Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words: 1,920 The late Gore Vidal once confessed, with characteristic rapier wit, “I love stupidity. It excites me.” But the excitement and hilarity of human foibles and failures diminish rapidly when the consequences include more than 100,000 corpses. Stupidity is a steadfast provider of humor and tragedy in Freedom Central, otherwise known as … Read more
Number of words: 1,821 It is very likely that the next full semester (likely to start around mid-August for IIT-Bombay) will be “virtual” as campuses will continue to be locked down, and we will have to resort to online teaching. Due to this sudden fallback on the online mode, e-learning evangelists have found a new … Read more
Number of words: 244 Most people think that the more you spend on healthcare, the better your healthcare is, but it’s not true. Now, it’s not that every heart surgeon is going, “Oh yes, a couple more of these heart operations and I’ll be able to pay for a yacht.” Rather, if you’ve spent 40 … Read more
Number of words: 143 Technology makes for easier persuasion and nudging — what B.J. Fogg at Stanford calls persuasive technology — and makes it far more potent. So, the British government’s Central Office of Information, they’ve said, “Look we’ve tried advertising with seatbelts for years. It didn’t really work. And so, we made it illegal … Read more
Number of words: 177 “Imagine there’s a device that costs about 50p per household, per year, and if you install it in your house, it decreases the chance of a house fire by 30 percent.” And everybody goes, “That’s an absolutely brilliant idea. I want to buy one of those. And, actually, I think the … Read more
Number of words: 1,693 Saudi Arabia has instigated two oil price wars in the last decade and has lost both. Given its apparent inability to learn from its mistakes it may well instigate another one but it will lose that as well. In the process, it has created a political and economic strait-jacket for itself … Read more
Number of words: 517 What went wrong? In the old days–six years ago- the kids got along with the system. (Would they now, since we have legislated against safety valves?) The kids are different now. Upon reflection, they too come up with the word deprived. If more kids can’t or won’t go along with us, … Read more
Number of words: 389 Fathers were not a thing commonly possessed by members of The Tribe, but even that’s not so outright as it might appear. I know it’s a platitude about what all the interpretations call the matriarchal Negro society or culture. For one thing, it’s not unique in that respect, and for another … Read more
Number of words: 1,120 I saw from my schedule that I taught five periods to four different groups– a seventh-grade B class, which I had twice, an eighth-grade B class, a ninthgrade D class, and a seventh-grade H class. Nothing had been mentioned in the meeting about a system of classification involving A’s and B’s, … Read more
Number of words: 650 On that afternoon it was really made easy by Miss Bentley, the viceprincipal. Miss Bentley offered us the example of the Army. The Army, she submitted, was an organization of people given certain tasks to perform. So was a school. The tasks were vital. Perhaps, she grinned, those of us old … Read more
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