Bengal is considered to be the home for Indian football. Its first victory was in the year 1911. The reason behind the true spirit which those 10 players had was the just the thirst for freedom laid strong in their heart. If we observe the events which occurred in Bengal during the period of 1909-1912 [...]
The equation I mentioned above relates to the psychology of people staying away from India. We are excited to come here (Away from our country) and study and then initially miss our family and later we decide to stay? Money, comfort versus family, friends, relatives and hometown and our own nationality. Does one [...]
What are the top 10 best colleges work for? I don’t know about them. I love my job and my employer (even though they didn’t give me a rise in 3 years).
Though it is large — more than 30,000 students and nearly 3,000 faculty — the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that employees at the [...]
I am extremely happy that summer is here, but sad that it is so quickly coming to an end. Living through the cold, somewhat dreary midwestern winter has given me a new appreciation for warmth and sunshine. I grew up in Colorado, where there was never any shortage of sunshine, and I always took it [...]
This time in Connecticut. I feel sad, someone needs to tell the kids to be careful. Sometimes it happens no matter how protective you can be, like that Indian scientist who was killed in his “Safe Neighborhood”. I really feel bad in my stomach.
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So, you are a financial “professional” on Wall Street. You think the world owes you bazillion dollars because you are: a) very smart, and b) you have an MBA in finance, may be from Wharton, or Harvard or Columbia and therefore what you do must be good. You claim that your financial “innovations” help the [...]
There has been a tremendous shifts in workplace or rather what we call workplace. The primary driver for this shift are the advances in Information Technology and Communications or simply, ICT.
One of premise in Transportation Systems Planning is that transportation is a derived demand. Meaning transportation is a means but an end in itself. In [...]
Over the past several days, I have been so engulfed with work, in upgrading TORI website and other things. This news is a bit dated – but I came to know about this only after Bhanu Prakash alerted me to it this evening. The fact that I did not even know about this news until [...]
Here we go (via Huffington Post) …
Joel Stein says he was going for humor in his opinion piece, “My Own Private India,” which ran in Monday’s TIME Magazine. But the Indian-American community — members of which serve as the butt of many of Stein’s jokes — aren’t laughing.
Stein’s piece focuses on the cultural [...]
Sri Chidamabaram is the Home Minister of a country that took on Khalistani extremist violence in Punjab head-on. A country that fought three wars with Pakistan and is battling hardcore terrorists in Kashmir every day. A country that battled LTTE militants in Sri Lanka. A country that rescued Maldives that was under mercenaries’ siege. Indian [...]
I have been a vocal critique of many for-profit colleges who use deceptive marketing tactics to sell worthless degrees to some of the most vulnerable segment of the population. Many unsuspecting students at these colleges and universities often end up with no degree (or a worthless degree) and a boat load of debt that cripples [...]
The parents of Rhode Island high school student Eric Duquette were told their son would end up in an institution.
Instead, Duquette went on to become salutatorian of his high school class — and was accepted at every college to which he applied, ABC News reports.
Duquette was diagnosed with autism at an early age [...]
In the Ice Hockey finals at 1980 Olympics between Team USA vs. Russia, in the final seconds of the game USA scored to win the Gold. Al Michales who was calling the game at that time said, “Do you believe in miracles?” Since then it has become a part of American vernacular.
The poll question for [...]
Most of don’t mind sharing sweet memories. ALL OF US HAVE DARK secrets. But few dare to speak out about dark secrets. Let us see….
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Love letters: Did you write or receive them?
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