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- 12 Mar 2024 05:12
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Ram Temple Consecration: News and Views
- Replies: 155
- Views: 58770
Re: Ram Temple Consecration: News and Views
Let's remember it's not the rich and the famous alone who fought for Ram over 5 centuries. That said your point is 100% valid. Just needed to mention this someplace. The British took over India one by one and not through an initial great war. Study the wealthy families of India and see how much der...
- 11 Mar 2024 20:58
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Ram Temple Consecration: News and Views
- Replies: 155
- Views: 58770
Re: Ram Temple Consecration: News and Views
I have serious doubts if the next generation of this family will carry any of this veneration or love for Bharat through. I was deeply disappointed and actually alarmed to find that Isha's Ambani's kids have all western nannies. Remember the last time Indian elite had western nannies - All the Mahar...
- 16 Oct 2023 03:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 871911
Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Let me make it clear, I am a Bihari Brahmin. The people who are Anti Modi, were all Brahmins and Bhumihars. All are well educated and well travelled. In different walks of life. Such as corporate sector, education, self employed, etc. They are not able to understand that someone who is not fit to b...
- 11 Dec 2022 09:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Child Rights in India
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7673
Re: Child Rights in India
What's wrong with us.. I also shudder to think of the abuse the child must have endured growing up with such a parent. Never forget that corporal punishment is a continuum. It can build up to so much more. We really need to sensitize parents and families. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/madhya-...
- 05 Aug 2022 02:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1817802
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Japan and Taiwan are both advanced countries. What if thesr countries decided yo go nuclear? I highly doubt if Taiwan could at such short notice but Japan can. However, it depends on the parameters of the relationship they establish with Taiwan. As I said, Taiwan is a hybrid Chinese/ Japanese cultu...
- 03 Aug 2022 22:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1817802
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Far fetched question but I was studying the history of Taiwan and it's relationship to Japan. Unlike other Chinese diaspora, the Taiwanese have some incredible qualities of work ethic, tradition, family, cleanliness and enterprise. They are very similar to the Japanese in a certain regard. Then I re...
- 26 Feb 2022 22:16
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
- Replies: 5804
- Views: 1029021
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
The amreekis are patrolling the strait as we speak.chetak wrote:it is also non whitevijaykarthik wrote:
Taiwan is different. It has a treaty with US. Ofcourse its in the strategic ambiguity terrain. But its definitely not Ukraine and there will be blow back there.
the amerikis will weasel out of it.
- 26 Feb 2022 22:15
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
- Replies: 5804
- Views: 1029021
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Any suggestions re Taiwan situation?kit wrote:People on telegram can follow Intel Slava Z , updates by the minute !!
Most of UK air defence is gone., remember Motor Sich at Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine?., that will be likely taken over today
- 26 Feb 2022 21:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
- Replies: 5804
- Views: 1029021
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Nice humor (sorry). I think the topmost priority is to clean the internals of the house. Without that, any territorial ambitions will be wasted, should BIF led political parties get back in power. Aksai Chin maybe a fantasy, but PoK isn't. We can't wait for all cleanup to be done before making move...
- 13 Nov 2021 23:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1817802
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
I have always viewed the value of debt in connection with the creditor's ability to recover it. If the PRC allows for a default and then shuts it's doors to US capital. Xi might just be able to come out on top by doing that. Given the wrangling regarding budget in the US along with high debt, coupl...
- 28 Sep 2021 10:05
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/gujarat-dont-widen-road-inside-gir-sanctuary-say-experts/articleshow/86522381.cms He said the Union forest ministy, in a letter dated December 22, 2014 to principal secretaries of forest departments of all states, clearly clearly said that new roads...
- 28 Sep 2021 10:02
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Roads Thread
- Replies: 3351
- Views: 765690
Re: Indian Roads Thread
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/gujarat-dont-widen-road-inside-gir-sanctuary-say-experts/articleshow/86522381.cms Gujarat: Don’t widen road inside Gir sanctuary, say experts Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/86522381.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&...
