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?
By all counts, Rajiv Gandhi was one of the most horrendous choice for India’s Prime Minister. He oversaw by far one of the most terrible massacres, and started the mess in Sri Lanka. Was responsible for Bofors scandal, and unleashed the sorry phenomenon of his incompetent and thoroughly corrupt wife and kids. A legacy that he perfected. Here is the Wikileaks on how he played middleman in Saab-Scania aircraft deal.
Late PM Rajiv Gandhi may have worked as a middleman for Swedish company Saab-Scania, which had tried to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s, according to a new release from WikiLeaks.
Saab-Scania eventually could not seal the deal, which went to British SEPECAT Jaguar.
According to a report published in The Hindu, Rajiv was considered to be a valuable negotiator because of his family connections, states the paper, citing the Kissinger Cables, the latest bunch of classified cables of the US administration released by WikiLeaks.
So he was already working as a middleman even before he had had that “sudden change of heart” to take the mantle of the Prime Minister and a politician after his mother’s death. Yeah Right!! This Wikileak shows he was already being groomed in to the world of corruption well before his entry!
There is another interesting name – Air Marshall OP Mehra. His son-in-law was doing his own deal for Mirage.
What one finds extremely interesting is that this Air Marshall had his career cut out for him. He was extremely busy:
represented India at UNESCO
got Padma Vibhushan in 1977
governor of Maharashtra from 1980-82
Governor of Rajasthan from 1982-85
President of Indian Olympic Association
in 2010, his book “Memories: Sweet and Sour” which was released by the Jihadi sympathizer and then Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari.
And, that is all you need to know about how far will Rahul Gandhi’s “cute face” take him.
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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