Bharat Rakshak

amit

Sridhar,

It would be nice to hear you POV on the latest display of tactical brilliance of "informing" the UN about "how India called off the talks"? I mean how did that UN official sit through the meeting with a straight face? He must be well trained in the diplomatic arts!

amit

To understand the battle of ideas I think you need to go through the last few pages of the previous econ dhaga, then I think you'll get an idea. How argument and analysis (not the type with the hyphen) can be countered with alternative analysis, facts and logic. When you build up a body of such lite...

amit

No not because of that but facts are otherwise. And we do want other PVV as long as they are not Congi POVs which has brought enough trouble for last ten years for all to see. Congress mukta India also means getting rid of such congi ideas too which comes from their anal than the lysis. The problem...

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That is because everyone is afraid that economy if growing at 7%, corruption is down and NE is looking up and look east Act east policy is gaining momentum and suddenly some congoons resurface to open welcome and starts talking e-CON-Oh-Me. His brilliant anal-lysis is not going to take us anywhere....

amit

Sorry for all the OT posts. My last on the subject on this dhaga.

amit

Amit, I think it is deeply problematic to ascribe nationalistic certificates to people on the basis of their ideological predilections. Ram Manohar Lohia and Sardar Patel were on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum - who was the greater "nationalist"? Rajaji was Inida's original &q...

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KLMN, Very good post. And Oh yes, having spent the most part of my life growing up in West Bengal I know just how parasitic the Leftists are. There has hardly been any original thinking in terms of what to do and what not to do, which is why the Naxal movement was such a waste of precious human reso...

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are BSF / Rangers commanders also going to discuss Kashmir? Is hurriyat also invited to BSF/ Rangers meeting to discuss core issue? The Rangers delegation must meet the Harried Rats before they meet the BSF! Come on Pukes you've got to show these Hindus the stick so that they slither back to their ...

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Amit has provided a very good insight into what is the real meaning of the Indian commentators' rage against the Modi policy: they personally fear they may lose something (like track 2 junkets), and to them India==themselves. Change is hard. It is also costly. KLNM, Since I wrote that I've been thi...

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http://nation.com.pk/national/25-Aug-2015/giant-bats-devour-fruit-orchards Giant bats devour fruit orchards Hundreds of horrible and giant bats, weighting up to five kilogramme each, have attacked and devoured fruit orchards in the suburban area of Sahiwal Town, thereby creating financial concerns ...

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Amit, long and nice post. I had tweeted earlier that all the vitriol poured on Modi from within are more concerned about "Loss of free mutton and free wine" at exotic locales. Given that bakis are bakis, always selling out their bodies - will not be surprised that the loss of free mutton ...

amit

>>I am happy to believe it to be part of Modi's design to put Doval as the tip of the spear and use Sushma to deliver the hammer. This is again your perception. So far as we know, there is nothing to validate this analogy. >>That may have been the reason why Doval and not Sushma was there at Ufa. I...

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Folks - We need to look at this Ufa thing from the perspective of NSA vs MEA. The ex-MEA type people (and some other types as well) have expressed that the language of the terms and conditions in Ufa was not clearly specified enough to keep the agenda for the talks confined to terrorism. This let t...

amit

But that still doesn't solve the problem of having only one class of fighter that can be used on an carrier that will last us 50 years. At present dimensions the ship won't be able to accommodate the AMCA nor the JSF. Vikrant is a sexy design and our own but it is stop gap in terms of the Navy's lon...

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NLCA Mk.2 would be ready by the time "second" Vikrant class (if ordered within the next couple of years) joins the fleet around 2024. Current batch of 45 MiG-29Ks will act as frontline and backup plan till then. With NLCA, since it is indigenous know-how it could be reconfigured for catap...

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I thought that was the whole point of PPP (purchasing power parity), on which China is $13,216 per capita and India is $5833 per capita (2014, World Bank). I think we are a talking about two different things. One of the reasons for high GDP growth in China (whether in US$ terms or PPP) is governmen...

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Of course, life isnt simple! At a topline level, using CNYINR of ~10, the min wage rate in China is INR 14k. You can also look at other development indicators as a proxy for well being (life expectancy, IMR etc). In general, the Chinese numbers would be far superior to ours. In terms of PPP deflato...

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There are two types of productivity. You can have high productivity because you pay low wages, give minimum or no benefits (like for example medical) and you make your workers work long hours. There is plenty of documentary evidence of how Foxconn workers - at least in earlier years - didn't even g...

amit

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Yes! Build another Vikrant so that we're forced to order a further batch of MiG29Ks!

amit

Somnath, There are two types of productivity. You can have high productivity because you pay low wages, give minimum or no benefits (like for example medical) and you make your workers work long hours. There is plenty of documentary evidence of how Foxconn workers - at least in earlier years - didn'...

amit

Here's one of my favourite charts. Even though it's a bit dated I have no reason to believe anything has substantially changed with regard to the manufacture of the iPhones http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1FzXJEXT9Oo/VD9fbV6ZRvI/AAAAAAAAGNc/X3inWmJyJlg/s1600/iPhone.JPG The reason why folks like Foxconn an...

