DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert on any of the subjects discussed in this post.NOTE: Many hyperlinks in this post refer PDF documents. I am impressed by the amount of information the National Crime Records Bureau is sharing online. It recently released the annual report Crime in India 2010. Main documents Compendium2010 and Statistics2010 together [...]
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Police Memories
I am drawn to themes of crime, especially law and order and justice. Almost half of what I read is crime fiction. I like books and movies with police procedurals at least as much as suspense and detective fiction. I occasionally spend hours reading about true crime cases and investigations. I realized that I even [...]
My 2010 in Movies
I don’t track the movies I watch as diligently as I track the books I read. It possibly means that I don’t care as much about what I watch, about how I spend that aspect of my time, watching being more passive than reading. That is alarming. IMDB, Bigflix and a scrap book suggest the [...]
Google Zeitgeist 2010 Vs Google Trends
This year’s Google Zeitgeist carried its own surprises like it does every year. I digged a little deeper and found that Google Trends paints a very different picture of 2010. I could see the differences in the global page itself, but here I focus on India. The “fastest rising” are debatable because they are not [...]
ఝుమ్మంది నాదం
My introduction to Veturi began with the ETV programme ఝుమ్మంది నాదం years ago. I was so overwhelmed with his repertoire that whenever I heard an interesting song – సరళమైనవి, లోతైనవి, చిలిపివి, గమ్మత్తైనవి, అద్భుతమైన భూతులున్నవి – whose writer I didn’t know, I attributed it to him. I still do and I might continue to for songs [...]