This recession has rendered 4 million Americans jobless and half-a-million with their homes foreclosed. When I was in India, I’ve heard that question really thrown around, why/how did this happen? It got me asking myself that question. People blame it on things ranging from the credit bubble to jobs going abroad. The truth is simpler, [...]
Today India set a new record in history by putting 10 satellites into orbit in one launch. The PSLV-C9 carried two Indian satellites and eight nano-satellites (developed by university students in Canada, Germany, Japan, Denmark, and Netherlands). It’s also become a booming business as well. Wake up NASA (or rather, wakeup US Government).This received exciting [...]
Looks like even Indian news channels are also going into cheap tabloid type of news coverage. More than the recent Gurgaon school shootings (a first in India), I was appalled by the way NDTV covered it: the sensationalism, 24×7 hyper coverage, the “story-as-it-unfolds”. Talk about the innocence of a million kids being spoiled (who probably [...]
As I was returning from a rural temple, I found these chicken impaled alive and just left there slowly bleeding to death. There are still parts of the globe that have these sort of rituals with the belief that it will appease or ward of evil spirits or something. But how much more cruel is [...]
I was in Bangalore earlier this February, testing the job market. Within just two weeks of posting my resume – phones were ringing off the hook with calls from recruiters for Amazon, Google, HP, Nokia, GE, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Mahindra, Accenture, Convergent, Honeywell, Keane, Intuit,… I can’t imagine that many calls after posting my resume [...]
It’s a no brainer. Indian companies will be buying US, UK or German companies. We have to just go with them.” – Morten Lund (founder of Skype, and nearly 50 other companies) India has in 50 short years since its Independence risen (from the ravaged state that it was left behind by 300 years of [...]
Critical examination and reflection is needed for a well functioning democracy. Nations, like humans, also have their share of pathologies. For the USA it is the insatiable thirst for power and control to sustain the American way of life. Control of the Earth’s resources (or the more flashy term used by military think tanks – [...]
Globalization in a Nutshell Excellent, loaded article. The following is a question addressed to MIT professor Noam Chomsky following a lecture he delivered at the University of Illinois at Chicago on October 17, 1994. Noam Chomsky on India, GATT and Pharmaceutal Patents, and 3rd WorldQ. Could you comment on the current policies of GATT, the [...]
Probably the one most important instrument for a functioning democracy is the media. It represents the voice of the people. Only, in the case of the USA the media represents the interests of large corporations. When that happens the very important feedback loop between the government by the people and we the people is severed. [...]