Anita writes about Marrygold, a new-age matchmaking service. When I got this email, I was tempted to laugh it off. But then I read it once again and it made more sense the second time round. Isn’t it true that many young people today are looking for the man/woman of their dreams but don’t have… Continue reading Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
Category: Indiawatch
Culture-Society-Development-Politics-Quirks
Maid in India
Can someone who doesn’t even know how to read or write use a computer? Microsoft Corp. is probing that question at a research lab in India. Microsoft seeking ways to help illiterate. That is promising. And then this… Working with a local advocacy group, Microsoft has developed a prototype of a system that would connect… Continue reading Maid in India
Dance baby, dance
Iam going through a blogger’s block and have not been posting regularly. Sometimes I stare at the screen and wonder whether there is anything at all to write about. This too shall pass. I hope. And then there are these incidents which make me want to write again… A couple of days ago I attended… Continue reading Dance baby, dance
Mobile phones and potato-onions
Some people never learn – make that some companies. Remember how Reliance mobile had started out in India – with those “dealers” who sold you the mobile phone and then vanished – or if were present, had no clue about handling after-sales queries and complaints? Remember how Reliance called them not dealers but entrepreneurs under… Continue reading Mobile phones and potato-onions
Software jobs and the marriage market
Visitors at home look at my husband with pity, oh, you are in Bombay? You are not in the US? Worse – you are not in software…? And smile that disbelieving, even patronizing smile when he says he never wanted to live in the US. (Yes, of course, sour grapes and non software jobs –… Continue reading Software jobs and the marriage market
Sex ratio across rural and urban India
Just read Harini’s post on the 60 million missing children – how to name it? Readying myself for the enlightening and amusing comments containing the “ist” words – activist and feminist – I urge you to head there right now and read it. (And no, don’t even bother mentioning Hepatitis to me). And just today,… Continue reading Sex ratio across rural and urban India
Computer training and social mobility
In the previous post about the nature of advertising in high involvement product categories, education figured as a lucrative business area. I discussed briefly the areas of English coaching and higher education (as represented by the numerous private MBA institutes and dental colleges and engineering college all over the country). Exciting promises of a bright… Continue reading Computer training and social mobility
HIV and morality in Tamilnadu
This time targeting teenage school drop outs, UNICEF and the Nehru Yuva Kendra have roped in the Song and Drama division of the Ministry of Information and Broadasting to launch a new awareness program in Tamilnadu. This move has been driven by the UNICEF estimate that one of every two new HIV infections is in… Continue reading HIV and morality in Tamilnadu
The Kalleda photoblog project
Happy Monday Morning. Happy – to be back in Bombay, back home, and back at my blog (there, I said it) – and earlier than I had planned… Also happy to have come across this remarkable initiative in flickr – The Kalleda Rural School Photoblog. This is the photoblog of the kids at Kalleda Rural… Continue reading The Kalleda photoblog project
Aruna dreams of a job…
This is the story of Aruna, a very bright young woman I know. Aruna’s mother – and her mother before her – has been working at my husband’s parents’ place in Kakinada for many years. Aruna’s mother Sai did not want the same life for her daughter; so Aruna went to school while her mother… Continue reading Aruna dreams of a job…