tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52469862011-04-21T18:30:37.315-07:00In the hope of finding a world less weary...a world more cheery...Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.comBlogger3301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-19067488090395763342007-11-01T08:08:00.000-07:002007-11-04T21:11:30.851-08:00

The Presidential debate for the JNUSU elections which was held on the evening of October 31st, might just go down as the darkest day in the annals of the history of the students’ movement of JNU. Violence broke out in the pandal erected at Jhelum Lawns after the BSF presidential candidate responded to a question posed by the ABVP candidate on the former’s views on Ram. The BSF candidate’s

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-66109200623277606062007-09-17T10:34:00.000-07:002007-09-20T12:48:36.859-07:00

third time lucky!yup...made it to JNU..finally!! am about a little more than a month old...and throughly enjoying every bit this experience.have already brought out a protest poster(on a rather flippant pun, have been called the "new poster girl of JNU")...have already walked out in protest(against sexual harassment at the freshers)...have already been dubbed the unofficial 'dalit' by my juniors

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-41244981388972767302007-02-28T04:04:00.000-08:002007-02-28T04:27:41.261-08:00

and am still around...(it was yesterday)well...to begin with..i think i have finally grown up..coz one sure shot sign of it was that hardly anyone remembered it...i remember i used to be yelled at for sleeping off before midnight..coz friends who wanted to be first in wishing me would call..and i wouldn't be around to answer...but this time..i stayed up (thanks to a test the next day)..and voila!

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is my new name...it so happened that i went to see off a friend of mine (a junior of mine in college...menon is what we call him, just to ensure credibility of his existence at this point of time) at the bus stand..coz he was leaving for Goa...he happens to have an extra ticket on him as his cousin didn't turn up...so all he does is ask..."hey..you wanna come along?"and guess who goes instead..

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hmm..we seem to be getting somewhere with this one...i am going to post the comments that i received for the previous post here and post my response in the form of a blog post.Alex says "It depends on what connotation one gives to Globalisation. The middle class tend to gain from this integration. Creative destruction is an inevitable by product of this phenomenon. National identities are

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1156948030813256672006-08-30T07:16:00.000-07:002006-08-30T07:27:15.270-07:00

Economic Sociology. a critique of mainstream economics and so far so good.will post more as i finish reading some more.and also that i can cycle on the roads during peak hour traffic ...went for a film festival all the way to FTII and even to the travel agent to book my tickets...on life here...well, have to debate on the motion, " This House Believes that Globalisation has diluted unique

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1156307330843637662006-08-22T21:11:00.000-07:002006-08-22T21:28:50.936-07:00

we paved our own way!!(i know this is coming in late..but still..)there we were... boys and girls...juniors and seniors...all together..breaking bricks...laying them out..levelling the road...that led us to our hostel.i think we were fed up of complaining...fed up of waiting for a response. trust me..i never thought this road would get us together..but amazingly it did. and i am proud of it.

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in my mumbai...will be gone to pune..only 150 kms away...but somehow for me it always seems like an eternity away from mumbai...of this vacation in mumbai i will remember...endless weeks and weekends spent working on a comp all day...with no one but data for companywaiting at Khar station for joyie and then sitting there on the platform with her watching people go by...evenings by the sea spent

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1153308571426882212006-07-19T04:21:00.000-07:002006-07-19T04:37:31.480-07:00

coz' we will now take the Pakistanis' help to resist authority...this time it's a reminder of the Emergency to all of us who weren't born around that time...one of the reactions of the govt. to the bomb blasts has been a clampdown on blogs..i found a way around...here it is...please visit www.pkblogs.comor simply type http://www.pkblogs.com/vibster (an example) in the address bar to access ay

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each day as i talk to people as young (or old) as me or younger or older than me...the country they hail is israel "we really need to go the israel way..no one cares for their citizens the way they do..you bomb one school of theirs...they will bomb ten schools of yours"the leader they seek is a dictator.even a fascist. "we don't like modi..but we think we need someone like him right now"the

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1152704274145181242006-07-12T04:25:00.000-07:002006-07-12T04:37:54.176-07:00

by about five minutes and fortunately was in the opposite direction...travelling in a train on the same line.the streets are pretty empty today...so are the trains.a lot of things have changed...was at the airport yesterday just after the blasts...and there was absolutely no panic. everyone calmly making their respective strategies to get back home.on our way to the international airport (was

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1151925271490161452006-07-03T03:47:00.000-07:002006-07-03T04:14:31.553-07:00

forever...as a journo of a tabloid...:)it's been about two years since i gave up reporting...in pursuit of perspective. i thought that would have been the day when i bid goodbye to calls from harried residents about overflowing drains..flooded compounds...monsoon wrecked roads, illegal encroachments, thefts, murders, etc, etc.but i realised that the patrons of the tabloid i used to work for

