Loss-making Reader’s Digest Association Inc has signed a cost-cutting oriented $350 million, seven-year IT outsourcing agreement with India’s HCL Technologies. The agreement is supposed to cover Reader’s Digest Association’s entire IT landscape, spanning the gamut from infrastructure to applications. IT Support from Coolie Nations From low wage nations like India and Poland, HCL Technologies will […]
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the high child malnutrition rates in India. Here’s an excerpt from the NYT story: [E]ven after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse here than in many sub-Saharan African countries, and they stand out as a paradox in a proud democracy. China, […]
Food worker at Shiva Natarajan’s Dhaba Indian restaurant does not wash hands thoroughly after visiting the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands, says the New York City Health Department after inspecting this Indian restaurant on March 2, 2009. The NYC Health Dept. inspection report also noted that Dhaba located on […]
A lot of Government doctors in India are corrupt and often even fail to report for duty. In remote Indian villages, we’ve seen Indian doctors extorting bribes from very poor villagers. Pigs. But bribery in the healthcare delivery system is not restricted to India. We just read a heartrending story of corruption in the Romanian healthcare […]
Image Source: WHO, 2010 Mera Bharat Mahan. Incredible India. Shining India. Wow, nice sounding feel-good words, na? Folks, as we were desultorily roaming across the gullies and byways of the Internet a few hours back, we stumbled upon a Bloomberg story about a most disturbing crisis that’s very open but yet not acknowledged by most […]
This is an American tragedy. A new study by the Pew Center has found that 7.32 million American adults were in prison, on parole or on probation in 2007, a tripling over the last 25 years. Folks, that makes it 1 in every 31 American adults in prison, on parole or on probation. For Blacks, […]