While 'Made in China' is a label that no longer surprises, eyes are opening wide to the 'indi-chini bhai bhai' mutual admiration society. This camaraderie has bided its time in developing, but given India's economic performance in the last few years, the Chinese hare has had to see the merit in the slow but steady Indian tortoise.

"A New Dance"? is what he interestingly calls the budding relationship between China & India - a dance where one and then the other leads, straining to listen to the changing music.

Just the other day I was chatting with an army officer who was complaining about the special privileges extended to lady officers in the forces. Needless to say, he was a male and his point of view was that women had no place in the army. They could not be sent into combat and that they got all the "cushy"? postings and deprived male officers of their rights.

Mark Twain once said, "I never let my schooling interfere with my education."? Today, unfortunately, it seems that we are doing just that. There is no correlation between certification and education any more. Certified engineers are to be had a dime a dozen - this takes me back to the era when it was not uncommon to come across an office peon with an MA degree, when they were all the rage.

I remember reading this rather memorable quote by Steve Jobs: "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesise new things.