Category: Socio-Political-Economic

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Why I changed my mind on Amazon and Swiggy.

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In Middle east where we are based, I was struck with a very severe viral fever when I ran a temperature of 108 F for a continuous 10 day period. I needed at least two IV injections. Even so, my temperature would be back within 2 hours. I don’t know where I picked up this virus early this year = whether from mall or from our walking in the parks. Later I was told that most of the residents had received a vaccination for this mysterious virus that I didn’t. Many were falling sick and some required hospitalization.

In this period I was asked to have ORS for regaining my lost strength, being a vegetarian. My problem is that I am borderline diabetic. I am not on any pill but I am not supposed to take direct sugar as much as possible = and that too something equal to glucose. I try to keep control by adopting lifestyle changes. Sugarfree ORS was not available over the counter or by order anywhere in Middle East. I was forced to have the ORS with sugar pumped in in generous millies ! The doctor who attended me told me that ORS sugarfree possibly was available in India. Market in India is vast that there is nothing that is not available. I made a mental note to get it during my next home visit.

I asked for sugarfree ORS in pharmacies but nobody had it including the Apollo. There I placed my order, just in case, because they normally source it from others if they don’t stock it. The pharmacist told me only the tetrapacks of 100 ml were available. ORS tetrapack sounded funny even if priced at 45 bucks one pack. Again, you cannot take liquids abroad beyond 1 liter by air. The tetrapacks came in handy whenever I came home from a harsh sun, chilled in my fridge.

During this visit I searched the Amazon and was surprised as well as shocked to note that a whole long list of sugarfree ORS is available as sachets to be dissolved in a glass of water – just the like the sugared ORS sachets I found in Doha. More than delighted. We don’t take the Glucon D kind of thing regularly but when we feel extremely week after travel etc., drained of our energies, this can come in handy.

I don’t regularly order food from Swiggy but their Instamart definitely benefits me. Even the quality of vegetables and fruits is good. Within 10 to 20 minutes maximum on order, I get the subji. We can order the veggies after turning on the gas stove! Living in a polluted metro like Chennai which is also dug up entirely for Metrorail expansion plans facing the wrath of the monsoons at the same time, Instamart is a godsend with quickest service time. For working couples, it can’t get better.

Ten to fifteen years back, I used to order kurtis (rarely) online from those like Jabong. My books were ordered from Flipkart. Flipkart sold out to Walmart. Myntra is owned by Flipkart. Jabong sold out to Myntra. Why should these desis sell out to Amazon and Walmart and bow out. They make a quick profit and then they make a beeline for exit. Big global brand thrive on REINVESTMENT, not on selling the business once you make a landfall. Ploughing back of profits into the trade is the business mantra that our Indian entrepreneurs fail to grasp.

Compared to Ola I have also felt that Uber has better discipline and working ethics. Learn what is best from others.

I have reached the age where comfort and service matter to me most for which I am willing to pay the right price. If the Indian service providers fall short of standards, it is their problem.

Tata’s used to be grotesque car 15-20 years back. But both Tata and Mahindra upgraded themselves and they are the fastest selling India=made sedans and suvs in India today that are also being exported. Their steel and safety features have earned them 5 star rating.

https://www.acko.com/car-guide/safest-cars-in-india/

At least 5 of the top 10 safest cars in India are now India made.

I also notice that Amazon sources its supplies from numerous small sellers and traders. India Mart is there as well but here, you have to bulk-order. India Mart is mostly for wholesalers. Amazon allows for lowest unit of order.

Would rather put my faith and trust on Amazon and Walmart than on Ambani and Adani!

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Ratan Tata leaves behind a matchless legacy.

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this man could have easily been within top 10 of world’s richest. instead he chose to become a philanthropist with hospitals founded for the masses. a humanitarian and son of India like none other. he was also a minority Parsi who chose to stay LOYAL to India/Bharat, his motherland.

