Shubhaarambh!!!

I received a mail from Sushil today prodding me to blog. We had talked sometime back about elevating group thinking to the next level while providing a forum to share knowledge. Inertia is an immense force to battle. Plus, talk is cheaper. There were other apprehensions. When you write you suddenly become conscious of being judged for your intelligence, where as when you talk informally in a group, you can make up with emotion, hand gestures and voice modulation what you lack in depth of material. So, for me, blogging is going to be, among other things, an exercise to convey through the written word not only what I know, but also how I feel about something.

I hope to post (and discuss) on pretty much any topic of interest. Suggestions are most welcome. There are some areas closer to my heart than others, and I may be able to give better perspective on those. That I hope will not stifle my dabbling in other topics - those that I have relatively no knowledge, but want to learn more about.

The stars have aligned, the time is right!

So here's my first post. Check out the radio programme on Indian Mathematics by BBC. Not the best (I will define "best" as I continue blogging) in my opinion, but certainly a decent discussion
and an introduction to the interested one to "Google" away the terms and keywords.