Image Source: WHO, 2010 Mera Bharat Mahan. Incredible India. Shining India. Wow, nice sounding feel-good words, na? Folks, as we were desultorily roaming across the gullies and byways of the Internet a few hours back, we stumbled upon a Bloomberg story about a most disturbing crisis that’s very open but yet not acknowledged by most […]
This is an American tragedy. A new study by the Pew Center has found that 7.32 million American adults were in prison, on parole or on probation in 2007, a tripling over the last 25 years. Folks, that makes it 1 in every 31 American adults in prison, on parole or on probation. For Blacks, […]
We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Regulations were gutted […]
(Thanks to terraferrous…yes, we made a reference to this piece in the comments section but this is too hilarious not to merit a separate post) India’s numero uno Hindu clowns, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the self-styled protectors of the country’s 828 million cow-worshippers, is threatenening to unleash a new Cow-ca-Cola (cow piss fortified with […]
The last time we spoke to NYC restaurateur and Dhaba NYC owner Shiva Natarajan, the fella was blabbing on and on about his Bollywood connections, his Bollywood roles in movies like Halla Bol and Khakee, his Bollywood celebrity acquaintances like Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai, blah blah blah blah. And Shiva’s main restaurant Web site […]
Disgraced Indian IT services provider Satyam Computer has named A.S.Murty, a long-time insider, as its new CEO effective immediately. Murty has been with Satyam since January 1994. He was previously Chief Delivery Officer and also responsible for optimal utilization of Human Resources. Prior to this, Murty was Head of Human Resources and Head of Insurance vertical. An […]