RE overtakes Harleys

Yaah. Should have happened sometime eventually. Has a bigger base of people and a far better vehicle too.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2015/02/18/indias-vintage-royal-enfield-overtakes-harley-davidson-by-motorcycle-sales/


Interesting!


"Royal Enfield sold just over 300,000 units in 2014 to Harley-Davidson’s 2,67,999. To be sure, the American motorcycles are more expensive (twice the price of the top-end Royal Enfield) and popular brands of motorcycles sell in staggering numbers in populous India. But then as recently as in 2013, Harley-Davidson dominated sales selling 100,000 more motorcycles than Royal Enfield."

A full circle

I've heard of people say that life comes a full circle.

They got it wrong, we keep running around in circles without realizing it. 

Arab exceptionalism in the 21st century

good read.


"
Today in East and South Asia the humiliation is over. One can be proud to be Chinese or Indian, not simply because of the glories of the past, but because of the accomplishments of today and the expectations of further progress tomorrow. The Arab, in contrast, can bask in the glories of the past, but can draw no sense of pride from the conditions of the present; and prospects for the future, as things stand in 2015, seem bleak.
Sources of terrorism arise in significant part from frustration. This sense of frustration has spread from the Arab world to other parts of the Ummah, notably in Central Asia and Africa: the recent terrorist attacks in Paris were perpetrated by French Arab Islamists, the London bombings ten years ago were the work of British Islamists of Pakistani origin."


More here




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I have been seeing a lot of graphs and other evidence of how much the Indian / Harappan civvy was in terms of world GDP and it was almost 35+%.

Crude oil supply and demand

For later reading.


ZH

Good days for test cricket!

Finally, he got the hint, the idea, the subtlety and everything.


Dhoni has retired. From Tests. A pretty non-brilliant affair and good that he moved.


Now on the cricket. Tests, that is. Hopeful of more close fights and good tests. Both @home and @away