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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Nandan Nilekani on The Daily Show

One would imagine that a visit to the CNBC studios would have been an obvious port of call on Nandan Nilekani's US book tour. But after the events of last week, I guess Jon Stewart is suddenly more important to the potential readers of NN's book!

In case you're on a slow connection, and can't see the video below, the funniest parts are 1) When NN mentions a million electronic voting machines and Stewart asks him whether we call someone in the US when they break down and 2) When NN mentions that Tom Friedman's 'World Is Flat" was inspired by a conversation in his office and Stewart wonders why NN didn't walk across the flat world and kick TF on his a** for some royalties!

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Smug Alert!

Both the Mumbai-related Op-Ed pieces in today's New York Times seem to be mirroring my thoughts in the last two posts so am wondering whether to feel vindicated or guilty for (allegedly) being a bleeding-heart liberal in these tense times. I think i'll settle for smug!

Tom Friedman calls out to moderate Pakistanis, some of whom I pointed to in the previous post, while guest columnist Amitav Ghosh warns about reacting to Mumbai in a similar fashion to 9-11 which is on the lines of my argument earlier.