Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa
Chandra Tamirisa is a global Sustainability Entrepreneur, Lobbyist and Consultant and the Owner, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Common Era LLC and Transformations LLC, Washington, D.C-based global lobbying and consulting firms specializing in advising stakeholders in the political, economic, business and engineering aspects of sustainable global development and integration. He is a skilled adviser on policy, strategy and engineering. His unique interdisciplinary expertise in politics, economics, management and engineering draws on his diverse and advanced educational background and experience in both the private and public sectors to enable him to provide thorough, comprehensive and independent strategic issue analyses and creative policy solutions to policy problems faced by government and business leaders in foreign policy, national security policy, macroeconomic policy and regulatory policy.
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Obama For America, Again?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa A new Washington Post-ABC poll gives hope to the president: 49 per cent of Americans approve of his performance in the Christmas spirit of forgiveness perhaps. This is the highest he has recorded since … Continue reading
The Bhagavad Gita In Russia
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater. Those whose minds are established in sameness and … Continue reading
Poverty In America: Rich Dad, Poor Dad?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University reported the US Census Bureau’s latest poverty numbers on Twitter. The data is encouraging. America is taking sides: to be rich, a choice, or to be poor, a Hobson’s … Continue reading
Politics As Memory
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Rule of, for and by the people has always been a rhetorical abstraction since Demosthenes and Cicero. The cultivation of leaders to run the affairs of the state had separated the mob, ordinary citizens, … Continue reading
Sasha, Malia And Facebook
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The First Daughters are ready to get social on the media. The parents are nervous. Michelle and Barack Obama do not want their children exposed to the private rants of their Facebook friends, online, … Continue reading
Ustad Zakir Hussain In Hyderabad On December 17, 2011
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The rhythm of life, “pulse”, was the leitmotif of Ustad Zakir Hussain’s percussion performance at Chowmahallah Palace in Hyderabad, India. Ever the boyish student and globetrotting statesman of the art of the varied nuances … Continue reading
The Other Person In The US-China Marriage
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa When I left India in July 1990 on an Air India flight as a younger man of 21 to study in the United States, the national and flagship airline served a drink unavailable in … Continue reading
The Indian Rupee And The Unsustainable Chinese Yuan
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) has done the right thing. Again. About 15 years after the Asian Crisis. Faced by hot money inflows from foreign institutional investors (FII) because of economic drag due … Continue reading
Why Etatism?
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa From Hyderabad, India: Sometime ago, a senior United States Department of State diplomat, who had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s ear, pontificated in public print about the zeitgeist: etatism, including in Etat Unis. Close … Continue reading
Comment On The December 13, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Statement
By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa It is clear that the Federal Reserve is observing a Phillips Curve trade-off in the short run between unemployment and inflation. The institution is also curtailing further monetary expansion through other means as indicated … Continue reading
