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- 08 Jun 2009 17:42
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Interests
- Replies: 1307
- Views: 284762
Re: Indian Interests
Shiv, I terribly disagree with you. This forum will welcome any retired "Babu" from GOI and the sycopaphancy is to be seen to be believed. Chances are that Babu is corrupt to his teeth........I mean not even a hair on his body is free of corruption. But this forum will not tolerate a genu...
- 08 Jun 2009 08:33
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Interests
- Replies: 1307
- Views: 284762
Re: Indian Interests
Shiv, I terribly disagree with you. This forum will welcome any retired "Babu" from GOI and the sycopaphancy is to be seen to be believed. Chances are that Babu is corrupt to his teeth........I mean not even a hair on his body is free of corruption. But this forum will not tolerate a genui...
- 08 Jun 2009 08:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Interests
- Replies: 1307
- Views: 284762
Re: Indian Interests
aryank, please stop calling for dictatorship. We might not be a perfect democracy, but that doesn't mean we need to have dictatorship. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And corruption is universal, whether it is a dictatorship, communist, democracy or monarchy. Show me one system of governance wh...
- 08 Jun 2009 03:43
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
linear programming assumes linearity of constraints and objective function, which can hold for the model you are proposing only for very short periods of time. Linear projections for long term futures can be quite misleading. Well, lets start with linear programming. We can graph the results over v...
- 08 Jun 2009 01:13
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Yes I read your posts in corruption thread and a whole lot.And they make sens there. But when you persist in bringing in non-sequitors in this thread even after being told repeatledly not to do that then I have to assume you are insistent on disrupting it. So ha, ya na? Your choice. You cant do Fut...
- 08 Jun 2009 00:48
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
raji, Enough. I will be forced to think you are trolling. You cannot post the same words in every thread and try to disrupt it. There are threads on that subject dear to your heart. If you persist might have to send you away for contemplation. Have you read my posts in other threads and particularl...
- 07 Jun 2009 23:02
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Thank you, I will. Turns out, corruption (here, an "out of turn" access) doesn't seem to discriminate by cause. The main story line: Part 1 (1-3 years of access). 1. Case: Growing Economy and Energy Demands. 2. Advantages of Access to CAR 3. Current Difficulties in accessing CAR. 4. Histo...
- 07 Jun 2009 03:01
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Sroy, Please post your response in the Corruption Tracker thread of General Discussion. Question for you. What are the chances of getting a Hindu revolt going in India based on the following principles: 1. Creation of a just, fair and non corrupt Hindu Nation within India 2. The guiding principles o...
- 02 Jun 2009 01:56
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
raji-ji, guilty as charged. It is possible that my own experience of education within India, has coloured my views. I completed almost all my degrees in desh. My final thesis defence took place abroad because my supervisor was then abroad, and I had already been forced out by my deshi institute to ...
- 01 Jun 2009 19:52
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
raji, you present an interesting and probably practical future perspective. Maybe you should start a thread about how Indians can leave India and perpetuate their culture away from India after (before??) "Indians and India have destroyed themselves". I am sure many will be enlightened by ...
- 01 Jun 2009 19:20
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
This thread started with the core-periphery paradigm around the subcontinent. I have also pushed for Indian positive engagement with SE Asia, to flank up PRC. In this so far Australia was not in my radar. But the recent events are significant. The turn against Australia could be indications of a pr...
- 01 Jun 2009 08:16
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
Raji, I would like you tocontemplate on Bismarck's iron fist in velvet glove policy. Ok, I just finished trying to contemplate it........ Just could not locate a fist.........leave aside an iron fist......hell, I couldnt even locate a finger on the Indian side....I had no difficulty locating many g...
- 31 May 2009 23:27
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
There should'nt be any problems with statements like SM Krishna's. This is what diplomacy is, keeping a straight face while kicking your enemy in the balls & asking "Are you alright? Let me help.". But the problem is that the Indian GUBOrment is unlikely to follow these statements wit...
