Neel Kashkari, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, got roasted by members of Congress when he appeared before a Congressional Committee on Friday, November 14, 2008. Mr. Kashkari oversees the Office of Financial Stability including the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) or the US Bailout program. Unfortunately for him, the TARP program seems to be in…
A tremendous amount has been written and discussed about the differences between the personalities, upbringing, politics of George Bush and Barak Obama. We wish to focus on one critical difference that has not received the scrutiny and debate it deserves. That difference is between the global frame of reference of the two men.George W. Bush turned the…
Most people would regard this question as either rhetorical or dumb. After all, many commentators have bemoaned the fact that rich people got richer and the rich-poor gap grew wider during the Bush Administration. The Business Section of the New York Times on November 10 featured articles by luminaries like Robert Shiller, Alan Blinder about the need to…
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On October 4, 2008 we wrote an article titled “Are The Wheels Coming Off Global growth? – Dubai and China” – www.cinemarasik.com/2008/10/04/are-the-wheels-coming-of-global-growth–dubai-and-china.aspx Dubai and China represented the Promethean dream of unfettered global growth and we implied in our article that the economic gods were about to punish them just as the Greek gods punished Prometheus. This…
On September 6, we wrote a brief article titled “Slumdog Millionaire – A discovery from the Telluride Film Festival” – www.cinemarasik.com/2008/09/05/slumdog-millionaire–a-discovery-from-the-telluride-film-festival.aspx. That story was brought to our attention by Raj Mundhe, our old friend and a noted investment advisor in metro Boston. This morning Raj alerted us to the review of Slumdog Millionaire by Joe…
This is our monthly update of our list of 10 Most Popular Articles (in terms of viewer hits) as of Friday, November 7, 2008. 1. Shabana Azmi on “Indian Democracy is unfair to Muslims” – Our views and the Relevance to America – August 23, 2008 – www.cinemarasik.com/2008/08/19/shabana-azmi-on-indian-democracy-is-unfair-to-muslims–our-views-and-the-relevance-to-america.aspx2. The Greatest Publishing Project of Recent Years…
We began this blog by asking “Are Bollywood Interpretations Better Than Their Hollywood Originals?”. I grew up hearing the plaintive cry “why can’t India make films like Hollywood”. A few years ago, I began noticing that, Bollywood interpretations were turning out to be better than their Hollywood originals – more gripping, more innovative, more chic…
The Bollywood movie is Waqt. This the greatest and the simplest tribute we can pay to an evergreen and evergreat film which was a pioneering film when released in 1965. Waqt is one of our all-time favorite films. By writing about Waqt today, we wish to pay homage to the legendary Bollywood moviemaker, B.R. Chopra. Mr. Chopra passed…
“If there is a Heaven on earth, It is here, It is here, It is here” – Jehangir. Rarely have truer words been spoken. The heavenly vale of Kashmir has been an integral part of Indian Culture, History and Tradition since time immemorial.Indian religious and spiritual texts can be broadly divided into three categories: The Ved (4…