Shailesh Nalawadi

For 300 years Britain has outsourced mayhem. Finally it's coming home Opium. famine and banks all played their part in this country's plundering of the globe. Now it's over, we find it hard to accept - Shailesh Nalawadi

The Onion on Mobile Social Media - Shailesh Nalawadi

"One of the largest fleets of ships ever gathered idles here just outside one of the world’s busiest ports, marooned by the receding tide of global trade. There may be tentative signs of economic recovery in spots around the globe, but few here." - Shailesh Nalawadi

Touching documentary. 100% eradication of Polio is a tantalizing goal that is oh so hard to achieve... - Shailesh Nalawadi

A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded. In a report to be issued this weekend, the researchers said that the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in China, but that they could not say conclusively that the Chinese government was involved. - Shailesh Nalawadi

Conspiracy Theorists ... start your engines! - Shailesh Nalawadi

"There were so many opportunities for the accident not to happen—the collision between a Legacy 600 private jet and a Boeing 737 carrying 154 people. But on September 29, 2006, high above the Amazon, a long, thin thread of acts and omissions brought the two airplanes together. From the vantage point of the pilots, the Brazilian air-traffic controllers, and the Caiapó Indians, whose rain forest became a charnel house, the author reconstructs a fatal intersection between high-performance technology and human fallibility." - Shailesh Nalawadi

Money quote: 'There will always be those Mumbaikars who tell you that street snacks eaten in restaurants just can’t compare with the authentic fare of “Raju the blind chaatwala at the second open drain behind the Churchgate Railway Station.” ' - Shailesh Nalawadi

Just in time for Thanksgiving - Shailesh Nalawadi

"Indian Math Online is a start-up that aims to take on that disparity by teaching math to American kids using techniques from Indian schools. " - Shailesh Nalawadi