Sandeep Bhalla's Blog, page 27

Did British donated aid to India while it was building Statute of Unity?

At the outset, please do stop sending money to India. As a matter of policy India stopped taking foreign aid two decades ago. But many Governments and agencies send money to NGO’s in India for specific projects. Not all money is spent on right purpose. The biggest headache is the money sent for one purpose […]

Few facts about Reserve Bank Governors

Few interesting facts about governors of Reserve Bank of India, received through what’s app: (can’t vouch authencity but if true it is interesting) How many of you know that Dr ManMohan Singh didn’t complete his 3 yr term as the RBI Governor as the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had removed him on January 14, […]

Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War

I recently concluded reading the book titled: Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War. It is a succinct summery of Pakistan and it’s activities including it’s obsession with India. Written from a western perspective, it is particularly interesting as it eschews the wars before 1998 and starts with Kandahar hijacking. […]

My writers block

Writers block can be of different kind. In last about one year, I am trying to write rather I am writing only to discard it later. Something right is not happening. It is a non fiction based on research but the idea is shrinking and expanding. First it was too big a project to cover. […]

Does UK gives foreign aid to India and it is misused to build Statue of Unity?

Does UK gives foreign aid to India and it is misused to build Statue of Unity? The aforesaid question  was raised in Quora and this was my answer (with few additions): At the outset, please do stop sending money to India. As a matter of policy India stopped taking foreign aid two decades ago. But […]

Happy Deepawali 2018

My profound greeting and best wishes for a prosperous, safe and happy Diwali. And best wishes for happy new year 2075 (svt.) ।। ऊँ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय ।। ।। शरी: कृपा ।। अयं दीपावली महोतसवः भवतकृते भवतपरिवारकृते च कषेमसथैरय आयुः आरोगय ऐशवरय अभिवृदघिकारकः भवतु अपि सकलदुःख निवृततिः परगतिः शरीभगवतपरापतिः च भवतु इति शरी चरणयो: परारथयामि […]

The Crowd Suppliers: A Business hidden in plain sight.

A secret Business in India. Crowd is to democracy what ink is to news papers. The news papers may not be main churning force in debates but but they have not seized to exist even if relegated to quite irrelevance. Something similar is about crowds. Democracies much less it’s elections can not be imagined without […]

Nehru’s Foreign Policy and Yuri Nasenko

Plagiarizing PhD from an old Book Sterling Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi published a book in 1977 titled Jawaharlal Nehru and India’s Foreign Policy. It is authored by Yuri Nasenko. An ebook of the book is available at archieve.org. But then I came across a new website of Govt. of India as part of digital India […]

The Hindu Indologist and American Thinking

Quest for knowledge. Gathering knowledge is an intellectual quest but utilizing knowledge in one’s own life is entirely different thing. More often than not we come across the preachers, teachers, Gurus or such people who do not walk the talk. That is so common place. But to be so outrageous that to blurt out this […]

Requiem to Atal Bihari Vajpayee former Prime Minister of India

An ode to a modest hero: Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 Decemeber 1924 to 16 August 2018) Ata Bihari Vajpayee founded Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in 1980 and in 1984 BJP had just two members in Parliament. He was severely punished in 1980 and 1984 by public for joining/merging his older party Jan Sangh with Janta […]