Fake Killings: People as Trophies Could it be that Chowk, in absence of information, is being misused by a tiny lunatic fringe from the wrong side of the border?

boy, you really are one dim tubelight.

anyway ``der aaye durust aye``

Sanskritization, de-Sanskritization and Colonial Rule #2

do they mix hubris and distribute it in the municipal water supply in Pakistan?

A Weekend in Vienna Reminds me of an after-dinner showing of someone`s holiday`s photographs ...

The Hypocrisy of the Indian Leftists #83

wah, wah ... taaliyaan, taaliyan!

What Ails the BPO Industry in Pakistan? #156

yes!

they are not in slums because of poverty, I bet 80% of slum dwellers in Mumbai are well above the official urban poverty line. It is because a irrational urban development policy has made housing unaffordable for them.

What Ails the BPO Industry in Pakistan? Bombay is they way it is, because of flawed government policy set by a apathetic state government more interesting in winning votes in rural maharastra than running the city.

it is not because mumbaikars are poor!

Another excellent article by Andy Mukherjee ...

Why Rich Mumbai Has Such Appalling Real Estate

What Ails the BPO Industry in Pakistan? Noman Faisal pasted a good link about Pakistan`s IT exports:

http://www.pseb.org.pk/page.php?pid=2

From this link see this part:

The following table describes the four WTO modes for export-in-services recognition:

Mode 1: Cross Border: Represents services that are sold by the exporting country to the importing country, with only the service crossing the border e.g. architectural drawings sent by courier, consultant report sent by email, call center support provided over the Internet, or software programs sent over the Internet.

Mode 2: Consumption Abroad: Represents services sold in the exporting country to foreigners or foreign-owned entities in the exporting country itself e.g. IT services sold to the World Bank, the USA embassy or to one of the 700 multinational companies operating in Pakistan.

Mode 3: Commercial Presence Abroad: Represents the revenue of national firms established abroad, selling services in a foreign market.

Mode 4: Temporary Movement: Represents services that are sold or delivered through the presence of the service provider temporarily in the foreign market e.g. the annual salaries of all H-1, L-1 and B-1 Pakistani IT workers in the USA.

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This leads me to a few questions I have had about how NASSCOM computes Indian IT and ITeS exports, I would guess the following, let me know if my logic is correct:

1) For a large company such as Infosys or TCS it would come under Mode 1 and Mode 3. For mode 1 it is the ``offshore`` part of their revenue. The ``onshore`` part would come come under Mode 3 as Infosys employees in the US are paid by Infosys (US) i.e. by the US subsidary of an Indian company.

2) Exports by Indian subsidaries of multinational companies would also Mode 1 as exports are by IBM India Limited, i.e. an Indian company (which just happens to be owned by a foreign company)

3) In case of Indian nationals working for foreign companies under an H-1, L-1 (or similar visa) (Mode 4) such revenue cannot be counted by NASSCOM as foreign companies (oerating abroad) are under no obligation to report such data to Indian government entities and I doubt they would voluntarily report to a trade group like NASSCOM. Or does NASSCOM actively try to obtain or estimate such data?

4) About mode 2, Would IT services sold by say, TCS to Hyundai in India count under Mode 2? I would doubt it, as almost all foreign companies in India operate as an India entity i.e. Hyundai operates as Hyundai Motor`s India Limited, hence it would be a domestic transaction. Can someone provide examples for a Mode 2 transaction?

This Really Gets My Goat #66

``How can I argue with Peter Tomsen who cannot respond to my arguments? Basically, Peter was CIA facilitator despite high sounding resume for couple of years.``

Peter Tomsen represented the state departments POV in Afghanistan which was dramatically different than that of the CIA. His long running fued with Milt Bearden (the then CIA station chief in Islamabad) is well documented.

India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis #69

and once again, how is this little factoid relevant?

India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis #69

and one again, how is this little factoid relevant?

India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis dear interactors,

see #67 and understand why india failed to articulate a choherent national foreign policy remained a hostge to emotion.

India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis #59

arre baba, I am talking of how Indian foreign policy and its relationship with the US evolved in the `47-`55 timeframe (from Indepencence to the Bandung conference).

For this its not necessary to know how many ``fast neutrons`` are generated in breeder reactors or how many kg of thrust the stage I engine of Agni produces. Your reference to Ian Talbott`s book probably has some relevance but my head aches when I read all this sociology stuff about ``modernist constructivist`` v/s ``post-modernist`` interpretation of ``imagined communities`` etc etc.

India’s Foreign Policy: An Analysis #34
International Balance of Power in which Nehru always emerged as a Socialist and more biased towards USSR. Because he did not want to be labelled as SURKHA, he called this policy of political economy as Fabian Socialism.

Ijaz_gul, read Dennis Kux`s ``Estranged Democracies``, specially the chapters on the Truman and Eisenhower adminstrations. For your convinience its even available for free online (through google books):

over here

(I dont know why I bother, but maybe since I will be one too someday, I have a soft corner for senile old men)

Do Pakistanis deserve a democratic system? Ishtiaq Ahmed has some good analysis on the politics of mass mobilization the Muslim league conducted in Punjab in the `40`s:

http://www.statsvet.su.se/publikationer/ahmed/andra_artiklar/the_fundamentalist_r.htm

From Tribalism to Humanism from wikipedia:

Roy Nurmi, an interpretation adviser for Schlumberger described the process as follows: ``Something in the order of 500 million years ago there was only simple life in the seas, and these shallow seas would be rich with organic, living organisms. Plankton and algae, proteins and the life that`s floating in the sea, as it dies, falls to the bottom, and these organisms are going to be the source of our oil and gas. When they`re buried with the accumulating sediment and reach an adequate temperature, something above 50 to 70°C they start to cook. This transformation, this change, changes them into the liquid hydrocarbons that move and migrate, will become our oil and gas reservoir.``[1]

In addition to the water environment mentioned, which is usually a sea but might also be a river, lake, coral reef or algal mat, the formation of an oil or gas reservoir also requires a sedimentary basin that passes through four steps: burial under miles of sand and mud, pressure cooking, hydrocarbon migration from the source to porous rock, and trapping by impermeable rock. Timing is also an important consideration; it is suggested that the Ohio River valley could have had as much oil as the Middle East at one time, but that it escaped due to a lack of traps.[2] The North Sea, on the other hand, endured millions of years of sea level changes that successfully resulted in the formation of more than 150 oilfields.[3]

From Tribalism to Humanism oil is found in sedimentary rocks (like sandstone, dolomite) and nature of oil reservoirs depends strongly on depositional environment.

Another large class of oil reservoirs are carbonates, which are fossilied remains of various aquatic creatures (like corals). The giant middle east reservoirs, bombay high are carbonate reservoirs.

(all this is conventional theory, there is also a Russian theory on the in-organic origins of oil)

So:

You need flowing water and not just carbon but carbon based life form.