Speaking in a recent interview the founder of IT company Infosys Mr. Narayan Murthy said, “My request is that our youngsters must say ‘This is my country I want to work 70 hours a week’,” he said, adding “this is exactly what Germans and Japanese did after the Second World War.” “I hope our corporate […]
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Oct
Oct
Recently in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat a billionaire businessman Mr. Parag Desai died due to a brain haemorrhage which was caused by a fall when he was trying to run away from attacking street dogs who were chasing him. Every day in the state of Gujarat and elsewhere in the country hundreds of people […]
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Sep
Sep
A headline from Yahoo Finance article reads, Notes From the WEF: Cash Is Dead, Long Live Digital Cash. Consensus is building on one issue at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland: Cash is dead. “Physical money is out,” said B.S. Kohli, an economic advisor to the head of the Indian state of Punjab. Mothanna Gharaibeh, […]
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Aug
Aug
Several of us had gone to visit a top Indian bureaucrat. While we entered his room and stood, he kept looking at his cell phone with his glasses reflecting his Facebook page. It took him a while to lift his face and recognize us. He perhaps thought we would be impressed by how loaded with […]
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Jul
Jul
After the Portuguese introduced the otherwise unassuming fruit called tomato to India, Indian cuisine became dependent on it. You take any Indian recipe and tomato will be an integral part of it. Indians are the second largest producers of tomato in the world. In the past month or so the prices of tomato across India […]