BANGALORE, India — In the United States and Europe, people worry that their well-paying, high-skill jobs will be, in a word, “Bangalored” — shipped off to India.
Read more »In India, Anxiety Over the Slow Pace of Innovation
Tapping Into India's Growing Alcohol Market
Steven Spurrier was in Mumbai but thinking of Paris. He is the British wine expert best known for organizing the so-called "Judgment of Paris" — a 1976 blind tasting between French and U.S. wines in which the Americans improbably came out on top.
Read more »Indian green lessons for the West - BBC
Ahead of next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen there's a lot of anger in India about the West's pressure on it to sign up to emissions cuts. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder travelled to India's most industrialised state, Gujarat, to see at first hand some very effective - if homegrown - attempts at tapping renewable energy.
Read more »BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian go-ahead for GM food crop
Indian regulators have for the first time approved the introduction of a genetically-modified (GM) food crop.
Read more »McDonald's Offers Potato Burger With Fries, No Onions in India - Bloomberg.com
McDonald’s Corp. is staking its future in India on burgers made from mashed potatoes, peas and spices. Sumil Mittal says it’s a good bet.
Read more »China projects Kashmir as a separate country - India - TOI
KATHMANDU: Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, China is also projecting the disputed territory as
an independent country in other ways.
YouTube - Barack Obama celebrates Diwali in White House
Washington: Barack Obama celebrated Diwali by lighting the ceremonial lamp at the White House amidst chanting of Vedic mantras seeking world peace, becoming the first US President to personally grace the occasion.
Read more »Obama to join Diwali celebrations at White House - TOI
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will personally join members of the Asian American community to celebrate Diwali, 'the festival of lights',
at the White House next week.
Australia moves to rebuild tarnished image with Indian students
The recent spate of attacks against Indian students living in Australia has caused consternation among the large Indian student population in that country, and forced deans and vice-chancellors across the nation into crisis management mode.
Read more »Big Brother, Get Out of My Marriage! - Aseem Shukla
What is marriage? Is it a sacred rite or a civil right? What role, if any, should religious institutions, traditions or beliefs have in the legal act of marriage?
Read more »Farewell to an India I Hardly Knew
MUMBAI, India — The first thing I ever learned about India was that my parents had chosen to leave it.
Read more »Bollywood Stars who gave Voting Day a miss - Express India
Several Bollywood stars miss V-Day after making this promotional video to encourage everyone to vote:
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/kareena-priyanka-deepika-sonam-asin-urge-y...
YouTube - What ancients did for us - The INDIANS 1/6
This is the first video in a 6 part series by BBC. All 6 video are available. Highly recommended!
Read more »Sita Sings the Blues
I attended a screening of this film at the Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles a few weeks back. I definitely recommend watching it. Sita Sings the Blues is free to view online.
Read more »Indian-Americans elated at election results - TOI
WASHINGTON: Indian-Americans are elated at the Lok Sabha election results giving the Congress-led UPA a decisive mandate that will strengthen
Indo-US strategic ties.
The Hairline Paradigm
When should I get married? Curry Bear receives many e-mails from guys asking him this question. The second most question I get asked is whether I am a top or a bottom. How young is too young? Well, there is your first mistake.....[I don't like where this is going....]
Read more »Pakistani Taliban end push, but questions remain
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Taliban militants packed up their grenade launchers Friday and vacated a district they overran outside the country's capital last week. The move did little, however, to quell the alarm of the U.S. and Western allies.
Read more »The College I Attend Has Just The Right Number Of Indian Dance Groups
I'm really glad I decided to go to my current school. I can't think of an American college with such balanced and complementary diversity. While any old school can boast of their Indian dance groups, few can say they have the perfect number of them.
Read more »America's Other Immigration Crisis - The American, A Magazine of Ideas
From his early childhood, Sanjay Mavinkurve dreamed of coming to America and making it big. So his parents, who are from India, sent him to boarding school in Cleveland, Ohio when he was 14. He did so well that he gained a scholarship to Harvard, where he completed both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in computer science.
Read more »YouTube - Did You Know
Interesting Video: 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's is greater than the total population of America, or put another way: India has more honor kids than America has kids.
This is both good and bad...
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