Mercedes in a gift catalog?

We are all used to seeing small trinkets, shoes and clothes is gift catalogs. But recently, Saks Fifth avenue tied up with Daimler Chrysler and offered this 2007 model year car as a signature piece priced at an extremely affordable $145,775!

Only 20 cars were offered and they were all sold in ...7 minutes! Not 7 days or even 7 hours but 7 minutes. Damn, those finance industry bonuses are making their presence felt everywhere!!!

For the rest of us lesser mortals who don't have hedge fund/private equity/banking jobs, we can download screensavers of this magnificent beast that packs 510 hp and will go 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds.

Enjoy.

Indian Obsession Part 2

I thought I would clarify my thoughts from the previous blog post further. It's not about what passport you hold or whether you speak with an Indian accent. (Although the bastardized Indian-American accent from Jersey or the Bay Area is the singularly most disgusting thing one can ever hear).

I think it's about "karmabhoomi". For those of my friends who are not native Hindi speakers. This word literally means "The soil where you work". In other words, the geography where you achieve your greatest successes. If you look at the examples I had given-Nooyi and Mittal, both of these luminaries achieved whatever they had to outside India.

Thus if India was not their "karmabhoomi", how can we realistically call their successes Indian successes?