April 18, 2007

The List of Best Blogs from India

Which Indian blogger's writing on humor gets the most eyeballs? According the Numero Uno blogger Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration, it is Jammy and Greatbong and Rahul Razdan's. Incidentally Amit Agarwal is the first professional blogger in India and has done it since 2004. He has named his son Google. Amit blogs at Digital Inspiration on technology, software and internet. He also writes personal technology columns for The Hindustan Times, Financial Express and The Blog Herald.

March 22, 2007

David Rasquinha’s Review of Mediocre But Arrogant on Amazon.com

David Rasquinha is an avid reader and reviewer of books. Starting off with his first review dated 14 Dec 1999 when he wrote about A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin, since then has written 118 book reviews and 1463 votes who find his reviews useful.

About him - as disclosed on the Amazon profile:

"I am from India, temporarily based in the USA. A banker by profession, I am fond of classical music and reading, amateur astronomy. I suppose my grounding in hard nosed economics and banking made me gravitate to science fiction and fantasy. I love reading about different worlds and more importantly, different world-views, seeing how characters interact. To me the most fascinating part of sci-fi is not the bells and whistles of technology but rather the effects of this technological change on society and human psychology."

Here is his take on M-B-A. Full disclosure: David Rasquinha and I were batchmates at XLRI, Jamshedpur, India. Over to you David.

February 19, 2007

Analysis of the Genre from Sid’s Blog

"I had first encountered the likes of ‘Anything For You, Ma’am’ in the insanely phenomenal best seller ‘Five Point someone [FPS] ’ and had followed it up with my current favorite ‘Mediocre But Arrogant [MBA]’. I now feel I’ve got an intuitive awareness to the spot many common threads binding such kind of novellas.-->The first being, ALL the above-mentioned books are set in the premier institutions of our country. FPS, AFYM – IIT DELHI, MBA- XLRI.