Bhagwad thinks malls are expensive, but very little of the money spent there goes to the employees. And then he says products sold at malls are ‘profitable because we don’t pay the full cost of products from the mine to the dump’. Now, which is true? That the malls are expensive or the products are [...]
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Expensive malls, cheap products?
Published by October 23rd, 2009 in Business, Capitalism, Consumer, Economy, Environment and Globalisation. 3 CommentsFilling his daughter’s shoes
Published by September 16th, 2009 in Globalisation, Indiaspora, Personal and Terrorism. 0 CommentsVartika is in New York and she lost the heel of one of her shoes one morning. Read on about the touching things that followed that eventful morning:
He just listened.
Listened to it all; nodded but said nothing.
“Right here this is my place.”
“I am sorry I guess I talk too much.”
“Not an issue…You sound just like [...]
Copying Unabashedly……
Published by September 4th, 2009 in Culture, Globalisation and India. 0 CommentsWhen it comes to aping Western Culture, there is no generation gap in India. Adults do it just as well as youth. The free lance _thinker says ” Ppl have always been talking about the generation of today and how it is aping the western culture… about how youngsters are following the western culture blindly… [...]
Film Telangana 2009
Published by May 29th, 2009 in Culture, Development, Globalisation, History, Human Rights, India, Language and Politics. 1 CommentInteresting site, seems to have been started to co-ordinate a film contest for short films on Telangana Culture, Resources, Issues, Places, People, History & Struggles, which is scheduled to end on 31st May, 2009. Some interesting films have been submitted. I liked the page Telangaanam which features clips with popular ballads by Yadagiri, Suddala Hanumanthu, [...]
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, [...]
The ‘Bangalore model’
Published by March 27th, 2009 in Capitalism, Culture, Economy and Globalisation. 0 CommentsInteresting post by SocProf at the Golbal Sociology blog on the growth of global cities and other places in the South:
At the same time, the authors show how Bangalore (the global city in which they did their fieldwork) also illustrates the process of universalization of the particular as the “Bangalore model” is adopted by other [...]
Does the West know more of Indian music now?
Published by February 20th, 2009 in Cinema, Globalisation, India, Indiaspora and Music. 0 CommentsAfter A.R. Rehman’s awards for Slumdog Millionare, Gluestick at the aavakai blog thinks the answer to the question is both yes and no :
The truth is that Indian music has been on the international radar from a long time – Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustad Zakir Hussain have won Grammies before this. Classical music appealed to [...]
At the Topic192 blog, this is their vision statement:
I wonder if people from 192 countries across the Globe cooperate to write one blog.
Different people, culture, society, politics, products, service…
Only one person for One Country !
One Photo for One Story
Go ahead and read their latest post from Macedonia. There is someone from India already there, though.
Kicking up a row
Published by November 21st, 2008 in Activism, Announcement, Art, Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights. 0 CommentsMore updates on the One State Solution Week 2008, White Ribbon Campaign’s IRC tête-à-têtes continue and with more gusto than ever before!
Join them and some entirely new host characters at their room on the internet relay chat channel, IRC, at the Dalnet Servers.
The British imposition of the nation state has not been kind to either Pakistan or India.
So is there an alternative?
A month ago, I asked in this blog whether the salvation of Pakistan’s economy lay in making peace with India. At the time, it seemed as though regional trade might provide the cushion to see both countries [...]
The ‘teacher’s burden’
Published by October 20th, 2008 in Development, Environment, Feminism and Globalisation. 0 CommentsSneha Krishnan finds the existence of a patriarchy in globalization:
So, even as we speak of great development, we need to ask ourselves, “What is development?” Development to me may be the ability to communicate to the world using my Apple Mac laptop built and bought in California, while I stretch on the divan in [...]
MM Lee was right, of course. India has to urbanise to make greater progress.
But the Indian farmers who refuse to give up their land – and thwarted plans to build the world’s cheapest car in West Bengal — know one thing. As long as they have their land, their fate depends on the weather and [...]
Giving losers more money to lose
Published by September 27th, 2008 in Business, Capitalism, Development, Economy, Globalisation, Government and Politics. 2 CommentsA.k.a. The US (Global?) Financial Crisis.
Professor Ali Mir of Wayne Paterson has a lucid “Current Crisis for Dummies”, posted by Amitava Kumar.
So, back to our story. Wasn’t everyone making money?
Until a certain point in time. But as usually happens with a bubble, the quid came calling for the quo. Subprime borrowers defaulted on their loans [...]
Easy Come, Easy Go
Published by July 28th, 2007 in Capitalism, Economy, Globalisation and India. 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 [...]
Product Vs Service Debate
Published by May 14th, 2007 in Announcement, Globalisation and India. 0 CommentsOne 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, History and India. 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.
Globalisation and Violence against Women
Published by April 28th, 2007 in Globalisation, India, 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 and India. 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 [...]
Savita Kini feels that it is premature to call Bangalore as India’s Silicon Valley
So my humble request to people: let’s stop calling Bangalore Indian’s Silicon Valley. We are not even 10% of what Silicon Valley is all about. Lets get to the task of reaching there, rather than pat ourselves on the back for [...]
Socialism for the Rich
Published by April 22nd, 2007 in Capitalism, Globalisation and India. 6 CommentsMadhukar Shukla dissects the myth about Special Economic Zones and the GoI’s claims about their employment generating capabilities.
This calculation, of course, does not include the cost of various “incentives and facilites” that are given to SEZs and its developers (see the list at the end of this post), According to Min of Finance these will [...]
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