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1151588906694753892006-06-29T06:40:00.000-07:002006-06-29T06:48:26.706-07:00

am dumbstruck!!completely...have nothing to say...coz' all my hard work..sweat and toil...hours of unpaid labour...have just gone down the drain...because technology decided to strike against me which resulted in a loss of data...am back to square no 1...and have to begin almost afresh..like 0.1 percent above the level 'start'.which means...coming to work an hour earlier..leaving an hour later

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1151409706910393872006-06-27T04:49:00.000-07:002006-06-27T05:01:46.920-07:00

at least till the weekend..as i sit and calculate death rates, infant mortality rates..and suicide mortality rates...and compare suicide rates against death rates...just a random thought..doesen't reflect my state of mind or anything...so we all end up as a statistic...someone many years from now will probably calculate death rates..hopefully to serve a larger purpose..and i will account for one

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1151209805843893292006-06-24T21:13:00.000-07:002006-06-24T21:30:05.870-07:00

this time by data...even as we work religiously on sundays...keeping the faith that probably all this number crunching will lead to some conclusive results in our efforts to highlight the prevailing crisis in Indian agriculture...we discover that the NSSO doesen't quite support us in our endeavours...firstly, this Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers takes into consideration only farmers...that

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1151062312781096322006-06-23T04:20:00.000-07:002006-06-23T04:31:52.810-07:00

learn Zulu...at least that's what Reebok learnt from a recent advertising campaign...advertising campaigns love to get as gimmicky as possible..and a touch of exotica always helps..doesen't it?so Reebok decides to shoot one of its ads amongst some tribe in South Africa...they decide to make one the tribe members wear the shoes and run...at the end of the ad film...the man picks up the shoes and

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...to about three years ago. i was working with a mumbai based tabloid. my friend and colleague had to go on an assignment to interview two authors ofa the latest book that had been released on Mumbai titled," Mumbai Meri Jaan". she hadn't read the whole book then...asked for help on some possible questions that could be put forth. i read the introduction..obivously it was yet another

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1150281347441316552006-06-14T03:24:00.000-07:002006-06-14T03:35:47.453-07:00

at IGIDR..assisting on a book on Agrarian Crisis in India. so it's back to hours spent in the library collecting data..entering..analysing..writing...etc etc...all week long...no holidays...from 9am till 7pm...but i am not complaining..generally a continuation of my efforts last year at trying to analyse the media reportage of farmers' suicides in Maharashtra...we are trying to build up from

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1150034493038814162006-06-11T06:45:00.000-07:002006-06-11T07:01:35.220-07:00

so finally am in my favourit'est' city...waiting to start working..to get my mind off several things...including a disastrous end to what could have been the perfect beginning to my vacation...hoping that this city could help save what's left of it(the vacation).anyway..am completely uninspired...so until i get over my writer's block and this hopefully temporary phase of disappointment...Adios!

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Spent a week with someone who i hold in high regard...trekked up forests...sat by rivers...battled leeches and had a tryst with the Lion Tailed Monkey albeit at a distance....and finally he has a blog..he helped me make sense of politics not too long ago..and i continue to count on him to help me make sense of the world. economics or otherwise.Check this out!!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1146652499109837442006-05-03T03:31:00.000-07:002006-05-03T03:43:40.276-07:00

Down DisturbedDepressedDisillusionedDefeatedDestroyed.Do you feel powerful enough?

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1145452242470723802006-04-19T06:05:00.000-07:002006-04-19T06:10:42.480-07:00

And you don't need to travel to the end of the world to be delighted!sometimes.Here's one reason why.Click Here!

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That's what we are...in the debate on the Narmada project.Damned by the media, damned by the government and damned by journalists who can equate Medha Patkar with Advani without blinking an eye!To compare Patkar (who i think after Gandhi has effectively been able to question the morality of law) with Advani (who i hold as no better than a fascist) is nothing short of outrageous and only reflects

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1144479254368350922006-04-07T23:26:00.000-07:002006-04-08T06:51:08.863-07:00

Economists that is...attended a seminar on the financial and economic factors in Terrorism..and it ended up being a micro lec on maximising a terrorist leader's profit maximising function which had elements like the value of his life which is taken as a discounted value of future streams of income and even had the probablity of being caught!The function was subject to a budget constraint that had

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1144140445630808732006-04-04T01:20:00.000-07:002006-04-04T05:55:20.130-07:00

I was all of a foot and half or twoIt was my very first time by the seaI squealed, a little in fear, a little in delightas the foamy edges reached for my feetI held my father's hand a little tighter.the waves were teasing,But I stood stilllittle aware that thrill also meant bewareAnd then there was the time when a huge wave nearly swept me away,Comfort levels grewbut fear remainedThere was then

