‘Sunlight gets the votes. Twilight gets the notes.'»

churumuri on 2010-08-29 07:05:06

For months, the UPA mantra was growth and development at the cost of food and general inflation. Gigantic projects and investments at the cost of spreading Maoist violence. Infrastructure development over the rights of tribals and other indigenous people, no matter the environment. Suddenly, the Con more »
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InfoEdge to Invest INR 4.7 Cr in Foodiebay»

Pluggd.in on 2010-08-25 03:38:31

InfoEdge (the company behind Naukri.com, Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com) has announced plans to invest INR 4.7 Cr in Foodiebay, an online food and restaurant service. Foodiebay (read our review when the site was launched) earlier collated reviews from various sources (like Times food guide, HT etc) more »
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India Markets Thursday Wrap-Up: India Leads Asian Gainers»

India Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha on 2010-08-19 07:23:35

Equitymaster submits: Taking cues from positive sentiments in global markets, the Indian indices managed to hold on to the early gains and ended the session firmly in the positive today. The lower food and fuel inflation numbers also seem to have improved sentiments. While the BSE Sensex closed more »
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The Kitchen Hotline Offers Personalized Coaching and Help on Food, Wine, Entertaining and Nutrition»

IndianWeb2.com - Web 2.0 and Technology Startup Ne on 2010-08-17 14:58:23

The Kitchen Hotline Offers Personalized Coaching and Help on Food, Wine, Entertaining and Nutrition Colorado Woman Launches a New Business that Connects You with Professional Chefs, Sommeliers PR Newswire — August 17, 2010 DENVER, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Do you ever wish that you could ha more »
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Bootstrapping a startup via Consulting gigs ? The Big Question»

Pluggd.in on 2010-08-17 00:46:45

Every startup requires cash. It's not built on thin air as early stage investors think. Money for paying the lawyer, government fees, hiring developers and more importantly paying your rent, food, fuel, etc. An entrepreneur starts with a calculated risk of investing (or burning through) his saving more »
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The Food Channel(R) Recaps Coverage of School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference»

IndianWeb2.com - Web 2.0 and Technology Startup Ne on 2010-08-10 13:58:09

The Food Channel� Recaps Coverage of School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference Healthy products and innovations featured on the new foodchannelpro.com Web site PR Newswire — August 10, 2010 CHICAGO, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ — As part of the Web site’s ongoing commitment more »
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If we can send man to the moon, why can't we...?»

churumuri on 2010-08-08 18:03:07

E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The Ace Political Expert (APE) was coming out of the Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra (GKVK) campus in Hebbal after attending a seminar. He was surrounded by delegates who held samples of food grains grown across India, in small, neatly packed, airtight ziploc covers. After his more »
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Why ToI was right to use The Last Supper motif»

churumuri on 2010-08-06 13:12:41

The Times of India printed this 8-column illustration by Neelabh Banerjee in late July, to accompany a story titled “The Lost Supper” on the plight of the common man in the face of galloping food prices. The illustrator put R.K. Laxman‘s man from Matunga where Jesus sat in Leonardo more »
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Using a Food Label to Make Smart Food Choices»

IndianWeb2.com - Web 2.0 and Technology Startup Ne on 2010-08-04 15:09:59

FDA CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION – August 10 Webinar: Using a Food Label to Make Smart Food Choices PR Newswire — August 4, 2010 SILVER SPRING, Md., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — What’s %DV and why is it important? What’s the relationship between serving size and tota more »
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Is India on the verge of an internal Emergency?»

churumuri on 2010-08-02 08:15:53

Mind-numbing corruption, galloping food inflation, blood-curdling Maoism, life-ripping terrorism (homegrown and otherwise), daylight loot of natural resources (State-sponsored and otherwise), burgeoning trouble in Kashmir, States simmering from within and so on. India in the year of the lord 2010 is more »
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Consumer Confidence Index: Indians are Super Confident [2010 Q2 Survey Results]»

pluGGd.in on 2010-07-28 22:30:31

While it was 127 in last quarter, it's 129 for this quarter; Indian consumers remain most upbeat in the word despite food prices crisis at home and improving outlooks elsewhere. With a two point increase, at 129 points Consumer Confidence Index is the highest in India in the latest Nielsen Global more »
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Barclaycard Contactless Technology Rolls Out Across Co-Operative Stores Nationwide»

