One of my college friends from India lives in California and years ago, started a magazine for Gays and Lesbians from India and South Asia, called Trikone. I just exchanged emails with him about how Rupert Murdoch and News Corp‘s, Star News channel in India chose to censor the pro-gay words by Sean Penn in [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Gunjan
Why does a movie made for a mere $15 million, with a cast unknown in the West, a locale unfamiliar to Western eyes, and 1/3rd spoken in Hindi (not English) manage to sweep the Oscars. Yes it was a very well-made movie, but so were several of the other contenders. Here is my take. In [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Gunjan
So far, I haven’t written about the November terrorist attacks on Mumbai on this blog. But I was active in other ways. Fox Business TV interviewed me on their first “Money with Breakfast” show on the Monday after and the Hollywood Reporter carried another interview with me. My message about the tragedy was hopeful and [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2009 by Gunjan
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the United States dropped by 5.5 % in 2008 compared to the previous year. In China FDI rose by 10.7% in 2008. An article in the Economist today show that Brazil and Russia had increases of 17.5% and 20.5 percent respectively. Topping the list of FDI increases among major economies [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Gunjan
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, chooses to visit Asia for her first foreign trip. Not Canada, the neighbor to the north. Not Mehico the other member of NAFTA. Not the staunch European allies in Nato in Europe. Hillary’s first visit is to Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and China. Despite being derided by Candidate Obama, as [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Gunjan
At the Grammy Awards this year, much attention was focussed on Sri Lankan born British singer, MIA, who performed despite being nine months pregnant. MIA is also featured in SlumDog Millionaire. But another important celebrity with South Asian connections was among the winners. Calfornia resident Zakir Hussain, won for the World Drum Project. Husain is [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Gunjan
At the Grammy Awards this year, much attention was focussed on Sri Lankan born British singer, MIA, who performed despite being nine months pregnant. MIA is also featured in SlumDog Millionaire. But another important celebrity with South Asian connections was among the winners. Calfornia resident Zakir Hussain, won for the World Drum Project. Husain is [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Gunjan
While there is a global recession and crisis, India is one of the few countries that continues to grow. Most of the current growth is driven by domestic factors in India, not by exports. Finance-dependent industries such as automobiles and real estate have slowed. But so much of the Indian economy has always run on [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2009 by Gunjan
I write for Business Week from time to time and this week, Dr. Atul Goel and I wrote a piece entitled: Innovation from India, the next Big Wave. It took them some time to publish the piece, but in many ways it is even more relevant now than when we first wrote it, given the [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Gunjan
