Surviving in a Globalized World
Often it is said that due to globalization, American companies will enter countries and create conditions in which local businesses cannot survive. This is not always true. Recently Wal-Mart pulled out...
View ArticleWell deserved Nobel Prize
Even though the Nobel Commitee gives awards to terrorists like Yasser Arafat, war criminals like Henry Kissinger and writers like Harold Pinter who is more famous for his anti-American rants, once in a...
View ArticleEven before Castro is dead..
In this age and era how do you still run a Communist country or state? By switching to capitalism, of course. We have seen this in China, Russia and West Bengal. Now it is happening in Cuba as well and...
View ArticleJet Airways Ad in NY Times
While it was a pleasant surprise to see a full page Jet Airways advertisement in last Sunday’s New York Times, it was baffling why they would want to spend so much money to announce to people in...
View ArticleDebunking third-world myths
Animation after animation clearly shows that the world has become a much better place since the 70s, in every aspects. Globalization has brought dramatic changes to the lives of billions of people...
View ArticleDependence on Globalization
Define Irony: Malayalees opposing globalization. The Kerala model of development, as an alternative to market economy has been touted by economists like Amartya Sen, but it turns out that the money...
View ArticleKerala and San Francisco
Last month, members of DYFI and the Merchants association ransacked a Reliance retail shop in Paravur.The police did not bother to prevent this and no one was arrested. In Kerala, the politicians and...
View ArticleLayoff Patterns
In Saudi Arabia In a move that may affect hundreds of expatriates, including Indians, Saudi Arabia has asked all companies in the kingdom to fire foreigners first, if they have to layoff staff. “Labour...
View ArticleElephant in Syria’s Bronze Age
Elephant bones have been found in Syria dating to the late Bronze age and it is possible that they were imported from India. During the excavations season 2008 of Tell Mishrifé, bones of elephant have...
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