2012-03-12T16:43:10-05:00

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... Read more

2012-03-12T15:28:38-05:00

Sri Sri Ravishankar is making his second trip to Pakistan today via the Attari border.  Amongst other things, on this 3 day visit, he will also be innaugurating an Art of Living center in Islamabad. It sounds interesting and often difficult as to how an Indian spiritual organization could have such a following in Pakistan, but it has happened through the hard work of all the volunteers there.  In that, they have spread an important legacy of spiritual practices in... Read more

2012-03-12T05:06:47-05:00

Greg Chappell, the former Australian cricket captain and the ex-Indian coach made some stinging remarks against Indian culture and Indians.  As per him, Indians just cannot be leaders. “The (Indian) culture is very different, it’s not a team culture. They lack leaders in the team because they are not trained to be leaders. From an early age, their parents make all the decisions, their schoolteachers make their decisions, their cricket coaches make the decisions,” Chappell said. “The culture of India... Read more

2012-03-10T14:03:08-06:00

A great deal is made by Muslims about the discrimination they face in non-Muslim majority countries, say India or US.  But none of them compares that to the complete annihilation of others done with a vengeance in the Muslim majority countries. The stories in Bangladesh and Pakistan are very similar in that such a large percentage of the Hindus and Sikhs were reduced to almost nothing.  Afghanistan is worse.  The Taliban rule left hardly any Hindu or Sikh presence. Amitav Ghosh... Read more

2012-03-10T00:17:35-06:00

The recent UP elections in India will go down in history as the elections which humbled the Gandhi family and its heir apparent, Rahul Gandhi.  It will also be remembered as the elections which showcased another heir – Akhilesh Yadav. The extent of humiliation of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi can be best understood from the results in the Gandhi strong-hold of Rae Bareli, Amethi, and Sultanpur area. Despite more than 300 public meetings by Rahul and sister Priyanka Gandhi. Congress... Read more

2012-03-09T22:00:46-06:00

Joy Mukherjee – the actor from 1960s – died today.  He was a handsome youngman who did quite a few famous movies including Ek Musafir Ek Hasina and Love in Tokyo.  He was from family steeped in movies.  He was related to the Ganguly brothers – Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anoop Kumar. Also, his brother, Shomu Mukherjee – married Tanuja – and their daughters Kajol and Tanisha – have been actresses recently. During his heyday, Joy Mukherjee bowled over... Read more

2012-03-09T16:31:32-06:00

Yesterday, the world observed International Women’s Day.  Women are facing many issues over the world, specially in countries like India.  The issues that a working woman faces in the urban places is quite a bit, but the issues that the rural or slum mothers face often puts them in situations where they end up making decisions that no one in the right mind would like to make.  But such is the survival pressure that they have little choices in front... Read more

2012-03-09T04:49:41-06:00

Recently we got a dog.  Her name is Bella.  Actually, my daughter wanted one for her birthday and was adamant that the new pet be from the Animal Shelter.  We made our first trip to the SPCA shelter but couldn’t make up our mind.  We again went back the second day and had almost given up, when we thought of looking again in the “Big Dog” section.  During that walk, we came across this Lab and Retriever cross named “Bella... Read more

2012-03-09T03:24:48-06:00

Today is International Women’s Day.  While many use this day to wish women, but the real intent of instituting this day was to push for Gender Equality.  Even today, most women do not get the same level of salary as their male co-workers get, even in the US! In many other countries – the less developed ones – things can get even worse.  Most of the rural women work on farms for far less money than men do.  Even though... Read more

2012-03-09T01:16:17-06:00

Just as Modi’s critics go on ad nauseum with their mindless criticism, he goes on working on ways to improve the lot of his people and state. Not only is he pragmatic and not prone to unnecessary Government – he is also pretty innovative. Or rather he has created an atmosphere in his state such that innovative ideas see the light of the day! Among the brilliant ones is this new initiative to develop Green energy in Gujarat. So what... Read more


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