Sania Mirza Engagement Pictures

Last updated on: July 12, 2009 at 2:15 pm By Desh Kapoor

Sania Mirza got engaged with her childhood friend and industrialist, Mohammed Shorab Mirza at the Taj Krishna Hotel in Hyderabad on Friday. It was an exclusive, by-invitation only function. Read more

First woman Army officer court martialed

Last updated on: July 12, 2009 at 2:02 pm By Desh Kapoor

Now that the women officers are in the Indian Defense services, it seems they are not doing as good as one might have thought they would. Which is a shame. Read more

One Rule for Hindus.. another for Muslims?

Last updated on: July 12, 2009 at 2:37 am By Desh Kapoor

Vir Sanghvi is one of my favorite analysts on the Indian scene. Most like to get branded and then leave their principles. They would change their arguments and principles because they are Read more

Changes on Drishtikone and the new life on 7rcr.com and SAPprofessionals.org

Last updated on: July 11, 2009 at 5:26 pm By Desh Kapoor

Things are achanging at Drishtikone for better readability. Also 7rcr.com and SAPprofessionals.org have got a redesign and new life. Check out. Read more

MJ's "Beat it" with a new twist

Last updated on: July 11, 2009 at 6:42 am By Desh Kapoor

Michael Jackson has died but he really affected so many people. But you could not have predicted such a profound affect on some one like this gentleman. Read more

Self Centered Sorrow

Last updated on: July 8, 2009 at 8:16 pm By Desh Kapoor

How little attention we pay to things about us, to observe and to consider. We are so self-centered, so occupied with our worries, with our own benefits, we have no time to observe and understand. This occupation makes our mind dull and weary, frustrated and sorrowful, and from sorrow we want to escape. As long as the self is active there must be weary dullness and frustration. People are caught in a mad race, in the grief of self-centered sorrow. This sorrow is deep thoughtlessness. The thoughtful, the watchful are free from sorrow. Read more

China's Game of Economic Deception

Last updated on: July 8, 2009 at 1:38 pm By Desh Kapoor

I got this in an email from a forum. I am not sure what the source is but the article is so good that I have to carry it verbatim for maximum impact. I have believed in this for long, finally someone else concurs with my own analysis - that China is, but a house of cards! ============== Vital to the idea of a global recovery... is the idea that China, at least, is still growing. And that, just maybe, they can help pull the rest of us out of this crisis by our bootstraps. Is that a real possibility? Not by a long shot. And if you're placing any faith in a whole new Asian miracle, I urge you right now to reconsider. Especially if your wealth depends on it, as it might in more ways than you imagine. Consider Detroit. It once looked like a global mecca for capitalism and monument to progress, too. Have you seen it lately? It's practically a ghost town. Now imagine the world's next industrial ghost towns and you might be shocked to discover that they're already turning up. But not in America. Rather, in the Chinese provinces of Shenzhen, Guangzhou, or Dongguan. Read more

Pakistani "State Actors" helping Jehadis to Avoid detection in furture attacks on India

Last updated on: July 8, 2009 at 3:02 am By Desh Kapoor

The so-called "State Actors" in Pakistan are now setting up transmitters near the terrorist bases to block the signals from Thuraya sets which can help pinpoint location of the users. This is being done so that the location of the phones are camouflaged. After the Mumbai Attacks, the US pushed using their power to get the call logs of the satellite phone calls stored at the Master Control Facility at Sharjah, which was critical in establishing the terror network presence in Pakistan and the fact that Pakistanis were involved. Read more

MJ Memorial thoughts: Curriculum to handle Fame is needed

Last updated on: July 7, 2009 at 10:49 pm By Desh Kapoor

Today was Michael Jackson's "Memorial Service" where many celebrities came and shared their thoughts. The small sharing by his daughter was specifically heart breaking. Read more

Clashes in China with Uighur Muslims – 140 dead.. official figure

Last updated on: July 6, 2009 at 6:23 pm By Desh Kapoor

China's Xinjiang region has a lot of Muslims. They are known as Uighurs. China has suppressed these people. If some feel that the situation for Muslims in Kashmir and Palestine is bad, they probably haven't even looked at Xinjiang. And why not! After all China is an abettor of Nuke proliferation and all that Pakistanis want in terms of arms is provided by China. So, if they were to utter any politically incorrect stuff aimed at their "time-tested friend", then not only will they be left to fight for and with Uighurs against China.. but with NO SECURITY whatsoever against India and US! So, Pakistan's Islamic identity closes its eyes when it comes to China's Muslims. They can be discriminated, subjugated, masacred and that's all "Halal". Recently, there was a huge drama over the return of the Uighhurs released from Guantanamo. China didn't accept the Muslims back even though US had said that they were harmless. Once tainted, a Muslim is of no use to Chinese. Even otherwise. Now, there have been large scale clashes and violence in Xinjiang province and the death toll is 140. That's the official number. For a Government that kills in Milliions and reports a few hundred, you can assume that the toll would have been MANY times over. Even its recent official contradictions reveal that pattern: "Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140, still climbing," Xinhua reported in its latest dispatch, after initially saying only three had died. Read more