• Reason Magazine – Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
  (tags: CSR)

• Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia?
  (tags: gas)
• Raising Kaine:: $200 per barrel oil, $10 per gallon gasoline coming soon?
  (tags: gas)
• Stevey’s Blog Rants: Get that job at Google
  (tags: interview)

The show must go on….and it WILL go on, albeit at a different address:

http://sridharvanka.com

Cheerios !!!

Phew !  What a day !

Sehwag gets his second triple hundred…I get my internet connection back…

These are good signs…!!!

• The Population Myth – livemint
  If population growth was undesirable, why would people migrate to cities in such large numbers? In cities, we become part of economic networks that are larger than what we would get in smaller places, with more opportunities, and a greater chance to speci
  (tags: society)

• Cricinfo – No room for bigotry
  It’s hard for Indian fans to cede moral advantage to an Australian team. They are so much better at the cricket that outrage is often the only consolation we have. It’s hard to fault the Australians’ behaviour on the Symonds affair: they’ve made their poi
  (tags: racism cricket)

• An inconvenient Peace Prize – The Boston Globe
  Gore told the world in his Academy Award-winning movie to expect 20-foot sea-level rises over this century. He ignores the findings of his Nobel co-winners, who conclude that sea levels will rise between only a half-foot and two feet over this century, wi
  (tags: globalwarming)

• ‘Talking back won’t annoy Aussies’
  The Aussies know that the equation is simple: pressure plus expectation equals failure. They know that the pressure is on you, from your own countrymen, to succeed, and they will use that as a weapon.
  (tags: cricket sledging)

• IndianExpress.com :: Seniors are the blue chip stocks, sure to deliver
  If India’s success at Twenty20 is an argument for phasing out seniors, then it is a flawed one
  (tags: cricket)
• Clark accepts the harsh reality of maths destruction | The Australian
  Clark answered the phone. “Stu, it’s Andrew Hilditch.” Bugger. “Can I come up and see you for a minute.”

  Yeah, right. Don’t forget to bring a blindfold and last cigarette. As Clark said later: “You know Hilditch isn’t ringing to catch up for a drink.”

  (tags: cricket)
• Business and caste in India | With reservations | Economist.com
  India’s Congress-led government has told companies to hire more dalits and members of tribal communities. Together these groups represent around a quarter of India’s population and half of its poor. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, has given warning th
  (tags: Politics government)

• Life and Letters: My Father’s Suitcase: The New Yorker
  A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
  (tags: writing)