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Carving out the isthmus from Colombia created Panama. The vision was of a grand canal connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic and linking the North America with the South. The writer Ken Silverstein shone the light on Panama as a financial haven, “In 1903, the administration of Theodore Roosevelt created the country after bullying Colombia…
Barter Card Roopen Roy Sri Ramakrishna –the guru and mentor of Swami Vivekananda advised his disciples to be detached from money. “Taka Mati, Mati Taka” he said. “Consider cash as a handful of dust and dust as a handful of money.” Rather than devoting oneself to the pursuit of wealth, many followed his…
Cyber wars and the hacking threat By Roopen Roy Jul 26 2011 The events of the past few months have demonstrated beyond doubt that hacking and electronic interception are serious matters. They can undo individuals, shake empires, destroy careers and put people behind bars. Hacking can be resorted to by almost anyone—the state acting as the…
http://e.mydigitalfc.com/PUBLICATIONS/DCF/DCF/2011/08/10/ArticleHtmls/Making-the-cloud-green-by-design-10082011011025.shtml?Mode=undefined Making the cloud green, by design By Roopen Roy Aug 09 2011 Cloud computing has the potential of dramatically transforming the way we consume computing power and media storage. The most basic definition of cloud computing is: it is internet-based computing — where applications you use are hosted in a remote, shared data centre, instead…
India should grasp digital opportunities By Roopen Roy Dec 02 2014 The myth that China is only good for “cheap” products and that India is an IT super-power ne-eds to be debunked for the sake of India’s software industry. India’s software industry is mostly services. It relies largely on cost arbitrage. Its growth is volume-led and export-driven….
Roopen Roy (Views are personal) The French actor Gerard Depardieu has recently received a Russian passport from President Putin. Depardieu was very perturbed by the high taxes being imposed by the French government and the alleged harassments meted out to an honest tax payer who has so far filled the French government’s coffers with taxes…
By Roopen Roy Jan 06 2015 TAKE THE PLUNGE: Despite the fact that there are many arguments against genetically modified or GM foods, in achieving a quantum jump in productivity, India will need to grasp the nettle of GM foods Humankind has been spending billions of dollars on research to find alternative and renewable sources of energy….
Roopen Roy (The views expressed are personal) Engel’s Law of Consumption provides the insight that as a person’s income rises the proportion of income he spends on food declines. The law was enunciated by Ernst Engel, a German statistician –not to be confused with Marx’s comrade-in-arms: Friedrich Engels. According to Engel, poor people spend a…
In the latest issue of the New Yorker Calvin Trillin has written a humorous piece about “President Romney”. This inspired me to write one about an imaginary Chief Minister in an Indian state. Any similarity with this fictional CM is purely accidental and wholly unintended. As soon as the CM entered the conference of political…
Roopen Roy (Views expressed are personal) I had read this joke some years ago : the son informs his father that he wants to choose organized crime as a career. Without batting an eyelid, the father asks, “Which sector are you planning to join –the private or the government sector?” The son says he…