Partha Chakraborty- “That little girl in California” turns heads and proves her mettle. “It’s personal… it was hurtful” Her voice did not crack even as she uttered these. Head straight, eyes closed for a fraction of a second as she collected her thoughts, she looked straight into the camera as these next words rang […]
Partha Chakraborty- Headline on Foreign Policy Magazine summed up the status quo – “The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang”. Amnesty International confirmed that “everyone on the planet” are subject to arrest and prosecution if they ever set foot in a China jurisdiction “even in transit”. In Galwan Valley in India, […]
Partha Chakraborty- American Exceptionalism is a journey through contradictions for a more perfect union. Flag Day was established at the suggestion of US Senators who needed an excuse to go back home early, said comedian Jimmy Kimmel as he heralded six newly minted US Citizens in 2018, yours truly included. A nation born […]
Partha Chakraborty Partha Chakraborty, Ph.D., CFA, is an entrepreneur in Water technologies, Blockchain and Wealth Management in US and India. An Indian-born immigrant, he is a naturalized US Citizen since 2018. Educated in India and at Cornell University, Partha is currently an entrepreneur in water technologies, Blockchain, and wealth management in the US and in […]
Partha Chakraborty, Supreme Court’s ruling on LGBTQ rights is a rare good news in today’s America. I saw his photo in quite a few places this morning. Riding on a bike share, his face covered as required, he holds his left hand aloft holding a Rainbow flag. The front of the flag seems […]
Partha Chakraborty- America can’t breathe in fumes of institutional indifference and corrupt ineptitude by a coterie. Neither can it breathe in indiscriminate acts of violence. Time to get rid of both. George Floyd lay hand-cuffed and his neck pinned down under the knee of a Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin for almost […]
Partha Chakraborty- “We would lift and carry him occasionally”, says Vibha Devi, a seven-month pregnant mom about her four year old son Vishal, “but he mostly walked on his own”; seven year old daughter Anjali stands guard over her brother as their parents watch over their life’s belongings, a few canvas and jute bags […]
Partha Chakraborty- Months into COVID-19 crisis, we should come to grips with the fact that lockdown as a single silver bullet has run its course. Across the world, especially in developing economies, stalled construction sites, halted assembly lines and mothballed trucks and trains mean people most vulnerable economically are left without a way to […]
Partha Chakraborty- Trumpian bombast in cutting off WHO funding is the right shot across the bow Containment of COVID-19 in the Hubei province of China was overwhelmingly successful on paper. Even with the most recently announced the surge, the birthplace of the novel virus saw about 1 in 1000 infected, just over thirty- […]
Partha Chakraborty- Time to think how to open up the economy and deal with missing links. “No banner hung from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica. No bands played the Vatican anthem. No floral arrangements decorated St Peter’s Square. Nearby streets were empty and silent”- thus began a story in The Vatican News […]
