The reason why companies in US focus on domestic students is that visa sponsorship for international students is not available for these positions.
Is there any professor who may be consulting for a financial company in and around your city, whom you can support in his/her consulting assignment?
My apologies, I selected "reply with quote" instead of "reply", so no link to the the "links" in your post. Illustrated weekly stopped publications in the 90s. It was quite popular.
I am guilty of enjoying columns (now blogs) by Jug Suraiya and Bachi Karkaria, and "The speaking tree" in TOI. Else, I am regular with Time Magazine and on/off with The economist. Currently, I am hooked onto GPS by Fareed Zakaria on CNN.
VP Sir, abb aap baal ki khaal nikaal rahe ho aur woh bhi iss thread par jahan baal badhana discuss ho raha hai.
I supported your post that no-hair does not represent a "paapi", it can also represent an enlightened person.
VP Sir, spiritually some consider that hair are a sign of vanity, attachment to ego and self. So, a man/woman with a shaved head also represents an enlightened soul.
One of the reasons for negative points is when your post gets deleted. The post is not necessarily objectionable, but it may be part of a conversation that a member/ members reported as irrelevant to thread and a moderator agreed to delete it.
A question on China:
I was reading that China and India follow similar currency control practices. Is it just the bigger volume of China's economy that makes it stronger in the global economy?