George Orwell is a name familiar to Indians. Besides his prowess as an author, he was after all an Anglo-Indian, born in Motihari, Bihar as Eric Blair (George Orwell was actually his pen name). Some of Orwell’s books like Animal Farm and 1984 have also found favor with the English-speaking literati in India. Much as […]
Of course, there are plenty of nice books. But let’s admit it. There are very few books that move us. And fewer still that move us to tears at the end of it. About Alice is a petite book (just 78 pages). Truly in this case, we can say less is more. Written as a […]
Whoa, our favorite paper New York Times has a front page story today (May 21, 2007) on India’s severe power shortages. Writing for the Times, NYT’s South Asia bureau chief Somini Sengupta describes: an electricity crisis that represents one of the major hurdles to India’s ability to hoist itself into the front ranks of the […]
Gujju Behns in the Den of Vice – at an Atlantic City Casino Boredom makes men and women explore strange things, particularly when thrown into a strange environment. If a move to a different culture is hard enough for the educated Indian middle class – those with the so-called cosmopolitan world views – it must […]
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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee members Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Richard Durbin  on May 14, 2007 fired a shot across the bow of nine top Indian IT companies that heavily use H1B Visas charging them with displacing qualified, American workers. In a letter to the CEOs of the top nine IT companies including […]