During my school days in India one of the routine rituals that we did as students was to stand up as the teacher entered the class room, say the appropriate salutations in unison and then sit down and get ready for the lecture. This is a small way to show our respect for the teacher. [...]
In an attempt to embarrass India, a Canadian Indian politician with Sikh origins has introduced a motion in the Canadian parliament asking the Canadian government to declare the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 as a genocide. This motion comes a few weeks before the Prime Minster of India Manmohan Singh’s visit to Canada to attend the [...]
The Prime Minister of India (Manmohan Singh) was in Pune this past week to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the famed National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). During his speech he expressed his concern at the number of students taking up science after the 10+2 stage (after high school). He said “It is important to bring our [...]
It is Shashi Tharoor vs. S.M. Krishna and it involves Twitter. I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would one day live to read about a political controversy involving two Indian politicians about what one of them wrote on Twitter. When I think of an Indian politician the image that I see on [...]
I am a strong believer in a liberal democracy. I think that it is the only form of government that a country as diverse as India can have. Of course India can have an authoritarian regime like in China or a military dictatorship like you have in Pakistan and Myanmar but that would be against [...]
“I am an aam aadmi (common man). If I can become the Prime Minister, then so can you. I came from a very ordinary, lower-middle class family. It is because of my education that I am what I am” These words were uttered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to children during the Children’s Day festival [...]
“Former President George W Bush is a great friend of our country. We, in India, recognize the important role he played in the fruition of the civil nuclear cooperation initiative”. These were the statements made by our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a
“This may be my last visit to you during your presidency and let me say, thank you very much. The people of India deeply love you”. These were the words uttered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to then President George Bush when he visited the United States in September of last year.
A few days ago I read an article that said that US President Barack Obama considers India and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “part of his family”. He reportedly made these statements to Sant Chatwal (who according to Indian newspaper reports was
In a few days the G-20 summit will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Group of Twenty (G-20) was set up in 1999 and meets frequently to discuss key issues facing the global economy. India is a member of this group along with the largest twenty economies of
I attended a birthday party in the suburb of Philadelphia a few weeks ago. A friend of mine who was at the party informed me that he was going back to India in a couple of months. He was on an H-1B visa. He informed me that getting H-1B visa extended (H-1B should be valid [...]
