Gautam’s Net

Am currently reading “Genome” by Matt Ridley…
What an amazing book ! Along with Desmond Morris’ writing it forms a great set to understand us human beings and our position in the order of things ! One quote that he makes struck me:
“Entropy and Information are opposite sides of the same coin” Awesome !

Yesterday night was a scare !
Ekta gave Saachi some multi-vitamins before dinner. And then we went out for dinner. Chinese. At a joint called Mandarin near CMH Road. Awesome food.
And whatdya know?
Saachi pukes all the stuff in about 7 instalments between 11pm and 1 am !
We frantically ring up the pedeatrician at midnight (after crazily [...]

I’ll try and not keep too much to the ’serious’ focus on XL (you can do a search on yahoo and google and find stuff for that!)
These next few posts are basically for XLers to relive those ‘JLT’ times at XL, and for non-XLers to know the ‘un’official part of XL that go so much [...]

OK, here are some facts (and fiction!) about XL (the loving nickname of XLRI) located in jampot (the loving nickname of Jamshedpur) in the Indian state of Jharkhand (earlier part of Bihar):
XL was established by Fr. Quinn in 1949 …yeah its the oldest B School in India !
On the 25th anniversary of XL, Fr. [...]

Also added a page with 4 poems of mine…

Posted some new snaps on my website
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Got this link from The Alternative perspective newsletter I get
It’s an article by Shashi Tharoor (the author of The Great Indian Novel and The Mammaries of a Welfare State) who is also a civil servant and UN employee on what does being Indian and India mean for him. I think it captures the [...]

Three British icons are hogging the media headlines these days:
1. David Beckham
2. Harry Potter and
3. Prince of Wales, William
ET compared Beckham and Potter, beginning with the games they play and said that Harry won hands down as Quidditch is an infinitely superior game than football (just one ball, and that too without broomsticks !)
Beckham and [...]

I took this test on Quizzilla…I don’t agree with the results !!
But decided to post this anyway…!

You are Lust.
Every part of you screams “Do me now!”
You exude sexuality and while others sometimes
view you as a slut, you see yourself as only
giving into your base desires.
What Emotion Are You?
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People who [...]

I got this in a forward from a friend…
I usually don’t like posting forwards on my Blogs…but I am making this an exception (its the first time…so sue me!!)
Excerpt from an account about a traveling experience in india:
To the uninitiated, driving in India is bedlam. It is like amusement park
“bumper cars” with horns, except we [...]