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August 31, 2006

Google Philanthropy in India ???

I saw this article Google: Doing Good in India in Business Week: The search engine is helping to overcome the scourge of blindness in India, and its philanthropy may presage a growing business presence. The Aravind Eye Hospital performs 240,000 Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:52 AM

May 21, 2006

Indian Railway - A Success Story Under the Leadership of Laloo

Washington Times writes about the Indian Railway Success Story under the Leadership of Laloo Prasad Yadav: A visitor to the New Delhi railway station could not be faulted for thinking nothing has changed. Tobacco stains still speckle the platforms, bleary-eyed Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:50 PM

January 12, 2006

Green Green Green Andhra Pradesh

I have been going around Andhra Pradesh for the last one month. One common thing that I saw is the increasing hope in the eyes of rural folk. This hope is due to various reasons. The primary one being the Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:01 AM

December 01, 2005

In India - Pretty Excited & Pretty Crazy

Currently in India, very very excited to meet my family and all my buddies. It wonderful to see all my buddies throwing green arround and getting nostalgic about the days of living in penury. Going crazy with pollution, traffic, and Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:35 PM

November 20, 2005

Indian IT Software Sweat Shops

Harshad Oak wrote and excellent article on how the psychology of average Indians is converting Software companies into sweat shops. Recently, in an awards ceremony at a software company, the manager handing over the "employee of the month" award said Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:21 AM

November 14, 2005

Quality Of Life ???

RAVI ABHYANKAR writes a rather weird view on the Quality of life in India: Once I took a broken showerhead to a frail plumber living on the pavement across us. His scantily dressed children were playing alongside. He checked the Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:26 AM

October 27, 2005

Building India

Lately, I have been visiting various universities in USA in the process of figuring out the best school to pursue my MBA. All universities I visited were started around 100 to 200 years ago. After visiting them, I started concluding Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:41 PM

October 26, 2005

Life is a random draw for Kids in India

Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Random Education Thoughts writes about his thoughts after visiting one of the most expensive schools of India. I would describe the Mercedes Benz International School in Pune to be the Rolls-Royce of schools in Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:00 PM

October 12, 2005

How can India Inc and NGOs rush in?

BASHAARAT MASOOD & MUZAMIL JALEEL write in Indian Express: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who led special prayers at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid today, sent the rest of India a wake-up call: ‘‘It is sad that people have not responded to this great Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:29 PM

October 10, 2005

Investing in India

[Via Emergic] Anand Sridharan, a VC blogger from India, takes on the hype sorrunding the purchasing power of Indians. 1. Stick to basic needs It will take us a while to get to self-actualization needs. Health spas, blogging and other Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:10 AM

October 08, 2005

This one was minor, big one is yet to come

Today a major earthquake struck Pakistan, North India and Afghanistan. In India Jammu & Kashmir is the most affected state. One of my friend Namrata lives there. She was in her office when the earth quake struck, her office Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:29 PM

This one was minor, big one is yet to come

Today a major earthquake struck Pakistan, North India and Afghanistan. In India Jammu & Kashmir is the most affected state. One of my friend Namrata lives there. She was in her office when the earth quake struck, her office is Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:29 PM

August 29, 2005

Map My India - Markapur on the map

Courtesy: Gargi India map is available for business on this website: Interactive map of India,India travel maps,Business maps of India I am very excited to see my home town 'Markapur' on map, although it is just a red mark. Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:27 PM

August 19, 2005

My Outsourced Life

Well, don't worry I am not outsourcing my life :-) It is a movie that is being made in Hollywood. Souce: Outsourcing hits Hollywood- The Times of India Jacobs' aides in this outsourcing saga were Honey K.Balani of the firm Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:38 PM

January 15, 2005

Story From Trenches: Life Of Fishermen and reforms needed

My dad, Dr. K. K. Raju, is a highly motivated , dedicated, public service minded person. He truly believes that he is a 'Public Servant' and lives by the same principle. I have been urging him for a while to Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:55 PM

December 27, 2004

Tsunami - How you can help? Check These links.

