Until we read the latest issue of New Yorker (March 2, 2009) a short while ago, we’d never heard of Rudresh Mahanthappa. Nor of Kadri Gopalnath. Nor of Vijay Iyer. Boy, are we happy that we read that New Yorker piece by Gary Giddins titled Passage to India that goes ga-ga over Rudresh Mahanthappa. Listen, […]
In the third bailout of Shitty Bank oops Citibank, the U.S. Treasury Department plans to convert $25 billion of its preferred securities into common stock provided other private holders agree to the same terms. If the latest round of bailout goes through, the U.S. government’s stake in Shitty Bank will rise to 36% from 8% […]
Folks, this edition of Incredible India focuses on the hundreds of millions in India who go to bed hungry every night in India’s countless villages. We present below an excerpt from the recent Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India jointly prepared by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and MS […]
Yes. we all know Jeeves. Bertie’s venerable Man Friday, yes. But Medical Butlers. What in the heck is that? Well, Medical Butlers are a new category of workers brought about by the disastrous American healthcare system. As we were desultorily contemplating the coming collapse of the U.S. healthcare system, we were drawn to this new category […]
Folks, time to celebrate. Maneesh Dhir, the head of AOL International and the bloke responsible for aggressively pushing AOL’s expansion into India, has quit. We say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. God knows, how many jobs Maneesh killed in the U.S. in his missionary zeal to outsource AOL operations to India. A recent memo from AOL […]
Folks, we have now restored the commenting process on the SI blog. We’d disabled it for a few hours last night as we made some changes to the backend of this blog to improve load-time. However, for the next 24-48 hours some users may continue to experience technical issues. Hopefully, things should settle down after […]