Country with the most Billionaires!

It’s not the United States or UK or Germany or India!  It definitely should be Zimbabwe, where every common man deals with billions of dollars (Z$ of course!)
Zimbabwe is reeling under serious inflation, hovering around 2.2 Million % as per official figures.  Unofficial figures put it higher.  These high value bills couldn’t even buy a [...]

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Future of Indian IT

We have been seeing ups and downs in the Indian IT Arena, connected mainly with the slump in the US Economy.  This is a very much anticipated outcome, as a major share of the revenues of Indian IT Majors come from the US.  So what really does the future hold for the Indian IT Population?  [...]

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Vidarbha suicides

Group of people who depend on agriculture and the monsoon in India, are in shambles. With so many relief activities carried out by the UPA Government, the suicide rate in Maharashtra is still shocking, at about 3 deaths per day. This is really heart breaking.
Also the policy to provide compensation to the affected [...]

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Recent articles I loved – By Swaminathan S

I have always been a regular reader of articles written by Swaminathan S. His natural style of writing and expressions remind me a lot of R.K. Narayan. Though their areas of interest are different, I can sense some similarity in their writing.
Couple of his recent articles were too good. I just enjoyed [...]

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Economics in layman (a.k.a myself) terms

Nowadays the buzzwords in IT are paving way to the ones in economics. Terms like inflation, CRR etc. are becoming more common. With no formal economics knowledge, I found it pretty difficult to correlate these terms and understand them. The objective of this post is to give my understanding of some [...]

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