Things Ravi Pratap Is Up To

There used to be a time in my life when I wrote my blog [back then it was famously known as my 'activity log'] every single day. At least it appeared like I was writing it every day because I sometimes wrote many days together and put the dates in myself. But with a blog [...]

By the time this comes up, we shall be well into October 25 but since my days are separated by sleep cycles and not just the strokes of midnight, I shall pretend for the remainder of this blog entry that I am still in Oct 24th.
Today is Raj’s birthday. And since we are at it, [...]

Wednesday morning and it is the usual routine – get up early and get in to school at an hour as sane as 9:20 am and meet Ron for my weekly meeting. Having just set up my Evolution calendar to do all kinds of neat things like remind me about appointments and other jazz of [...]

So undoubtedly the news of highest priority this nice Tueday morning is that Vidye has begun blogging ! Last night she posted her first entry [with due persuasion from me ] so please congratulate her ! I can only hope that more of my dudes join the world of blogging
This morning I [...]

So my exam finally got over this afternoon at 4 and I don’t know how to react at the end of it all – the paper was really too lengthy and ostensibly nobody managed to finish it. Lengthy and repetitive calculations and no time to think about any of the questions I really [...]

Does it strike you that sometimes my titles are composed out of pure resignation? Well, I am beginning to think so too but I shall probably set this right soon
Anyway so it is Sunday afternoon and I have a mid-term exam in the Computer Architecture course tomorrow. I think a good one day [...]

So I was reading this interesting article on the NYTimes about the Joseph Stiglitz and the ‘Initiative for Policy Dialogue’ which believes that the correct economic policies are those which are tailored to suit the countries they are applied in. An excerpt :
Undeterred, Mr. Stiglitz is taking aim at the so-called Washington consensus, a package [...]

Okay, now ordinarily I would be mighty excited that it actually is ‘Fall Break’ out here in Wash U considering how devoid of holidays Americans in general are [compared with how in India we have a whopping 21 holidays through the year ] but then what do you know – it is still a [...]

Yes and that is the truth. I really am running out of titles for my entries, let alone witty ones at that but then it could be that I am not trying hard enough – what do you think ? Perhaps that really is it – I am too lazy
Anyway, Wedneday morning and [...]

I have been reading lots of interesting articles in the ‘Global Economics’ section in ZNet and I came across this interview the gist of which is this :
The key issue is that the World Bank and IMF are controlled exclusively by the rich nations and work exclusively in the poor nations. They set economic policies [...]