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One would think that we have moved beyond the dark ages but every now and then you see something that really proves it otherwise.
See this. Here is a Indian Forest Service officer who is demanding a dowry of Rs. 1 cr. to get married to somebody otherwise he would breakup his engagement. Now I am [...]

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Here is an strange news item that I saw. Basically what happened that a couple (both having India passports and green card) and their two children (both having American Passport) landed in India on an Air France flight. Air France made sure for the parents that they have valid travel documents while did not [...]

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Here is an article in The Indian Experess. The article is titled “It’s Rs 250,000 cr loss in 3 days”. Why don’t these guys understand that this would happen in stock markets. In last one year sensex has gone up from 8000 to 14000 so if it falls by some 1000 points what is the [...]

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Over the weekend there was lot of noise about what prime minister said in the meeting of National Development Council. Here is what Indian Express Reported. The starting line of the Indian Express news says
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said plans for minorities, particularly Muslims, must have the ‘first claim’ on resources so that benefits of [...]

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Interesting, I should download and play with this one.
After receiving a letter from Google on November 25, Gaia downloads had to be removed from the webpage. The project doesn’t use Google Earth images and data anymore. They now use images from NASA World Wind project. Version 0.1.1 is now available for download and also has [...]

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This post just tried to compare the performance of Tendulkar and Dravid against different teams in matches with large score. This does not talk about only matches when we were chasing. The averages here are slightly off because I have not taken into account the not-out innings.
Again Tendulkar performs better than Rahul Dravid in matches [...]

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So the Tendulkar saga continues. After I posted the last post people came back and said no but his performance while chasing a score of bigger than 250 is not so good. So I thought that let me see if that is true. See the chart below

Actually his performance is much better when he is [...]

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So there were some more discussion on Tendulkar’s performance. So went around digging around some data. The biggest complain that I have heard that Tendulkar does not play when it matters. I do not understand the meaning of this statement. But I tried to analyze it in my own way.
See the chart. This is Tendulkar’s [...]

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We were having a coffee table discussion on how much does Sachin Tendulkar suck in cricket. I thought that I should really figure out the truth in that. So here is some analysis of past performance of our batting stalwarts.

 
Tendulkar
Dhoni
Dravid
Shehwag
Pathan
Yuvraj

141

2

9

1

24

12

26

9

8

12

65

18

6

8

93

4

23

0

1

64

52

35

7

7

10

0

26

29

51

4

9

19

10

28

49

17

0

0

35

14

52

65

10

0

2

55

18

0

1

27

1

26

63

18

47

27

 Total

334

224

234

137

150

261

10 Inns Avg

33.40

24.89

23.40

15.22

16.67

29.00

5 Inns Avg

15.40

34.80

37.20

21.80

15.40

10.80

5 Inns Avg next match 0

19.30

24.67

22.50

15.22

16.56

26.33

10 Inns Avg next match 0

9.60

24.60

36.40

20.00

11.60

10.80

If you look at [...]

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