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?
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IK Gujral was the biggest traitor that India had as the Prime Minister. He not only exposed all the Indian intelligence operatives in Pakistan but insisted with Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) that their operations be completely shut down there.
Not satisfied with that, he went on to ask the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which works within the Indian territory, to withdraw from surveillance of the Pakistani officials. This gave the Pakistanis free rein to recruit deep sleeper cells and create havoc in the country as they wished.
In some ways, what we see today in terms of how the violent mobs, almost on a remote control, are being activated around the country, – was started at that time.
This video explains how RAW, despite the betrayal and mistrust of the scoundrel that IK Gujral was, worked overtime to save him from the very terrorists that he was working to give free rein to in India!
That is the reality of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of India.
Please remember stories like these when you see the political situation in India devolving into chaos. Folks like IK Gujral, Dewe Gowda came to lead the nation as the PMs because of those chaotic situations. And, they put the country into an immeasurable mess. Something that we are probably paying for even now.
The same forces which engineered that period of chaos have become active again. As long as pliable UPA was there to put the country on sale and plunder its resources, these forces were fine. Today, when they see that the leadership is no longer a puppet, there is a sense of urgency. And the same atmosphere of chaos is being created again.
So before you are taken in by the sudden brouhaha, remember these are the situations that produce scoundrels like IK Gujral.
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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