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Why Does a Nice Positive Article in the New York Times Carry a Deep Bias Against Indian Dharma?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 9/4/2010 7:34 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Is Intellectual Property Protection a Hidden Transfer of Wealth from Society To A Few?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/28/2010 9:03 AM | Add Comment

"Are you from the Pakistani army or the Sindh army?" - This Quote from the New York Times Shook Us

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/28/2010 8:32 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 22 - August 28)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/28/2010 6:31 AM | Add Comment

The 2010 Flood in Pakistan & The 1970 Cyclone in Pakistan - Similar Disasters, Similar Consequences?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/21/2010 9:10 AM | Add Comment

A GMization of the America - A Trite but Real Description of America's Structural Problem and Solution?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/21/2010 8:20 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 15 - August 21)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/21/2010 6:01 AM | Add Comment

A Blackberry addict discovers grassroots enterprise in India - A lovely story of Core India

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2010 9:33 AM | Add Comment

The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Isn't that like a Reluctant Nazi?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2010 8:37 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 8 - August 14)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/14/2010 7:10 AM | Add Comment

Peggy Noonan & Her Article - What Does It Say about the Wall Street Journal & Its India Edition?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/7/2010 8:17 AM | Add Comment

Did Sixty Minutes Engage in Deception in their Segment about Afghanistan?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/7/2010 7:45 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (August 2 - August 7)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 8/7/2010 6:10 AM | Add Comment

WSJ India Edition inside Wall Street Journal - An Indian MSNBC inside US Fox News?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 9:57 AM | Add Comment

Maureen Dowd Gets It But David Ignatius Does Not?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Run, Don't Walk to This Article by Bruce Riedel

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 8:03 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week ( July 24 - July 30)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/31/2010 6:16 AM | Add Comment

Mathematical Logic, Ambassador Robert Blackwill & Macro Viewpoints on Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 9:57 AM | Add Comment

New York Times vs. Washington Post - IV.B - Pakistan - Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 8:43 AM | Add Comment

Could You Eat Meat Without Getting Fatter? - Read What A New European Study Says

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 7:45 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (July 17 - July 23)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/24/2010 6:12 AM | Add Comment

Is America On The Wrong Side of History in Afghanistan The Way It Was In Vietnam?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/17/2010 7:33 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of The Week ( July 10 - July 16)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/17/2010 7:23 AM | Add Comment

Avatar the Film - Just A Happy Interlude Before The Inevitable Conquest of Pandora?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/10/2010 7:46 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (July 3 - July 9)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/10/2010 6:53 AM | Add Comment

Could You Eat Chocolate Without Feeling Guilty? A New Chinese Study Says You Should

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/3/2010 9:18 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (June 28 - July 2)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 7/3/2010 2:01 AM | Add Comment

The Long Term Ramifications of President Obama's Middle East Policy

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/12/2010 8:32 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (June 6 - June 12)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/12/2010 7:18 AM | Add Comment

Israel & Turkey - Our Views about the Flotilla & Its Ramifications

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/5/2010 8:52 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Would Chuck Daly Ask Us to Sell Long Maturity Treasuries?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/5/2010 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 29 - June 5)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 6/5/2010 7:04 AM | Add Comment

Emergence of Samskrut from 500 Years of Rejection in India to 1000 Years of Cosmopolitan Conquest - Could This Repeat Again?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/29/2010 8:57 AM | Add Comment

Another Flagrant Mischaracterization of Indian History by a Financial Times Writer? - Journalistic Negligence, Misconduct or Sheer Anti-Indian Prejudice?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/29/2010 8:04 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 22 - May 28)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/29/2010 7:03 AM | Add Comment

Why Is The Krishna Guha Case Important?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 9:28 AM | Add Comment

Reader Responses & Our Views - Our Article about the Case of Two Financial Journalists

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 8:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

You Are The Man, Mr. Adhir Kalyan - Kudos to Rules of Engagement & CBS

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 8:07 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 15 - May 21)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/22/2010 7:24 AM | Add Comment

Are "Educated" Indians Different From Americans & Europeans? A Case of Two Financial Journalists

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/15/2010 8:26 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Is Secretary Hillary Clinton Fed Up With President Obama's Af-Pak Policy?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/15/2010 7:51 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 8 - May 14)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/15/2010 7:03 AM | Add Comment

Impact on New York City & America of America's Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/8/2010 8:19 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (May 1 - May 7)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/8/2010 7:21 AM | Add Comment

60 Minutes on Al-Qaeda in Pakistan & American Media on Goldman

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/1/2010 9:14 AM | Add Comment

Two Points of View about Afghanistan-India-Pakistan - Wall Street Journal vs. Stratfor

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/1/2010 8:49 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (April 25 - April 30)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 5/1/2010 7:19 AM | Add Comment

Do Financial TV Networks Market Warren Buffet For Their Gain And Then Ignore His Wisdom?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 9:31 AM | Add Comment

"We Hit the Jackpot...." said Henry Kravis

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 8:30 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (April 18 - April 24)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 7:36 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Indo-US Naval Wargames begin in the Arabian Sea

