this blog will be in full force once i join work, thats next wednesday. until then, i am crippled with my old pc playing its age and a browsing center where there isnt much privacy :(

Well, a busy orientation week at ISB combined with some food poisoning has kept me away from this blog... Minus the ill health, this week has been very interesting. Its been fascinating meeting a new set of 295 souls, as passionate about ISB, if not more. I was seriously apprehensive when ISB's fee was raised. I thought it would influence the applicant quality. While I still believe it did, the incoming class of 05 has surprised all of us in terms of quality, credentials and maturity. I personally have been meeting a lot of these guys over the past one week and the I have been pleasantly surprised by what I have seen. It has left not only me but all of us from the class of 04, pretty satisfied that ISB now has a set of people who will help it take the next big leap towards becoming a world class educational institution.

More from me once I recover completely. Until then, lets bask in the glory of India's triumph. Saurav and boys, way to go!

Ganguly has just made me eat my words. Chopra dropped! I cannot agree. This is not fair on the opener. Ganguly better prove his worth by scoring a century. But even if he does, this is not fair.

I have been killing time with my macroecon text from ISB. Its one book that I wanted to read patiently. Economics, especially macroecon, is absolutely fascinating. I wish I had read more of this stuff before. Forex reserves, inflation, exchange rates, GDP growth, stuff u read everyday in the newspapers made so much more sense only after this course. Prof. Ravi Bansal had made it all seem so simple and no nonsense that you actually wanted to read more of this stuff. Once I give this book a detailed read, I guess I will start posting some links that I am collecting about interesting papers in this area.

Chennai is very different from what it was when I left this place 2 years back. So many of my friends are out of town that it does feel pretty weird sometimes. Keeping myself busy was never a problem until now. Im looking forward to the weekend. Its a long one which means my coterie will be in chennai. Friends from bangalore and other places will be back home. I look forward to that.

All this free time means I actually am sitting in front of the TV watching India lose to Pak. But somehow, the bad feeling one used to get when India lost in the years gone by is not there now. There is this confidence that the team will bounce back. Speaking either to my dad, who is a diehard fan or to some other friends kind of confirms this for me. I guess the resilience and grit shown down under will live with us for quite some time. Besides, only 3 years back, India winning a test abroad was a rare event. Its not so now. We are actually talking seriously about a series win abroad against the likes of aussies and pak. Ganguly has indeed succeeded where a lot of other captains could not. On TV yesterday, he was talking about the next test match and ruled out Yuvraj replacing Akash Chopra, the reason being "One test match cannot be the basis for deciding a cricketer's career". Finally thats someone in Indian cricket talking with a lot of sense and conviction. Ganguly would know, from the way he carried drinks throughout the '92 aussie tour and was then dropped without a word of remorse. He wudnt let that happen to anyone else as long as he is in command.

I saw this tamil movie, "Autograph" today. Pretty decent. Powerful and would relate to a lot of people and their school and college days in a very different way. If you can withstand some minor sentimental stuff, this is worth a watch.