Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
H1b and Innovation
Here is an interesting paper on H1b and the contribution to innovation.
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf
It’s a pretty long paper and some parts of it are too technical. So, I have reorganized into two main themes and summarized the contents below.
Brutal carnage in Mumbai: Where do we go from here?
The carnage in Mumbai is still going, 48 hours after the crisis started on a Black Wednesday. Terrorists have been mostly neutralized except for the Taj Mahal hotel, where one suspected terrorist seems to be holing out still. In size and daringness this is comparable to only September 11 – when a group of hijackers synchronized their attack to destabilize the commercial capital of the US. 9 different locations where attacked killing Jews, Europeans and scores of Indians. Once, the crisis ends we have big questions ahead of us. Read the rest of this entry »
Major terror attack in Mumbai
Terrorists have yet again struck Mumbai, the financial center of India. The attack around 10:30 pm Indian standard Time, was one of the most daring things in the recent times.
India has been plagued by insurgents for the last couple of decades and is related to the global terror attacks emanating from Islamic insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The attacks seems to have been highly coordinated and aims to scare away away the tourists and other foreign visitors from the Indian financial capital. The information available currently is pretty sketchy and a detailed report will be made in this blog soon. One only hopes that International community will collaborate stronger with India in rooting out this global terror mania.
Image source: Guardian
And the Winner is – Barack Obama
Barack Obama has won a landslide. I just watched McCain’s speech and it was awesome. He was brilliant, moving and gracious. In spite of all the acrimony over the last few months of campaign it was great of him to concede so early and so gracefully. I think this is the greatest thing about American democracy. It was sad to see him going for his last race, and now he has no chance of competing for an office he was very close to achieving. On the other hand, Obama’s coming will also be a great thing, atleast for international relations. Except for a few allies like India and Israel, a lot of rest of the world grew to disliking this administration and Europeans particularly will look forward to the change. And they are celebrating big already. I believe that will move overseas markets enormously. Nikkei is going up now as