Via : The Acron What is a reasonable contribution? India: Emergency Numbers - Tsunami Help Blog: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund, by bank transfer, or by credit card Blogger Ramdhan Kotamaraja is collecting donations online India together has a Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:16 AM

December 26, 2004

List Of Donors For Tsunami Relief Fund

Thank you for your overwhelming support. Please pass on the message, we will try to raise as much as possible. There is a huge need of resources for the aftermath reconstruction. Please donate using the Visa/Master Button in the left Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:27 PM

Donate For Tsunami Relief Fund

A deadly tsunami has hit South Asia. See the news details @ google. It has killed over 10000 people across 7 countries. India is one of the hardest hit country with current death toll standing at arround 3200 a Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:01 PM

December 03, 2004

AP Farmers Training African Farmers

Recently Andhra Pradesh govt. is planning to send the farmers to train farmers in African countries. Eenadu has released a cartoon regarding this. When investment grows a lot and you end up with lots of loans/debts and when produce does Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:04 PM

November 08, 2004

Farmers in AP use Coke, Pepsi to 'kill insects'

About an year ago there was a big blow when it was declared that Coke and Pepsi got significant amounts of pesticides in them and lots of cartoons were also published about them being actually used as pesticides. Well, looks Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:18 PM

September 18, 2004

A second-generation Indian and his discontents - II

In response to A second-generation Indian and his discontents, here is a comment from Zach As a down to earth Indian American guy, I have NEVER understood the "Indian thug" phenomenon. And it is nothing new either. I am 29 Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:09 AM

September 17, 2004

WHEN we fail to plan, we plan to fail

An end to traffic jams without flyovers The population of Bangalore is projected to grow exponentially bringing along with it huge traffic problems. GEORGE K KURUVILA suggests a few innovative measures to usher in smoother flow of vehicles. “WHEN we Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:32 AM

September 14, 2004

Plastic Changes Tihar

The city's Tihar Jail has truly caught up with the trend of debit cards. Inmates at some of the jails in Tihar now complete all their monetary transactions within the jail premises through debit cards. Be it buying their daily Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:13 PM

September 11, 2004

India's is an extremely lonely war.

According to the US assessment, in 2004, "Pakistani government is trying harder than ever before in the battle against Islamist terrorists." That should alarm New Delhi, whose daily battles against terrorism are not of any major international concern. India's is Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:12 PM

September 07, 2004

Few Good Men - Rikshaw Pullers

Two alert members of the public on Tuesday prevented a minor from being raped and thereby another shameful addition to Delhi's crime statistics was narrowly avoided. According to the police, a couple of rickshaw pullers who were waiting for passengers Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:56 PM

September 04, 2004

Hail mother India, long live Pakistan - Wagah Border Ritual

As Indian and Pakistani diplomats meet to push forward peace, their border guards play out a jingoistic ritual of confrontation to the delight of thousands of onlookers from both sides. The carefully choreographed display of hostility takes place every evening Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:52 PM

August 30, 2004

http://www.indiateam.org

A person living away from his country almost always wants to contribute a part of his success in life for the development of the society where he was born and had lived till he moved to new pastures. It is Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:08 PM

August 23, 2004

Get a citizenship @Rs 12,500

The government has issued a notification under which people of Indian origin (PIO) would have to pay Rs 12,500 to secure Indian overseas citizenship. A PIO would enjoy all rights of an Indian citizen, except the right to employment in Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:09 PM

August 21, 2004

New School for Babus

Via: FEATURES SAMACHAR -- The only bookmark on Features you'll ever need The Prime Minister’s proposal for educating and shaping the new bureaucrat is only a first draft. Changes and modifications will be made at the stage of discussions and Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:58 PM

August 15, 2004

Celebrating The Spirit of Freedom

Check out the various slide shows that India times has published for the indepdendence day @ Timesofindia > Independence Day" href="http://info.indiatimes.com/it/15August/15aug.html?headline=India:~Pride~and~Prejudice">Indiatimes >http://info.indiatimes.com/it/15August/15aug.html?headline=India:~Pride~and~Prejudice Don't miss this one http://info.indiatimes.com/it/Idday/index.html Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:26 PM

Hoist Flat In Your Name

Check this out, this is pretty cool Indiatimes - Hoist Flag In Your Name Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:53 PM

August 09, 2004

Bangalore's Cost of Living Cheaper than Chennai?

Via: Teakada: How expensive is Chennai? sent by Kiran Kumar Jakkaraju. Chennai/Madras is placed 133 on a scale of 144 Cities (worldwide) based on the cost-of-living. In a survery (click here for complete list) conducted by London's Mercer Human Resource Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:49 AM

August 04, 2004

Hometown Railway Station Burning

To my shock today I saw this picture which is showing the railway station of my hometown burning. There are huge stack of wood of Subabul trees that are stored beside railway station to be transported to a paper mill Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:39 PM

By becoming a servant/slave, you can make *HIM* your servant/slave

She addressed the housewives. She told them not to be disheartened. This debate was not against them, she said. It was about if working would increase or decrease happiness. The problem with working women, she went on, was their inflated Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:31 AM

July 24, 2004

Middleast <--> India - Connection

The Times of India has an interesting presentation on The Times of India" href="http://info.indiatimes.com/it/middle-east/index.html">Why The Middle East can't do without Indians. Got very interesting statistics like. • In Saudi Arabia, 20% of the expat population are Indians • Expat workers Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:54 PM

July 20, 2004

Mumbai Lives in Peace.......

