Close on the heels of Dr. Singh’s statement about the US NGOs behind the protests against the Nuke plants, comes this revelation from the Wikileaks. Indian activists fighting for the victims of the Bhopal gas leak disaster are being monitored by an American strategic affairs company contracted to Dow Chemical and other large corporations, the [...]
Read More...Dow’s spying on activists and our collective involvement in Bhopal Tragedy
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Americans Holding onto their cars longer now
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Impact of a bad economy and job market is seen everywhere. Americans are keeping their vehicles longer and postponing their buying. Which means that new car sales will be impacted in the coming months. Americans are holding onto their new vehicles for about six years — 27 percent longer than before the recession — due [...]
Read More...Education Achievement Gap between Rich and Poor rising rapidly in the US: a study
February 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The future of US is being dented like never before. It is becoming harder and harder for lower income kids to get better educated than that more affluent. This is the beginning of a caste system of its own kind, where the kid of a highly educated / well to do couple will be an [...]
Read More...Indians and Chinese Discriminated against in College Admissions in name of “Promoting Diversity”
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Read More...How Western Classical Music is being kept alive by Far East
February 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
The American Classical music scene is a strange and interesting game of musical chairs when it comes to the audiences. The White American audience, which predominated the classical music halls is dispropotionately older (45-54 yrs). And as this older generation moves out due to death, disease to non-attendance – a newer color and type of [...]
Read More...The Business of Death: Cremation vs Embalming
January 27, 2012 By 1 Comment
Unbeknownst to many who don’t live in the US, Death is a very lucrative industry. And if the Indians think that the Haridwar-based Sati-Ghat side Panda (pandit) is asking for too much when he demands Rs 2000 (~$40), then one has to look at the proportions of spending one has to do in US on [...]
Read More...Five Predictions for 2012: How will the world be like?
January 18, 2012 By 1 Comment
This year, 2012, is a significant year in many ways. There are enough doomsday-sayers, who believe that 2012 will be the end of the world. World, as per the great mystic and yogi Sadhguru is poised to see a surge in ability of people to touch their inner self. World is at a point where [...]
Read More...Local Congressman remembers 26/11 massacres
November 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As the Americans take off for the Thanksgiving, I just got an email from Congressman Pete Olson (Pete Olson’s website), who represen
Read More...India is China’s #2 target
November 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Are Pakistani Nukes in danger of going to Jehadis?
November 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
It is a common whine by many so-called “Political and Defense analysts” of Pakistan that US is after their Nukes.
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