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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Pakistan’s government is deeply Hinduphobic and full of bigotry. It has a wet dream of launching Ghazwa-e-Hind, for which they have no resources or power. But that does not stop their ministers from promoting it.
Pakistan is being run by loonies who are religious bigots and despite the narrative crafted by the speechwriters trained by India’s Congress party, their hatred for the Hindus and the Indians show clearly. This man is Ali Mohammad Khan. He is the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf government of Pakistan.
He says “all Muslims who send a hate message to India every morning are contributing to Ghazwa-e-Hind (Holy Jihad or War on India)” which he claims is “more sacred than offering the daily 5 times prayers.”
Ghazwa-e-Hind is the ultimate wet dream of Pakistani Muslims who think their Allah has given prediction in the Quran that Muslims will rule over India once again. It is part high-end bigotry and part conspiracy theory. What is interesting is that even the high-level functionaries and Pakistan Government’s ministers are talking this language.
Of course, some of the Pakistanis realize what kind of idiot he is.
‘We’ll hoist our flag on Lal Qila’. Ali Mohammad Khan unashamedly & irresponsibly said this against a neighbouring country. Expectedly so as PTI is an ideology-less party of politically naive/ignorant Imran Khan who says that politics is no more of Right & Left but Right & Wrong.
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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