India is an interesting country. So, someone wants to come to the country, but some people arenât thrilled about that. They go and threaten with violence. The Government, instead, of making sure these elements do NOT threaten the law and order and clearly tell them to not break any law or else â disallows the person to come in. That is the jist of Congressâ reply to Salman Rushdie. How can one expect a Government which acts like this to... Read more
Slowly and gradually and under the very nose of India, Nepal is becoming a vassal state of China. Maoists took over the country and reversed its status as a Hindu State. And now, there is serious talk in that Government of abandoning the special status treaty with India. Because, they want to hedge their bets with China as well. The nexus of Pakistanis and Jehadis â backed by ISI â and China is too strong in Nepal to ignore. The... Read more
There are two parts to well being â Understanding the physical part of your existence and the Energy part of your existence. The former entails handling the structure of the physical, which is easy has quick short term results but long term implications as well. When the long term living is part of short term answers then life can be a series of band aids. On the other hand, when short term tinkering with the physical for handling the immediate... Read more
A survey called the âState of the Nationâ by CNN-IBN and GfK Mode, a research organization â has provided some interesting but devastating insights for future of Indiaâs democracy. The survey was conducted in 8 cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh between January 11 and January 14, 2012. 1731 persons above 18 years of age were interviewed during the whole exercise. The results in brief: (IBNLive â link1 . link2) The cities of the south and... Read more
In a survey by Economic Times, it was learnt that the families with Household Incomes of over Rs 12.5 lakhs have increased from 20% in 1993-94 to 53% in 2009-10 and recently to 59%. The families holding their position in the top household income families are also considered to be high spenders as 40 percent of the income is spent on private consumption. Whereas, middle income families just spend 17 percent of their incomes on private consumption. According to another... Read more
After Vinod Dham, the father of Pentium chips, there is another Indian â Anant Agarwal â who is creating the next breakthrough in the world of computer chips. Anant, who is the Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technologyâs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and also has his own commercial venture â called Tilera â is looking to create chips not just with 8, 16 or 32 cores, as we have currently. But chips with 100 cores. That is... Read more
The Indian PM is now on Twitter. So, if you want to have a close conversation with him, you can tweet him your mind. GIven his reticent nature he had tweeted only thrice on the first day and garnered 7000 followers already. I am assuming a lot of them were from the PMO office itself đ âThe Prime Ministerâs office is now on Twitter @PMOIndia Thank you for your support,â Manmohan Singhâs newly appointed communications advisor Pankaj Pachauri said on... Read more
Physical appearance is one thing, Salman Rushdie, in an India which is a free democracy â is not even welcome in a virtual form. Salman Rushdie isnât welcome at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in any form, not even virtually. The proposed session with Rushdie at the festival via video link on January 24 ran into trouble on Monday with the Rajasthan government coming up with âintimidatingâ riders which has made the organizers develop cold feet about hosting the author... Read more
Four Tibetans have self-immolated themselves to protest against their repression by the Chinese Government. Tibetans asking for freedom were arrested a few days back by the Chinese and Tibetan youth came out to protest. What does the Chinese Government do? They start shooting the protesters who were unarmed. One dies (am sure this is a âreducedâ number) and scores get injured. It is amazing, that in a world which is so global, everyone still handles China with kids gloves. Specially,... Read more
Some interesting points by Ashley J. Tellis, who is an influential US foreign affairs expert and currently senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace â on Pakistan, Afghanistan, US and India scenario. He says that it is Pakistanâs Afghanistan policy to support the Taliban. He goes further and discusses things in more detail on more topics.. take a look. On the Civil and Military stand off the present civil-military standoff actually was a long time coming. Right from the... Read more
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