This past week in Afghanistan-Pakistan was a momentous one. It began with the arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taleban military commander believed to be the deputy to Mullah Omar. Such a man would know just about everything there is to know about the senior Taleban leadership. Mullah Baradar was arrested in the southern city of…
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David Ignatius, an Op-Ed Columnist for the Washington Post, recently wrote an article titled A new thaw between India and Pakistan. Mr. Ignatius is a respected columnist with deep contacts. He is an intelligent man and he tries to be analytical as well as dispassionate, in our opinion. Unfortunately, intelligence goes astray without adequate knowledge…
Within 9 months of its launch, the Fantasy Cricket site Dream11.com has signed over 450,000 registered users with over 9 million page views per month. Fantasy football has been played by millions for a few years now, with users often looking for lineup optimizer nfl to create the best team possible. The growth in fantasy…
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Since its independence in 1776, the singular focus of America has been Europe. America understands Europe. The greatest foreign policy successes of America have been in Europe. President George W. Bush turned the focus of America from Europe towards the new emerging centers of power. This shift began during his transition period in 2000 under the leadership of Wolfowitz. The events of 9/11 accelerated…
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…
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…