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?
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Maldives Parliament (Majlis) was hosting the 4th south Asian speakers summit on achieving the sustainable development goal today and what did the Pakistani delegation do? It raised Kashmir there!
They are single-mindedly trying to hit India everywhere. They do not step back from being boorish, churlish and rude even at the expense of their hosts! They hardly have any friends left anywhere. And whatever they have, they are losing.
While India was represented by Harivansh Narayan Singh, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla; Pakistan sent their Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Qasim Suri and Pak Senator Quratulain Marri.
Just as the Pakistani representative started talking about Kashmir even as speaker of Maldivian Parliament Mohamed Nasheed tried his best to stop him, the Indian representative Harivansh Narayan Singh got up and read a statement – good to see the Indian preparation in having anticipated this nonsense!
Then the Pakistani senator got up and despite being censured by the Maldivian Parliament speaker kept speaking on and on.
When you fight the pigs, you will also roll in the mud. I think we need to keep an arm’s length distance and do things our way.
There is no scope of engagement left for India with Pakistan. I think it is now the end-game for India. India is surely not interested in dealing with Pakistan anymore for it only gives ammunition to this sponsorer of terror to keep spinning things. And it achieves nothing for India.
The right way for India is to keep it at bay, and soon dismember it and then control the whole regional crap so peace can return to the region.
There is really no other way for peace to return in Kashmir and the rest of the region.
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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