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...
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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...
2012 & 1992; Paul Ryan & Al Gore; New Republicans & New Democrats
These are personal reflections, actually my visceral reactions to the political drama unfolding in this election. To me this election seems so 1992. I felt this...
Paul Beckett as WSJ India Chief – Is WSJ Management Tonedeaf, Arrogant or Racist?
Two or three decades ago, American multinationals made it a practice to appoint British executives to run their Indian subsidiaries. American executives didn...