The Wall Street Journal has a great blog post about Prime Minister Modi's "Clean India" campaign and the role of celebrity Priyanka Chopra in cleaning up a garbage infested area of the Mumbai neighborhood of Versova. It includes an 11 minute YouTube video. But my beef is with the implications...
Fairfax Financial Holdings’ Strong Focus on India
Prem Watsa, known as the Warren Buffet of Canada, plans to invest at least $1 billion in India as part of a consortium. Watsa’s company, Fairfax Financial Holdings has already invested $27 billion worldwide. The IIT Madras alumnus left India 42 years ago and is counted amongst the wealthiest individuals...
Obama Announces Repeat India Visit
For the first time, an American President will be the Chief Guest at India’s national day parade on Monday, January 26, 2015 (known as Republic Day in India). It will also be the first time in history that a sitting American President will have visited India twice. (President Clinton has...
India Elections 2014 Result
Hopes for maintaining freedom and democracy are shaky in many countries today from Egypt, to Ukraine, to Iraq and Afghanistan. On the other hand the continued success of autocracies such as China has its scholars arguing that they have created a system better than Western democracy. The Economist recently ran...