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Re: Satyam fraud, unravelling the mystery

KARAN — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:20:23 -0000

great article ; its now getting clear about the issue..

Re: All things sweet about being a diabetic

rsathyamurthy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:43:46 -0000

Hi Vikram,

Welcome to my blog.

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

Prasanna — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:20:16 -0000

With all due respect to hayden, Sachin is way-ahead. The inherent drawback of comparison of plain statistics is that, they dont take into the non-numerical factors. Its a fact that, in the last 10-12 years, hayden was the most successful and consistent player in the world cricket. And australia have been dominating the world cricket for a longtime and they did dominate during the aforementioned period mainly beacuse of their quality bowling attack. The period of hayden was definitely dominated by aussie bowlers and there were very few petrifying non-aussie quality bowlers. These factors are unrevealed when one talks about just statistics.

Re: All things sweet about being a diabetic

Vikram — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:58:35 -0000

Hi Sathya,

I never knew diabetes can be so delicious!

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

Tarun — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:29:04 -0000

Any person who would have read it may have laughed.
It is a good list and pretty good apart from being achronistic.

The List should have been title, ICC top 50 (between 1950-1970)
Apart from that (Tendulkar) no bowler in top Twenty, Sobers is there coz of batting may be who knows.

I thin Vass summed it up beautifully.
Tendulkar doesnt need to be rated.

Re: All things sweet about being a diabetic

Sunderindia — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:36:07 -0000

Hi Sathya,

Read your article on Diabetes. Good one. If you have suggested medicines for Diabetes it would have been much more comprehensive or some tips on exercises for diabetes will help the readers a lot. I am sure soon there will be good treatment for diabetes by which a person can get completely rid off it. Nevertheless, we need to set up our mind to have natural foods.

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

rsathyamurthy — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:51:43 -0000

Absolutely. All such "All time great" rankings should be based on career performances and not peak performances.

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

Vijayasarathy R — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:46:35 -0000

Hi Triplicani,

In fact I was about to write a very strong blog on this ICC rating. The same old saying needs to be repeated here (Bunch of Jokers). Seriously all of them should be jokers. We lost the due credit as soon as Gavaskar came out of the ICC Management.

Your analysis says it all. If all the ratings were just based on the peak performances, then there is no point in talking about more than 10 players. Because in a given point of time hardly four teams are playing cricket and one can easily pick up 10 players out of it.

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

triplicani — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:27:41 -0000

Jonathan,

Thanks for your comment. By now ICC must be aware that it is seen as an "all time great list". It will always hurt fans of great cricketers if they find such illogical rankings done and published. The timing was also so questionable. Why was it released just when Hayden retired?

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

Jonathan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:01:58 -0000

Isn’t pointless if the point system takes into flashes but not consistent performance?

It is meant to be about consistent performance over a year or so. Comparing this to an all-time great list is like comparing a "most runs scored in a year" list to career totals.

This is why the ICC doesn't actually call it an "all-time great list". It looks like they didn't think about how it would be publicised and interpreted.

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

Soulberry — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:26:23 -0000

Fantastic work that Sam. ICC have painted themselves in vivid colours...there is no escape for them now...they cannot be missed for what they really are anymore...they have declared themselves to be fools of the nth degree.

The very illogical thought of picking a peak year to represent an entire career and base an all time rating system on it itself suggests that they are either stupid and belong to the corner of the classroom with duncecaps on, or lazy and do not care to exercise a single neuron other than what's required to summon some statistic out of a hat, or dastardly uncaring about the game to have made such a mockery of those who played it, watching it and supported it.

This entire set of CEOs and CFOs and whatever Os more are there need to be booted out forwith...if this were an investment company/bank it might have translated into a ponzi scam.

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

triplicani — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:50:58 -0000

Ram,

I just took one sample as Sachin is dear to all of us and he was praised by none less than The Cricket God Sir Donald Bradman.

I read this interesting post on this farce: http://tcwj.blogspot.com/20...

Re: Lies, damn lies and ICC all time great list

Ramchandran Maharajapuram — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:38:21 -0000

I went through that list too. It isn't just Sachin who didn't make it to that list!So does Brain Lara, Allan Border et al. On the other hand you had Sangakkara and Md. Yousuf making into the list. The bowlers list was a similar farce too. Dale Steyn is ahead of Akram, Donald. Warne is at 15. Kumble at 43. Come on, they must be kidding.

I bet that they aren't in their right frame of mind!

Re: Satyam - World has become a big church

AK — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:34:34 -0000

Hello Sathya,

Your articles are very informative. I think the questions regarding PWC should be
'What is the need of an auditor if they are relying on 'company provided explanations and verbal and written representations' ?. Heck, in that case, you can pull someone off the street and ask him to be the 'independent auditor' for a couple of smokes and a cup of chai instead of paying several million rupees and retaining PWC. The job of PWC was to simply ask 'show me the money' which they seem not to have done..

