Death Watch – Vikram Pandit

Good times are a coming, folks. Yes, good times are on the horizon. Media reports increasingly suggest that the days of Desi Butcher a.k.a. Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup, are numbered. Here are some of the headlines for the greedy Desi Butcher, who massacred tens of thousands of jobs at Citigroup while drawing an […]

Subir Chowdhury Wins ‘Outstanding American by Choice’ Award

IIT Kharagpur alumni and quality guru Subir Chowdhury has won the ‘Outstanding American by Choice‘ award handed out by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service to recognize the outstanding achievements of naturalized U.S. citizens. Here’s what the 42-year-old Subir said on hearing the news of the award: Whatever I have dreamed, America has always […]

Word of the Day – Naxalite

Our 1,623-page Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th Edition) does not include the word Naxalite. A rather strange, and most definitely, a major omission. Origins of the Term The word Naxalite has its roots in the Naxalbari village in the Darjeeling region of West Bengal in the eastern part of India. It was in the Naxalbari region […]

America’s Dirty Little Secret

A new survey released today by Kaiser Family Foundation offers more depressing health care news – six out of ten respondents said their family has delayed or skipped medical care in the past year due to cost reasons. The survey finds that the most common actions taken by people because of the cost constraints are substituting home […]

Apple App Store Nears 1 Billion Downloads Milestone

In a few hours, Apple will reach an extraordinary milestone – the download of the one billionth application from its App Store that feeds millions of hungry iPhones and iPod touch multimedia devices. Launched in early July 2008, the App Store has been a phenomenal success with 35,000 applications and a billion downloads. As we write […]

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