Monthly Archives November 2006

Safety and the cost of life in India

Coupla days back, I met a guy re-painting a building and I was scared of his lack of safety measures. Today, I was able to talk to another guy doing the same job and here is an excerpt from my talk with him. First, let me introduce him to you all.

I forgot to ask his [...]

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based on New York. He have won many outstanding awards, to mention a few - the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Conde [...]

A deafening time bomb waiting at Indian Call Centers

Till today, I never had the luxury of visiting any Call Centers here in India but have heard all stories, good and bad, relating to the same. Well, I’ve interacted with many Call Center people though and I think I’ve learnt something, they tend to speak soft but louder and presume that everybody is hard [...]

Casino Royale, the 21st James Bond Movie

The longest Bond Movie so far, running 144 minutes, the 21st Movie in its series, “Casino Royale (Casino Royale)”:http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/casinoroyale/, reminds us of the actual James Bond from Ian Flemming’s Novel. Bond is back to Square One with muscle, wits than gadgets, just pure business. This movie is the start of the actual Bond, with Daniel [...]

What is a Sitemap Protocol and why should you care?

Recently, Google announced their collaboration with Yahoo and Microsoft to support the Sitemap Protocol. As part of this development, they are moving the protocol to a new namespace, Sitemap.org. The sponsoring companies will continue to collaborate on the protocol and publish enhancements on the jointly-maintained site.

If you’ve already submitted a Sitemap to Google using the [...]

In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf

I was asking my friend, “Have you read In the Line of Fire“. What he answered was funny that we all laughed aloud, “I will, we should Know what the Enemy thinks“. No, we don’t think of Pakistan as our enemy, atleast not me. I personally have no particular enemity with anybody or any country [...]