Archive | January, 2010

Helping Haiti: With Crystal of the International Medical Corps…

25 Jan

A leveled multi-story structure illustrates the earthquake

It has been in the recent news the devastating twin earthquakes that mostly flattened Haiti. While the rest of the world stared with horror and shock many people has lost their home, their family, their near and dear ones in a few minutes of nature’s whims. Help poured in from all quarters and my friends […]

My Apostille Woes and Shashi Tharoor…

8 Jan

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My book was published this July and I got my first royalty statement soon after. My contract with Galileo Press was executed in the US and hence this required me to apply for a TIN to get the actual payment as well as claim tax exemption from the Indian Government. The process, it seemed, was […]