If you thought the government was arbitrary in its conduct, well join the gang! The Supreme Court also thinks so… Actually to the sharp observer with a conscience the Vodafone and the P Chidambaram case were clear. It is sad that it had to go right up till the Supreme Court. In case of Vodafone […]
Please remember the Indian Army has not been tested since 1971. We have no clue how well prepared it is to take on a war even by Bangladesh…. And our army cannot get its General’s date of birth right… In Kashmir they ‘need’ to be there to keep it normal – does it sound like […]
How people love a rising market! So one good day and the world wants to announce that the worst is behind us. My foot. Remember it took a long time for the world to recover from the Lehman collapse – a company who had an audited balance sheet. When it comes to countries, you […]
The US is not a socialist country. It is in fact a capitalist democracy. So the people can choose what they eat, what their children eat, how much to save….correct? Well, that is what I have been told to believe by some authors of Economic Thought. However in real life capitalism is about lobbying. For […]
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, aka tiger the immaculately dressed Englishman in Indian skin breathed his last. He listened to another Englishman who said – the age to die is ‘3 score and 10’. Well Tiger lived to the age of 70. Like in life, so in death, he was perfect. I saw him on a […]
An amazing land legislation which says land can be procured only by paying 4 times the market value has been passed. This will mean the land owners will benefit, correct? No. Only Economics will work. Let us take a different example – if suppose a legislation was passed that women should be paid 1.25 times […]
There are many stories that I have posted over the past 3 years. Alexander the Great…lessons The Yale Goal setting experiment The California story of the death of a scuba driver in a forest fire Arthur Ashe’s attitude Frankly I have not done enough research to see whether these stories are true or false. Neither […]