This is an article from the Economist: In the coming year India will enjoy greater international prestige than at any time since independence in 1947. With an economy that could grow at more than 7% for the fourth year in succession, that prestige is based in part on sheer clout. Over the next half-century India will emerge as one of the world’s biggest economies and great powers This is what Vijay Sappani is discussing in his blog on Intentblog.com: Read more
This is amazing.. Yahoo already has two online ways to bookmark - Yahoo Bookmarks and MyWeb. .. and now this Del.icio.us! Surely they are having a go at all the levels and people in social bookmarking! The best will be to integrate all of them!! Group-think is a powerful tool on the Internet. Get enough people independently deciding about what's important and what's not important, and a consensus suddenly emerges. Yahoo!'s acquisition last week of social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us is a sign that large portal companies are catching on to the fact that users don't mind a little help deciding what to read. Social bookmarking and social content sites rely on the opinions of users to determine what Web sites are most worth reading. Del.icio.us allows users to "tag" their favorite Web content and share those tags with others. And Del.icio.us is not alone; a host of other social-networking sites are stepping up to take on the challenge. Read more
Wanted to get in something interesting today..... so here it is from gapingvoid.com! Read more
Shahid Burki is one Pakistani commentator that I have liked a lot.. here is one of his Opinion pieces which tries to bring out differences between India and Pakistan. WHILE I was in India last month I came across an American friend who had also travelled to Delhi to pursue some interest in development economics. This was his first visit to the country and he was initially very impressed with what he saw. He had also read Thomas Friedman’s book from which I quoted in the column last week. “India is indeed an economic superpower; one that will change the structure of the global economy”, he said to me, fully agreeing with Friedman’s thesis. Read more
This is a news item "Gowda trying to scuttle Bangalore Expressway" - WHY DOESNT someone take care of this dimwit idiot - Gowda??!!! and other Karnataka politicians! The promoter of the Rs 2,250 crore Banagalore-Mysore Expressway project on Tuesday alleged before the Supreme Court that former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and his son H D Revanna, a minister in the state cabinet, were trying to scuttle the project for political reason. ‘‘All sorts of trouble were being brought about on the company which was unable to execute the project,’’ a bench comprising Justice Ruma Pal, Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice B N Srikrishna, was told by senior advocate Dushyant Dave, who appeared for the promoter company — Nandi Infrastructure Construction Enterprises (NICE). Nice alleged that till now the state government has not rescinded the agreement for execution of the project entered in 1997. The counsel claimed that Deve Gowda had written a letter to his son Revanna, who is PWD and Energy minister against the project and later a committee was formed to review it, which said that 2,450 acres of land or any surplus land should not form part of the project. The bench listed the matter for further hearing on January 10. Read more
So, India is now finally flexing its muscle on helping other developing nations battle the coming pandemic! Way to go! Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has offered India's expertise in making generic drugs to Southeast Asian nations to help deal with the menace of bird flu. Singh told leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at a summit on Tuesday that India can support their efforts to make a generic version of Tamiflu drug, the only known medical shield against the disease, said Rajiv Sikri, a top diplomat aiding Singh. ``He offered the efforts to support a generic version of anti-viral drugs and a regional network of anti-viral drugs stockpiling,'' Sikri said. Read more
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Read more
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. Read more
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. Read more
This is an email I just received.. really interesting.. there are some typos - but still it is worth reading! Cognizant Method: o hire a lion... o ask him to stay for late nights but give him no work to do. o give him gobi 65 to eat again and again. o hire 100 more lions but do not increase the space to sit o give them same gobi 65 to eat o hire 200 more....... and more ....... TCS method: o hire a lion o give him hell a lot of work and pay him government salary o lion dies of hunger and frustration Read more
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