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 […]
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the plight of India’s Brahmin caste in its Saturday edition. Once a privileged caste closely aligned with the rulers of India for several centuries, the Brahmins have fallen on tough times over the last few decades owing to the reservation policies (affirmative action programs) of the […]
The market for paid online video download services like BigFlicks.com (owned by Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) is just not there. At least, not anytime in the near future. BigFlicks offers a wide selection of Bollywood and a small collection of regional language movies in its video download service (buy or rent) for a fee ranging from […]
If the rip-off prices of inkjet printer cartridges come down in the U.S, you’ll have to thank a desi guy in California – Ranjit Bedi. On Monday, Ranjit Bedi filed an antitrust lawsuit against HP and office supplies store chain Staples in the U.S.District Court in Boston charging the two companies with illegally colluding to stop competing […]
Indian perfume millionaires Mahender Muralidhar Sabhnani and his wife Varsha Mahender Sabhnani were found guilty by a New York jury of forced labor, harboring illegal immigrants, involuntary servitude and conspiracy charges in a high-profile case dubbed by prosecutors as “a case of modern day slavery.” The Sabhnanis, who live in a multi-million dollar home in Muttontown, a wealthy […]
The growing popularity of online bus ticketing web sites like Redbus.in, Tickevala.com, Yatra.com, Theluxurybuses.com, Abhibus.com, Indiabusticket.com and Checkouttrip.com is spurring online travel company Makemytrip.com to join the crowd. Makemytrip.com’s Chief Marketing Officer Sachin Bhatia told The Economic Times: The online bus-ticketing business is likely to witness robust growth in the coming years. We are aggressively planning to […]