Poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions. – Francis Fukuyama in The Origins of Political Order p.14 It’s hard to dispute the above point, at least in the case of India. Despite the burgeoning population, India has plenty of resources. Certainly, enough to feed its 1.2 […]
Mein Kutta Hoon, Yeh Kutiya Hain (I am a dog and she is my bitch). – Salman Khan’s character Prem referring to his girlfriend Pooja (played by Asin) in the movie Ready Who says Salman Khan is a superstar? No way. The U.S. box office numbers for Salman’s latest crapshow Ready are out and they […]
By Golly, the Apple digital media juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down. Today, at the Apple Developer Conference in San Francisco the digital media hottie introduced its much ballyhooed iCloud service and disclosed a bunch of other digital media milestones as well. iCloud is a set of free cloud services that work seamlessly with […]