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Sure its ramana56@hotmail
Can you believe they already had so many of them!

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Georgemj please give chetan our regards and we do miss him. I remember his views on seeking Israel's help in taking out the Kahuta and manny other stuff. I also rememeber his remark about the importance of 1990 and Sumdrung Chu. and if you want to contact me use the private e-mail icon.

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Raja Ram thanks for the nice summation. Yes there was total blankout of PK-II. All we know is its start and end dates. And approx. location 150 km from border so no need to notify anyone. I also note the difference between '71 and now that you have pointed out. Last time it was Mrs. IG who had to go...

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Soon after Kargil ABV was asked about the NFU in an interview. He said to paraphrase offcourse we wont be sitting around when we detect signs of preparation by the otherside but will honor the NFU. It was taken to mean that if India gets to know that TSP is readying its arsenal then India will go af...

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GF rushing back is obviously due to Lone's killing by TSP terrorists in Kashmir.

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rahuls thats a fair assessment.
Raj, can we please now have an article on the INSAS?

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Yes shirish. Beacuse its for reals now.

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From The Telegraph on PK-II May 14, 02: http://www.telegraphindia.com/national.htm#head9 BORDERS BRISTLE WITH FRESH WAR GAMES FROM SUJAN DUTTA New Delhi, May 13: A series of manoeuvres by Indian armed forces over and above its deployment under Operation Parakram has worried the global community led ...

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I think the Indian press reports have put a different spin on the Bruce Reidel report. He in essence says that the TSP Army activated its nuke forces wihtout the knowledge of the electd politcal authority - Nawaz Sharif. If this is not a rogue operation I dont know what is. It clearly shows that the...

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I dont know about that. We already know that during Kargil India did activate its necessary deterrent. See teh BRF archive. This 'leak' will not deter India from what it decides to do. Also Bruce Reidel is writing his memoirs and that is why the paper is coming out. BTW, India Abroad(May 4th issue h...

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"Pakistan’s uranium bombs are designed to be dropped by plane or carried by Ghauri missiles, while smaller plutonium warheads can be attached to Chinese-made M-11 missiles." See how easily they slip in the damaging evidence in the news item. Khusab reactor went critical in October 1998 and...

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Times of India has a report quoting Sunday Times that the Pakistani Army had activated their nukes during Kargil and without the Prime Minister knowing that. This is based on first person account of Bruce Reidel in a forthcoming paper at Center for Advanced Study of India at Uty of Pennsylvania(upen...

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Whats amazing is the total blackout on the PK-II exercise leaving us to flail in vain. I have been looking at regional sections of the English language press but no success.

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krs thanks for the self criticism. I would like to suggest the same traits are exhibited by most societies still low on the economic ladder. Given more time and growth these will diminish. Some on said India is a like a snake with its head in the 21 century and the tail in the 17th. So the paln is t...

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Maybe should post names that we miss...
1) Faheem
2) Salman
3) Chetan/Unknown
4) Ronjon Dasgupta from Germany

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I once sent GD an e-mail to change his handle to more realistic one. He assured he would by and by. I noticed that his posts were getting better as time went by and so didnt pursue the matter. No wonder the saying goes "Namo Namah" he couldnt continue to make fatous posts with a handle lik...

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GD on should try with available resources and not unobtanium. See what you can plan with the ~850 a/c that IAF has. And dont know how many Prithvis are there. Say the 333 full load only.

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Vikram your comment the GOI should show similar pro-active thinking is quite illuminating. In the past it has shown that. During '71 war it had only one battalion facing the PLA. However it had ~13 squadrons dedicated for that effort. One thing to think about is there can be no sudden shift of air a...

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The progress of Inglish: Yeh dil maange more...of Indian English "To help spearhead the evolution of Indian English, the University of Pune’s department of English has for the first time allowed two students to take it up as a research topic for MPhil last year. This year, a subject is proposed...

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Lots of good thinking going on here. Nitin thanks for the extra info on the subsequent exercises. Vikram Gajraj had air commando operations and might have paradrops too. Yes in all these exercises only the combined arms aspects are shown. Yes it is quite possible that IAF by itself could cross the r...

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OK nitin for you my take.... ---------------------- IAF’s Gajraj analyzed In Frontline, Jan 2, 1999, John Cherian writes about the role of IAF in the Indian armed forces exercise Shiv-Shakti’98: “The Air Force played a pivotal role in the exercises. According to a senior Air Force official, 125 comb...

