14 August 2011
music & india — #
Folk Punjab is a great place to find and download awesome, old-school Punjabi and Sufi folk songs.
2 November 2010
china & india — #
Thomas Friedman: Do Believe the Hype Over India
Having traveled to both China and India in the last few weeks, here’s a scary thought I have: What if — for all the hype about China, India and globalization — they’re actually underhyped? What if these sleeping giants are just finishing a 20-year process of getting the basic technological and educational infrastructure in place to become innovation hubs and that we haven’t seen anything yet?
14 October 2010
india & business — #
India Markets Becomes Popular Destination for World’s Investors
20 September 2010
photography & india — #
My shots from our time in India in 2003 have been rescanned at a higher resolution and are now up and geotagged on Flickr.
16 September 2010
india & architecture — #
LAVASA is a hill city in Maharashtra, India “designed on the principles of new urbanism, offers the best-in-class infrastructure, international educational institutions, leading non-polluting industries, exciting avenues of leisure and tourism tourism and homes for comfortable living.”
12 August 2010
nature & india — #
Re-Introducing Cheetahs to India’s Grasslands — Is it a Good Idea?
21 July 2010
india & politics — #
Rare footage of Mahatma Gandhi explaining the intention behind his movement
11 April 2010
india & business — #
Turnaround of India State Could Serve as a Model
For decades the sprawling state of Bihar, flat and scorching as a griddle, was something between a punch line and a cautionary tale, the exact opposite of the high-tech, rapidly growing, rising global power India has sought to become.
Criminals could count on the police for protection, not prosecution. Highwaymen ruled the shredded roads and kidnapping was one of the state’s most profitable businesses. Violence raged between Muslims and Hindus, between upper castes and lower castes. Its economy, peopled by impoverished subsistence farmers struggling through alternating floods and droughts, shriveled. Its government, led by politicians who used divisive identity politics to entrench their rule, was so corrupt that it required a newly coined phrase: the Jungle Raj.
The name captured everything that was wrong with the old India — a combustible mix of crime, corruption and caste politics in a state crucible that stifled economic growth.
So when Bihar announced earlier this year that it had notched an 11 percent average growth rate for the last five years, making it the second fastest-growing economy in the country, the news was greeted as a sign that even India’s most intractable corners of backwardness and misery were being transformed.
21 December 2009
culture & india — #
Here Comes The Neighborhood chronicles what living in Bangalore for a year is like for an American couple.