Pseudo Indians
Even today Indians are living a pseudo life!Be it color of the skin or language, we tend to 'ape' whatever the westerners do. Let me give some examples:Fair is beautifulWhen…
Toilets in Indian trains
Found this interesting information in Bangalore majestic station's waiting room:Akhil Chandra Sen, a passenger wrote the following letter to Indian railways in the year 1909.I am arriving by passenger train…
No more Indian apples?
How much globalization is good? Can we allow global players to come in essential areas like agriculture, food and fruits?For quite some time I am not able to see Indian…
Voted for the first time
Karnataka state assembly polling was held today. I got an opportunity to vote for the first time. Fortunately the election commission announced that citizens can a use a list of…
New Horizon Media raises second round of funding
Chennai based New Horizon Media (NHM) has raised the second round of funding from Beacon India Private Equity Fund. I have been following NHM company for the past three years.…
Why Indian technology companies are not innovating?
This is a million dollar question I have in my mind for a long time. We are good in enhancing, fixing, maintaining and supporting a product. Apart from that I…
How logical we are?
Its interesting to observe the way we Indians think!We apply logic and build complex software. But forget to apply basic common sense in many aspects. Following are some simple examples…
Height of e-governance
Last week I went to sub-registrar office in Chennai. I got a big shock when I saw the notice board. The e-mail ID of the sub-registrar was mentioned as: igregn.tn.nic.in…
BOOK REVIEW: Games Indians play
In 2002, I visited USA for the first time. During transit I spent some time in Singapore and Hong-Kong. I was totally shocked to see the great infrastructure, well defined…
IT.India part – II: Workplace diversity
Before reading this post, please check out this link for my opinions about diversity. Here is the latest buzzword among Indian MNCs -- ‘Workplace diversity’. The amount of non-sense going…