- 31 May 2009 21:05
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
We have a whine thread for whines. So no ranting about GOI in this thread. Thanks, ramana If you want to call criticism whines, thats fine. This entire forum by that definition is a "whine" forum, in which every thread is a "whine thread", because each thread is nothing but crit...
- 31 May 2009 20:11
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
Raji, i think there is a whines thread specifically created for :(( I think there is nothing wrong with SM Krishna's statement.The art of diplpmacy is you dont call your enemy as 'enemy' on face.Both US and china call India as 'strategic partners' and then harm India from behind.That is something I...
- 31 May 2009 19:50
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
The problem and dillema for India is that propaganda/psychological warfare against Pakistan is not being waged very successfully. I believe the propaganda/psych warfare is more effective in demoralizing and defeating the enemy than real armed combat. But India's both arms are seriously tied in this...
- 31 May 2009 19:46
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
Delhi stunned:UK and China stall move to blacklist Masood Azhar This is indeed good news. It is high time New Delhi learns that power and justice comes to the strong and not to the right and just. This UK stalling would go a long way to cut modern India's umbilical cord to UK, and allow us to emerg...
- 31 May 2009 04:21
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
raji-ji, yes it was more among the rural poor. But I have had my experience also among urban "poor". My guess is that you landed up with what is technically known as "lumpen proletariat". These can only be brought into line under ruthless authority and "will" - you hav...
- 31 May 2009 02:55
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
raji-ji, If I could recount my long list of experiences, you would understand what I was trying to convey. It is not just about casteism or class-ism. I think throughout all my posts, I have consistently gone against caste-by-birth, and many times have raised my own interpretation of reverting &quo...
- 30 May 2009 20:44
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
raji-ji, I have already tried to say where the numbers will come from. Anyone in India, can in fact start looking at it. Go to the remotest areas and make a survey, or even to any region you have access to. Look at those without the resources to move forward, ask them three most important things th...
- 30 May 2009 20:34
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
What do you think of my assertion that we are becoming weaker by the day vis-a-vis Pak ? I have posted this before and I will re-post The status quo power, India, has generally tended to leave the revisionist power Pakistan to set the agenda for the conflict and has been merely reactive, thus defyi...
- 30 May 2009 20:16
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
raji, when I say 'India has to clean up Pakistan', I mean that nobody else is going to do that on our behalf. It is not in their interest. Their relationships go a long way back and are complex and intertwined. They are not affected by Pakistan in the same way as us. Pakistan gives these three-and-...
- 30 May 2009 20:14
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
Me thinks that the 3 and half friends of Pakistan, do have an enemy living and prospering within Pakistan -- Al Qaida/ETIM! We too have an enemy within Pakistan -- TSPA. If our enemy crumbles, then Pakistan, or at least its Pushtun and lawless regions become a platform from where only the enemies o...
- 30 May 2009 20:00
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
archan, it is not a question of whether Pakistan is in a mess or not. It had never been in a good shape for its entire life. It has always lived on the precipice, on borrowed time ever since Jinnah asked Maulana Usmani to hoist the national flag in Karachi. But, that is all besides the point. They ...
- 30 May 2009 09:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: The Red Menace
- Replies: 3763
- Views: 594160
Re: The Red Menace
Raji http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism Yeah.............so ?? During the McCarthy era there was a social stigma attached to being a communist. McCarthy outed a lot of communist sympathisers or soft on communist types who were influential people in the society, by having Congressional hearing...
- 30 May 2009 09:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: The Red Menace
- Replies: 3763
- Views: 594160
Re: The Red Menace
Shiv, Just a factual correction. Communism is not illegal in the US. There is a Communist Party of America and also a Socialist Party of America. The Communist Party of America is in much more dire straits than the Socialist Party. Banning any thought within the US is unconsitutional, therefore you ...
- 30 May 2009 09:04
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
Bruce Riedel in WSJ: Pakistan and the Bomb A half-truth is as much of a lie as any black lie As usual Wall Street Journal gives India a subtle kick in the butt while forgetting that 3 million Hindu and non Hindu civilians were massacred in Bangladesh before the 1971 war, with 10 million refugees in...
