Fascinating for me how two very different Indian-Americans are battling it out. There seems to be far less Indian asabiyyah?
Tag: Indian diaspora
Open Thread; Trans in the Muslim World
Other Stories (thank you Nivedita):
🔗 India Today – Harshvardhan Jain Scam
A man posed as a diplomat, set up fake embassies, and ran a multi-crore loan fraud racket via fake companies. He even issued “official” visas.
🔗 Business Standard – Karnataka Vendor GST Nightmare
A vegetable vendor in Karnataka received a GST notice due to high UPI volume — triggering a cascade of tax bureaucracy.
🔗 Economic Times – Indian Man Stabbed in Ireland
An Indian man in Ireland issues a public warning after surviving a random stabbing in Dublin.
🔗 NDTV – Hyderabad Man Kills Wife
In Hyderabad, a man stabbed his estranged wife to death at a birthday party for a child.
Rest in Peace
This is so incredibly heartbreaking; this beautiful family excited about a new life in the United Kingdom.
The picture was taken to celebrate ‘new beginnings’ as Komi Vyas, a doctor who worked in Udaipur, had quit her job and was moving to join her husband, Dr Prateek Joshi, in London, with their three children.
But, tragically, the family are among the at least 241 dead after the Gatwick-bound aircraft crashed moments after take-off from Ahmedabad Airport in the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat yesterday.
May they and the rest of the victims of the Air India crash rest in the Highest Heaven.
Everyone Western Becomes White Eventually
That’s a sharp observation, and worth expanding. The truth is, in the West, all immigrants eventually become “white”—not in phenotype, but in assimilation, in aesthetic, in aspiration. Continue reading Everyone Western Becomes White Eventually
The best of Goldman shines if not Kashmir then Cali?
Kashmiri Pandit Neel Kashkari is planning to run for Governor of California; it seems that Indian-Americans (FCs at that) are just gravitating towards the civil service & politics.
Of course even more interesting is his background as a Goldman banker, who really do seem to be Masters of the Universe.
Just a short sample of the very familiar household names of these GS Alums (via Wikipedia):
- Mark Carney – Governor of the Bank of Canada[207] (now BoE)
- Chetan Bhagat – Author
- Fischer Black – Co–author of the Black–Scholes equation and the Black-Derman-Toy model
- Jon Corzine – Former CEO of MF Global, Inc., former Democratic Governor (2006–2010) and U.S. Senator (2001–2006), New Jersey
- Jim Cramer – Founder of TheStreet.com, best selling author, and host of Mad Money on CNBC
- Rahm Emanuel – Mayor of Chicago (2011–)[208]
- Arthur Levitt – Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1993–2001)[209]
- Dambisa Moyo – Zambian economist and author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa
- Henry Paulson – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury (2006–2009)
- Romano Prodi – Prime Minister of Italy (1996–1998, 2006–2008) and President of the European Commission (1999–2004)[210]
- Robert Rubin – Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, ex–Chairman of Citigroup
- Gene Sperling – Director of the National Economic Council (2011–)[211]
- Lawrence Summers – Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1999–2001)[212]
- John Thain – Former Chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch, and former chairman of the NYSE
- Robert Zoellick – United States Trade Representative (2001–2005), Deputy Secretary of State (2005–2006), World Bank President (2007–2012)