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?
Statement that the Indian Army Chief has come out with. And it is the same shit all over again. There is no meaning to what he is saying, for he doesn’t believe it and nor does anyone else. He is an organizational man and he is speaking more to his rank and file, which is fine. But his directions – fire back on provocation, in a measured way – is again nonsensical. Why measured?
Giving out a very strict warning to Pakistan on retaliation to attacks on the LoC in Poonch district, Indian Army chief general Bikram Singh on Monday said that the he has given categorical directions to the Northern Command to retaliate if provoked and also asserted that we reserve the right to retaliate at the time and place of our choice.
Time and Place of our Own Choosing. Yeah Right! Maybe some second rate Dialogue writer from Bollywood can write better dialogs for our leaders. Honestly!! If slogans and warnings is all you have, then the Defense Forces and their leaders look like sorry Sadak Chhap Goondas. If you have a plan, there have been enough.. really.. ENOUGH damage and strikes that Pakistan has done on India to actionize that plan. The sad part is that the Defense Establishment and the Political Establishment in India do not have a plan.
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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