S Anand
Vidya Mandir, Mylapore. IIT Madras. IBM, Bangalore. IIM Bangalore. Lehman Brothers, Tokyo. LBS (London Business School). BCG (Boston Consulting Group) Mumbai. Infosys Consulting, London.
Articles I've written recently
Experiments with technology, my work, and interesting events in life
Bollywood actors jigsaw quiz
22 Aug 2008: I've jumbled up pictures of 10 Bollywood actors. You can move the jumbled blocks around, like a jigsaw. Can you guess the actors?... read itAnimated charts in Excel
19 Aug 2008: Watch Hans Rosling's TED Talks on debunking third world myths and new insights on poverty and ask yourself: could I do this with my own data? Yes. Google has a gadget called MotionChart that lets you do this.... read itResolving the Prisoners Dilemma
17 Aug 2008: If you're ever taken a course in Economics, and it discussed Game Theory, you may be familiar with The Prisoner's Dilemma. Roughly, this is the problem. Assume you possess copious quantities of some item (money, for example), and wish to obtain some amount of another item (perhaps stamps, groceries, diamonds).... read itMore topics
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Interesting links I've found
Mostly technology, with a bit of the bizarre and funny
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What I'm doing
Short notes that I post from my mobile or messenger
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Sites I've created
Attempts at writing programs to make my life easier
- Hindi: listen | download
- Tamil: listen | download
- Telugu: listen | download
- Kannada: listen | download
- Malayalam: listen | download
- Carnatic: listen
- Movies: Tamil, My wishlist
- Books: Browser
- Chart tool
- Table viewer
- Create animated GIFs
What should you read?
If you like Indian film songs, most people come here to visit my collection of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Carnatic songs. I have over 50,000 songs indexed from various sites, and my search can correct for spelling mistakes (e.g. Dil = Dhil = Dhill).
I also have a collection of quizzes related to songs, and a set of articles titled Classical Ilayaraja (written by Lakshminarayanan Srirangam Ramakrishnan).
If you like comics, I've typed out every Calvin and Hobbes strip and made them searchable. I also have an easy to browse collection of Dilbert, Garfield, Doonesbury and xkcd.
If you're interested in my work, I've written up some of my experiences around business realities, and some simple explanations.
If you're looking to learn stuff, I've shared my interview experiences, and what I know about Excel and visualisation. I also write about how I do various things.
If you want to relax, here are some of my hilarious chat transcripts and some funny links. I've had some interesting experiences worth reading, particularly around my time in London in 2000 and in 2005. I've also written some juvenile short stories that won't make sense unless you knew the context.
