The partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 is probably one of the most under reported stories of the 20th century. However, in the last few years there has been a clear, upward trend in the number of researchers and historians, who have been excavating and unearthing this long buried event and looking and examining at it [...]

LiveJournal, an open source blogging platform is expanding its footprint in India and recently launched a community for their users in India. LiveJournal has ambitious plans for localization by providing translation and multilingual interfaces to its bloggers and readers. While English is the dominant language for Indian bloggers there has been an increase in the [...]

Here is the line-up for this week’s interview.
A 2-part interview with Murugan Pal of CK-12, a non-profit organization in the education field. CK-12 is co-founded by Neeru Khosla and Murugan and they are working on providing innovative technical solution for  high-school students and teachers. Murugan has an interesting background. Prior to working with CK-12 he [...]

Today the Unforgettable Tour starring the Bachchans, Madhuri Dixit, Ritesh Deshmukh, Preity Zinta and others comes to the San Francisco bay area. The stars will perform at what was previously known as Oakland Coliseum, which is a giant sports stadium that can seat thousands of people. I imagine all the roads leading to the Coliseum [...]

I will be attending the annual BlogHer 2008 conference at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco from July 18-19th, 2008. This year the conference organizers are also hosting a pre-launch mixer for first timers and I hope to make it the mixer since this is my first time attending BlogHer.
The conference appears to be a [...]

Later this evening Jet Airway’s maiden flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Shanghai will take off. At 6 pm this evening Jet Airways has a little do to celebrate this event at the San Francisco Airport. I hope to be there and write a post about it and hopefully take some pictures.  Like I [...]