On America and India

That first letter seems particularly well-written, almost as if he had to hone his arguing skills in head to head forms like Sepiamutiny.

The New India

Padme Lakshmi is on the cover. You wonder if Zakaria had a say on the cover photo – “I’m telling you – no more Taj Mahal. I’ve got an idea to have this issue fly off the newsstands.” Not that I disagree with this line of reasoning.

US stance was quite complicated too, pre-Richard Gere days.

And it’s about to get more complicated.. but in a good way. Richard Gere is on the trip with Bush this time. In support of Bush’s Asia AIDS policies..

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Health/story?id=1664206

Is India the Next China?

Once again, Stephen Cohen shows himself to be knowledgable on facts, but bereft of insight.

These would also be useful to rate movies. We need to introduce this steaming crap icon in addition to the stars. Beyond 1/2 star, the next lowest is half a pile of crap, one pile of crap, 2 piles of crap, 3 piles of crap etc., a scale in the negative if you know what I mean.

I agree.

PPS: Correction: preceeding, i meant succeeding. I wasn’t fully awake when I wrote.

I think China jingoism, its involvement in Korea, Vietnam and its closeness to USSR (they did have a nasty breakup) was playing in India’s favor with respect to Ike.

India’s stance on tibet was complicated. They showed courage sometimes, but then they knew their limitations too. US stance was quite complicated too, pre-Richard Gere days.

I’ll have to look it up on Senate hearing transcripts. I never saved the link. They had interesting take on India.

Do have access to TIme magazine archives, when India was cover story and it’s realtionship vis-a-vis China was important. They give an interesting time window.

Not quite true!. India had initaly opposed chinese takeover of tibet, including raising the issue at UN but later they silenced themselves Nehru and Krishna Mennon would muffle any one who raised the tibet issue in india. Even when dalai lama came to india as a refugee Nehru told him not to raise this issue in UN. Hindi chini bhai bhai nonsense was only said in india(no equivalent chinese slogan even exists). This was the time Nehru was trying to get the UN to give a security council seat to china. US offered to give india a seat and pandit ji in his infinite wisdom gave that away Ayyub Khan had offered him an alliance against chinese after chinese had marched into tibet and xinkiang, and his reply was “against who?”

It was also the time grants like PL-480 were at their height – IIT (Kanpur) had lot of American aid and interaction (very 60s – just preceeding Eisenhower years), Norman Borlaug’s new rice strain, and many new ideas were being experimented.

Ikes term ended in 61…. But that was one of the reason. Also the personalities of people involved is a factor. Ike was a different kind of fella. and the nature of assistance he was giving not only to india but every one else was b/c he thought that creating a scientific base independent of politics is the right thing. (granted that never happens fully)

I once read parts of Senate Committee hearing minutes on India from 50s – In ways, sounded like Fareed’s words.

do u have the link….

FF 1.5 win XP But i think that was more of windows screwing things. (i had changed my refresh rate on my vid card) I restarted another instance of browser and its working ok.

Which browser?