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?
Diwali is the time for rejuvenation. Of relations, space and our very energies. For someone who has grown up spending every Diwali with the family, being alone on that day is a devastating thing. When I first came to US way back in 1997, it was in August as the summer was at its peak. Soon the fall came and then came the cooler nights. There was hardly anyone to talk to those days and things Indian seemed a far cry. The US had not seen the hordes of Indians that came in during the early 2000s. I still remember making a regular weekend trip to a grocery store in Houston’s Hillcroft area which sold a lot of music CDs. Just to listen to the Hindi and Punjabi songs when alone.
That Diwali, I was working at the office. Unlike this year, when the entire office is going to celebrate Diwali, in those times no one cared for Indian festivals in the US. It was a quiet and lonely Diwali. The streets were empty, there were no sweets at home, no one sent any either, not a single friend around to go out and enjoy the evening with. Being afraid of the Apartment policies, one didn’t even light lamps or candles. The traditional diyas were nowhere to be found anyway. Even a day like Diwali was an insipid one with no excitement!
For so many Indians, who are traveling as consultants and IT professionals, getting a slice of home is a big thing. Sony LIV, is Sony Entertainment Network’s Video-on-Demand service and they have started this unique drive where you can send Diwali Greetings to your loves ones. The bond that is created with the loved ones via a platform geared for keeping you in touch with a slice of India through its programs can be amazing! Personalize and customize your greetings and live this Diwali with your loved ones who are far away.
The promo video – called Diwali Movie – for this intiative touches your heart specially if you are far away from your loved ones this Diwali. It is the time when no matter what your reason for disgareements and fights, you come together in an embrace. When nothing else works – love does. Even those with tough exteriors melt.
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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