Ask not if Satyam Computer Chairman B.Ramalinga Raju will be arrested. Ask when Ramalinga Raju will be arrested. After acknowledging committing one of the biggest frauds in Indian corporate history, we’d surprised if Ramalinga Raju does not spend considerable time as a guest of the Indian prison system. In what seems like a resigned awareness of […]
Finally realizing that all the speculation on his health was proving to be, well, unhealthy for investors and the company, Apple CEO Steve Jobs fessed up today that he is indeed sick. Here’s an excerpt from Steve Jobs’ confession letter: Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of […]
Controversial Harvard professor Samuel P.Huntington, in our view the world’s greatest political scientist after Plato, has died. To those of you who may never have heard of Samuel Huntington, he was the the author who made the phrase Clash of Civilizations famous. While Huntington has been in the limelight recently after he wrote his famous […]
We’ve always believed that rabble-rouser extraordinaire and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had one screw loose in his head. But we were wrong – Bal Thackeray has several screws loose. In what is a clear call to violence, Thackeray has stirred a hornet’s nest by welcoming Hindu terrorists in an interview with the party’s rag […]
Shares of the Vikram Pandit-headed Citigroup fell a record 23% to $6.40 on Wednesday, a 13-year low. We don’t see how Vikram Pandit, a greedy desi butcher, can survive for long in his post with the stock in free fall and the loss of investor confidence. Pandit: Clueless? Since Vikram Pandit took over as CEO […]
For some time now, we have believed that desi butcher Vikram Pandit is the wrong man for the top job at Citigroup. Other than butchering tens of thousands of jobs at Citigroup and presiding over the departure of top executives like Sallie Krawcheck, Pandit has done little to boost morale or significantly improve the business […]