Ratan Tata is no more. A son of India like none other. A visionary who took India forward step by step. His global conglomerate employs millions across the world. The legacy he leaves behind is immense and matchless. A huge fan of Tata both for his ETHICAL business ways and for the humanitarian he was. Men like these are born once in a millennium. After looking at the likes of Elon Musk etc., you reckon why men like Tata matter more for not just India but for the entire universe. An aspect called decency: that sets apart Tata from crude others. We have also had the Ramdev kind of so-called spiritual entrepreneurs. We have witnessed in recent past the rise and fall of the Patanjali Ayurved he founded as a practising yogi! Tata to me was also a yogi, only not in saffron robes. Men like Ratan Tata won’t have a punar janam (rebirth) but if he must, may he be reborn in Bharat/India again and again. Thank you so much Tata ji for what you gave back our ancient motherland. Words cannot describe what I feel from the bottom of heart, for you. Go in peace. But bless Bharat from wherever you are. A life so well lived in public service. Patriotism can take different shades. Like Tata’s for instance. What a selfless life! Business tycoons need not have to be always as brash as the Ambanis and as selfish as the Adanis who are profit motivated and nothing more. Industrial corporations need not have be as ruthless. Somewhere there can be a middle ground. There are those like the Tata group who still engage in ethical businesses who are the reason Bharat is still ticking. My heart feels heavy losing you Ratan ji even if I am aware, all of us have to come to this day sometime. Losing you is like losing a precious diamond. A real Ratan. There is not an area of economy that you have not touched. Its news to me that Tata even brought out the first CBS India cassette recording Nazia and Zoheb Hassan from across the border bringing them international fame. You brought respectability to this country, acquiring foreign manufacturing industries and firms. From TCS (Tata consultancy service (IT company)) and Air India to star hotels to Tata manufactured sedans with Tata buying out international brands like Jaguar of UK and Tetley tea, to Tata steel (that acquired Corus steel) to Tata telecom – and even those like Tata tea, Tanishq (designer jewelry brand) and Westside (fashion and accessories), you have carved a niche for yourself (Tata brand) in (gold) standard in the business world. You leave behind big shoes hard to fill. You are inspiration Ratan ji for generations of Indians. The biggest take away from you for all of us is that, you can keep your ethics and still make it a viable trade; you can engage in selfless public service and still run industrial corporations and manufacturing industries. You can transform societies if you have the will.

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Work stress takes it toll.

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When 26 year old Anna Sebastian Peraiyil, a chartered accountant working for EY India, succumbed to work stress, it shed light on the prevailing toxic work culture we have in India. Not long ago, Infosys chairman Shri Narayana Murthy went on record saying that Indian youth must be ready to work for 70 hours a week. The founder of Infosys which became the first INdian MNC to be listed in Nasdaq is under fire ever since he made his controversial statement. There can’t be a better time to rethink the work-life balance that is precariously titled so far as careers with Indian corporates are concerned. Anna worked for over 12-15 hours a day including during weekends. She complained of a chest congestion and died within minutes on her way to hospital in an ambulance. Overworked and underpaid being the destiny of hundreds of thousands of young men and women, currently we have the most disillusioned generation in the history of the country who have lost the light in their eyes with early burnout syndrome. We have the younger people opting out of marriage and parenthood and putting material welfare ahead of personal life. Work stress and nonstop chasing of deadlines have driven the IT engineers especially towards dope culture which is an open secret. Social and economic development at what cost? Ambitious young Indians are dropping dead like never before to heart attack and cardiac arrest thanks to the toxic work culture that is the prevailing norm. We have PG medical interns and IITians committing suicide unable to cope up with burgeoning stress. It is time to streamline not only the corporate work culture in India but also take a second look at the grueling routine of interns and freshers in other fields of employment, with effective government policies put in place.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/after-pune-ca-dies-mother-alleges-work-pressure-firm-denies-9575175/lite/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFaV1ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdboOsHGenv_geGthMKHY52_2E-4vzL5jmrujGEmbWYNvZM8kPHGR4zKXw_aem_PNkn-T4OyGHaVPyUqTExdA

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India’s Bangladesh Headache.

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Why should the head of an Islamic state seek asylum in India, the Hindu country. Why couldn’t Sheikh Hasina flee to Pakistan or Saudi. What made Dalai Lama seek asylum in India. What made the Jews and Zoroastrians feel safe in India. That is the beauty of Sanathana Dharma, Hinduism, that eschews violence and adharma. Bharat is a sanctuary to all those repressed and on the run.

