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 […]
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 got such effusive coverage of its plans to commence daily flights between Mumbai and Newark (in the New York area) effective August 5Â 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 […]
In less than 48 hours, Apple’s iPhone, one of the most hyped and awaited gadgets of the 21st century will be launched. The iPhone combines Apple’s runaway hit iPod music player with a cell phone that includes a browser and e-mail software as well. The quad-band GSM phone also plays video and features a 2 […]
Yesterday, we did something unusual. We traveled over 330 miles (about 520 KMs) to New York City just to watch a new movie. But then Sicko is not just any other movie. Made by the controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore (of Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine and Roger & Me fame), Sicko is a wake-up […]
When Mariane Pearl (Angelina Jolie) wails in agony after learning that her kidnapped journalist husband Daniel Pearl will never come back, it’s one of the defining and poignant moments of this fine movie. So far, over the previous several days the visibly pregnant Mariane’s been an unusually controlled woman despite her anguish over Danny’s kidnapping. But when […]