The idea for this article came to us when we saw a tweet from a prominent Indian TV anchor on Tuesday: “What adds to the strangeness of timing of #DBO incursions issue: Chinese premier Li expected to come to India next month”. This anchor was referring to the situation on the China-India border in Ladakh,…
Editor’s Note: This article is likely to anger many readers, especially those who are from Delhi. We humbly ask that you read the entire article and think about our points a bit before you get angry. And if you do get angry, please share that anger with us. This week, the horrific story of a…
This Thursday, we saw a tweet from an “India expert” at an American think tank about a college in Delhi: “StS ppal allegedly:”men & women were not equal–they were diffrnt like apples & oranges,like eggs & stones & hd 2 b taken care of diffrntly” This tweet and the accompanying story reminded us of our…
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 this week’s articles on Macro Viewpoints: What’s in a Name? Does That Apply to Boston Terror Suspect? >>>> Boston Terrorism & Immigration – Difference between America’s Mayor & CNBC’s Imported Anchor? >>>> An Update on UPenn-Wharton – The Modi Saga – 3 >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (April 13 – April 19,…
“What’s in a name”, asked Juliet of Romeo & Juliet. She added “So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title”. Clearly that Romeo deserved to be called Romeo. Now reverse that situation. Imagine a shy, prosaic & unromantic guy who was named Romeo by his…
A very interesting exchange took place between Rudy Giuliani, known popularly as America’s Mayor, and Simon Hobbs, a CNBC anchor at about 2:12 pm on Friday, April 19. The conversation went as below: Simon Hobbs – Mr. Mayor do we need to change the conversation about immigration at the moment; even Senator Rubio says there…
Readers might recall that in our second article about the UPenn-Wharton saga, we wrote: “UPenn President Gutmann & Wharton Dean Robertson should both apologize to all for this fiasco. They should publicly admit that this year’s Wharton India Economic Forum was very badly managed and that core principles of free exchange of views & intellectual…
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…
As we write this article, the world waits for North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to test a missile, an event that will be a major miscalculation as U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, warned this week. We will not worry about today’s crisis in this article. Because, this crisis will fade away unless Kim Jong…