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How to push back the waves and waves of immigrants battering down the border. The spillover to India is going to have an immediate impact on our border states. Hindus are turning into minority in the seven sister eastern states of India with illegal Bangladeshi immigrants legalizing their residency and taking over villages. Its against the natural setting of predominantly Hindu India. The Rohingya muslims have made Kashmir their home. These disturbing factors are going to work against the majority Hindu state very soon as the muslim population in India thanks to unchecked refugee inflow is going to tip the already precariously balanced apple cart. In the state of Kerala we may be having a situation. Hindus have been reduced to mere 33% or even less and without family planning, the Kerala muslim population seems to have exploded. Wherever the native population has to dip, it is not going to bring in good news. The democracy of India in incumbent upon the demography of India. Hindus continue to have one or two kids maximum. Funny I don’t think that the idea of installation of Bhairava temples in the borders of India is strange at all, as suggested by a renowned Tantrik. With age you believe 100% in holistic ways to find remedy for situations including political and defence matters. With the Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina in India seeking asylum (hopefully on her way to UK), expect some 1.3 crore Bangladeshi Hindus to be hunted down by violent mobs. Any trigger in their political system, the Bangladeshi Hindus face instant backlash – with the women raped and the men murdered in the cold blood. Even temples get demolished and the temple priests hacked to death. The priests are the chief targets. All this for what? India investing heavily in Bangladesh. Bangladeshis given medical visas to get subsidized cataract surgery to cancer treatment in India. Our hospitals are teeming with their patients.

What kind of a state is that the head of the state must flee for life. This is not how masses in mature democracies conduct their affairs. Mass public looting looks scary. Most Islamic countries are societies where jungle laws prevail and the mob unrest is allowed to progress to extreme levels of even ousting the head of the state. Protests may be viewed legal so far as they remain peaceful and don’t turn violent causing damage to lives and public property. Arson is simply inadmissible. There seems to be a collapse of law and order in Bangladesh.

Had this conversation with a Zara shop girl. I said the quality of Zara is not what it used to be. The Filipino girl who was billing, whose face I don’t remember, said that is because the denim is now from Bangladesh NOT India and even the t shirts and tops were. To cut costs Zara moved factory to Bangladesh as India is expensive. Result: quality compromise. This is very much apparent in last few years. For a fact I shop for brands only when there is a sale. Even Zara fittings have gone haywire.

Why can’t nations take care of themselves and not disturb other societies. India needs to seal her borders and if possible install a barbed wire fence. This is where I can appreciate Trump! It is also time to check the sops offered to Bangladeshi citizens in India while our own are poor. Modi government must remember: whatever you do to this kind of society is WASTED. It will be naive of India to expect gratitude or understanding from Bangladesh or Maldives because they are not Hindus. At the end of the day they will belong with the Umma. In Tamil we say ‘vizhalukku iraitha neer.’ If Tamil nadu once upon a time had Srilankan refugees, they were all Hindus and they were very eager to get back to the island nation once things cooled down. Every single one of them has left the Indian soil. That is it about Hindus. While we can empathize with Bangladeshi Hindus whose ancestors have faced worst and violent brutality of the masses, India cannot take on 1.3 crore of them. Plus in the garb of the Hindus it will be mostly the Bangladeshi muslims who will be sneaking in.

This is just the first acid test. SEcond test will be when Pakistan may break up (eventually). That is going to be the defining moment for India. The breakup of Pakistan with refugees knocking at our doors could threaten us with a breakup as well. Guess in one of my posts I have expressed this concern of just not me but most Indians. India is sandwiched between two very violent and bloody and poor and backward Islamic nations. Its going to consume every single ounce of our nerves to plan and be ready for such a situation. I hope the country will be then in good hands like Modi’s. If a rat like Rahul Gandhi must be in charge, then forget Bharat Matha. What the mugals could not do, what the British could not do – this maniac will do ushering in the death of India and extinction of Hindus with his cunning and ulteriorly motivated stewardship.

Who can change destiny. I believe even nations have destiny. From since I read the book ‘Sapiens’ by Yuvah Noah Harari, the best way out of Hindus is to go extinct like the Parsis than live in a world run by ….

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Both Kamala and Usha have their roots in Chennai, India.

