The CBI director, Mr. A. P. Singh has said that the amount of Black Money deposited by Indians in tax-heavens abroad is over $500 billion. He further says that the money has been siphoned out of India through tax havens such as Mauritius, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, British Virgin islands etc. Not only that; India seems to be the biggest depositor of black money (aka unaccounted money) in foreign banks – a claim that’s been made by...

Baba Ramdev, his Satyagraha, the government aka Congress, the opposition aka BJP and we the people are making headlines all over the print & electronic media. After looking at the headlines and how the journalists interpret the situation & words to please their bosses – I decided to write this ‘biased’ post. I’ve been reading comments to articles on Baba Ramdev all over the leading websites & blogs and found...

Couple of days ago, I had an online encounter with my friend who went to USA for post graduate studies. To fund his education he works as a night watchman. He told me he bought a brand new laptop in just 10 days’ salary. Then followed a long discussion on why I shouldn’t be staying in India because life in USA is way better than in India. I’ve been hearing this from almost all my friends who went to USA. They want me to be...