Social patterns emerge as socio-economic status of a society changes. With increasing financial independence of women came higher divorce rate almost in all societies. Yes, we Indians think that marriages are stable because they are arranged and we are somehow…
Special Effects in Indian TV
It is well known that many special effects companies are developing some advanced technology in India. This technology is being used by many western movies and talk is that some of this is getting towards the center stage in Hollywood. …
Head and Long Tail
I always thought that most members of Long Tail really want to be part of the Head and will take any opportunity to move to the Head. A news story in NYT today shows this happening at YouTube. The most popular…
Unemployable MBA graduates
 A recent study found that most (77%) MBA graduates are unemplyable.  This study gives similar results to what Naryana Murthy said about engineers and what Kiran Karnik stated about Computer Science graduates. Premier skills-testing agency MeritTrac has just concluded,…
NRI and Clinton Campaign
It was great to see this story in Samachar.com: A female policy wonk who challenges the Indian-American prototype of a wealthy upper class background has been asked to head 2008 Presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s think tank. This person, Neera Tanden, does…