Vijay Narayanan on November 24th, 2008

According to a new study, happy people do not spend a lot of time watching TV. This is quite true in India, right? How can you be happy if you spend your time watching tear-jerking soaps all day?

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Vijay Narayanan on November 23rd, 2008

While it is great to know that Mr. Anand Giridharadas finds his life’s calling in the country that his parents left to seek a better life, it would have been much better had he not jotted down his experiences with the kind of snobbishness that makes one wonder if second generation Indian Americans still believe that [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 21st, 2008

I have been dabbling with Facebook Ads for some time for a class project, and I thought about jotting down some of my experiences. Facebook Ads v/s Google AdWords The first question that arises whenever you thrown in a new product into a crowded field with established products is “How does it compare?” In this [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 20th, 2008

While I’m personally opposed to the US Government bailing out the Big Three automakers, I find one line of reasoning ridiculous. It runs something like this Should taxpayers in Alabama be required to bail out automakers whose plants are concentrated in Northern states like Michigan and Ohio? So when Louisiana, a Southern state, is hit [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 19th, 2008

Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ilaiyaraja’s second son, is (probably) the heir to Raja’s throne. Along with A.R. Rahman and Harris Jayaraj, he is one of the top three contemporary music directors in Tamil. His partnerships with the current crop of movie directors – Selvaraghavan (they have fallen out now), Vishnuvardhan, Venkat Prabhu, Ameer and Simbhu – [...]

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