What it takes to be a Facebook India Ambassador
Convince your friends and family members to use Facebook on their mobile phones and you could be promoted as an Ambassador of Facebook India.
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Watch Bollywood Movies on YouTube
You can watch popular Bollywood movies online on YouTube for free. These are full-length films available in Hindi and other Indian languages.
Amitabh Bachchan’s Voice Blog
With Bachchan Bol, fans of Amitabh Bachchan can then dial 505678910 from their phones to hear the Bollywood actor speak.
Google India Offers Free Advertising Coupons to Attract Small Advertisers
Google is giving away free AdWords coupons to businesses in India who own a website but have never used the Google AdWords / AdSense platform before to advertise their website on the Internet.
Locate Desi Names of Indians on Web Pages
If you are the kind of person who looks out for Indian (or Indian sounding) names on blog comments, forum posts or any random list of names, Desi Filter could be a useful addition to your arsenal. Once you either paste a snippet of text or enter the URL you want “filtered”, Desi Filter scans(…)
India is Fighting Pirates to save Yoga
Alarmed by the growing number of instances of Western yoga gurus claiming copyrights to ancient “asanas”, the Government of India has decided to fight back. The Union Health Ministry has assembled a team of 200 researchers from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to put on record all known yoga postures and techniques(…)
BusinessWeek’s List of Most Powerful People in India Includes a Blogger
Amit Varma, who authors the hugely popular India Uncut blog, has been named by BusinessWeek magazine as one of the most powerful people in India for 2009.
Mahatma Gandhi on Twitter – Funny or Bad Taste ?
Historical Tweets, a site that creates fake Twitter accounts of world’s greatest leaders, treads the very thin line between funny and offensive. With the fake account of Mahatma Gandhi, incidentally misspelled as “Ghandi”, they may have just crossed that line. The Twitter account of Gandhi talks about how he “punched some old lady” and how(…)
Is the Taj Mahal Copyrighted ?
The Indian embassy has voiced its displeasure over reports that Bangladesh is is planning an exact replica of the Taj Mahal about 30 kilometers northeast of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Since the replica is both an exact replica and the exact size of the Taj Mahal, this could be in violation of international copyright laws(…)