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- 10 Dec 2009 05:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
I completely agree with Ramana garu’s view that it was created not because of KCR’s fast or the current Telangana agitation . Congress certainly wants to cut YS Jagan’s influence. But they must have found some very strong evidence that YS Jagan is undermining Rosiah’s govt. Otherwise they would not...
- 10 Dec 2009 05:15
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
What this is is:
Weakening of power of individual states, consolidation of Central power, and surrender of India to non-Indian interests.
Weakening of power of individual states, consolidation of Central power, and surrender of India to non-Indian interests.
- 10 Dec 2009 05:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
Munna the traditional dynamics dont apply here. please dont post without knowing the issues. Andhra is the historic gateway of Deccan. Any trouble ther will affect all that area. And I agree with that. However the fact remains that there is support on the ground for this partition otherwise there w...
- 10 Dec 2009 03:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
That is why insist on evolving a mechanism to resolve the capital's issue as the declaration of Chandigarh as the UT was one of the main reasons behind Khalistani agitation. Hyderabad is in the middle of Telangana, and is not directly accessible to rest of Andhra, so Chandigarh is a bad example. Mo...
- 10 Dec 2009 03:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
Assuming there is no talk on how the rest of AP (AP - Telengana region) is setttled, I don't think people/MLAs there root for Telengana. With in Telengana region, Hyderabad&Rangareddi don't want to be with Telengana, (20+ Greater Hyderabad MLAs took resolution that Hyderabad can't be in Telengan...
- 10 Dec 2009 01:09
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 450129
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Will this reduce the support of TRS supporters to maoists? or will it be increased? The BC and OBC factor too is important in garnering support for TRS. How much susceptible are BC and OBC of this region to EJs? You got everything wrong there with respect to TRS. There is no support of TRS to maois...
- 10 Dec 2009 00:02
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 450129
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Just announced Telangana as sep state. What's the verdict here It is sad day for AP and India if it happens. What it means is all these days it is drama of Congress to create violence in AP so they can now yield to deliberations on Telengana state. If Congress is thinking of splitting, it means the...
- 09 Dec 2009 04:15
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
With this kind of fasting he can continue to do for a year. If he really wants to do, he should return all the bribes he took for doing this fasting and do it like Potti Sriramulu and die for the cause. :P Is KCR's fasting really called fasting? http://teluguflavours.com/politics/viewnews.php?id=360...
- 09 Dec 2009 03:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
http://www.greatandhra.com/ganews/viewnews.php?id=17802&cat=&scat=16 Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders are suspecting that certain forces in the Congress party were inducting rowdy and goonda elements into the Telangana agitation to make it violent to damage the reputation of the Telangana m...
- 08 Dec 2009 00:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
There is another rumor echoed that because 1) Sonia has sidelined Jagan in Andhra Politics and put Rosayya@CM post. 2) Due to enormous inherited popularity of Jagan, Sonia tried to clip Jagan's wings by activating a committee against corruption in Obulapuram mines. It is said that Jagan has huge st...
- 08 Dec 2009 00:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
Deputy leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu in the Rajya Sabha raised the issue in Zero Hour saying the Government should bring a bill in right earnest. What is the stand of Congress and UPA on Telangana? You said you wanted a consensus. I don't thin...
- 06 Dec 2009 01:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Telangana Monitor
- Replies: 5661
- Views: 800484
Re: States News and Discussions
I'm not getting any readings as to why sponsors of KCR raked up the issue. The timing and reason/goals are not clear. From state political angle, TDP made come back in Greater Hyderabad elections and it also raising corruption in Mining contracts (by Gali brothers of Karnataka). It could not be that...
- 05 Dec 2009 07:16
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: National Agenda for India, 2010-2050
- Replies: 457
- Views: 68145
Re: National Agenda for India, 2010-2050
-xpost- as it seems to be relevant for this thread
Reading comments from Acorn link led me to the following. Interesting discussion.
"2009: Platform Sessions (Rethinking Secularism)"
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 7A276689BB
Reading comments from Acorn link led me to the following. Interesting discussion.
"2009: Platform Sessions (Rethinking Secularism)"
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 7A276689BB
- 02 Dec 2009 05:17
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 450129
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
My topic may be out of thread continuity. The problems cannot be allowed to continue as there is no willingness to solve. One has to solve either way sooner rather than leter. This is essential for many strategic issues in India. For example Telangana is not a stalemate. It is possible to address a...
- 18 Nov 2009 01:14
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US News and Discussion
- Replies: 2539
- Views: 436356
Re: India-US News and Discussion
In other words, India is no better than Pakistan. On that side military junta is doing it and this side political junta is doing it.Acharya wrote:Welcome to the world of slaveryramana wrote: Its back to submission as a strategy.
