Silicon Valley Souring on India – WSJ

IT outsourcing has made Indian cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad easily recognized names not just in the cubicles and hallways of corporate America but even with mainstream Americans. But some of that sheen could be wearing off as India joins the high-wage club. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a front page story […]

Indian Tourism Record Pitiful; Even Croatia Does Better

We bet 99% of Indians have no clue where or what Croatia is. No big deal. For the uninformed, Croatia is a small Southern European country on the Adriatic Sea.  Part of Yugoslavia until 1991, Croatia has an area of just 56,542 sq km and a population of a mere 4.55 million. Yet, as a story […]

Jet Airways Scores Big with NYT

Jet Airways got such effusive coverage of its plans to commence daily flights between Mumbai and Newark (in the New York area) effective August 5  in the New York Times’ travel section on Sunday that it must have made other airlines flying to India see red. In a puff-piece headlined A Flying Apartment to India […]