Our 1,623-page Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th Edition) does not include the word Naxalite. A rather strange, and most definitely, a major omission. Origins of the Term The word Naxalite has its roots in the Naxalbari village in the Darjeeling region of West Bengal in the eastern part of India. It was in the Naxalbari region […]
Obama Turns Pussy on Torture Photos Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s daughter Amrit Singh, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City, has played a key role in the ACLU’s victory in forcing the U.S. Defense Department to release photos of American military men torturing prisoners. The U.S. Defense Department told […]
After years of importing tens of thousands of foreign workers of Japanese descent from Latin American countries like Brazil and Peru for blue-collar jobs, Japan is now doing an U-turn on its immigration policy. An U-turn that America must seriously consider (but only partially) vis-a-vis its H1B Visas. Facing growing unemployment of its own citizens […]
Desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has joined the disgraceful gallery of America’s Worst CEOs. Describing Vikram Pandit as one of the 20 Worst CEOs, here’s what Conde Nast’s Portfolio had to say on our ‘desi butcher’: Pandit didn’t create the mess Citi is in, but he is the financial-services equivalent of the Titanic’s […]
A new survey released today by Kaiser Family Foundation offers more depressing health care news – six out of ten respondents said their family has delayed or skipped medical care in the past year due to cost reasons. The survey finds that the most common actions taken by people because of the cost constraints are substituting home […]
In a few hours, Apple will reach an extraordinary milestone – the download of the one billionth application from its App Store that feeds millions of hungry iPhones and iPod touch multimedia devices. Launched in early July 2008, the App Store has been a phenomenal success with 35,000 applications and a billion downloads. As we write […]