India Rising!!!!

The thing I hate? When you call customer service and it transfers to some non-English speaker in India! Sometimes I'd have to call 4 ot 5 times to find someone who I could actually understand!

What kind of helpdesk you call for? Must be some Cheap one. Coz Indians who work in Call Centers here are trained to speak in American Accent in all professional call centers. Its like an Indian girl speaking for, "This is Carol From South Carolina... ".

They make sure thst the caller will never know that he is been connected to India actually. Recently there have been serious call center abuse from foreigners who feel indian call centers are the biggest threat to their jobs.

So to stop this, the above idea was deviced where if you ask them if you are connected to India, they will never confirm that.

That's very interesting, Vinsan, thanks. Good film.

I saw this reverence for education when I was over there: it's very impressive.

On another note, I see the next cricket test is to be in Mumbai. Have you got your ticket yet?

How could I get one? 8 million cricket Mumbaites fans. The stadium holds only 2000 heads. I need to stay an overnight camp at the ticket counter in the stadium for 3-4 days to get a ticket for myself.

I am rather happy with television. Anyways I have seen a one day match between Australia and India back in 2000 at the same stadium. It was awesome.

The Rise of India,American goverment said.
The Threat of China,American goverment said.

That's the difference!!

Hey Raymond, you should treat the utterances of Mr Bush with the same reverential close attention that we do over here.

Greetings from merry England!

How's things tday, Vinnie? It's snowing here at the moment.

abcnews isn't a Government news channel. So its their individual report.



Why to involve China in this? I wasn't anyways comparing. China is now a near-about developed country. India is still developing. Hence the phrase RISING(!)



There always a difference. India and China are different countries. So that does not indicate anything new to me.

Look Rey, I like China. But I am an Indian. The only thing an Indian needs is a boost to his efforts. We are struggling. If we see our struggle gets recognized, then we will do it even rigorously. So the entire motive behind that post was'nt like "INDIA IS BEST" or even comparative kind ....but a view to the appreciation from the others to the Efforts of India and its corporate people.

Ooooooowwwhhhhh !! I am suddenly feeling like freezing

Oh ! Our AC got fluctuations so getting freezingly cold in between.... , Outside its same humid and hot.

Today we had a Office Bash in a 5 star hotel called Renaissance. Its a Lake side Hotel. Nice view and good place to hang out.

But then all good things come to an end. After the Bash back to Office... Working

Was it a Holi bash?
Did you dance there?

spidey get out of your Holi fever... I said it was an Office Party.

I thought it was an official Holi bash. Sakhi had one.

I got a Holi card from the Heritage, Byculla. That was very nice of them.

I see Mr Flintoff's men pulled off a nice victory in Mumbai, squaring the series. So honours are even.
Thank you, India, for hosting our team.

There is concern in the EU, and in Britain itself, about the growth in the economies of India and China, and how these powerful and fast-growing economies might impact on the stability and prosperity of the EU.

I realise that the well-being of the EU is not a main concern of India, but what do the Indians (or Chinese) here have to say about that?

There was an interesting radio programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning in the "Crossing Continents" series.

It was entitled "Kolkata Rising" and it can be heard on the Web

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/default.stm