India's Civil Service - How Things work

The economist never ceases to amaze me..High quality article again over Indian Civil servants,bureaucracy , Panchayats & politicians
-- It explains problems at both ends of spectrum..

Ajith

Kerala's development paradox

A great article about the realities of my home state , Kerala ==> http://www.indiatogether.org/2008/mar/opi-kerala.htm

Definitely worth a read :-)

Ajith

Rose as a social Tool

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/opinion/13cohen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Interesting article about how Roses ( Yeah the romantic roses ) play its part in job creation & sometimes exploitation ..

So the moral - Buy more roses, gift it to girls :-)

Ajith

Indian Agricultural System - An Insightful Article

From one of my favorite portals - Yale global, this article by Tarun Khanna talks about whats wrong with the Indian Agricultural System vis-a-vis China. Not much deep, but a relatively highly insightful article

Caste as a social capital

http://newsinsight.net/columns/full_column22.htm -- I'm not sure if I agree to all the points that prof: Vaidyanathan makes in this article..But this definitely is something thats quite alternative / out - of - normal perspective .. Definitely worth a read.

The Iphone Saga

A must -read article on how I-phone rewrote the dynamics of wireless phone industry ..Link:-http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=1

US - SubPrime Crisis

For a layman's explanation to the recent sub-prime crisis in US, check http://the-finance-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/us-sub-prime-crisis.html


Ajith