IIT-B students find their Professors are incompetent and boring!

Last updated on: April 7, 2013 at 11:51 pm By Desh Kapoor

Students at IIT-B (Bombay), Mumbai are saying that the professors at the Institute are not serious or worse incompetent! Around 88% Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) students claim that they do not study as their professors do not manage to generate interest in their courses. While a few teachers are enthusiastic about teaching, others are not, reveals the second part of a survey conducted by the student’s magazine Insight. After spending years and thousands/lakhs preparing for an entry into an... Read more

Rajiv Gandhi played a middleman for Saab-Scania aircraft deal in 1970s

Last updated on: April 7, 2013 at 11:34 pm By Desh Kapoor

By all counts, Rajiv Gandhi was one of the most horrendous choice for India’s Prime Minister. He oversaw by far one of the most terrible massacres, and started the mess in Sri Lanka. Was responsible for Bofors scandal, and unleashed the sorry phenomenon of his incompetent and thoroughly corrupt wife and kids. A legacy that he perfected. Here is the Wikileaks on how he played middleman in Saab-Scania aircraft deal. Late PM Rajiv Gandhi may have worked as a middleman for Swedish company... Read more

Crony Capitalism, dysfunctional Republicans and Democrats and the doom of American Economy

Last updated on: April 7, 2013 at 10:54 pm By Desh Kapoor

Is the American economy doomed? An ex-White House Budget Director, David Stockman, thinks so. He thinks US is compromised economically, morally, and intellectually. 1980s White House budget director David Stockman was a right-hand man to his boss Ronald Reagan. Deep in the heart of the Reagan revolution. In 1985, Stockman resigned. Moved on. Now he’s looking back on 80 years of American history and economics and politics – and warning we are in giant trouble. Practically doomed, Stockman says, by... Read more

Use of Antibiotics in US meat production is breeding “Superbugs” and deadly infections

Last updated on: April 7, 2013 at 10:12 pm By Desh Kapoor

The use of anti-biotics in the meat production and the farms in general is at a point, where one US House Representative says is like pouring chemicals into kids’ Cheerios. This discussion is absolutely scary!!! I am surprised no one is even talking about it in the US the way it should be talked about. Everybody knows the basic issue with antibiotics. Overuse them, or casually use them, and you undercut the miraculous effectiveness of one of the most important... Read more

The Indian Job Program Scam: Plunder under MNREGA

Last updated on: April 7, 2013 at 9:58 pm By Desh Kapoor

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is the flagship rural employment program of Dr. Manmohan Singh’s Congress Government. It is also the greatest mechanism created in India to suck greatest amounts of money since British created their discriminatory laws. It involves a $33 billion investment every year! And most of it is siphoned off. The program is CREATED for that. Now Bloomberg has done some research of its own and come out with some shocking reporting. “It’s an insult... Read more

“Flying Pakistani flag in US and Canada should be illegal”: What is Pakistan and where is it headed?

Last updated on: April 5, 2013 at 12:18 pm By Desh Kapoor

In this discussion, which started from the article of Tarek Fatah on why flying the Pakistani flag in Canada (on a Govt building during a function) was illegal to the history and reasoning of why and how Pakistan was formed. How the “Anglo-American Enterprise”, as Tarek calls it, was instrumental in the formation of Pakistan. And it had nothing to do with Islam. He is writing a book which will touch upon why all the terrorism emanating from Pakistan and... Read more

India heading to a massive water disaster!

Last updated on: April 4, 2013 at 12:26 pm By Desh Kapoor

India has 18% of the world’s population, 2.6% of landmass and 4% of renewable water reserves. This is something that we need to be acutely aware of. And on top of that, we are messing up the water resources that we do have at an alarming rate. Looks like we don’t just believe in suicide, but collective and mass suicide. As this note says very correctly – we are headed towards a disaster unless we completely change the way we... Read more

Half of Instagram’s 100 mn users now use Android!

Last updated on: April 4, 2013 at 6:38 am By Desh Kapoor

The power of Android phones vs iPhones (and others) is visible from how Android powered phones have made Instagram so pervasive. Instagram recently said in its blog post that half of all the Instagram’s 100 mn users are using Android. One year ago today we launched Instagram for Android. In less than a day, over a million people downloaded the app, and now nearly half of all Instagrammers use the Android app to share photos with friends, family and the world.... Read more

Pakistan’s youth wants Shariah not democracy as Imran Khan rises

Last updated on: April 3, 2013 at 9:32 am By Desh Kapoor

There is a tremendous upsurge in Pakistan in the recent days for Imran Khan and his party – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), just before the national elections. Although there have been issues, but PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) have been working on seat adjustments for the elections. JI is known to be strong Islamicist organization. As Imran Khan – seemingly modern but strongly Islamicist and supporter of conservative Islam (see the videos below where he supports Taliban style Shariah rule in Pakistan) – gains... Read more

How an Anglicized name – done as a joke – helped Kal Penn make headway in Hollywood

Last updated on: April 2, 2013 at 10:52 pm By Desh Kapoor

Kal Penn is an actor of Indian descent. Here is the story of how he changed his name and what it did for him in Hollywood, which is said to be full of liberals and multi-ethnic people. Yeah right! Read Quote of Ben Parr’s answer to Personal Branding: What can I do if I don’t like my name? on Quora Related articles from External Sources Ben Parr: “2,446 articles later, a goodbye to Mashable” Kal Penn confirms: ‘Harold and... Read more