Politics in India is a lucrative career for aging flim stars, cricketers and other celebrities. The latest to join the club of “I’m famous so I will join politics” is Mohmd. Azharuddin, e.x. Captain of the Indian cricket team. When asked the reason for joining politics, he said “he was swayed by the plight of [...]
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Today, many Indian online news sources carried stories about Google launching Internet Bus project in Tamil Nadu India. It was an outreach program to communicate the advantages of Internet to common man. None of the news stories had any links to the project page. After some digging, I found a link from bangaloreinc.com to the [...]
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Being an Indian, I have been asked many times what I thought about Slumdog Millionaire. I liked the movie – but it not Oscar material. It was a typical Bollywood story – with the escapism theme. The arbitrary switch from Hindi and English dialogs was frustrating. The cinematography was topnotch – it almost made me [...]
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As a fun project, I’m working on the actors social network in Bollywood; in this network the nodes represent Bollywood actors and actresses, an edge connects actors who starred in a movie together. Hollywood actor networks have been studies for a long time. It would be interesting to compare Bollywood and Hollywood actors network, to [...]
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In a recent submit, the CEO of Rediff.com a popular Indian Internet portal said that Indian Internet users don’t want content in their native language. His supporting evidence is Rediff provides email services in 11 languages, but only 1% of users use the non-english version. Indians learn English before completing higher education, he added. His [...]
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I was shocked at recent Mumbai terrorsit attacks. After the attack on the Indian Parliment, this has been biggest symbolic attack. Terrorism has become a sad reality in most parts of our country. According to The Institute for Conflict Management, 2765 lives were lost due to terriosm in 2006.The moral and economic toll on the [...]
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India has one third of the world’s children who are out of school. Historically India has been underspending on elementary education. After independence the government focused on technical education – resulting in institutions like IIT, IIM and IIS. It has been only in the recent years that the government has started foucssing on universalizing primary [...]
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