tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379664597936910402024-03-05T07:54:26.744-05:00Vaish Words©An entertaining and thoughtful perspective on advertising, politics and other useless things...Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-79745422919997502432023-11-01T11:01:00.010-04:002023-11-21T12:55:56.101-05:00The New World (Dis)order (five part series)(Image: businessday.ng dotcom)NOTE: This is the final part in a five part series.PART I: American Adventurism, Non-Interventionism, Trumpism and Afghan Chaos
PART II: The Misunderstanding of Vladimir Putin
PART III: China Awakens Under Xi Jinping
PART IV: Crony Capitalism and the West’s Achilles Heel
PART V: The New World (Dis)orderPart V: The New World Dis(order)“Experience Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-43565530782219642682023-08-01T08:11:00.051-04:002023-11-01T20:50:53.008-04:00The New World (Dis)order: Part IV: Crony Capitalism and the West’s Achilles Heel
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PART II: The Misunderstanding of Vladimir Putin
PART III: China Awakens Under Xi Jinping
PART IV: Crony Capitalism and the West’s Achilles Heel
PART V (November): The New World (Dis)order PART III: China Awakens Under Xi Jinping“If the U.S.Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-25425001763837223532023-06-01T06:01:00.008-04:002023-10-16T08:17:48.096-04:00The New World (Dis)order: PART II: The Misunderstanding of Vladimir Putin
(Image: Wallpaperflare dotcom)NOTE: This is the second in a five part series.PART I: American Adventurism, Non-Interventionism, Trumpism and Afghan ChaosPART II: The Misunderstanding of Vladimir PutinPART III: China Awakens Under Xi JinpingPART IV: Crony Capitalism and the West’s Achilles HeelPART V (November): The New World (Dis)order PART II: The Misunderstanding of Vladimir Putin
“ToNikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-64659313424409819542023-05-05T07:26:00.007-04:002023-10-16T08:18:04.132-04:00The New World (Dis)order: PART I: American Adventurism, Non-Interventionism, Trumpism and Afghan ChaosIllustration by Barbara Kelley via Hoover InstituteNOTE: This is the first in a five part series.PART I: American Adventurism, Non-Interventionism, Trumpism and Afghan ChaosPART II: The Misunderstanding of Vladimir PutinPART III: China Awakens Under Xi JinpingPART IV: Crony Capitalism and the West’s Achilles HeelPART V (November): The New World (Dis)order PART I: American Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-14130617865980370802022-07-11T10:58:00.001-04:002022-07-11T10:58:05.406-04:00The Case Against Facebook (now Meta)(Image: OMG News Today)
The primary issue with Facebook is not their platforms or algorithms - those can be fixed. It is their leadership.
The company was borne out of deception after Mr. Zuckerberg reneged on a contractual agreement he made with his Harvard classmates. They had approached him with an idea for a social networking platform and sought his help to build it. In 2009, Mr. Zuckerberg Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-74437540683340969942021-05-05T05:05:00.013-04:002021-05-09T00:24:12.611-04:00How Narendra Modi Conquered Coronavirus(Image: Twitter/ANI)"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it." -Andrew CarnegieMuch like George W. Bush once prematurely declared victory in Iraq, our Prime Minister started taking victory laps in mid-February this year when he proclaimed that “…the whole world was worried about India's situation. But today India's fight against corona (Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-70751925572924055182021-03-08T15:08:00.006-05:002021-03-11T11:32:19.649-05:00In Cuomo We Trust?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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(Image: YellowHammer.com) “Character,
in the long run, is the decisive factor in the Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-59362233897262485302020-07-31T19:31:00.057-04:002020-08-10T22:58:56.656-04:00Democrats Have Nothing to Fear, but Themselves
(Image: Saul Loeb/Getty Images)“Most human beings have an almost
infinite capacity for taking things for granted”-Aldous HuxleyWhen Mr. Trump completed his hostile
takeover of the Republican Party and claimed the 2016 nomination, it became Mrs.
