Message from the market
To begin with, let me draw two sweeping but happy conclusions from the orgy of mergers, acquisitions, deal-making in the pink papers with the Sensex flirting so teasingly with the 5000-mark over the past week.



Rational Expectations
Cigarette smoking is bad for you. It causes cancer. Apart from what that does to your life, for society as a whole, it also adds tre-mendous costs in terms of healthcare costs of tobacco-related diseases.



Literature's pariahs and brahmins
Under no circumstance should an author quote himself. If he does, it is an immoral act. Let me, nevertheless, once and for all quote myself.



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Yuletide spirit
Keeping Faith
`Coming to India is like swimming the Nile'