There’s no such thing as a good droughtConsumers, whose already deficient attention spans have been abridged further by information overload, want only easily digestible, bite-sized bits of information.
September 1, 2009
Bye-bye, China!Whenever overseas businessmen and bankers talk of India, their glowing references to the possibilities offered by the home-grown economic story are invariably tempered by unflattering allusions.
August 28, 2009
How Shah Rukh-itis is checkmating the USUS border protection officials at Newark who made bold to check the reigning Shah of Bollywood the other day have had extraordinarily to explain their actions.
August 18, 2009
When China rules the world…On October 1, China will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding as a modern nation-state.
August 14, 2009
It’s getting dangerously bubbly in AsiaGeorge Bernard Shaw once famously said that if all economists were laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion.
August 4, 2009
The diva who TweetsThere’s more — much more — to Mallika than that; and as 10,000 or so of her fans who are following her on Twitter have discovered.
July 31, 2009
Panda hugging is risky businessIn the world of geopolitics too, ‘panda-hugging’ — defined loosely as cosying up to China — is fraught with perils.
July 21, 2009
Finance minister’s Micawberish budgetThe budget that Pranab Mukherjee presented on Monday is Micawberish at many levels: it wallows in the optimism that “something will turn up” and restore the Indian economy.
July 7, 2009
Save Our Savita BhabhiIn a recent episode from the enormously popular cartoon porn series, the services of the sexually ravenous protagonist are enlisted in an enterprise of great import to national security.
July 3, 2009
Why small-town India is checking outThat enterprise, of course, was rendered rather difficult by Australia’s peculiar identity as a colony of white settlers in a distinctly Asian part of the world.
June 23, 2009
Oz ‘racism’ knows a class divideThe chromatic caricature of Indians as a dark-skinned people occurs fairly commonly around the world, although it’s seldom explicitly mentioned in civil circles.
June 16, 2009
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