India’s mammoth election in May 2009 resulted in an unexpected and lopsided victory for the Congress Party and its UPA alliance. Global Investors have a great deal of respect for Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister. They interpreted the victory as a signal that the Singh Government would liberate the economy, attract foreign capital and…
Sometimes, we come across an article that surprises us, educates us and makes us feel terrific about the world. One such article is about Aakash Ganga, an innovative water resources project that began in Rajasthan, India and has now reached China’s Guiyang Municipality.“The entire world has become aware of the shortage of fresh water in some countries…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with brief 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…
There is one update to our Top 10 list since our last monthly update on June 15. ““The Karna-Arjun Battle in The Maha-Bharat – Beyond Adjectives“ has risen to 6th place from 10th place. (Personally, this is our favorite article. So we are deeply and humbly gratified that our readers like it.) A breakdown of the Top 10…
About an year ago, on July 26, 2008, we wrote an article titled Iraq & Tibet – Strategic Will of The American and Chinese People. Today, on this Fourth of July, it seems appropriate to review what has happened in Iraq and what has not happened in Tibet. Not only is this important for the…
The Russian government has agreed to let American troops and weapons bound for Afghanistan fly over Russian territory, officials on both sides said Friday. The agreement is expected to be announced when President Obama visits Russia on Monday and Tuesday, reported the New York Times on July 3.“Afghanistan is one of the areas where we…
Every month, we publish the titles of the Top 10 Articles of this Blog- the articles that have received the largest number of reader hits since the Blog’s inception. Today, at the midpoint of 2009, we thought it would be fitting to give a shout-out to the next 10 popular articles for the first half…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with brief 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 response of readers to this…
We began writing about the border disputes and the consequent rise in military tensions between China and India over a year ago. Our first article (see Editor’s Note below) was triggered by what we felt was surprising lack of knowledge about this vital topic and the consequent complacency among global investors. Since then, we have…
The Wall Street Journal published an article by Steven Waldman titled In Iran, Gandhism Comes Of Age. The Wall Street Journal informs us that Steven Waldman is the Editor-in-Chief, President & Co-Founder of Beliefnet.com, a faith and spirituality website. This is an interesting article and one that should be read. We liked reading this article. Unfortunately,…