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 [...]
The single largest reason why people give up on their entrepreneurial aspirations and continue in a job is delay in breaking out after college. [The following article is via liveMINT.com]
On The Job | Sanjeev Bikhchandani
The author is co-founder and chief executive officer, InfoEdge (India) Ltd, which runs the Naukri.com website. He writes a monthly column [...]
Do you, as a person of Indian origin, get offended by this ad? (I will let the ad speak for itself.)
There is a lot to discuss on this subject. For lack of time, I was not able to participate in the discussion started by Sandeep. Here is an excellent depiction of the complicated political and economic continuum, which some see in black-and white.
What do I mean by “black and white?”
“Government is not the solution, government [...]
Hope you caught Part 1 of this interview with Prof Rao. In this second part on Middle School education, the following issues/topics were addressed:
What about summer camps?
How to manage our tendency to force over indulgence?
What about magnet schools?
Pidakala Veta a comment on Rao’s old student – Ram Gopal Varma
Kids’ internet policy eMail and blog etiquette
Impact [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:55 — 21.7MB)
The two largest items US consumers spend on are 1) Health Care and 2) Education
Since the days of 2008 presidential campaign, so much attention has been focused on rising health care costs. The Great Recession (this is how they are referring to the current economic climate) has left many state budgets in such a disarray [...]
Earlier today I was having a chat with Kanaka Prasad. The issue of education (adult and kids) came up in our discussion. A bit later I went to a recruiting event organized by our University, where I talked a bit about degree requirements in our program etc. I came back to my office and checked [...]
At the top. 43% of the Hindus make more than 100,000+. Check it out for yourself (Source: Good.is).
Dr. Gopi Podila was among the three faculty members who were killed by Amy Bishop, a faculty member at University of Alabama who was denied tenure. The Indian American professor Podila’s research interests included functional genomics of plant-microbe interactions and plant molecular biology and biotechnology.
My condolences to the families of the victims. What more can [...]
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Yikes…
Mid-Atlantic states barely dug themselves out of the 30+ inch piles from last Fri-Sat snow.
Many streets are only operating in as single lanes. More is on the way (it is already here in DC). We are pretty much snowed in for the last 5 days. Another 10-20 inches is expected tonight and tomorrow. Looks like [...]
Northeaster United States, got hit with a major winter storm. This epic storm dumped 18-30 inches of snow in the DC area. Presideent Obama called referred to the storm as “snomegeddon.”
Expect major disruptions in many aspects of life along the the east coast for the next several days. If you are like me, who got [...]
I wasn’t really worried until this latest recall news on Toyota Prius has come out. Software problems? Brake problems? This is an eerie reality to android cars in Hollywood movies that take control of the driver and kill him/her. Stopping distance is what I am currently covering in the transportation engineering class I am teaching. [...]
As the caption reads, it was a short, but very hot call. Clearly this guy was set-up by whoever was filming this. పాపం, but funny!