Promise of Reason

The problem:

Whether it is Mr. Rajdeep sardesai on CNN-IBN showing his concerns for performance of Congress party or NDTV news reporters stating their clear preferences for Left in their news items, all are sources of worry for neutral functioning of media. Media which is by its very name, not supposed to favor one party or another, seems to loosing its way. All the media persons we are discussing here are very senior reporters and thinkers as such. But problem to separate fact from the personal values and preferences is looming large on media as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »

Priya Dwivedi is a young working woman with a BTech degree in information and technology, career is rising up in its usual way, hard work and talent have made her able to take care of herself. Living in satelite town of Delhi, she hit a moral roadblock in her late 20s. To take care of her 2 years old son, oh did I forget to mention that she is happily married, atleast till now, she decided to leave the job. Now arise many problems, many problems we all, people living in big cities, see on a regular basis. She cann’t and shouldn’t be content with a life where taking care of her son is his whole day work, Read the rest of this entry »

Whenever someone tries to say that India should reform its economy and move towards open market, many, and mind you ‘many’ people start to question it on the basis that it will not be good for the 70% of rural population. Let us discuss the possible solution to this potential problem. How can we effectively improve the condition of rural India and take them with the progressing economy? Read the rest of this entry »

India is growing like a big balloon economically. Some fears that this balloon might explode like south-east Asian countries and we should not indulge in western concept of market. But they forget that same countries (Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore) were able to raise the life style of their citizen by a considerable amount when India was tottering in 70s and 80s. Even China started to rise after opening its economy in 80s. Export based opening of any economy always results in betterment of country, history shows this and so does economy. So here are some reasons why India and other developing countries should open their economy completely. Read the rest of this entry »

“Prices are going up” – blame politicians, “Terrorists are exploding bombs in every city” – blame politics, “My community is not getting reservation” – blame it, even if your son is not able to qualify for medical/engineering/civils exam blame politics. This is an all India psycho problem now days. Why it is so and what are the possible reasons let us think. Read the rest of this entry »

Millions of Hindi speakers across India and the rest of the world have a reason to cheer: Google News is now available in Hindi.

Google News gathers news stories from the various Hindi news sources on the web and presents a ranked one-page summary with all the links to your favourite news sources in the various sections. One of the interesting challenges google faced in this edition was the fact that not all Hindi news sources are in UTF-8 format. Though google strongly back and urge the adoption of the Unicode-based UTF-8 standard by all Indian language websites, google didn’t want to deprive hindi readers from reaching content on some of google’s favourite news sources which are not yet there. So google internally translate this information to the UTF-8 standard and do all the processing necessary to provide links to these sites. Google hope that this edition will enable the huge Hindi-speaking Internet population to easily reach all of their favourite news content across the web, and also help news publishers to connect to their audience better.

And now I’m off to tell my beloved family members and friends all the great news –or should I say Google News?