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Kamala Harris and Usha Vance both have their roots in my hometown Chennai, India. I can give this to them being a south Indian woman myself 😀 : They must have substance! Its American politics so its alien subject for me. Another Indian origin man with roots in south India Vivek Ramaswamy was also in the fray but bowed out. The three have not reached this level in the US without merit. Kudos to the Indian American community! Recently Elon Musk heaped praise on Indian origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy for being the reason behind auto pilot innovations in Tesla. Way to go! Another Indian origin NASA astronomer Sunita Williams is caught up in trouble in the space. Let us hope and pray she lands safe.

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Wokeism: What happened to Elon Musk’s son/daughter.

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Wokeism is the rage of the day. Overhyped. I can’t look at it in one dimension. Those who have suffered persecution for centuries/generations will know. But taking it to extremes is a reason for worry. As Rajiv Malhotra discusses in his channel, this issue of taking wokeism too far like for instance when it comes to gender identity and therefore rendering the sexual orientation irrelevant, we may be treading into very dangerous territory. In fact, we may be going right against nature and in particular biology. Chemotherapy destroys the good and the bad cells in cancer patients. Wokeism is something like that. However with the bad, we cannot afford the good to be swiped down in real world we live in. You cannot nullify all that has happened up until today. That can only take us back to square one. However the racial and religious grounds remain tense global matters. In India we have lefties with radical views. Everything must have an anti theory for them. We are looking at a ‘free for all’ scenario – dope, booze and sex without censorship. To an extent we all are for equitable social justice. But history cannot be undone. Transgenders are recognized as third sex even in India and every application form for university or employment or banking or even train/flight booking gives the third sex option for choice. But parents do have a legal hold and say on their children until they turn 21. Losing an adult child can be painful. I am not a big fan of Elon Musk but in this one case, my sympathies are with him. May be someday there will be truce. For a brief phase, estrangement between parents and kids can happen. This is not unusual, rather part of the growth process for the teens. And this is not a permanent status in one’s life. Its my reckoning that Musk takes it as a personal affront that his son should choose to become a woman. America seems to be trendsetter in every field: from silicon breast implants and egg donations to surrogacy, sex change surgeries and all, and once you go down this lane, there can be no end in sight.

Surrogacy must be reserved for those who cannot medically conceive a fetus: not for those who are physically capable. You see even the Bollywood stars like SRK, Aamir Khan etc., going for surrogacy to have not their first but third, fourth kids. Tamil actress Nayanthara in perfect physical shape and fertile age BYPASSED LAWS and had twin boys by surrogacy. Meanwhile, govt of India preferred to look else where. When values are trodden upon for material/business reasons, when a mother would not even want to carry her biological children in her womb so as to sell her body without disfigurement to make more money, then what is there left in that society to hope for? I wouldn’t say India is any better than Europe of US. My autowala used to say, ‘amma you don’t look for these things. you keep searching for any hidden temple on the way! that is why you are missing what is going on all around you!’ He pointed to me a young guy sprawled face down on footpath with drug overdose. My heart skipped a beat. We have blatant misuse of surrogacy concept in India. Drugs are available in kirana shops. Modi govt has lost total control. Is ineffective when it comes to dealing with dope issues. Under DMK, Tamil Nadu is witnessing a hitherto unseen spike in use of spurious drugs. What is the law enforcement doing. Taking commissions from ganja dealers? Laws must also be spruced up to allow surrogacy only for a first child to medically unfit couple incapable of conceiving on their own. Recently there was a case of a young man expiring on surgery table on careless administration of anesthesia for hair grafting. In productive years, why are our youth pre-occupied with frivolous superficial matters? A friend told me that a girl from Delhi or Punjab (not sure) who was attending a deemed university in the city sold her eggs to buy an I phone. I couldn’t believe this happened in Chennai.

However, there is a tendency among the Musk-Trump tent to brush everything under the carpet in the name of ‘wokeism.’ One only has to recall the suffragettes, Martin Luther King etc., to be reminded why it is at all necessary. The coinage may be new but the concept is not. We live in a fairly decent era in the present thanks to the rebellions and coups of our ancestors: bloody or bloodless.

