Posted in Activities, Cultural, From Headlines, News and Views, Observation, Society, Stories and Experiences, tagged Art, Artes Mundi Prize 2008, Community Installations, Mass Marriage, Murals, News, NS Harsha, Paintings on 28 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
NS Harsha is a gifted story teller who captures everyday life from India as seen through the lens of news and world events on his canvas through the medium of paints and color.
Miniature art form is not unknown in India. In fact, it has been used through the ages to depict life from courts of [...]
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Posted in Education, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Observation, Tech News, tagged Evaluseserve, Indian Economy, News, NRIs, Reverse Brain Drain, Technology, US Economy on 31 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
India has initiated reverse brain drain. Realizing how many scientists, doctors, engineers and other professionals they loose every year, Indian government is taking steps to lure them back to the country.
The scheme for NRIs, though still in infancy, has already netted at least 40 PHDs and MTechs working in academics or industry in countries like [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Delhi, Indian History, Interesting, News and Views, Society, Travel, Writing, tagged Author, British School, City of Djinns, Fiction, India, Jaunapur, Mother Teresa, Olivia, The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple on 31 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
William Dalrymple’s love for India is not unknown. He has penned six books, of which five have embraced Indian life as their storyline and have been award winning. India has sewn itself into his life since long now with him spending a lot of time in New Delhi India apart from London and Edinburgh.
However, [...]
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Posted in Education, From Headlines, General, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Tech News, tagged Indian, News, USA, Technology, TATA, Rattan Tata, Tata Sons, Yahoo, Pune, Apache Hadoop, Cloud Computing, Ron Brachman, Hadoop Summit, Google, Supercomputers, CRL, Computational Research Laboratories on 24 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yahoo has struck an agreement with Computational Research Laboratories, a unit of Tata Sons Ltd., to pursue research on “cloud computing” technologies. Yahoo said the project with the laboratory in Pune would use the world’s fourth-fastest supercomputer and Apache Hadoop, a framework for creating software that can handle large amounts of data using several computers.
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The recent discussion that followed the post on IIT encouraged me to put down my thoughts on Indian education system, not just IIT.
Growing up we did not have the luxury of attending schools that were considered prestigious, nor did we have the pressure to perform in entrance exam. My mother one day dressed me up [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Humor, In My Experience, Religion, Society, Things Indian Luv, tagged Indian God, Indian Male, Lingam, Shiva, Shivaratri on 6 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
Indians love their idols - not the kind that was recently copied from America, but the kind they had for a long time. And it must have been a really long time since they came up with really bizarre ones — some grotesque, some mutant: one with monkey face, and other with elephant head. Then [...]
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Forehead is the choice of canvas for fine arts in India: the designated destination for decorative art. In a land where lipstick on lips is frowned on, there is complete freedom when it comes to forehead. It is not just the married woman, it is everyone: small children, gown up men, domesticated animals, and of [...]
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Posted in Humor, In My Opinion, Observation, Relation, tagged Indian Men, Relationship, Indian Women, Wife, Girlfriend, Love, Nagging, Communication on 3 March 2008 | 7 Comments »
Ladies, we know you think we cannot communicate. If you have learned to live with it, and you are happy with whom you got, you are an amazing and wise woman; kudos to you. But if you are one of those that even if your boyfriend or husband were the greatest orator or the most [...]
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Indians cannot wait to part with their bodily fluids, and saliva is no exception. Everyone spits all the time and everywhere: no respite from spit in India. What are they trying to do? Is it part of a nation wide distributed grass root mandatory irrigation project that I did not know about? Are they trying [...]
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Origin: Origin of India is a confusing one. The confusion is caused by Columbus when he decided to discover India in a different location. Despite significant migration in the later part of the twentieth century, the relocation was never completed, and the confusion persists. Even today, inhabitants of widely spread call centers across the country [...]
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What did you witness first: a birth or a death?People in our neighborhood had livestock: a few cows, a chicken coup, a small army of goats. There were always the string of stray dogs and cats. It was only natural that we witnessed animal birth on regular basis. All the children in the neighborhood would [...]
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I grew up with middle class morality - and mentality. You know the kind that teaches you to be honest and hard working so that you can get a clerical job at a corrupt business. The rallying cry was striving for mediocrity. Not excellence, not even success. Do not be so full of yourself. Have [...]
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“Are you Indian?” It is a common question for Indians in a foreign land. I am told. They may be attending a two day conference in Singapore, or on a weeklong package tour in Malaysia, or on semiannual visit to their children in America, or born and lived their entire life in London or Johannesburg. [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, Humor, In My Experience, Indian History, Observation, Relation, Society, Stories and Experiences, tagged Indian Men, Romance, Valentine's Day on 13 February 2008 | 30 Comments »
You like it or not, Valentine’s Day is upon us. It is a recent import: came in the same box with McDonald and outsourcing - accidentally. Like most invasive imported species, it is thriving in the new land, surpassing its success in the native land. That is not a surprise. There was a saying in [...]
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Indian mothers are a mystery to me. They baffle me every step of the way. Every aspect of their existence confounds me; every action of their lives confuses me. Yes, I am talking about all Indian mothers, every single one of them. No, I am not talking about Indian women. Just Indian mothers and what [...]
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