- 17 Nov 2009 10:20
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
- Replies: 3933
- Views: 804287
Re: PRC Economy News and Discussions
Sri Ambrose Evans Pritchard on why cheena's mercantilism is the #1 threat to world peace and economic stability: By holding the yuan to 6.83 to the dollar to boost exports, Beijing is dumping its unemployment abroad – "stealing American jobs", says Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. As long as ...
- 10 Nov 2009 10:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Pashtun Civil War
- Replies: 525
- Views: 180111
Re: Pashtun Civil War
...However, I do not think it is Chinese dominance but it is what the west wants in such a scenario. Put any number of game theories, Indian domination means a possiblity of India+China+Russia in the new world order. The last thing that west would like to see such an eastern rise. Hence, the partin...
- 10 Nov 2009 04:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Strategic leadership for the future of India - II
- Replies: 513
- Views: 77961
Re: Strategic leadership for the future of India - II
Rahul Sir ji Please let me know if this is OT. My confusion is about the future of Bharat in India. How important is for future leadership of India to have Bhartiya roots or strictly flourish on Westphalian concept? Can both be mixed or one must die at the alter of other, i mean how much revival of...
- 14 Oct 2009 07:46
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US News and Discussion
- Replies: 2539
- Views: 436356
Re: India-US News and Discussion
Nominations for the Nobel peace prize are usually by February 1st, if Obama was inaugurated on January 20,2009. What did Obama do in those 10 days after inauguration to get the Nobel peace prize?? It was what he did in last November that matters. He kicked devil out of white house and brought back ...
- 12 Oct 2009 23:27
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Discussion on Indian Epics, Texts, Treatises & Kathas
- Replies: 4574
- Views: 554786
Re: Dicussion on Indian Epics, Texts, Treatises & Kathas
First of all we need to fix date of brahmam garu's birth. If we fix his birthdate around 1600 >12. All the kings in “Macharla” will be killed due to a woman – Palanati War This happened pre/early-kakatiya times so before his time. Not a prediction unless he refers to some thing else. >13. Vijaya Nag...
- 12 Oct 2009 14:20
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Discussion on Indian Epics, Texts, Treatises & Kathas
- Replies: 4574
- Views: 554786
Re: Dicussion on Indian Epics, Texts, Treatises & Kathas
Friends from Andhra, can you throw some light on the following: Divya Maha Kala Jnana, ("Divine Knowledge of the Time" written by Shree Veera Brahmendra Maha Swami, who lived in the modern Andhra Pradesh, (c 1000 CE), had elaborated on the events preceding the appearance of Kalki or "...
- 10 Oct 2009 06:16
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US News and Discussion
- Replies: 2539
- Views: 436356
Re: India-US News and Discussion
A propaganda trap I would say! Now anyone who thinks Obama is not the right candidate for Nobel peace (sic) prize can be campared with Taleban. Huh! :roll: Is that Huh! for real? See yourself to understand what the trap means. Al Gore, the popular US president, Green-DVD seller, Nobel holder: "...
- 10 Oct 2009 02:40
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US News and Discussion
- Replies: 2539
- Views: 436356
Re: India-US News and Discussion
It is not the Bush, the person, they are snubbing just like it is not Obama, the person, they are promoting.SwamyG wrote:Would Bush even have bothered if he received the snub or that he did not get a Nobel Prize?
- 10 Oct 2009 02:32
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US News and Discussion
- Replies: 2539
- Views: 436356
Re: India-US News and Discussion
This is the statement from the Nobel Committee: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached sp...
- 09 Oct 2009 21:15
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US News and Discussion
- Replies: 2539
- Views: 436356
Re: India-US News and Discussion
Checklist for Obama's accomplishments to get coveted award
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T24xGiplKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T24xGiplKQ
- 09 Oct 2009 08:06
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5136
- Views: 944542
Re: Deterrence
The following is from the new BR missile page. I believe the old page is gone since Arun_S has left BR. What is the source for this? http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MISSILES/ballistic/agni-strategic-ballistic-missile.html ... I think GOI-BR subcontracted the job to TOI. Soon you'll have tabloid artic...
- 09 Oct 2009 02:16
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5136
- Views: 944542
Re: Deterrence
I look at nuke deterrence in two angles - Soft and Hard nuke deterrence. Soft - capability, past war history, leadership Hard - actual weapons, delivery systems, missile shield These two are separable because of NFU. Hard deterrence deals with command and control decisions and should be binary - If ...
