Tag: United States

  • Trumponomics: How Will Trump’s Presidency Impact India?

    Trumponomics: How Will Trump’s Presidency Impact India?

    If candidate donald Trump set the cat among the pigeons in India’s policy circles, President-elect Trump still hasn’t allayed all the anxieties he stirred during his election campaign. The question many analysts are asking is: How will Trump’s presidency impact India? There are no clear answers yet, despite his avowed…

  • Questions Theresa May must answer

    Questions Theresa May must answer

    Days before Theresa May lands in India for her visit as British Prime Minister, India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa flags up some very crucial questions she must answer.  British Prime Minister Theresa May has chosen New Delhi as the first foreign capital she will visit outside Europe since taking office in July. Coming…

  • Hillary will be (just) a safer bet for India

    Hillary will be (just) a safer bet for India

    So Donald Trump “is a big fan of India and a big fan of Hindu (sic)”; is he? At a gathering of about 5,000 American Indians at New Jersey’s Raritan Center, addressing what was probably the first country-specific ethno-religious rally by a US presidential hopeful, the Republican candidate promised a “phenomenal future”…

  • West must not shut doors to Indian talent

    West must not shut doors to Indian talent

    by Manoj Ladwa I, of course, understand the pressures the UK, US and other Western economies are under through unchecked immigration and the sapping of their own homegrown skills talent pool. However, the market evangelists have converted to the dogmas of those they preached free trade to. How else can one square…

  • Trade and terror don't go hand in hand

    Trade and terror don't go hand in hand

    by Manoj Ladwa India yesterday conducted measured ‘surgical strikes’ on known terror camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to repeated terror attacks supported from across the border in recent months. US National Security Advisor Susan Rice called Ajit Doval, her opposite number in India, and told him the White…

  • US pivot to Asia works to India’s strategic & economic advantage

    US pivot to Asia works to India’s strategic & economic advantage

    by Manoj Ladwa President Barack Obama has called India-US relations “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century”. Last year, he told an Indian publication: “Forging deeper ties between our two nations has been a key part of my foreign policy since I took over office.” Former Prime Minister…

  • Hello Mr Trump, India calling

    Hello Mr Trump, India calling

    by Manoj Ladwa Will the real Donald Trump please stand up! First, he mimics an Indian call centre executive’s accent as a proxy for how globalisation is hurting the US; he rails against H1B visa holders decimating “women and minorities” in the US; and then, in an about turn, says:…

  • Brilliant! LeaveEU campaign shredded by Obama

    Brilliant! LeaveEU campaign shredded by Obama

    I have been arguing for sometime that the Leave campaigners claims that they would quickly sign trade agreements with countries like India and the USA is fanciful. Obama slam-dunked this point and also tackled with deftness Boris Johnson’s slur about Obama’s African origins. I just wonder whether Boris is just…

  • Developing India’s Innovation Capital

    Developing India’s Innovation Capital

    Innovation is imperative if India wants to continue to grow its GDP by 9-10 per cent each annum and improve the quality of life for its citizens. Examples such as China and South Korea demonstrate how innovation can help countries leap frog to a non-linear growth model that not only…

  • Vatan Gujarati Thali – New York City

    Vatan Gujarati Thali – New York City

    Vatan Gujarati Thali – New York City – Reminds me of 1999