India's IT Execs cannot .. err.. dont buy expensive cars even though they can afford it! Why? Because the top icons like Narayana Murthy and Azeem Premji go around in Toyota Corollas!! Heck.. Premji even uses an auto-rickshaw or a bus at times. This is a strange problem to have! They would buy expensive homes and toys etc.. but no .. not cars!! Technorati : Infosys, Wipro Read more
A company that started so small in a field already led by TCS, has redefined the Indian market! The name is now a world brand name - specially after the publishing of "The World is Flat" of Tom Friedman. It began in 1981, in a town in western India. Seven young middle-class friends from the western town of Pune, most of them co-workers at a small software company, quit their jobs to chase a dream: to build a global software company in a country with few computer-users and a socialist-style economy that rarely rewarded entrepreneurship. And the risk has paid off. Read more
Mel Gibson is in a PR soup. Seeing the religious landscape as a layman it doesnt seem how messed up it might be. But reading this report about Mel Gibson.. it seems pretty clear that there are enough Christian Fundamentalist around. Btw, what a strange situation - the Muslims hate the Jews and Christians; the Christians hate Muslims and Jews; and the Jews hate the Muslims and (maybe) Christians!! So everyone is against everyone! What a joke! The entertainment Web site TMZ posted what it said were four pages from the original arrest report, which quoted Gibson as launching an expletive-laden "barrage of anti-Semitic remarks" after he was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway. Read more
I am not sure what is the significance of the event.... but it seems interesting.. So I am chronicling it on my blog! An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say. The galaxies and gas bubbles, called Lyman alpha blobs, are aligned along three curvy filaments that formed about 2 billion years after the universe exploded into existence after the theoretical Big Bang. Read more
This is a strange duo - Iran and Venezuela. The main reason for their friendship ostensibly is - an enemy of my enemy is my friend! In some ways such alliances where China, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria seem to be working together are in some ways fueled by Bush's policies... where he has created a chasm between the world and the US!! Iran has awarded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez its highest state medal for supporting Tehran in its nuclear standoff, while the fiery leader urged the world to rise up and defeat the United States, state-run television in both countries reported. Read more
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Drupal is my CMS of choice. IBM's has chosen Drupal as its blogging platform and here is a piece to explain why? The post here does a very good comparison! What do you think? Read more
Guys Try this option to earn money with your blog from Text Link Ads.  It is worth it.  I tried (look at the left sidebar at the top - very unobtrusive ads yet paying) and I have started making some chump change good enough to pay for my blog's hosting! Yeah yeah.. it peanuts.. but man, something is better than nothing!! Seriously, try it!  Just click on the banner above and register your blog to be considered by the TLA folks to place ads on your site. They generally are pretty quick at replying back. And in case they think that your site is not ready for it.. they will email you back when it is ready - like it happened to me! As far as ads go, I think Chitika and TLA are the best for bloggers! Here is how a chitika ad looks and every click counts!! So, do me a favor just click on it while you are reading 😉 <!-- ch_client = "deshkapoor"; ch_width = 468; ch_height = 60; ch_non_contextual = 1; ch_default_category = "200001"; var ch_queries = new Array( ); var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length)); if ( ch_selected although I like their cool new look multi-product banner.. <!-- ch_client = "deshkapoor"; ch_type = "mpu"; ch_width = 468; ch_height = 180; ch_non_contextual = 1; ch_default_category = "7185"; var ch_queries = new Array( ); var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length)); if ( ch_selected What Say?? Read more
Here are the countries I have visited over my life. There are lots that I havent - as you can obviously see 🙂 - and hopefully I will be able to get to them! I really want to do a trans-european and trans-asia (Turkey to Singapore) by road someday! create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands Have fun!! Read more
Way to go! The lady sues her Mom-in-law and recovers damages for treating her badly for four years while she lived in the house! This case will serve as a beginning for all the women who are brought from Punjab (although Gina wasnt one) and mistreated in a bad marriage! In a landmark judgement, a British court has ordered a Non Resident Indian woman to pay $65,000 (about Rs 29.25 lakhs) as compensation to her daughter-in-law for subjecting her to bullying and humiliation. 26-year-old Gina Satvir Singh told the Nottingham County Court that she was bullied, isolated and became seriously ill after entering into an arranged Sikh marriage. Read more
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