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?
An Indian man, a Hindu, was pushed onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train – which crushed him on the spot – at Queens subway station in New York by a lady because she hates Hindus and Muslims after 2001 (9/11)!
In a statement released by the district attorney’s office, Brown quoted Menendez, “in sum and substance,” as having told the police: “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.” Menendez conflated the Muslim and Hindu faiths both in her comments to the police and in her target for attack, officials said. (link)
One, she is demented if she doesn’t understand the difference between a Hindu and a Muslim. Second, from her statement it seems that she has been doing such things a lot. To what degree and to what extent is not clear.
Sunando Sen, was 46 and had recently started a small copying business from his savings in the Upper West Side.
This incident raises a lot of questions for Hindus of all sects and congregations. How are we portrayed in the Western media and the minds of people? I am not saying that the Muslims should be discriminated against. But Hindus – and Sikhs – surely need to come together and discuss how Hindus and Sikhs are different from Muslims. All the crimes of terror, which were religiously motivated – outside of the hate crimes and those of psychological type, like the Sandy Hook shootings – were perpetrated by the Muslims of foreign origin. There is a problem in some of the communities – specially the Pakistani and Bangladeshi congregations, that they need to fix and work on. But their failure to reign in and even properly educate their kids in globally useful behavior shouldn’t become a death knell for the other communities.
So many Sikhs have died mistaken to be Muslims. Why should they suffer for Muslim youth whose parents and community didn’t care when they flew off to Afghanistan for terror training as opposed to Harvard!
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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