South Asia
Reflections on China, Lessons for India
Over the past 2 weeks I traveled to Taiwan, Hangzhou and Shanghai. The trip was ostensibly a vacation, but I met enough people in government and business – that I knew before or ran into in random bars, airports, and planes – that I managed to achieve the real purpose of the trip: establish for [...]
Book Review: Required Readings on India
Books on India are a dime a dozen these days. But while much of the attention has been focused either on fiction writers, in the vien of Jhumpa Lahiri or Amitav Ghosh, or on the economic success of India, a series of books have been published in the last months that analyze India’s polity and [...]
India’s Capital Markets: Deutsche Bank releases paper
Another bank, another paper. Deutsche Bank Research has released a 16 page report on India’s capital markets. It has a lot of numbers from a lot of places, and may not interest everyone. But it presents some interesting observations on India’s growth and development. Credit growth has surged at 35% year on year in 2004-05, [...]
Returning to India: of Struggle and Hope
A friend pointed me to Piya’s blog. Piya has a penchant for clicking photos and has just returned to live in Delhi after several years. Only two months old, the blog is already an excellent illustration of the riot that India is for one’s senses, and the eccentricities it presents. Reading it, I finally had [...]
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