The last 18 months have been the most challenging of my life….I regret terribly the impact on my family, friends, and institutions that are dear to me. – Indian-American Crook Rajat Gupta at his sentencing hearing in a NYC Court, October 24, 2012 Millionaire crook and IIT Delhi alumnus Rajat Gupta will spend two years […]
Former McKinsey chief Rajat Gupta is begging the court not to send him to prison. One of the principal grounds for Gupta’s plea is that he had led an exemplary life and that his criminal conduct was an aberration. Gupta’s lawyers told the court their client would like to do community service in the U.S. […]
Good Riddance! Desi butcher Vikram Pandit, one of the greediest desi *%$* in the financial sector, is out of Citigroup. Looks like it’s gonna be a nice day. 😉 Yesterday, Citigroup posted a 88% drop in its profits for the third quarter yesterday. Today, Vikram Pandit stepped down. Sweet! Both the New York Times and […]
We are not in the newspaper business, we are in the advertising business. – Vineet Jain, Managing Director, BCCL (publisher of the world’s largest selling English-language newspaper, Times of India) The October 8, 2012 issue of New Yorker has an excellent article on Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd, publishers of Times of India, Economic Times […]
The Indian community is so short of genuine heroes and heroines that rarely does SI get to write about the real deal. Folks, it gives me immense delight to present a genuine Indian-American Heroine – Balpreet Kaur. I know this post is not about Salman Khan or Katrina Kaif but read on, schmucks. Balpreet Kaur […]
Why is there malnutrition in Gujarat? Sane people like SI and some of my readers would assume that malnutrition and starvation in India is mostly a function of poverty. But not according to the Hindu communal Chutiya and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. This is what Modi had to say about malnutrition in Gujarat in […]