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Tag archive for ‘India’

On Husain, Religion and India

The question: Name a famous Indian painter, should now get you even fewer answers as Maqbool Fida Husain, popularly known as M.F. Husain, recently accepted the citizenship of Qatar. M.F. Husain’s troubles began in 1996, after a Hindi monthly published an inflammatory article on his paintings of Hindu deities done in the 1970s. There has been an avalanche in the number of legal cases against him ever since. Even exhibitions of his work have been wrongfully vandalized.

Death of the Silicon Valley?

New US policies on employment, H-1Bs, taxation and immigration will hurt nobody but itself.

ArcelorMittal and Ispat

What connects ArcelorMittal and Ispat; besides steel of course? Rumor has it that there are talks about a merger. Some ArcelorMittal officials did visit Ispat’s steel plants.
While it is nice to see M&A news (gives some hope in tough times like these) what beats me totally is why would ArcelorMittal do something like this.
Firstly, most of [...]