Avinash thinks Kapil Sibal is progressive:
Kapil Sibal, the new HRD minister of India, seems to have taken a stand completely contrary to that taken by his predecessor, Mr. Arjun Singh - he seems to actually be interested in the development of the human resources in India… ;) I am impressed by the reforms Mr. Sibal [...]
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Different schools for different classes
Published by June 26th, 2009 in Business, Children, Education, Policy and Politics. 0 CommentsThe biggest problem of a woman entrepreneur is the social attitude and the constraints in which she has to live and work. Despite constitutional equality; there is discrimination against women. In a tradition-bound society, women suffer from male reservations about a woman’s role and capacity. In rural areas, women face resistance not only from males [...]
“Do Japa and Tapa To Get Better”
Published by June 16th, 2009 in Business, Corruption, Health, Violence and Women. 0 CommentsMad Momma posts the horrifying true story of a victim of neglect and a lot else at a corporate hospital:
The OT wasn’t on standby, wasn’t ready. I was numb with pain. They wanted me to get up and move to the operation table. I couldn’t move. They eventually slid something under my back and I [...]
Sanjay Mehta subscribed to India Today six months ago and is still waiting for the gift promised, despite several reminders and reassuring responses. The correspondence is very interesting:
Some interesting thoughts in this regard:
Subscription paid in early January, 2009. Now, in June, 2009, that is about 5 months later, no sign of gift!!
When they have no [...]
‘I, the Writer’
Published by June 2nd, 2009 in Books, Business, Internet, Media and Personal. 1 CommentRanjani Ravi, aspiring writer and young entrepreneur, talks about how he worked on the launch of I, the Writer (’India’s first literary digital magazine for aspiring writers’):
I had my university exams in the second week of May. Thankfully, my university exams got over by 9th! So, I started working from 10th. I had chosen Joomla [...]
‘Paper saves lives’
Published by May 25th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Business, Development and Women. 0 CommentsAnuradha Parekh talks about TARA, an NGO that changed the lives of women in an Adivasi community in Madhya Pradesh:
Sahariya tribe is a nomadic tribe in Madhya Pradesh that deals with poverty of the magnitude that mothers buy saris and tear them in half so that their daughters have something to wear. These people have [...]
Obama and outsourcing
Published by May 25th, 2009 in Business, Economy, Globalisation, IT, Policy, Politics, Regulation and World. 0 CommentsJoyeeta Biswas looks at Obama’s new policy initiatives on curbing outsourcing:
And even at one fifth of the salary of the American workers, Indian workers in the IT and BPO services still account for 5-7% of India’s GDP, bringing about a huge impact on cities such as Bangalore, the centre of the industry. Needless to say, [...]
Indian economy: Finest hour ahead?
Published by May 20th, 2009 in Business, Economy, India and World. 0 CommentsEdward Hugh asks: is the Indian economy heading for its finest hour?
Many are called, but few are chosen, as the saying goes. But could it just be that this time around, and on a one-off, never to be repeated basis, India might find itself right there in the midst of things, with a 50-50 opportunity [...]
Wish List
Published by May 19th, 2009 in Business, Caste, Education, Government, Health, Human Rights and Policy. 0 CommentsHarini writes a letter to the new Government, listing out a few basic expectations:
a) Education - If you haven’t noticed - there is a caste system been created in education. The way the system is moving there are one set of institutes for the middle class and one set for the poor. The former delivers [...]
Some recent graduates of our IIMs have started a blog at www.strat.in, where they discuss the strategies behind business and technology. Consider this a meta-blog about those two popular themes of many of our blogs. Here is an except from their latest post about an innovative way of advertising:
This guy walked into a book store [...]
iTunes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Published by April 15th, 2009 in Business, Humour and IT. 1 CommentPriyank reads through the Apple’s iTunes License Agreement and writes a hilarious post.
“THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, [...]
News from April 1st
Published by April 4th, 2009 in Business, General Elections 2009, Humour and Politics. 0 CommentsThe Desk Jockey cooks up some very interesting news:
The Samajwadi Party sprung a surprise when they short listed Chota Shakeel as a prospective replacement to Sanjay Dutt after a court denied the actor’s request to contest the polls. Likening Shakeel to “Circuit” from the Munnabhai movies, Amar Singh said that the real-life and reel-life gangsters [...]
The Great Indian Circus
Published by March 31st, 2009 in Business, Caste, Culture, Dalit, General Elections 2009, History, Human Rights, India, Media, Politics, Religion, Secularism, Society and Women. 0 CommentsMaloy Krishna Dhar, ‘having seen Indian elections since 1952 as a school kid, managing a couple of these exercises during service career in the IB, manipulating a few on orders of the ruling cabal and witnessing the bones, marrows, and soul of the Indian electoral process’ describes an encounter with an election manager of a [...]
