A friend recently visiting from India told us that fast-food restaurants in India serving Pizzas, Burgers, Croissants etc had mushroomed there and are now wildly popular with the younger generation, particularly in the cities (food courts, malls and even residential neighborhoods). Our friend’s remark on Indian fast-food places came to mind when we stumbled upon […]
Jennifer Lawrence is a fine actress, and mark our words carefully now, one about whom y’all will be hearing and talking a lot in the coming years and decades. – The Wise SI in the review of Winter’s Bone, June 2010 As we were driving home through the dense mid-Atlantic fog, we couldn’t help thinking […]
In Incredible India, things happens that would be considered bizarre in other lands but are perfectly normal by our standards. Here are a few strange normal events in Mera Bharat Mahaan in recent days: * Slap Tightens Friendship – Just one day after being at the receiving end of an assault from King Khan i.e […]
One of the advantages of owning an iPad is the extraordinary education we’re getting. With apps like Zite (owned by CNN) installed on the iPad, our intellectual horizons are expanding like never before. Every day, we discover important new things. 😉 And the best part is we never know what aspect of our intellect will […]
As a young 64-year-old poor nation with 500-million half-starving souls, India has many concerns, diverse constituencies to address. But none more pressing or of more importance than the following: 10. Long wait for some cars. Diesel versions of the Swift hatchback and Dzire sedan from Maruti, Fortuner and Innova from Toyota, XUV500 from Mahindra, Jazz […]
U.S. venture capital firm Accel Partners has closed a $155 million fund, Accel India III, that will make seed and early stage investments in Indian startups. This is Accel’s third India fund. Accel, which has previously invested in 34 Indian companies, said the latest fund had attracted top tier institutional investors from North America, Europe […]