Wokeism for just purposes in a peaceful manner must be okay. You cannot put a blanket ban on every protest, every banner, every social cause. Some of the issues may be sensitive and may warrant action. Things will work out fine in the long run. The younger generation has no patience left to wait for such a day. Injustices are balanced by nature in course of time. Time alone can bring justice. We have reservations in India to compensate for centuries of caste discriminations. Every tilt to one side will correct itself given some time gap. America too has done a lot for restoring social justice and equality among genders and races. Human rights SUPPOSEDLY matter more over there!

Sometimes I am glad and relieved I am 55, and we grew up in a nice sweet innocent and warfree world. Chennai was good old Madras then, resembling a huge village. So green, unpolluted. We never knew the meaning for the word ‘violence.’ Not even biriyani was there! Never happened to watch a street fight. Dance, music, academics, art, temples – this was what life was about. Sometimes I wish I could return to the 80s when my peers all had rosy teen years. It was the last of safe times we were seeing perhaps, little did we know then. Our world was insulated from the harsh world reality of bloodshed and material greed. Our parents led a simple but satisfying and happy life.

I always factor in the variance – the standard deviation which accounts for a small percentage of noncompliance – the nonconforming. We need these odd balls to practise our tolerance. Variety after all is the spice of life. The diversity is what is the beauty of our existence than the boring monotony/familiarity. Once upon a time, Hindu women had to throw themselves into the funeral pyres of their husbands who passed away. Burnt alive. Probably a woke mind virus afflicted Raja Ram Mohan Roy to take up the social cause and correct the situation, right Malhotra ji? WAs India’s freedom struggle wokeism? The women and the shudras of my country had to fight legal battles to enrol in schools and universities. Nobody called it ‘woke’ but it was the need of the hour. When we skip or postpone righting the wrongs, we are inviting civil wars. However we can attempt to improve the situation than call for dismantling the establishment. Therein lies the difference.

SEx change in Hindu history Mahabharatha: SHIKANDI. Fifteen to ten thousand years back, India/Hindus recognized transgenders who even changed sexes supposedly. Both Malhotraji and Musk must note.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikhandi

Poor Vivian/Xavier. We can all speak from the lectern. Post comments in social media. But what to say to a kid who is all confused about sexual orientation. It can be baffling. If this is not suicidal then what is. Someone is born a transgender not by genetic disposition or any disease. It is just a single chromosome going freak when the sperm breaches the egg. It can happen to anyone. Any normal healthy couple can beget a transgender kid irrespective of their race or religion or caste. Nobody to blame: not the genes or the family tree, not the community. Just one of those unpredictable accidents of nature. If Musk cannot understand even now, then its better that, that child of his is lost to him. Denial will someday hopefully lead to acceptance and understanding. All of it does not boil up to wokeism. Seriously we observe that there is a lot of mind related problems in the US. People care more for dogs and cats over fellow humans. We are all for wildlife and domestic pets – and in fact our forefathers did not bring any species whether human or flora or fauna to extinction like the Brits and other Europeans did. But if you have enough love to show for humans, the mind will be free on that one monumental expansion touching so many lives. There can be fewer counselling sessions and less medication. Regrettably India is walking down the same road.

Have all the freedom on earth – subject to limits. Your freedom ends when you stamp on your neighbour’s foot. EVerthing in moderation. Never take law into your hands. Go by the law. Play by the rules. Pieces will fall into their places with time. This is my final word for wokeism.

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GDP matters over GDP Per Capita

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The Gross Domestic Product GDP of a nation matters over the individual Per Capital Income (GDP Per capita). GDP is networth of a nation often in fact underestimated, typically as in the case of India. Per capita income is income per head. Oil based economies boast of highest PCIs in the world. Whereas USA, China, India, Germany, France, Russia and Japan are the leading world economies when it comes to sum total Gross domestic product.

INdia is very much underestimated in this list. America holds world’s largest bullion reserves and China is a feverish buyer for sometime now. But the gold held by Hindu temples and Hindu homes never is accounted for, which may exceed entire gold holdings of America and China and Middle east put together. Hindu temples are immensely wealthy flush with diamonds and gold coins and gold jewelry. Indian homes hold caches of gold and diamond jewelry passed over for generations as well as designer ones from present. Official bullion holding by govt of India may be far less.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2015/11/13/a-one-trillion-dollar-hidden-treasure-chamber-is-discovered-at-indias-sree-padmanabhaswam-temple/?sh

https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/the-1-trillion-padmanabhaswamy-temple-treasure

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tirupati-temple-s-assets-include-over-10-tonnes-of-gold-cash-worth-rs-15938cr-101667732525942.html

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/temples-hold-about-4-000-tonnes-of-gold-116032400306_1.html

https://www.mygoldguide.in/4-breath-taking-gold-temples-india

Golden Mahalakshmi temple at Sri Puram, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.

