Monthly Archive: April 2010

How do you get your news?

Friends who know me well sometimes wonder how I manage to keep up with developments in spite of not reading any newspaper (in print) or watching any TV. I stopped relying on the TV...

On sanitary napkins and innovation…

OR how the politics of subsidies kills the spirit of entrepreneurship… From NextBillion, comes this story by Rishabh Kaul of an extra-ordinary innovation that is being threatened by the politics of subsidies. …Last month,...

W’end Reading: Fake Notes, Trash, Brahma-Saraswati and AQ Khan

This is what I am reading this weekend. How Bengal towns are becoming transit points for fake notes West Bengal’s intelligence agencies have expressed concern that Pakistan-and Bangladesh-based racketeers are using the state’s Murshidabad...

China can take Arunachal in 48 hours…

…and we are in no hurry to do anything about it. Excerpts from a very worrying article by Suman Sharma in Open Magazine (Hat Tip: Centerof right; emphasis mine): Repeated violations of the Indo-Chinese...