As the beautiful hill town of Nainital loses its earlier surviving building to fire, I share a piece on Nainital that i had writtten some years ago, soon after reading Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. Please click on the link and read !
thedelhiwalla.blog/2011/10/02/cit…
Retire as youngest second-in-command of the UN, reject cushy sinecures with seven-figure fees, win four Lok Sabha elections from a communist citadel, and then, rather than respect and responsibility, receive scorn from a deadbeat dynast whose career is a living mockery of merit.
It's not a major fall now. Here is the list of major falls during the last 4 decades.
1) 2020: -38% (Covid 19)
2) 2008-2009: - 61% (Sub Prime Crisis)
3) 2000-2001: -56% (Dot Com Bubble)
4) 1998-1999: -35% (Global Sanction)
5) 1992-1994: -54% (Harshad Mehta Scam)
6) 1990:…
The whole tech world seems to be in a furore because a small Chinese company DeepSeek appears to have changed the game for AI.
What did it do, and how? Here is a good thread to understand what appears to have happened. However, not everyone is convinced they really pulled it…
I am very saddened to learn of the passing of India’s former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh – a great man and a great leader who helped to put US-Indian relations on a fundamentally new footing with the landmark US-India Civilian Nuclear Agreement of 2008. Prime Minister Singh…
Ramu Damodaran posted this anecdote about Dr. Manmohan Singh in a St. Stephen’s College Alumni Whatsapp Group. With Ramu’s permission I am posting it here
“My first meeting with Dr MMS was in July ‘91, the day I joined Prime Minister Narasimha Rao’s office. The devaluations of…
Who is ManMohan Singh? Read this.
This man - who was introduced at the ASEAN Business Forum meeting as “the world’s most qualified Head of Government” - will be remembered by the History as one of the greatest son of India and perhaps the architect of Modern India.
WHENEVER…
Our generation will be perennially grateful to Dr Manmohan Singh. His role in the economic liberalisation of India allowed us to fulfil ambitions and discover what we could achieve. His humility was inspiring. A good man and a great Indian..
"I do not minimise the difficulties that lie ahead on the long and arduous journey on which we have embarked. But as Victor Hugo once said, 'No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come'.
- #DrManmohanSingh on 24 July 1991
As iconic as Tryst with Destiny by J L Nehru
The economic reforms that transformed the Indian economy.
The nuclear deal that transformed relations with the US and the West.
Just two of the reasons why Dr Manmohan Singh will be remembered well by history.
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