Documenting 21st Century - India and the World

India's PM Modi was given a red carpet by US Govt. He was paraded in Capital Hill, given WH dinner and singing opera tour - a grotesque promotion of Trumpian dictator. Irony is that US Capital Hill just recently desecrated by Trump's MAGA riots gave its floor to another Trumpian dictator who is possibly as worse as Trump in his own country. But that's all part of US Realpolitik in multipolar world to counter China & Russia (BTW, Putin is hanging by a thread in Moscow). US fully knows Modi's background but choose to use India against another malignant dictator Xi that is immediate neighbor to India. I won't go into discussion of US foreign policy right now. But I find that some of the western intellectuals, observers and analysts uninformed about Indian politics so i am summarizing some of my articles on India & Modi to try to make western observers more informed about Modi & India. Read them to know what Modi did to India. I wrote the book (it's free...

It's been a year since central banks around the world started their rate hikes cycles. Some are still continuing with hikes (ECB, BoE etc), some have now hit pause like US Fed & some paused sooner like India RBI, and continue to hold the rates. Building on last year's article , let's look at how things position today after rate hikes, changes in global economic & geopolitical factors and policies adopted for managing inflation. I also give a perspective on India's inflation problem and insight on why rate hikes are inappropriate tools for managing inflation. India has been reeling under elevated inflation in post pandemic times just like most other parts of world. India's policy response by government and central bank has dissimilarities with policies of 2010-2011 when it faced inflation problem under the previous government.  What caused inflation?  What caused inflation? - This is a complex topic with variety of opinions by various experts. Some attribute ...

Trump indictment, this time on more substantive and serious charges has finally come. The timing of indictment is impeccable in big picture of things - that is shaping of 2024 Presidential race and GOP primaries. This presents opportunities to finally wrap up MAGA movement and alter the course of American sociopolitical drift. Timing of indictment Ideally Trump should've been arrested and indicted a lot sooner. The brazen crimes of Trump demanded immediate detention, indictment and swift trial after Jan 6 insurrection but it was difficult for certain political reasons among which was fear of wider civil unrest and riots. Trump left White House with American institutions compromised, social order highly polarized and Republican party highly radicalized - Trump left WH with a whole lot of mess (and stealing secret documents). The Biden administration and various State DAs started their work systematically while carefully navigating the risks of handling Nuclear football of Trump. Inv...