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Beyond Numbers: Dealing with terrorism in India
Lets start with a small exercise. Trying searching for List of Sept 2011 victims or for List of London Bombing victims. In each case, more than half of results on first page lead to a list of names along with the … Continue reading
Book Summary: Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani
The book presents a generalists view of post-independent India. Unlike India Unbound, this book focuses primarily on post-independent India and takes a more pragmatic approach towards understanding problems of contemporary India. The best parts of the book is the interesting … Continue reading
“Understanding Corruption – impact and solution”: A talk by Subramanian Swamy
(Following are a few notes from the talk on corruption by Harvard Professor and Janata Party leader, Dr. Subramanian Swamy held in bay area on July 29th 2011) Corruption – misuse of public office for personal gains Five impacts of … Continue reading
BlackBerry Controversy in India
Indian Govt. has asked RIM (maker of BlackBerry smart phone) to provide access to the data going through its servers for intelligence purposes and it appears that BlackBerry has accepted the demands. Due to the lack of understanding of encryption … Continue reading