This week the world celebrates Ganesh-Utsav, the celebration of Ganesh; the most joyous celebration of the Indian calendar. Ganesh or Gan-Ish literally means “Ish” or Lord God of the “Gan” or common people. Every year the arrival of Ganesh beings festive joy to Indian households worldwide. Ganesh is the giver of Buddhi which is…
During the Republican Primary in South Carolina, we called an old friend from our college days who now lives & teaches Mathematics in Columbia, SC. When asked about Donald Trump, he told us “I don’t know anybody who is voting for Trump“. We all know that Donald Trump won big in South Carolina. We…
Some people are blessed with talent, talent that eludes most of us. This rarity hits us when we see it in routine things which we all do. We are talking about photography, a pursuit that Steve Jobs delivered to everyone with his iPhone. The cameras in cell phones get better with every new release….
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips…
Most have read the famous quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar “There is a tide in the affairs of men … “. The last line of that quote says “we must take the current when it serves … “. Donald Trump took the current and it led him to a Presidential Summit in Mexico with…
The Sixth year of a two-term Presidential Cycle has been lucky for US-India relations going back 24 years. The dormant US-India relationship took a dramatic turn in 1998, the 6th year of the Clinton Presidency, with the US paying India “serious, sustained & respectful attention” in the words of Strobe Talbott after India’s nuclear…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
We are relieved to see that the Obama Administration is now actively working with Putin’s Russia to resolve the conflict in Syria. It is a consummation we had fervently wished for since 2013-2014. To us the biggest mistake of Obama’s foreign policy was pushing Putin’s Russia almost into the waiting arms of China, the…
This week the Finance Ministry of India finally bit the bullet and named Dr. Urjit Patel, the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank, as the new Governor. Dr. Patel will take over from Dr. Rajan next week. This was a sensible choice, one that confirms our voiced opinion about the pragmatism above all style…
The state of Keral (Kerala to Brit-servile Indians) is reputedly beautiful, an idyllic paradise of sorts as they tell us. Watch the lovely romantic video below. Don’t you wish you were there? [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2FmLZfUr0[/embedyt] Not if you are a man and especially not if you are our old friend CNBC Anchor M. Because behind every…