Ganesh Sahathevan

Comment  The following are a collection of notes and references on the matter of Alexander The Great, his empire , and its interaction with Buddhism.  Gautama Buddha  in Greco-Buddhist  style, 1st-2nd century AD, Gandhara  (modern eastern Afghanistan). It was the Indianization of the Greeks that led to the one great mark which they set upon India and hence upon Farther Asia, the idea of representing Buddha as a man. Hitherto, the presence of Buddha had been shown in art by the Bo-tree, by the Wheel of Law, or by his footprints or umbrella, or by an empty throne. ( Robinson, Jr., C. A. "The Greeks in the Far East." The Classical Journal (The ClassicalAssociation of the Middle West and South) 44, no. 7 (April 1949): 405-412 ) Greco-Buddhism , sometimes spelled  Graeco-Buddhism , is the cultural  syncretism between  Hellenistic culture and  Buddhism , which developed over a period of close to 800 years in  Central Asia in the area corr...

by Ganesh Sahathevan  Maxine McKew is best known for unseating the then prime minister John Howard,  Her Labor Government is not a friend of bankers, or so it seems.  In March this year Margot Patrick of the Wall Street Journal reported : Barclays PLC (has become) the latest bank to disclose that U.S. authorities are investigating its hiring practices in Asia, part of a wider probe into banks’ recruitment of friends and family members of government officials and top executives in the region. The WSJ story brings to mind Barclays appointing the Australian newsreader Maxine McKew to its Asia Pacific Advisory Committee in 200.As one can see from the list of those appointed, McKew's curriculum vitae  was distinguished by her lack of skills and experience in finance or economics as well as a glaring lack of standing among what one publication described as "a panel full of big names". A cursory examination of the names on the panel , provided by Barclays when it announced...

by Ganesh Sahathevan   Shayne Elliot, ANZ’s chief executive,  is appearing before  MPs to answer questions about  the bank’s conduct.  Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP The Guardian reported this response from ANZ CEO Shayne Elliot to the  House of Representatives Economics Committee   when questioned about the 1MDB money laundering scandal: 5 Oct 2016 11:57 "No link" to 1MDB scandal, Shayne Elliott says Adam Bandt  has quizzed the ANZ executives about its role sitting on the board of Malaysian bank AmBank  which held billions in the 1MDB funds at the centre of a global financial scandal . More than $US1bn is alleged to have flowed into Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak’s bank ­accounts between January 2011 and April 2013 — much of it from 1MDB. ANZ chief executive  Shayne Elliott  says he is satisfied nobody employed by ANZ did anything wrong and the bank was not being investigated by the US Justice Department. He says the bank ha...