- 28 Sep 2021 10:00
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Roads Thread
- Replies: 3351
- Views: 765690
Re: Indian Roads Thread
The Himalayan ecosystem is very fragile and large scale mining will definitely impact the river systems that flow for the most part into India. Mining companies are very callous and notorious and treat waste poorly. The addition of cyanide in some extraction processes like in Gold extraction if not...
- 18 Sep 2021 09:05
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: China's Global Strategy-I
- Replies: 125
- Views: 42281
Re: China's Global Strategy-I
The major deficiency in China strategy is its inability to form alliances, trust deficit. Well the path they chose doesn't have any room for accommodation of any other power, major or minor. Constantly scheming to weaken the others. If any power blinked, use and throw. If anybody resisted, bide tim...
- 29 Aug 2021 21:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding New China After the 19th and 20th Congresses
- Replies: 1303
- Views: 397923
Re: Understanding New China after 19th Congress
Looks like they are going after celebrities in a big way in China. This is not small change stuff. This is the stuff of the cultural revolution and has amplified in the last year. This communist avatar of China is a true monster. Nothing beautiful or human can survive in it's quest for a big machine...
- 29 Aug 2021 21:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
According to the US CENTCOM commander, the Taliban are unscrupulously good. for the past 20 yrs US paid jaziya to pakis to fight the taliban. from now on jaziya will be paid to pakis and taliban to fight this IS-K (or what ever alphabet soup). wah wah, who says madarsa education has no value. But w...
- 29 Aug 2021 06:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
So a new terrorist group has emerged and the Taliban are now the good guys. How predictable.
- 29 Aug 2021 06:07
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
Fragmentation Of Habitat Is Causing Inbreeding Among Indian Tigers And That Could Be Disastrous The research, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution found that fragmentation of habitat has already disrupted the natural evolutionary process in wild tigers and will continue to do so...
- 22 Aug 2021 23:56
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
- Replies: 4801
- Views: 1567620
Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
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- 22 Aug 2021 23:52
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Urban Development and Public Policy Discussion
- Replies: 523
- Views: 160004
Re: Indian Urban Development and Public Policy Discussion
Universal car ownership is unattainable and unfeasible. We simply cannot build enough roads to accommodate them. https://i.postimg.cc/WpHTGfKQ/Cars.png A car free town center https://twitter.com/carlafrancome/status/1426309335232262145 https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/7/14/miyazakis-urbanism...
- 21 Aug 2021 08:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
^^^^ The mitigation steps alluded too will work in relation to the total perimeter of the reserve and the degree to which the fragmentation has already occurred. Another factor is how close the roads are too animal corridors. Many of the larger animal species need largish space to hunt and find a ma...
- 21 Aug 2021 07:56
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Urban Development and Public Policy Discussion
- Replies: 523
- Views: 160004
Re: Indian Urban Development and Public Policy Discussion
Wish we could flip our Olympics medal tally with this one
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- 21 Aug 2021 05:41
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
Your own link mentions a list of measures that can be taken to minimize impacts. Even they are not suggesting a blanket ban on all roads through forested areas because unlike you they know it is not practical and are not in the business of proposing utopian solutions that will never get implemented...
- 21 Aug 2021 01:38
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
This actually tells me that your statement earlier about the whole forest/reserve "going away" just because one multi-lane road is built through it is rather alarmist. Nobody is saying that there will be zero impact. But making hyperbolic statements does not serve anyone. Did you read the...
- 21 Aug 2021 01:36
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
Jarita ji, Indian cities, even towns are already so huge that walking is impractical, even if one is willing to risk limb and life to fight it out with all kinds of traffic, because foot paths are mostly non-existent or encroached. Walking and cycling in your neighbourhood is OK, but any distance b...
