This week, the US Government arrested six Indian nationals, as well as the Indian-born American who sponsored them on H-1B visas to work in America.  The US Government allocates about 85,000 H-1B visas every year for people with specialist skills not available in the country.  More then 90 percent of H-1B visas given to Indians are for computing professionals working for majors like TCS, Infosy and Satyam.  More...

Noodles and worms tossed with last week's vegetables, rubber bands in tomato sauce, cockroach shallow fry. Does the menu sound tempting? That isn't all; glass grains mixed with chicken fried rice, human hair omelets. Ask the techies at the Bhavani complex at Techno Park Trivandrum and they will wax eloquent about the variety of stomach-churning food they feed on at exorbitant prices in a restaurant in the building. More...

A few days ago I decided to try out twitter and came across an interesting post by Josh Kopelman titled ‘Some new thoughts on the Atomization of Conversation’.  Here is a part of the post: “On Sunday morning, our seven-year old daughter awoke with sharp pain in the lower right-hand corner of her stomach. Fearing appendicitis, we took her to the hospital, and they operated. I canceled my calls and meetings and basically disconnected from the Internet for the week. The only hint I gave was a brief Twitter message. More...

Approximately 26 acres of greenery in the very heart of a city that is barely 35000 acres in area, this is perhaps the reason why the smallest golf course in India with just nine holes is referred to as the lungs of the city. The Trivandrum Golf Club established in the 1850s under the auspices of the Travancore Royal Family is one among the oldest golf clubs in the world outside Britain, even older than the ones in North America and other European countries. More...

Trust Infosys head honchos to come up with some illuminating numbers and their forthright opinions on all the issues. T V Mohandas Pai, Director, HR for Infosys has very strong views on the state of education in India. Recently, in a seminar,  he voiced his concerns on what ails the education sector in India and how the government seems to be completely oblivious to companies’ problems. More...

And I thought techgoss was cheap for only paying me Rs. 750 for 200 word snippets.  Today, I saw someone with even more ‘low testosterone’ financial payments. Porn website savitabhabhi.com features the sexual adventures of a buxom Indian female cartoon character who according to her promotional material “is inspired by my hot Indian bhabhi. She is a regular Indian woman in the eyes of the world but only a few lucky people know who she really is”. More...

The results of the Karnataka state assembly elections are out and the winners are celebrating while the losers are still in deliberations on what really went wrong. Techgoss had followed the odysseys of two techies Ravi Krishna Reddy and TS Chandrashekar into politics. Here is what happened to their first ever performance at the husting. More...

We at techgoss have written about how one of the KPMG tech bosses loves Hritik Roshan and Bollywood. Now, read on about another Indian boss.  If you were asked what could be the favorite music and band of Nokia India boss D Shivakumar, chances are you would say Paul Van Dyke or Ministry of Sound. But the guy responsible for the mobile phones business in India for Nokia is an avid Beatles devotee.  More...

India has been blessed with the presence of many great religions living in relative peace and harmony.  And this mix of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and other great religions have given us strengths unique in the world.   Sometimes, in the country the line between religion, politics and money is very thin indeed.  Not quite what the gods, saints and prophets intended.  Now an Islamic investment company is promoting some tech stocks as halal. More...

Ms. Kiran Bedi has always been news in India. She is a PhD, and a recipient of the Ramon Magsasay Award; acted as Police Advisor to the UN, has been voted the most popular woman in India and been an Asian Tennis champion. She has founded two NGOS which do a lot of philanthropy in a real sense. As the first and highest ranking woman officer of the Indian Police Service, her constant skirmishes with the yes men in the government machinery; got her an almost iconic status among the commoners in India. More...