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We went out on a date at 60 plus!

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

My wife and I celebrated our 60th birthday last year and decided to go out on a formal date last night. We both dressed-up and walked to a multiplex theater in a small-town Boston suburb. All three theaters in the complex are small and couldn’t accommodate more than a couple of hundred people at a [...]

Filed under: American, Indo-US relations, International | Tagged: 'Emerging India', 'Indian Couple', 'Indian-Theme', 'Jai Ho', 'popcorn', 'Slumdog Millionaire', 'soda pop', 'The Namesake', 'White-American', ‘Iron Man’, Boston suburb, Danny Boyle, English film director, Gandhi, Hollywood, laptops, our 60th birthday | Leave a Comment »

Ab ‘Islamabad’ door nahi!

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

It is just a matter of time before Taliban and al Qaeda rule over Pakistan. The Pakistani military knows it and the people of Pakistan can feel it in their guts. Richard Holbrooke, special U.S. representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, appeared on Charlie Rose Show last night and was evasive to all those basic questions. [...]

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Thomas Friedman has become a global citizen!

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Tom Friedman was in Bangalore, India promoting his new book, ‘Hot, Flat and Crowded’. He joined Nandan Nilekani, author of Imagining India, at the Taj Residency in Bangalore on Monday February 9, 2009 for a discussion sponsored by Penguin Allen Lane. The stimulating discussion was anchored by NDTV editor Barkha Dutt. Tom was in his [...]

Filed under: Indo-US relations, International | Tagged: 'desis', 'Hot Flat and Crowded', 'Islamic Jihadis', Bangalore India, Barkha Dutt, global citizen, Imagining India, Matt Taibbi, Nandan Nilekani, NDTV, NDTV editor Barkha Dutt, Penguin Allen Lane, rednecks, Taj Residency in Bangalore, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman, Tom Friedman | Leave a Comment »

The Ottoman Empire is dead, for crying out loud!

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

The last Muslim Empire officially died in 1922. It has been 86 years since any pretension of significant Muslim influence was snuffed-out after the ‘First World War’. The Muslim world refuses to let-go the phony glory and start once again to work hard and build something for themselves and their children. Oil and jihad will [...]

Filed under: International | Tagged: Azar Nafisi, British Empire, First World War, Hooman Majd, Hooman Majd and, Muslim influence, Oil and jihad, Ottoman Empire, phony glory, The last Muslim Empire, The Muslim world, Vali Nasr | Leave a Comment »

The Indian ‘Interim Budget’ was measured and responsible

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

The interim budget presented on Monday February 16, 2009 by the Acting-Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also the External Affairs Minister, is for the moment adequate and prudent. The vote-on-account was limited to the rural sector with significant increase in the defense allocations. Both are timely and non-controversial. The government is obviously keeping an [...]

Filed under: Indian Economy | Tagged: 'Interim Budget', Acting-Finance Minister, defense allocations, External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, Rural Sector, vote-on-account | Leave a Comment »

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