Today i.e. August 29, 2014, Indians across the world celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in honor of the birthday of Lord Ganesh (the son of Shiva and Parvati and a favorite God for millions of Hindus). Does anyone now how old Ganesh is? In several states of India, Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated for several days and at […]
Call it Pickles. Or call it Achar (Hindi), Urga (Tamil), Upinkai (Kannada) or Uragai (Telugu). Rich or poor, villager or city slicker, young or old, North Indian or South Indian, these hot accompaniments are a sine qua non of any Indian meal. They go well with rice (particularly yogurt rice) as well as roti. And […]
Infotainment products vendor Harman International and Indian IT major Wipro are setting up an embedded engineering center in Chennai and Bangalore that will work on audio and infotainment products across automotive, consumer and professional markets. Services to be delivered from the center include software development and related hardware engineering. The center is to start with […]
Google is jumping into the browser fray with a new browser called Chrome that’ll take on both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the open source Firefox browsers. The beta or trial version of Chrome, which will also be an open source browser, will debut tomorrow. You can download Chrome here. This is what Google’s VP of […]
Ever since we read John Kennedy Toole’s brilliant book The Confederacy of Dunces, we’ve wanted to visit New Orleans. We finally got to visit New Orleans earlier this year, about two and half years after Hurricane Katrina basically destroyed the city. As we pulled into the Ninth Ward driven by morbid curiosity to see one […]
Did you know that Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the author of the Indian National Anthem Jana gana mana… was a painter too. And a pretty unimpressive one at that. On Sunday, we had the chance to view some of Tagore’s paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tagore’s paintings are part of two […]