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Innovation, a no big deal in India

A recent article in The Economist discussed about how Mr Ostwal, an engineer from India, won the grand prize in Nokia’s mobile innovation contest at Barcelona. During his adolescent years, Mr. Santosh Ostwal often used to wonder at the conditions of the farmers in his village who had to walk a mile to switch on [...]

"Cash for Clunkers" – Success or Failure

“Cash for Clunkers” is a colloquial term for U.S. Government for Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS).  It was a unusual government program to provide incentives to U.S. residents to purchase new and more fuel efficient cars while trading in the eligible cars and to provide a stimulus the to auto industry.While the program sounds great [...]

Nobel Peace Prize 2009: A fumble

President Barack Obama is a good leader, but by awarding the Nobel Peach prize to him, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has disregarded the basic rules on which the Nobel peace prize is defined. The Nobel prizes should be based on concrete achievements, but it appears that the Nobel Peace prize for 2009 were intended to [...]

President Barack Obama recently cracked down a whip against the companies moving their jobs outside America. Such companies will no longer enjoy any tax breaks. According to President Obama, ““We will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code.” The largest group of people that will be affected by this law would [...]

Does "Slumdog Millionaire" make you proud?

When the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” was released most of the Indians did not accept the movie due to various reasons. Some people claimed that poverty in India is not what is shown in the movie. Some of them commented that though poverty in India is as shown, they should have also shown the good things [...]

Forgetable Memories…

Ring out the old, ring in the new – Alfred Tennyson A whole year has passed and even though India had some successes like first successful mission to Moon, almost everyone agrees that national security has been the biggest failure through out the year. The year 2008 has seen maximum number of terror attacks and [...]

Agriculture and India's development

Any country’s foremost requirement is food security. Being self-reliant in the matters of food for all its citizens, should be the prime responsibility of any government and it must make all required measure to achieve this goal. This should be the prime goal for any government before it can think of becoming a developed country [...]

  
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