We began writing about the potential for conflict between China and India in June 2008. The trigger for us was extraordinarily naive and frankly, ignorant, comments about China and India from the celebrated Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. We felt that the world, at least the investing world, was uneducated about the strategic and military competition between China…
America, China and India, three enormous countries, were, at one time or other, controlled or dominated by England. Each of these three countries inherited a legacy from England and the lessons learned from that legacy have determined the fortunes of each country to this day. America inherited England’s strength, its iron determination and its deep…
On Friday, September 19, the top news story was the massive “bailout” plan proposed by the Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson. Every Television Anchor wanted to know on air who was responsible for this mess. Every politician from the liberal left to the conservative right bemoaned the terrible burden the plan imposes on the Average American….
To say that the last week in the US markets was extraordinary seems so lame. But we cannot think of a simpler and more succinct word to describe it. What a week it was! Monday brought the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest Investment Bank and the arranged marriage between Merrill Lynch, the symbol for America’s…
Editor’s Note: We are indebted to Mr. Rajeev Mundhe for bringing this story to our attention. Mr. Mundhe, a well-known financial advisor with Smith Barney, is an old friend of this blog. Wall Street Journal reports that The Reliance ADA Group (Anil Dhirubhai Ambhani) has bought Willow TV, a US Web site with more than…
Rarely have we ever thanked an author so profusely for a book as we wish to thank Adam Bowles for his translation of Karna-Parva of the great epic Maha-Bharat. (Maha-Bharat, Book Eight, Karna, Volumes 1 & 2 – published by The New York University Press and the JJC Foundation.) Getting You in the Proper Frame of…
Today, the reality of India as a major economy is accepted and India’s potential as a global economic power is being understood. Even critics of India, like the liberal Australian Prime Minister, have remarked that this realization was a key reason for the approval of the India exception by the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group.The world looked…
What a title? Surely we are terrible satirists, rabid fans or utter idiots? We might be terribly incompetent as satirists, but that is irrelevant. Satire is not our aim here. We have not been fans of Mr. George W. Bush. In fact, in December 2000, we loudly expressed our opinion that President Bush would end up…
President Bush might have been ignored by the Republican Convention and he might be the target of a derogatory campaign by the Democrats, but he showed last week that, in the real World, He is still the man and what President Bush wants, he gets from the world.The US-India Civilian Nuclear Agreement was a signature deal…
This is an update to our previous list of 10 Most Popular Articles published on August 9, 2008.As of Friday, September 5, 2008, the 10 most popular articles on our blog (in terms of viewer hits) are: 1. Shabana Azmi on “Indian Democracy is unfair to Muslims” – Our views and the Relevance to…