India’s Supreme Court issued a notice to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for justifying during his recent election campaign the staged killing of a Muslim Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a police encounter. Modi has already received a notice from India’s Election Commission for his inflamatory campaign speech on December 4 in Mangrol that justified the staged killing […]
A phrase used more in the U.S. than elsewhere, skid row refers to a run down part of a large city. We were horrified the first time we saw the skid row in downtown Los Angeles one early morning in the late 1990s – the whole area was in a dilapidated condition and filled with […]
Bollywood entertainment house T-Series is frustrated that YouTube (owned by Google) has failed to take cognizance of the Delhi High Court’s interim order in November restraining YouTube and Google from infringing its content and plans to file a contempt petition. T-Series has filed a suit against Google and YouTube for a permanent injunction and the case is […]
Struggling financial services conglomerate Citigroup named Vikram Pandit, 50, as its new CEO and board member effective immediately. Vikram Pandit, who hails from Nagpur in India, was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup’s Institutional Clients Group, which comprises Citi Markets & Banking and Citi Alternative Investments. For his new job as Citi CEO, Vikram […]
If you are seeing pink elephants, it ain’t good. Ain’t good at all. Because pink elephant is an euphemism for drunken hallucinations. Pink elephant is a phrase that is nearly a century old. One of the earliest references to pink elephant is in Jack London’s autobiographical novel John Barleycom published in 1913.
So what if India has a glorious 5,000-year-old history or an ancient civilization or too many pictureque spots to count. India has one of the worst records on the planet in attracting foreign tourists to the country. For the first 11 months of 2007, India recorded just 4.4 million foreign tourists (Source: Ministry of Tourism […]