Reading Links

1. Read this first: An Open Letter to India’s Graduating Classes.
   And then read this: An Open Letter To Prospective Indian Employer.
    
2. Watch this video: P. Sainath on Mass Media v. Mass Reality: From Farm and Field to Wall Street Deals.
   And then read this deconstruction of the talk by Atanu Dey: P. Sainath on the Evils of Neo-classical Economics.

Reading Links

• Dear Photograph
• Fake it, till you make it
• IAS Culture of Graft, Revealed by an IAS officer
• Leisure in 2006 A.D. (1906)
• Khatron Ke Khiladi - Aam Aadmi Edition
• Venture Inside China’s Tiny Public Housing Cubes
• Gay Talese: What I Read
• The Favors of Autodrivers
• India's Second Freedom Struggle
• Ramoji Film City
• Robot Librarians?
• Has India outsourced its foreign policy to US?
• Who created Ratko Mladic?
• The decline and fall of handwriting
• Indian Summary: Comparing Indian states and territories with countries
• An island with 40 people and 40 cows!

Reading Links

• Why parents can’t cut the apron strings
• Google's war on nonsense
• Thailand: ‘Vote No’ Campaign
• Writing "gonna" or "going to"
• Mediation, Middle Grounds and Meddling – The Medley of Middlemen
  
• 10 classic Indianisms: 'Doing the needful' and more
  
• 10 Great Vacation Reads For Children
  
• How to avoid getting hit by a train
  
• Ladakh – Monks and Monasteries
  
• Beautiful India – Images of landscapes
  

Reading Links

• Peeling Back the Layers of Sanskrit and Vedic Chanting
• Heavy Sentences
• When the individuall rational sums to the collective insane
• Why array indices should start with 0? -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, 1982.
• Rent-seeking

Funny quote: Arindam Chaudhuri suing Google is like Harman Baweja suing Rajnikant because the latter makes hit films http://twitter.com/#!/jhunjhunwala :)

Reading Links

• One Laptop per Child - A doomed ambition for palsy India
• Bike Lanes: Creative Protest
• The Renaissance man: how to become a scientist over and over again
• Interview with Viswanath Anand
• India - The Farse