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…
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…