Meraki, a Silicon Valley wireless Internet startup co-founded by a desi entrepreneur Sanjit Biswas, seems to be on a tear these days but we are skeptical that this Formula car will ever reach its destination. The two-year-old Mountain View, California start-up offers networking widgetry that promises to make setting up wireless Internet access a snap. […]
Why the heck is India’s Tata group itching to buy Ford’s dying auto brands Jaguar and Land Rover? Just doesn’t make sense to us as to why Tata – now the clear frontrunner to pick up Ford’s struggling Jaguar and Land Rover units – wants to acquire these two white elephants. Both Jaguar and Land […]
American voters in the Iowa caucuses made a clear choice for change on Thursday by handing Illinois Senator Barack Obama a solid victory in the Democratic primaries. The African American Obama’s message of change and hope has resonated with the people of Iowa. Whether Obama can succeed in winning the Democratic primaries and then the […]
When it comes to hypocrisy, it’s hard to beat these Gujarati politicians. These scumbag Gujarati politicians are such hypocrites that they can’t protect the lives and property of minority Muslims in their state but they want the Government of India to take prompt action to help the Gujarati Non-Resident Indians in Kenya. Many of these […]
Any fool can buy a company. You should be congratulated when you sell. – Henry Kravis, co-founder of private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Source: Wall Street Journal, Jan.3, 2008 p. c12
Who’d have thought that the Indian education system would become the envy of a highly developed country! Today’s New York Times has an interesting front page piece on how the Japanese are now increasingly fascinated with the Indian education system. As the NYT piece puts it: Bookstores are filled with titles like “Extreme Indian Arithmetic Drills†and […]