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Google Government Requests

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: April 21st, 2010
Have you looked at this yet? www.google.com/governmentrequests/ First, I’m really happy to see Google at least trying to become more transparent. Second, I was very intrigued to see that India is in the top 3! Just in the last 6 months of 2009 India made over 1000 data requests to Google and upwards of 140 [...]
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Groovy Gurus

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: April 8th, 2010
From the introductory post: Groovy Gurus is a bunch of gastronomically inclined city dwellers (and then some) who’ve chosen to spend a couple of Thursdays each month – the 2nd and 4th to be precise – dining at a yet-undiscovered venue (at least for the purposes of the Thursday dinners), picked by a rotating designatory [...]
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Happy Republic Day

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: January 26th, 2010
India became a republic on January 26th, 1950. As a reminder to myself (I often tend to feel helpless about my lack of awareness/engagement with issues back home), here is Wikipedia on Republic: A republic is a form of government in which the head of state is not a monarch and the people (or at least a part [...]
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easyJet blues

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: October 25th, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Over the past few years, the domestic airlines industry in the US has seen a steady decline. Faced with the recession, they have been devising ever new ways of squeezing money out of unsuspecting customers. There are a few exceptions (such as Southwest), but by far, flying is usually not a very [...]
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Blue balls

By Diwaker Gupta | Published: March 28th, 2009
Most Americans I talk to feel that I was raised here, because I don’t have the “Indian accent”. I don’t know about that, but what I do know is that cultural differences can show up in the least unexpected places. I’m reminded of an incident that happened in my second year in grad school. We [...]
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