At least there is some initiative for India. Me thinks Map My India, the desi version of Mapquest has still long way to go but it's good. I tried searching for my locality at my native place Bhopal (only a limited number of cities are covered as of now) and though it just managed to [...]

A Mumbai based lecturer I hear has moved the courts with his public interest litigation (PIL) demanding that it must be made binding on all Cable wallahs to show only that stuff on TV that are passed by the Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC). He is perturbed by the unwarranted ill effect that such [...]

Though I have never been able to decipher an iota of the concepts of business blogging (and most of the posts at her blog), I wonder how people like her are still making money selling the same old image of India in the name of ethnography, as a country of snake-charmers and cows walking on [...]

It has been long since I won anything in some contest or the like, so the last fortnight unveiled few pleasent surprises for me. First the Microsoft Wireless Optical desktop that I won at a competition at Bhasha India (stupid courier walas managed to do a vanishing trick on the 4 batteries though) and second [...]

Sushmita Bose noticed that in the quick-shift world of Indian advertising, the Big Idea these days is going back in time. Offcourse Null Pointer was the first to point this out.

The horizon for outsourcing seems to be expanding by the day. Slashdot reports that Builder.com is now pondering outsourcing some of their writing jobs to India. Salshdot, as expected has swarming comments and counter comments. Now, apart from causing pain in the lower part of American anatomy, news items such as these inflict immense agony [...]

“Nice guy” Hemanth kindly agreed to do a guest post this fortnight for my Hindi blog. Do read it here.Thanks Hemanth!

If any award were to be given for regional language blogs in India, I have little doubt that the Tamil Blogs would emerge as the deserving winners. Just look at their magnitude. I am not aware exactly how many of them are in Unicode but I believe that majority of them are. Apart from opening-up [...]

Nitin Pai of “The Acorn” has written this fortnight's guest post for my Hindi Blog. You can read it here. Thanks Nitin!

Charu very kindly agreed to do a guest-post (surprise.. surprise, in Hindi) for my Hindi Blog. Read it here..P.S. I plan to have it as a fortnightly feature, so if you wish to do a guest-post in Hindi, do drop a comment here or send an email.