NYT-IndiaInk’s Preferred Indian Men – Elite, Ideologically Metrosexual or Both?
IndiaInk is the India-specific Blog of the New York Times. IndiaInk might have been inspired by IndiaRealTime of the Wall Street Journal, but it is decidedly di...
Month: September 2012
Two Perfect Products, Two Superb Marketers, Two Bad Books
What is a perfect product? A product that meets existing unmet demand. And if that perfect product is matched with a superb marketer, you have a terrific succes...
China & Japan – The Perils of Proximity
Vishnu-Gupt, the celebrated “Kautilya”, wrote Artha-Shastra, the definitive treatise on Politics, Economics & GeoStrategy around 300 BCE. An Ach...
Ganesh Chaturthi – NYT & WSJ Try Hard But Can’t Stop Offending
There is tremendous diversity among Indians in the various Roop or Representations of the Supreme Entity, otherwise termed as Brahma or God. Each community has ...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 17 – September 21, 2012)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our p...
The New Egypt & a New Sunni Awakening
Remember Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011? That was such a heady time for Egypt and for the true believers. Tom Friedman was ecstatic, Anderson Coope...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 10 – September 14, 2012)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our p...
2012 & 2004; Barack Obama & George W. Bush; Base Democrats & Base Republicans
Just like last week, these are my personal reflections about the 2012 Democratic convention. My education is Mathematics, my training is Global Macro and my pas...
The Svastik & Anti-Svastik; The Cross & Anti-Cross – Ignorance or Laissez-faire Racism?
What do you think when you hear or read the word Swastik? You immediately think about Nazi Germany. Why? Because you have been told that the Swastik is a Nazi S...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (September 4 – September 7)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our p...