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?
Generally, as I blog, I do not really look for how it is doing from the “commercial” standpoint – as in the hits and unique visitors etc. Today, I decided to check out my stats using the Awstats functionality in my cpanel. What I saw is showin below. The stats don’t look bad at all. The hits seem to have been between 300k and 400k. The Unique visitors are around 7000-10,000 a month and number of visits are between 15k to 20k. That means a person makes it back to drishtikone at least twice a month. The visitors have been checking out about 60k-100k pages a month!! That is quite a bit! At least drishtikone has enough to keep them busy 😉
The Google Page Rank is 3 (it was 4 at some point before the changes to drupal version and hack attack). The Alexa Rank is around 900k and falling every day.
In the Annual predictions for 2018
[https://www.drishtikone.com/annual-predictions-for-india-pakistan-and-the-us-for-2018/], we
had said that by the end of that
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