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 year there will be multiple ways that India will be represented at the Academy Awards ceremony. There are 9 nominees for the Best Picture:
Civil War saga “Lincoln”;
the old-age love story “Amour”;
the Iran hostage thriller “Argo”;
the independent hit “Beasts of the Southern Wild”;
the slave-revenge narrative “Django Unchained”;
the musical “Les Miserables”;
the shipwreck story “Life of Pi”;
the lost-souls romance “Silver Linings Playbook”;
and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle “Zero Dark Thirty.”
While “Life of Pi” is the story of the journey of an Indian boy; Lincoln has an interesting connection. It is produced by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Reliance. Reliance is the company owned by Anil Ambani. They have an alliance with Steven Spielberg, so it is not surprising that they are in there in Lincoln.
Lincoln, btw, has 12 nominations, which is a record for any movie until now.
In the Annual predictions for 2018
[https://www.drishtikone.com/annual-predictions-for-india-pakistan-and-the-us-for-2018/], we
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