Why Are They Upgrading India Now? – “Wave” or “Tale Risk”?
The last two weeks have seen a vicious rotation in sectors and stocks in financial markets. Winners for the past 2-3 months have been taken down hard and money ...
Month: March 2014
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 22 – March 28, 2014)
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...
Association for Asian Studies & Tom Friedman’s Narrative
1. Tom Friedman & the Narrative Tom Friedman of the New York Times has criticized moderate Islamic Scholars in the Middle East for tolerating hate speech ag...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 15 – March 21, 2014)
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...
Arena for Penguin-Doniger Case – Freedom of Speech or Acts of Hate?
1. Introduction The second big story of 2014 in the Indo-American space has been the stunning victory by Dina Nath Batra, “a frail 84-year-old retired hea...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 8 – March 14, 2014)
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...
Binary Outcome for India?
Remember the alarming collapse of the Rupee in August 2013? Remember those dire predictions of the pandits at that time? It was indeed a perilous moment with th...
Ukraine – From Wise Veterans
A sense of deja vu pervaded the world this week. It felt as if we were reliving the 1970-1980 Cold War. The serene calm of 21st century Europe was suddenly inva...