Nah, in the corporate analogy it’s quarterly

What??????? Only once a year!!!!!!! Its a terrible life….

When others are paying the bill and some times paying bill, he shows up. All those trips were paid for by others. The thing to check would be the %age of time the clintons are in ny state. When ambanis invite clinton and he shows up it was considered novel now it is a so so. It may even have become a fad in the billionare club bet you he will visit india several more time on their tabs

They probably invited Slick Willy as a VIP guest. Its like when people in India, invite Indian politicians they dont care about how many police cases are pending against them for rape, murder, corruption, etc. Same concept.

I certainly agree that it’s nobody’s business who gets invited – except the folks who are throwing the wedding. But I have every right to be judgemental about it, and that’s nobody’s business either. Else, why discuss anything?

Manish,

You’ve got it all wrong…

Doing your taxes is like getting screwed in your ass… Giving quarterly guidance in Wall Street is similiar to your wife asking you if she looks fat in that dress… Undergoing a performace review is when your in-laws come to visit…

M. Nam

1. It’s nobody else’s business who the bride & groom’s families decide to invite to their children’s wedding, even if they do happen to be relatively well-known public figures.

2. Speaking generally, who should be the person to gets to decide who does and does not fit your criteria of people sufficiently pious to bless the couple ?

“Playing with your toddler is like giving quarterly guidance to Wall Street…

Telling your wife ‘I love you’ is like doing a performance review…

Making love is like doing your taxes…”

Then you have misunderstood the concept of a wedding…

A wedding is a transaction like any other, a contract like any other business contract, which has to be solemnised by people who value the terms of the contract. The only difference is that this is a businesses transaction that comprises material, spiritual and sexual aspects (dharmecha, arthecha, kaamecha) of life. So, only people who either have honored or intend to honor these values should be on the list.

A marriage is a job, like any other. Those who are good at this job are those who have the moral right to bless the newly wed couple. Clinton has failed at this job, just as the Enron executives failed at theirs. However, Clinton was good at his other job, that of a President. So go ahead and invite him to conferences on International Laws or something like that. Enron executives were good at the other job as well: They were devoted husbands and fathers. So feel free to invite them to your PTA at schools.

Abhi writes: >>this is a dead-end street.

No it’s not. You would be lying if you said you did not learn something from me in the last few months. I know others on SM have.

M. Nam

Kush, the fact that you had to actually explain that indicates that this is a dead-end street.

Having extra-marital affair is not equivalent to being a neo-nazi.

If extra-marital affair was the litmus test for attending weddings, a lot of people will fail the test, irrespective of culture and religion. Sinners go to the church, temple too. Weddings are social gatherings for friends and nothing more than that.

To all others,

Bill Clinton has been to India 7-8 times since 2000. He goes to India more often then NRIs/ PIOs.