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... to know that the probability of a person supporting the Nuclear Disarmament movement in India is 1 out of 11!! that was the result of a group discussion that we had in college the other day..i was obviously the unpopular one. so in all fairness..the probability could be much lower..in fact it is...the reasons given for a nuclear india are the same old ones...credible detrrence theory and the

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1143557851134458832006-03-28T06:42:00.000-08:002006-03-28T07:01:21.350-08:00

Shatranj Ke Khiladi!what a script! the man does it again...hilarious...a political satire on the waning Mughal Empire (of course it still holds true of the Indian government)...indulgent emperors who were there only to serve as titular heads...and a whole class of courtiers...who were nothing but rent seekers (reminiscent of the indian bureaucracy)...but the movie i guess has proved to be

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1143438969914901002006-03-26T21:35:00.000-08:002006-03-26T21:56:09.926-08:00

Pather Panchali...overwhelmingly beautiful...the imagery, the narration, and the soulful depths to which the camera could carry the human eye...and of course let's not forget the simple humour...subtle and yet very lifting...simply love the way ray gives birth to hope everytime you feel let down by the miseries of poverty weighing down apu and his family...and what a way to signify the birth of

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of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne...superficially about two village idiots...but the movie is so much more than that...a simple tale...much like a folktale or even a fairytale for that matter...simplistically and innocently hilarious...so many little messages passed on to you...about the discontentment of man no matter what...about the pointlessness of war...and then almost immediately...Ray brings you

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How i wish we could be five again and the biggest problem for us would be to wonder what my mum has packed for me in my tiffin box or if we would get selected in a team while playing 'Chor Police'How i wish i could just rewind to even about five years back...and we would just be sitting on that damn wall, doing absolutely nothing...And talk absolutely nothing for hours and yet leave with a

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1143018020464895402006-03-22T00:47:00.000-08:002006-03-22T02:41:26.286-08:00

coz' i haven't seen too many people who work that hard for their students...coz' you made me feel on par with students who were far ahead of me...coz' you didn't laugh off my silly doubts...coz' you sat there patiently even on weekends...answering each question in detail.maybe things have changed for you now...so they have been telling you things about me...and you choose to listen to them.so you

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1142841967249360372006-03-20T00:04:00.000-08:002006-03-20T01:35:58.580-08:00

...of being the last man standing If you weren't the last one to stand up.:)

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1142663679889165302006-03-17T22:23:00.000-08:002006-03-17T22:59:59.643-08:00

1) Bill Watterson's Calvin never grows up!2) I get happy when i eat chocolate.Being happy was never simpler. and it's scientifically proven too...3) I know how to ride a cycle.4) I can eat alone, stay alone, sleep alone, stand alone...5) when joyie calls at the end of the week, I can make her laugh..not just laugh but i can crack her up!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1142485184051709332006-03-15T20:52:00.000-08:002006-03-15T21:00:22.190-08:00

It's beautiful....Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle thief...and it's all there just like I did it in film appreciation class in Journalism school...a penitent old italy apologising for its unwilling participation in the War...an ashamed young italy trying to hold up its honour ("some fine example you have set for your young son...", the crowd belittles Ricci, even as young bruno holds up his father's

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1142077605115571502006-03-11T03:31:00.000-08:002006-03-11T03:46:45.593-08:00

joyie says..it does..she gives a scientific explanation for it...thanks to a docu on nat geo...the thrill of love she says won't last for too long...your body can't take it...it will make your mind give up...but what about hope? will that go away too? is there a science to that too?

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600 acres of newly freed land in mumbai...and we will still have asia's largest slum.A party that started to take up the cause of the mill workers...and it's rebel leader now plans to construct a mall on mill land.

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1141707447521009812006-03-06T20:53:00.000-08:002006-03-06T20:58:53.740-08:00

coz' i believe this needs to be read...the author(a dear one..)prefers to remain anonymous...-----------------------of things i can't digest.at least 12 have been killed in the fury and rage brought out by the cartoons controversy of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). and oneof the home grown mulla MLAs from UP has put a 51 crore bounty on thehead of the cartoonist.Think of a giant gorilla

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1141616386727909842006-03-05T19:38:00.000-08:002006-03-05T19:39:46.740-08:00

all safe...no dogs chasing me yet...:)

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1141487784445963602006-03-04T07:48:00.000-08:002006-03-04T07:56:24.456-08:00

you know what...for all those who love Gokhale for its tapri, hostel and parties and everything else that makes you happy..good for you!!maybe i want something that Gokhale started out as an institute for...and really i don't owe anybody an explanation for what i feel...or how i go about getting to what i want and deserve...and i have been fortunate to find people who think on similar lines...

