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India Advises Indian Businesses against doing business in Chinese City

Things are heating up between India and China.  The latest incident – after many from China like actions regarding bureaucrats from Arunachal – is the Indian Advisory to Indian traders against doing business in Yiwu – near Shanghai. Efforts were on to quietly shift them to Shanghai. But the controversy, which left an Indian diplomat in [...]

Telenor gives Chief 2G Scam Company – Unitech – a run for its money

Telenor is one of the companies whose licenses got cancelled by the Supreme Court, after the Government dragged its feet on the 2G scam. Well, Telenor – the Norwegian company that was impacted isn’t happy and is ready to play tough ball with the Indian system.  The company will take all its assets to a [...]

Sikhism, Hinduism and the Truth

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I recently came across a blog site, which is fairly interesting.  It had an article, where the author was trying to denigrate Vedas and Hinduism in contrast to Sikhism.  He tried to suggest that Guru Nanak Dev came up with a new group as a “better” alternative to Hinduism.  So, the author starts the article thus: [...]

Pakistani Couple in London slaved and raped a teen-age Deaf and Mute girl

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Came across a news item today, where a Pakistani couple – 83 year old Ilyas Ashar and 66 year old wife Tallat Ashar had kept a deaf and mute Pakistani girl, - they had brought all the way from Pakistan, as a slave – when she was 10.  She is now supposed to be 19 or [...]

The Greatest Indian Dance Performance of this Century

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Indian Marriages are a world unto themselves.  The behavior is typical and interesting.  Bride and Groom are accidental diversions.  People actually go to live a fantasy.  Many things are common and have grown into people’s imagination not because of any genuine reason, but because they are peculiar. So it is very common for all the [...]

When two NRI young men lived on Rs 26 a day in India to experience the Poverty line

Tushar Vashisht and Mathew Cherian

Two guys, Tushar Vashisht and Mathew Cherian - one an Investment Banker who studied at University of Pennsylvania and other from MIT – came to India to work at the UID project. Recently, there was a big debate (see Sushma Swaraj’s speech in the Indian Parliament below) about how the Government had announced that anyone living [...]

Special Investigation Team Report acquits Modi of any Wrong Doing

SIT Chief RK Raghavan

69 people, including Ehsan Jafri – a former Congress MP – were killed in Gulbarga society on February 28, 2002.  This came a day after 59 children, women and men on a train coming from Ayodhya were burnt alive by a Muslim mob in Godhra. Congress MP Ehsan Jafri’s widow Zakia Jafri, filed a petition [...]

Indians and Chinese Discriminated against in College Admissions in name of “Promoting Diversity”

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If you are an Indian or Chinese student, the chances are you are discriminated when it comes to College Admissions in the US. This is being proved by repeated studies and also from the complaints against some premier colleges like Harvard and Princeton. The explanations offered try their best to give a spin. In a [...]

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati – the Unknown Hand in 2G scam

Goolam Vahanvati

Goolam Vahanvati is the first Muslim Attorney General of India.  And if, what is being said is true of him, he might be the most corrupt. If A. Raja the Telecom Minister is the one who has been behind the bars because of being made the “poster boy” of the 2G scam, then P. Chidambaram [...]

What Hinders Success of Indian Startups?

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A lot is talked about India’s market and the potential for startups. Many have been started and many have succeeded, but numerous – disproportionally large numbers have failed. And failed miserably. So, one is bound to ask the question – why is it tough to start a venture in India? Market Size Myth: India is [...]