Look at the pic below. Wouldn’t it be better to say “I am proud of my son. He happens to be Gay as well”? There is nothing to be proud or not be proud of someone for his/her sexual preference or love. A person is worth respecting for who he or she is. Sexuality should NOT be a criteria in that. But this kind of slogans make the wars of ideologies – Hate Gays Brigade and others – even sharper... Read more
CouponDunia fills an important gap in India’s online retail market – coupons. I had often wondered what could be the alternative for sites like FatWallet in India. Well, CouponDunia is not quite Fatwallet in that it is not a crowdsourced discount sharing site – which can be very realtime and diverse – but it is more structured discount coupon site which has listings of the top online retail stores in India. For those who were looking for a Groupon clone... Read more
Major Jagjit Singh was a 21 year old living in Amritsar at the time of Partition. He witnessed the first train massacres and the general deterioration of law and order in the months leading up to Partition, in 1947. In this video he describes these scenes. Major Jagjit Singh also formed a relief committee and volunteered in the hospitals and refugee camps. For more information visit 1947PartitionArchive.org Read more
Companies can no longer take the Indian customers for granted. They cannot just treat them easily. Here is an interesting case where McDonalds in India delivered a non-vegetarian burger to a customer even though she had ordered vegetarian. She was awarded Rs 15,000 for the negligence. Fast food giant McDonald’s has been directed by a consumer forum here to pay Rs 15,000 as compensation to one of its customers for delivering a non-veg burger instead of the vegetarian one she... Read more
A very beautiful picture of Mars, Saturn and the star Spica shining brightly over Gurudwara Bangla Sahib. Astrophotographer Ajay Talwar of the space photography group The World at Night took this photo in August 2012 and shared it with SPACE.com this week. The trails in the image are the result of more than 200 exposures of five seconds each. Source Read more
GoDaddy’s new Super Bowl weekend ad is going to be talked about. It shows Israeli model and businesswoman Bar Refaeli kissing a nerd named Walter (actor Jesse Heiman). It starts off with a NASCAR driver saying “There are two sides to GoDaddy, there’s the sexy side represented by Bar Refaeli. And the smart side that creates a killer website for your small business, represented by Walter. Together, they’re perfect.” Then the two go ahead and kiss each other passionately. Much... Read more
Microsoft Office has largely defined the work-space of the modern workers in the last 25 years. Everything that we have done in the Corporate world has used MS Office in every way. The Excel, the power-points the Word, and now even the MS OneNote. Here is a history of this App Suite, probably the most successful business product every which has remained on top of its game for so long. (click on the image for larger view) Read more
It is an impressive social networking site, but then $10 bn? Wow. Last Friday, the Financial Timesreported that BlackRock (BLK) was buying around $80 million of shares at a valuation just north of $9 billion. We later added that the only sellers would be a small group of early employees, which were said to be fewer than two dozen. Existing Twitter investors were not invited to sell. Fortune has now learned from multiple sources that there is yet another block of early employee... Read more
Etihad and Jet Airways went to meet Chidambaram for discussions, and came back happy saying they were close to “clinching the deal”. Chidambaram, you see, has been itching to get back into his business after the exploits of 2G scam. Allowing Telenor and Etisalat (front for Dawood Ibrahim’s organization) wasn’t easy, but then the pay offs made it all simple. After all the arrests and his deft handling of Subramanian Swamy’s strong attempt at nailing him, Chidambaram is now free.... Read more
In the recent Delhi Gangrape case, there were 6 rapists: Ram Singh, the bus driver, and his brother, Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, an assistant gym instructor, Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller, an unemployed youth Akshay Thakur and Raj Mohammad supposedly a juvenile. That night after the bus, that should NOT have plied in Delhi taking passengers – because it was private – and because it had tinted glass – had already been witness to a crime – a carpenter had been taken on and... Read more
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