The Great Ganesha

Dow Jones and an India-based company Dharma Investments have created a new financial index that is going to be based on the dharmic principles of Buddhism and Hinduism. No, that does not mean that you can invest in the stock of gods (in which case Ganesha - ahem, ahem! - would certainly be the industry [...]

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Today’s WSJ has a front-page write-up about Azim Premji and his “muslim-ness” (or lack of it, thereof). His secular stance is pissing off a lot of imams, but the article also highlights how imbalanced the Hindu-Muslim equation is, in terms of employment and opportunities for education. Here are some excerpts:
Mr. Premji’s rise is already inspiring [...]

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Was browsing through last week’s Economist when I came across this full-page spread on page 84:

This is what the first paragraph reads:
The State of Maharashtra is the third largest and the most progressive and industrially advanced state in India….Mumbai, country’s leading financial, trading and service centre warrants aviation facilities of highest order. To [...]

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In today’s New York Times:
As Beijing?s influence in Asia and around the world has grown, their common interests have forced Tokyo and New Delhi to begin warming their historically chilly relationship and to start forging closer economic ties. ?The key issue facing the whole region is how to accommodate the rise of China,? said Suman [...]

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A ‘Dear Economist’ column of the Financial Times had an interesting letter a couple of weeks ago from a “T.B.,” who asked:
…somebody has just shown me a thing called ?Facebook?, which they say is being used by lots of new graduates. I have been told that the economic value of my ?network? is not what [...]

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If you’re American and your job was outsourced to some cheap Indian company, there’s good news for you. Not only can you now get gainful employment, but here’s your chance to take revenge by stealing jobs from Indians! Yes, you heard right! Bollywood producers are looking for token goras to fill the white man/woman’s role [...]

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Freakonomics does it again. It seems that most European soccer stars are born early on in the year. In fact,
On recent English teams, for instance, half of the elite teenage soccer players were born in January, February or March, with the other half spread out over the remaining 9 months. In Germany, 52 elite youth [...]

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No, I’m not talking about some groundbreaking research done by some post-doctoral fellows to invent VoIP. I’m talking about two great bargains. They’re both cheap and provide excellent value for money. Harvard economist Larry Freeman writes about what a great bargain post-docs are:
The United States could hardly ask for a more cost-effective way to advance [...]

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In light of Dubya’s recent guest worker program gaining ground, and Krugman ($$) voicing out against illegal immigration, its refreshing that Jagdish Bhagwati, economist extraordinaire and potential Nobel laureate (you heard it here, first!) supported ($$) illegal immigration for Foreign Affairs in 2003. But his comments still ring true today. He says
Migration lies at the [...]

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India is certainly shining in JP Morgan’s eyes. They are looking to increase their presence by hiring another 4,000 desis to work for them. It doesn’t contribute much to the India vs. China debate though, because they’re also looking to hire in China…
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