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1141231629561855322006-03-01T07:20:00.000-08:002006-03-01T08:50:39.710-08:00

dear all,this is for all my seniors who are attached to Gokhale and love coming back...it's great to see you guys doing that...about my comments on Gokhale...well what can i say?i am glad that all you guys have read my blog with so much patience and have commented on my view...that was my aim anyway..to start a dialogue..after all we are all from the world's biggest and almost oldest democracy...

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so turned 24 today!am 24...feel 40..look 18... ( ok fine 20...)can life get any better? (or worse?)

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is this what they call fate?the fact that i have the best conversations when i am sleep talking...

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Mumbai Quickie!went to mumbai for precisely 14 hours...day before yesterday...finally put a face to a pseudonym that appears quite regularly in the comments section of my blog...landed up at his wedding...haha..congrats acheck!!met joyie...(who is still pretending to be let lagged...a week after coming back from london...hmph...grr..)and as i wearily lugged myself along in the wee hours of the

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1139998184709534532006-02-15T01:53:00.000-08:002006-02-15T02:09:44.720-08:00

so saved up some money...maaroed some emotional drama with the flowers guy and got a little colourful spray of flowers...for a little less than the usual price one would have to pay...yesterday...and then went to wish him Happy Birthday!! spread the word around and organised a surprise party...and he sat there much like a little school boy...piled up all his gifts on the dinner table...(te

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1139890853437850812006-02-13T20:14:00.000-08:002006-02-13T20:20:53.446-08:00

and yet another professor will be leaving...he won't wait for the semester to end...they tried to break him...but he'd rather go about his work and not mull over the past...all i can say is i was witness to another effort to change the system...that's all we students here remained as...mute spectators... as the victors rolled out their dice... and we continue to watch in silence as they

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1139457467159392062006-02-08T19:48:00.000-08:002006-02-09T20:41:53.110-08:00

the externalities of being a Gokhaleite...1) The Mess makes sure that you have a digestive system of a goat, by the time you complete one semester...anything ranging from polythene to phenyl is then digestible exactly after one semster2) It is also exactly after one sesmter that you will find your skin resembling that of a croc...to put it plainly...you develop a thick skin...reactions are

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1138851865249676962006-02-01T19:25:00.000-08:002006-02-01T19:44:25.263-08:00

The power of the Nobel...so a super-senior (from the batch that will receive their degrees tomorrow) was speaking out her mind to me last night...and thus she spake, " I dunno...I am just not feeling upto it for convocation...we were all so excited that Amartya Sen was coming for our convo...but now..it's just some professor from JNU...i mean the last batch had Abdul Kalam coming ( at this point

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1138591265704435732006-01-29T19:16:00.000-08:002006-02-01T19:23:59.363-08:00

If i can't get to JNU......JNU gets to me...February 3rd...12th Convocation of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics...Utsa Patnaik , Professor Centre for Economic and Social Planning, JNU, will be speaking on Poverty and Neo-Liberalism...

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1138445457093246302006-01-28T02:19:00.000-08:002006-01-28T02:56:23.946-08:00

so it's back to rage against the system!!Rang De Basanti...great music...some pretty good camera movements...youthful...at times witty script...well...let's see...rage against the system has always been a popular choice in Bollywood what with amitabh bachchan in Zanjeer...but then most films then were about fighting the system from within the system...then we came to the glorious period of the

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1138431245590524842006-01-27T22:49:00.000-08:002006-01-27T22:54:05.600-08:00

If it happened to Dinosaurs...it should happen to us too!! (at least some of us!)I am talking about extinction...obviously i am furious...and i am hoping that someday the Fat Punju Kids and the Cleavage Queens of the world who are the ruling power here right now will go extinct 'coz their brains forgot to keep pace with their growing years or bodies!!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1138161246000964832006-01-24T19:43:00.000-08:002006-01-24T19:54:06.010-08:00

second semester in full flow...and...the happiest part of me at Gokhale are my multicoured- socks- wearing feet!!... as i set torturous goals for myself...(taking up econometrics again!!) i can't help but admit that classes that are filled with discussions of political economy are most disappointing...it just shows how theory can disconnect you absolutely from the world outside...and not just

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1137556166623413032006-01-17T19:47:00.000-08:002006-01-21T01:37:47.273-08:00

Obviously, I don't believe in Moderation!!...got my entertainment-starved self a cycle yesterday...and rode it till my legs fell off!!on the brighter side of it...I now know what they mean when they say, "your legs feel like jelly!!"

