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Category Archives: India
Imagine a world with easy visas on arrival…
(This column was published in DNA edition dated January 5, 2011.) Venky Vembu The ex-Beatle and irremediable peacenik John Lennon, who was murdered 30 years ago last month, wanted us to imagine a world without countries (or religions or possessions). … Continue reading
Posted in Columns, Geopolitics, India
Tagged China, diplomacy, geopolitics, Hong Kong, India, passport, security, southeast Asia, trade, travel, visa, visa on arrival
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Wen a neighbour comes calling…
(This article, a curtain-raiser to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s upcoming visit to India, was published in DNA edition dated December 12, 2010.) Venky Vembu A chill wind is blowing across Beijing, but it isn’t just a momentary meteorological effect that … Continue reading
Posted in China, Geopolitics, India
Tagged China, diplomacy, Economy, financial crisis, geopolitics, India, Manmohan Singh, politics, trade, Wen Jiabao
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China’s might versus the power of an empty chair
(This column was published in DNA edition dated December 8, 2010.) Venky Vembu At the ceremony in Oslo last year to award the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, China was given a platform to showcase an element … Continue reading
Posted in China, Columns, Geopolitics, India
Tagged China, democracy, diplomacy, Economy, geopolitics, human rights, India, Lang Lang, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Prize, soft power, trade, US
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Flash News: ‘No-panty’ Yana shows India is booming
Venky Vembu In the Vanities No one wears panities —- Ogden Nash, Theatrical Reflection In the early 1990s, when the Indian economy was opening up to the world, foreign consumer brands, in the first flush of excitement, came tripping … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, India, Satire, Sexuality
Tagged Economy, Hemline Index, India, lingerie, market research, Yana Gupta, Zeenat Aman
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Rahul Mao and Modi Zedong
(This column was published in DNA edition dated December 4, 2010.) Venky Vembu It is hard for anyone but the most fawning supporters of Congress dynastic politics to fathom precisely what distinctive skills Rahul Gandhi has that qualifies him for … Continue reading
Posted in China, Columns, India
Tagged China, development, elections, human rights, India, Mao Zedong, Narendra Modi, politics, Rahul Gandhi, Sarah Palin
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WikiLeaks proves the world isn’t run by robots
(This column was published in DNA edition dated December 3, 2010.) Venky Vembu A couple of months ago, Sha Zukang, one of China’s top UN diplomats, made sensational news when, in a fit of alcohol-induced garrulousness, he told his boss … Continue reading
Posted in China, Columns, Geopolitics, India
Tagged Antrobus, China, diplomacy, geopolitics, Lawrence Durrell, US, WikiLeaks, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister
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‘China can’t win a trade war; it will be massacred’
(This interview with economist and fund manager Richard Duncan, on the prospects of a trade war, and its implications, was published in DNA edition dated November 29, 2010.) Venky Vembu In his first book, The Dollar Crisis, published in 2005, … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economy, India, Interview
Tagged Ben Bernanke, bubble, China, currency, dollar, Economy, euro, Europe, financial crisis, fiscal stimulus, food, Greece, Ireland, Keynes, monetary stimulus, poverty, property bubble, trade, trade war, US, war, yuan
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Behind China’s ‘bamboo curtain’ is an amoebic God
(This review of two books on China was published in DNA edition dated November 28, 2010.) Venky Vembu Prince Charles, whose own personality is far from sparkling, once described Chinese leaders as “appalling old waxworks”. The validity of that judgment … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economy, Geopolitics, India
Tagged books, China, Communist Party of China, Communist-Party, Economy, geopolitics, IDSA, India, Jagannath Panda, military, PLA, review, Richard McGregor, society
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How China ‘punishes’ countries that receive the Dalai Lama
(This interview, with a research scholar who identified a ‘Dalai Lama effect’ on international trade with China, was published in DNA edition dated November 27, 2010.) When jailed Chinese political dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economy, Geopolitics, India, Interview
Tagged China, Dalai Lama, diplomacy, Economy, geopolitics, India, politics, Tibet, trade
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