Rupee In Freee Fall
BOON FOR SOME, BUT BANE FOR MANY India is facing a major crisis scenario, with its currency, the rupee, in a free fall depreciation curve, sending wave after wave of discomfiture and alarm across the economic landscape. While the falling rupee is a boon for some, it is definitely a bane for many, and unless […]
A Tale Of Epic Proportions
INDIA’S FREEDOM STRUGGLE (Part II) One must remember that the movement of history is never smooth and never uniformly linear, there are constant ups and downs, little or big disruptions and diversions. The so-called mainstream hides within it the contributions of thousands of small streams and minor currents, that combine together to give shape and […]
Beyond Freedom
We had concluded the first half of this two part article with the following lines: Though 1857 was a battle that did not succeed in freeing the subcontinent from the yoke of imperialism but it achieved two things, it created, for the first time, an over-arching idea of India in its nascent form, an idea […]
A Tragedy Of Himalayan Proportions
NEEDED A “BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL” … Nature’s fury and excessive rainfall due to “cloudbursts” provides but a partial rationale for why the ‘abode of the Gods’ — the Himalayan hill state of Uttarakhand — has been ravaged beyond measure in the recent past. For invasive human intervention and all of man’s excesses and follies have […]
The Pan Himalayan Region…
PAN HIMALAYAN REGION, ABODE OF GODS, KILLING ME SOFTLY? It has been our staple to often feature a country, a state, or a sector in the “In Focus” segment of our past issues. This time round, we are instead focusing on “a geography”, a region that spans across several countries, including India and some of […]
GCC COUNTRIES MODERN DAY EL DORADO?
Old Arabia, the landmass that makes up the Arabian Peninsula, lies to the southwestern of the Asian continent. Covering approximately 3 million square kilometers, the southeastern area of the peninsula is the Rub’al-Khali (the Empty Quarter), the world’s largest expanse of continuous sand. Politically, the Arabian Peninsula is home to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, […]
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS…
His Excellency Chandradath Singh, High Commissioner of Trinidad & Tobago to India, comes across as a suave, well-read, thoroughly groomed, soft spoken personality, who proved to be a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge about his country, its peoples, culture, mores and ethnic interrelations. We bring you here excerpts from a conversation NRI ACHIEVERS had with him […]
India shines… only if Bharat shines too…
Nobel laureate Ragnar Nurkse had once said, “the … poor are poor because they are poor! The vicious circle of poverty that runs from low income to low savings to low investment to low productivity and then back to low real income can be broken by an increase in savings and investment” Added to this […]
Striving For Balance
Finance Minister P Chidambaram, while presenting his General Budget for the year 2013~14 to the Indian Parliament on February 28 this year, has offered no major tax sops, but instead has socked the super-rich with a surcharge, raised duties on mobile phones, cigarettes and imported luxury vehicles, and introduced tax deduction at source (TDS), on […]