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14 years ago @ Round Dice - A Few Good Stories · 0 replies · +1 points

There's no harm in giving it a try. I've heard people say they love it. The quality of the feedback is supposed to be pretty good. Haven't tried it myself.

14 years ago @ Round Dice - A Few Good Stories · 2 replies · +1 points

Thanks for the subscription, sir.

As regards workshop: if you're in the US and interested in Spec-fic why not apply to Clarion West or the Odyssey Workshop? There's also Mary Anne Mohanraj's DesiLit workshop; besides being an organizational genius, she's a damn good writer. You'll get to meet loads of diaspora writers.

14 years ago @ Round Dice - A Few Good Stories · 4 replies · +1 points

Well, an useful error. That's two recos for Bob Shaw's story. I like it a lot too. btw Dinesh, it's Vandana Singh, not Vandana Shiva. I'm not sure if Vandana Shiva cares much for science, let alone fiction.

14 years ago @ Round Dice - Simpson's Paradox In T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks, man.

14 years ago @ Round Dice - Simpson's Paradox In T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Very glad u liked it. Check out Hans Rosling's Gaminder.org website when u get a chance. A lot more pillows :)

14 years ago @ Round Dice - Simpson's Paradox In T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks, Vandana. Checking out your article...

14 years ago @ Round Dice - Banker Bomb · 0 replies · +1 points

There's also the stones and glass houses thing. Let's take a look at how we handle our own minorities. How many of them do we find in our literary establishment? How many teen Bollywood movies have scheduled caste leads? Muslims? People with dark skins? In Bollywood movies, if a major character has a scheduled-caste surname, you can be sure it's a movie *about* caste. So on and so forth. Outrage, however, is a river that mostly flows westwards.

14 years ago @ Round Dice - Simpson's Paradox In T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Abha. It's an ubiquitous paradox. Most recently, it reared its head in data for SAT test score gains in minority groups: American Indians, Hispanics and Whites gained an average of 8 points; Puerto Ricans, 18 points; African Americans, 19 points; Asians, 27 points. Overall though, the national SAT averages have dropped a few points. The paradox is very familiar to statisticians but it deserves to be more widely known.

14 years ago @ Round Dice - Banker Bomb · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes, the best thing about Indian publishing is that it's not rigid. On the other hand, it's an industry that's happy if it sells 5,000 copies in a billion-plus world. And every time I check the Crosswords stacks, I'm always surprised by how tiny it is. Not more than 500 authors or so.

I also find it puzzling why marketing is the bad guy in Ashok-bhai's scheme of things. His style is gonzo and direct, but his readers are buying the image he projects as well as the book. Other authors have other styles. I think the future points towards author-as-entrepreneur, but there'll probably always be a place for large corporate publishing houses for authors who don't want the bother.

14 years ago @ Round Dice - Banker Bomb · 0 replies · +1 points

Yup. Balls of brass, for sure.

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