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….
Vishnu-Gupt, the celebrated “Kautilya”, wrote Artha-Shastra, the definitive treatise on Politics, Economics & GeoStrategy around 300 BCE. An Acharya or professor at the world-renowned Taksha-Shila University, Vishnu-Gupt was instrumental in using Alexander’s invasion of Gandhaar (today’s Af-Pak) to change India’s system of multiple democratic republics into a single Federal Empire known as the Maurya Empire….
There is tremendous diversity among Indians in the various Roop or Representations of the Supreme Entity, otherwise termed as Brahma or God. Each community has the freedom, under the central Duality of Indian Dharma, to choose their own Roop, the one that looks similar to them, the one they feel deeply attached to. But there…
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…
Remember Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011? That was such a heady time for Egypt and for the true believers. Tom Friedman was ecstatic, Anderson Cooper was elated and the New York Times was even more sure of its belief system. The movement that had begun in Tunisia and spread to Egypt was hailed in…
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…
Just like last week, these are my personal reflections about the 2012 Democratic convention. My education is Mathematics, my training is Global Macro and my passion is Cinema. Success in all three comes from a sense of pattern recognition, the eye to see things differently. I have yet to achieve any success in any of…
What do you think when you hear or read the word Swastik? You immediately think about Nazi Germany. Why? Because you have been told that the Swastik is a Nazi Symbol. You are not alone. The world has been told that so often and so repeatedly that it borders on brainwashing. We read this terminology…
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…