Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

I had been working in the US for the last three years. One of the best moments to reflect back on this time can be last year 2024. The success of American capitalism, technological leadership, and innovation culture has been responsible for a resounding year for those who aspire to become millionaire or who became millionaire by chan ce last year . The year 2024 marked a historic milestone in American economic history: the number of millionaires in the U.S. grew by an average of 1,000 people a day, representing one of the most rapid pace s of wealth creation in the nation's modern era. The nation outpaced other countries in wealth growth during 2024, with more than 379,000 people becoming U.S. dollar millionaires for the first time, while America's millionaire population totals 23.8 million, the most of any country. It is striking that approximately 40% of the world’s millionaires live in the United States, even though the country has only about 4% of the world’s populat...

This post is long overdue, and I had kept it on waitlist for the dust to settle . Now that the dust is settled from the recent fallout between the countries following Pahalgam terror attack and subsequent operation Sindoor , I have decided to put these thoughts together for a greater s outh Asian neighborhood. More than 75 years ago, when the entire land mass of India and Pakistan is stitched together as one, why should there be division, why should there be enmity, why should there be perpetration of terroris m and why shou ld there be wars. There are more sad questions, sad state of affairs and sad stories unfolding every day because of this deteriorating relationship between the two countries. If this generation doesn’t make progress with the health of this vital relationship, I am afraid what our future will look like.   I had already written a detailed post few weeks back why there has to be course correction in India’s stand o n its war on terror. I argued...