Vijay Narayanan on March 21st, 2008

Watched The Pursuit of Happyness over the weekend. An inspiring movie, worth watching once over. I thought the kid who acted as Will Smith’s son did a superb job. Will Smith himself was excellent. Here is a scene I loved. Will Smith, who is without a job and struggling to get by, tells his son [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 15th, 2008

To most people outside Sicily, the word mafia is almost synonymous with the place. So it is no doubt that a tourist guide, fed up with answering common questions about the mafia has come up with a 55-page pocket book to help himself and the tourists. A Sicilian tour guide who got fed up with [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 14th, 2008

(Warning: Ego post!) … adds the PMP to his name.

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Vijay Narayanan on March 14th, 2008

Last week, I had ended a post looking forward to the Champions League draws by predicting that United could draw Roma again in the quarterfinals of the Champions League this year. And that this would settle all doubts about whether the draws are doctored. Surely now, this confirms everything. The pick of the draw though [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on March 13th, 2008

Jug Suraiya writes in The Times of India that it was the criminalization of drugs that killed British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa, and then puts forth an almost passionate plea to legalize drugs. He bases his arguments on two contentions (or facts). First, that drugs are less of a health hazard than cigarettes or [...]

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