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amit

but nevertheless they have built things all over to scale and spec in advance of any future demand, rather than the perpetual catch up game with insufficient funding we play. Singha, I know the popular idea is that infrastructure spending is a good way to kick start and sustain economic growth. How...

amit

Amit, I did not say entire Eng lang media is treacherous. What I asked is if the Eng language media is representative of what the general population feels about hosting the Paki singer? We have debated here the position Eng language media takes on certain paki issues, and contrasted that with Verna...

amit

^^^^^ Actually I should have used Indian media instead of Indian English language media. My point remains that all manner of views are expressed in Indian media including language media. For example some of the stuff aired in Bengali language TV shows would make CRamS... Well nevermind. As in any fr...

amit

CRamS do you understand the meaning (forget for the time being about the importance) of having a free Press? You have lived in the US for, as you have claimed, for more than 20 years and you are citizen of that country. So you know exactly the kind of stuff that goes on air there. In India the same ...

amit

Maybe CRamS should realize that if 67 per cent of Indians who didn't vote for Modi want to give Kashmir to the Pakistanis then it no longer remains a "traitorous" thing to do? After all in that scenario the vast majority of Indians would be in agreement. Of course small incidental stuff li...

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^^^^^ Perhaps the motive was to give certain folks more acidity and heartburn? :x But seriously you should learn to ignore these kind of pinpricks and concentrate on the big picture: was Modi's visit a success in terms of fulfilling it's objectives? If the answer is Yes, then who the hell cares what...

amit

Austin, I doubt Russia is going to get into a hot war in Syria. All this is posturing to take pressure off Ukraine IMO. Once a deal is stuck then Russia will leave the mess to the folks who started it in the first place. Your link immediate above this seems to indicate a deal may be in the offing. P...

amit

Amit, that would be India GDP (PPP) as percentage of global GDP I presume. 7.4 Trillion / 108 Tr = 6.8% Aha OK. But what a peculiar thing to put in a chart? Is this type of measure very common? From what little I know GDP numbers are always given in USD either in real dollar or PPP dollars for comp...

amit

Wonder about the Chinese role. Will PRC actually project military force that far away, with Persian Gulf chokepoints in between? Russia-China collaboration to wipe out ISIS will change the Middle East map more drastically than anything since 1978. Putin keeps reminding ppl about the anarchy in Liby...

amit

The good news continues this morning... India jumps 16 places in WEF ranking Nice report and I personally think Live Mint does a far better job in business journalism than the other papers. However... http://www.livemint.com/r/LiveMint/Period1/2015/09/30/Photos/g-pg1_Global-ranking_web.jpg Here's a...

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AmitJi, not very clear. How would one know without reading that farticle on what the content is? So my question remains, of all the NRIs in the valley, how is it that they picked this moron to puke his bile, and how did they expect their readership to go up as a result? The answer may be as simple ...

amit

^^^^^ CRamS, I think it's about time you didn't fall into a click bait trap like this one. Media outlets all over the world use such contrarian crap to get folks to click on their website so that they can show better traffic numbers to advertisers. All that's needed is a contrarian POV. Just chill m...

amit

Now that is one Chinese statement that deserves a high-five ! I am really glad there is a government that has publicly voiced (in diplomatic language) how pukeworthy this vile Muslim outfit is. Would have been good if this had come from India - but I guess we are not there yet. Taslima Nasreen, a p...

amit

Inquiring minds do wonder on whether the South Asianist chitthi writers and their supporters will be writing one to Comrade Xi Jinping, and the businessmen lining up to meet him, about the repression of NGOs in China? I think it should be halal to do so as no less a person that Susan Rice memsahib s...

amit

Some of the most strident criticism of their actions have come from other liberal arts types. I haven't come across any from US-based liberal arts faculty types. Any links ? I saw a fabulous piece from Madhu Kishwar today on FirstPost - but she is based in India. Arjun, I suggest you check out the ...

amit

I merely pointed out that your personal choices on how to engage with these bigots is not something I would follow. And so you needed two verbose posts to say this? Finally! :roll: N.B. Each to his own. I think one small group of Left leaning Liberal Arts groupies don't tarnish the entire Liberal A...

amit

I'll gladly dish the liberal arts community involved in these actions, in these so called institutions especially the Indian origin one, because they have miserably failed in preventing their own group from being a bunch of rabid hinduphobes. Your choice my friend. You didn't need to write an essay...

amit

Take a hard look gentlemen at what passes for "research" in the liberal arts. If I may, lets not dish the entire liberal arts community, especially the Indian origin one based on the actions of these few left leaning hypocrites. Some of the most strident criticism of their actions have co...

amit

habal wrote:enjoy
http://rehamkhan.blogspot.in/2015/01/bi ... 7.html?m=1

If even 50 per cent of what is written in the blog is true then one can say the Great Khan got struck in head by a beamer!

amit

WRT the Kolkatta metro we need to be a bit more charitable. One should remember the quite primitive technology that IR was dealing with back then. No private sector behemoth contractors existed back then like they do now. When a bid is put out for a metro these days, there are a dozen companies tha...

