Tag: india

  • Education has perception issues

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    I have been thinking a lot during this weekend on why education system in India is the way it is. At some point, I thought I got an answer in: education should be affordable to everyone irrespective of their status quo. But that is already happening in India. The Government of India already provides free…

  • Tourism in India

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    Tourism in India This is my first ever infographic, created using infogr.am.

  • Bringing Manufacturing In India?

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    “South Korean electronics major, Samsung, which launched the new Rex series of smart feature handsets today, plans to sell the first completely ‘made-in-India’ handsets in the Chinese market.” – Business Stadard This is a really great news. While the Indian Government exports manufacturing jobs to China (With Aakash Tablet), Samsung is bringing it home?

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    “Saavn has a music catalog of 1.1 million tracks, which is much smaller than what Nokia (over 4 million) and Apple iTunes (over 25 million).” “Saavn claims to have 10.5 million monthly unique users, two-thirds of whom are from India.” – BGR India On January 10, Nokia has announced that Nokia Music clocks 1.5M downloads…

  • Aakash Tablet

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    This evening, I tweeted that the biggest flaw with Aakash tablet was that it didn’t come pre-loaded with some (any) educational content. The Aakash project has been more or less a failure. It has not only faced manufacturing issues (including conflict with the OEM and within the IIT management), we all now know that it’s not…