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Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
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Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#22A shiny example of a country filled with incompetent people, including the ones who frequent HN.
How can a journalist be such a fool to publish something as ridiculous as this? A simple Google search can confirm that she is fake.
With this article behind her back, don't be surprised if she ends up on a '50 under 50' list within a year.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#23That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
Depends on the dream, for many people's dream it's very unlikely.
I always thought Land of Opportunity just meant if you work hard enough you'll land a mediocre job that pays well and will be able to provide a decent level of support for your family.(although unfortunately that is not always the case)
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#24If the story is true, then I question her ethics. As http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/cosmetics_p... (among many other sources) points out, we do not have good regulation of the cosmetics industry. Which is kind of scary, because the cosmetics industry is deliberately seeking biologically active stuff, and smearing it all over people. Stuff that, in her case, does things like change your natural skin…
So now you vote for stopping progress forever for the fears of safety?
I assume you understand this makes you undeserving of that safety.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try using an ad blocker. I use the AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and RequestPolicy plugins for Firefox, along with Privoxy, and virtually never see ads.
My point is really more that I question the veracity of the site, and thus the story. Incidentally, I can't get those on my iPad.
Don't go by it's website, which hasn't been given a facelift in at least 6 or 7 years. However, having been a subscriber of Telegraph (India) for over a decade, I can say that it is not often inaccurate. It's the leading English daily (combined sales of #2 and #3 are less than Telegraph's) in Eastern part of India.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#26That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
To be honest I've never heard anyone calling America that, other than in Hollywood movies or sarcastic comments.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
What ? Are you sure "musketeering" is the word you wanted to use here ?
I was searching for a better word. I thought of pioneering but it was too tame, swashbuckling but it was too far out. Can you suggest something better? I mean they are go-getters and bending the boundaries of the system.
Is this actually statistically true? Wikipedia says it's the third largest metro region in India. Apart from outliers providing anecdotes, what's the reason to say people from this particular city are exceptional pioneers and "bend the boundaries"?
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#28If the story is true, then I question her ethics. As http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/cosmetics_p... (among many other sources) points out, we do not have good regulation of the cosmetics industry. Which is kind of scary, because the cosmetics industry is deliberately seeking biologically active stuff, and smearing it all over people. Stuff that, in her case, does things like change your natural skin…
So now you vote for stopping progress forever for the fears of safety? I assume you understand this makes you undeserving of that safety.
There's a difference between stopping progress forever and expecting companies to perform some kind of human safety tests before bringing products to market.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
So now you vote for stopping progress forever for the fears of safety? I assume you understand this makes you undeserving of that safety.
There's a difference between stopping progress forever and expecting companies to perform some kind of human safety tests before bringing products to market.
Do you have proof (or reasonable doubts) that the person described in an article doesn't?
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#30This story is very sketchy. Couple of Google searches do not turn up anything useful about her beyond the standard PRish articles. https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+linus+pauling https://www.google.com/search?q=chanda+zaveri+uc+santa+barba... I tried looking list of people who have received honorary doctorate degrees from Harvard but couldn't find the entire list. But it is not in the summary list they ha…
She does have some patents in her name https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl... https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&tbm=...