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US tells India, drop dead March 28, 2005 A friend, usually upbeat about India-US relations, sent me an angry mail over the weekend after President George Bush called up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the evening of March 25 to inform him that the US had decided to supply F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in an interview to The Washington Post, "dismissed concerns" about the fallout of the American decision. The mail reads: "lovely easter gift to india from the us. moral: proliferate nukes, threaten us interests everywhere, be terror hub, and get rewarded...

Where is the substance in the just-concluded Obama jamboree, asks Rajeev Srinivasan. A casual observer, the proverbial Martian, would have concluded from the breathless media coverage during the Barack Obama love-fest that this was a visit of the King-Emperor of India's colonial master. The pageantry and pomp and circumstance hid the sad fact that the emperor had no clothes, that is to say, there was precious little of substance in evidence. Lots of style, though: An Obama trademark. But then Indians love a good party, and this was like a Big Fat Punjabi Wedding: Plenty of dancing, much drinking, and...

The global economic recession has claimed 2 million jobs this month alone. 70,000 people lost their jobs on January 26 -- and the bloodbath is still not over. In the midst of this unprecedented challenge, where are you heading? Wherever you are, whatever you may be thinking of, I would like to share with you a small message from Robert Kiyosaki's book Guide to Investing which inspired me. The author has given several important lessons but the one which I want to highlight now is Investor Lesson 11: On Which Side of the Table Do You Want to Sit?Kiyosaki...

Item from a hurricane Katrina-related Washington Post story last month: "John D Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and head of a leading Democratic think tank, says Democrats must start by casting Bush's brand of conservatism --emphasising an 'ownership society' elevating individualism and private enterprise -- as fundamentally flawed and hostile to society's collective responsibility to help citizens." Really? The hole in Podesta's logic is of Category 5 size. Which groups did the better job in aiding Katrina's victims -- government or the loathed individuals from the netherworld of "private enterprise"? That's easy: the private sector. Government,...

It is an unlikely solution, but here is the key to stay young: have short bursts of stress! This is a new revelation suggested by researchers at an anti-ageing conference in London. They say short bursts of stress can help you stay young. According to The Telgraph, Dr Marios Kyriazis, who led the conference, said this exposure to stress will prolong life and help prevent chronic illnesses, like arthritis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Kyriazis, the medical director of the British Longevity Society, argued that moderate stress increases the production of proteins that help repair the body's cells, including brain cells,...