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1136956444384065482006-01-10T21:08:00.000-08:002006-01-10T21:14:04.396-08:00

Prince has company!!Financial Institutions class...professor decides to jog his memory and recall the names of his students...has a habit of assigning titles to his students such as Mr or Ms...calls out a couple of students after asking a question...Prof:Mr. Singh?Mr. Singh: (No response)Prof: Mr. Dalwai?Mr. Dalwai: (No response)Prof. looks around for a while....looks at me and the then

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1136281793962123222006-01-03T01:47:00.000-08:002006-01-03T01:51:06.013-08:00

Tailpiece to the previous post...Prince for me turned out to be the epitome of existential dilemna when he looked at me for a while and asked in all earnesty, " Tu Bhaiyya hai ki didi?"New Year Resolution: I resolve to grow my hair at least till my shoulders!!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1136197464623341022006-01-02T01:40:00.000-08:002006-01-02T02:29:16.476-08:00

"Providence created Maharajas to offer mankind a spectacle"...wrote Rudyard Kipling of the Indian princes in pre independence India...obviously that can be said for others...and i realised that whilst returning from Goa...had loads of punjus for company...and man were they entertaining or what..so this big punju family..husband, wife, husband's mother, three kids...two girls of ages 6 and 9 and

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1135313377329100922005-12-22T20:39:00.000-08:002005-12-22T20:49:37.330-08:00

So...how difficult can life be at 19? difficult enough to tip over and say " I Quit!"how difficult is it to be convinced that you are loved, wanted? not any more difficult than convincing you that you are loved, wanted...and an inseperable part of our life?it's just a fraction of a second isn't it? just a microsecond away from not crossing over to the other side...just that moment...coz once that

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1135234275709786192005-12-21T22:38:00.000-08:002005-12-22T20:39:26.026-08:00

Dearest joyie,I was sitting by the sea at 12.30 am last night...discussing the Israeli Palestinian conflict with a punch of Assamese humour...as the cold sea breeze blew...i lifted the collars of my (your) jacket to shut out the wind from entering my ears...waiting endlessly for one of our phones to ring...(preferably mine)...it did ring in the end...only to make me laugh and tell me not to wait

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1135051882886701152005-12-19T19:47:00.000-08:002005-12-19T20:11:22.900-08:00

...because i can't say NO!!am supposed to be on a holiday...remain totally disconnected from anything to do with academics and waste my life for the next ten days...indulging in trivial pursuits like movie marathons...gossip with my female friends...drool at Abhishek Bachchan in his latest hip hop avtaar...and spend endless hours staring at the ceiling fan...dreaming away my days and nights...but

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1134550595798802022005-12-14T00:37:00.000-08:002005-12-14T00:56:36.503-08:00

am nearly a semster old...quite a journey...except that i am still to deal with math...to all ex ACJiites!! (am sorry for putting this one up so late...)Manasi my ex roomie is getting married!!! to funny man Cherian!! so the wedding includes good food and standup comedy!! am volunteering to be the sidekick...totally offtrack!!...have been talking to friends from mumbai over the phone in my sleep.

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1133507670615229842005-12-01T22:59:00.000-08:002005-12-01T23:14:30.626-08:00

If i pile up all the books and additional readings that i have to read through to get past my first semester...the pile competes with me in standing tall...(there's not much to comepte with eh!!)and the electricity board has found an ingenius way to entertain me in the midst of my tryst with exams...as i sit in the wee hours of the early morn off goes the light...and whoa!! i light up candles...

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1130218705367394972005-10-24T23:05:00.000-07:002005-10-24T22:40:47.283-07:00

...am custom- made for the entertainment industry!!...that i don't even have to try hard!! so not only is yours truly a light sleeper...but also talks in her sleep...arbitrary ramblings...(until not so long ago i used to walk in my sleep...but i guess nature decided to sober me down coz otherwise the turn of events would have been too dramatic for this world to handle)so..am sleeping..hit peak

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1129708613060744712005-10-19T00:50:00.000-07:002005-10-19T00:56:53.846-07:00

What could be worse than not being able to comprehend the object of my affection??am a little sad today...inside...

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1129193861683274992005-10-13T01:43:00.000-07:002005-10-13T01:57:41.690-07:00

am overwhelmed by the flood of comments...including Fx guy who has been spamming my comments column...(i owe it to you dude...at least you make me seem popular amongst those who might be blog surfing and rank me as a popular blog only coz i have 9 comments to a post)meanwhile..on the pune front...you think we mumbaiites would spare the delhiites..to everything they criticise...we have just one

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1128938663032685222005-10-10T02:55:00.000-07:002005-10-10T03:04:23.056-07:00

all ye fellow comrades who are thanking me for Mumbai !!(call it Bombay if you wish)When Pune becomes Delhi (thanks to the mass scale migration to Gokhale by all the Delhi School, JNU and IGIDR rejects..) you can't help but say, "Unfortunately, you can take a person out of Delhi but can NEVER take Delhi out of a person...and Quite fortunately enough...you can take a person out of Mumbai but