IndianWeb2.com - Web 2.0 and Technology Startup Ne on 2010-07-23 10:19:13

Barclaycard Contactless Technology Rolls Out Across Co-Operative Stores Nationwide PR Newswire — July 23, 2010 NORTHAMPTON, England, July 23 /PRNewswire/ — Barclaycard joins forces with The Co-operative Food as it becomes the UK’s first major grocery retailer to introduce contactle more »
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Economic Disparities in India»

AbhiSays.com on 2010-07-10 17:33:04

Winter was at its zenith in Delhi on 31st Dec 2009 night. I was returning from Noida to Delhi in my office bus. I saw a few blue coloured polyethylene tents on roadside and flames coming from cooking stoves. Soon I realised that those tents were occupied and the dwellers inside were cooking food for more »
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Letters after my name»

DesiPundit on 2010-01-14 14:17:12

It was yet another very ordinary day in school. I was in class VII. It was lunch break time. When my class teacher asked me to go collect a letter that had come in my name,my excitement just grew beyond what I could handle. Food was not what was import... more »
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Dry Roasted Spicy Chickpea Salad — Going local ?»

DesiPundit on 2010-01-10 04:46:00

PreludeI am the kind of consumer who is pro organic because my primary concern is safety in food. Though due to cost and restricted availability I do not buy everything organic.I did not rely much on \"local food\" because I do not have access to good lo... more »
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Bangalore's Food Street»

DesiPundit on 2010-01-06 15:44:25

A short piece on Bangalore’s Food Street appeared recently in The India Tube. Every time someone asked me what I missed most about Bombay, street food came somewhere on top of that list, so this came as quite a nice surprise. We headed there one ... more »
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Food Inflation in India: Causes, Solutions»

India Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha on 2009-12-21 11:16:59

Faisal Humayun submits: The wholesale food prices in India touched a 10 year high with food inflation coming at 19.95% for the week ended December 5, 2009. This article looks back into the spiraling food inflation in 2009, its implications, reasons and solutions.The table below gives the retail pric more »
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VoiceTap connects you with experts to get answers»

StartupDunia on 2009-12-14 19:06:27

VoiceTap is a Noida based startup that hopes to connect knowledge seekers with knowledge experts.  As the fast-food content on the Internet grows, its becoming more and more difficult to search for relevant, precise, authoritative answers to your questions on Google. VoiceTap hopes to make it easie more »
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La Mar: Peru On A Platter»

DesiPundit on 2009-04-02 08:49:00

I remember reading about Peruvian food being one of the greatest cuisines in the world. Wrote the author, "It is the original fusion food, having absorbed influences from almost every continent over the last 500 years and melded them with ingredients... more »
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Search Suggestions in Yahoo! Images are just Brilliant»

Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog on 2009-03-20 17:50:17

When I searched for images of domino's pizza on Yahoo Images, the suggestions included McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King, KFC and Subway - all fast food chains. more »
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How do you bring up a child to have a heart?»

Blogpourri on 2009-02-27 03:55:00

It is one of those conundrums of parenthood.Nourishing the body could not get any easier. Nutritional science and availability of healthful food have both improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years, taking the guesswork out of figuring out what is good or bad for growing bodies. Yes, it re more »
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Eat less for a good memory»

Abhishek Kumar on 2009-01-29 18:08:24

According to German researchers, eating less calorie food is very beneficial for good memory. This observation is more relevant for men and women whose age is greater than 30. In the study, researchers found that people who cut their calorie intake by approximately 30 percent performed better on sta more »
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Authentic Indian Food?»

DesiPundit on 2009-01-18 11:30:00

On being offered a keema masala dosa at a lunch buffet in Pune recently, I thought,"Damn! I can't even order a dosa any longer and expect the authentic version on my plate". Having spent my childhood days in Mysore, where idlis and dosas were staple fa... more »
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Rome»

Blogpourri on 2009-01-08 00:20:00

We ride into Rome on one of Treinitalia's high-speed lines from Naples. Rome's Termini station is large, swanky and user-friendly. It's drizzling outside but our hotel is only a short distance away, so we walk. By the time we get settled, the sun is peeking through the clouds and we head out.We are more »
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Bogus Arguments, a play for two»

DesiPundit on 2009-01-07 20:27:51

Cast Bogus Argumenter Naive Vaguely-smiling-face (Ilicchavaayan) Prologue: The Trigger Naive Vaguely-smiling-face: Do not waste food. Act 1 (and only 1) BA: Ah. I see. Let me ask you a question. NVSF: Go ahead BA: Let’s say that I overestimated the amount of rice I can tuck in without implodin more »
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Indian Markets: Ten Moments That Will Define 2009»

India Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha on 2008-12-31 03:14:15

Equitymaster submits: Great Depression? Nope. Not for India. The world is more inter-dependent now. We all need jobs to buy food rather than produce our own. We all have a bigger and greater variety of bills to pay and loans to repay. Household expenses are a much larger proportion of income than in more »
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KitneBaje will Book Services for you»

pluGGd.in on 2008-12-23 02:19:15

Need an appointment with doctor? Wanna book a table at restaurant? KitneBaje seeks to be the one stop shop for booking travel (air/bus/rental cars), restaurants as well as hotels for you. Think of KitneBaje as a personal assistant, web based PA that can help you manage your plans/schedules (though more »
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Preparing for the What Ifs»

Blogpourri on 2008-12-17 15:10:00

Whenever self-pity threatens to wash over me, usually about the fourth day after the husband has left on yet another of his frequent trips, I think about one of my friends. She managed two kids, a dog and a home on her own for an entire year while her husband served in Iraq. In the neighborhood that more »
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Inspiring Tales from Entrepreneurs»

pluGGd.in on 2008-12-12 05:26:19

Inspiration - that’s what we ask for in the times, when recession, downturn and related ‘keywords’ start figuring out in our day-to-day vocabulary. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and contr more »
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Volunteerism vs. Terrorism»

Blogpourri on 2008-12-08 19:12:00

It has been a week since a handful of terrorists brazenly attacked Mumbai and mowed down innocent people going about their lives. A twisted ideology, a few guns and hand-grenades caused enough mayhem and destruction over a span of two and half days to roil already sensitive relations between two nei more »
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The Face of the Great Depression»

Blogpourri on 2008-12-03 16:07:00

Image source: Wikimedia; Original photo by Dorothea LangeIn Salon today:In the black-and-white photograph, known as "Migrant Mother," Katherine is the child on the left. Her mother, then-32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson, had seven children at the time, who worked with her in the fields, picking more »
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Pustak - India's largest book store ?»

StartupDunia on 2008-12-01 00:48:08

Pustak is a new, online Indian bookstore, which claims to have about 12 million listings in its catalog. While this market does not have any one dominant player yet, Pustak does seem to have a few points that work in its favor. For starters, they claim to have the largest database of titles. Secondl more »
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Road rage in India and Zinc intake»

The Scientific Indian on 2008-11-29 09:17:16

Yesterday's Hindu newspaper I read at our noisy suburb in Bangalore informs thus: Is there any relationship between road rage in cities, especially during peak hour traffic, and nutrient deficiency? Yes, says the country's renowned soil scientist J.C. Katyal, who is Vice-Chancellor of the Choudhary more »
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150 Things To Do Before You Turn 30»

Blogpourri on 2008-11-20 02:40:00

Saw this post on Mumbaigirl's blog. Am closer in age to the next big O, but here goes anyway. The things that I've already done are in bold. Can't tell which came before 30 and which after. Must be growing old.01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink02. Swam with dolphins03. Climbed a mountain04. Take more »
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Obama should change»

DesiPundit on 2008-11-13 10:04:10

Overated Outcast is unhappy with Obama. He wants the good old guy back. This is completely unacceptable and has to change. Look, we cheered for you. Kenya had an orgasm when you won. The British dropped their plate of spotted dick (it’s a food item, you pervert) as soon as they heard. The Chin more »
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Scenes of Philadelphia»

Blogpourri on 2008-11-12 08:02:00

National Treasure (the movie, the first one, which was shot in Philadelphia and DC) and the John Adams miniseries on HBO, based on the book by David McCullough, both turned out to be pretty popular in our house. If you have the time and inclination, the John Adams series is worth watching, not least more »
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OrderMonger shuts the service»

pluGGd.in on 2008-11-10 11:25:41

Hyderabad based OrderMonger (read our earlier review), has decided to shutdown their service. “We regret to inform you that OrderMonger.com will cease all operations from Oct 1, 2008. This decision has been taken predominantly due to non-viability of the business while maintaining the high Ser more »
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Economic Contractions and Rising Prices: Enter Global Inflation»

India Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha on 2008-11-06 10:13:05

