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.