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Will Inter Dominate Again? You Decide! | KabCity
https://kabcity.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/will-inter-dominate-again-you-decide
Will Inter Dominate Again? Has shown (therefore it must be true) that beautiful people are happier and more successfull. Than average looking people. A notable case study that provides supporting evidence is the story of my beloved Inter. Examining the data from the last 10 years, it becomes apparent that we do better under attractive and generally “classy”-looking managers. Under ugly Marco Tardelli. We were crap. The more dignified looking Hector Cuper. Did better, but further analysis. Jun 26, 2011.
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Incentives and Development Conferences | KabCity
https://kabcity.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/incentives-and-development-conferences
Incentives and Development Conferences. A few days ago, I started studying for the GRE. Needless to say, my dormant procrastination skills have awoken with rancour. Today these skills are being put to blog use. Policy makers and development programme designers seem to love incentives. Want women to deliver babies at accredited health centres? Give them a cash reward for doing so. Need health counsellors to enrol more people for tuberculosis traetment? Give them some $. Grandfathers and other thoughts.
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Food and relativity | KabCity
https://kabcity.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/food-and-relativity
Famously said (I assume everything he said is now famous):. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity. I was reminded of this phrase recently while having the following conversation with two colleagues, Kennedy (a Catholic ex-seminarian from Kerala) and Ramakrishna (a Hindu from Tamil Nadu). R: You guys eat crazy things! Kennedy: But don’t you also eat some crazy things in Tamil Nadu? City: That&...
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Grandfathers and other thoughts | KabCity
https://kabcity.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/grandfathers-and-other-thoughts
Grandfathers and other thoughts. This is a post about three unrelated topics. 1 I visited my grandparents in Bombay two weeks ago. In recent times, Dadaji (my paternal grandfather) has gotten into full story-telling mode. Needless to say given that he made a 3-month voyage from India to the US in 1948 on a cargo ship, he has some amazing stories to tell. This one, which I like to call “The Luddites of Pindi”, is my current favourite:. 2 I was hanging out with ethelnmc. Dr Ambedkar’s second warning ...
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Take Rest | KabCity
https://kabcity.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/take-rest
In India - U.S. Comparisons. I am a little worried that kabcity has wandered far away from meaningful debate and deep into the land of fluff. But that’s ok, because as one of my favourite people. Just told me, “fluffy is still a substance”. So now that my worry has been put to rest, here’s a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while. Part one: Ode to Tomzanian. My dear friend/colleague/mentor/co-worker/roommate/brother/uncle/father/lover Tomzanian. Tommy also used to declare “I will make amends! Which ...
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KabCity | woopdeedoo | Page 2
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Why are we so obsessed with animal imagery to explain economic phenomenon? Bulls and bears are the most prominent example, but there are also Asian Tigers, the Chinese Dragon, and more recent (and irritating) Indian elephant and African Cheetah Generation. Interestingly, animal metaphors seem to be preferred over industrial or mechanical ones (Chinese Rocket Economy? Does this represent an acknowledgement that, these change processes are organic and unpredictable, not mechanized and standardizable? Which...
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Does skin colour predict success in the entertainment industry? | KabCity
https://kabcity.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/does-skin-colour-predict-success-in-the-entertainment-industry
Does skin colour predict success in the entertainment industry? Of late, I have been daydreaming about bizarre studies I would like to see the data and/or results of. This, I believe, has been a function of three things:. 1 Jetlag. Kabcity recently returned from a lovely two week vacation in the US of A, which has been doing annoying things to his body clock (and yes Kabcity does occasionally enjoy referring to himself in the third person…don’t worry he won’t make it a habit). Eg, in the US does the R...
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Kabs | KabCity
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He said that he if he ever wrote a song, it would be about that time it hailed. Then I reached home. I enjoyed learning about something significant in this guy’s life. Famously said (I assume everything he said is now famous):. Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity. Ramaswamy: Hey Kennedy, I heard you’ve eaten all kinds of crazy things and that you eat beef for breakfast. Kennedy: What is the...
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the boy who lived | KabCity
https://kabcity.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/the-boy-who-lived
The boy who lived. Before I chose the name for my blog, I wrote something I wanted to post which was quite serious. After spending hours and hours picking the perfect and most brilliant name for this blog (and what could be more perfect and brilliant than. I was too lazy to actually post my post. I’ve now come to realize that “KabCity” does not suggest seriousness, so I will start out with something light and meaningless. A) Make sure you don’t disrespect the villagers by being immodest. On the fourth or...
