Senior U.S. officials are quietly pressuring India to sign the nuclear deal that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put on the backburner because of domestic political compulsions. After all, at stake for the American companies like GE and Westinghouse are multi-billion dollar contracts. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the Chief Spokesman for big American businesses, […]
Among the many opportunistic skunks that litter the Indian political landscape, it’s hard to find two worse specimens than the political parties JD(S) and BJP in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Barely a few weeks after the JD(S) reneged on its promise to turn over the position of Chief Minister to the Hindu nationalist […]
We think Bobby Jindal is a disgrace and brings much shame to the Indian-American community. And shame to Louisiana as well, the unfortunate U.S. state of which Bobby will soon be its next Governor. Of course, many Desis in the U.S. will disagree. They are pleased as punch that Bobby will become the first Indian-American […]
As the American middle and lower classes continue their inexorable downward spiral into destitution and bankruptcy, Americans have caught the gambling bug big time. In the latest American gambling news, MGM Mirage is investing $5 billion in a new mega casino project in Atlantic City, which already has 11 casinos. MGM Mirage’s proposed multi-billion dollar […]
In the latest incident involving Delhi’s notorious Blueline buses, seven pedestrians were killed today in India’s capital city. A Blueline bus mowed down seven people at Ali Gaon taking the total toll from these deadly buses to 93 this year. The dead in today’s gory incident involving a Blueline bus on Route 460 included five […]
Say what you will, we think the Singapore government’s policy of banning bubble-gum chewing in public was a sensible move. Alas, the Indians are not half as smart as the Singaporeans, who got their Independence 18 years after the Indians. As bubble-gum sales go flat in the U.S., the MNCs have turned their sights to […]