April 2010




Chinese Consumer Electronic Factory Conditions

Folks familiar with electronics and tech news probably don’t see this as a surprise. We have heard Chinese factory worker committing suicide for leaking Apple product details. Now this is even worse. Free market economy in one country is resulting Gulags in another country. Read on. Via Engadget Yesterday, the National Labor Committee produced a […]







Your Telugu Roots are Just Fine, but Your Branch is Rotten

Recall my interview with Nalamotu Chakravarthy about our ‘glorious Telugu roots?’ Well, this is a follow-up to that. Chakravarthy Nalamotu’s recent post, “Why I sell my book?” got my attention. Two noteworthy things that speak a lot about the title of his post: Some people have the gall to ask him that question; What speaks […]





Goodbye Mr. Hussain

Maqbool Fida Hussain, popularly known as MF Hussain, has recently migrated to Qatar and has accepted Qatar’s nationality. He is a well noted painter and extremely famous. But with his paintings of nude gods and goddesses, he has incurred the wrath of millions of Indians. It does not matter if Hussain is a great painter. […]