Ray Titus finds nothing wrong with what Bush said:
What the President was an economic fact. There was no ‘blame’, in fact his statement was a compliment to a country that is demanding better products and services for consumption. Judge for yourselves.
Arun checks reactions from across the world, including a news report from Arab News, which [...]
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Bush, India and global food prices
Published by May 5th, 2008 in Economy, Food, Globalisation, India, Media, Policy and Politics. 1 CommentThe sands of time
Published by April 11th, 2008 in Culture, Development, Globalisation, Indiaspora, Photoblog, Society and Travel. 0 CommentsMala visited Kolkata recently, for her vacation. In a very detailed post, she sketches the changes she perceived in the city, and also portrays how she (and her own life) might have changed in the perception of those at home:
Its always a treat catching up with everyones lives. There is one thing in common between [...]
‘A world of crashing cultural plates’
Published by April 8th, 2008 in Globalisation, India, Language, Religion and Society. 0 CommentsTwo posts on languages, religion and identities. Razib foresees more intense conflict, in a globalizing world, among civilizations:
Though language is emotionally salient for many, that is really not what I had in mind. In The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Samuel Huntington presented a thesis which used religion as the major [...]
Trivandrum - raising development
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Development, Education, Globalisation and Policy. 1 CommentNow that its summer vacation, everyone is posting about the city. And summer vacation is afterall about wish-lists, nostalgia and planning to have a nice time.
Ajay at TvmRising does an incisive analysis of the Singapore model and lays out a way forward for urban development in Trivandrum using its strategic location like Singapore.
In the 1950s [...]
Noni at untouchable EARTH writes on the contradictions in a rapidly globalizing world:
A global citizen a good idea but now a global citizen mostly means a 60% American anywhere in the world as truly said by Lars von Trier. Someone he or she may not allow voting in USA but mind of that global citizen [...]
Whither Prosperity?
Published by February 26th, 2008 in Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Geopolitics, Globalisation, Government, India, Indiaspora, Policy, Poverty and South Asia. 1 CommentUnable to defend himself from a Singaporean hotelier’s comments, Swaroop seeks out answers at Churumuri. Illustrating with real examples, he rakes up enormous dirt on a gamut of issues.
Education. Immigration. Public Safety. Harassment. Rowdyism and brawn. Health services. Bribery. Brain drain.
He concludes his comparison of India to Singapore (unthinkable by size, but still) with an interesting analogy to claims [...]
Who owns copyrights in the judgments of the Supreme Court?
Published by February 2nd, 2008 in Globalisation and Justice. 2 CommentsThat might seem like a strange question but the highest courts in the land are seriously engaged with that issue: Pratibha M.Singh analyses a recent Supreme Court judgment.
The IMF needs the developing world now?
Published by January 24th, 2008 in Capitalism and Globalisation. 0 CommentsJagdish Madan spots a growing trend in international financial markets- funds from the developing world helping in the takeover of western financial institutions and corporates:
With very few developing countries approaching the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for loans and preferring easier alternatives, the IMF’s survival is at stake. It has, consequently become difficult for it to [...]
Rajat Jaitly points to a report that says India is the second least globalised economy among 72 countries studied:
No matter what you have hear about India being the world economic power in some 20 years down the line. However,recent survey carried out by international consultancy and research firm AT Kearney has ranked India at the [...]
Yeh Dil Maange Even More?
Published by December 19th, 2007 in Advertisement and Globalisation. 0 CommentsIn one of their posts featuring an advertisement from Pepsi, AdMad raises a concern:
Aren’t these ads of pepsi, mountain dew etc. injecting an attitude of a different kind into the new generation? A dont care or do anything kind of attitude, without thinking about the after effects? That shootout in a delhi school comes to [...]
The Struggle Against the Brahmin/The Struggle Against the White Man: Inter-Connectivity Between India/U.S. Struggles
Published by December 13th, 2007 in Capitalism, Caste, Dalit, Globalisation, Prejudice, Racism, Religion and Spotlight Series. 28 Comments[This is Essay #2 in 'The Spotlight Series'. Click here for archives]
The Struggle Against the Brahmin/The Struggle Against the White Man: Inter-Connectivity Between India/U.S. Struggles
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Jack Stephens
While trying to blog on connections between Dalit struggles and people of color struggles in the U.S. one thing that struck me was the similarities of caste and whiteness; specifically [...]