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1128419266533426272005-10-04T02:19:00.000-07:002005-10-04T02:47:46.540-07:00

back from mumbai...to Auschwitz!!nah..just overdoing it...but mumbai was awesome...ate like a camel..as if i were storing for the unforseen future...laughed as if i were making up for lifetime missed out on it...like Zeb says, " Home is where one only consumes...there is no need for processing!!" It's so amazing..i just wished for clean clothes and Lo! behold they appeared!! asked for a clean

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1128150444012935342005-10-01T00:06:00.000-07:002005-10-01T00:07:24.016-07:00

am in MUMBAI!!!need i say more!!after the lows it's back to the Mumbai highs!!mwaahs and hugs to all who are reading this!!!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1127721645487961942005-09-26T00:52:00.000-07:002005-09-26T01:00:45.913-07:00

about the lows getting to me....about waiting for the string to snap so that the yo-yoing stops and i can never be pulled back to where i was pushed away from...about learning to have indiference curves for everything in life...about realising that life unlike math does not always have reciprocals...about falling down in pieces and quickly looking around to make sure no one's looked at you...and

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1127475223062973132005-09-23T04:31:00.000-07:002005-09-23T04:35:39.446-07:00

HORRORS of HORRORS!!Fat Punju kid declared that he liked my company at dinner time...loud enough for the next two tables full of people to hear....i want to bury myself and never surface again!!I give up!!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1127377495315011152005-09-22T01:13:00.000-07:002005-09-22T01:30:15.940-07:00

i love farewells...they are just like funerals (sorry for the morbid comparison...)... they are quite similar...on both these occassions...everybody is nice to everyone else...everyone has something nice to say at least to (and about) the one we are bidding farewell to...and of course there's awesome food too at the end of all those kind words...so..it happened to be one such farewell yesterday..

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1127216413263497592005-09-20T04:30:00.000-07:002005-09-22T01:29:35.350-07:00

tolerance levels have just dipped and reached an all time low...now i feel like throwing chairs at everyone i come across...i am hoping this is just a transition phase and hopefully...there will come a time...when i will be indifferent to people around me...have been making marginal improvements in tests...and my students have been following suit...in need of a desperate break...but don't think

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1126512185903968452005-09-12T00:52:00.000-07:002005-09-12T01:03:05.943-07:00

things i will now have to change about myself...1) Co-ordinate my sleep timings at night with hostel dogs' mating calls..(which lasts precisely from 2 am until 5 am)2) Try and not aim for the neck or kick below the belt next time the spoilt fat punju kid from Delhi asks me how much i got in my tutorials (and if i refuse to answer him, her tries to needle it out of my roomie) by the way he shops

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1125915844028957742005-09-05T03:15:00.000-07:002005-09-05T03:24:04.060-07:00

i am usually never this violent...but have pledged to throw a chair at the delhi chick who suffers from the persecution complex...at least that way she can rest in peace and believe that she really is a victim of the world...and i will finally be at peace with myself...coz my hands have been itching to do this since i came here...am enjoying micro economics...especially coz i got a problem right

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1125647740262347142005-09-02T00:46:00.000-07:002005-09-02T00:55:40.273-07:00

life can't get more embarassing...precisely when i had begun to merge with the walls of Gokhale...discovered i haven't been doing anything right...like most things in my life so far...i left the merging incomplete..so my micro prof walks upto me...in the library...in front of two other seniors and a whole lot of batchmates..."Bhiva!! Why are looking so tense?"and i am fumbling..."umm..sir..no..me

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1125552981527918422005-08-31T22:24:00.000-07:002005-08-31T22:36:21.533-07:00

and the macro class continues to be entertaining as ever!!except that all i have gained from it so far are interesting anecdotes..."the good thing about econometrics is that you can get exactly what you want ...if you can't then obviously you haven't studied econometrics well enough!!"our director is against the over mathematisation of economics...which is a good thing...but only after you have

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1125394556287495432005-08-30T02:20:00.000-07:002005-08-30T02:35:56.293-07:00

About yet another Freshers' party...to my list of many...hahaha..feel archaic...but i guess this is where it ends...isn't anything to write about...except that i was surrounded by several 20 year olds...many of whom were totally aghast at watching their fellow batchmates getting drunk...and jumping off chairs...after watching classmates getting high on DD (Dope and Daru) Parties at Journalism

