Valley Chai

during the walk this morning, i noticed something somber. at 7 am, a woman was picking at a large fallen palm leaf. it leaf was dry, and sitting on the sidewalk, she was peeling it off, apparently to put the dry palm leaf to good use - probably a basket may be a toy. a […]

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even in IPL cricket, indian players are going in for value-pricing. 17 of the top 20 players (in terms of production on the field vs. player contract value) are indian players. check out the complete rediff story. very soon someone will start playing the moneyball.

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Posted by mobile phone:
msft withdraws the bid. i guess (a) msft will come back again (b) yhoo probably has one more quarter to blow open the growth in sales (c) and for employees, a bit longer view of what they’ll be working on.
yahoo ego has been wounded by this whole saga, and there are still […]

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it’s a familiar question. ‘how is it working in india?’ is probably the question i get asked most. and admittedly, what i used to ask myself before i moved. and here is the low-down.
from time-spent point of view, i do spend a lot more time working in india than when i was in the US. […]

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babajob.com seems to have a decent number of listings of people available for domestic help, mainly in bangalore. click below to see what they offer.
the site shows quite a bit of promise, but clearly are getting ahead of themselves. the registration process has a big bug, and yet they have opened a half-baked social network […]

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