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More Kiran Karnik, who as I mentioned in my previous post, was the closing keynote speaker at the Indian Business Conference 2008.
As the former President of Nasscom, Karnik focussed on IT and its benefit to society and also on India’s attempt at shifting from a service based economy toward manufacturing.
India’s GDP: 22% agriculture, 54% [...]

Stephen Colbert picked up a story by LA Times - one of the world’s 7,000 distinct languages disappears every 14 days, an extinction rate exceeding that of birds, mammals or plants. At least 20% of the world’s languages are in imminent danger of becoming extinct as their last speakers die off, compared with about 18% [...]

Finally got the time to upload this picture I took 3 weeks ago.
A fire broke out in Princeton Meadows, a strip mall in Plainsboro, last month. The fire originated in a bakery, Hot Breads, and completely burnt down 4 stores. Also gone is the popular pizzeria, Al Jons, which had been in the neighborhood [...]

When I was India in January 2007, my friend Akshay Chikodi asked me if was on Orkut. Frankly, he said, if you’re not on Orkut you don’t exist! So I created a profile on Orkut.
Couple things I don’t get about Orkut:

What is it trying to be - a social networking tool? dating [...]

For all those proud New Yorkers that claim to know every bit about the city history, I can almost guarantee a good bar conversation. Here’s how it usually goes:
Q: How many years have you lived in the city?
A: Over 5 years
Q: How many miles do you walk each day?
A: About a mile or two
Q: [...]

I attented the Personal Democracy Forum last month.  New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, in his keynote announced the addition of 3 new chapters to this popular book “World is Flat” (3rd edition) . 
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Be the change you want to see in the world”.  That was Gandhi’s message to 250+ million Indians, challenging them to organize and rise [...]

I watched Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday a couple months back, and I’ve been wanting to write about it. Kudos to Anurag for making this gutsy movie. The movie has been reviewed by many, so I really have nothing to add in that space. But I’ll say this - if you watched [...]

Notes from the The South Asian Business Association (SABA) conference at Columbia University:
India shining:

50% of India’s population is under 30 years old
India #1 in milk production and #2 in fruit & veg production
Hindalco - World’s #1 Aluminium producer
Mittal - World’s #1 Steel producer
Reliance invests 22M in Chevron, Dow Chemicals and few other US based companies

Challenges [...]

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