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?
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?
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.
These two weeks I am spending on soaking India, its milieu and the changes. Will be back with a substantive discussion in the week after next.
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?
Over ambitious politicians joined hands with Religious institutions and groups to defeat BJP only because it was characterized as a "Hindu Party". It was won on Minority Vote where Hindus were rendered irrelevant. That is the greatest lesson from this election!
Why does the Indian Election result look like an 'a la carte' menu served on an unexpected platter? Are we looking at something more than meets the eye?
The US used its currency supremacy backed by its military supremacy to weaponize economics. Now, it is coming back to haunt in the multipolar world.
Rare Earth Elements (REE) will change and rule the world as oil did in the last century. China dominates that industry like no other. And it uses that monopoly to beat down on its adversaries.
Ukraine War is not about Ukraine. It is about the Arctic Circle and its dominance. If one looks at the stakes, positions and the stances, then it Arctic's crucial importance becomes clear.
Narratives notwithstanding, the Indian Judiciary's actions trust-deficit and non-performance do force one to ask the inevitable question - what does it really offer the Indian people in real terms?
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