April 22, 2007
scrum: the papaya is out
A haiku from Anna at Sepia Mutiny: Don’t cry, little one | We heart you, dear Sanjaya. | May your haters rot.
The N Word (and some advice on customer service):
You may have heard that recently a desi furniture retailer in Toronto got into a bit of hot water for selling a sofa with the tag shown below to a black family (Candians of Ghanaian origin). As paragons of racial sensitivity and spin, we thought Sepia Mutiny should offer some public relations advice to our Canadian brethren.
The continuing boom in outsourcing to India has helped the country’s top outsourcers post strong revenue and profit growth for their fiscal year ended March 31.
And, it was Adobe’s Indian R&D centre that contributed significantly to the launch of its star product, which signifies the increasing trend of strategic R&D work that is being delegated to India. Spread across two campuses, one each in Noida and Bangalore, the centre has approximately 1,000 people working for it.

