Shashi is an Indian homemaker with a loving husband and two children in an Indian city. She makes wonderful laddoo, an Indian sweet delicacy that you have to eat to understand its magic. She runs a small business making laddoos and delivering them to her customers. Her husband laughingly tells friends “My wife, she was…
Last week, we described the “intellectual attention” showered on Pankaj Mishra’s new book From the Ruins of the Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia. As we wrote last week, this book is mainly an expression of the author’s rage about Asia being a failure despite the intellectualism the author ascribes it to. This week, we…
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 biggest story of the week was the Obama-Romney debate, or the Crushing of Obama by Romney. The Republicans were overjoyed and the Democrats were devastated. How bad was it? Just watch the “O Bama, Where Art Thou?” segment by Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart is the master but even he missed the real reason for…
This past week, Indians celebrated Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi., known with loving reverence as Mahatma Gandhi. Today’s Indians are emotional and every article we found was about one quasi-emotional appeal or another. We saw a Reuters article discussing whether non-vegetarian food, like liquor, should be banned on Gandhi Jayanti. Other…
No we don’t mean Obama-Romney. We mean the Rumblerama between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart scheduled for 8 pm on this Saturday. Most people consider these two guys as different from each other as they could be. Heck, they even look poles apart. O’Reilly is 6’5″ and weighs 250lbs. Jon Stewart is shorter and a…
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 Blog’s 10 Most Popular Articles for the third quarter of 2012 (in terms of viewer hits). 1. State of the Art Defense – First you cry and them you gotta laugh – “Chindia” line of control – June 21, 20082. Why Does India Tend to Collapse So Often?– June 23, 2012…
IndiaInk is the India-specific Blog of the New York Times. IndiaInk might have been inspired by IndiaRealTime of the Wall Street Journal, but it is decidedly different. The Wall Street Journal’s IndiaRealTime is mainly business, generally serious and informative. NYT’s IndiaInk is softer in tone, it deals with softer issues and it features many wonderful…
What is a perfect product? A product that meets existing unmet demand. And if that perfect product is matched with a superb marketer, you have a terrific success story. That is our story of two books and two authors. Today Asia looks like a wreck. India was the first BRIC to fall from its pedestal….