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Gods Must be Crazy

Remember laughing at the native African innocence and then feeling awe for their wisdom, and maybe then laughing again over the bottle of Coke.
What do you make of these headlines then:

Wall Street Journal has a story of the Visa Balaji in Chilkur where devout prayers are answered by visas from the American consulate
In the northern […]

Rising Sun - India

This movie based on a novel (by the same name) by Michael Crichton shows the cultural differences between Americans & Japanese in their businesses & in their lives. This book came at a time when Japanese were everywhere in the coroprate America, buying up the Empire State Building, setting up huge car companies, etc … […]

Gandhi, my Father

Let’s look at some headlines in India today:

Australian Film Festival to start with ‘Gandhi my Father’, The Hindu, Oct 4
At UN, Sonia calls for courage to follow Gandhi’s steps, Indian Express, Oct 3

Let’s look at the NY Times coevrage about the Indian region in the recent times:

Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too, […]

Home Alone

If you are one of those , who bought a house in the recent housing boom, say in the Old Mahabalipuram Road in Chennai or say in the Sillicon Valley in the US, according to Greenspan it is all related. In an interview to the NY Times, he says - “The housing boom is not […]