India enacts “To Kill a Mocking Bird” Mockingbirds do not harm anyone and they only do good by singing and copying the sounds that they hear. It is a sin to shoot a Mockingbird and its is also a sin to troll one. India learns this in 2017 when social media manipulated bigotry gangs up…
Tag: Indian Politics 2017
Trump and Modi love Macchiavelli I still remember the day watching a major Indian business news channel, when a successful stock Investor was laughing away at the possibilities of having a Trump win. Here was a person who people listened to with attention for valuable investment tips, while I kept thinking that this investor’s political…
Stock Markets post Indian Demonetization The recent March, 2017 Indian elections has had a favorable effect on the Indian stock markets. The rising markets and my own rising portfolio gains made me curious to explore more. Firstly, what is the trend post Demonetization? Post the initial fall during demonetization (November 8th, 2016), the stock markets…
Arvind Kejriwal putting Macchiavelli to shame Machiavelli would have wished he had known Arvind Kejriwal. It would force him to run back to his study and add a final chapter titled “The Exception” in his book The Prince. This is what I had originally written. More recently, you learn that the Machiavellian thought is too…
Politics and Professional Wrestling like WWF/WWE Growing up in India, I spent quite a few childhood years remembering back drop stories of “professional wrestling”, not failing to miss a single episode of WWF which is now called WWE. Maybe it was a waste of time, but I did learn a lot from it. For…
Shashi Tharoor may have read this blog! ” Updated, 4th April, 2017: Just watched a Shashi Tharoor video on line where he said the following: “let us forgive but not forget”. A common phrase, so common that I had it in my Shashi Tharoor Blog on the 30th of December. No kidding, look below. Though…