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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Language and savings correlation?
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There's been quite a bit of internet buzz this past week about the work of Keith Chen, a behavioural economist at Yale. You can see his...
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Nagaland village focus: Khuzama
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As I prepare to leave India again (this time to spend Christmas at home with the family for the first time in years), I thought I'd sha...
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Khonoma village (Take two)
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Two years ago I visited Khonoma village, which is about 2 hours from Kohima (depending on road conditions). Unfortunately, the day I visite...
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Hornbill Festival 2012
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So the Hornbill Festival at Kisama has come and gone. This year I brought a friend from Australia along to enjoy the festivities. After my...
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Visit to Umananda Mandir, Guwahati
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As I'll be heading back to Nagaland in a few days' time for the Hornbill Festival, I thought I'd finish posting about some of t...
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Xtrm txt msging
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Whenever I'm in India, I'm often struck by the 'extreme brevity' of some of the text messaging language or textese here. It...
Monday, November 26, 2012
Dog-tailed Tigers in Assamese
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I saw this comic on xkcd last week ( link ): (Or a cabbage, for that matter. The goat makes sense. Goats are fine.) Too true. Anyway,...
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