After sites that allow you to share, pictures (Flickr), videos (YouTube), thoughts (blogs), now there is a site that will allow you to share not just your data but your visualizations. As reported in NYT, At an experimental Web site, Many Eyes, (www.many-eyes.com), users can upload the data they want to visualize, then try sophisticated [...]
NYT has a very interesting article about Dalits in India. It is about a transformation taking place in India: Mr. Prasad was born into the Pasi community, once considered untouchable on the ancient Hindu caste order. Today, a chain-smoking, irrepressible didact, he is the rare outcaste columnist in the English language press and a professional [...]
After having visited Gurgaon and other places and seeing great buildings and shopping malls in India, I was very pleased about economic gains in India. Today I read a very sobering article in Times of India. According to latest figures, about one third of poors in the world live in India and the number (percentage) [...]
I was browsing thru about 40 research proposals submitted in response to a request for proosal (for obvious reasons no details on the agency and the program). This agency requested proposals in an area –lets call it XY — and made it clear that they are only interested in XY. It was hilarious to see [...]
For the first time India won three medals — 1 gold in shooting and 2 bronzes in boxing and wrestling. Good reasons for India and Indians to celebrate this. Let’s hope that the process of excelling in sports has started. If this can be continued, then maybe in a few decades India can aspire to [...]