By Rajdeep Sardesai Dumping on Rahul Gandhi has become a fashion: while his BJP opponents have ”˜Pappu-fied’ him as an incompetent leader, many of his Congress colleagues in private hold him responsible for the deepening crisis of the grand old party. It’s almost as if every time any Congress person quits the party or indeed, […]
India’s natural resources and low-cost labour could spruce up manufacturing value chains if managed well. While the world economy is hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, India could be sitting on a $300 billion opportunity and could actually double its manufacturing gross domestic product in the next few years. According to a McKinsey report, while […]
The Uluru Statement: An offer of redemption and reconciliation from the original sin that migrants all carry By Neville Roach May 26 2020 was the third anniversary of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. It was also the day the news of George Floyd’s murder broke which explains why the Statement had fewer headlines and […]
Neville Roach is Australia’s First Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awardee; Chairman Emeritus of the Australia Indian Business Council and former Chairman of Fujitsu in Australia and New Zealand; the National Multicultural Advisory Council and the Indian Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council of Overseas Indians. By Neville Roach In The American Bazaar on 20-07-20 under the […]
By G Parthasarathy The mandarins in Beijing never imagined that India would directly challenge a growingly powerful and arrogant China Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s action to annul Articles 370 and 35(A) of the Indian Constitution predictably triggered anger, outrage and breast-beating across Pakistan, and shock in Beijing. Pakistan’s feudal, land-owning, political elite and military […]
By Shantanu Roy-Chaudhary With the Narendra Modi-led government revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) through the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution on August 5, the ”˜most dangerous place on earth,’ a remark made by former President Bill Clinton, has again become the centre of attention in South Asia With […]
LOS ANGELES, September 5, 2017””The Board of Directors of Self-Realization Fellowship, the international non-profit spiritual organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920, has just announced the election of Swami Chidananda to the position of president of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (SRF/YSS), effective immediately. He succeeds Sri Mrinalini Mata, who served in […]
Kushwant Singh (2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian columnist, novelist, writer and a journalist. Excerpts from Kushwant Singh’s book: ‘The Low-down on life, death & most things in-between.” Penguin Death is rarely spoken about in our homes. I wonder why. Especially when each of us knows that death has to come, […]
Here’s President’s inspiring speech asking America to vote for the Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton: Twelve years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. You met my two little girls, Malia and Sasha ”“ now two amazing young women who just fill […]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee As the Australian visit of India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley enters its concluding phase, a section of the media here is already lamenting the tepid reception given to him, while also doubting if he can inspire big Oz funds to invest in India. “His visit to Australia this week should have […]