Say what you will but there’s little respect for the common man in India. Everyone is out to get the common man in India. The government, police, employers, businesses, politicians and even banks are all after the little man. Of all the shaitans (devils) at the back of the common man in India, banks are probably […]
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates announced on Sunday evening that Microsoft had sold 100 million licenses of the company’s Windows Vista operating system to date. Assuming conservatively that each Windows Vista license is used by just one person, that means Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has destroyed any hopes of happiness for […]
Meraki, a Silicon Valley wireless Internet startup co-founded by a desi entrepreneur Sanjit Biswas, seems to be on a tear these days but we are skeptical that this Formula car will ever reach its destination. The two-year-old Mountain View, California start-up offers networking widgetry that promises to make setting up wireless Internet access a snap. […]
Why the heck is India’s Tata group itching to buy Ford’s dying auto brands Jaguar and Land Rover? Just doesn’t make sense to us as to why Tata – now the clear frontrunner to pick up Ford’s struggling Jaguar and Land Rover units – wants to acquire these two white elephants. Both Jaguar and Land […]
Who’d have thought that the Indian education system would become the envy of a highly developed country! Today’s New York Times has an interesting front page piece on how the Japanese are now increasingly fascinated with the Indian education system. As the NYT piece puts it: Bookstores are filled with titles like “Extreme Indian Arithmetic Drills†and […]
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the plight of India’s Brahmin caste in its Saturday edition. Once a privileged caste closely aligned with the rulers of India for several centuries, the Brahmins have fallen on tough times over the last few decades owing to the reservation policies (affirmative action programs) of the […]