Humpty Dumpty’s Great Fall
Published by December 1st, 2007 in Capitalism, Economy and Globalisation. 0 CommentsMadhukar examines the continuous decline of the mighty US dollar in context of worldwide political developments especially the distancing by a close US ‘ally’ Saudi Arabia.
In the recently concluded meeting of OPEC heads, a closed door meeting “accidentally” got telecasted to journalists. In response to pressure by Venezuela and Iran to replace US$ by a [...]
In a post containing a lot of links and insightful details, Sujatha writes about the recrudescence of people wanting to return to India, and the life of migrating families due to jobs or otherwise:
Within a few weeks, my mom would be fully involved in her neighborhood and my dad would acquire a gazillion “walking friends”. [...]
Charter of Dalit Human Rights
Published by November 9th, 2007 in Caste, Culture, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Globalisation, Government, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Poverty, Prejudice, Racism, Religion, Society, Women and public space. 1 CommentHeidi links to the newly evolved Charter of Dalit Human Rights- it’s a break from conventions in many ways:
Whereas, Dalits in India are the people of Mother Earth, people from a labouring community, people who believe and live a sustainable life and people who belong to and are rooted to the community. [...]
We demand:
A global [...]
From countries to cities
Published by October 24th, 2007 in Business, Economy, Globalisation and Indiaspora. 0 CommentsVenkatesh finds out from a report on ‘emerging outsourcing locations’ that companies have shifted their focus from countries to cities:
In 1993, when I graduated with an engineering degree, out of the 500 odd people who graduated with me about 450 left Trivandrum, Kerala. This was to seek employment in other major cities like Chennai, Bangalore, [...]
Outsourcing, as Homer sees it
Published by October 11th, 2007 in Economy, Globalisation, Humour, India and Media. 0 CommentsHawkeye points to a funny perspective of outsourcing as Homer Simpson sees it. Go check the video!
Easy Come, Easy Go
Published by July 28th, 2007 in Capitalism, Economy and Globalisation. 2 CommentsLeftyProf speculates on how long the Indian economic boom will last.
…some American companies are beginning to close down their India operations and return to their own shores because of the rise in wages in cities like Bangalore. I’m not predicting imminent doom, but this does point to the fact that the outsourcing boom is built [...]
Apu is amazed ‘how shortsighted these opponents of outsourcing are’, because outsourcing accounts for less than 4% of all layoffs and the U.S., ’stands to lose more than 10 times as much as India’ if the global trade environment is disrupted:
‘It’s easy to blame all our economic anxieties and problems on globalization, because that [...]
One of the most famous debates in the Indian tech sector is about Innovation in product and service based companies. Gaurav argues that it is still possible to be innovative while staying on the service side of things.
Reading this article made me wonder why we spend so much time glorifying “product companies”. It is [...]
David E. Williams quotes the Boston Globe story on Indian entrepreneurs and calls on fellow Americans to understand the importance of immigrants to the US economy.
As India and other developing countries have seen their economies improve, there are more and better opportunities for well-educated, motivated people to return to their native lands. So even if [...]
Amit Pande visits the Infosys campus in Bangalore and comes back terribly impressed
Great thoughts and some vision that went into all this! I think more technology companies should take a leaf out of Infosys’ book in terms of some of the elements of its campus, its architecture, and of course its spanking cleanliness
Assasination of the Third World
Published by May 5th, 2007 in Capitalism, Geopolitics, Globalisation and History. 0 CommentsVijay Prasad in conversation with Rohit Chopra discusses the themes of his book The Darker Nations, that explores the ‘rise and assasination’ of the Third World Project.
The triumph of financialization (what we sometimes call globalization) certainly renders the actual details of the project anachronistic. It, the project, does had not yet absorbed the immense power [...]
Should western copywriters worry about Indian competition?
Published by May 4th, 2007 in Globalisation, India and Language. 0 CommentsMatt feels that western copywriters need not worry about competition from the Indian side. He is of the opinion that the inherent difference in styles will nullify any advantage due to wages.
Indian copywriters use the same vocabulary and grammar as Western writers, but there are inherent differences between the two versions. I often find [...]
Chandigarh, the new IT hub
Published by April 30th, 2007 in Globalisation, India and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsPassionvaibhav 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.
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