- Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 22:51
- India
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I've just finished
"The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer prize-winning columnist of New York Times. It is one the most gripping non-fiction books I've read.
It begins with a very feel-good factor of showing how the developing world, mainly India and China are now playing a huge role in manufacturing, services and research and development of numerous multinational companies that were originally ...
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- Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 16:43
- India
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It is with great sadness that I write this - advocating brain drain for India. Well, the practicalities of this, I recognize, are futile, but the idea holds water and even gains strength from the ongoing madness of Manmohan Singh's government.
The largest democracy is ruled by a Prime Minister without a backbone. All that Manmohan Singh knows is about money, and nothing else - how ...
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- Saturday, April 8, 2006, 18:21
- India
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Guest column written by NR Ganesh Babu
Recent reports suggest that hundreds of farmers in Andhra Pradesh have committed suicide. This has been happening for the last couple of years. We have recently seen reports of farmer suicides in Maharashtra. The evil is bound to spread to other Indian States in the near future. This is bound to happen as India progresses in the Cities. The ...
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- Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 23:29
- India
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Everyone in the IT & IT Enabled industry is happy. What with the demand for professionals – especially relatively experienced in the segment, on the rise.
Professionals are in great demand and there are innumerable manpower consultants chasing the professional, on a daily basis.
Why do the so-called professionals hop jobs ever so frequently? The answer is simple – make hay while sun shines. For every ...
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- Thursday, January 12, 2006, 17:35
- India, Intense
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The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) just went by creating a lot of sound and noise. Now, this is not anything new. Very many countries are already in the business of wooing their diaspora with incentives and offers for financial or other investments in their native states. India has in fact joined very late, considering that emigration of Indians had started over a century back.
BJP decided ...
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- Sunday, December 25, 2005, 0:20
- India
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Nearing the end of a wonderful 2005, the PM could not have found a better time for announcing plans for bolstering our growing economy.
I'm in the middle of a wonderful vacation with family which is why Indiblog has been lying idle for a few days now; and this is only an interlude for I shall return only by the end of next week in ...
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- Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 20:56
- India
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Everybody knows that Services is competing with Manufacturing and Agriculture in the Indian economy today to be the engine of its growth.
Customer and Backoffice Services has been the major chunk of the outsourcing industry that has created a new wave of opportunities for Indian graduates. It has also fetched billions in foreign exchange in a considerably short period of time. There is talk among the ...
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- Friday, November 25, 2005, 22:13
- India
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Bandhs and Hartals are two very famous processes in India's public life. Usually called by political parties, or even by trade unions, these are highly disruptive activities whose sole aim are to stop public life and normal activities.
The irony is that organizations that declare bandhs claim it is a mechanism to protest the infringement and denial of citizen rights, whereas bandhs in themselves seem to ...
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- Friday, October 28, 2005, 19:34
- India
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It is only rains for godssake! And it comes every year at this time, agreed that it is a bit too heavy this time, but still...
If just the annual rains can bring great Indian cities like Mumbai (in June), Chennai and Bangalore to a grinding halt, then what havoc will actual disasters wreak??
Transportation is virtually non-existent - everybody heard of the stories ...
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- Friday, October 14, 2005, 9:42
- India
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Oh well, I don't have a category for this in Indiblog, but how could I let such a hot burning issue pass?
Only recently an influential advisory committee in US has revealed that American science is fast losing ground to emerging countries like India and China. Research and Development of engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical companies have all shifted base halfway around the globe!
And the companies are ...
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