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Wish you a very Happy Diwali … Celebrate it your way

Posted October 16, 2009 – 7:49 pm in: My writings

Celebrating
The return of Ram, Sita, and Lakshmana to Ayodhya,
                                                                        The killing of the evil demon Narakasura
Lord Mahavira’s attainment of Moksha,
                                                                        The end of the harvest season … …
And, the festival of Lights

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Who moved my insects ?

Posted October 10, 2009 – 10:16 pm in: BedTime Stories

A small phenomenon that I observed around in my hostel room reminds me of the famous message conveyed in the book “Who moved my cheese?
A couple of days ago, there seemed to have been a pest control drive in the ground floors of our college, due to which(or maybe due to some other reason) a [...]

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Economics lessons for Non-MBAs - Part 2

Posted October 7, 2009 – 4:46 pm in: My writings

<Continued from http://blog.raviunravels.com/?p=65 >
Impact of Union Policies:
We often hear about Unions demanding better wages. The persistent notion is that the interests of a nation’s workers are identical with each other, and that an increase in wages for one union in some obscure way helps all other workers.
Is there anything wrong ?
It is at least possible [...]

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Economics lessons for Non-MBAs

Posted October 1, 2009 – 9:24 pm in: My writings

I came across a book “Economics in One lesson” a long time ago, much before I even started knowing about business and finance. That book was really instrumental in making me look at things differently. Below is a compilation of some selective hypothetical examples of certain policies that governments adopt and why they might be [...]

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