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?
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The guy is Sayyed Waseem-ur-Rehman Shah. He came to India in Nov 2006 and was deported from India in May 2007, because of expired visa. He has an ongoing spat with the management of ‘Dargah Hazrat Khwaja Mansurul’, a shrine located in Bhandup. He is also accused of making incendiary speeches. He has offenses in Sangli and Mumbai registered against him.
But, he is a free man, who roams around in Mumbai in a car with a red siren. A privilege of the top political and bureaucratic brass!
He had last entered India using an X Visa (entry visa) in October 2010, which has been subsequently been extended and will expire in December 2012.
Did he usurp the license for Red Siren on his car from somewhere or is he doing it thinking no one would care or know and he will anyhow get the passage of way through the city.
In a city like Mumbai, which was very recently hit by terrorists trained from Pakistan, this incident is indeed pretty scary! What if 5 terrorists with cars having red sirens go around in the city and enter locations which are off limits to normal people and create havoc? It is more possible than you might think!
Although this happened in Mumbai. It could easily have happened in Delhi as well!
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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