In September 2008, we wrote a detailed article about the USA-India Strategic Partnership that was launched by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister ManMohan Singh. In the first section of this article, we discussed a security partnership in the Indian Ocean between India & America: America has always been the pre-dominant Pacific power. Remember, it was Japan…
We first discussed India’s “Colors” Network in our August 2009 article about Fox Business & CNBC . This network began as a startup in July 2008. It exploded through India’s cluttered media space to become the No. 1 rated entertainment network in a short span of time. We heard Viacom’s CEO Philippe Dauman rave about the success of Colors during his interview…
We were in Mumbai during the horrific attack by Pakistani terrorists in November 2008. Watching Indian TV News during those days was an amazing experience. Every TV network went into competitive overdrive to show every part of the commando operation against terrorists holed up in the hotels. We saw live footage of commandos landing on the roof of buildings. The terrorists…
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Editor’s Note: For those who have not heard of him, Thomas L. Friedman is a well-known opinionator at the New York Times. A list of his articles can be found in his section on the NYT website. Mr. Friedman, you have articulated your belief for months that Islamic Scholars & Governments should speak out openly against the hateful opinions prevalent in their Countries about Jewish Culture…
September 11, 2001 was a defining day of my life. My office was on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, a couple of blocks from the World Trade Center. To get home that day, I had to walk through the dust & rubble of downtown. I remember it vividly. That day New Yorkers in every neighborhood came down in…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Editor’s Note: An avid reader of this Blog brought this issue to our attention. This reader also informed us that letters to the NYT editors had been ignored. Below we give our opinions about the book in question, its review published by the New York Times and the selectivity practiced by the NYT in publishing this review. Our approach…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
We heard Robert Albertson, Chief Strategist at Sandler O’Neill, make this comment to CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo in December 2009. We were struck by the simplicity of the statement at that time. We were reminded of it as we heard President Obama announce his plan of imposing a tax on America’s largest Banks for profiteering and…