By God, these Gujju Pols are Such Hypocrites

When it comes to hypocrisy, it’s hard to beat these Gujarati politicians.  These scumbag Gujarati politicians are such hypocrites that they can’t protect the lives and property of minority Muslims in their state but they want the Government of India to take prompt action to help the Gujarati Non-Resident Indians in Kenya. Many of these […]

Wall Street Journal Discovers Sorry Plight of Brahmins

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the plight of India’s Brahmin caste in its Saturday edition. Once a privileged caste closely aligned with the rulers of India for several centuries, the Brahmins have fallen on tough times over the last few decades owing to the reservation policies (affirmative action programs) of the […]

PM’s Daughter Amrit Singh Attacks White House, Again

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s gutsy daughter Amrit Singh, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City, is needling the Bush administration again on the torture issue. This time, Amrit Singh, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project, attacked the Bush administration the other day on the CIA tape […]

You Don’t Want to be on Skid Row

A phrase used more in the U.S. than elsewhere, skid row refers to a run down part of a large city. We were horrified the first time we saw the skid row in downtown Los Angeles one early morning in the late 1990s – the whole area was in a dilapidated condition and filled with […]

India – A Miserable Failure on Tourist Front

So what if India has a glorious 5,000-year-old history or an ancient civilization or too many pictureque spots to count. India has one of the worst records on the planet in attracting foreign tourists to the country. For the first 11 months of 2007, India recorded just 4.4 million foreign tourists (Source: Ministry of Tourism […]

Abu Dhabi Pumps in $7.5b To Save Citigroup

Reeling from massive losses due to its disastrous missteps in the subprime mortgage segment, embattled financial services giant Citigroup is getting a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Gulf nation Abu Dhabi through a sale of Equity Units convertible into shares. The Abu Dhabi investment is expected to close within the next several days.  The badly-needed cash […]

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