Tools and rationality for IT in education
Published by March 27th, 2009 in Business, Development, Education and IT. 0 CommentsAtanu has posted a very interesting article about the “effectiveness, efficiency, affordability” and ease of use of tools in general and then applies that analysis to the way Information Technology (IT) is being treated as a panacea for all diseases ailing India:
Even if we have determined that a CAT scanner is the tool required in [...]
No thanks to Mamata
Published by March 26th, 2009 in Business, Democracy, Development, Economy, Law and order and Poverty. 0 CommentsOf course, how can someone mention the Tata Nano and not talk about Bengal’s saviour Mamata Banerjee:
In the end, the market prevailed. Tata built its car in Gujarat and now a whole generation of people will be able to own their own cars and the freedom of movement that entails. Additionally, people with the Nano [...]
Kunal posts a thorough review of the much hyped Tata Nano. He calls it “a modified Share-Auto”:
A popular member of the low segment car, Nano is supposed to be better amongst the counter-parts, The Maruti 800 and The Alto. So much so, Nano is said to posses 21% more interior space than any other car [...]
Suhel Seth’s blog
Published by March 21st, 2009 in Business, General Elections 2009, Politics and Religion. 0 CommentsYes, the adman and talking head. Should that be talking head and adman? In this post he asks: should hate always win? The title looked promising but the body copy, I mean content, turned out be a muddled piece of writing. But it does say something forceful against hatred in politics and Varun Gandhi’s speechmaking.
If [...]
Elections and jobs
Published by March 21st, 2009 in Business, Economy, General Elections 2009, Government, Policy and Politics. 0 CommentsAchyut Menon checks if there is any connection:
Would elections lead to less job losses? I trust Reji was alluring to the re-instating of the Jet Airways employees post the political interference. To me that was more an exception -as the media pays more attention to the glamorous industries in urban areas-while blissfully ignoring the thousands [...]
Reinventing the woollen wheel
Published by February 17th, 2009 in Business, Culture and India. 0 CommentsFor those of you who haven’t had a bombardment of the Snuggies, it is a blanket with sleeves thats making the airwaves in the US these days bigtime. Kaul tells us that they’re just plain re-inventing the Kashmiri Pheran:
Everytime I watch the infomercial about the Snuggie, a “blanket with sleeves”, it reminds me of the [...]
No lap left behind
Published by February 6th, 2009 in Business, Development, Education, Government, IT, India and Science & Technology. 1 CommentGreatbong lampoons the announcement of the $10 laptop by the government, with some hilarious links:
So what if the $10 laptop is worth $30? So what if it is actually $100 and the concerned Indian official did not read one “zero” as it was mistyped —after all what’s a few zeroes between friends, especially when the [...]
Cigarette smoking ban actually increases health risks
Published by January 24th, 2009 in Business, Economy, Government and Health. 4 CommentsOr so says the Unpretentious Diva:
What if government increase hyper-taxes on tobacco, will it help?
Banning or restricting any thing never helps anybody, yet it increases black-marketing, it increases smuggling, and to counter all that, government will need a new force to control smuggling and black-marketing of Tobacco. In addition, black-marketing always increases consumption because it [...]
The Hippocratic commission
Published by January 24th, 2009 in Business, Health and Society. 0 Comments“So, which doctor referred you here?” - does that sound familiar? Basskeyz tells us that lately there have been instances where it seems that going to a doctor sometimes is not such a healthy proposition, with the hidden nexus of kickbacks and commissions based on who can drain the patient’s pocket the most:
If you [...]
Where is the Indian Auto Industry headed?
Published by January 22nd, 2009 in Business and India. 0 CommentsSandeep gives a run-down:
The Indian automobile market is expected to grow by 9%. Although the industry has faced the brunt of recession, the sales figures of December’08 are the true indicator of bang of global slow down. India with growing middle class, strong economy (although recession has hit the economy, but to be on positive [...]
How can we prevent another Satyam
Published by January 13th, 2009 in Business, Economy and IT. 2 CommentsRJ argues “that the real issue is a lack of a proper regulatory structure in India with which to assess the completeness, integrity and accuracy of financial data, and internal controls over financial reporting”:
If the global economic downturn wasn’t bad enough, incidents such as the Bernard Madoff issue, and now the Satyam scandal can’t have [...]
The disappointment with Satyam
Published by January 8th, 2009 in Business, Economy, IT and Law and order. 1 CommentAnubhooti had bought stocks just an hour before all the news of the mayhem spread:
Yesterday I dont know why, but I felt very sad, it was neither the first time I lost, nor the amount was too big, but may be it hurt me for multiple reasons and biggest one was that…….it was a real [...]
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