These are personal reflections, actually my visceral reactions to the political drama unfolding in this election. To me this election seems so 1992. I felt this when I saw the sheer burst of excitement that erupted within Republicans when Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate. Elections to me are about what you…
Two or three decades ago, American multinationals made it a practice to appoint British executives to run their Indian subsidiaries. American executives didn’t know better. The only thing they knew about India was that British used to rule there. The British executives for the most part came in to India laden with their own colonial…
On July 21, 2012 we wrote an article titled Birth of a Caste in America? . In that article we argued that the affluent college-educated class in America is turning into an elite caste. We stated our conclusion with the following: “The culmination of this ‘high education’ class into a caste was neither described by…
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…
Democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. In a democracy, a government comes to power via free and fair elections. Today we see elections taking place in many countries in the world. But very few of these electocracies are democracies. Because a democracy is much much more than…
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…
This week, India celebrated its Independence Day. All of India and the global Indian diaspora celebrated this day with color and passion. The core desire of this Blog is to enrich the already deep Indo-US relationship. So we were delighted to hear Secretary Clinton’s description of this relationship as “a strategic, indispensable partnership“. We were…
Editor’s Note: As promised last week, we take readers back to the glory days of India in this article. We do so by borrowing from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan series The History and Culture of the Indian People. At the dawn of India’s Independence, Dr. Munshi, the founder of the Bhavan, put together a committee…
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…
Editor’s Note: This coming week celebrates the Independence of India from British rule on August 15, 1947. We will celebrate this day with two articles, one this weekend and one next weekend, both taking readers back to the origin and glory days of India. And going back to the origin means going back to the…