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Amartya Sen's remark on Narendra Modi has triggered an interesting debate. While it began with Amartya Sen saying he does not want Narendra Modi to become India's prime minister as he does not have secular credentials, Jagdish Bhagwati's arguments bring in an important counter argument.

Top 500 Chinese companies reported profits of 2.08 trillion yuan. Most of these are State-Owned . This post looks at how these big 5 Chinese enterprises that make the Great Economic Dragon create a barrier that ends up isolating them.

The post recession recovery has not been successful in creating enough jobs. WSJ has reported the following about the recovery scenario. Over the past 10 years: The U.S. economy's output of goods and services has expanded 19%. Nonfinancial corporate profits have risen 85%. The labor force has grown by 10.1 million. But the number of private-sector jobs has fallen by nearly two million. And the percentage of American adults at work has dropped to 58.2%, a low not seen since 1983. 

Saving power might be considered by many as an after effect of recession and if it really is, it's good. Powering off your TV might take you only a few seconds but the lazy loafer in each one of us does it a minute later. And I too am a part of the 'you' mentioned. Going by Thomas Friedman's 'Hot, Flat and Crowded', the world is having fever and it's getting warmer by the day; the of which effect was felt this winter. The solution or the silver bullet to counter this may be that small extra effort, tinier than the drop in an ocean. After 100 years of spewing industrial venom we will need a 100 years of Medicare to get things back on track. So why am I discussing all this ? All thanks to this post by Bill Weihl who informed about the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (co-founded by Google). They've come out with power saving computers. Although I am skeptical about using environment as the theme of their business of selling computers, they've come ...

Telecom adds 15 million telecom users in Jan 2009. Yup, we are growing and growing too fast. It's heartening to see such a growth as India sits high and mighty with the second largest subscribers in the world. Having worked in a telecom company for four months, I believe my friends still working there would be partying and slogging too maintaining the network for an ever increasing user base. But is the picture all that rosy. My thoughts are particularly influenced (rightly so) by Thomas L Friedman and there is enough reason to believe him. Imagine 15 million sim cards sold in a month; an ever increasing stress on the production of already scarce resources. But till how long can telecom grow ? India's penetration rate is 20%, that means that rural market is still waiting to be on the consumer list. So if in the 20 years they too join the middle class (stats say by 2016,entire south India will be middle class) and own a phone, computer, car (If a cheaper nano comes) and get into...