This is what happens when greed takes over and we end up in moral bankruptcy. There is no doubt this scam required financial engineering and co-ordination between the board, auditors, bankers, politicians and the board of Maytas.

The obvious immediate action should have been freezing assets owned by Satyam and Maytas board members, their families, requiring them to surrender their passports to the Indian government till their statements are recorded.

Shocking revelation that this is not Raju's first scam and he had siphoned off Government money in his textile mill venture shows once a scamer always a scamer.

Bah! I am fed up of seeing scams every day..absolutely no Satyam left in this world..literally.

Re: PWC wriggling out using legalese

Vijayasarathy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:40:32 -0000

Hi Triplicani,

You are doing an excellent job. These questions, if answered, will defenitely help few as follows:

1. PWC - This would help them to claim themselves clean and unaware of this inflation
2. Shareholders - Will help them to understand what exactly happened and whether PWC India was part of it
3. ICAI - TO take necessary action on PWC, if found guilty. Will help to regularise the auditing procedures further more
4. SEBI - Will help to guage the exact effort taken and people actually involved in this fiasco

Thanks for the post.

Re: PWC wriggling out using legalese

Sunderindia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:37:54 -0000

Hi Sathya,

Superb article. You must be an investigative auditor, your questions speak for you. Your questions were the ones, people are wanting but unable to ask.

Re: Satyam - World has become a big church

triplicani — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:22:11 -0000

Hi Prasad,

Welcome to my blog.

Thank you and I wish also a very happy Pongal.

Re: Satyam - World has become a big church

Prasad — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:40:03 -0000

Hi Sathya,
I got introduced your blog very recently after sathyam debacle. I enjoy reading your posts constatntly. Very happy Pongal.

-Prasad

Re: Satyam fraud, unravelling the mystery

Ankit — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:27:32 -0000

Hi Triplicani,

Its a nice analysis . But here what do i think is that there must some involvement by the third parties for sure. Which helped the Company in recording bogus sales and then later Raju would have paid them by illegal route then takes back the sane from them as sales collections. But here the biggest questions lies is how come he has shown 3300 crore as a FD..There must some mystery behind this and I am sure going forward we will know these details...

Re: Some pun spun on Slumdog Millionaire

triplicani — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:38:29 -0000

If the film was taken in Tamil, I will keep the name as ”தெரு கேடி to ஒரு கோடி” - with a by-line "From street corner to Fort"

Re: Some pun spun on Slumdog Millionaire

Prasanna — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:17:47 -0000

Hi!

Well,"Kuppai Maettu Kuberan" would suit a Tamil Dubbing of the movie!

Re: Some pun spun on Slumdog Millionaire

triplicani — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:00:26 -0000

Tarun,

I totally agree with you. The motivation that his music is enjoyed by fans all across India and Indians living across the globe should have contributed to his hard work when composing music.

I was moved seeing him read the small sentence from a small slip that he carried with him and that disarming smile of his.

In my personal opinion, A R Rahman's must have been THE humblest acceptance speech ever in the history of an award function of the size and importance of Golden Globe.

Re: Some pun spun on Slumdog Millionaire

Tarun — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:46:35 -0000

Sathya.

Well to say the least Regionalism sucks.
I was very happy that Rahman said thank u to a Billion People of India.

I am proud of Rahman,I am proud of what he has done, I love his music and it doesn't worry me one bit where he hails from.

Re: Isai Puyal wins the Golden Globe

Vijayasarathy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:33:38 -0000

ஒரே ஒரு குறைதான் எனக்கு:

சமீபத்தில் ரட்சகன் படத்தில் வரும் நெஞ்சே நெஞ்சே பாடலை கேட்டேன்,அதில் பாடகி “நேஞ்சே நேஞ்சே” என்று பாடும் போது கொஞ்சம் எரிச்சல் வந்தாலும் ரஹ்மானின் இசைக்காக மற(ன்னி)க்கிறோம்.

”உல் நெஞ்சம் அடிக்கும் உல்லுக்குல் துடிக்கும்” என்று உச்சரிக்கும்போது அது யாருடைய இசையாக இருந்தாலும் மன்னிக்க தோன்றாது...

இது ர.பி(ரஹ்மானுக்கு பின்)காலகட்டத்தில் எல்லாருடைய இசையிலும் அதிகம் காணப்படுகிறது.

Re: Satyam fraud, unravelling the mystery

triplicani — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:58:53 -0000

Sunil,

Welcome to my blog.

Yes. I also think that it is not right for the government to give financial package to Satyam. If that is so, what is the relief given to all those companies that run their business honestly?