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I am not sure what love or hate of cricket has to do with my comments

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Tipu #162

``I bn people and only 1% of possible thousand TIDEL park and you still bragging---bragging

So mumbai is one for 1 bn indians

Hong Kong and Singapores are only for its city/country population.. ``

You are in the second inning of a baseball game. Don`t be too hasty in declaring the winner.

IN HIS straw hat and crescent shaped antique chain that hangs from his neck embossed with `peace` and `shanti`, Rajesh Touchriver makes an impression even before he talks about his controversial film ``In The Name Of Buddha.`

(Don`t get misguided by his name, he is very much an Indian from Kerala, who changed his original surname Thodupuzha into its literal translation `Touchriver`)

A postgraduate in visual language and direction from the Wimbledon School of Art, London, Touchriver`s film graphically recreates the atrocities of civil war in Sri Lanka through the eyes of a Sri LankanTamil. The movie was nominated for the Best Debut Director category at the Cannes Film Festival.

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There you have it, the final act of indian modernity, a good old kerala surname, ``thodupuza`` has been changed to ``touchriver``, in not very distant future the river name itself will change. That is pathetic.

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Ref dost-mittar #56

[shankar:
Have fun in Mumbai. I am told that the Ambani complex in Navi Mumbai also provides enviable amenities for the Reliance staff. Maybe you could pay a visit to your old friends there:-) ]

Man, you got as good a memory as moi. I expect the Headshrinker to meet with his elementary school chum Mukesh Ambani and swap stories of what they have been doing since their time together at Altamont Road in Bombay ;-)

Hopefully, we will all get to hear about it on Chowk!

Ref Urstruly #70

[good and well written article. The only thing missing is a bunch if oictures. I am pretty sure chowk staff could have accomodated them within the article somehow.]

A couple of years back, there was a show on Deutsche Welle TV (shown in some cities in the US) on the outsourcing of software work from Germany to India. I did not realize that the TV shot had shifted to Bangalore. The campus of the software park that was shown was absolutely unlike anything I have seen in India.

By the way, the software park was built by Singapore. So much for Indian civil engineers and architects, who of course are anyway trying to become code coolies.

PS. TIDEL Park in Chennai was also not designed by Indians. The crapola elevated train station in front of it is.

Ref ali87 #75

[wait till the lawyers realise the savings of having law research done in India. Some small Indian law firms already have employees qualified in American law doing research on contract basis.]

About 18 months back I met an Indian lawyer (trained in the US) in Chicago and he was already talking about outsourcing legal research to India to corporate legal departments.

India needs to avoid scenarios such as Gujarat. Otherwise its on the right track.

And it needs to stop looking for the past under Masjids.


Ras

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the back button is too far and one has to take the effort of removing the stuff which is still there in the posting window... too much work

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Chowk Staff

It would be nice if there was a link to the discussion where one posted in the screen that comes after posting

#148 by bbabu on June 11, 2003 9:53am PT

yes the percentage is low. certainly most who go back do so for two reasons because they are better qualified and find comfortable positins back in india and those who go back for sake of family or culture or simply to be home.

#150 by bbabu on June 11, 2003 9:53am PT

Im not saying that private schools are necessarily bad but neither are govt schools. they both have their role and both have shown they can produce academic successes.

anyway i dont remember why we started discussing schools..

:)