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Reading, Writing, and Reflecting

http://www.apurvadesai.com

Musings and observations of India, Sports, and Technology

• Added on: Apr 25th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Apurva Desai
• Listed in: Sports Travel
• Tags: sports india technology baseball steroids socialmedia

Recent Posts

• The decline of baseball amidst a changing society

  Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 02:53 in sports, football, baseball, book review, pop culture, cincinnati reds, and basketball and what they see when they do, decline of baseball, michael manelbaum, the meaning of sports: why americans watch baseball

  Last month, I watched part of Game 2 of the World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees with a colleague.  While watching, it dawned on me that this was the first game of this year’s baseball post-season that I’d seen.  ...

• Life as a sports team mascot

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 10:12 in sports, pop culture, sister sledge, we are family, greg brown, sports mascots, patrick hruby, pittsburgh pirates parrot, the seedier side of fur and fun

  The other day, I was watching a documentary on the 1979 baseball season on the MLB Network and the World Series winner of that season, the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Those Pirates were know for its team slogan and team song, the hit song by Sister Sledge,...

• Beyond Freakonomics…it’s Superfreakonomics

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 16:10 in book review, pop culture, steven levitt, freakonomics, stephen dubner, intellectual ventures, super freakonomics, daily show and super freakonomics

  A few years ago, the book Freakonomics written by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner came out.  I found that book to be ground-breaking and fascinating, a book in many ways that has inspired me to take my natural analytical ...

• The differences between India and the West- An eye opening TED presentation by Devdutt Pattanaik

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 11:02 in india, ted, east vs west, future group, devdutt pattanaik, understanding indian beliefs

  Recently, Devdutt Pattanaik, the Chief Belief Officer at the Future Group based in Mumbai, India, gave a TED presentation in Mysore, India.   This 19 minute lecture and presentation depicts some of the inherent differences between the views and val...

• The Opportunity of Green Building Materials

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 13:12 in environment, silicon valley, calera, green building materials, masdar city, the indus entrepreneurs, abu dhabi green city, tie silicon valley

  This past week, I attended an interesting Silicon Valley TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Cleantech event titled: Green Building Materials.   The promotional materials cited the following descriptions of the panelists: Founder of the US and World Gree...

• Transforming my losing Fantasy Football team after 6 weeks

  Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 14:35 in sports, internet, fantasy football, tony romo, dwayne bowe, fantasy football trades, yahoo! auto draft, transforming a losing fantasy football team

  Earlier, I wrote about one of my fantasy football teams that was selected using Yahoo!’s auto-draft feature as I wasn’t available at the time of the draft.   After 6 weeks, my team is 2-4 with the second fewest points scored out of 12 teams. Â...

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Santosh Nikam

Fantastic blog.................I really enjoyed while reading your article....... Keep it up

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