No surprise here. Taj Mahal, a monument of love from Mughal king Shah Jahan to his late wife Arjumand Bano Begum (a.k.a. Mumtaz Mahal), was picked by online voters as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Construction of Taj Mahal started in 1632 and was completed in 1648. Some twenty thousand laborers are […]
Six months into 2007, a record number of flops is casting a dark shadow on Bollywood, which has yet to register a single big hit movie this year. With a crop of pitiful moves like Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Shakalaka Boom Boom, Ta Ra Rum Pum, Salaam E Ishq, Fool N Final and Guru hitting the screen this […]
IT research vendor IDC has developed a new Global Delivery Index, which forecasts that Chinese cities will overtake Indian cities like Bangalore and Mumbai in offshoring by 2011. Currently, Indian cities are highly ranked with Chinese cities said to be nipping at India’s heels. According to IDC, Bangalore is presently the #1 offshoring destination followed by […]
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 […]