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?
India is getting some new migrants that no one seems to realize. Its the Ugandans. The number of Ugandans moving to India has risen sharply in the last 10 years. In fact, from just 694 in 2001 census to 151,363 in 2011.
In the 1970s, many Indian origin Ugandans had moved to India due to Idi Amin.
As per the numbers, most of the return immigrants or immigrants from Uganda has been in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, not Gujarat or Punjab.
What is interesting is that 77,000 of these immigrant/return immigrants have reported that they have been in India for 10 years. Which means that 2001 census was flawed!
In 1972, Idi Amin had made 80,000 Indians in Uganda leave that country. They have since moved from one country to another. But this phenomenon is new.
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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