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?
We, the Indian-Americans, are just 1% of the whole US population. Yet officially, we own nearly 50% of all motels in the US (could be more!). We are the most educated in the country out of all the ethnicities – 71% have Bachelors or higher as per 2010 census. As per the latest figures from the 2013 census which came out recently, the median household income for Indian-Americans is now $100,547! Compare that to the median for Asian Americans as a whole which is $72,472 and the National median – $51,000!
But nothing compares to how the Indian-Americans have dominated the National Spelling Bee contest! Indian kids have won – with the latest 2015 contest – Eight Straight years and 12 out of the last 16 contests! Now, that is called complete dominance. Yes, Vanya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, and Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Chesterfield, Missouri have been declared joint champions this year – 2015. Vanya’s word was scherenschnitte while Gokul’s word was nunatak.
Vanya’s elder sister Kavya, won in 2009! And, so Vanya and Kavya’s Dad is now calling himself the “Beefather”.
Mirle Shivashankar, first father whose daughters both won the Spelling Bee, breaks out AMAZING SHIRT pic.twitter.com/9aozlWnYkx
And with that, like in any other area, the American racism kicks in. Last year, many came out with racist rants on twitter against Indians and the kids who won the Spelling bee. (Source)
Here is the whole story from 2014 – curated on Storify by the journalist Jeff Chu. And, this year, Jeff comes out with another curated version of the racist slurs on twitter via Storify.
What is Success? What brings us Happiness? And once we know what it is, then how to succeed? We begin the new year 2023 with an honest look at these questions.
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