In today’s corporate world, it is important to emphasize one’s own strengths while knowing the weaknesses. And this should be done when crafting your resume. But sometimes people get too carried away in a competitive situation. Given how things are in the job world in the US – specially in the banking and finance sector – one undergrad student from NYU got carried away and pasted a rather interesting Cover letter to his otherwise robust resume. The contents of the... Read more
69 people, including Ehsan Jafri – a former Congress MP – were killed in Gulbarga society on February 28, 2002. This came a day after 59 children, women and men on a train coming from Ayodhya were burnt alive by a Muslim mob in Godhra. Congress MP Ehsan Jafri’s widow Zakia Jafri, filed a petition in Supreme Court against Narendra Modi and 62 top Government officials holding them accused in the riot in Gulbarga Society on February 28, 2012. Zakia... Read more
If you are an Indian or Chinese student, the chances are you are discriminated when it comes to College Admissions in the US. This is being proved by repeated studies and also from the complaints against some premier colleges like Harvard and Princeton. The explanations offered try their best to give a spin. In a book titled “No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal”, Princeton sociologist, Thomas Espenshade. makes a startling observation; If all other credentials are equal, Asian-Americans need to... Read more
Brazil has a strange law, where the Brazilian teenagers have to study philosophy because it is necessary for the exercise of citizenship. It is by far one of the most important experiment in preparing an entire society for deliberate and intelligent democratic engagement. Generally countries these day and populations don’t like the Government mandated curriculum impacts. But sometimes, certain things can help. Philosophy is intangible and something that doesn’t give “monetary value” to a student in his/her career and life.... Read more
The American Classical music scene is a strange and interesting game of musical chairs when it comes to the audiences. The White American audience, which predominated the classical music halls is dispropotionately older (45-54 yrs). And as this older generation moves out due to death, disease to non-attendance – a newer color and type of audience takes over. The Asians. Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Koreans specifically in this case. Even though the entire area from the Middle East to Indonesia is... Read more
Goolam Vahanvati is the first Muslim Attorney General of India. And if, what is being said is true of him, he might be the most corrupt. If A. Raja the Telecom Minister is the one who has been behind the bars because of being made the “poster boy” of the 2G scam, then P. Chidambaram and Dr. Singh were the backbone of the entire episode. However, Vahanvati is the real deal-sealer for the corrupt trio of Raja-Chidambaram-Singh. As the special report by... Read more
Facebook is coming out with an IPO for $5 billion. Out of the total Monthly Active Users (MAU) of 845 million (as of Dec 31, 2011), 46 million (5%) are from India, 161 million (19%) are from the US, and 37 million (4.3%) are from Brazil. Now, India and Indians promise to be a rapidly growing market (already grown by 132% in 2011) for Facebook. India and the other developing countries will remain its focus countries. “continue to focus on... Read more
A lot is talked about India’s market and the potential for startups. Many have been started and many have succeeded, but numerous – disproportionally large numbers have failed. And failed miserably. So, one is bound to ask the question – why is it tough to start a venture in India? Market Size Myth: India is 1.2 billion people of which 300-350 million are “middle class” – more than the entire population of US. But does that really comprise the target... Read more
Have you looked at the latest Image negative of Deepika Padukone doing rounds on Facebook? Why does it work like that? Here is what you need to do – Stare at the red dot on the lady’s nose for 30 second or so. Then look at a white space – white sheet of paper or even an empty browser screen. And you suddenly see the image of Deepika Padukone on the white space rightaway for a few second. Why does... Read more
These days in India, if we have any schools making it important to learn Sanskrit, it would raise a huge hue and cry, specially amongst the Seculars. But it takes a school in New Zealands Auckland to come up with a curriculum to learn Sanskrit. And they have laid it out very clearly why it is so important for Kiwi kids to learn Sanskrit. (Hat Tip: Shaas Ruzicka) Mind you, the school says in an earlier answer that it looks... Read more
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