- 20 Aug 2021 20:50
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
Is there any data to support that building a single road through a forest or reserve leads to the entire forest going away as is being claimed? Especially if animal underpassess are constructed in the reserve? I would be surprised to see any forests left in the US and Europe if that was the case. A...
- 19 Aug 2021 23:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
What if, just what if and this is hypothetically speaking - The Chinese start mining aggressively in Afghanistan (After all the Taliban thinks the chinese are good) and start selling goods manufactured in China (through American factories) into Afghanistan. Say rare earths are mined and shipped to ...
- 19 Aug 2021 23:14
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
Pestcides are a huge problem for birds. Insects that survive pesticide sprays (their bodies are now coated with them) are eaten by birds which then lay eggs whose shells are very fragile. Few chicks if any survive and slowly species move away or disappear in those regions or become extinct. :( This...
- 19 Aug 2021 23:11
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
The fuller picture is that a country like India can only support so much road infrastructure. We are beyond the stage where we can support excessive road infrastructure. Unfortunately, our planning is not road free, public transportation, walking city focused . With our limited real estate and heat ...
- 16 Aug 2021 23:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3174739
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
In the meantime Stalin and his sister ideolog Kanimozhi are trying to cleanse hindu temples of traditions and rituals at the behest of the church.
- 16 Aug 2021 06:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
That was another day, another war: ...When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier... Rudyard Kipling Gautam Dang.. They did that pretty aggressively to the Ru...
- 15 Aug 2021 20:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
The Americans own this mess. Over a $1 trillion on Afghanistan and several hundred billion on TSP in less than 20 years. Massive carpet bombing was the only solution after the failed Doha agreement. What if, just what if and this is hypothetically speaking - The Chinese start mining aggressively in...
- 15 Aug 2021 20:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
The most dangerous aspect for India is that now we are surrounded by Russia-Iran-Qatar-Afghanistan-Turkey-Pakistan-China-Nepal-Bangladesh-Srilanka-Maldives...an Islamic commie nexus. Doesn't bode well for us, unless we spend enough on military preparedness and indigenization. We also need to discov...
- 15 Aug 2021 20:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
I hope that none of the Indian people remain now in Afghanistan. I feel bad for the Afghan women. All the hopes and dreams that women were able to build have now turned to dust. The blame has to go to the Americans for failure to build a fighting force that could not even fight for 3 weeks. Pakista...
- 15 Aug 2021 18:56
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
Re: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
Another action by minister of errrrr roads. 30,000 trees and no compensatory plans that are concrete. Please do read. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/bypassing-green-concerns-ims-wheels-set-in-motion/articleshow/80605553.cms People don't want to talk about the severe environmental im...
- 15 Aug 2021 18:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 814690
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
21 million - 40 million That is the increase in population in Afghanistan through the US occupation. With the toxic education/ fanaticism, where else will this surplus population go. Along with the infrastructure, there should have been a focus on female empowerment and birth control. There is a fre...
- 15 Aug 2021 18:33
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3174739
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Perspective on the Tata's folks. I had brought up the issue of the Tata's and their international allegiances a few years ago. People had reacted the same way as people react to statements about the road minister. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/tatas-objecting-to-consumer-b...
- 15 Aug 2021 18:29
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Nature Conservation in India News & Discussion
- Replies: 807
- Views: 180463
- 15 Aug 2021 18:26
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Roads Thread
- Replies: 3351
- Views: 765690
Re: Indian Roads Thread
Sudarshanji, you have misunderstood me. I am actually aligned with you on several counts. Your points have to addressed because people must understand the gravity of the situation. Until the population falls, there's not much we can do here. For example - the US has about 36% forest cover. India has...
- 12 Aug 2021 19:34
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Roads Thread
- Replies: 3351
- Views: 765690
Re: Indian Roads Thread
When in doubt, go with hard data. What is the actual road density in km/km^2 for India, as compared to other countries? https://vividmaps.com/country-highest-road-density/ I fully expected to see that India would have a very low road density. I was wrong, to my surprise. Most sources place India wi...