Last week, we wrote a detailed article about UPenn’s cancellation of the invitation to Honorable Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of the State of Gujarat and one of the leading political figures in India. That article titled Columbia & Lee Bollinger vs. UPenn & Amy Gutmann – The Modi Saga described our opinions about the decisions…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Rarely does an American University become the topic of vehement debate on India’s raucous television networks. That dubious distinction was earned by the University of Pennsylvania (“UPenn”) and its business school Wharton. Wharton runs an annual India Forum that until this year was very well respected and attended. The Forum had extended an invitation to…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Below are articles published on Macro Viewpoints this week: India’s Best Restaurants – Our Choices vs. S. Pellegrino’s & Margherita Stancati’s >>>> Anne Applebaum, Tom Friedman et al on India – Blinders, Myopia or Closed Feedback Loop? >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 25 – March 1, 2013) >>>>
Cinema Rasik, our nom de plume, points to our real passion as well as our angle for viewing global situations. We love a wide variety of films, Hollywood classics, great westerns and of course the full range of Bollywood films. We don’t do films. We taste films made by others for us. After all, we…
We like reading Tom Friedman’s articles about India. We may have been critical of him, more critical than perhaps any one else has been. But we like him. His flattery of India pleases us, his rationale strokes our collective ego. He always seem enthralled with what learns in India. His expressions are reminiscent of the…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
The Bollywood film Ek Tha Tiger (“There was a Tiger”) has been a phenomenal success. It crossed the one billion Rupee mark in just 5 days of its release in August 2012 and crossed the two billion Rupee mark in less than two weeks. The hero is Tiger, an Indian Secret Service agent, the best…
The concept that Mumbai and New York are kindred spirits is one we feel deeply and one we realize every day. They are so similar that we can move seamlessly between these two cities without missing a beat. This is why we loved the gorgeous Mumbai-New York photo project introduced to us by IndiaInk of…