One is trying to understand Infosys and where it is going. Honestly, I cannot make out the logic behind some of what is happening in there. Read the following and contemplate: Lost a major transmission client in Europe (portfolio worth $15 mn) Pricing and Currency Fluctuations: Lost $13 mn on currency fluctuations (bad investment?). While its rooting for the Indian Rupee to stay at INR 55 / $, the fall in Rupee is being offset by lower pricing. So, clients... Read more
I know this is everywhere and talked about a lot, but I have to put this in as it is the greatest WTF moment of this Government’s rule. “There’s steady rise in the minimum support price of paddy, wheat and sugarcane , reflected in the prices of commodities . When the urban middle class can buy a bottle of mineral water for Rs 15 and icecream for Rs 20, why do they make so much noise about price rise?” So... Read more
Indian Americans have a rather strong family orientation. From strong family ties to education to marriage, the Indians score the highest percentages in all the right measures nation-wide in US, as per Pew Research. While Republicans cry hoarse about “Family Values” and how it is based on a certain religious orientation, the fact remains that in all the main family related KPIs, the American public scores substantially lower percentages compared to the Indian Americans. Indian Americans seem to also be... Read more
Zabihuddin ‘Zaby’ Ansari alias Abu Jundal (born on Nov 31, 1980) was born and brought up in Beed. He studied in Urdu medium until the Xth grade and then joined the Indian Technical Institute, Beed. He was a member of SIMI and was introduced by Fayyaz Kagri to Lashkar-e-Taiba’s commander of Jammu and Kashmir area in 2003-04. Thereafter, he went over to Pakistan to get trained specifically for terror activities. LeT has three levels of training programs: Daura-e-Aam (a 21-day basic combat course) Daura-e-Sufa (a 21-day... Read more
There is a lot of interest in the “God Particle” and the debates on TV are happening on the subject as well. The debate on NDTV under the title “The Big Fight” was one such discussion / debate. My interest of entry in this debate was that my Guru, Sadhguru was also part of the panel. The discussion was interesting and in many ways, the prejudices and biases of people came out as well as their stance. Some of the... Read more
Major Sameer and Col. Humza – two ISI personnel were clearly involved in the entire operation. What I find interesting is that these ISI people provided: Complete training Arms and Ammunition – Major Sameer brought several boxes of bullets which were used in the attack Logistic support after the attack so Abu Jindal never got arrested. Two terrorists, who were trained but they stayed back and also “saving” Abu Jindal by the ISI points clearly to another attack in planning. ... Read more
Some things just don’t change. There is a verse: Dil jala hai to zaalim apna ghar bhi jala kar dekh; Duniya ko akhir pata to chale ke kahin aag lagi hai (if you heart is burning, then you should burn your house as well; at least the world will realize that fire has erupted somewhere after all) That is how Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir is. They have almost burnt their own house down, in trying to keep their dream of... Read more
Zakir Naik is a hard core fanatic who twists things, scriptures and logic to simply convert people to Islam and portray the rest of the people as useless. Despite no provocation, he has tried to hit out at people like Sri Sri Ravishankar and many others. To understand what all he says and what his mindset is one will have to watch this video. Just look at the outrageousness of his answer. But what he, a fanatic, says openly, a... Read more
Higgs Boson – or the “God’s particle” is in news these days. Some have come to know that the Boson is a word that is based on the name of the Indian Science great Satyendranath Bose. Bosons are elementary sub-atomic particles which were named after Bose, because of the work that was in the quantum physics area by him along with Einstein. It is said that Bose’s research paper on Quantum Statistics was rejected by various journals, until it landed... Read more
Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir is a Cadre-based Islamic organization which is actively involved in Kashmir and is overtly anti-Indian. One of its founders is Syed Geelani, the extremist who is the darling of the Indian anarchists like Arundhati Roy. Well, as the tourism in Kashmir increases, the Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir wants to establish to establish a Taliban like situation in Kashmir. So, they have started warning tourists to not wear skimpy clothes which are against the “local ethos and culture”. What if they... Read more
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