Regular Reading

I regularly read the FT (Financial Times) www.ft.com online and the Economist www.economist.com

Even if you don't read the FT daily, be sure to pick a copy of the week-end edition. It is one of the best value for money and has tons of articles catering to wide variety of tastes of the readers.

What appeals tome about these newspapers is that they're not "bulky" like the American equivalents (WSJ- Wall Street Journal, NY Times).

Many of my close friends have chided me re. the conservative bias of these two publications.

The reason I read them is because they provide good reading! The Economist in particular mirrors my political views. I'm a conservative liberal (conservative with my money and liberal with yours!) .

Truth be told, I'm a fiscal conservative (believe in low taxes, small govt,free trade) and a social liberal (pro-choice, legalisation of drugs,prostitution & marijauna , oppose the death penalty, pro-immigration, legalisation of gay marriage, universal health-coverage, reducing green-house gases )

In the FT, the articles I regulary read is Martin Lukes (spoof on corporate life) and Fast Lane by Tyler Brule in the Week-end edition.

Martin Lukes is a pardoy about the jargon-filled-management-B-School-consulting speak!

Fast Lane is written by Tyler Brule (on fashion, travel and the cities he regularly jets around the globe. )

Almost every week, he crosses from London-to-Tokyo and back to London-to-Toronto! Of course he flies Business Class.

Which is why the column is titled FAST LANE.

And we did the same kind of travel when we went to India in Oct and then briefly popped back to Chi-town for two days (for Mariana's green-card interview) and then returned to Delhi and 5 days later flew to Sydney.

The difference was we flew cattle class!

I plan to upload their articles regularly for your reading pleasure.