Nicholas D Kristoff has done a op-ed piece in NYT with the title ‘Where Sweatshops are a Dream’ today. Very touching and very real description of a situation. He states: I’m glad that many Americans are repulsed by the idea…
Apple becoming more multimedia
Apple has contributed a lot to making computing multimedia. And it continues doing that. Interesting announcements in this direction at the latest Macworld — the one without Mr Jobs. The important multimedia things are summarized here: The new version of…
India and China
In an opinion piece in NYT, Gurcharan Das wrote an interesting article comparing India and China — most of my Indian friends would love that. I did. I wish Mr Das is really right because though I like his writing…
Digital Medical Records
Being one of the person who, unfortunately, has more than his fair share of visits to doctors and hospitals over the last few years, I have seen first hand how ‘primitive’ are digital records kept in USA — probably in…
USA has become General Motors
Thomas Friedman’s piece in NYT is once again a pointed observation on how things are. It sums it up very nicely in the following: To top it off, we’ve fallen into a trend of diverting and rewarding the best of…