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3 weeks ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
As the now-defunct, pro-Soviet, semi-left representative of the daily Patriot and Link Newsweekly in Moscow, I had the chance to interact with foreign correspondents at Moscow's Press Centre of the Soviet Foreign Affairs Ministry. One of them was Shah Nawaz, who represented the Pakistani daily The Muslim, which collapsed in the late 1990s. Shah, as I used to call him, had married a Russian girl, had two lovely children, and had settled in Moscow.
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3 weeks ago | 
openforum.com.au | Rajiv Shah
Once upon a time, not so long ago, those who talked of Australian sovereign capability, especially in the technology sector, were generally considered an amusing group of eccentrics. After all, technology ecosystems are global and multinational companies lead the development of cutting-edge capabilities. Australia could just sit back and benefit of technology from elsewhere. However, the last few years have jolted us out of that comfortable view.
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4 weeks ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
India's businesses, I thought aloud, would see it as an opportunity to expand their wings across South Asia and beyond once India wins the battle, which seems likely, given Pakistan's relatively weak defenses. However, here was a researcher from a real estate consulting firm sowing doubts over the Indo-Pak war's impact on a sector that it claims is expanding faster than all others.
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1 month ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
my blog on overflowing gutter lines at several spots in Ahmedabad's Vejalpur, a heavily populated area, a close acquaintance informed me that it's not just the middle-class housing societies that are affected by the nuisance.
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1 month ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
The issue has resurfaced amid a renewed grassroots campaign, supported by the global NGO BankTrack, which argues that the 2,677.80 acres of forest land acquired for the project should be returned to local communities rather than retained by the state government.
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1 month ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
A few days ago, I was talking to a close acquaintance who used to live in Bawla, a small town about 35 km west of Ahmedabad. It's an industrial hub with rice processing mills, cotton ginning units, and pharmaceutical companies. The acquaintance, from a very ordinary middle-class background, lived there because his son worked in one of the major pharmaceutical units nearby. However, he recently moved to a housing society in Ahmedabad, and I asked him why. "There are several reasons for this.
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1 month ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
A few days ago, I was talking to a close acquaintance who used to live in Bawla, a small town about 35 km west of Ahmedabad. It's an industrial hub with rice processing mills, cotton ginning units, and pharmaceutical companies. The acquaintance, from a very ordinary middle-class background, lived there because his son worked in one of the major pharmaceutical units nearby. However, he recently moved to a housing society in Ahmedabad, and I asked him why.
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1 month ago | 
conservativehome.com | Rajiv Shah
Rajiv Shah was a legal special adviser to the previous Conservative Government. Article 33(1) of the Refugee Convention creates the most important right there is in it: it protects an individual from being sent back to a country where they will face persecution. International lawyers call this the principle of non-refoulement. However, the drafters of the Refugee Convention – generally conservative men who had seen the horrors of WWII – understood that with rights came responsibilities.
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1 month ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
I was a little surprised. How? I asked him. "People call Trump mad," he said, "Maybe he is. But let me tell you: Trump's tariff is in the country's national interest. Like Trump, you can also call Modi mad. But his Indus move is very much in India's national interest." I asked him whether it would be feasible for Modi to stop Indus water, or waters of other western rivers, Chenab and Jhelum—which under the treaty are also allocated to Pakistan—from crossing the borders.
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1 month ago | 
counterview.net | Rajiv Shah
I opened the link and found that not only was the percentage mentioned in the story — 25% — for the country in question, the United States, wrong (it's actually 23%), but it also significantly underplays the percentage of those leaving Hinduism in the U.S. (18%). I can't say what the reason could be, except that perhaps the portal doesn't want to be called out as anti-Hindu.
