Latest postings by G Venkata Krishnan
Twenty-five years after the Bhopal gas leak, I still wonder if we
are any wiser on an antidote to Methyl isocyanate. Wikipedia doesn’ ...more>>
There was gender equality in its panel - three women and as many
men. The BBC World Debate in New Delhi focused on the question
whet ...more>>
Four-day TED-India conference to be held in Mysore (Nov.4-7) is
reportedly sold out. The meet is expected to attract people from 46
countr ...more>>
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Canegrowers association in Mysore and neighbouring districts publish a farm weekly – Raitha Dwani – to share informa ...more>>
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, man who controls government spending, made headlines, travelling economy class to Kolkata Saturday ...more>>
It is all very well for US politicians and the media to blame the country’s job loss on Bangalore. But would a cut-back on Bangalored jo ...more>>
Infosys guy Nandan Nilekani found himself put ‘on the bench’ right on his first day in Parliament. It was his fault, in a way - Nilek ...more>>
My wife and I appeared for visa interview at the US consulate, Chennai, the other day. A new experience, it was. We had got our first ...more>>
Chat show host Jay Leno left us in little doubt as to who was in charge. It was meant to be a one-hour show with the President. And Obama wa ...more>>
What were your thoughts when you heard of Mr Vijay Mallya’s acquisition of Gandhi’s metal rimmed glasses and a few other be ...more>>
A San Francisco newspaper columnist, back from an India trip, raised in his column a cascade of questions he said readers wanted answered ...more>>
Our former consul-general in San Francisco, Mr B S Prakash, has just come up with his work - Clueless in California (Konarak publicaions ...more>>
Commerce minister Kamalnath says it is time Indian IT vendors targeted the country's domestic market, notably, its middles and lower segment ...more>>
Death of a friend, particularly the one with whom you have not been in touch for a while, sets you on a flash-back mode. Sudeep Banerjee ...more>>
