Looking to Next Week – Indian Election & Indian Stock Market
Remember the last week of August 2013? There was gloom in India and ridicule in the world. The Indian Rupee and the Indian Stock Market were falling like a rock...
Category: History
The Curse of Oil – Is that behind Current U.S. Foreign Policy Adventures?
Every positive article about the U.S. economy bases at least part of its optimism on America’s domestic energy bonanza. That is also true of negative arti...
Why Does US-British-European Press Hate Narendra Modi?
This week the hate campaign in the US-British media against Mr. Modi reached feverish proportions. We were struck by the consistency of hate across the media sp...
A 21st Century Singapore? The Next Great American OutReach?
Great societies remain great because they do big things and change the face of the world. Centuries ago Indian navies discovered a port at the other end of the...
Will this Election Create a Multi-Country Zone of Conflict?
No, we don’t mean the election in India that begins in two days. The election in India has been well covered both by us and by every major paper in India ...
What Happens when the Master Bites His Dog?
Last month, we had the following tweet exchange with a prominent successful Indian: Our question – “why do Indians still read Economist? British min...
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...
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...
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...
America & Asian Religions – 1990s Deja Vu all over again?
Editor’s Note: At the beginning of each year, we try to write an outlook article. Our 2011 outlook article discussed the demographic change in America and...