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  One thing that often frustrates me, is when I listen to global experts and folks I meet, who give sermons on China its progress, scale, development & then talk of how we India are so far behind. This is what I call as Fact but not true. Have we as a nation failed to harness our abilities, talent, opportunity etc? Absolutely YES. We could have done far better & yes, we can justifiably blame the socialist age, license raj regime, our politicians, our industrialists. But why is it that none understand one simple fact that is also true - China is a one party, one policy, one govt autocracy/ communist/ socialist/ capitalist system with no election ever - & once a policy is made, it is implemented, if need be, by "gunning" people down. They make 50-year plans while others plan for the next elections. Today they are criminalising the business decisions of anyone who has invested in China, if they chose to develop a second supply base outside China – and the world a...

  Way back in 2020, I wrote this when the famous imbroglio between then Chairman Cyrus Mistry and Ratan Tata happened. My Previous Blog from 2020 Since then, Rata Tata has passed on and ever since Noel Tata took over as the Chairman, every single day we see news reports of some controversy or other. Directors have resigned, others forced out, still others not given extension, etc. Then we hear about this bizarre demand that the Tata Sons Chairman Chandrashekar must publicly state that he is against taking Tata Sons public. When the issue is legal, the Govt and regulatory authorities breathing down their neck, this demand is illogical. Over the last 18 months the Tata group has been rocked by one controversy after another and all of them except one involved the Board and Noel Tata. On the face of it, they seem bizarre since the board and the group have always behaved with grace and rarely have public spats except when a major issue was involved. Even then the issue was clear, the pu...

  Way back in 2020, I wrote this when the famous imbroglio between then Chairman Cyrus Mistry and Ratan Tata happened. My Blog from 2020 Since then, Rata Tata has passed on and ever since Noel Tata took over as the Chairman, every single day we see news reports of some controversy or other. Directors have resigned, others forced out, still others not given extension, etc. Then we hear about this bizarre demand that the Tata Sons Chairman Chandrashekar must publicly state that he is against taking Tata Sons public. When the issue is legal, the Govt and regulatory authorities breathing down their neck, this demand is illogical. Over the last 18 months the Tata group has been rocked by one controversy after another and all of them except one involved the Board and Noel Tata. On the face of it, they seem bizarre since the board and the group have always behaved with grace and rarely have public spats except when a major issue was involved. Even then the issue was clear, the public spec...

  This brings us to the second part of this blog – to discuss the core issue – whether this whole anti Muslim narrative is only a post 2014 development or does the truth lie elsewhere? Lets look at the Muslim political situation from 1947 onwards. After all nobody can claim that Modi/Shah/ BJP were around in 1947. The Muslim population in the 1951 census was 9.8% or 35.4 Mil Muslims with Hindus being 84.1% or 303.7 Mil Hindus in a total of 361 Mil. In the 2011 census, the Muslim population was 14.2 % or 172 Mil Muslims with Hindus being 79.8% or 966.3 Mil Hindus. The estimates for 2025 are a Muslim population of 15%+ or 215+ Mil Muslims and Hindus being 77% or more than a Billion. So how has the political class treated the Muslim community since 1947? In this analysis J & K is excluded for obvious reasons and examined in the end. H ow many Muslims have become Chief Ministers of a state ? Barkattullah Khan in Rajasthan between 1971-1973. Abdul Ghafoor in Bihar between 1973-1...