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.
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They say its difficult to hide wealth, when there is so much of it!
Now, Business Insider and World’s Luxury Guide has named Sonia Gandhi as the third richest politician in the world! The other two are:
Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz:
Claim to Wealth
– King of Saudi Arabia ($21 billion)
Hassanal Bolkiah:
Claim to Wealth
– Sultan of Brunei ($20 billion)
and..Sonia Gandhi:
Claim to Wealth
– Widow of former Indian Prime Minister ($19 billion)
Michael Bloomberg: CEO of Bloomberg Inc. comes in fourth with $18 billion. Sonia Gandhi is estimated to have wealth ranging anywhere from $2 – $19 billion.
One would ask, how did this widow and someone with no real source of income rub shoulders with the Business Tycoons, Kings and Sultans who are amongst the richest people in the world?
She has often been said to have been the real beneficiary of the Bofors scandal, where although Rajiv Gandhi took the flak, but it was Sonia Gandhi who was the real person who got all the moolah.
Sources byline says this information was sourced from: “OpenSecrets.org, Forbes.com, Bloomberg.com, Wikipedia.org, Guardian.co.uk; Current as of March 2012”
When you look at what Team Anna and every crusader against corruption in India has to go through, you understand why. The stakes in that game are VERY high. Enough to perhaps create the top 10 richest men and women in the world.. PERIOD! Why would such a cartel even let others spoil their party?
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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