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by Dumal
18 Jan 2025 23:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10463
Views: 3114014

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Hope our leaders and the government are taking in the torrent of change that is awaiting us. We may have had some insight into much of this already but our capability to take advantage of the time and the opportunities has been minimal. This is the Peter Anderson interview of Marc Anderson who claim...
by Dumal
05 Jun 2024 06:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

BJP lost due to effective vote transfer among the opposition alliance. They got their caste arithmetic right this time, unlike in 2019, where BJP benefited. Other factors like social media mood, economic situation/umemployment, farm law, agnipath/govt job situation, were also there but their impact...
by Dumal
04 Jun 2024 13:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

Almost half of the 2nd term was stymied by battling COVID and also in the middle of it dealing with Farm Law agitations and pulling back from it. Getting to where we are now is already a big achievement, IMO.
by Dumal
04 Jun 2024 13:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

I have another theory. Perhaps a bit wild. I call it the Curse of the 4 Shankaracharyas or perhaps more appropriately, the Curse of hubris. It's always some curse or the other. Hubris, over-confidence, laziness, argumentative, castism etc., etc. A cursed country and a cursed people... (Said in a me...
by Dumal
04 Jun 2024 12:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

I was checking the eci website for Coimbatore constituency. As of 12.04 pm it was showing a total of just 1 lakh votes as having been counted. Usually by noon in TN voting would practically be over. But here only around 15% of votes have been counted. Very strange. Perhaps, just some delays in uplo...
by Dumal
04 Jun 2024 10:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

Now BJP down to 227 out of 331 with trends
by Dumal
04 Jun 2024 10:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

In Coimbatore, Annamalai is trailing after about 1L votes counted... Still a long way to go but trending down.

Roughly would it be about 25% votes counted by now on average across the board?
by Dumal
04 Jun 2024 10:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

While UP etc., have actual counts upto 1st round, TN for example still shows no count at all for individual constituencies.
by Dumal
02 May 2024 19:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10670
Views: 3941310

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

slightly different perspective here. 1) The US is a very unique nation in the fact that immigrants can actually have dual lives ...., no other country offers that Definitely not India :cry: 2) The US will remain the preferred destination .....The US is what foreigners dream about and XXX (e.g. Chin...
by Dumal
23 Mar 2024 20:58
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Replies: 4761
Views: 3256066

Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy

A_Gupta wrote: 23 Mar 2024 20:29 US Embassy Russia, March 7:
https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert ... t-48-hours
If the alert was made on March 7 and was specifically for the following 48 hours, how does that really count towards what happened a full 2 weeks later, even for its PR value.
by Dumal
05 Feb 2024 18:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1114697

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

On the point of Sanskrit, IMO, we should resist the temptation to give any undue role for it as a language. It has an incredibly complicated grammar that will at best make it accessible only to highly educated circles. Even the phonetics will make it hard for less trained tongues, let alone the gram...
by Dumal
27 Sep 2023 14:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 2959
Views: 1227092

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

Brantford Police Service, says officers are looking into the report of the offensive billboard What? :shock: What do they have to investigate? What's so offensive? I thought freedom of expression was supreme in Canadastan! :roll: They didn't flinch when a tableau of an elected Indian PM's assassina...
by Dumal
23 Sep 2023 12:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 2959
Views: 1227092

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

and here is the amriki "friend" weighing in, and exactly whose "friend" the amrkis are has always been a matter of futile debate Deeply concerned about allegations raised by PM Trudeau against India: Antony Blinken The quote shown does not include this but Blinken also used the ...
by Dumal
21 Sep 2023 12:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 2959
Views: 1227092

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

India Suspends visa to Canadians. Also , Cananda would likely reciprocate in a few hours. That may be what we wanted to happen. And to induce that, we may have had to suspend our services first! :) I wonder if the visa season for the incoming fall season is already almost over. Otherwise, that woul...
by Dumal
04 Sep 2023 11:33
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Replies: 1361
Views: 1141677

Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions

Vikram soft-landed again! https://twitter.com/isro/status/1698570 ... 5l6mg&s=19

Did we know this was planned? Wow! What a nice surprise. :D :D :D
by Dumal
04 Sep 2023 11:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1114697

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

The Stalin sicon is a Cristian. He declared his faith last year. The father and son duo can perhaps target this lady first in their grand plan to destory Sanatana Dharma . I am not sure if they see sanatana dharma and the practice of today's Hinduism together and as integral to each other. I think,...
by Dumal
02 Sep 2023 19:18
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Aditya-L1 (आदित्य -L1): Launch and Discussions
Replies: 125
Views: 111616

Re: Aditya-L1 (आदित्य -L1): Launch and Discussions

Did anyone notice what looked like a sonic boom within seconds of liftoff. The vapour cone or what looked more like a ring was visible and I thought I heard some booms at the same time as well. If it was a sonic boom, is it common with these type of launches or was it anything special today due to t...
by Dumal
31 Jul 2023 19:28
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
Replies: 4955
Views: 2141430

Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)

Ashokk wrote: 31 Jul 2023 18:23 Video
8) Interesting. Looks like it only picks up stuff from within a foot of the tracks. Perhaps something more can be done in a future iteration
by Dumal
31 Jul 2023 17:49
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
Replies: 4955
Views: 2141430

Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)

How clean are the railway facilities overall? What about the tracks? Have they cleaned up the garbage and litter? or is it still pervasive and people still litter and leave garbage out on the tracks? On this point, unfortunately there has been no change and litter only continues to pile up more and...
by Dumal
31 Mar 2023 10:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1114697

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

Still doesn't add up quite! Does that mean the govts there can tell the courts how to interpret the laws, that too differentially? That just defeats the purpose. In India govt appoints CEC but that doesn't mean the CEC is not independent! ^ Part of the reason is that many countries (Germany in this ...
by Dumal
09 Feb 2023 17:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 8021
Views: 2919032

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

Vadivel wrote: I acted :rotfl: :rotfl:
Nice one! :wink: :wink:
by Dumal
10 Jan 2023 07:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 8021
Views: 2919032

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

Apparently they have $9B of pledges. Everyone is celebrating https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-chief-calls-massive-investments-pakistan-recovery-2023-01-09/ Donors exceed Pakistan goal with pledge of more than $9 bln for flood recovery There's the high! Wait for the low... In 3 months t...
by Dumal
25 Sep 2022 21:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding New China After the 19th and 20th Congresses
Replies: 1362
Views: 636149

Re: Understanding New China After the 19th and 20th Congresses

My take is even if there is a power grab, CCP will have managed it such that, for example Xi is kept on a tight leash but basically faking it as the supreme leader for another year or so, and when most of the world loses interest in it, quietly give way to a new leader under the garb of ill-health e...
by Dumal
02 Jul 2022 15:03
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: Bharat Rakshak Celebrates 25 Years!
Replies: 75
Views: 127906

Re: Bharat Rakshak Celebrates 25 Years!

The positives that BRF has brought on, for which I am thankful, aside, I just hate seeing the vitriol, knee-jerk reactions, short-sighted rants for the 24, 48, 72 hrs, and sometimes into weeks everytime something terrible happens - a bad election result, a Pulwama-like setback, Udaipur, etc. As some...
by Dumal
01 Jul 2022 17:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

https://twitter.com/Iyervval/status/1542786398779887618?s=20&t=9H2nfc-sepBPUDt6SPIiPw Guess who elevated Suryakant to the Supreme Court? Our divine prime minister Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Kalki Bhagawan in 2018, despite serious charges of tax evasion & corruption. So much for na khaoonga na “kha...
by Dumal
03 Mar 2022 17:02
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3996
Views: 1109345

