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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. ”
I come from a family where two wheelers were not allowed. No seriously not even a tiny cycle around the compound. ”
I made most of my living doing beauty, because I was never really the fashion person. ”
Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury. ”
As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits. ”
The Indian voter will not shy away from sacrificing in the national interest. If the voter is convinced that high oil prices are a national challenge and that the government is doing its best to deal with the challenge, the voter would be willing to bear the burden. ”
There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for the government of the day to legislate laws to deal with such issues. Not for courts to issue advisories and declare criminal what may often be normal economic activity protecting livelihoods. ”
Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies. ”
When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest. ”
If the Asian financial crisis had the impact of accelerating China's rise, the transatlantic financial crisis has had the effect of accelerating Germany's rise. ”