Kashmir – Ah Kashmir
“If there is a Heaven on earth, It is here, It is here, It is here” – Jehangir. Rarely have truer words been spoken. The heavenly va...
Category: Current Affairs
Dylan Ratigan of CNBC – He Doth Protest Too Much
Dylan Ratigan, the anchor of Fast Money and more CNBC shows than we can keep track of, has been a temperate, thoughtful reporter who takes pains to show a ...
Pakistan’s Minister Concurs With CinemaRasik?
The American Television and Print Media have portrayed the Taliban as a group of militants operating in the mountainous area on the border of Pakistan and ...
This Blog’s 10 Most Popular Articles
This is our monthly update of our list of 10 Most Popular Articles (in terms of viewer hits) as of Friday, October 10, 2008. 1. Shabana Azm...
Are Euorpean and Asian Banks In Trouble Because They Did Not Buy US Treasuries?
No. We are not obsessed with US Treasuries though we can understand why some readers might feel so. Our original title was going to be along the lines of ...
Mo-Force is On Board the Deflation Wagon – Time for Mr. Bernanke to Cut Interest Rates
On August 2, 2008, we wrote an article titled “Jim Cramer on Ben Bernanke – Fair in August 2007 and Unfair in August 2008 – (https://cinemaras...
Are The Wheels Coming Off Global Growth? – Dubai and China
Over the past few years, Dubai and China have captured media’s imagination as glorious examples of global growth, the birth of a new era in which these re...
Pakistan – Beginning of the End Game?
The events in Pakistan-Afghanistan are taking center stage on the world scene again. The condition of Pakistan was a topic of heated discussion in the debate be...
India – A Strategic Security Partner to the USA in the Persian Gulf
Two weeks ago, we wrote an article about the emerging strategic partnership between the USA and India driven by mutually congruent interests. This is what...
China & India – “Are we deceiving ourselves again?” – Forthcoming book by Arun Shourie
We began writing about the potential for conflict between China and India in June 2008. The trigger for us was extraordinarily naive and frankly, ignorant...