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/24/2010 7:28 AM | Add Comment

Obama's India Problem Or India's Obama Problem?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/17/2010 10:04 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (April 12 - April 17)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 4/17/2010 9:12 AM | Add Comment

Could Israel Turn Into Another India?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/20/2010 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Hollywood Talent Soars Toward Bollywood While "Elite" Indian-Americans Remain Snobbish

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/20/2010 8:05 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 14 - March 20)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/20/2010 7:05 AM | Add Comment

The Concept of Na-Pak or Im-Pure - The Real Problem of Pakistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/13/2010 8:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Dr. Ashley Tellis Speaks to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on LeT

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/13/2010 7:59 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 7 - March 13)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/13/2010 7:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Tendulkar the Terrific - Thanks Wall Street Journal

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 9:08 AM | Add Comment

An "Anti-Defamation" Petition to Penguin Books USA & Penguin Books India from the Global Indian Diaspora

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 8:47 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Apology for Offensive Cartoons from a Danish Newspaper - A Lesson for Indians Worldwide?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 8:11 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week ( March 1 - March 6)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 3/6/2010 7:13 AM | Add Comment

The Hoagland Opinion - An Intelligent, Insightful & Must-Read Article

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/20/2010 10:16 AM | Add Comment

Last Week in Af-Pak - A Beginning of The End Game or KSM Redux?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/20/2010 9:15 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 14 - February 20)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/20/2010 7:46 AM | Add Comment

The Ignatius Opinion - A Virtual Blueprint of Convenient, Myopic & Wrong Analysis about Af-Pak

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/13/2010 9:45 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Step Aside Fantasy Football, Here Comes Fantasy Cricket

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/13/2010 9:09 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 7 - February 13)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/13/2010 8:26 AM | Add Comment

Obama-Bush - Are Their Global Frames of Reference Converging?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/6/2010 10:18 AM | Add Comment

US DoD 2010 Quadrennial Review & Macro Viewpoints Commentary of September 2008

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/6/2010 9:45 AM | Add Comment

Difference Between a "Real" Indian and an "Elite" Indian - Read the Interview of the Viacom-Network 18 COO & the WSJ India Editor

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/6/2010 8:47 AM | Add Comment

Step Into India's No-Holds-Barred Television News World - Watch the Riveting "RANN"

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/6/2010 8:15 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 1 - February 6)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 2/6/2010 7:38 AM | Add Comment

Tom Friedman, Will You Practice What You Preach?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/30/2010 8:48 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Some Thoughts on Academic Freedom

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/30/2010 8:21 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (January 24 - January 30)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/30/2010 7:27 AM | Add Comment

Cultural & Religious Defamation Tacitly Accepted By New York Times Editors?- Our Perspectives

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/23/2010 9:43 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (January 17 - January 23)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/23/2010 8:10 AM | Add Comment

The Banking System Is Fine But The Financial System Is Still Broken

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/16/2010 9:17 AM | Add Comment

Humor in Territorial Disputes at the United Nations - A Reader's Contribution

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/16/2010 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (January 9 - January 16)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/16/2010 7:30 AM | Add Comment

Cultural Supremacism in a Time Article & of Time's Editors?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/9/2010 9:58 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

New York City's Next Idea Contest - Won by Indian Institute of Technology Students

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/9/2010 8:45 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (January 3 to January 8)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/9/2010 7:28 AM | Add Comment

Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/2/2010 10:01 AM | Add Comment

Pratham - Winner of Henry R. Kravis Leadership Prize & CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2009 Award

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/2/2010 9:29 AM | Add Comment

Macro Viewpoints 2009 Awards for CNBC Guests, Shows & Anchors

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/2/2010 8:51 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (December 27 - December 31)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 1/2/2010 7:25 AM | Add Comment

New York Times vs. Washington Post - IV - Pakistan-Afghanistan

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/26/2009 9:28 AM | Add Comment

Indian Education System - It Needs More Students Like The "3 Idiots"

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/26/2009 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (December 20 - December 26)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/26/2009 6:38 AM | Add Comment

The David Ignatius Proposal for Af-Pak - Disastrous for both America & Pakistan?

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/19/2009 10:23 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Ben Bernanke - Time Magazine's Person Of The Year

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/19/2009 9:27 AM | Add Comment

Fallout of the Chicago Terrorism Case - India Revises Tourist Visa Rules for American Citizens

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/19/2009 8:01 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (December 13 - December 19)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/19/2009 7:28 AM | Add Comment

This Holiday Season, Give Up Gifts that Require Money

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/12/2009 10:19 AM | Add Comment

President Bush Proposes & President Obama Disposes? India-Russia Sign a Landmark Nuclear Deal

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/12/2009 8:19 AM | Add Comment

Interesting Videoclips of the Week (December 6 - December 12)

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/12/2009 7:54 AM | Add Comment

President Obama's Afghanistan Strategy - The Devil Is In The Implementation

Posted by Cinema Rasik at 12/5/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment
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