Category Archives: India
8 poorest Indian states vs. 26 poorest African countries
The newly-released Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report has been getting quite some attention in the media. One of the most widely publicized “findings” from the report is that the 8 poorest Indian states have more poor people than the 26 … Continue reading
Ethnic humor: Where should we draw the line?
Joel Stein’s article in the TIME magazine, My Own Private India, has ruffled quite a few feathers. There have been a spate of posts by Indian-Americans criticizing the article as racist and offensive. The criticism ranges from well-worded to satirical … Continue reading
Telecom connectivity in rural India
The industry analysts go ga-ga everytime someone talks about the fast-growing Indian telecom market. The focus is now on achieving the Government-set target of 40% rural teledensity (telecommunications penetration as a percentage of population) by May 2014 and expanding broadband … Continue reading
Of Kumars and Singhs
Recently, I and a friend were discussing the most common words in the Indian names. My guess was a list consisting of “Singh”, “Patel”, “Yadav”, “Rao”, “Raj”, “Rajesh”, “Vijay” and “Amit”. To check my theory, I decided to do a … Continue reading
agra.nic.in: How not to design a website
As part of their DOCC projects, several of my batchmates at SPJIMR worked on rural tourism development projects with NGOs in remote parts of India. In their reports, almost all of them remarked that a number of beautiful places in … Continue reading
