Statistic of the Day – Desis in Spelling Bee 2009 15 Desis Make it to Spelling Bee Semifinals Desis Fare Well in Spelling Bee 2009 Early Rounds Indian-American Sameer Mishra has won the 2008 Spelling Bee competition. Sameer Mishra is a 13-year-old, 8th grade student at the West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School in West Lafayette, […]
Sanjaya Malakar, an interesting former contestant on American Idol will feature in a new ad for insurance and financial services company Nationwide. Sanjaya will be the next star in the Life Comes at You Fast campaign, which has previously included Kevin Federline, Fabio and MC Hammer. In the Nationwide ad, Sanjaya visits a monastery in […]
Supply chain software house i2 Technologies has named Pallab Chatterjee CEO. Chatterjee has been interim CEO of i2 Technologies since July 31, 2007. Chatterjee joined i2 Technologies in January 2000 as Chief Operating Officer. From 1976 until joining i2 Technologies, Chatterjee held key positions with TI, including president of the company’s $1 billion Personal Productivity […]
If Gayathri Sreekanth undertakes her ophthalmological work with the same callous carelessness as her shoddy biography of Tamil film star Rajinikanth (The Name is Rajinikanth), there must be a lot of unfortunate souls moving about in Chennai with blurred vision, or worse, without any vision. Besides being a pathetic attempt at hagiography, almost every page […]
Desi film producer and financier Deepak Nayar has launched a global digital entertainment studio and online creative community called Filmaka for aspiring filmmakers. Deepak Nayar is the producer of English movies with Indian themes like Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice and The Mistress of Spices. Here’s Filmaka’s mission in its own words: Filmaka is […]
Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO, is throwing 9,000 employees on the streets on top of the 4,200 jobs the embattled bank has already cut recently. As usual, the new round of job cuts are also attributed to expense management. And did we tell you that Vikram Pandit, like the proverbial pig at the trough, took […]