- 08 Oct 2009 23:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5136
- Views: 944542
Re: Deterrence
NRao, let us agree to disagree. I do not think that China will not be ready to take 1% hit for 100% hit on us . When the situation gets that bad, it will be a purely civilization issue, if things are rational it will never go there. And humans are known to be not rational. Rebuild in the sense of r...
- 08 Oct 2009 03:26
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5136
- Views: 944542
Re: Deterrence
If nothing's gonna stop a mad guy, we had better have what it takes to stop him. If there are other ways to swing the deter flag, go for em, but get the bottom line straightened out, but at least don't shut it out and do the nehru all over again; come come, we will deter you with prep-boy talk and ...
- 07 Oct 2009 09:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Core: Ideas and descriptions-I
- Replies: 462
- Views: 71610
Re: Indian Core: Ideas and descriptions-I
Then in the wikipedia on "Martial Races'', the anglo-saxon should be listed. Why is it not? Why do all the english literature on India never mentions that anglo-saxonns are also martial race? We should edit wikipage to make them TFTA also. So add ons to Martial races are: Scottish Highlanders ...
- 07 Oct 2009 02:32
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Core: Ideas and descriptions-I
- Replies: 462
- Views: 71610
Re: Indian Core: Ideas and descriptions-I
Wondering why Andhra groups were excluded in the martial race list. However they were heavily encouraged in Madras presidency politics.
Telugu regiments are missing even in current military. Does AP contribute less to military?
Telugu regiments are missing even in current military. Does AP contribute less to military?
- 26 Sep 2009 02:35
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic meltdown
- Replies: 3894
- Views: 1150327
Re: Perspectives on the global economic meltdown
U.S. large-loan bank losses triple to $53 billion: regulators According to the report, criticized assets rated 'special mention', 'substandard', 'doubtful' and 'loss', touched $642 billion, representing 22.3 percent of the SNC portfolio, compared with 13.4 percent a year ago. Classified assets rate...
- 18 Sep 2009 04:09
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Global Economy
- Replies: 2350
- Views: 651825
Re: Global Economy
Debt has a twisted meaning in corrupt international finance system. America can print 'dollars' and pay the debt. Other countries can't do so because they can't print 'dollars' so they depend on western mercy. This has been so since post world war-II era, since Arabs accepted dollar as prime curren...
- 14 Sep 2009 09:55
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
- Replies: 900
- Views: 4784
- 13 Sep 2009 00:23
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
- Replies: 900
- Views: 4784
Re: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
News reports indicate that INC high command decided to keep K Rosaiah as the CM for the time being. Would be interesting to see YSRJ Group's next move. AP Govt better be prepared for wide-spread agitations, self-immolations, even riots. As I theorized at the beginning of the thread, YSJMR cannot le...
- 11 Sep 2009 00:15
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
- Replies: 900
- Views: 4784
Re: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
@kskumar When corruption was happening through Maytas which was conduit to divert public money to politicians. Similar noises were made that there is no proof. It was only downturn and subsequent market crashes exposed the Satyam dealings with Maytas. If markets didn't crash, that scandal would hav...
- 10 Sep 2009 23:49
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
- Replies: 900
- Views: 4784
Re: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
@kskumar When corruption was happening through Maytas which was conduit to divert public money to politicians. Similar noises were made that there is no proof. It was only downturn and subsequent market crashes exposed the Satyam dealings with Maytas. If markets didn't crash, that scandal would have...
- 10 Sep 2009 21:49
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
- Replies: 900
- Views: 4784
Re: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/masala-noodles/entry/lessons-ysr-taught-sonia ... Well with due respect to the departed soul, in his lifetime the man showed many sterling qualities, YSR moulded democracy in AP in his own feudal mode. Hailing from the drylands of Rayalseema, where barren ag...
- 10 Sep 2009 20:13
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
- Replies: 900
- Views: 4784
Re: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
This thread has been reported. Moderators, I know I am not even a BRFite, let alone an Oldie. I am not reporting this specific post, but the whole thread. This thread is allegedly about YSR, the man, his mission and his legacy. But, all you get in this thread are posts with totally wild theories of...
- 10 Sep 2009 09:56
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
- Replies: 900
- Views: 4784
Re: Thread on YSR :The man, his mission, his demise and legacy
Well Reddy lobby doesn't go out of Congress even if Jagan wants to form a Reddy party. Telengana Velamas are dissidents of YSR so Velama lobby going out with Jagan is less likely. I don't consider KCR is big influencing factor now. That leaves PRP. Jagan and Chiru combination is quite possible. PRP ...