Passionvaibhav talks about the possibility of Chandigarh becoming the next IT hub.
While Bangalore continues to host the bulk of India’s IT business and is home to more than 1,500 top firms, poor roads and traffic woes are now pushing IT firms to look beyond Bangalore—to newer cities like Chandigarh, hundreds of miles north.
Archive for April, 2007
Chandigarh, the new IT hub
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Globalisation, India and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsUdayms talks about the traffic chaos in Chennai after the recent traffic route changes.
But, on the whole it looks like a nice idea, very pathetically executed. Earlier, the signals used to act as throttling agents to control the flow of the traffic. Now, with no signals. The now traffic is best described as an [...]
Prathul Prabhakar talks about the upcoming Mobile Monday event at Chennai
Mobile Monday has the following objectives:
* To encourage innovation within the mobile sector.
* To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between local and foreign.
* To help local companies effectively participate [...]
Mohib at indianmuslims comments of the revelation by the Modi government in Gujarat, that Kausar Bi was also ‘eliminated’ within two days of her husband being killed in a fake encounter.
Police in India has repeatedly used fake encounters to ‘bump off’ people, however even by their lowly standards, this case stands out. While it is [...]
Gwangju Prize for Human Rights for Lenin Raghuvanshi and Irom Sharmila
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Dalit and Human Rights. 2 CommentsThe Gwangju Asian Human Rights Folk School announces the award to Lenin Raghuvanshi and Irom Sharmila.
Lenin Raghuvanshi and the People’s Vigilance Committee On Human Rights, PVCHR) led by him, have put up vehement resistance against the caste system through various social activities, including the supporting of torture victims in 5 northern states.
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On November 2nd, 2000, [...]
Get in touch with Dalit Human Rights at the email address in the post if you’d like to volunteer for a Dalit Theatre workshop in Pondicherry starting May 25.
“You are interested on oppressed theatre, or doing some research/study in ? Come and join us to participate to this workshop and stay here for several weeks [...]
Abi summarises the long discussion going on the low percentage of women in the IITs.
Yes, in its normalizing avatar, the new, improvedTM JEE can also become a uniter. It can replace all the other entrance exams. Currently, an aspiring engineering student needs to take the current JEE, AIEE, and one or two state-level entrance exams [...]
Sepoy feels that while William Dalrymple’s book The Last Mughal makes for a readable book on history, many of the points he makes there are contestable. See especially the long discussion in the comments.
There are more significant problems with making religion the over-determinant cause behind the Rebellion - even as a corrective to historiography. [...]
Hasan Mubarak writes on Lahore’s answer to the scorching summer.
Although we have had Ice-Cream on the streets for decades, these water-carts may seem new to Lahorites. This unique selling idea, however, is not new to the developing world. Bottled water is sold on carts all over the world from Dalian to Delhi, from the Philippines [...]
Calling it complete family entertainment, Rahul lists the learnings he took away from the movie
Tara Rum Pum is a complete family entertainment. Here are some key learning out of the movie:
It is a story of how a talented person can fight back to glory, if he remains hopeful and keeps trying.
It is a story which [...]
Land of Lime pays tributes to David Halberstam, who died last week in a car crash.
Halberstam didn’t remain a reporter. Instead, he became a chronicler of the biggest stories of the second half of the 20th century. He is rightly praised for his ‘Best and the Brightest‘, but I loved his two books on the [...]
Globalisation and Violence against Women
Published by April 28th, 2007 in Globalisation, Patriarchy and Women. 2 CommentsSuryamurthy writes on the wave of renewed violence against women in recent years.
After economic liberalisation, the focus on women is increasingly as a cheap labour force. Despite apparently positive indicators of progress, particularly in education and paid employment, little has changed in the position of women. Studies suggest that while there is an increase in [...]
Globalisation and the Rise of Extreme Jobs
Published by April 28th, 2007 in Globalisation. 0 CommentsPrem Rao points to the emergence of extreme jobs.
People in extreme jobs work for more than 70 hours per week, have frequent travel, highly unpredictable schedules, and are available to their clients on virtually a 24/7 basis.
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Today’s overachievers are cast as “road warriors and masters of the
universe,” says Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Warning that their pace [...]
Shripriya talks about the movile The lives of Others and its director Florian Henckel von Donnersmark
A movie about the horrific and desperate times in the GDR before the Wall fell, it follows the lives of the theater community who are under constant scrutiny by the Stasi. The story revolves around Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch), [...]
S. Swaminathan talks about the challenges faced by Internet TV services like Joost
NY Times reports Joost, the Internet television service being developed by the founders of Skype, has lined up several blue-chip advertisers, including United Airlines, Microsoft, Sony Electronics and Unilever, as it prepares for its introduction.
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I see quite a lot of different challenges [...]
Atish Dipankar writes about his experiences while performing on the stage
I love the adrenalin rush, the transient nature of a stage performance, the spectators, the applause, the anxiety before the performance, the accolades that follow it. I love the ego boost, the kick that it gives. I like to be known and acknowledged. But [...]
Sexual harassment in South Indian showbiz industry
Published by April 27th, 2007 in Cinema, Human Rights and Women. 2 CommentsJo writes about what he heard from the showbiz circles. Even though he doesn’t have a proof for this particular incident, we cannot deny that such incidents are common place in the Indian society and it could have very well reached the showbiz industry.
The star then starts sending SMS-s - First humorous ones and [...]
Amit Pande talks about the new in flight entertainment service in Jet Airways flight
This Monday I flew Jet Airways from Delhi to Bangalore and was pleasantly surprised by Jet Airways’ new in-flight entertainment system. The system has a good and contemporary music selection ranging from the unavoidable Himesh Reshammiya numbers to some good jazz.
Equinoise talks about an Indian Restaurant in Seattle
Spice Route’s got the goods. It is located in a massive space in a strip mall in Bellevue that seems suitable for weddings or large parties; I noticed a dance floor hidden under the lunch buffet trays, suggesting that the place doubles as a reception hall, a [...]
Rajan Srinivasan has a series of beautiful pictures of Thanjavur.
Kapil takes a walk around Mumbai with a camera.
Haji Ali, a monument I pass by almost everyday but never stopped to admire or even photograph it otherwise. But on Sunday I think all of us were very keen to snap it – The vast blue sky, a clear view of the horizon and the beautiful [...]
Now you can receive BB updates through Twitter
Published by April 26th, 2007 in Announcement. 0 CommentsWe have set up a twitter account for Blogbharti (BB). If you add BB’s twitter account as your friend, you can receive updates through BB twitter page, any IM of your choice or through SMS (some carriers may charge you for receiving SMS and Blogbharti is not responsible for any such charge. Check with your [...]
Abi talks about how JEE is biased against women. I concur.
First of all, it doesn’t take genius to figure out that this bias exists: the fraction of women in the IITs is abysmally small — typically less than 10 %. This number was this low when I entered college 25 years ago, and it [...]
Apu writes a short but eloquent post on Banarasi Paan.
I am no advocate for tobacco, but I love the meetha paan - the sweet paan, with its combination of bitter leaf, sweet, sticky gulkhand and assorted spice, saffron, areca nut…
Anita has some beautiful photographs of her trek to Bandaje Abbe falls.
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