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?
Subrata Roy’s Sahara group is buying two iconic hotels in Manhattan near the Central Park. The New York Plaza and Dream New York are going to be theirs for
4,400 crore ($800 million).
They will buy 75% stake in New York Plaza – of which 60 percent is with the Israeli entrepreneur Isaac Tshuva’s Elad Properties and 15% from 15 percent from Kingdom Holdings, owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for USD 400 and 170 million respectively. One finds that rather interesting – a hotel owned by an Israeli businessman and a Saudi prince 🙂
They will pay USD 220 million to the Indian hotelier Vikram Chatwal for the Dream Downtown.
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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