Even five years back, land grabbing, property disputes, music rights, film distribution, business dealings, smuggling—even government contracts and tenders—were controlled by Mumbai’s expatriate dons. But phones don’t announce extortion calls any more. The guns have fallen silent too. Even police Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:27 PM

Dalip Giant Singh - Indian WWF dude

India's answer to WWF has emerged in the form of Dalip 'Giant' Singh. Singh has exhibited his prowess and now is staking his claim to being the only Indian citizen to pursue this particular wrestling style actively. Weighing 110410 pounds, Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:22 PM

July 12, 2004

Indians Stare

Mansi-The Little Manazine writes: Last night, I noticed that I stare at people. Something that would ordinarily shock me, yesterday I realized that I am just returning the favor. Indians stare. We're often clothed in so many layers ( physically Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:58 AM

July 11, 2004

Street Signs of Hyderabad

Rangachari Anand has a Gallery - Street Signs of Hyderabad, which is really really cool. It gets so nostalgic when I see those pictures Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:18 AM

July 08, 2004

Budget by PC in power point

The Times of India > Budget 2004" href="http://info.indiatimes.com/it/budget2004/toi.html">Indiatimes > The Times of India > Budget 2004 has consolidated Budget 2004 into powerpoint presentation in a satirical way. Enjoy it. Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:29 PM

June 26, 2004

Barefoot Venture Capitalism

Gargi of POV write about her new documentary shoot. Cogito TV - my company - has just been commissioned a documentary film. I will be out filming in remote districts of Maharashtra. I take off on Monday to the back Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:22 PM

June 24, 2004

Education In India

I have come across this site Educaiton in India. I expected to find info related to education and its details, but what I found is even better. This site is all about how to get grants for getting your education Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:35 PM

June 17, 2004

The Great Debate: Reservations in private sector

The Great Debate: Reservations in private sector - Sify.com Sify writes: More than a decade after the Mandal Commission report created a furious controversy, the reservation debate is back. This time, the UPA government has promised to initiate a national Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:57 PM

June 13, 2004

India is hot n happening in Pak

While Shah Rukh is the most popular actor, Kal Ho Na Ho is the most watched Hindi movie. Preity and Rani Mukherjee have overtaken Aishwarya as the hottest actresses. Elaborates Pakistani fashion designer Shaiyanne Malik, "Bollywood is always the biggest Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:25 PM

June 11, 2004

Caste-o-cracy?

Amit Phansalkar write @ Living in India - blogzine about new reservation talk that is going on in Maharastra. The reservations debate is on again, only this time, the scope has extended to the private sector. Not surprisingly, there is Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:31 PM

June 10, 2004

Actors Should Not Carry Olympic Torch

Athletics great of yesteryears Milkha Singh ran 300 meters of the 32 Km long Olympic Torch relay, here in Delhi. He spoke to Sify Correspondent E Jayakrishnan on how he felt holding the traditional torch. Here are the excerpts: This Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:14 PM

May 22, 2004

Papdiwala in Bangalore

I got this mail from Kiran Kumar Jakkaraju, about a chat bhandar in Bangalore, I thought its nice info for chat lovers. I don't know where he got it from. Street food that’s quite scrumptious If snacks and chaats are Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:40 AM

May 20, 2004

Olympic Torch Coming To India

Olympic Torch Coming to India and watch the persocalities who is carrying the torch by clicking here: Bips'll hold the torch with Rahul - The Times of India Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:17 PM

May 07, 2004

Now, India's becoming world's IT lab

Google , the world’s largest search engine, is all set to open a R&D centre in Bangalore. Leading Web portal Yahoo also carries out R&D work in Bangalore.; US-based chip maker Intersil is setting up a design centre in Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:57 PM

Roopa Mishra tops Civil Services exam

Roopa Mishra, an MBA from Utkal University in Bhubaneshwar, has topped this year's Civil Services examination while Ashima Garg from Delhi University stood second out of 413 selected candidates, it was officially announced today. This was the first attempt for Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:44 PM

April 30, 2004

Can the India-China border issue ever be solved?

