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Khadi- New Fashion Statement

Sabyasachi Mukherjee is a young, hip, Bengali designer is insisting that khadi can be a great fashion statement. Khadi, which is simple homespun weave championed by Gandhi in the 1930s to boost the rural economy and give India a sense of nationalist pride during the fight for independence, is refined, sophisticated, eco-friendly and comfortable, and has too long been regarded as the poor man's fabric.

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India’s Curse now a Demographic Boon

When I was growing up in India, my parents had nothing positive to say about India.  Every time I had a conversation about issues of India with my father, his acidic reaction was always funneled through a long list of complaints on corruption, quota system, infrastructure, ruthless politicians, bureaucracy, red tape and on and on. There [...]

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• Kiran Kuchimanchi, senior vice president, Global Delivery, ValueLabs, says youth in India is extremely mobile savvy and will be the early adopters of the 3G services.  Read the interview with him here.  ValueLabs, a company that has been in the mobile space for the last eight years, is actively involved in the telecom sector building Intellectual Property (IP) in the areas of mobile video streaming, data services and other value-added services in 2.5G and 3G environments. #
• According to Times of India Article, titled More Young MPs in new Lok Sabha, there are 79 members aged less than 40 years. Lok Sabha has a higher number of under-40 members compared with the last.  The representation of women members has crossed the 10% mark for the first time in Indian history. However, this is still low in comparison with parliaments of the industrialized countries. For instance, UK, USA, Italy, Ireland and France have 19.3%, 16.3%, 16.1%, 14.2% and 13.9% women parliamentarians, respectively. #
• Facebook is planning on having a version in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.   Right now Facebook has 200 million users.  By including more Indian languages they expect to bring in more users. Read more here. #
• Check out the debate on who will be the India's next Prime Minister at a blog at Reuters. #