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Reverse Outsourcing
Outsourcing is not just a one way street…Wired reports on how Bollywood is aggressively recruiting foreigners of all kinds and from all places…as long as they are ghora…and not just for the tourist/potsmoking/kissing/item dance scenes. Read more here.
Freaky Economics and Why most soccer players are born in Jan, Feb and March
Ever since reading that cult book called ‘Freakonomics’ which everyone and his dog seems to know about,I have been an ardent fan of Steven Levitt’s peculiar brand of data analysis. (Not just me, as an aside, one of my female friends liked him so much that she said he’d make an ideal husband. When I […]
‘Saint’ Medha
With all the recent fuss about the Narmada dam and the 'sacrificial' antics of Medha Patkar and her celeb cohorts, the NBA is squarely in the public eye…and quite the darling of it too. It is anti-government, pro-poor and gives every armchair activist and TV channel a cause celebre.
Now that a bit of the dust […]
Yet another first post
If you have reached this page, it is definitely because I have prompted you to (or promised you material reward in return.) Yet another first post, on yet another blogging site…At last count, I had a few on Blogger, one on MSN and another on Yahoo 360. Maybe this time, I ll try and see […]
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