Word: khosla
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...recent films have tried to do just that: Rang De Basanti made a realistic portrayal of disaffected Delhi youth; Omkara was an adaptation of Othello; and Khosla ka Ghosla was a realistic portrayal of a Delhi family's brush with unscrupulous estate agents...
...Crucial to this shift has been the rise of talented new film makers such as Chak De India scriptwriter Jaideep Saini and Khosla Ka Ghosla director Dibakar Banerjee. At the same time, established stars are becoming more open to trying different roles - as Khan did in Chak De India. Producers are also more willing to bet their money on innovative scripts, in part because of an interesting change to the way Indian films are financed. Traditionally, a big part of Bollywood's funding has come from the Mumbai underworld laundering its ill-gotten gains. To try to assure profits, underworld...
...States into a superpower. The IIT system now includes seven campuses, and its graduates quickly became India's technological elite. A half-century later, their influence is almost as great in the U.S., where 25,000 of IIT's 100,000 graduates live. IIT grads include venture capitalists Vinod Khosla, Kanwal Rekhi and Yogen Dalal; former McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta; Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and 35 of the top 600 executives at GE. Silicon Valley couldn't run without them, and India's booming tech economy has opened up another world of opportunity. "You've almost got too many...
...become a self-styled green maverick in Silicon Valley, pouring tens of millions of his own fortune into clean energy startups and spurring infusions of private capital from Wall Street and other venture capitalists into alternative energy ventures. "We can replace all of our gasoline with ethanol-like fuels," Khosla says. His timeline: 25 years. But he's not waiting for the feds to hand out grants; he's investing in promising startups like Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif., which is bioengineering microbes that produce alternative fuels, and teaming up with Bill Gates and Sir Richard Branson to build ethanol...
...Khosla applauds the momentum. "The only place we will see innovative solutions come from is the private sector," he says. "And the only way we will see them funded is by Wall Street. The government doesn't have enough money." That may be true. But Khosla, a self-described "free marketeer" and "fiscal Republican" opposed to subsidies, is co-chair and a contributor to Proposition 87, a statewide initiative that would impose a tax on oil companies for drilling in California - and use the $4 billion raised over 10 years to fund the development of "cleaner" and "cheaper" energy. "Proposition...