Hindustan Times
The BRIC report of Goldman Sachs is one of those fortuitous bits of timing. It came out just when the emerging economies became investment material, at least for those seeking a higher rate of return. Read more
(4 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by meghashankar on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Filed under India · Tagged BRICS, foreign hand, global economy, Goldman Sachs, hindustantimes, HT blogs, investment, news, Pramit Palchaudhuri
It is not merely that cricket is popular in India, it is that it dominates organized sports in the country in a manner that few sports dominate any large country in the world. Read more
(12 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 1:57 am
Filed under World · Tagged American football, Australian football, baseball, basketball, CFC, cricket, cricket fanaticism, English Premiere League football, football, HINDUSTAN Times, hockey, India, news, rugby, sports mania, World Cup 2011, World Wresting Federation
Japan is on the nuclear brink, the jasmine revolution is withering and the Indian parliament is in an uproar over a Wikileak document about how money was used to buy votes in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal. Having immersed myself all day in these issues, I will write about something completely different. Read more
(10 votes, average: 3.3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 1:20 am
Filed under World · Tagged EU, Europe, India, India-Europe relation, Indo-US nuclear deal, Japan, New Delhi, United States, Wikileak
In the Zone
In the capital of Western Australia for my second stint at the local university’s In the Zone conference, I’m reminded again how much the country’s only Indian Ocean facing state is determined to seek a worldview distinct from that of the more populous bits of Australia that face the Pacific. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:27 am
Filed under World · Tagged agriculture, Australia, Canberra, China, coal, cricket, crops, diamond, economy, gold, In the Zone, India, Indian Ocean, inflation, iron ore, Melbourne, Monsoon, New Delhi, Perth, Robert Kaplan, rocks, Sydney, United States, Western Australia
Indian finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, presented a budget for fiscal 2011-12 that carried an embedded message: it’s inflation, stupid. Rising prices are India’s number one economic and political problem. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 12:51 am
Filed under India · Tagged budget, finance minister, fiscal deficit, food inflation, foreign direct investment, gross domestic product, HINDUSTAN Times, inflation, Manmohan Singh, Ministry of Populism, National Advisory Council, news, Pranab Mukherjee, sales tax, United Progressive Alliance
