Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: The UK India Tech Exchange

On the panel as Dealmaker in the Department for Business and Trade, in the Indian High Commission and FICCI event, I am looking for in the Global Entrepreneur Programme scale up companies whose founders would be suitable for the UK Innovator...

Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: This Is India’s Sparta – Karamsad

Independent minded and giving strength to the rest of the nation is what the Spartans were known for. 

‘Free Jaggi’ had a blow. He’s been charged in India with murder. A political murder. In the UK, when the IRA did it, that was called terrorism. But his supporters don’t care. Just like Sinn Fein did not. This is State Sponsored. So it is State...

Pakistan is increasingly obsessed with ‘Khalistan’. That’s a word I thought we had long buried. But the useful fools promoting it are indeed useful for Pakistan. They have made allies with Pakistan and tried to connect it with Kashmir. Just...

Success is in the mind it is often said. One of the most important mentors I ever had to help me in finance and trading and then set up my hedge fund was Bill Lipshutz. He taught me being too successful is a problem too.

The threats keep coming, Russia, Syria, Brexit, Inflation, trade wars, radioactivity, Middle East, Korea. The IMF report, The Global Financial Stability report did not help allay my concerns, instead it added to them. Add to that 75% of the...

PM Modi said he welcomes criticism because it shows a vibrant democracy. You won’t see that from Trump to Putin. But I have a problem with criticism. I have a problem when it is a bunch of morons on Parliament Square burning the Indian flag....

The secret to wealth is to overcome your own mind. When I wrote my first book, there was a very good reason I called it ‘The Mind of a Trader’.



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