Hindustan Times
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ad to wait two decades but the good ladies and gentlemen of the Left are finally guffawing with delight. At the end of the 1980s, when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union seemed ready to break up, most of us looked at the collapse of communism with bemusement.
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 11:55 am
Filed under pursuits · Tagged Berlin wall, Captialism, Communism, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Manmohan singh, New Labour, P.Chindambaram, Socialism, Soviet Union, Wall Street
I was
contrasting the public reaction to the news that Jet Airways and Kingfisher were to lay off hundreds of employees to the stony indifference (at best) that greeted the news of the sackings in the financial sector. When people heard about the dismissed airline employees, saw photos of young girls in tears, there was a general outpouring of sympathy. Editors commissioned sympathetic pieces on the air hostess training schools that have sprung up all over the country and the newspapers asked, “What will become of these poor girls now? Their dream has died”. Eventually, the uproar forced Naresh Goyal to take back the Jet employees.
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Filed under pursuits · Tagged Capitalists, Financial Crisis, Investment Bankers, Jet airways, Retrenchment, Wall Street
Ihave not seen, but have read about a recent programme on British television, which made the point that th
e American presidential election closely mirrors the last season of The West Wing. For those of you who are not West Wing fans, here’s what happens in Season 7: a decent, experienced but old Republican senator is nominated as his party’s candidate. His opponent is an ethnic (Latino) Democratic Congressman with much less experience but who therefore holds out the promise of change. The two candidates are evenly matched and their one debate is a draw with neither managing to convert the other’s supporters.
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Filed under pursuits · Tagged Arnie Vinick, Barack Obama, John McCain, Oval Office, The West wing, Wall Street
