Did anyone say that politics makes strange bedfellows? Ah, how true. How true. Beleaguered Pakistan President and military chief Pervez Musharraf has held secret talks for a second time with his bitter foe Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party and former Prime Minister of the country. The secret meeting is believed to […]
No, No, No. We are not talking here about Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington’s controversial thesis on the Clash of Civilizations. We are talking about Huntington’s earlier work, Political Order in Changing Societies (Yale University Press, 1968). In that now forgotten classic, Huntington famously argued in the opening sentence: The most important political distinction among […]
As Delhi’s doddering Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit bumbles along, the city’s killer buses continue their merciless death ride. Particularly eggregious of Delhi’s buses are the privately owned Blueline buses, popularly – and correctly – referred to as the “killer buses.” According to Saturday’s New York Times, the Blueline buses have already claimed 62 lives this […]
IT outsourcing has made Indian cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad easily recognized names not just in the cubicles and hallways of corporate America but even with mainstream Americans. But some of that sheen could be wearing off as India joins the high-wage club. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a front page story […]
In less than 48 hours, Apple’s iPhone, one of the most hyped and awaited gadgets of the 21st century will be launched. The iPhone combines Apple’s runaway hit iPod music player with a cell phone that includes a browser and e-mail software as well. The quad-band GSM phone also plays video and features a 2 […]
Yesterday, we did something unusual. We traveled over 330 miles (about 520 KMs) to New York City just to watch a new movie. But then Sicko is not just any other movie. Made by the controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore (of Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine and Roger & Me fame), Sicko is a wake-up […]