Finally, in October 1957, a Chinese newspaper reported: 'The Sinkiang-Tibet -- the highest highway in the world -- has been completed… The Sinkiang-Tibet Highway is 1,179 km long, of which 915 km are more than 4,000 meters above sea Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:01 PM

A second-generation Indian and his discontents

In SiliconIndia, A second generation Indian American writes about his species. AS A SECOND-GENERATION Indian freshly graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, I thought I would take this opportunity to reflect briefly on some of the more unusual aspects Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:43 AM

April 22, 2004

Voting or Planning to sit at home? Learn from Lohra

Imagine voters walking 12 km to exercise their franchise. Well, that is precisely what Chhote Lohra, a Class VIII drop-out and father of two, has been doing. A temporary resident of “Labour Colony”, Netarhat, Lohra and others from his village Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:03 PM

March 09, 2004

Info On India

I was reading some blog about backlash on BPO especially one - Outsourcing in my company? I do not think so. written by Sue Spielman, published at java.net blogs, which is completely off the topic forum. Probably Sue did it Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:20 AM

March 08, 2004

Forgotten day in Kashmir's history

By Arvind Lavakare Forgotten day in Kashmir's history Except for the inaugural Mumbai Marathon, February 15, 2004 passed off in the country as usual -- with controversies about this or that, with corruption cases and with episodes of rape and Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:15 PM

March 05, 2004

Indian IPO News Flash Page

Sify is providing a page for all IPO information in India, to access it clickhere Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:30 PM

Warren Buffet invests $1-billion in ONGC IPO

Legendary stock market investor and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathway Inc., Warren Buffett, is said to have invested US $1 billion in the public issue of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, lead managers told on Friday. The issue, which Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:28 PM

March 03, 2004

Relocation to India ?? - Get Help!!!

Saroja Krishnan was anxious about her son Arun's school admission. She was coming back to India with her husband after living abroad for 15 years. She need not have worried. Within a month of her arrival in Bangalore, Saroja shortlisted Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:10 AM

February 26, 2004

India swims into NATO ken

India has been invited to take part in air exercises with NATO countries in July this year, the first step in what appears to be a new great game to draw New Delhi into the western sphere of influence. The Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:15 PM

February 24, 2004

India not yet shining: The Economist

India is not yet shining mainly due to widening fiscal deficit and unemployment, but if the present NDA Government succeeds in election, then the country should be better placed to take advantage of shining economic opportunity, according to The Economist Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:33 PM

February 22, 2004

Conversions: Escape from high-caste Hindu intolerance

The process of driving away Dalits from Hindus began in the early eighties. In April 1981, the Indian Express broke the story that harassed by the police and upper caste Thevars 180 Dalit families have converted to Islam in the Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:09 PM

February 18, 2004

Tour Of Rajasthan - By Rajesh Jain

Here are some impressions from my most recent trip: Perhaps, the abiding memory of the trip was seeing the setting sun on the sand dunes outside Jaisalmer. I don’t remember having seen a sunset like this in my life. As Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:00 PM

February 17, 2004

Are IIMs accountable? If so to whom?

R Vaidyanathan is professor of finance and control at IIM, Bangalore. He obtained his Fellow in Management (Doctorate) from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta where he also taught for four years writes: These are interesting times and interesting times Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 03:19 PM

February 13, 2004

ROYs weddings - Never Before May be Never again - Every Whos Who is there----

Perhaps never before had so many celebrities converged on the soil of this city of nawabs on a single day. The occasion was the marriage of Sahara group chief Subrata Roy's two sons and the guest list had top politicians, Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:59 PM

Rediff Interviews

Read Interviews by Rediff at this link: Welcome to rediff.com : The Money Interview home page Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:52 AM

February 07, 2004

NRI - Non Reliable Indians

Dual citizenship is irrelevant if the reason is sentimental, as with the pioneering Congressman Dalip Singh Saund of California, who visited India for the first time in 38 years in 1957. Saund sought no favours. If it's a business link Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:57 PM

February 04, 2004

Rajiv Gandhi cleared in Bofors pay-off case

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday cleared former prime minister late Rajiv Gandhi in the in the Rs 64-crore Bofors pay-off case. Source: Rajiv Gandhi cleared in Bofors pay-off case - The Times of India If you have clout you Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:35 PM

February 03, 2004

Highlights of Interim Budget

Here is the link to highlights of interim budget: Welcome to SIFY News. Well unfortunately I don't know exactly how to read this budget, I guess I will have to learn how to do that. Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:17 PM

February 02, 2004

IITs and IIMs: Excellence is not exclusivity

It takes courage to face the truth. But for the man telling that truth, it calls for the ability to swim against the current, brave the scorn of the powerful and perhaps only wait for history’s vindication. This is Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:37 PM

January 24, 2004

Books Banned In India

Reforms is alive, the Empire’s long dead, the Cold War over, MTV all around. Yet, 54 years after India became a Republic, our erstwhile mai baap sarkar still plays nanny. Books banned by the Raj remain on the banned list Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:15 PM

Siraj Desai's brush with Indian Jails

Siraj Desai, who got bail Friday after being in jail since January 18, was arrested after a fellow delegate to the World Social Forum, Salome Isaacs, charged him with rape. Salome Isaacs has since withdrawn the charge, which Desai has Read More.......
Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:10 PM