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1124885843516026682005-08-24T04:49:00.000-07:002005-08-30T02:44:56.746-07:00

the terrible tryst with math continues...had a micro test today...knew everything..but took too long to calculate...so couldn't complete my paper...kicked myself so hard in the posterior that i am actually doing all the typing right now standing...have discovered all kinds of freaks here...there is one who has a persecution complex...obviously from delhi...she has this.." I am a child genius who

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1124539961364404242005-08-20T04:33:00.000-07:002005-08-20T05:12:41.370-07:00

finally...i get to know what it is like being confronted by a keyboard...coz for the last two weeks all that i have encountered are books, paper...pens...a strange language called Math...and even stranger people...to update all of you out there about my life and 'companions' here... there are some 15 odd women from Delhi...strange what that city does to women..coz all of them still seem to be

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1122484167662777892005-07-27T09:57:00.000-07:002005-07-27T10:09:27.666-07:00

Where is Noah?...when you need him the most...the proverbial deluge is here...mumbai witnesses the heaviest downpour in thirty years...and i am stuck almost 35 kms away from home...on a hilltop...stranded without much of a civilisation to talk about...atop IGIDR...for the last 40 hours...the place that has been inspired by the Ajanta Ellora caves...well obviously the architect got a little too

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1122263993366812322005-07-24T20:57:00.000-07:002005-07-24T20:59:53.373-07:00

...of love's labour lost...and all it took was a confession...all it took was a prank...if only everything else was as easy to lose...

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1122108297320387662005-07-23T01:29:00.000-07:002005-07-23T01:44:57.376-07:00

threw an "easy guide around delhi" map in the dustbin...drew imaginary regression lines out of the scattered lights from where i sat on marine drive...decided upon the corridors in Gokhale that will be most visited...the trees that will be sat under...there is this one tree on campus which was sat under by none other than Gokhale and Gandhi many a time, whilst discussing the Indian National

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1121435424365453602005-07-15T06:45:00.000-07:002005-07-15T06:50:24.370-07:00

Finally the Queen of Entrance Exams Tops!!...two rejections and I finally top the...umm...ahem...well...the Waiting List at Gokhale!!so yours truly goes slam dunk after two rejections...am first on the waiting list at Gokhale...so admission now confirmed...see you all in Pune!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1121227106422793772005-07-12T20:29:00.000-07:002005-07-12T23:54:26.286-07:00

The last'est' time that I will talk about my rejection at JNU...So while the Americans continue to save the world for us...here's an interesting development that might have had some karmic connection with my life...remember the comet that NASA blasted to smithereens so that they could configure some more elements of the universe...ironically they have left a much Deep'er' Impact than they thought

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1120882461382592332005-07-08T21:11:00.000-07:002005-07-08T21:14:21.386-07:00

JNU Entrance Examination ResultsRegistration No : 40445Name : IYER VIBHA ANANTHANARAYANANProg. of Study : MSchool :SSSCenter :CESPSubject :ECOResult :Not SelectedTwo conclusions!!1) Competitive exams suck!!2) Am meant for bigger things!!

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1120744271508512902005-07-07T06:44:00.000-07:002005-07-07T07:00:32.463-07:00

so my second day at Kalina...fell in love with the director...has to be the best ecotrics prof yet!! but i am yet to discover if i will be the worthiest student in Trics!!one of my micro profs is Mas- Collel & Green (recommended book for microeconomics) in voice mode!! we were doing Preference Theory and and everything..word to word...even the examples are picked verbatim from the text...so we

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1120484618165966472005-07-04T06:29:00.000-07:002005-07-04T06:43:38.210-07:00

The first of several firsts...Yours truly's first day at Mumbai univ today!! was thoda nervous...ma made it perfect by adding the, "my little girl is off to college again" bit.... am sure she was just being all sweet and emotional about it...just that it added to my nervousness...you know generally...getting used to sitting for two hour lectures without letting your attention dip...trying to make

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1120109871107576522005-06-29T22:28:00.000-07:002005-06-29T22:37:51.113-07:00

the fattest lady in the building taught her kid to call me 'aunty' today in the lift...the sudden change in my colour from a usual wheatish brown to a sudden flaming red didn't send the message across...as she continued to hammer it down the kid's memory bank...all i could do was smile at the kid like an idiot all the while chanting an ancient voodoo charm in my head to mutilate the mother...i

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1119675261381384012005-06-24T20:48:00.000-07:002005-06-24T23:18:56.123-07:00

you know how you always wished you came across a teacher who wasn't judgemental about you...never scoffed at you for not knowing enough...never mocked at you for asking stupid (and you thought that was a valid question) questions...simplified a concept using stories out of tinkle...and used those stories whether you were 13 or 30...no matter how difficult the concepts got...and everytime people

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1119497999575675112005-06-22T20:34:00.000-07:002005-06-22T20:39:59.580-07:00

and it just won't stop now...the rain that is...have waded through shin deep water to trek to work today...every single human that passed by me today, with vehicle and without...ensured that they splashed water on me...one bus conductor even grinned broadly after speeding over a huge puddle of water to drench me...hmph! grr!so are there any brownie points for motivation?