Clinton's election to lose. Her senior aides had secretly been hoping she would
face Mr. Trump because they were convinced that “a race against Trump Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-10682398165970240732020-04-30T16:30:00.001-04:002021-03-15T14:41:45.203-04:00COVID SIDE OF LIFE. Day 45: Saved by the Buzzer…
Pandemic
Log:
Thursday, 30th April 2020
Our buzzer rang as it often does
these days, but unfortunately for the moment it is a one-way street, as we
cannot hear the person seeking entry at the other end of the intercom.
So, other than when we have ordered
a meal from a local restaurant or are expecting a scheduled grocery delivery,
it is mostly scrambled guesswork to determine if it is the Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-71568802292544847042020-04-26T16:26:00.001-04:002021-03-15T14:35:55.417-04:00COVID SIDE OF LIFE. Day 42: What Passing-bells for Those Who Die of Covid?
New York’s Hart Island;
where unclaimed bodies are buriedNOTE: title is co-opted from one of my favourite poems “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
by Wilfred Owen.
Pandemic
Log:
Sunday, 26th April 2020
Living can often be a lonely business
in New York City; especially for older people who never married, have no kids
or family members still alive. At the best of times this life can be cruel for
Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-75856861608567696112020-04-17T16:17:00.003-04:002021-03-15T14:32:14.624-04:00COVID SIDE OF LIFE. Day 33: The New Normal?
(Image: Lucas
Jackson/Reuters)Pandemic
Log: Friday, 17th April 2020
I read today that one of the
conditions for airlines to start flying people again will be that they
cannot sell middle seats to passengers for the foreseeable future.
It got me thinking about what our
new normal might resemble, once countries begin to re-open their economies for
business and pleasure as they end Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-50599156708602966762020-04-11T16:11:00.001-04:002021-03-15T14:26:02.434-04:00COVID SIDE OF LIFE. Day 27: Terror in the Hood Pandemic
Log: Saturday, 11th
April 2020
Out walking the dog this
afternoon and one block from us there was some serious police activity underway.
The entire street was shut
and there were literally dozens of fire trucks, police cars and ambulances
everywhere. Uninformed police officers and the NYPD’s Counter Terrorism Unit had
cordoned off the street at both ends and nobody was beingNikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-26057109782649584132020-04-08T04:08:00.004-04:002021-03-15T14:22:52.781-04:00COVID SIDE OF LIFE. Day 24: Strangers in the Night
Image: pt.quizur.com Pandemic
Log: Wednesday, 8th
April 2020
Since the lock down began a few
weeks ago the streets around our neighbourhood have started to get more desolate,
and I have noticed some sketchy men wandering around at night.
Last night, when I was out waking
my dog I saw a man walking towards me. He was behaving very erratically and
looked threatening, but as I turned Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-81401587803222528022020-03-28T15:28:00.001-04:002021-03-12T14:56:16.957-05:00COVID SIDE OF LIFE. Day 13: King Lynch
Pandemic
Log: Saturday, 28th March 2020
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Log: Tuesday, 24th
March 2020
A Panamanian friend sent me this
cartoon. It has been circulating among her friends as the virus has started to tighten
its grip on Panama; impacting young and old, healthy and infirm with impunity.
This cartoon felt appropriate for
New York City, also known as Gotham, as we were informed yesterday by the White
House task force that the New York Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737966459793691040.post-11882642918049856382020-03-22T22:22:00.002-04:002021-03-15T14:17:03.414-04:00COVID SIDE OF LIFE. Day 7: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Pandemic
Log: Sunday, 22nd
March 2020
Our first Sunday with New York on lock down did not feel slow or lazy but more like a surreal dream that for the
moment feels never ending one.
At 9am our laundry lady was on the
phone asking us to bring our clothes in because her boss decided to close the laundromat;
starting that evening. They had remained open in the first days after the September
Nikhil Vaishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748301660268044606noreply@blogger.com0