Number of Wheels Matters

checking in after a full week to report back. after the mad scramble into the new aparment, new beds, new furniture, new cook, new refrigirator, new office, new broadband connection, new desk and lots of newfound acquaintances, and of course a couple of lakh rupees later, here i am. never thought a man could have [...]

The Laloo School of Business

love it.. check out this report of how laloo’s indian railways would allow advertising on the trains. laloo prasad yadav (the railway minister) is going to invite bids to name trains after corp brands. here’s another report on the pilot program, which named a train Kurkure (indian version of chee-tos) Express. Image of the train [...]

Happy Deepavali

the best to you and yours from me and my family.

Early Diwali

got the fun rolling today with some early fireworks . got up for the ‘naraka chaturdashi’ and got the fireworks going. these days, you don’t have to dry those fireworks in the sun anymore.. they explode just fine without all that hassle.

all the desi peeps out there that haven’t experienced diwali recently, you are [...]

Costs of Outsourcing

the unsustainable growth of IT Salaries in india has clearly made the justification for outsourcing that much tougher on a cost-only basis. and now, CIO magazine’s research shows that outsourcing to domestic companies costs more than in-house IT, and outsourcing to off-shore savings are only realized by large corporations.

heartening to see that india maintains [...]