As India Grows, so does its slums It’s boomtime for the Indian economy for the last few years. And it’s boomtime for India’s slums as well over the last couple of decades. Even as India’s annual growth rate crosses 8%, the number of Indians living in slums in cities - often near open gutters and in […]
Life in the Northeastern U.S. during winter is bad enough. But imagine living in numbing Arctic chill where the temperatures can range from -29C to -68C. One wrong step and you could potentially fall 12,000 feet into the cold, cold ice. After spending three days at a temporary U.S. Navy camp in the Beaufort Sea in […]
India would most likely be celebrating the 150th anniversary of its Independence not the anniversary of a failed mutiny if only the South and West had joined in instead of watching from the sidelines. Writing in the Oxford History of Modern India, Percival Spears observes that: The Madras and Bombay Presidencies were hardly touched by […]
Mayawati’s Bahujan Samajan Party made mincemeat out of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, BJP and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress Party in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections of April/May 2007. The BSP won 207 seats, large enough to form a government on its own. Following the defeat of his Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh […]
Hotel chain Hilton is expanding its committment to the Indian market and plans to invest as much as $143 million over the next seven years through a joint venture with DLF Properties. The joint venture, DLF-Hilton Hotels, plans to develop 75 mid-range hotels in different Indian cities including Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Goa and Mysore, reports […]
The year was 1987. A year of many momentous events: * Dow Jones Index closed over 2,000 for the first time. * Perl programming language came into being. * One of my favorite British writers Alistair Maclean passed away. * Work on the Channel Tunnel began. * We had our first glimpse of a very […]