India is dotted with architectural marvels – our Hindu temples – millions of them, most of which are easily 2000 years old. These ancient sculptural feats hold within them panchaloka (5 metal), brass, bronze, silver statues worth billions of dollars. Most expensive silks of the world Benarasi and Kanjivaram are woven in India. World’s best mangoes grow in India. We are the world’s largest exporters of rice, wheat, milk, poultry products, beef. We export softwares and hardwares and automobiles and cell phones. Local manufacturing is strong. Even oil and gas are mined in India but we import both to cater to our industrial and domestic needs. We in India are looking forward to fossil fuel free world – that will forever liberate us from dependency on our oil imports. We welcome the green era with electric cars. That is bound to do wonders for a nation like India. These are the reasons I believe India is rightfully the 3rd largest economy in the world (not taking into account our natural resources, our farm bounties, our rivers, our mountains etc. One of the most blessed nations in the world that is timeless and ageless: that is my Bharat, India. We, some 1.3 billion Indians, share our motherland with native lions, tigers (highest count in the world again), Asian elephants and myriad species of other wildlife (including India’s own exclusive single horned rhinos) and flora and fauna and the avian families. Who will put a bill on all of this?)

Gulf nations are very tiny compared to vast countries like India or America or Canada or China or Russia. So concentration of wealth is in one or two or three cities that make them look richer. In my country India, wealth is SPREAD. Widespread. INdia’s wealth is not constituted out of her natural resources such as oil and gas. India’s wealth is MANMADE – acquired with the hardwork and dedication of our masses.

Which is why, its the GDP of nations that matters. The wholesome output of an entire nation and its share in the world market matters over individual per capita income. Even if we compute PCIs, at least two Indians are among the world’s 20 richest: the Ambanis and the Adanis. Adanis are among the world’s top 10. Their wealth is entirely based on production oriented manufacturing industries.

The quality of wealth, the ways and means of acquisition of wealth – all these matter. The wealth of India also lies in the manuscripts in Sanskrit, Tamil etc., that date back by thousands of years.

There is a deliberate miscalculation of dates and wrongful and willful misrepresentation of history and wars. This was the biggest mischief committed by the British. For instance, the British put the date of Adi Shankaracharya by 7th century CE. Whereas Hindu history reveals that Adi Shankara turned the river Poorna with his pleas and prayers so that his mother could have her ritual bath every day in her old age. Carbon dating now points to river Poorna diverging from original course to 3rd century BCE – which means the British made a huge error of judgment in charting Adi Shankara’s birth and history. Hindu history is easily 10000 years old. Most Hindu saints were born before the birth of Christ. Tamil and Sanskrit literature we read even today are from 500 BCE minimum. Advance grammar and standard of prose and poetry can have no precedence.

Our GDP also may include our railway networks, airports, shipping, defence, space industry, infrastructure including highways, investments in tech parks, metros in every city, mining, farming, fishing etc. World economies hardly take into account such a grand picture.

Only nation on earth to have Brahmos missiles now exported to the Phillipines:

India’s space agency ISRO, a chief contribution to Indian economy, launching for foreign clients:

India’s software exports:

Worth of Indian railway network alone:

https://www.ibef.org/industry/indian-railways

Indian economy is very diverse. We don’t keep all eggs in one basket. Our pharmaceutical industry, health care industry, textiles, food industry, dairy, leather industry everything is a high performer. In Information technology (IT(n we are pioneers.

So it really shocks me that those in the west see only what they want to see like the Indian slums and put us down. The truth is: INDIA IS THE THIRD RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD after China and the US.

UK story is over since long. One reason for BBC to degrade India by propaganda is this: bitter envy. Dear BBC, even the Kohinoor of your Buckingham palace is originally STOLEN from Hindu temple of Mother Badrakali in Warrangal in India. UK lived a fancy rich life with stolen wealth from India, Asia, Africa. Now Brits are high on welfare aren’t they!

