We don’t know about you. But over the last 12 months we’ve slowly got addicted to our Wi-Fi mobile phone (in our case, the Apple iPhone). No, we are not embarrassed to admit that it even accompanies us to the bathroom. 😉 We use our Wi-Fi mobile phone for reading news, responding to comments on […]
To most desis, the name Atul Gawande would not ring a bell (how would it, you do have to pay for the New Yorker magazine. After all, it’s not free like the Redbox DVDs, NYT online edition or the SearchIndia.com blog). But Atul Gawande is no stranger to the readers of this fine blog. The […]
Since all ye wide-eyed schmucks worshipping at the altar of the blue-eyed Hrithik Roshan and the bountiful bosomed Namita have no clue who Sudhir Venkatesh is, let’s first introduce the fella. Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University professor, is an acclaimed sociologist in the U.S. who owes his reputation to his work on the street gangs of […]
Folks, time now for yet another episode of Incredible India, those only in India stories. * Your child goes to a school in India. But will she come back or will it be her corpse that you see in the evening? Six-year-old Rohini, an UKG student at a private school near Trichy in South India, died after […]
Well, it seems the outsourcing scumbags at IBM are at it again. What else – preparing to lay off more American workers and replace them with cheaper Indian workers. The cuts are coming in IBM’s global business services unit, the company’s largest group by revenue and employment, according to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal. […]
At President Barack Obama’s press conference, which ended a short while ago, an African American reporter (Kevin Chappell of Ebony Magazine) raised the issue of 1 in 50 children in America now being homeless and sleeping under bridges and tents across the country because of the current economic crisis. That’s a big, big shame. Here’s […]