The Yaxis Live by Rajesh Kumar

I realized today that I have not been able to make a single post in the last ten days, which is sacrilegious silence in terms of blogging(If you are not offended, I am). Let’s see how the world’s changed in last ten days:

1. The Independence Day Landmark Quiz happened at Music Academy. Teamed up with two very bright students I met for the first time and nearly qualified for the finals(How can one believe otherwise?!)- Strategic Alliance is the name of the game. That’s how I’ve always won Quiz events, earlier at school and last seven years at my company!
2. Sushil Kumar got India its second medal from Beijing- made us proud (My chest is close to bursting in anticipation of a third medal via  Vijender Kumar ).
3. Apple announced pricing of its iPhone in India(~USD 760 for 8 GB).Skimming pricing is what they taught us in Economics. Demand elasticity, bullshit?  Wait, those pricing guys at Apple studied the same economics paper as me. That means penetration pricing after a duration of price skimming. That means an iPhone in India at 10k in about eight to ten months. I still won’t buy it.Imagine,  you cannot even address an SMS to multiple people, I believe you cannot even forward a message.
4. Bought Steve Jobs biography. It has an uninspiring title called iCon (Steve Wozniak’s biography was on the shelf too – it was creatively titled iWoz).Given Apple’s innovative streak, I was hoping for the book to open sideways at least. Disappointment, it just opens normally.
5. Bipasha Basu threatened Vijender Kumar with a date- ahem, why was this offer not announced before the Olympics selection trials- this could have motivated many of the athletes, and maybe got us more medals. And just by the way, does Bipasha fully understand the ramifications if the hockey boys had qualified to the Olympics and won the Gold?
6. Oops I forgot, India turned 61!
7. Dr C.K .Prahalad gave a talk on India-at-75 yesterday in Chennai and nope, I could not get my copy of his book on innovation autographed.
8. The President of Pakistan resigned. And surprise of surprises, one week after resigning, he’s neither on a plane to some distant land, nor behind bars! Somehow I was reminded of an old Salman Rushdie book with characters whose names I vaguely remeber as Gen Faltu and Gen Bekar.Was it called Shame? Did he have this scene in mind when he wrote this book?

Good Bye For Now.