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gandharva wrote:

Aab tera kya hoga? Modi invited to speak at Twitter HQ as well!

amit

At one level you can't complain with that statement. But I did a quick search and I came across two very interesting charts. Jim Rogers is more talk than actual investment. He is taken more serioulsy in the lecture circuit than in the investment circuits. Debt-to-GDP for India has become progressiv...

amit

^^^ Debt- to -GDP, not government-debt-to-GDP. China : http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-15/china-s-debt-to-gdp-ratio-just-climbed-to-a-new-record-high Outstanding loans for companies and households stood at a record 207 percent of gross domestic product at the end of June, up from 125...

amit

Jim Rogers exits India This China-loving moron has been exiting India like forever.....I wish he would do it once and for all and spare us all the unnecessary talk. Have no fear the guy will be back. I think he's in the "batten down hatches" mode as the China situation explodes and leaves...

amit

Incorrect. First no one's said that GDP numbers are a "fudge". The point is that they dont match up to high frequency numbers, and hence economic growth is not what is depicted by "7% GDP growth" number. (As TC Anant said, "7 now may be 5 of old"!). Neat trick. :D You ...

amit

This fight over economic data is turning into a wrestling competition in the mud. And its pointless and I think Somnath needs to realise this. Any economic data that this current government is churning out is directly affected by the directionless economic management over the past five years. The cu...

amit

From a cost perspective last mile fibre is not yet feasible in India. What would be more effective is good quality 4G service with a combination of base towers and small cells antenna How do you know that? Seems a shame if we don't do it for even our smart city. Doesn't seem very VFM is you ask me....

amit

With regard to smart city infrastructure. Of course you need a good fibre broadband network for backhaul. But in the front end that is communication from device to the network, what is more important is ubiquitous and rock solid connectivity rather than the sheer speed of connectivity. No, I'm talk...

amit

With regard to smart city infrastructure. Of course you need a good fibre broadband network for backhaul. But in the front end that is communication from device to the network, what is more important is ubiquitous and rock solid connectivity rather than the sheer speed of connectivity. Let me give a...

amit

the telecom providers need a size12 boot to install more towers and ensure call quality whose metrics are monitored by the govt. here I am in the exact middle of the 'gold coast' IT corridor in blr and if I have start my 3G data connection, I will be lucky to get 2G. @ home which is 3km off, I will...

amit

Hey, that's strange, my post to which you answered Somnath seems to have disappeared! :eek: I was having some connectivity problems, I wonder if that's the reason. Anyway good that you saw it. We have our differences on this one and think both of us are probably partially right. Time to move on. :)

amit

What's more, Modi's administration also cultivates his best state level leaders for progression to the national level . For example, Parrikar has already been picked up from Goa. SSC and V Raje have both been supported through political crises, and are tasked with running laboratories for policies ...

amit

^^^^ The RBI policy meeting is on tomorrow. They are expected to cut rates. More of the same There is a better than even chance that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will cut interest rates at its policy meeting on Sept. 29 thanks to inflation striking a record low, according to a Reuters poll, marki...

amit

Ok this is the latest position of the RBI Guv http://img.etimg.com/photo/48674997/1.jpg Market mayhem a temporary phenomenon, macroeconomic fundamentals better now: Raghuram Rajan Given the slump in commodity prices, this would be a great opportunity to win the battle on prices, he suggested. That m...

amit

There is a reason why most analysts - many of them not "roadside" but with solid cress, view the data with scepticism. TCA Ananth himself points out one such reason. "Otherwise, it is like comparing apple to oranges. It is entirely possible that 5% growth rate in the old series is qu...

amit

Apologies for using both color and bold. But this upping of the number from 12.9% to 17.3% is hugely important. Even this number is incorrect as construction is still not included under manufacturing as the rest of the world does. Which would add 9%+- so closer to 26%... Hmm 26 per cent is a pretty...

amit

GDP should always be looked as a time series. We won't know the import of today's GDP until several years in the future. So whats the point of discussing it now. Even the final word on UPA2 is probably too early to make final judgements on though obviously many projects were hanging in limbo and ra...

amit

Unfortunately I did not have enough time in my hands when I was replying earlier on this thread. :-? Here's another interesting report from April this year, that's when the controversy was at its peak. It quotes Chief statistician TCA Anant. I hope he is sufficiently credible and at par with Ruchir ...

amit

Ok so now the cloud over the GDP numbers have been cleared by the committee set up by the Government itself to clear the air. All news outlets are reporting it but this Business Standard report has an interesting comment from Sen Babu that I would like to point out. However, he pointed out that an i...

amit

Somnath a lot of the GDP number controversy has been linked with the different methodology that's been adopted and the different base year. And there's a school of thought that some of the discrepancies could be due to an increase in productivity that's not been factored in. The point remains that a...

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