http://www.scribd.com/people/view/109465--narain This a feed for documents on Scribd written by narain 30 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:34:18 GMT Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:34:18 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/3634379/FAQ-on-Dasavatharam FAQs on Dasavatharam Some guys have claimed they haven't understood chaos theory which plays such an important part in the film. As a physics student, I've decided to explain it a bit so that people can appreciate the brilliance of the film. What is Chaos? Basically a chaotic system is one wherein long term predictions are impossible. Like for example, if I push a car, I know that it is going to move and it will continue to do so if I go on pushing it on and on. However, in a chaotic system, this situation cannot be predicted over a long period of time. Weather, for example, is a chaotic syste Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:34:18 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/3634379/FAQ-on-Dasavatharam http://www.scribd.com/doc/548555/cr05 Country Paper India Asian Water Development Outlook 2007 *© 2007 Asian Development Bank All rights reserved. Published 2007. The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily refect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank or its Board of Governors or the governments they represent. The Asian Development Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. Use of the term “country” does not imply any judgment by the authors of the Asian Development Bank as Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:28:40 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/548555/cr05 http://www.scribd.com/doc/510775/COUNTRY-PAGES-2008 THE WORLD IN 2OO8 105 The world in figures: Countries europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary 105 105 105 105 105 106 106 106 106 106 106 106 Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain 106 106 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 108 Sweden 108 Switzerland 108 Turkey 108 Ukraine 108 United Kingdom 108 asia Australia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan 108 108 108 108 109 109 Kazakhstan Malaysia New Zealand Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:45:51 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/510775/COUNTRY-PAGES-2008 http://www.scribd.com/doc/510675/COUNTRY-PAGES-2008 THE WORLD IN 2OO8 105 The world in figures: Countries europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary 105 105 105 105 105 106 106 106 106 106 106 106 Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain 106 106 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 108 Sweden 108 Switzerland 108 Turkey 108 Ukraine 108 United Kingdom 108 asia Australia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan 108 108 108 108 109 109 Kazakhstan Malaysia New Zealand Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:19:28 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/510675/COUNTRY-PAGES-2008 http://www.scribd.com/doc/501785/Project-Better-Place The Future of Transportation Shai Agassi Founder and CEO, Project Better Place Young Global Leader October 5, 2007 Projecting the future of energy, transportation, and environment In 2005 the world entered the “post peak-oil” era, as predicted by many oil experts years before reaching this situation. The price of oil is dominated by two factors, new discoveries of oil fields and global demand for oil, falsely called production. As the R/P ratio (Reserves to Production) slides we begin to witness sharp price hikes in the futures market for oil immediately affecting the price of fuel at th Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:29:42 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/501785/Project-Better-Place http://www.scribd.com/doc/501780/Give-Freaknomics-a-Chance Give Freakonomics a Chance IaN ayrEs D avid Stern has a humongous problem. As preseason opens, the scandal of a guilty plea by NBA referee, Tim Donaghy, calls into question the integrity of the entire league. Donaghy admitted in court that he sold “inside information on NBA players, referees and coaches to James (‘Sheep’) Battista.” The NBA is big business whose product is, at least in part, fair competition. The customers may stay away if they start worrying that the games are rigged. Stern claims that Donaghy was an isolated rogue employee. But how are fans supposed to know? Ian Ay Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:19:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/501780/Give-Freaknomics-a-Chance http://www.scribd.com/doc/467650/Abstract20the20great20food20puzzle The great food puzzle: growth, poverty, and (mal)nutrition in India Angus Deaton and Jean Drèze ABSTRACT The Indian economy is growing rapidly, although there remain many poor people, and Indian children have among the highest rate of malnourishment in the world. In this situation, where poor people are becoming better off, we would expect the consumption of nutrients to rise, particularly in a period where the relative price of food has been declining. Yet per capita consumption of calories has been falling at least since 1983, particularly in rural India. This decline is confirmed by multip Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:08:47 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/467650/Abstract20the20great20food20puzzle http://www.scribd.com/doc/430802/11160 In Search of ‘Postcolonial Subjectivity’ The Insurrection of the Little Selves: The Crisis of SecularNationalism in India by Aditya Nigam; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006; pp 362, Rs 650. Townsend MiddleTon hindsight and razor­sharp critique, the book provides, at once, a much­needed review of the debates over this ideology and a new theorisation of its chequered history in India. For Nigam, the proliferation of separatist movements and identity politics of all kinds that have marked the political climate of India since the 1980s amount to a profound crisis for secular­national Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:17:08 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/430802/11160 http://www.scribd.com/doc/430801/11145 October 20, 2007 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY Time to Act T he final report of the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) conducted in 2005-06 in the country’s 29 states contains good news and bad as compared to the NFHS-2 of 1998-99. While women are having fewer children and infant mortality has declined over the seven-year period, anaemia and malnutrition are still widespread among children and adults. For the first time the NFHS has collected information relating to men and unmarried women. The exercise involved interviews with around 2,30,000 women (15-49 years) and men (15-5 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:15:23 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/430801/11145 http://www.scribd.com/doc/412876/IND India **Doing Business 2008 India A Project Benchmarking the Regulatory Cost of Doing Business in 178 Economies Doing Business Project World Bank Group *© 2007 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC 20433 Telephone 202-473-1000 Internet www.worldbank.org E-mail feedback@worldbank.org All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 5 09 08 07 06 A copublication of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. This volume is a product of the staff of the World Bank Group. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:51:08 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/412876/IND http://www.scribd.com/doc/398983/Inclusive-Growth-Inequality-in-India 1 Exclusive Growth – Inclusive Inequality Bibek Debroy and Laveesh Bhandari 1 Section 1: Introduction Inequality is an important issue for the UPA government. For instance, the Approach Paper to the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12) adopted in December 2006, mentions “inclusive growth” in the title itself. 2 There is a specific chapter 3 on bridging divides. “The strategy of inclusive growth proposed in this paper can command broad based support only if growth is seen to demonstrably bridge divides and avoid exclusion or marginalization of large segments of our population. These divides ma Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:39:44 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/398983/Inclusive-Growth-Inequality-in-India