Comments for Swantah Sukhay

Comment on Peace Be With You by Rajeev

Rajeev — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:26:22 +0000

Sir, I think may be this time the award was not a recognition for the performance in the past but a kind of investment in the future for global peace. May be the committe was trying to avoid “Be Nice to america: or we will bring democracy to your country.” in the near term

Comment on मैं जिसे ओढ़ता—बिछाता हूँ: दुष्यंत कुमार by Rajeev

Rajeev — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:14:16 +0000

Really really nice.

Comment on Eminent Bihari Contemporaries of Dr. Sachidanand Sinha by Neeraj

Neeraj — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:44:36 +0000

My forefathers were very closely associated with Sachidanand Sinha in various activities. I am keenly looking for this book. I hope to see the book through your efforts. Thanks!

Comment on Muzaffarpur by avinashkishoreshahi

avinashkishoreshahi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:38:13 +0000

Hi Rahul,

I agree. I read O’ Malley Gazeteer, but years ago. I am going to reread it soon and post more from there.

Comment on Muzaffarpur by etlamatey

etlamatey — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:49:05 +0000

Fun stuff. Have you checked anything on Muzaffarpur in british Gazettes? Some of them are really awesome historical snapshots.

Comment on “Unbelievable Stories About Apathy and Altruism”: From SuperFreakonomics by SCSU Intellectuals

SCSU Intellectuals — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:20:30 +0000

Re: SuperFreakonomics & global warming…

A little while ago, I wrote about the “the globe is currently cooling” myth, which, unfortunately, was propagated in Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s new book, SuperFreakonomics. As I explained earlier, I was big fan of their earlie…

Comment on Reforesting Bihar: One Billion Trees (in) a Day by Treelogy

Treelogy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:59:12 +0000

I agree, the NREGA funds would be used wisely to plant trees – however the math just doesn’t work for the Bihar attempt. Said BBC report claims 1 billion trees planted by 3 lakhs villagers within 12 hours.

Existing World record from June 2009 in Assam claims 447,874 trees planted by 300 army personnel within 24 hours. That was 1.157 trees per minute on average per physically fit army man on well prepared ground.

Pakistan snatched the title with 541,176 trees planted by 300 people in July, however it was mangrove trees simply plugged into very soft marshland.

Calculate the Bihar claim: 1 billion into 3 lakhs people into 12 hours into 60 minutes equals 4.63 trees per participant planted within every minute without a break! – rather not. Maybe it was about one crore trees and it can be assumed that BBC made a mistake with translating the term “crore” (10 mio) with “billion” as “crore” is rather unknown outside India?

cheers

Comment on Back to Land: The New Green Revolution by etlamatey

etlamatey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:12:29 +0000

I wonder if the people who advocate rainwater harvesting and small dams ever do the numbers. It is like expecting your corner cigarette shop to have a turnover of a billion dollars….its just not going to happen.

Comment on “Unbelievable Stories About Apathy and Altruism”: From SuperFreakonomics by avinashkishoreshahi

avinashkishoreshahi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:16:43 +0000

Shilp,

I enjoyed reading Freakonomics. But I am not too sure about the sequel. I have not read it yet. While Freakonomics was based almost entirely on Levitt’s own work, the Super-sequel is a review of interesting works of others as you might have noticed in the excerpt above. That makes it less interesting. Nahin?

Comment on “Unbelievable Stories About Apathy and Altruism”: From SuperFreakonomics by Shilp

Shilp — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:24:21 +0000

I felt kind of let down by Freakonomics… and I have a feeling it might be the same with the sequel. Nevertheless, I am going to order it from Flipkart. Did you read it?