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Nitin please google for Exercise/Operation Gajraj circa 1998 held along with Shiv Shakti to get an idea of IAF tempo. I feel that event was not studied here on BR properly. Basically it appears that GOI wants to cream them using IAF and the so called signals on redlines say that is crossing the thre...

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I really dont know. But Vij did his duty and I think it was to smoke the other side. Also it had to be senior officer like him or else it would look bad. Also note the move was done knowing that uncle is watching from sky. That it self tells you it was planned. It wasnt the Vij transfer that told th...

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Also how do they plan to cross redlines while the US troops are in place for the OBL chase? By mobilizing in Jan '02 India showed that it was quite willing to take the fight into TSP. And the US vacated the bases give to it during GWOT/GOAT(BR term) and its naval patrols went back to the Persian Gul...

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TOI: India begins war games on Pak border Note its an AFP report so will be on yahoo et al. JODHPUR: India on Thursday began military exercises with thousands of combat troops near the border with Pakistan. An Army spokesman said that the Army would conduct the exercises with support from the Air Fo...

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Gd lets get serious now. Rummaging countryside takes away time from job at hand besides the Indian version of MLRE sounds quite tempting. Read the Saink Samachar April 2002 issues. Crossing the redline. The TSP has intimated its US interlocutors(Cohen especially) that it would go after an advancing ...

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Random thoughts... The Italian scholars report (Landau Network) indicated that the SPD thought that a destruction of their warmaking assets would be a redline. Even Ahrari in his Asia Times article thought that the TSP doctrine was First Use (FU) if the Intl boundary was crossed. So maybe PK-II is t...

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The Hindu: Army raising second artillery division NEW DELHI MAY 1. The Indian Army is currently raising its second artillery division to ensure better deployment of this powerful fighting arm in the plains. The process began about two months ago and is expected to be completed soon. The new division...

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Umraojaan that horse was called 'Ucchiasirava'

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Vikram thanks for the benchmarks to judge the events as they unfold. Why does Barmer represent a doctrine shift if Shiv Shakti already took place there? Is it size? Also thanks for the name clarification. Will see if there really was a 'Brahmashva' in mythology. Maybe Paddy was explaining the idea o...

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The Hindu reports in its newsbriefs: "Army exercise along IB in Rajasthan routine" Note it is called `Operation Bramashava'. I thought it is an operational manouver and not an exercise so that the notification game is not followed. Vikram Vyas what does the name signify? Brahma's horse? Or...

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H.E. the Polish Ambassador to India: Desi by nature --------------- Desi by nature Anup Kutty A Polish person with Indian influence" is how the ambassador of the Republic of Poland, Dr Krzysztof Majka, describes himself. The cooption, we must say, has been rapid given that he's done only five m...

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From the Telegraph, 4/30/02 SUNKEN CITY’ SURFACES IN SOUTH FROM FREDERICK NORONHA Panaji, April 29: Oceanographers here have announced that they have made preliminary underwater archaeological exploration of what is believed to be a sunken city off Mahabalipuram. The formal announcement has excited ...

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Is it possible to compile actual expenditures on LCA and the proposed budget? That would give a true picture. I know that the budget was in then year rupees circa 1993(?). And a timeline. GJ probably has that

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Umrao, It is possible that the names are figurative and not litteral. What I am saying is somehow Mandodhari has some charcteristics of Mandookam and not literally frog-borne. I know of many silly sounding family names in Andhra.

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Narayan_L, THanks for the update and clarification. N^3, there are a number of operas based on Indian themes. Need to dig them up. About five or six. BTW, you need to liven up the GOAT thread with some bon-mots! Needs update after the bombing accuracy results were released. vkrishna you are right it...

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Rajeev Sreenivasan's comments in the postscript: http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/apr/15rajeev.htm "A reader sent me the details of the exploration off the sea at Mahabalipuram. Apparently, they have discovered a large city several square miles in size with clearly manmade structures at depths o...

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Narayan_L, thanks for the recounting. I had read an English serialization of Sillpadikaram in Illustrated Weekly of India when A.S. Raman was the editor so the details are fuzzy. Very interesting that the Manimekalai is the daughter of Kannagi and Kovalan. My thinking is that in the core of the myth...

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Thanks Narayan. I too have visited Mahabalpuram and took my whole family there last time. My original post did refer to Ilangovan's Slippadiakaram but I deleted that part for I wanted to hear your version. What I rememeber is Kannagi flings the anklet and the kingdom of the errant king gets destroye...

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Narayan what are you taking offense for? I really thought you might know the myth they are talking about. Sorry for making that assumption. Yes I am astounded that they found remains from such antiquity. If this period is ture I think that there was no a AIT but all of us are one large family. I did...

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