August 2010
6 posts
How Mobile Phones Are Transforming Indian... →
Shared by Zacha Cool. For decades Santosh Ostwal obsessed over an obscure problem: how to make it easier for Indian farmers to water their crops. As a kid in 1981, Ostwal would watch his…
Aug 13th
8.8.40 →
Shared by Zacha Orwell, Churchill and HG Wells. The Italian attack on Egypt, or rather on British Somaliland, has begun. No real news yet, but the papers hint that Somaliland can’t be held with…
Aug 8th
China: Visa tales →
Shared by Zacha Hoops involved in getting a Chinese visa, in an exhaustive list of successes. By John Kennedy Just how how hard can it be, asks Sina blogger and freelance journalist Chen…
Aug 8th
How domestic workers become slaves →
Shared by Zacha “According to Rosie Cox, author of The Servant Problem, there are more servants in the UK now than there were in Victorian times, because of the growth of childcare and the…
Aug 8th
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Aug 3rd