Quoted: Rural India is showing signs it can pick up the economic slack for slowing growth in other sectors.

Quoted: President-elect Obama has two executives in mind for the top technology job, one from Cisco and one from Washington, D.C. Both were born in India.

Quoted: he Taj Mahal hotel and its celebrated restaurants reopened today, 24 days after the terror attacks, with first guests checking in at around 7 pm and diners thronging the five joints which have been restored to their old glory. Each of the restaurants received full bookings for the evening, hotel officials said.

Realtime Twitter (text) updates of #mumbai terror events.

Also, live CNN-IBN video feed here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream2

Very sad.

Quoted: Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh, cricket players who had not pick up a baseball until April, on Monday became the first athletes from India to sign professional baseball contracts, agreeing to deals with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Refaving @kristen.

Quoted: Sari-clad cheerleaders are to urge on the Indian cricket team when they play England in a one-day international next week.

Quoted: shkari (above left) is an Indian-American who has a few things in common with Paulson (above right). Both are former Goldman Sachs bankers, though Kashkari, at 35 years old, is much younger and was just a vice president-level banker in Goldman’s San Francisco technology banking effort when Paulson tapped him to join Treasury. Both also are Midwesterners. Kashkari grew up in Stow, Ohio, and earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Paulson was raised in Barrington Hills, Ill. And both sport similar hairstyles– or lack thereof.

Quoted: The moon mission, in addition to demonstrating technological capacity, can also potentially yield commercial gains for India’s space program. India’s ability to put satellites into orbit has already resulted in lucrative deals, including from Israel, which has sent up a satellite via an Indian launcher.