Hiii.... I know its not good to keep the blog rukha-suka ie without adding any post 4 days... The thing is, this blog actually is a project of the subject 'Business Journalism'. Our professor has asked us to create a blog and post assignments on it.... Dont worry! The assignments are surely interesting and you will enjoy reading them. But but but, the blog is not jst 4 assignments kyun ki assignments toh khatam honge par blog toh chalu hi rahega naaaa!! Anyway enough of the background now i really want to share something wid u ppl. I am reading a marathi book 'Ha tel navacha itihaas ahe' (It is a history called Oil) by Girish Kuber, a well-known economist and currently the executive editor of Loksatta. Now u will say what this book has to do with a business blog. But guys, come on, Oil is the biggest ever business in the world! It has been the most important business right from the invention of oil. According to Mr. Kuber every political and economic activities that took place in the world were directly or indirectly related to oil. Even the two world wars took place because of oil! In the first world war England, France and other allies used oil in the trucks, tankers and so on while Germany didnt and this is why Germany lost the war. The second world war took place because of oil. Being the winners of first world, the allies got various oil reserves in different parts of the world espacially in west Asia. Germany felt left out and it started capturing countries having oil reserves. And then the second war started. I cannot explain everything on the blog but the book tells about the history of oil. Mr. Kuber says the one who has most oil reserves, rule the world. It can be the richest country and the superpower in the world. And that is wat America is. So after knowing this u wont be surprised that George Bush waged a war against Saddam Hussain and brought Iraq under their control. Till the part I have read, I came to know that the American oil companies where established all over west Asia ie Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and so on after the 2nd world war. The first half, which is till the 2nd world war, states these facts. Now i'll be reading the second half n let u knw wat author want to say about post-world war status of oil in world economics. I had read another book about oil prior to this book. It was fictional but the facts and the situations were somewhat true. It said that India is going to have oil pipeline where oil will be cmin thru it to India from west Asian countries. But the terrorist organisations in Pak are against this pipeline as the pipeline will tremendously help in the economic progress of India. So they are continuously planning various destructive actions like bombing or making the oil containing boats to crash wid each other and hence resulting into economic loss of India. The recent incident of oil-spill near Mumbai might be an example of this but u cannot say it is, confidently. All such things were mentioned in that book. Soo, i'll read wats Kuber Sir's take on oil business and let u knw asap. Before that i'll b putting some interesting post related to my projects. Do read them. Take Care.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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