Rahul N Bhardwaj – Dating and South Asians | EGO Magazine

Rahul N Bhardwaj – Dating and South Asians | EGO Magazine

It all began when my Father told me he was going to put my profile up on a matrimonial site. You know the deal, finish college, look for a wife. I humored him for a few minutes and looked at the sites he had in mind to put me on. I was floored that customers were paying for sub-par experiences, and these sites were getting away with it!. So, two things dawned upon me: 1. Like every nerd, I was going to solve my problem by building a website, and 2. I was going to build a better experience than what was out there, along with a sustainable business model that didn’t rely on directly charging people to find love. As my friend says, “love should be free.”  www.TwoMangoes.com and I are on that path today.

Fire in the Hole - Foreign Policy

Fire in the Hole - By Jason Miklian and Scott Carney | Foreign Policy

"But plenty of Indians have missed out. Economic liberalization has not even nudged the lives of the country's bottom 200 million people. India is now one of the most economically stratified societies on the planet; its judicial system remains byzantine, its political institutions corrupt, its public education and health-care infrastructure anemic. The percentage of people going hungry in India hasn't budged in 20 years, according to this year's U.N. Millennium Development Goals report. New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore now boast gleaming glass-and-steel IT centers and huge engineering projects. But India's vast hinterland remains dirt poor -- nowhere more so than the mining region of India's eastern interior, the part of the country that produces the iron for the buildings and cars, the coal that keeps the lights on in faraway metropolises, and the exotic minerals that go into everything from wind turbines to electric cars to iPads..."