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Contrails and negative externalities
Contrails, or condensation trails, are thin streaks of cloud created by aircraft exhaust fumes that contribute to global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. While the exact warming effect of contrails is uncertain, scientists believe it is greater than…
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May 27, 20251 min read
Interview: Ali Fazal (‘Thug Life’, ‘Khufiya’, ‘Fukrey’, ‘Metro… In Dino’)
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May 27, 20251 min read
Readers Write In #803: The Adventures of Ajay Palvayanteeswaran
By Vijaysree V It was a nippy December evening. Festivity was in the air. From our uptown campus, we took the streetcar to go gawk at the twinkling lights and dressed up store fronts in downtown New Orleans. On Canal Street, a tall black man, dressed as Santa Claus tinkled out a steady tune with […]

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May 25, 20257 min read


V U Z W L recoveries and the inverted square root
Covering business cycles with my NCEA Level 3 class and remembered this blog post from a couple of years ago. Usually we talk about U V W or L recoveries but with the impact of Covid-19 there has been much…
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May 25, 20252 min read
Readers Write In #802: Celluloid love
By Ananya Natarajan ஆசைய காத்துல தூது விட்டு I have never been in a relationship. So naturally, my idea of romance is informed by an (un)holy Trinity – 1) early 2000s movies, 2) Jane Austen novels and 3) observing couples around me. They have some interesting interplay too. *** The first one has a spectrum. The […]

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May 25, 20253 min read


Paul Sweezy and the Kinked Demand Curve
In 1939 Paul Sweezy of Harvard University wrote his paper ‘Demand Under Conditions of Oligopoly’ in which he explained conditions around the kinked demand curve. He suggest that rivals in a market react differently according to whether a price change…
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May 24, 20252 min read
Interview: Anurag Kashyap, for The Hindu’s ‘Huddle event in Bengaluru
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May 24, 20251 min read
Interview: Vetri Maaran, for The Hindu’s ‘Huddle event in Bengaluru
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May 24, 20251 min read


From the Web (FTW) #23: CBFC clears Dhadak 2 after 16 cuts, including altered anti-caste references
Dharma Productions has been fighting with the CBFC for a long time over this PARIYERUM PERUMAL remake, with Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri. This Hindu article tells a lot of about what offended the Censors. https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/cbfc-clears-dhadak-2-after-16-cuts-including-altered-anti-caste-references/article69610379.ece Sample: “One of the cuts says that the “Blue colour of the dog was removed”. The original film features […]

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May 24, 20251 min read
Interview: Mani Ratnam (‘Thug Life’)
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May 23, 20251 min read


A2 Economics – National income equilibrium
Unit 9 of the A Level CAIE Economics course looks at national income and the 45 degree line graph and I’ve recently been covering this with my two A2 classes. The graph below covers what you need to know and…
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May 22, 20252 min read
Interview: Kamal Haasan, AR Rahman, STR, Trisha (‘Thug Life’)
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May 21, 20251 min read
Interview: Vijay Sethupathi (‘Ace’)
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May 21, 20251 min read
Interview: Amit Sadh (Pune Highway, Kai Po Che, Gold, Breathe)
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May 19, 20251 min read
Readers Write In #801: அடிமன தாகம்
By ஒரு லெஸ்பியன் பெண் / A Lesbian Woman அவள் ஸ்பரிசம் என் மீது படஉள்ளுக்குள் ஒரு அமைதி இதுவே இயல்பு என்ற அமைதி மெல்லிய சாரல் போல் மனதை வருடும் ஒரு அமைதி அவள் இரு விரல் தான் என் கை மீது ஆனால் அதில் ஒரு அதீத உணர்வு இந்த ஸ்பரிசம் தொடுவதற்காக தானே என் உள்ளம் இத்தனை நாள் பாலைவனமாக காத்துக்கொண்டிருந்தது கடந்த முப்பது ஆண்டுகளில் அதே இருவிரல் ஆனால் ஆண்மகனின் அது என்னைத் தவறியும் தொடவே விடாமல் பாம்பு போல் பதறி விலகுவேன்உள்ளுக்குள் ஒரு சங்கோசம் […]

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May 19, 20251 min read


Working out the marginal revenue product of a football player and economic rent
Just completed this topic with my A2 Economics classes. Marginal Revenue Product (MRPL) measures the change in total output revenue for a firm as a result of selling the extra output produced by additional workers employed – the theory behind…
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May 18, 20252 min read


Prasanth Pandiyaraj’s ‘Maaman’, starring Soori, is a melodrama that quickly loses its way
The story is about the close bond between a man and his young nephew, but there is a big logical loophole that makes it difficult to empathise with anything or anyone. The rest of this review may contain spoilers. Maaman is the latest entrant in the sub-genre we know as “family drama set in southern […]

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May 17, 20251 min read
Book Excerpt: Side Please
Madan Mohan ABOUT THIS BOOK Side Please – Eight Days of Mumbai Madness is a novel about what life in Maximum City is like, captured through a look at eight days in the life of our protagonist. The expression Side Please is itself a very authentically Mumbai one. The slim length of the book is […]

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May 15, 20256 min read
Food For Thought: Karan Johar
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May 15, 20251 min read


Readers Write In #800: A tribute to Virat Kohli from a Tendulkar Fan
By Bala I must say, I am slightly relieved. As a die-hard Tendulkar fan, you always knew his greatness was sealed, but one of the defining aspects of his career was numbers. He didn’t have enough wins or trophies to show, and hence his fans had to obsess over the volume of runs and centuries. […]

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May 15, 20253 min read
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