Kamala Harris was born in California, but her mother emigrated from India, and her parents were born in this village (details here, story here). Her father, a native Jamaican, is a retired Stanford economics professor; her mother was a biomedical scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. S[...]
Posts Tagged ‘India’
October 13th, 2017 - 12:05 am § in Misc.
Higher Education In India: Looks Like the Issues in the US!
IndiaMohammad UmarJun, FIRST POST “…There is a quiet crisis in higher education in India which runs deep,” Macaulay asserted – “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia” Representational image. News18 abstracted …R[...]
March 6th, 2017 - 7:43 am § in Foreign Affairs
India and China- A hope for the future VIVEK IYER, China Daily Mail The India–China relationship has always been troubled, but the visuals of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to China were certainly heartwarming. President Xi returned Mr Modi’s gesture of breaking the protocol to receive him. T[...]
February 25th, 2017 - 11:28 am § in Misc.
Virtual Politics Come to the Land of Krishna
4 From the economy to an encounter: How to argue on Twitter, Indian style[...]
February 28th, 2016 - 8:02 am § in Misc.
Now, use your smartphone to find an electronic toilet
Everything from taxis to laundry and now toilets can be ordered via a smartphone, in Bengalore. Now citizens can find the nearest electronically controlled self-cleaning toilets or e-toilet through an app, which was launched by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Wednesday. Through the [...]
February 18th, 2016 - 4:09 pm § in Misc.
Is Trump the newest member of the Neo-Nationalists
Rise Of The Neo-Nationalists: Modi, Putin, Xi & Erdogan AP/Getty/WorldPost Illustration Re[...]
June 22nd, 2015 - 2:23 pm § in Misc.
Nikki Haley apparently marked her race as “white” on her voter registration form in South Carolina.
Here in Seattle Kshama Sawant and Pramila Jayapal have strongly identified themselves as people of color. some call them”browns.” I find this disturbing, an effort to pass for one of America’s horribly mistreated minorities ought to be bas sed on more than a good tan. The i[...]
June 4th, 2015 - 9:17 am § in Misc.
Disney Abuses Immigrations Policy to Fire US Citizens
Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements American tech workers in Orlando found their jobs and desks transferred to immigrants brought in under H-1B visas by an Indian firm. NYTIMES.COM|BY JULIA PRESTON[...]