Azim Premji is a name well known to a lot of Indians. After all, Premji is the shrewd entrepreneur who inherited a $2 million Vanaspati (hydrogenated cooking oil) company in Mumbai and turned it into a $3 billion IT, BPO and R&D Services organization called Wipro that is today listed on the New York Stock […]
Oh, what an irony! Recent disclosures by UK’s National Archives that author extraordinaire George Orwell, who wrote about Big Brother (the State) watching its citizens in his anti-totalitarian classic 1984, was himself monitored by the British domestic security service MI5 for over two decades is perhaps one of the greatest ironies ever. British security agents suspected […]
Journalist and food critic Chitrita Banerji has written an interesting op-ed piece on Calcutta in today’s New York Times that’s not all too favorable to Mother Teresa. Banerji takes issue with the media, the Catholic Church and above all Mother Teresa for reducing Calcutta into a caricature of poverty, starvation and suffering without any mention of […]
McGraw Hill has named Deven Sharma president of its tainted financial services division Standard & Poor’s effective immediately. Sharma replaces Kathleen Corbet, who left to “pursue other opportunities”. Sharma was previously executive vice president at Standard & Poor’s with responsibility for Investment Services and Global Sales and before that a partner at management consulting firm […]
Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is most likely headed back to his father-in-law’s place on September 27. Now out on bail, Sanjay Dutt will have to return to his father-in-law’s place once he is served with a copy of the judgment (readers of Rabindranath Tagore’s fine story Kabuliwallah will recognize that father-in-law’s home is an euphemism for jail). Sanjay […]
Update: Salman Khan was arrested on Saturday, August 25, 2007. Bollywood star Salman Khan will soon be a guest of the Indian prison system for poaching a Chinkara – an endangered species of gazelle – in 1998. Salman Khan’s appeal against a five-year sentence awarded in a 2006 court ruling was rejected by an Indian […]