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October 2012

October 23, 2012

Police arrest Twitter Users for harassment of a Singer in Chennai

This is an interesting case from India where the harassment on Social Media by some...

October 23, 2012

India mention in US Presidential Debate: Complete Silence?

The last Presidential Debate in the US on Monday (10/22) was on Foreign Policy. One...

October 23, 2012

Supreme Court asks Indian Govt to ban all GMO field trials for 10 years

Thanks to the agriculture activists and also unprecedented activism by the Supreme Court, India is...

October 22, 2012

Tatas are a $100 billion Conglomerate. India's first!

Tatas is India's first $100 billion conglomerate. I am not sure if many in the...

October 22, 2012

Karan Thapar is a Devil's Advocate. Gives clean chit to Salman Khurshid

In a world, where divorces are going through the roof because the two people living...

October 22, 2012

India's Looting Government Ministers and Officials: "Gangs of Hungerpur"

The World Bank knows. The Indian Supreme Court knows. Heck, even India's Planning Commission knows...

October 22, 2012

Ayn Rand's Indian Follower is a Strange Beast

Ayn Rand has a cult like popularity in India. That we all know and see...

October 22, 2012

Starbucks Enters India.

Finally, after a lot of wait and hand wringing, Starbucks has opened its first store...

October 22, 2012

Loss of Groundwater linked to Earthquake in Spain, lessons for India?

The analysis of the 5.1 richter earthquake in historic Murcia town of Lorca in southeast...

October 22, 2012

Fuzzy Math of India's Cell Phone Market and its Growth Potential

India's total subscriber's base is 300 mn, but its mobile connections are over 900 mn...

October 22, 2012

India is running out of mobile numbers!

With world's second largest population and a deep penetration of the cell phones already reaching...

October 22, 2012

Joint Indian-Israel stamp commemorates Diwali and Hanukkah

India and Israel commenced full relations in 1992. It was in the time of Atal...

October 22, 2012

Is Netflix preparing to launch its service in India?

Netflix has come out with a new job ad that suggests this movie distribution juggernaut...

October 22, 2012

Lessons from Chinese Corruption versus past corruption in Japan, US and South Korea

In today's program by Fareed Zakaria, I saw something very interesting - discussion on corruption...

October 17, 2012

Land Acquisition Bill: Boon or curse?

Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, 2011 Bill (LARR Bill 2011) is an important regulation, the...

October 16, 2012

Bangalore Real Estate Market Outpaces NCR and Mumbai Metropolitan areas

The Bangalore real estate market saw sales of 15.58 million sq ft of residential space...

October 16, 2012

When Indian Re 1 coin was worth Rs 5 in Bangladesh when melted!

Remember Mohammad Bin Tughlaq? The wise fool, who came up with currency long back, and...

October 16, 2012

Absolutely Hilarious (and shameful) quotes from Indian Politicians

Indian politicians, however educated or illiterate, can beat anyone to some pretty nutty humor. Here...

October 16, 2012

How did Satyan Gajwani become Times Internet CEO at just 27? (And his reply!)

In this day and age of celebrity egos and anger, it is interesting to come...

October 15, 2012

Indian achievers choosing to come back to plum posts in India

What is common between Venkatesh Kini, Akhil Chandra, Gautham Mukkavilli and Seema Modi? They all...

October 15, 2012

Characterizing BJP as State Enemy and "Being Hindu" synonymous to "Being Communal" will be disastrous

The Jangipur Lok Sabha seat became vacant as Pranab Mukherjee became the President. So his...

October 15, 2012

Digivjay Singh, the faithful Sonia Dog dutifully attacks Kejriwal

Digvijay the Sonia's pet dog is out in the open yet again. He is now...

October 14, 2012

Alang, largest global ship breaking center – a boon or a curse?

Half of all the ships dismantled and broken down at the end of life in...

October 13, 2012

Salman Khurshid and his wife SHOULD be thrown into jail: Operation Dhritrashtra

Arvind Kejriwal has said that India's Law Minister, Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise Khurshid...

October 13, 2012

Questioning Sonia Gandhi using RTI is right of Tax Payer not Breach of her Privacy!

I don't expect a guy who has never won a single election in his life...

October 13, 2012

JK Rowlings researches Sikhism in depth for her next novel

Generally, one has seen Sikhs being treated with various emotions - fear, derision, anger from...

October 12, 2012

Don't Mess with Punjab: Akali Dal message to Rahul Gandhi!

In India, you don't mess with Punjabis, specially with Punjab! Rahul Gandhi, the bird-brained Congress...

October 12, 2012

Robert Vadra evaded taxes worth Rs 14 crores on Gurgaon Land Sale to DLF

First Post has a very interesting post on how, not only has there been some...

October 12, 2012

Britain decision on Modi leaves Dileep Padgaonkar jumping with anger!

Dileep Padgaonkar epitomizes the journalists who are responsible for the complete loss of character for...

October 11, 2012

Vadra Scandal – Despicable Role of Mainstream Media, Opposition Parties and DLF Auditors!

The entire episode of Robert Vadra & DLF Combine vs Arvind Kejriwal is very interesting. ...