Prisoner's dilemma and the Indianness

I am reading the book "Games Indian Play" by V. Raghunathan for which NRN had given the foreword. The book talks about the behavioural nature of the Indian using the Game theory and behavioural science. As per the author, Indians are intelligent, rational as an Individual; however as a group we fail to advance. He explains this behaviour with the analogy of the Prisoner's dilemma which was nice to read. The author never had any hesitate to call a spade a spade. He has written his view forthrightly. Probably I may write a review here once I finish the book.

Adventurous Saturday

Last Saturday went for the Parasailing conducted by CARE adventures at Hoskote. The place was quite distant from the city and it took some 20 minutes of travel from KR Puram. We(myself and my wife) reached there by 11 am and only we were there to take up the sport. Though the altitude was less (around 200 mts), it was really great to be in the sky and to have a bird's view of the place. Great thing to do in a weekend.

Stupid survey

If you people are watching any of the Sun network's tamil channels, for the past two days they are air-ing an advt for their newspaper. They are conducting some daily survey through famed group A C Nielson. Most of the survey were idiotic and the latest one was really crazy.

One of the two survey is "Ippothaiya ulagil ethu romba avasiyam" meaning "what is more important in the current world". romba theliva irukkaanga. ithukku bathil ennatha solla. ".Dei naye.. enda enna parthu intha kelvi kekra.. " illa panchatantram kamal madiri.. "kelvi kekarathu romba sulabam.. bathil sollirathuthan kastam".. -nu solratha.. ora kustamappa.

The other question.. "which is the most widely liked sweet that people eat". evanga enna veetula poi sweet panna poraangala.

Making people blunt. please god save us from this world of such idiotic people. Not sure why A C Nielson agreed for these kind of surveys.

My First HDR

After a great encouraging words from my friend Subash, I created my first HDR image with the image I clicked on the way to Glenmorgan in Ooty.

Home theatre

I purchased the Sony Home theatre 7 months back and experienced the full power of it when I watched the movie Lord of the Rings (original DVD track). It was really a horripilating experience with the audio effects of the theatre. I love it.
A great way to spend the weekends.

DTH

Sun network's non-compliance of TDSAT's decision to share its feed to Tata Sky has not been highlighted in any of the news channel. Since Sun is coming with its own DTH, delayed by some infrastructure problems, is it not ready to share its feed. Why the Central Government or TRAI is not taking any immediate remedy steps to correct this. The other player DishTV which abide by the judgement and shared its feed to Tata sky.

Is any political reason behind for this behavior?. Probably Sun wants to share its feed only when its DTH is ready and because of which did it get a stay from Chennai high court.This will provide them ample time to set their infrastructure in place?.

All dirty politics and the politicians are cultivating for their family business.

Sparkling spark

The unveiling of GM's Spark was really gratifying news for me as I had been waiting for its release quite a long time (April 2004). After some good reviews about the car, I believe it will be a healthy competitor for the middle class's evergreen auto company Maruti.

Dull final

The much expected finals of the Cricket world cup turned out to be a dull event. After initial rain, the match was reduced to 38 overs. Adding to this, the match was reduced to 36 overs during the Srilankan innings which made the match not worth watching.

Probably they would have waited for the reserve day to play a full fledged match of 50 overs. A very disappointing final.

Mediocre media

Nowadays the news channels in Television have become one of the most important media. The success of the news channel earlier was depend upon the quality of the news they broadcast. However, the recent trends are really absurd. The media are running behind the film personalities to increase their TRP ratings. Believe by this time you would have guessed the topic I am talking about. It’s all about the Aish-Abhishek wedding.

Even after a message from AB saying the ceremony was a family function, the behaviour of media persons was shameless. Why they are giving importance to these kinds of incidents. It was really bad to see someone like Pranoy Roy, Sardesai to sit in the studio and talk about this marriage.

It won't be a surprise even this marriage would be listed in the most important event of this year?

Mediocre media. finally these people also running behind.. TRP