Reggie Middleton submits: Food and fuel prices, the main triggers Commodity and fuel price-spurred inflation has put economies across the globe on the ropes. The price of crude doubled from US$73.39 per barrel on July 2, 2007, to US$147.47 in July 2008. The consequent increase in cost of production more »
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Childhood Allergies»

Blogpourri on 2008-10-22 14:19:00

Tharini at Winkies Ways circulated an impassioned e-mail a few weeks ago asking for stories of childhood allergies and how to deal with them. Although I had not experienced them first hand with my children (touch wood), food allergies are so ubiquitous that there is no escaping their impact on every more »
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If music be the food of love, play on, play on»

churumuri on 2008-10-21 05:26:54

Students of the Wesleyan University perform Muthuswami Dikshithar’s Kamalambha Navavarna Kriti during the Navaratri festival in Middletown, Connecticut. They train under adjunct instructor Balu and artist in residence David Nelson from the ethnomusicology department. Links courtesy Naveen Chim more »
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Frozen Slush Possibly Inspired by Google's April Fool's Day Prank»

Digital Inspiration on 2008-10-20 07:40:37

Google is not getting into the food business and this Gulp launch was just another April Fools' Day prank but this possibly inspired a company in India to launch a semi-frozen slush. more »
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No more eating out»

DesiPundit on 2008-10-15 11:58:25

Neelakantan writes that our Health Minister may soon ban consumption of food in public places. It has already banned gratuitous eating scenes from movies. Everybody knows that a Shah Rukh Khan does not eat Vada Pav from a hawker. Amitabh has stomach problems. All this has to do with food, he reminde more »
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Talking Cellphones»

SatishSays dot Com on 2008-09-27 01:25:34

Cell phones are as integral a part of out lives as is food, water and air. Try living a day without your cell phone and you’ll know if I’m just making lofty statements or talking serious. Come to think of it, the one thing you check in your pocket when leaving the house is your [...] more »
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When Food beckons - FoodieBay, NeedGrub answer»

StartupDunia on 2008-09-23 21:24:10

Food - restaurant - home delivery related portals seem to surprisingly popular in India. Joining the genre of other startups like OrderMonger and HungryBangalore, are FoodieBay and NeedGrub. FoodieBay is a new startup by IIT D alumni, which lists about 1200 restaurants and food joints from the Delhi more »
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ScienceBlogs One Millionth Comment Party in London»

The Scientific Indian on 2008-09-12 06:30:02

We are close! You could be the one and if you are you will be teleported to NYC for a party with people from other dimensions. It's time to celebrate the conversations we have had all through these years. Come join us Saturday 20 September in London at Calthorpe Arms, a pub near Russell Square and more »
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Money Saving Tips for Entrepreneurs (Cash is King)»

pluGGd.in to Indian Startups on 2008-09-09 00:00:00

Contrary to popular opinion in Bollywood, I think that Cash is King. Singh is just bling. This post looks at ways in which start-ups in India can conserve their cash and find ways to save money - highly relevant in today’s context where funding is slow and growth expectations might not be play more »
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Best Countries for Business : India ranks @ 64th position»

pluGGd.in to Indian Startups on 2008-09-05 04:31:37

India has slipped 13 positions (now at 64) in Forbes’ ranking of best countries for businesses. Top 5 List for 2008: Denmark, which rose three slots from last year, Ireland (up 19 places to No. 2), Finland (up four to third place), U.S. (down three to fourth) and U.K. (up five to fifth). Big more »
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Infosys: Moving Up the Consulting Food Chain»

India Stocks News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha on 2008-09-02 16:27:08

Larry Dignan (ZDNet) submits: An Infosys (INFY) executive reiterated that the offshore outsourcing business is holding up amid an economic slowdown, and outlined plans to continue to move up the technology food chain to offer consulting services. Speaking at the Citigroup Technology Conference in Ne more »
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TAM report: DTH more sticky than CAS»

pluGGd.in to Indian Startups on 2008-09-01 03:21:36

TAM conducted a study to understand the usage behavior of DTH vs CAS subscribers and here are a few interesting insights: Analogue cable households spend 150 minutes per day, digital TV households watch television for at least 186 minutes per day. Digital cable TV homes devote that time to watch 43 more »
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What is a startup, by the way?»

pluGGd.in to Indian Startups on 2008-08-29 06:18:07

Image via Wikipedia Here is wikipedia’s definition: “A startup company or start-up is a company with a limited operating history. These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets. They have an uncertain future, and may result in a spectac more »
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