Month: January 2025

Usha Vance: Second Lady

I felt compelled to write about Usha Vance, the second lady of USA. She exuberates grace backed by her knowledge as opposed to first lady. The saying ‘There is a woman behind every successful man‘, she is a testimony.

Her smile and grace has captivated the entire inauguration while the First Lady hid her face behind that Don’t Kiss Me hat. Usha is a daughter of immigrants – the one who Donald Trump wants to deny the birthright citizenship; Usha is Yale graduate lawyer, mother of three: you need to stand against bullies, just a beautiful smile doesn’t cut it.

On a lighter note what caught my attention the whole time with Usha’s attire, which the western world has compared it to Audrey Hepburn, for us Indians it was the look of old age movie era of Dil Chahta Hai song Wo Ladki Hai Kahan.

Rupee is falling…

I am no financial pundit that I can comment on falling Rupee against Dollar, it has fallen in the PM Manmohan Singh era and has fallen in PM Narendra Modi’s era, so it is not a political issue.

I asked Chat GPT and Grok, Why Rupee is falling against Dollar

Chat GPT Grok
1. Global Economic Factors
2. India’s Trade Deficit
3. Capital Outflows
4. Inflation and Interest Rate Differential
5. Weak Economic Data
6. Central Bank Policies
7. Geopolitical and Market Sentiment
8. Speculation and Hedging		 1. Strong U.S. Dollar
2. Foreign Investment Outflows
3. High Crude Oil Prices
4. Inflation and Interest Rate Differentials
5. Geopolitical Tensions and Global Economic Uncertainty
6. Current Account Deficit
7. RBI Interventions
8. Market Sentiment and Speculation

Rupee falling is consistent, but what has fallen during Modi’s era is First Amendment

Here are the comments made by celebrities before 2014

Falling rupee matters least to these celebrities as they all stay and are invested in Western Countries. What is sad is that they have lost their voice – Freedom of Speech.