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?
In a world, where divorces are going through the roof because the two people living together for years, often decades – don’t even know or trust each other enough, here is India’s self-proclaimed task master of politicians on TV giving a clean chit to Salman Khurshid DESPITE hard evidence. Pardon, Karan Thapar, if his melodramatic pink slip shows from us his hard black suit:
Ultimately, all analysis and evidence apart, I have three deeper reasons for believing Salman. First, I’ve known him since I was 21 and cannot believe he would forge letters or pilfer money meant for the handicapped. Second, I admire his willingness to subject himself to a rigorous interview less than two hours after returning from London. A man with a guilty conscious would have ducked for cover instead. Third, he wouldn’t sue for defamation if he did not have a credible and convincing defence. Oscar Wilde did that and look where he ended up!
First reason – he has known this moron so I don’t believe – not know.. but believe. He is worse than a Jehadi sympathizer. At least they can blame their mental shit on a book. But Thapar can’t even do that. He is responsible for conjuring up his own BS. Effectively so.
Second reason – admire his willingness to “subject himself to rigorous interview”. From all accounts that I have read, heard and seen, it was a BIG SHAM. He shouted and shunned and even threatened people and questions that he didn’t like and answered the ones that he wanted, the WAY he wanted. Rigorous, my foot!
Third reason, “he wouldn’t sue for defamationif he wasn’t credible”. Really!!!??? Has Thapar been in some Lala-land all these years?? I mean, these sort of stunts are staple of these politicians.
Look Karan, if in this big bad world, Khurshid was the only man nice to you in your entire life and you owe your sanity to him, that is one thing, but please excuse us from your insult to our mediocre but well intact intelligence!
Don’t know if he realizes, but Karan has really – not euphemistically – true to his program’s moniker, turned into Devil’s Advocate now! 🙂
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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