For over four decades now, it’s been apparent to all but the completely blind or the utterly senile that India is a blundering, doddering mockery of a democracy that has totally lost its way. A soft state, to borrow Gunnar Myrdal’s terminology, where the government institutions have become so weak and corruption so endemic that […]
Egyptian coolies have thrown down the gauntlet to our desi coolies on handling the White Man’s IT chores and back-office operations. Egypt, a country ruled with an iron fist by U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak, says it’s leading the charge to make Africa an attractive market for outsourcing. (Although American media and movies routinely caricature Egypt […]
The dissenters may quibble about a chase falling short, a car still being shiny after a dusty race or some other pedestrian goof. Or even, good lord, that Bond is human with human feelings after all, just like us ordinary mortals. But we’ve always believed that a James Bond movie is more than the sum […]
One of the craziest and busiest days for shopping in the U.S. is Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving). It is called Black Friday because legend has it that retailers start to get into the black from that day. While tis’ true that Indians love a great bargain and will haggle you away to death […]
We are so thrilled. Barack Obama has decisively won the U.S. Presidential elections. ********************* Based on early results, SearchIndia.com confidently declares that Democratic candidate Barack Obama has won the historic U.S. presidential elections bringing the long Republican nightmare and misadministration to an end. At 10:29 PM EST, Obama already had 207 votes in the bag […]
Unless the American people are complete idiots, we’re going to see a landslide victory for Barack Obama on November 4. No, we do not believe Americans are all blithering idiots (because then we’d be labelling ouselves as dolts). Having watched the debates, the campaigns, the talking heads on television and seen the opinion polls, we […]