- 30 May 2009 08:59
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
- Replies: 397
- Views: 46255
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - May 16 2009
Congrats on opening your account 'aser'. Took you long enoughl :mrgreen: Good article to post to start it all off. Good as in - how Acharya ji put it. Pakis are as usual squirming in the comments section and some chankian evil yindoos are coolly showing them the bottom of their chappals . Seems to ...
- 30 May 2009 08:30
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Whether it is about creating a foundation or setting up a delegation to talk to the government, or any other concoction.....I presume, the idea is to represent good ideas to people in power or at least some people in power. It seems to me that there are only four scenarios where making such represen...
- 29 May 2009 23:09
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Interests
- Replies: 1307
- Views: 284762
Re: Indian Interests
How does one language kill another language ? Please explain. To give a conomic analogy - it "crowds out" investment in or rather, activity in, other languages. . Let me tell you a true story. Many years ago I was project leading a small team. We had a Chinese American as one of the membe...
- 29 May 2009 16:54
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Interests
- Replies: 1307
- Views: 284762
Re: Indian Interests
but there can certainly be a spirit of scientific evolution in the process. being the next big evolutionary step in the concept of democracy. The concept of evolution as it exists for these today is a very western centric concept -- linked to THEIR evolution of maturity. We have no reason to shackl...
- 29 May 2009 09:56
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Yes, this could work. It is how Christianity established itself in Rome. Yes, it is how Chanakya worked, in part, though circumstances were different them. So, how about it. 10 people from here, identify 1 person in the government and the means to access them. 1 presentation, 1 story, and "hel...
- 29 May 2009 08:37
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Oh.......just occured to me why you are so coy about lavishing praise...if I didnt know any better, Samuel my man, I would have thought....1) It is not Indian nature to be magnanimous........2) You are afraid to be called a Macaulyte or a "Dimi"........but I know better...... :lol: Don'...
- 29 May 2009 07:58
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Raji-- We are hopefully working on a new model. It does not need America. Especially if you consider that what we value about America is not something intrinsic and inherent to Americans, but of all societies young in the space of civilizations. If we start there, realizing that it is the spirit th...
- 29 May 2009 07:55
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Shiv, Well said. Collective power of a nation will trump a solitary superman or a small oligarchy anytime. Its a modern version of a weapon. Weapons evolved from sticks to swords to bow and arrow to slingshot guns and cannons. Then they evolved into gun powder, cannons, explosives, nuclear etc. Simi...
- 29 May 2009 06:15
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
On the horizon, I see many problems emerging in America. It has the advantage of being a relatively young society, where entropy is yet to catch up. All the symptoms of class and stratification are forming and the forces against it are weakening. It is not useful it idolize USA. It is blind to disr...
- 29 May 2009 04:14
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
Oh no, I am not deriding the "US model", but just asking that it be taken as inspiration only and lessons learnt from it and not try to literally apply it. Any successful model will be a combination of preexisting features shaped and modified by new and "foreign" experiences. So...
- 29 May 2009 03:54
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
To "do a US" is not equivalent to "copying US". Copying does not work, just as Maoism could not be "copied". The essence of "doing an US" is to learn to construct a set of consolidatory and expansive goals for India, where internal dissensions are fixed with ...
- 29 May 2009 03:24
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
I thought you wanted India to follow the US path. Dont want to do the hard work. I want India to be a fair society and a meritocracy. I want us to embody all the right values.....of truth, beauty, dignity, humanity, tolerance, art, music, science, industry, respect for sorroundings and environment....
- 29 May 2009 03:06
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
- Replies: 2861
- Views: 451680
Re: Future strategic scenario for the Indian Subcontinent
ramana wrote:The US society is based on Puritan work ethics: hard work, self-discipline, frugal life and Calvinism.
And clearly, these are all western notions.........and only a Macaulyte will see any merit in them.....