Karan Bhatia has been named a GE Officer, a prestigious position in the diversified multinational corporation. Worldwide, GE has just 197 GE Officers, who lead large revenue generating businesses or occupy critical functional roles. The 39-year-old Bhatia was named GE’s new VP and senior counsel, international government relations and policy recently. Before joining GE, Bhatia was […]
We are currently reading Parag Khanna’s new book The Second World – Empires and Influence in The New Global Order, the talk of the town these days. Since we couldn’t wait to do a post on the book, we gave it something like the Washington read (flipping through the index to find what’s of interest). […]
Say what you will but there’s little respect for the common man in India. Everyone is out to get the common man in India. The government, police, employers, businesses, politicians and even banks are all after the little man. Of all the shaitans (devils) at the back of the common man in India, banks are probably […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]