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This one's not just for Punjabis but for all those who have faced Punglish, (Punju English). Sorry, you probably either need to be from North India or have lived/visited that region of India a number of times to get Punglish (i.e. Punjabi English) I like 'A is for Aiscreame' but read on..... A is for Adjust. Punjabis will always ask you to adjust...
Today India celebrates its 60th independence from the British Raj - Happy Birthday! So 5 more years to retirement? . Over the last 6 decades has had quite a ride. There has been a lot of talk about it lately here in the local media in UK along with many celebrations in London (mostly to woo Indian business, Bollywood, etc). The BBC showed a very interesting...
Don't get me wrong - I love Italy - the country (whatever little I have seen), the food, the language, the people but all this is also true for India
If you are like me, and your Hindi is crap, what better way to learn it by reading the news via Google News Hindi ?
While this story is a few months old, I just came across it. Seems like China has accurate reproductions of the disputed Indo/China border down to scale - including accurate geographical features. Take a look below - the image on top is from China's reproduction and while on the bottom is on Google earth.
Interesting story by the NYTimes on how American graduates are joining Indian companies and going to India for initial training before going back to their offices. They also talk a little about their experiences in a developing country and how some of the most basic things are different.
BBC has this very inspiring story about how a few people give Indians from the poorest rung of society a chance to get into IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Those of you are familiar with IIT, know how huge an achievement this is. Those who are not familiar with IIT - they are looked at IIT = MIT + Harvard + Princeton to give you an idea. There are...
Thanks to Rohit for sending me this - I have been just too busy (as you can probably tell), to even blog about this. There is an awesome letter to the Pakistani people (from Indian bloggers) , which is worth a read! If you have not been involved or know some of the Indian culture, you might not get the full context, but still worth a shot. :)
Although I keep to my geeky side of things, every now and then I do come across a political story that I find intriguing for various reasons which I post here. This is one of them, reported by BBC about Nixon's dislike of 'witch' Indira as he called Indira Gandhi , India's Prime Minister from 1966 - 77 and then 1980 - 84.
I stumbled across an interesting blog - all written in Hindi - and boy is my Hindi rusty! But this is an excellent example of the usage (and limitations) of a UNICODE implementation. Not sure of the content of the blog itself as it will .... ahem .... take me a little while reading up and understanding. Flame mails awaited eagerly.
This has to fall in the wacky-ideas' category. Dian has an interesting post (cross posted here) about Roger Green and David Cook seem like your run-of-the-mill high tech execs -- well dressed, well spoken, bright guys. That is, until they tell you their business plan. Dian heard it at a party at the Gartner conference, then did a quick interview with them...
Got this via Megha (my sister). By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Thomas L. Friedman is the author of ''The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,'' to be published this week by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and from which this article is adapted. His column appears on the Op-Ed page of The Times, and his television documentary ''Does Europe Hate...
Picked this up off slashdot . Militants killed in an encounter in New Delhi on Saturday night planned to attack leading software companies in Bangalore in addition to the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun, Delhi police said on Sunday Indian police claim the men were members of Lashkar-e-Toiba - a Wahabi militant group fighting for an independent Kashmir...
Interesting article in USA Today about by the year 2020, China and India will be vying with the United States for global economic supremacy, the nation's top intelligence analysts predict, and al-Qaeda will have withered away - only to be replaced by smaller, more splintered but equally deadly groups of terrorists. The National Intelligence Council issued...
Picked this story up on slashdot , so you might have already seen it there. Well I can speak of this first hand, though the write-up is intriguing, this is something I would get and read up and only then provide my perspective. Have any of you read this, if so what are your thoughts? The H1-B visa program allows many thousands of non-American technical workers...
Picked this up from Karan's post and was quite glad to read it. FAT has been around fro ages and Microsoft trying to patent it does not fit in the common sense mode thinking that most of us are use to (ya right!). Its the same as some bright people in USA tried to patent some of the Ayurvedic medicines that have been practises in India for the past five...
I don't know how this happened, but one of my old posts now shows up in the top 10 when you google on “ Bangalored ”. This has generated not only a lot of traffic to the weblog but also some people just not getting my original intent of the post - which was a Joke. Oh Well, you can brood over it and let me know your feelings too.
Karan has a very interesting discussion going on Orkut and India. Here is essentially my view on the whole topic: In my personal experience, most Indians that I have met here in USA are full of crap when it comes to India! They have viewpoint hearing that one goes "whaaaat?????" and left scratching their heads. When I dig a little more, it turns out that...
On a different note than most of my entries here, last weekend I went to an Indian classical music concert by Zakir Hussain and Master Pandit Jasraj and was organized by the Bay Area Performing Arts . The concert was amazing, I have seen Zakir a number of times earlier and as always be was mind blowing. This was the first time though I saw Jasraj and did...
First of all, if you don't know what the hell am I talking about, jeez, where have you been buddy? If you do but have not read the book, then please do yourself a favour and do so. You can buy it from here . Once you do finish reading the book, then come back here and we can talk about it. The crux of the book relies on the golden ratio also known as the...
I am not sure if I should buy this t-shirt or not? What do you think? :)
The first computer designed and produced in India is now for sale in the country. The Simputer has been developed by scientists and engineers at the Institute of Science in Bangalore. The handheld device was built to help people to afford to have their own computer and access the internet. It comes in three versions and can be used to surf the web and send...
Mercury News is running a story on how India's second-largest software company, Infosys Technologies, announced Thursday that it is expanding operations in Fremont with a new management-consulting subsidiary to advise technology companies on shipping software-development work offshore. My question is, do they need to promote offshoring? Isn't there enough...
Supersizing Rampant in Bangalore The United States is rapidly outsourcing obesity to India and hopes to shed as many as three trillion pounds of unsightly cellulite annually, President George W. Bush announced today. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, the President said that since most of the millions of jobs outsourced since he was...
I think it is time to move back to India now. :) Here is an excerpt “... IBM, the world's largest IT company, on Wednesday said it would acquire the country's third largest BPO outfit, Daksh eServices, to add skills in strategic areas. Though IBM did not reveal the deal size, industry sources put the deal at Rs 700 crore (around $150 million), which...
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