Why Do India and Pakistan See America in Opposite Ways
"Give me a name, America, make of me a Buzz or Chip or Spike. Bathe me in amnesia and clothe me in your powerful unknowing."
View ArticleA Carnival Called India
Wah India. Your myriad avatars, your million mutinies never cease to amaze. We try hard to hijack you. Some cry, "India is Indira". Others sing, "You are my Sonia". Still others chant, "Saffron Shining."
View Article2011 Feels Like 1980 Again
Casting a glance back at how India appeared to the outside world just a few months ago is rather like looking at grainy footage of yesteryear: a booming economy, IT whiz-kids making waves all over the...
View ArticleEmpires R Us
A steady stream of recent news and scholarly articles has been predicting the decline and fall of the American Empire.
View ArticleLists for Fools
The richest people and companies — such as Fortune magazine’s list of the world’s largest companies or the world’s richest — are atleast based on measurable criteria of wealth, and even they hit and...
View ArticleSaving Capitalism from Capitalists
We may be headed for a fairly long economic downturn, Far from improving, Western economies could slide into a double dip recession. We could be sitting on a powder keg, which will explode.
View ArticleSterilize the Rich
Local elites in many developing societies shared the Western sensibilities and often took draconian measures to limit population growth.
View ArticleDinner at the Patels
I could feel them taking inventory of my outfit, my hair, and my non-designer shoes, and inevitably, as soon as whomever I was talking to chalked me up as being a “fresh-off-the-boat,” they simply...
View ArticleProtecting Sonia From India
The Indian public is under threat from satirical images of Sonia Gandhi? Really?
View ArticleLet Them Eat Cake
The extraordinary arrogance of Indian elites in dissing foreign aid for its poorest citizens and their chest thumping over India’s meteoric economic rise glosses over some glaringly painful realities.
View ArticleCan’t Indians Take a Joke
Learning to ignore or letting-it-go, seems totally alien to India’s political class and compulsive agitators
View ArticleIndia’s Gutless Media
That a deep pocketed media house like the India Today Group folded its tent without resistance in the face of Abhishek Manu Singhvi’s legal threats, while an obscure activist with a checkered free...
View ArticleRight Side of History
Economic forces and Pres. Obama’s legendary timidity in the first half of his presidency could yet doom the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional aspirations during this election cycle.
View ArticleLet's Celebrate Liars
Xavier Alvarez is one in a continuing line of outcasts -- anarchists, Communists, flag burners, racists, fringe religious and political fanatics -- to whom we owe an eternal debt of gratitude for...
View ArticleMcCarthyism Redux
All minorities and religious groups should be affronted and alarmed by these reckless and unfounded accusations against decent and honorableAmericans who happen to be Muslims.
View ArticleGOP Convention of Liars
The Republican Party, which has nominated an Ayn Rand faddist Paul Ryan as its nominee for vice president to placate the extremist wing of the party, recognizes well that the vision of dismantling the...
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