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?
Marriage is achanging. Several trends are showing up in the world. Not just in the West and US, in particular, but even in India.
Gay/Lesbian marriages: There is a growing acceptance of such a phenomenon and it is the understanding of this social attitudes change that Republicans are hurting from these days. It is only a matter of time before the Gay/Lesbian marriages will be accepted in more and more countries and societies.
Delayed Marriages: Women are working and having better careers, so why marry? There are 4 needs primarily why people marry – Social, Economic, Emotional and Physical. The first two needs are easily met by women these days. Emotional and Physical needs also are something that they can meet without the need for marriage. Actually, getting hooked because of the last two needs curtails the first two. So it depends on what a woman values most.
Higher Divorces: As people become more independent and more assertive, clashes come out in open. More and more people are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder and Type A personalities. Both of these make them incapable of compromise and patience required in a relationship like marriage.
As much as the conservatives are shouting about how Gay marriage will destroy the institution of marriage, the fact is that the institution of marriage as it was known has changed already.
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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