Ministry of Education has implemented National Institute Rankings Framework (NIRF) for evaluating and ranking educational institutes in India. NIRF just released their rankings for 2024. NIRF or any such rankings are good example of Goodhart's Law which states:“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”Our education industry (yes, it's an industry... Continue Reading →
Rory Sutherland – Are We Now Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? | Nudgestock 2024
I have a list of items that I want to gift my daughter when she grows up. It doesn't feature money, property or precious collectibles (mainly because I don't have any). It consists of books which I would urge her to read, movies to watch, music to listen to, and stories/experiences which I want her... Continue Reading →
The Jaw-Dropping Cost of Making Things on Your Own – Efficiency of Free Markets
I had come across the delightful story of how a pencil is made in "I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read", which highlights why and how the modern free market economy works for all of us. This recent video on FutureIQ is an excellent short video to understand the story in... Continue Reading →
The Life and Times of the Indian Economy
I like Amit Varma's long-form conversation podcast, "The Seen and The Unseen". It started as a regular 30-40 mins podcast and slowly grew into long and longer format interviews. The average duration of his weekly podcast is now 2.5-3 hrs long. Last year he did a marathon episode with Shanta Gokhale which was 8+ hrs... Continue Reading →
Understanding 7 Rhythms with Bollywood Songs
Though I have never learnt music, I like to grab opportunities when someone imparts small lessons along with demonstration. One such person is Anuja Kamat. I have shared few of her videos on this blog before. Here is the latest video from her about understanding 7 rhythms with Hindi film songs. You don't have to... Continue Reading →
Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan
When I read the title of Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan's latest book, "Why We Die", I was immediately captivated. I am currently reading two other books because of which I could not explore Venki's book. However, I came across a nice lecture by him with the same title which explains the core idea of his... Continue Reading →
Science and Logic Behind Devnagari (Marathi / Sanskrit Language) Alphabet
Devnagari script (used by Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi languages) is very scientific and logical. In my Marathi language curriculum in school, we never studied those scientific aspects. Unfortunately, even most teachers are not aware of these. However, I had read about Varna Mala (वर्णमाला) in some grammar books and was fascinated by the richness of it!... Continue Reading →
Everything Is Everything: The Life and Times of Chess
Last week's episode (AMA) of Everything Is Everything was special because two of my questions were taken up by Ajay Shah! For one he said that "it was a great questions!". This week's episode of Everything Is Everything is equally special for a different reason. It is about Chess! This is a fascinating episode which... Continue Reading →
INDIA @ 2024
General Elections in India have been rather long. 7 phases spanning more than 60 days and if you consider campaigning, it's more than 100 days! Today was the end of campaigning for the last (7th) phase and voting will take place tomorrow (1st June). I am eagerly waiting for 4th June, the counting day and... Continue Reading →
Don’t Miss This: “Do schools kill creativity?”
Don't miss this hilarious and yet extremely thought provoking TED Talk! https://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY?si=se4T28ckfSA6ST1D
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