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Indo-US trade relations: Damage controlling exercise

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By K.N. Pandita (in USA)

Earlier this month, high profile Indian team landed in Washington to attend the annual Leadership Summit of US-India Business Council (USIBC) and US-India CEO Forum. The team sought to explore prospects of direct foreign investment in India and stimulate the quantum of Indo-US trade, which is very low keeping in sight the size of the partners in business.

Since the Indian delegation comprised top echelons of economic policy structuring module, and also since I happened to be holidaying in the US, I was naturally interested in keeping track of the details of crucial deliberations trickling down in the American print media.   Continue Reading…

The labyrinth of IM network

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By K.N. Pandita

Both official and non-official media in our country usually give media hype to any event of busting terrorist module. How much of what is said is true is difficult to ascertain. The reason is that terrorism has become an industry.

When a terrorist attack takes place, media doles out for days and weeks all details it can maneuver to put in print or in air. But contrary to expectation, it adopts silence about the conspirators and their conspiracy. After a while, the entire episode gets washed off the mind of people and the life runs as usual.   Continue Reading…

The Himalayas crimsoned with blood

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By K.N. Pandita

Who would believe that there will be a day when the white snow of mighty Himalayas would be crimsoned with the blood of those who wanted to bring its unique grandeur, magnificence, and its stunning beauty and splendour to the eyes of the world? The eternal mountain, around which many stories of myth and mystique are woven and which enfolds within its bosom life giving gift to humanity — glacial waters—- is besmeared with human blood.    Continue Reading…