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?
The first half of the 20th century was the period when the United Stated of America pass Federal laws that were explicitly racist against all people of Indian origin. The US Supreme Court passed a judgment that Indians were non-White, and hence not eligible to get US citizenship. Many Indians had become prosperous landowners and had to forfeit their land. Immediately thereafter, the US Senate and Congress passed a law that 70% of all new immigrants would be from England, Germany and Ireland, and none would be Asians, especially Indians. It was only in the era of President Johnson that African Americans succeeded in passing Civil Rights Laws that ended blatant and legalized racism in the US. As a result of these breakthroughs won by Blacks, the Immigration Bill of 1965 overturned the old bans on Indian immigration. This is what opened the gates for Indians to migrate the USA. Considering how recent this history is, and how much oppression the people of Indian origin faced, it is shocking that this chapter of American history is hardly ever taught. Few NRIs even know this background.
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Attack by Hamas took a lot to accomplish. The sudden Chinese bonhomie with Syria and the bringing together of Arab - Sunni and Shia countries and actors by Xi Jinping's regime raises some questions .
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