Tag Archives: U.S.

Roller Coaster Ride at Cedar Point

A few weeks back, when I real­ized that the world’s largest automaker was head­ing towards bank­ruptcy, I did a nos­tal­gic photo-post of Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters at the Renais­sance Cen­ter and Detroit. This week, Six Flags, one of the world’s largest amuse­ment park com­pany in the world announced that it is fil­ing for bank­ruptcy. It

Dark Ages at the Renaissance Center, Detroit

Yesterday’s news about GM cut­ting 21,000 more jobs and killing the Pon­tiac brand evoked nos­tal­gia and some mixed feel­ings. So this is a photo-sequel to my almost two year old post about life in Detroit.

 

For two years, I lived, worked, breathed, ate, and slept in the shadow of this land­mark. Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters, the

Dubai: World’s Trade Center?

These images tell a story.

The Twin Tow­ers, a sym­bol of US cap­i­tal­is­tic super­power, have col­lapsed. The US is busy fight­ing the war against ter­ror.
In the mean­while, Burj Dubai, the tallest free stand­ing struc­ture in the world, just reached a soar­ing 574.5m (1,885 ft) with 154 com­pleted sto­ries. It is pre­dicted to be the tallest

Weekend Flea Market 5-Oct-07

An assort­ment of stuff I came across in cyber­space, offered sec­ond hand, for any­one who may be interested.

If you haven’t read it already, Thomas Friedman’s penul­ti­mate op-ed 9/11 Is Over, is a must-read.
China has now started block­ing all RSS feeds as well.
A woman has been sen­tenced to death by ston­ing in Iran for com­mit­ting adul­tery. Kaman­gir

Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Mammoth Task Ahead

The Indo-US Nuclear Deal has become like the story of The Blind Men and an Elephant.

Let’s see how.
#1: Man­mo­han Singh hang­ing to the Tail
Think­ing that this was the end of the rope for energy ambi­tious India, Singh decided to hold on to it. He warned oth­ers “not to miss the bus”.
Alas, he didn’t know he’ll have to