Tag: india

34 year highly educated former teacher, Ms. Urvashi Yadav decided to open a thela (wooden cart) to cook and serve chole-kulche and parantha in Gurgaon/Gurugram. Even though the family is well off with more than middle class assets, she decided on the thela venture to support her family after her… Read More

As if India does not know how to handle its internal issues, USA has raised concern about the rising intolerance and violence in India and about such things as cow protection groups and vigilante, and welfare of dalits, etc. USA has enough problems, such as one in three African-Americans (or… Read More

As just one example, recently Magsaysay award was given to TM Krishna a noted carnatic musician. While he is highly regarded, the issue is the reason cited for why this award was given to him. It basically says that India is a divisive society - an arrogant and dominating country,… Read More

Looks like Arvind Kejriwal, who by the way is the Delhi Chief Minister, will say and/or do almost anything to gain publicity. His latest attack - he says "PM Modi can even have me murdered". This comes after Ms. Soni, the Aam Aadmi Party activist who committed suicide had said… Read More

A top and most wanted terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen, Burhan Wani and two of his associates were killed by security forces in a major breakthrough in Kashmir. This figure is accused of killing many innocent people. Kashmiris erupt in protest and 22 more people die in protests including one policeman.… Read More

The idea of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) which is causing heartburn in some sections in the India but being warmly encouraged by other sections, is a common practice in most countries. Strangely, India is an exception. As the chairman of the Law Commission says, implementing a UCC is about… Read More

China seems to be creating problems or obstacles at every opportunity. If things are too quiet, it will embark on border violations, recently it strongly and publicly opposed India's entry into the NSG (nuclear suppliers group), and it also opposed the UN sanction of Pakistani terrorist groups. This is unfortunate… Read More

The Indian government wants India to welcome and make it their homes Hindus and sikhs who are facing religious persecution. So for the first time ever, India will start issuing long-term visas these people fleeing their home country including Pakistan and Bangladesh or from anywhere in the world. Govt will… Read More

The very well known Kukke Subrahmanya temple's annual income is over Rs. 100 crores, and it receives lacs of devotees. The temple which needs to make critical repairs for a nominal sum, is seeking approval from the concerned Karnataka district administration. But the bigger question is when government funds are… Read More

PM Modi was handed 200 precious gods idols and artifacts worth over Rs. 1,300 crores, with some more than 1,000 years old. This is a good start, as many thousands of artifacts costing more than Rs. 200,000 crores (yes that much or more!). In reality, these old and rare pictures… Read More

Major sections of Christianity outside India do not regard Jesus as a Yogi, but instead as a fantasy or heresy. But here in India, there are active Christian evangelist and missionary groups who have make Jesus into a Yogi with a sole purpose of using as a weapon to convert… Read More

Subramanian Swamy, a former Union Minister, MP and nationalist has leveled serious charges against Raghuram Rajan, the UPA appointed RBI Governor. A few ones are: 1) not mentally fully Indian, 2) because of his US Green Card and other reasons, his first loyalty is to USA and not India, 3)… Read More

Apple is really struggling in India for growth after trying and trying for so many years. Their latest strategy was to sell second hand phones in India, but even that has a few problems. India does not encourage import of used electronics, Indians don't generally like to spend lots of… Read More

Indian and Indian-origin groups are praying for Donald Trump to become the next US President. They feel he whole world is screaming against Islamic terrorism, and even India is not safe from it. In light of Donald Trump's remarks, these people feel that only Donald Trump can save us from… Read More

Sonia Gandhi finally says that it is only India, where she lives will her ashes be disbursed, and not Italy - the country of her birth. Some other facts about Sonia - she came to India in 1968 as the daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi, but chose to become an Indian… Read More