Italian names, foreign models, and international image, that is how Indian brands like to be identified as. The companies know our obsession with foreign products and white skin, hence leave no stone unturned in projecting their brand as ‘non-Indian’. It’s not their fault either. We say that it’s almost 70 years since the British left India, and we are done with our … [Read more...]
Watch Out! New Immigration Policy Might Turn Out To Be A Turnoff For Indians In UK!
It’s been a year since Arvind has shifted to UK for his work. As a newlywed couple, Swati yearns to be with him. They got married in January. After her initial stay at her in-laws place and completion of her B.Com, she was supposed to join Arvind. She was just counting the days. Her family was happy that their elder will be ‘settling abroad’. Swati was all set to fly … [Read more...]
Atithi Devo Bhava – Tell that to the foreign tourists who get raped in our great country
A Danish woman was gangraped in Delhi when she lost her way to hotel around 2-3 weeks back, a 21 year old Japanese tourist was gangraped in Kolkata in last month again and I could just go on and on about so many other cases. Why does this happen? Is our country so hostile for foreign female travelers? Is “Atithi Devo Bhava” just a BS that we say? Leave apart making them … [Read more...]
Where is India heading with these “Foreign” policies for the “aam bhartiya”?
“Domestic policy can defeat us, foreign policy can kill us”- cited by former US President John. F. Kennedy where, by the word “us”, he blatantly refers to the general riff-raff of his country. My purpose for putting up the above quote was to indicate towards the visceral idea of this particular blog. Yes, you got it right! What? Maybe you didn’t? Well no worries, just keep on … [Read more...]