The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
I am sure many have seen and heard this die-hard Pakistani rabid analyst, Zaid Hamid. He talks a lot of nonsense and rants out rabid threats against Jews, Americans, and specially choicest ones against Indian.
But, nothing would have prepared, even me – who had written a stinging article on him many years back (Zaid Hamid and the Hallucinating Pakistani minds) which was at one time ranked higher on Google search than any other Pakistani website post on him (got >160 comments) – for this video and his “otherworldly” stuff.
Here he discusses how the Indian soldiers just couldn’t handle the “men on horsebacks” from 1400 years back – who were part of Muhammad’s Army arguably – who had come back to “save Pakistan” against India. Somehow, as per his version, those Horseback soldiers with swords proved decisive against the Indian Army – which had tanks and rockets to fight with. Oh well. Enjoy the ride. Its tough to dig up jokers like him, even in this day and age of bizarre and weird.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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