In the last few days I got mail alerting me to two new blogs, one by a journalist, Mr Krishna Prasad, and the other, hosted by a b-school professor, Dr. G Raghavan. A professor of finance at the SDM Institute of management, Prof.Raghavan, has put together in his blog a set of power point presentations on the theme – ‘Foreign Exchange’ – for the benefit of his students. The idea is, I presume, to give interested surfers Dr Raghavan’s professorial take on the subject. It’s a one-stop source material on varied aspects of foreign exchange such as its convertibility, FDI, risk management, forward rate agreement etc. And we have the professor’s word that anyone who writes to him for material on a related topic could rely on him to come up with a relevant Power Point presentation within a week. To access his blog copy/paste: http://www.geocities.com/guru_raghavan

The other mail I got was from Mr Krishna Prasad, about a blog that is as Mysorean as ‘Churmuri’. It’s ‘swalpa sihi, swalpa spicy’, the blog. It’s for the globalised Mysorean, says Mr Prasad, ‘Mysore’s most happening blog that gives a feel and flavour of India’s finest city’. Besides Mr Prasad’s prolific postings, the blog has a panel of bloggers, notably, Dr Bhamy Shenoy and Mr Sunaad Raghuram.

In one of his postings, Mr Prasad raises the question, ‘Will IT kill Mysore ?’ As he puts it, “ It’s a question no one wants to ask; a question few want to answer”. But then ask we must, he says, adding,  Bhamy V Shenoy does precisely that for ‘Churmuri’ (click on it to access the site}.