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Today saw BBC news, Once again Indian “experts” repeated that there is backlash against China and companies are seeing India as an opportunity. Some time back heard Trump talking similarly. He paused for a second and named Vietnam as China’s alternative. Vietnam’s boom can be attributed to Chinese who moved there to save on labor… Continue reading Meet India’s new rival status

I was surprised when in America many people told me straight on my face that I was good. That never happened to me back in India. For example the Princeton Review instructor at Berkeley told me that he had seen no score higher than mine. I expected him to have seen many top scores, Berkeley… Continue reading The fine art of acting superior

Met this young girl at Auroville. Sitting near the welcome center. She was from Shanghai, Her aunt was from Hong Kong. Enjoyed talking to her. Suddenly she told me :”you are not Indian.” I thought something about me gave me away. Asked her how did she knew. She told me she was working for a… Continue reading Welcome to Jungle

Resigned from Mitsubishi and came back to America in 1995. There were no job prospects and I had become morbidly fat. About 42 inches waist, height 5’7.5″.To calm my mind, decided to take a few mathematics courses. And just to see if I had any intelligence left. First course was Complex Analysis. Did okay, the… Continue reading Got my confidence back

Years ago took an undergraduate course in music appreciation in Berkeley. I am near tone-deaf, and this is one important field missing from my life. One cannot have everything. The course was fine and there was a book that was needed. On going through the book I found out that it had western, chinese, persian,… Continue reading Indian Music

In India it is every day China-bashing. Some of it can be understood, but shows childish mentality of ours. China has told us countless times that China and India are both developing nations and mutually they should try to solve problems. Problem goes back to 1962. I read a book by an American guy. He… Continue reading Why don’t we learn?

About last year the online Guardian, an British journal, published a result of a poll. Germany was the most admired country in the world. It was followed by two countries on par – the USA and China. China? I guess it was not reported in India. Just like my discrimination case was not reported in… Continue reading Most admired country

Oh very very long articles. Oh, I don’t have the patience to read them. On forums (like Quora) sometimes I feel like responding to such articles. My answer used to be simple. “Low IQ” and I used to add that that was the primary reason, other reasons stated might be valid too. (That was just… Continue reading Long scholarly articles on low growth of India

A story I read while at IIT popped up on mind recently. It was in Alfred Hitchcock’s Best Short Stories (selected by him, written by others). A poor man by invited to a hunting party organized by his rich neighbor. He went there, there were his neighbor’s rich friends, it seemed like he was the… Continue reading QUAD – Hunter and the hunted

In 1995 I started my internet activities. Soon it was obvious to me it is a low cost but effective cast to spread my words. I remember the time I asked Mr. Pillai , of Indian wire services in Tokyo, to publish my lawsuit news in Indian newspapers, he flatly denied at first. We had… Continue reading Why this site, now?