India News for iPhone 3G – A Junk App

We’ve long believed that most Indian software developers are fit only for Coolie, repetitive tasks. Ask them to develop a decent consumer or small business application and most of them fall flat on their face. Those with long memories will remember that even the “great” Tata Consultancy Services failed to make much headway with the EX accounting […]

Rajinikanth Deserves Better than Gayathri

If Gayathri Sreekanth undertakes her ophthalmological work with the same callous carelessness as her shoddy biography of Tamil film star Rajinikanth (The Name is Rajinikanth), there must be a lot of unfortunate souls moving about in Chennai with blurred vision, or worse, without any vision. Besides being a pathetic attempt at hagiography, almost every page […]

Kalido Goes to Bangalore

Data warehouse software firm Kalido is setting up a competency center in the South Indian city of Bangalore to take up product development, verification and services. The Bangalore facility will complement existing operations in Burlington, Massachusetts and London.  The Bangalore center, which will also support evolving product requirements and professional services needs of both regional and […]

Violence Against Indian Immigrants in Mumbai

And you thought Mumbai was part of India. Don’t tell that to Mumbai politician Raj Thackeray and his goons. Indian newspapers are full of reports that North Indians (particularly those from the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) in Mumbai are being attacked by supporters of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, a regional political party founded by Raj Thackeray […]

Is BigFlicks Video Download Service Doomed?

The market for paid online video download services like BigFlicks.com (owned by Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) is just not there. At least, not anytime in the near future. BigFlicks offers a wide selection of Bollywood and a small collection of regional language movies in its video download service (buy or rent) for a fee ranging from […]

Bollywood – Some Interesting Statistics

Bollywood – international shorthand for Indian movies – exerts a bigger hold on the Indian psyche than even cricket. India probably makes more movies – mostly pathetic, occasionally unwatchable and rarely interesting – than any other country. And that is when Indian movie-makers are not brazenly stealing successful Hollywood plots. India has a vibrant movie […]