Consider that u r in a land of whites,where the race the color are what religion and caste is for us in India.A place where the blacks and other races are treated as if they arent the children of god.Am referring to none other than the United States.What would your slogan be would it be God Bless America,no Indian would be chanting that we would rather prefer God Damn America.But this one man Obama has really started his first step towards the great voyage to end this race conflicts.Barack Obama was born to a black Kenyan father and a white mother.His parents separated when he was very young and his mother remarried a man fromIndonesia.He received his early schooling in a muslim school in Indonesia.Later on he was raised in Hawaii where whites are in minority.
From his autobiography DREAMS FROM MY FATHER:A STUDY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE .Let me put forward his extracts:
"We were always playing on the white mans court.Whatever they decided to do it was their decision.Infact you coulnt even be sure that everyhting yoou had assumed to be an expression of your black,unferreted self-the humour,the songthe behind the backpass.At best these things were a refuge at worst a trap."
"My identity might begin with the fact of my race,but it didnt,couldnt,end there.At least that is what i would choose to .
Perhaps in this man Obama,who has lived in three continents,who is not of a particular race,and not of a particular religion,and who believes that all men are equal,a soul searching for honesty,we have found another Mahatma.
urs lovingly,
HelsinG
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THE SOLE PROPRIETOR OF INDIAN ECONOMY--A BIOGRAPHY
Managing an economy as big as ours is in all sense identical to being a concertmaster. Just like a master music conductor who fine-tunes the pitch, tempo, rhythm to create that “very perfect” harmony, Palaniappan Chidambaram, a master financial strategist, has been playing a key role in synchronising India’s aspirations with the realities of today’s market driven world.
Chidambaram was born in a business family on 16th September, 1945, in Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu. A scion of the influential MA Chidambaram group, he was a bright student from the start- after completing BA LLB from Madras University, he pursued MBA at Harvard Business School. But unlike many of his peers who chose to stay back in US, Chidambaram returned to his homeland and started his practice as a topnotch lawyer.
Along with Dr Manmohan Singh (then Finance Minister) and Montek Singh Alhuwalia, Chidambaram formed the ‘dream team” that resurrected economy after the dark days in early nineties.
India’s transition from a Soviet-style centralised economy into today’s liberalised; free market era has largely been credited to this troika of India’s finest brains.
His most notable contribution during this era was the new EXIM Policy that radically changed the dynamics of our import driven economy.
However, Chidambaram truly faced the arc lights when as a Tamil Manila Congress MP he was chosen to be the Finance Minister in the United Front government. His first Budget presented in July 1996 was largely considered a disappointment, mainly because his image as champion reformer from the “dream team” made people expect too much from him. But one notable policy change was the introduction of minimum alternative tax, which stands the same way till today.
As the Finance Minister in the UPA government Chidambaram has been consciously trying to move away from his well advertised image of being a darling of the business class.
His recent actions have been aimed at pleasing the “Aam Admi” ---the plank on which Congress rode to power even if it meant displeasing India Inc, albeit temporarily.
The appreciation of rupee against the dollar and the hike in interest rates were given a tactical nod so as to keep inflation down. After all for the Aam Admi, it’s the price of “onions” that matters the most.
The man, who delicately balances our finances, ensuring that we get to savour all that our booming economy has to offer; undoubtedly deserves credit for keeping India`s economy on the expressway to world dominance.
urs lovingly,
HelsinG
Chidambaram was born in a business family on 16th September, 1945, in Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu. A scion of the influential MA Chidambaram group, he was a bright student from the start- after completing BA LLB from Madras University, he pursued MBA at Harvard Business School. But unlike many of his peers who chose to stay back in US, Chidambaram returned to his homeland and started his practice as a topnotch lawyer.
Along with Dr Manmohan Singh (then Finance Minister) and Montek Singh Alhuwalia, Chidambaram formed the ‘dream team” that resurrected economy after the dark days in early nineties.
India’s transition from a Soviet-style centralised economy into today’s liberalised; free market era has largely been credited to this troika of India’s finest brains.
His most notable contribution during this era was the new EXIM Policy that radically changed the dynamics of our import driven economy.
However, Chidambaram truly faced the arc lights when as a Tamil Manila Congress MP he was chosen to be the Finance Minister in the United Front government. His first Budget presented in July 1996 was largely considered a disappointment, mainly because his image as champion reformer from the “dream team” made people expect too much from him. But one notable policy change was the introduction of minimum alternative tax, which stands the same way till today.
As the Finance Minister in the UPA government Chidambaram has been consciously trying to move away from his well advertised image of being a darling of the business class.
His recent actions have been aimed at pleasing the “Aam Admi” ---the plank on which Congress rode to power even if it meant displeasing India Inc, albeit temporarily.
The appreciation of rupee against the dollar and the hike in interest rates were given a tactical nod so as to keep inflation down. After all for the Aam Admi, it’s the price of “onions” that matters the most.
The man, who delicately balances our finances, ensuring that we get to savour all that our booming economy has to offer; undoubtedly deserves credit for keeping India`s economy on the expressway to world dominance.
urs lovingly,
HelsinG
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