This was one of the rare comics where the title carried two names—Nagraj aur Shango. Not hero and villain. Two heroes. You didn’t see that often. Much later we got Nagraj aur Super Commando Dhruva. But this came first. And it made sense. Because after how Nagraj ki Hong Kong Yatra ended, it couldn’t be Nagraj aur Chango. The story had moved…
After bringing down Bulldog in Assam in the previous book, one might expect Nagraj to rest. Maybe reflect. But this is early Nagraj—still young, still figuring out his own myth. There’s no time for recovery. No arc of healing. He boards a flight to Hong Kong, unannounced and uninvited. No mission. Just a hunch,…
Over the weekend, I watched the first season of Criminal Justice on Jio Hotstar. This was largely thanks to the YouTube algorithm, which has started putting snippets from the latest season of the web series in my feed. I ignored for a while, but then Pankaj Tripathi is hard to ignore. And then, with…
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane is a book about artificial intelligence. But it is also a book about animals, dreams, loopholes, and misunderstandings. And it is, most surprisingly, a book full of affection. I came to it long after its publication, as a way of learning and…
Another eventful month. The biggest news of this month was that we had a war with Pakistan. The war was short, and the ceasefire arrived in just three days. From the market’s perspective, it mostly held during those three days. And once the ceasefire was announced, it bounced strongly. The below chart shows the…
What a month we have had? At the start of my last month’s update I had written – “as if Nifty 50 has made an interim bottom near 22,000 for the time being and will consolidate for some time in the current range”. This belief was almost immediately tested by “Trumponomics” and the game…
In the previous two posts, I introduced Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland and the concept of Quantum Entanglement or Quantum Coherence. This post is about the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and its relationship with Nagarjuna. I first heard about Nagarjuna in an Operations Strategy lecture taken by Prof. Saral Mukherjee at IIM Ahmedabad in 2021….
In my last post on Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli, I said that the Quantum entanglement and relational interpretation of the quantum mechanics need their own posts. This is the post on Quantum entanglement. However, this is not only about entanglement, but also about coherence. I first heard about quantum entanglement in a talk by…
It’s not very often that I read a book that blows my mind. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli is one such. Carlo Rovelli is an Italian Theoretical Physicist and he has written several popular science books. Helgoland is my first one and I believe that now there will be several more. The book is in…
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan is probably one of the earliest “thrillers”. In the introduction to the book in my Collins Classics edition it is mentioned that Buchan himself called this book a “Shocker”. And it is one. Great pace in the narrative, spare language and crackling dialogues. The book is a slim…