This traffic circle in Ho Chi Minh City wins the dubious award from Rob Whitworth. After that, watch this (not time lapsed) video of traffic in an Indian city. You decide.
Tag: India
India meets skateboarding [Video]
What happens when someone who’s never seen a skateboard, let alone ridden one, tries it out? Watch this short film called “INDIA: Meet Skateboarding” on YouTube
The Taj Mahal: A tear drop upon the cheek of Time [Music]
‘Twas Poet Rabindranath Tagore who called the Taj Mahal “a tear drop upon the cheek of Time”.
Listen to the accompanying flute music to images of the Taj – if you need a few moments of calmness in your busy day.
Australian Indians, the originals [Article]
Researchers (how do they do this, I wonder) have traced about 11% of the genomes in contemporary Australian Aborigines to migrants from India – 4000 years ago! Them, & the ancestors of the dingo. That is roughly 141 generations ago. I guess its a little more material to work with for those really keen on genealogy!
Cameron & India’s Nero [Article]
The Guardian examines Why David Cameron is doing business with India’s ‘modern-day Nero’. This link provides some context to what happened during the Godhra riots in Gujarat in 2002. Warning: The image of the man begging for his life to be spared may disturb you deeply, as it did to me when it was published on the front page of every major newspaper in India the day after the riots erupted.
Pharma’s secret in India
Since India relaxed its laws governing drugs trials in 2005, foreign drug companies have been keen to take advantage of the country’s pool of educated, English-speaking doctors and the huge population from which to choose trial subjects. The BBC asks Have India’s poor become human guinea pigs?
The India Syndrome
Fascination with India’s spiritual aspects draws a large number of westerners. This is a not so romantic inspection of this fascination.Death on the Path to Enlightenment.
Can’t compete!
I had a sense of deja-vu this evening.
Very rarely do I make myself comfortable on the couch AND turn on the television.
I did today, & the “news” was on.
A report about how the manufacturing industries in Australia cannot compete with the rest of the world.
The usual suspect, China.
The unusual suspect? India.
What I heard from one of the owners caused me the sense of deja-vu.
“There’s no way we can compete with manufacturing over there. They have the best technology, it keeps their costs down & their quality up. Their government gives the manufacturers subsidies for getting export orders”.
Words I had heard so often growing up in India about the “developed” world.
Seems that the “developed” world has no more room to “develop”. Ironic.