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Hinduism or Talibanism: In Support of Wendy Doniger’s book “The Hindus: An Alternative History”

As a Hindu, I am shocked to see that thousands of Hindus and Indians are gathering online in a Taliban like way to force the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s excellent book “The Hindus: An Alternative History” published by Penguin. Please join our petition in favour of the book and freedom of speech at http://petol.org/THAAH123.

Come on Hindustan Times! George Bush as Keynote….why?

The Hindustan Times wins the Award from me for Creative Blunder of the Year!!!

C3CUBE initiates touch-screen kiosk entertainment revolution in India

During this IPL season, if you had walked into any of the major outlets of McDonald’s or Nirulas, the DT Mall Food Courts or any of 27 prime retail locations across the Delhi NCR region, you would have seen a crowd of young people engrossed in a futuristic, interactive touch-screen kiosk. This was the Dilli [...]

And the Oscar goes to….NOT INDIA

“Slumdog” was truly the star of the Oscars, sweeping 8 awards, Slum Dog Millionaire rewrote history for the Indian film industry – Not! Indian film industry! Slumdog, Danny Boyle, Oscars. What does it all fix, how does it all fit, What Indian film industry?
It is time we Indians woke up and realized how the world [...]

Creative Financing – the secret to getting the Gov to back your business plan

Every SME is looking for unsecured funding to help seed, restructure or grow their business – especially in a tight economy like today. One of the true unsung heroes of the American dream story for entrepreneurs before this current recession was the role that the Small Business Administration (SBA) played in helping small businesses get [...]

Being Creative: Or how to ride out the global recession

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you would not have failed to notice that the global economy has gone into a spiral with the collapse of major financial institutions in the US, painfully high oil prices and unstable global markets all leading to a worldwide economic recession. The Indian economy too has not [...]

Forecasting the World in 2019

A new online multi-player game has been launched by the Future Institute in Menlo Park (Silicon Valley) called SuperStruct:
….the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you’ll help us chronicle the world of 2019–and imagine how we might solve the problems we’ll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the [...]

Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world

Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world
This great video from TED shows Brewster Kahle, inventor and librarian, talking about his universal free library for everything ever written, filmed or recorded….yes, utopian open ideas can still exist in today’s consumerist word – thank god!