Bravo, Sam Pitroda

National Knowledge Commission Chairman Sam Pitroda has sounded a prescient lament about the Indian health system going the way of the unaffordable U.S. system. Very timely warning, folks. Here’s an excerpt of Pitroda’s speech from the Hindu: National Knowledge Commission chief Sam Pitroda on Wednesday said that the Indian health system was going the “highly […]

Chemistry Nobel for Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Jai Ho

Jai ho, Karuppiah. Oh boy, our Karuppiahs a.k.a Tamils are all over the place. No kidding. Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mapping the ribosomes at the atomic level. Born in 1952 in the temple town of Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, India, Venkatraman got a Ph.D. […]

Got to Stop Eating Head Lice Chemicals Oops Mac Fries

Dunno about you. There’s something about the Mac fries that’s got us swearing by it (at least most of the time). Not even the news in the desi rags about use of beef extracts made a difference. Last night, we read a piece in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (Oct 4, 2009) that McDonald’s […]

Rep. Alan Grayson: Attaboy. Our Kinda Congressman

Rep. Alan Grayson, we love ya. Count on SearchIndia.com to cut you a check during your next election. We promise. Last night, this Democratic Congressman from Central Florida (mostly the Orlando area) hit the nail right on the head when he said: If you get sick in America, this is what the Republicans want you […]

Cool, Borders to Offer Free WiFi

Here’s some good news for cheapo desis in the U.S. looking for free WiFi Internet access while on the move. By mid-October, the 500 odd Borders book stores around the U.S. will provide free WiFi. Cool, so we can take our new Asus netbook 1005HA-PU1X to Borders and blog from there. Verizon is providing the […]

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