The White Man’s Burden?

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 [...]

Slumdog Lessons

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 [...]

Taj Hotel and the spirit of India

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 [...]

India FDI rises in 2008

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 [...]

The Rise of Asia

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 [...]