Hindustan Times
Barack Obama should change his last name with the head of Apple Inc. At the very least, Jobs has become the United States president’s middle name. I think I realized how much it matters to him when I heard his press conference with Manmohan Singh during the recent Indo-US summit. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.8 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 1:17 am
Filed under World · Tagged Apple Inc, barack obama, Dom Perignon, Great Recession, Green New Deal, Indo-US summit, jobs in the US, United States president
When the Icelandic president, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, came on a state visit to India earlier this month, a befuddled Rashtrapati Bhavan phoned various New Delhiites if they would care to attend the state banquet being held in honour of the “president of Ireland.” Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 1:00 am
Filed under World · Tagged financial crisis, green energy, North Atlantic, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, Rashtrapati Bhavan, world-class technology
The day I thanked the Big Brothers of Beijing who whiteout all the naughty bits in their country’s newspapers and TV.
A decade ago, the Chinese government invited myself and some other Indian journalists to visit their country. Read more
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Filed under World · Tagged BBC, Big Brothers of Beijing, China, China Daily, chinese government, CNN, Han Chinese, indian journalists, most US and UK newspapers
In part because I can pass through as many as 20 international airports a year and go through three or four times that number pat-downs and security checks, I no longer wear a watch, wrist or otherwise; I wear cheap belts with near metal-free buckles; and have given up handmade shoes from my native Calcutta because the cobblers used steel nails. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Ben Gurion Airport, Cairo, Calcutta, international airports, security checks, x-ray