India is an all round robust economy, very well balanced. We look forward to shifting over completely to green gases in 10=20 years that shall cut down our oil and gas (fossil fuel) consumption. This can do wonders for the Indian economy and our environment.

My nation also exports GLOBAL CEOS!

THE GLOBAL CEOS FROM INDIA:

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Onion Politics.

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Missed the Indian onions in Doha in last few months. Never settle for the Chinese. Sudan onion was there along with a few more. But there is simply no substitute to the great Indian onion! Spicy with its natural pungent odour, for garam masala gravies and for hot, simmering Indian curry, there can be no better alternative. Others come sweetish. Even as I was wondering why the famous fiery Indian onion was conspicuous by its absence, it registered in me that the Indian Lok Sabha elections were scheduled for April-May! Onion price rise turns masses against ruling government! Onion is emotion for India! Smart move by the Modi govt stopping onion export so foreign countries including the GCC nations had to switch over to other secondary options. Not only the Indian onion, a few more specifically Indian things sought out by international shoppers went missing from the supermarket shelves since the year beginning. Finally as phase by phase the elections are on, the onion is released by the Indian govt for supply in the overseas markets.

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New T Cell Therapy for Cancer Treatment Affordable for World patients in India.

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Finally having our own gene therapy or the T cell therapy is in India that has cut down costs from INR 4 crores to under 40 lakhs of rupees, making it affordable for not only cancer patients from India but for those from around the world. One medical practitioner has claimed to have come up with a vaccination that can cost a mere 100 bucks to prevent cancer! In any case, the race to inventing the cancer vaccine is on and India is a co-runner in the pack with America, China, Russia and other European nations. The T cell therapy that is now selectively available in US and European hospitals for treating cancer, is finally available in India as local hospitals warm up to the new idea. Unlike chemotherapy, the established standard medical treatment for cancer that is sold over-the-counter like ‘one size fits for all’, the T cell therapy has to be customized for each and every patient which will make it complex to administer. The success rate with volunteers so far is promising.

The miracle breakthrough was realized at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai very recently. Kudos to our medical researchers and oncologists and the entire medical fraternity that shall be rendering very soon chemotherapy redundant. In a third world nation like India, this means a lot to the masses. As we pioneer in the newly developed medical technology, the costs of treatment are bound to go down. India will be seeing more or perhaps heavy load of foreign patients, we being a well established medical tourist destination already.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2017169

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Qatar India bonhomie.

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Extremely relieved after the release of the eight Indian navy personnel from Qatar prison. I don’t want to go into the politics. I know my prime minister Shri Narendra Modi ji can move mountains, if he has to. Plus, India has enjoyed such a warm and trustworthy partnership/friendship with all the middle eastern nations so far. This one-off incident was like a thorn in the flesh that finally got removed. Strangely it is during the times of the Hindu nationalist party BJP that friendship and business deals with the OPEC nations got consolidated for India! UAE recently invited dignitaries from 42 nations to the first magnificent Hindu temple coming up in Abu Dhabi. The personal rapport shared by our prime minister with the world leaders and also with the support of Shri Ajit Doval and external affairs minister Shri Jaishankar, India shares excellent diplomatic relations with countries around the world. Resident of Qatar for over 15 years now. Its home away from home for us where we feel secure, wanted, respected and celebrated. Indians are prized possessions. Assets for gulf countries. Sheikhs are aware that without the Indian labour/engineers/medicos/teachers and schools and art and craft, their economies can come to a grand standstill. Most expats also spend a good percentage of the dirhams or riyals right in the host countries. Qatar changed my perceptions on Islam frankly. I respect their muted and understated success story. They are never splashy. There is a lot to learn from Qatar. I liked the way they handled the tensions with Saudi taking all the beating until things normalized. Small almost island country but with very sensible leadership with a vision of great future. Qatar helped us and millions lift up our standard of living. India for her part will always be a quiet but strong and dependable companion. I again admire the diplomatic tightrope that Modi government walked when things were not going right for Qatar and Saudi/Kuwait/UAE. India never antagonized the Saudi block but also was there for Qatar at the same time. Both nations are equally important to me. May god bless both countries! God bless UAE for giving Hindu expats our temples. UAE ensured that Shiva and Raam will always be there for them from here on.