Re: Indian Education System

Folks, please see below a thread of tweets I https://twitter.com/Dumal48726499?t=Oi5_mxoq9HzUayZEtNKqOw&s=09 put out regarding the conflict in date that IISc, for their KVPY exam, and CMI for their entrance exam, have picked. Both exams can potentially lead school students to pursue a small numb...
by Dumal
19 Nov 2021 18:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Read on twitter PM Modi saying "whatever I did was for the farmers. What I am doing is for the country". If this was indeed stated as such, clearly there must have been conditions much worse than just the continuing protests that forced his hands.
by Dumal
19 Nov 2021 15:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

I think there is China angle to reduce internal friction. Moreover there is possibility of more disturbances. We got preview in Maharashtra. Maybe. Kartarpur corridor opening, farm law repeal,etc. Could be majorly about Punjab election politics and peripheraly the UP election. Could this see Amarin...
by Dumal
18 Nov 2021 17:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Werent they demanding MSP for the stubble itself? So government collects from each field and they get money for it? There have been some machinary designed to yank out the stubble and buying these is one of the solutions. The question is farmers, especially the smaller ones don't want to or can't i...
by Dumal
18 Nov 2021 16:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

stubble burning Not an expert at this, but having had similar doubts, the clarity I got from reading about the details are this: It is not about the straw. As much of the "stem" that can be sliced down by their harvesting machines will be cut off and removed from the fields alongwith the ...
by Dumal
09 Nov 2021 21:10
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terroristan - April 15, 2021
Replies: 2853
Views: 1101052

Re: Terroristan - April 15, 2021

1FIh9n8iMOg Worst example of candle kissing wokeism. Most Dangerous ''businessmen" who under the garb of 'doing business for mutual benefits' advocates. .... .... This Marwari businessmen has visited Pakistan 14 times, and for someone who is Mumbai based is using typical urdu words more comfor...
by Dumal
15 Sep 2021 20:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

I hope he doesn't mean that women should be employed to prop up old men like Gandhi was then. Women as cabinet ministers of defence, finance, etc and the largest number of women ministers now vs the lone dynastic women PM then... That is progress not the other way around! there seems to be no end to...
by Dumal
15 Mar 2021 20:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3564250

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Got Covaxin today in Chennai at Omandurar Hospital Med College. None of the private hospitals or the smaller Corporation Health centers had Covaxin. They only have Covishield. Only the larger GH's have the option for getting Covaxin in Chennai, apparently. The process was quite straightforward and e...
by Dumal
24 Feb 2021 10:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
Replies: 1447
Views: 395521

Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread

Over in TN/Pondicherry, the elections are expected to be announced next week and held by the end of April. This month saw a ton of action. Two Pondy MLAs of INC quit and talk of joining BJP. A few more quit as well and the CM/cabinet had to resign. An old breakaway faction from the INC, NRC is part ...
by Dumal
24 Feb 2021 07:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

It is beyond doubt there are foreign governments ,intelligence agencies and islamic terror groups behind them but yet the US govt seems perfectly ok with them operating out of their country. One should always remember 26/11 Re. The latest from current US dispensation not just tolerating but really ...
by Dumal
20 Feb 2021 18:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 14901
Views: 3944921

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Actually, an old member of BRF, Mr. Rahul Mehta has proposed a legislation for this: https://bit.ly/37OwOGb (google drive pdf link) Still reading the doc but a couple of points of disagreement. ... I mean do we really need to discuss why this is such a bad idea? Voting through SMS or an app? or wor...
by Dumal
17 Feb 2021 00:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Replies: 1964
Views: 585688

Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread

In Pondicherry, INC with the the outside support of DMK has been in power over the past 4+ yrs but has been a massive struggle for the ruling disposition to make a ton of money and do all the usual shenanigans due to the presence of Kiran Bedi who maintained a tight hold on the day to day governance...
by Dumal
13 Feb 2021 21:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Replies: 1964
Views: 585688

Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread

#islam Tamil Nadu: Political party behind beef fests issues threats to Marwari community for funding BJP, asks them to leave the state https://www.opindia.com/2021/02/marwari-community-threatened-in-tamil-nadu-asked-to-leave-the-state/ ... According to the reports, the pamphlet issued by a Tiruchi ...