For over four decades now, it’s been apparent to all but the completely blind or the utterly senile that India is a blundering, doddering mockery of a democracy that has totally lost its way. A soft state, to borrow Gunnar Myrdal’s terminology, where the government institutions have become so weak and corruption so endemic that […]
Forget Google’s G1. The hot new smartphone to watch out for – and one that could threaten iPhone’s glorious run – is the soon-to-be-launched Blackberry Storm. Although much ink and web space has been devoted to Google’s Android operating system based cell phones like the G1 from T-Mobile, the more likely challenge to the iPhone […]
Next in line to get screwed big time in the U.S. is the healthcare system, by which we mean the American doctors and hospitals. The big question is will India stand to gain from the collapse of the American healthcare system or will other nations like Singapore, Mexico, Israel, Phillipines or Poland reap the benefits. As […]
Finding a good Dosa in the U.S. is becoming almost as hard as seeing the Halley’s Comet. And for unabashed gourmands like us, who’d kill for a good Dosa, that’s so frustrating. In our odyssean quest for good Dosas, we have traveled far and wide, often driving across state borders in the U.S. Alas, nemesis […]
Travel writer Paul Theroux is in the news again – for his new book Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, which re-creates the epic 25,000 mile train odyssey the author first undertook in the mid-1970s and chronicled in the bestseller The Great Railway Bazaar (published in 1975). Around 1975, Theroux rode trains across India including a trip […]
Nearly two months after Apple launched the App Store for the new iPhone 3G mobile phone and the older iPod touch, games continue to dominate the store. The App Store, which has been a mega hit with over 60 million downloads (as of August 11), lets iPhone 3G and iPod touch users download applications