Portrait of a Father

In the decades following his death in 1948, the man known as Mahatma Gandhi has become an icon. Photos of him at his spinning wheel wearing a white loincloth are ubiquitos and globally recognized as Bob Marley with dreadlocks or Che Guevara in a beret. Gandhi inspired civil-rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. of the U.S. and Nelson Mandela of South Africa, among others.

Many know of Gandhi's courage and determination as a freecom fighter, but few know of his shortcomings as a father. In the film, Harilal views Gandhi as alternatively aloof and domineering, stubborn and even selfish, traits that helped estrange his eldest son, even though first-born males are traditionally the most favored children in Indian culture.

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In his later years, Gandhi said his greatest regret in life was his inability to sway two people: Mohammed Ail Jinnah, whose push for a seperate homeland for Muslims led to the partition of India and Pakistan soon after independence, and Harilal.

- AWSJ on GANDHI my father (a film by Feroz Abbas Khan)

Sound Fundamentals

"The fact is that with the world awash with cash for so long none of us really knows whether the fundamentals stand. In market terms, "good fundamentals" such as current account surpluses and international reserve accumulation have been the corollary of easy money"

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"More important, investors need to be convinced that "all people that have been burned (hedge fund clients, pension funds, Asian and European banks, ordinary investors and so on) will be willing to take on the next set of issues at the same price as they did before"

- Lai See quoting Dr Jim Walker of CLSA on SCMP