“Why Britain should fear Shilpa”…
Nice one from the BBC (although when you click the link the actual title of the story is, “Big Brother row points to mature India”… On this page though (about “Booming India expects 9.2%...
Category: British Rule in India
Of Bangalore, Bengaluru and Fractured Identities…
A few days ago, I got into a passionate debate about the merits of the name change of Bangalore to Bengaluru with a few friends.� They were arguing that this was a populist measure,...
Would “Gandhi…have become an asterisk of history rather than an icon”?
Peter Worthington wrote a great piece in the Toronto Sun last week titled, “War cannot be waged ‘peacefully’”. Excerpts: “Want to know why we (meaning the West) won’t win the war on terror?… The...
“China: Will India repeat the mistakes of 1962?” – Excerpts
I alluded to Claude Arpi’s excellent article in my previous post, “India, China and Arunachal Pradesh…are we missing something?” and promised some excerpts. Here they are: Excerpts: “But let us go back two years earlier....
Whats nectar for secular US is toxic for secular India
Just came across S Gurumurthy’s brilliant critique on the recent BusinessWeek article on Karma Capitalism As he says, “If the Indian management gurus did something similar in India it would attract the abuse of...
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