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1119244829949868082005-06-19T22:01:00.000-07:002005-06-19T22:20:29.953-07:00

am here at the computer centre..have worked for 54 hours (that's not counting 5 hours spent travelling everyday to and fro) straight on!! wow! that's an achievement..what say?so. yesterday I went to this place called Alfa (colleague wanted to buy rain footwear) which I call the hub of consumerism in the suburbs of Mumbai...it's stocked from shelf to shelf with all kinds of foreign goods...from

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1119163945899458172005-06-18T22:19:00.000-07:002005-06-18T23:52:25.916-07:00

so finally the heavens gave way!the rich kids stayed up in their houses and stuck their hands out to feel the drops...while their mothers yelled at them to stay away in case they caught a cold...the poor ones just ran out and stripped and soaked it up! after all later on they had to worry about draining out the water that would enter their houses in some time...so am at work on a sunday! and am

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1118892974635037772005-06-15T20:05:00.000-07:002005-06-16T01:29:12.613-07:00

The Day the City came to a Standstill...well..almost..at least for about fortyfive minutes...today.coz the Electricity Board dared to cut off electricity in that part of town where the Ambanis and the Tatas stay...so kaput! there it goes..just like that..at 6:15 a.m...manage to run down fourteen floors and catch the bus to Churchgate...but wait a minute...have never seen Churchgate go standstill.

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1118548386257729502005-06-11T20:14:00.000-07:002005-06-11T20:55:12.376-07:00

hello junta!please to be noting...have recovered from the previous phase...and have been devouring literature on the green revolution, contract farming in punjab, Bt cotton in maharashtra...so on and so forth...in between breaks...have been discussing jinnah and gandhi with dudes from bihar and orissa...the latter from orissa has an interesting combination of names for a name...he is called

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1118128322753858602005-06-07T00:07:00.000-07:002005-06-07T00:12:02.756-07:00

well what do you know...you recover from a viral..think that the rest of the days will have something good to offer you...but just when you think you are happy...and are going in the direction that you have decided upon...the bad news begins to flow in...the first of my rejections came in today...it's funny how one rationalises failure...but i am beginning to learn all about it all over again...

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1117693261162051682005-06-01T23:02:00.000-07:002005-06-01T23:21:01.166-07:00

The Anatomy of a Sore Throat!Day 1: There is slight discomfort in swallowing..and you can feel you tonsils slowly swelling..but you put up with it, bravely, coz you think Day 2 will be brilliant with a husky voice et al!Day 2: The pain is really bad...and your tonsils make sure you will starve through the day! no sign of the husky voice as yet...although by evening you are able to do a pretty

Vibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12715530820748630871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246986.post-1117515540104177152005-05-30T21:56:00.000-07:002005-05-30T23:04:49.620-07:00

am very very ill...down with a viral infection...but feverishly working away...head is filled with too much of data on Bt cotton to write anything of significance right now...struck up a conversation with the Big B...my day has been made!!

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hello from the Computer Centre at IGIDR...never felt better about working overtime!! (am required to work only monday to friday..today is a saturday.):)all kinds of people have been walking in and introducing themselves to me...some even offered me chocolate!!not bad eh?? not bad at all i say...

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was bobbing up like an apple in a bowl of water all day long...which implies i am quite enjoying my new 'job'...so much so that Prof. Eye Candy (whom i report to for this project) had to remind me about lunch...they even had a tea party for us!! it can't get grander than this can it??planned a week long trip to Nagpur which got cancelled though coz we are being sent all the data from there...i

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ok..here's an old recollection..that was quite funny even when it happened...it happened to be my first or second day at xavier's...generally..was just geting used to economics and jargon thrown at me in class...was just out of Class 12...all fresh and eager to absorb everything that the prof chooses to speak about...so the prof was talking about different theorists...and of course Adam Smith was

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some light years ago when i was upset about something (big then...pretty silly now) i was told to get myself a job...coz apparently there is this survey (one of those insignificant things that the US specialises in and exports to the rest of the world) which found out that getting a job could prevent people from being /staying upset...you know..it's like..if you get upset about something in your

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back after the big day...first amongst my group of friends getting married and all..so it's bound to be a little dramatic...so there we were...manasi and i...at 10:45 a.m well in time before the bride and groom arrived...well i told you we didn't want to miss a thing...and you have to trust me when i say we tried very hard to be inconspicuous...of course manasi's mercedes and my haircut didn't

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