A Success Story - Mukesh Ambani

This is a first for me on my blog - writing about one of the business whizkids of India who has changed how the world looks at India - Mukesh Ambani. This article had been published in the New York Times. I wonder when will the Indian media become savvy enough to do things like this so that the common man in India comes to know about the deeds and acheivements of worthy sons of the soil.

Again, this article is written very simply and states all the facts about him that could be of interest to the user:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/business/worldbusiness/15ambani.html?ex=1214193600&en=201eb9e0833297a9&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Three cheers to the New York Times.....

The Two faces of India

This again is an URL that had reached my mailbox. What struck me was the simplicity with which the author had brought out the differences between India's rich and India's poor..... a fantastically written aritcle.....


Here's the slide show:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/09/world/0609-GATED_index.html?ex=1213761600&en=2cf94a96ad13f62c&ei=5070&emc=eta3

and the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/world/asia/09gated.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The impact of the Noida double murder

Recently, I received the following URL in my mail:


http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showcolumns.aspx?id=COLEN20080051397&ch=6/12/2008%2012:06:00%20PM

It is a comment on the most talked about crimes to happen in recent times - The Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj murder. It is an insight into the sociological reasons and impacts of the crime. After having read it, I had a definite contarsting viewpoint on some of the things that the author has written about.

And my viewpoints about it are as follows:

Well.... most of us are the next generation to the generation which is higher than ours and are therfore a by-product ourselves. Stories abound of how men in the family take advantage of the young maids in the house. Entire generation of us have been brought up on a staple diet of such facts of life. In our generation, women have acknowledged their own sexuality and dont feel ashamed of it. The generation next to mine therefore has confident women too but due to all the technological advancements they are a lot younger in age now. And our male dominated society cannot take it any more.... so it is fashionable and sign of manhood if the guy of the house takes advantage of the maid.. but totally unacceptable if it happens the other way round. So what happens to all the talk of gender equality.... I think that one has been relegated under the carpet... society is wanting to turn a blind eye to the affects of past deeds and trends.

As for domestic helps.... with the nuclear families abounding so much, the dependence on domestic helps is very high. I have seen quite a few people who treat their domestic helps very nicely because it os the need of the day. I am not denying that there are some people who try to do the 'good thing' but there are some genuine people out there too... and I can just hope that the number of such people show an increase.

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Various articles and comments like this have surfaced in the past month on this sensational double murder. Each contradicting the other and thought provoking to a certain extent. The citizens have witnessed the inadequacy of the Noida police, the women and child welfare ministry raising its voice for the dignity of the dead child, the pressures on the CBI, the respect that the news media has given to the Talwars by showing restraint in what is being aired, a popular television production house being rapped on the knuckles about trying to cash in on a family's tragedy. Its all happening but we still just want to see one thing..... and that is Justice For Aarushi and Hemraj.