Good News: Only 42000 Satyam employees are worried about their jobs and not 55000, as reported earlier.
Bad News: The 13000 phantom employees were giving their salaries to ex-CEO Ramalinga Raju.
Gives a new meaning to the term, a CEO’s salary is several times the salary of an entry level employee. … read more
In the Guardian article titled Mumbai was not our 9/11, Arundhati Roy says:
If you were watching television you may not have heard that ordinary people too died in Mumbai. They were mowed down in a busy railway station and a public hospital. The terrorists did not distinguish between poor and rich. They killed … read more
The murderers who attacked Mumbai have been called by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukerjee and Secretary of State Rice as “Non State Actors”. Imagine telling the victim’s family “Your father was killed by a non-state actor”. As euphemisms go, this one is pretty bad. If you want to say that the murderers were not state-sponsored, … read more
The practice, of declaring a school holiday when a minister dies, should be discontinued. The only exception — if one is required — is when a sitting Prime Minister or President dies in office.
This happens more frequently in India because in the short 60 year time span since Independence, we have had several Prime … read more
