Last week we wrote an article about the Case of Two Financial Journalists and how they pronounce their first names. This article created a level of response that was as varied as it was voluminous. It seems that we struck a nerve among people who are frustrated with the way Indian names are pronounced and…
In this article we discuss the varied responses from our readers to our article last week about the Case of Two Financial Journalists . We were really surprised with the volume and variety of responses. We thank the readers for both reading the article and taking the time to respond to it. Sanskrut Grammar and…
Indian Americans are generally not seen on American Prime Time Television. And when they are, they are parodied as nerds or tech geeks. This is of course better than the earlier portraits of India as the land of snake charmers and elephants. Frankly, we would rather not see people of Indian origin on American Prime Time than watch…
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…
Mr. Carla Quintannia is a veteran journalist with CNBC. Carla anchors Squawk Box, a daily three hour show that is often described as CNBC’s franchise show. The buzz is that Carla is being groomed to become a future anchor of NBC’s Evening News. Mr. Krishna Guha has been a veteran journalist with the Financial Times….
“Our nation has to be strong fiscally at home in order for us to be strong abroad,” said Secretary Hillary Clinton in her interview on Sixty Minutes. Prior to this statement, Mrs. Clinton said “All of a sudden you’ve got countries who are explicitly saying to me, in private, ‘Well, look, you know, we always…
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…
This week we celebrate the two year anniversary of this Blog. Over the past year, the readership of the Blog has been become larger and more global. We have been told that many readers send the articles via email to their own private networks. That may account for the diverse nature of comments we get from…
Every few weeks we publish the list of Top 10 Articles of this Blog. These are articles that rank the highest in terms of viewer hits since the Blog’s inception. Some of the articles in the Top 10 list are also our personal favorites. For example, the highest ranked article on the Blog is also our…
A Pakistani-American went to the Af-Pak border area of North Waziristan. He stayed there for 5 months and learned the rudiments of building a bomb. He returned to Connecticut and built a bomb in his home. He drove to New York City, parked his SUV in Times Square and set off the bomb. By the grace of God, the…