N. P. Nappinai gives a rundown of
how much the Laws in India:
Assist in Data Protection; and / or
Provide sufficient deterrents for violations; and / or
Enforce such deterrents against such violators;
It is interesting to note how far we are in this department with respect to other countries in the world.
I am a resident of Delhi, India, and a psychiatrist by profession (heal the mentally unwell). I’m also fond of the great outdoors, and cultures around the world. I’ll be spending 3.5 months in Antarctica winter of 2008, doing research at the Indian base station. Thru this blog, I hope to keep my friends and [...]
Melkote attends a talk titled ‘Science, State, Market, Society and Ecology’ and thinks: ‘the problem with science and technology in India seems to be that their main focus is either the State or the Market’.
The market angle is even more apparent: our best minds working to solve problems which will make sharper videos, clearer sound, [...]
Evolgen presents a series of hilarious classifications of the kind of people who come to listen to talks and seminars in grad school:
The rookie: The pre-schooler knows seminar time is nap time. The rookie is an undergrad or first-year grad student who’s new to the whole departmental seminar thing. He’s overworked, he undersleeps, and he’s [...]
Mansi recommends a website that brings together entrepreneurs, business owners and investors.
I found this set of cool ideas of making great searches on Google from Digg, and you should definitely read this:
Google does live commentary too!
Indians are cricket fanatics. But its amusing to see the organizations here trying to put together tactics to devoid cricket lovers from wasting time to watch the cricket scores instead of [...]
[This is essay #10 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for archives.]
Ninety nine percent of our energy comes from the Sun. The commercial energy that we pay for is about one percent of the energy we use. Commercial energy mostly (82 %) comes from non-renewable sources like oil (32%), coal (21%) and natural gas (23 [...]
I soar and swoop over Delhi, and look down at its rooftops and markets, its parks and gardens. I have Wikimapia, which makes my computer screen the window to home, while snow is falling outside my ‘real’ window here.
Wikimapia zooms in on Anand’s multi-layered maps of nostalgia and longing. He writes about Delhi as seen [...]
Remigius De Souza’s second attempt to read Richard Dawkins’ ‘A Devil’s Chaplain’ fails:
Typically, like the western, and later the westernized societies, the book, too, boasts, as if no science did exist in the bygone eras before the Industrial Revolution.
The image of the engraved bone plaque illustrated here is 30,000 yBP old, from Blanchard, France. [...]
Amita is introspecting on our identities in the virtual space. Go over and comment. It’s an interesting post.
One look at the “I, me, myself” broadcasting networks (read – blogs, social networks) gives us a window to very interesting paradoxes –
* Freedom to express vs. anxiety to impress
* I am what I am vs. I [...]
He won a Nobel for deciphering the structure of DNA but his views on ‘race’, ‘public policy’ and ‘intelligence’ aren’t so enlightening- Harini has some advice for Dr.James Watson:
Maybe, james watson and his ilk will be better of figuring whether it is race that makes the powerful nations & corporations interfere in the affairs of [...]
Meliorix is eager to know about innovations developed in environments characterized by great resource limitations:
Was reading the Nature blog about appropriate technology in resource limited settings. There was a post about the Rs 150 a piece microscope made entirely from bamboo by a Delhi based NGO.
I felt an overpowering sense of Deja Vu reading these [...]
Shantanu Dutta finds technology whirring around him:
I am forever amazed as to how fast technology is changing and I wonder always as to how far I will be able to keep up. I remember two instances from my past. It was the first time I was old enough to be interested in cricket and there [...]
The IgNobel Prizes are here again. CircusMouse draws up a list of this year’s winners.
Abi further explores the issue he has long focussed on- how to attract and retain good faculty in higher education and research institutions in India:
If you you are a Big Leaguer (who isn’t? ;-) in the market for a faculty position, many people assume that you would not choose to join an Indian institution because [...]
In the largest such simultaneous deployment of ‘free-and-open’ software in India, over 15 lakh Kerala school children on September 7th started taking their quarterly practical tests in Information Technology on personal computers using a special Linux version. Sasi Kumar writes a brief history of the intrepid free software movement in Kerala.
“Free software” is a matter [...]
Peter Foster writes on what might be a hope for conservationists.
Among the favourite channels for often-illiterate villagers, apparently, are National Geographic and Animal Planet which are always showing beautiful wildlife films.
You often hear discussions about how television is changing rural India, awakening the masses to the aspirational lives and luxuries of the urban middle classes.
But [...]
Ramadoss Magesh, who has been diligently running a cancer support blog for more than two years now, linking to news, developments and useful information on the issue, writes on a recent ruling of the Madras HC on a petition filed by the pharma giant Novartis. Magesh looks at the larger issues of costly research on [...]
Mahendra Palsule says Facebook is safer than Orkut, especially for women.
Well, we all know how Orkut is being misused, so why do Indians, especially women and girls, stick with it when there are better alternatives available? Facebook for example, offers some of the best privacy features among all the social networking sites.
Badri Seshadri examines the Grameenphone experiment in Bangladesh:
Grameen Telecom provided women (dubbed ‘phone ladies’) in Bangladesh villages with a mobile phone handset and a Grameenphone connection, funded by micro loans from Grameen Bank. In countries like India and Bangladesh landline penetration is low, and non-existent in rural areas. Rented mobile phones provided a great service [...]
Harkirat seems to be an earnest believer in the tranformative powers of Google, Apple and Linux (in reverse order) and his blog focusses on developments in those three domains. His latest post explores the reasons behind Apple’s apparent dislike for India:
Apple, on the other hand seems to dislike India. Many people would probably want to [...]
Professor Robert V. Kozinets writes about DRM in the music industry on his blog Brandthroposophy. He has many interesting tings to say but I quote just one-
The analogy I always used with my students for file-sharing services and for DRM hackers is the same. It’s the old carny game of Whack-a-Mole. One P2P service, [...]
Anivar Arvind calls upon saner Indian community to write to Bureau of Indian Standards and ask them to stop adapting the proprietary standards of Microsoft. I agree with him. Open standards are the way to go. When the advanced countries are realizing the importance of open standards, we shouldn’t fall into the trap of proprietary [...]
If you are aspiring to start a Web 2.0 company, you should know what your company should have to get reviewed by Web 2.0 bloggers. Trakin offers you the following insights
First is obviously the concept, is it viral and whether it will appeal the savvy internet users.
The second is their domain name, yes, [...]
Bhagaban points out to the recent social networking site launched by rediff.com
iShare or you can say, ‘I Share’. Yes, you can share your videos, photos and music with friends at iShare. It is a new multimedia social networking site launched by Rediff India in collaboration with Zee TV.
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