Yet another budget has come out. This time by P. Chidambaram. I still remember people rushing home and sitting very meaningfully in front of the TV to see the budget being presented. The Accounting, Economics and Finance professionals trying to analyze and debate the budgets. I am not sure how it happens now, but there was a time when Indian Budget presentation was almost like a “Super Bowl” even in many homes. Professional friends would come over and there would... Read more
This must be decidedly the most perfect crime, where the world knows that both brothers are criminal and yet they have the proof against one. Don’t know which one though!! And so they are free… but cannot use the returns of their loot 🙂 In the early morning hours of February 25, three masked men broke into Germany’s famous luxury department store Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe). Video cameras show how they climbed into the store’s grand main hall, broke open... Read more
As Firefox enters the market for smartphones OS, there are more entering the fray as well. Now, Samsung has come out with Tizen. LG recently bought WebOS from HP as well, albeit purportedly for their TVs. Tizen builds on MeeGo and LiMo to create a new experience OS for Mobile. The defining experience when using a smartphone is the diverse set of apps, the little programs, you load on it to make the phone do things. Increasingly, there’s a choice of operating... Read more
There are two holidays in the US, which are based on myths and genocidal suffering of a very large population of humanity: Thanksgiving and Columbus Day. Columbus was anything but a normal human. If you look at what he did to the unsuspecting people he encountered on the land here, you are aghast at how low a human being he was. To celebrate him is not only to offend the “Native Americans” but all Americans who can think and have... Read more
A very interesting episode for “A way with Words”, where the hosts discuss some interesting topics, including Why the Auctioneers talk so fast? Why do auctioneers talk so fast? Martha and Grant discuss the rapid-fire speech of auctioneers, and how it gets you to bid higher. Also, why so many books have ridiculously long titles, where you’d have sonker for dessert, and an appreciation of that children’s classic, The Phantom Tollbooth. Plus, “different from” vs. “different than,” the origin of suss... Read more
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Clive Palmer, is an ambitious Australian billionaire with varied interests, like golf courses, hotels, coal and iron-ore mining projects, a nickel smelter, a soccer team and a horse stud. He also decided on the fly to build the 21st century Titanic. It will be modeled after the legendary ship that sank in Atlantic, but with modern safety standards. There will be a safety deck, but the the first, second and third-class divisions – as now popularly known from that night’s ordeal... Read more
There is a beautiful story about a great woman mystic of India, Meera. She was really a mad devotee, a mad BHAKTA, in tremendous love and ecstasy with God. She was a queen, but she started dancing on the streets. The family disowned her. The family tried to poison her — the family itself — because it was a disgrace for the royal family. The husband was feeling embarrassed, very much embarrassed, and particularly so in those days. And the... Read more
These two women are incredible, but I love the story of Anandi Gopal Joshi, a lady of meager means, married at 9, who went on to become the first Doctor from India to have been educated in US. Read Quote of Akshar Prabhu Desai’s answer to India: Who is the most badass woman in the history of India? on Quora Read more
Quora is a great site for Question and Answers. People ask interesting questions and there are experts who come out with very details and informative answers. And it seems that the Argumentative Indians have suddenly taken a lead on this site. India is now the #1 source of traffic to the site. As per Alexa, “India represents 30.8% of traffic, compared to 21.8% from the US”. No one knows what the reason may be, but it seems the growth is... Read more
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