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?
Dil jala hai to zaalim apna ghar bhi jala kar dekh;
Duniya ko akhir pata to chale ke kahin aag lagi hai
(if you heart is burning, then you should burn your house as well;
at least the world will realize that fire has erupted somewhere after all)
That is how Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir is. They have almost burnt their own house down, in trying to keep their dream of Kashmir alive. And, when I say keep the “dream of Kashmir” alive, its not some altruistic thing, but an expansionist and an Islamic agenda. Their idea of Kashmir has been to first Islamicize Kashmir and then get it for keeps, because it is Islamic. Well, things haven’t really gone their way.
New Pakistani PM Raja Pervez Ashraf
Many have died and many more will die, but Kashmir – once the abode of greatest of Sages – will prove to be the death knell for Pakistan itself in the end. It already has. After all, the Jehad factories that were set up in Pakistan to “win back” Kashmir are tearing the entire country apart.
After the corrupt Yousuf Raza Gilani, there is a new PM in Pakistan – Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. He made his customary “My Heart beats for Kashmir” statement to the media, which is enough to galvanize public opinion for him one guesses.
The government would continue its support to the people of Kashmir till the resolution of the issue, said Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Thursday, a day when talks between India and Pakistan ended in New Delhi. Ashraf said that the government would continue its moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir till the resolution of issue in accordance with UN resolutions and the aspirations of Kashmiris, reported Associated Press of Pakistan.
If I was leading India and if I had to completely destroy Pakistan, I would just do one thing. Not resolve Kashmir. Which is what Pakistani Army also wants to do. Except that, India has been able to handle the Kashmir fallout. Pakistan won’t. It will have to pay for it with its own existence.
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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