The Great Ganesha

Via the Ultrabrown News Feed which, I think, is one of the best ways to get your desi-in-the-media fix (if that’s the kind of thing you go for (I know I do (and not only can I nest sentences within sentences but also parentheses within parentheses (see?)))) – I found this article about a freelancing [...]

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So – I was browsing the Times of India online, reading some crappy article (sans byline, of course) about how Rushdie spent more time flirting with some Bollybabe rather than on promoting AIDS awareness or some-such. Finishing that in a few seconds, I followed some articles here and there and then went to the picture [...]

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Tata Motors unveiled the 100,000-rupee car earlier today at the Auto Expo in Delhi today.
Tata Chairman Ratan Tata talks about his inspiration for the car:
Speaking at the unveiling of the car at a motor show in Delhi, Tata chairman Ratan Tata said: “”I observed families riding on [...]

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To compete with Tata’s ~$2,500  small car, Ford is now coming out with its own version in India.
Ford Motor plans to more than double its investment in India to produce a small car for the fast-growing local market and to build an engine manufacturing plant there.
The company is expected to announce on Tuesday that it [...]

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When those Japanese get fixated on a fad, they get fixated on a fad even if it’s as mundane as the eleven-times-table. In today’s NYT:
Bookstores are filled with titles like “Extreme Indian Arithmetic Drills” and “The Unknown Secrets of the Indians.” Newspapers carry reports of Indian children memorizing multiplication tables far beyond nine times nine, [...]

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This is not new, but the NYT ran an article on outsourcing tutoring (in math, amongst other subjects) to India. This is part of the “second wave” of outsourcing:
The first wave of slicing up services work and sending it abroad has been all about business operations. Computer programming, call centers, product design and back-office jobs [...]

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Not much seems to have changed in ten years. Bombay is still pulsating and I’m loving it. For all the hype about change, the city and its people have remained the same. Sure, there are a few more people, a few more buildings and a few more cars, but on the whole, it’s still my [...]

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Apparently, the reason why 13-year-old SamirPatel lost out on two consecutive Spelling Bees is because he’s not in touch with his roots. Word roots, that is.
In 2006, Mr. Patel lost in the seventh round thanks to just such a word, eremacausis (“gradual oxidation of organic matter from exposure to air and moisture”).
The word sounds like [...]

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No – I’m not insulting anyone here, so calm down. I suffer from the occasional migraine myself, and was intrigued by this new treatment which I read in (of all things) Men’s Health. It advocates crushing a chili in your hand and literally, rubbing it into your nostrils. There’s even an all-natural nasal spray that [...]

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This month’s Portfolio magazine has a write-up on Mukesh Ambani, partial heir to Dhirubhai’s empire and India’s richest Indian (the world’s richest Indian being Lakshmi Mittal). Mukesh beats out his brother Anil by a scant $1.9 billion. So close!
The article discusses, amongst other things, Dhirubhai, the Reliance empire, oil refining and more. They spend an [...]

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