google Personalize, and visual thesaurus is not a free product anymore
I often struggle for words when I am writing long pieces.  Beyond a point it becomes [...]

Playing the muscleman in the SJC annual play

Published by Vivek March 21st, 2007 in Naan fiction. 1 Comment

Cyril invited me to do a small part in the SJC annual play, a valuable source of “free attendance”
I was pleasantly surprised when Cyril invited me to play a small part in the Tamil Play for the annual day of St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchy. I was to be a muscle man who beats [...]

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