Finding an unbiased reporter or a reporter with an open mind is almost impossible. Of course the kids who have recently joined are not so bad…but the elders in the profession are either already in politics or are clearly biased towards one side or the other.. To get them to be brave is really tough..and […]
If all actions are reactions why are Americans hated? Well this is a finance site..so let me stick to what I know. Almost all literature we have read on equity markets is American. The great American investors have written all this literature in the past 50-100 years. This was the time when American companies (fairly […]
If you read all my posts you will find that I am not such a big US hater, but yes they have got many things wrong. First of all I find the way of calculating GDP is so bad (all over the world including India) that it sucks. For example if there is a big […]
Long ago I had done a posting about Asiad games. One of the friends of the government Hindustan Petroleum had ‘bought’ some guest houses in Delhi – one of hem was for Rs. 5 crores. When I asked them why are they not capitalising it, the accountant laughed and said the buildings will house the […]
I was quite amused that a rabid communal (but an honest and capable administrator – please realise there is no contradiction here) Mr. Modi has banned Jaswant Singh’s book. Mr. Modi I am in possession of a book which has said ” What attracted me to Jinnah …was the force of his personality …AND MORE […]
I hate writing about politics. Till it affects our daily lives. When in 1941 FDR, the then President of USA said freedom means freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear, I thought it was a good workable definition. Today when I was reading Obama’s book and he quoted FDR, […]