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Rahulji, With internet penetration increasing, saving the postal system will be like saving Air India. Not really, it depends on "how" you want to save the postal system. The built up network and logistics supply chain is simply too valuable to allow it to just wither away. Please see my ...

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I really like this payment bank move. With a little bit of tweaking, the payment banks can become a desi version of FinTech but on steroids. I say this because, as the First Post article says, these new banks will succeed only if they become heavy users of technology. A new revolution is taking plac...

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Gupta ji, please don't take anything written on Seeking Alpha, save for breaking news, seriously.

amit

Chinese mechantalist instincts in full display. This is a blatant Beggar thy Neighbor monetary policy. However this time it may not work.

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I am not sure how they txfer such vast sums abroad and whether its all legal or some "workarounds" are used like overinvoicing some exports to friendly/shell cos outside china and getting paid in $$ in foreign accounts. there are some urban legends in vegas of wealthy old chinese showing ...

amit

This is a nice report on the China crisis in The Telegraph (UK). The ending few paras have a lode of good information: The calibrated deleveraging by premier Li Keqiang simply went too far. He has since reversed course. The local government bond market is finally off the ground, issuing $205bn of n...

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Meanwhile more bad press for CPC Tianjin blast kills at least 17, leaves 400 injured Reuters cited state media reports that 17 people were confirmed dead and as many as 400 injured. The Beijing News, an official outlet, reported that authorities had lost contact with 36 firefighters on the scene, wh...

amit

Regarding Brink: I am actually encouraged by Brink. Before the image of Paki Jernails and Kernails in Amreeka was ram rod stiff Sandhurst returned clipped accented Pakjabi afsars. I think years of killing US soldiers by the double dealing Pakis have finally sunk into the US sub-conscious. In Brink ...

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And of course, we have our own impotent chuitays fight it out (I mean the Cong and BJP, not the Gen Jaswal, I salute him) in front of the Paki as he has that gotcha triumphant smirk on his face. Man our Paki policy makes me puke. Forget GOI policy. Consider the simple fact that in this environment ...

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Amit, That image does not make sense. Why would CPC try to strengthen the yuan. Ideally China should just let the value of the Yuan collapse and export its way out of the problem, rest of the world be damned. Sorry Theo, Just saw this message you posted about a week ago. You of all people should kn...

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Singha, I was watching one of those NatGeo programmes on the Nimitz. The ships even have a engine repair, overhaul and maintenance wing. They can bloody well take out a F15 engine, open it up, fix it, put it back together and then do hot bench testing to ensure the repair worked. That's just like a ...

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So this is what I think may happen. If we do go with CATS/EMALS, we will end up with conventional propulsion. There will be some retarded DTTI or some such crap and there will be too many firangs on the boat to put our crown jewels in the vicinity. It will end up with 4 LM2500 and everyone can go u...

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btw, grapevine says Kattupalli might change owner soon, a la Pipavav, (due to the lack of orders needing deep pockets to maintain the world-class facilities of both places) That would be a shame. L&T should be allowed to go big time into ship building. I hope the submarine building stuff goes t...

amit

Right now, our justification for #4 is not there. A pair of #3 carriers at So-Chi-Sea can do CAP for LRMP hunting, a string of ASW helos on station and keeping a large area "Bastion" for our subs We cant plan like the great Khan for a beefy carrier with full land-attack capabilities, if w...

amit

Singha wrote:the E2 seems like a masterpiece of compact pkging...barely larger than hornets footprint.

And yet it still carries a crew of four specialists with their equipment plus two pilots. We need these or their follow-ons on the Vishal! One can do the job of more than four helos.

amit

Cybaru, If you look at this picture: http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/the-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-uss-stocktrek-images.jpg If my counting is not wrong as many as 43 planes including heavies like the Hawkeye and other transport aircraft are parked on top. This is addition to...

amit

Amit, I think you have answered why the Navy is shy of heeding the feelers sent out by CSL. With both the N-LCA and AMCA which is even far into the future, they have few options to plan for as you have rightly surmised. Only if we had the N-LCAs in large numbers by now to fill in on a second Vikran...

amit

Amit, Thanks for your informative post and interesting points. Sure you can park aircraft on the deck, but they are a real pain and have to be moved before the landings can start happening. You can launch from all 4 with aircrafts parked, but don't you have to clear the runway from the rear side an...

amit

No one has answered my question from a long time ago. Two or more Vikrants can still have the same effect of having one Vishal in terms of air-wing carrying capacity to a theatre of war, or even just for muscle flexing show and tell around the world. There is no fundamental reason why a Carrier gro...

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