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by svinayak
29 Oct 2002 06:17
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: Remembering a War: The 1962 Indo-China War
Replies: 224
Views: 141781

Re: Remembering a War: The 1962 Indo-China War

Kaushal, I have a potential question which I have been thinking for sometine.
Did Nehru know about the great game and did he figure out what would be India's role after 1947?
by svinayak
29 Oct 2002 06:11
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: Remembering a War: The 1962 Indo-China War
Replies: 224
Views: 141781

Re: Remembering a War: The 1962 Indo-China War

" China was not sure “if the Indian political establishment had arrived at a democratic consensus that would be required to sustain the difficult negotiations… I am not sure of the conditions concerning ‘mutual understanding and mutual accommodation’ is agreed to by Indian friends”. Sunil, THi...
by svinayak
25 Oct 2002 03:16
Forum: Military Exercises Archive
Topic: Cope India 2002
Replies: 65
Views: 37425

Re: Cope India 2002

:rotfl: :rotfl:
by svinayak
18 Sep 2002 04:17
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: India and the Social Sciences
Replies: 94
Views: 69884

Re: India and the Social Sciences

I have been reading a book 'A History of Pagan Europe' by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick Some of the things said by Balu can be read in this book. Why this topic is important is that; there is seeds of intellectual renaissance in India which will be a major force in changing the Indian perception ...
by svinayak
25 Aug 2002 07:40
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Genealogy of Castes and Tribes
Replies: 22
Views: 24962

Re: Genealogy of Castes and Tribes

Peopling of India - IISC research This is a good site for migration of people in the eurasian continent. this was discussed in the original AIT thread by Kaushal. Table of contents Abstract Introduction Role of innovations Genetic affinities Gene analysis reveals people radiating out of the Middle ...
by svinayak
25 Jul 2002 01:27
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: Books that cover IAF and its History
Replies: 69
Views: 52999

Re: Books that cover IAF and its History

Wednesday July 24, 7:56 PM Panel submits report on Indian war history By Indo-Asian News Service http://in.news.yahoo.com/020724/43/1slof.html New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) A panel set up by the government to examine whether official records of wars fought by India should be made public submitted its re...
by svinayak
05 Jul 2002 12:04
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Seismology for Dummies: Guesstimating nuke test yields
Replies: 150
Views: 49005

Re: Seismology for Dummies: Guesstimating nuke test yields

Can somebody explain to me where the anomaly is here? It is no one's claim that all the data available to nuclear testers in South Asia (including Pakistan , just in case someone thought otherwise) is available to outside observers. It follows, therefore, that the one with more data on an event is ...
by svinayak
25 Jun 2002 01:27
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
Replies: 33
Views: 27868

Re: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism

Originally posted by Sunil Sainis: Pakistan has two basic tendencies; an explosive tendency and an implosive tendency. When the explosive tendency dominates, Pakistan exports violence to other regions of the world. As India and Afghanistan are right next to it, they have faced the brunt of this. If...
by svinayak
20 Jun 2002 11:18
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
Replies: 33
Views: 27868

Re: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism

Gen Pervez Musharraf has to prove himself not only in his relations with India, as it keeps insisting, but much more in regard to Pakistan, itself—by standing up to it like a Momin This will tell how they will take the next step. The next step would be roping in the sole moral protecter of the Momi...
by svinayak
20 Jun 2002 02:18
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism
Replies: 33
Views: 27868

Re: Pakistan - Epicenter of Terrorism

Relavent to Indo-pak context The word 'peace,' for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam -- or 'House of Islam' -- to the entire world," explained Tibi, who is also a research scholar at Harvard University. "This is completely different from the Enlightenment conce...
by svinayak
13 Jun 2002 11:34
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
Replies: 114
Views: 76011

Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled

Dude, unless this guy was congenitally braindead, it looks like he was warned about his imminent arrest by the Pakistanis. This nonsense about the `false passport detention' and the subsequent release should have at the very least told him to cancel all his planned contacts and appointments. Sunil,...
by svinayak
13 Jun 2002 03:33
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
Replies: 114
Views: 76011

Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled

At the very least it merits the question why was Padilla not turned over to US agencies in Pakistan itself? why did they wait for this chump to board an airplane and then arrest him immediately at O'hare.. why not just let him move around in the country and gather his men and then arrest everyone? ...
by svinayak
11 Jun 2002 10:45
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
Replies: 114
Views: 76011

Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled

Is there any Latino dissatisfaction against the gringo here with this Jose guy? To fulfill his plan he did the best thing currently available - to join the clan after conversion and take a established course in nuke terrorism. Any body see this?
by svinayak
11 Jun 2002 00:12
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled
Replies: 114
Views: 76011

Re: Pakistani plot to explode dirty nuke foiled

I think it is a pressure tactic for the Amry of Islam in TSP before Rumsfeld reaches Pak.
by svinayak
06 Jun 2002 03:10
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: The Definition of Worlds
Replies: 24
Views: 25283

Re: The Definition of Worlds

Several words used interchangebly Third Bloc ( geopolitical based) Third World ( social indicators based ) Developing country ( economy based with a healthy GDP growth) Emerging market ( economy turning to a market based and integrating with the leading economies ( India)) Low/semi industrialized ( ...
by svinayak
10 May 2002 05:49
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front
Replies: 173
Views: 103041

Re: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front

The Pakistanis Of late have shown an increasing interest in acquiring a submarine based second strike capability. This will enormously complicate things if GoI is in fact thinking like Vikram. IMHO it is unrealistic to entertain the notion that a sea based deterrent can be mounted by a force that c...
by svinayak
04 May 2002 02:12
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front
Replies: 173
Views: 103041

Re: Parakram II: all services excercise on western front

Is this news anything to do with PkII or the news of strategic command? India, U.S. to conduct first joint military exercise By Rezaul H. Laskar, Indo-Asian News Service http://in.news.yahoo.com/020503/43/1n82i.html New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) India and the U.S. will conduct their first joint military e...
by svinayak
27 Apr 2002 06:20
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Indianness - a (simple?) survey
Replies: 117
Views: 76447

Re: Indianness - a (simple?) survey

Personally, I find the whole intellectual movement behind Indian Islamism and its related pan-Islamism very fascinating in its psychology I have been researching this movement for some time and actually is the reason for the schrezophrinic character of Pakistan. Read Maulana Maududi ( 1903-1979)( h...
by svinayak
26 Apr 2002 02:40
Forum: Military Issues Archive
Topic: IAF Organizational/Functional Structure
Replies: 71
Views: 42384

Re: IAF Organizational/Functional Structure

One minor question, possibly a techie's distraction -- transmitting video stream, would that have been via the JTIDS backbone? Wow -- what sort of data-transfer rates does it support, do you know (and are you allowed to tell, without having to kill us afterwards)? Latest issue of Foriegn Affairs ha...
by svinayak
26 Apr 2002 02:04
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Can India re-Value the Rupee?
Replies: 73
Views: 56631

Re: Can India re-Value the Rupee?

Another reason why disinvestment would be helpful, is that most of the non-performing industries tend to be concentrated in the northen belt (along with the textile factories in MAH). The northen belt is a non-performer in the current economic environment. By disinvestment, these economies would be...
by svinayak
18 Apr 2002 03:38
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
Replies: 86
Views: 65065

Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast

Apparently, in those days morality, honor and justice were prized.
All the rulers and nobles who subscribed to this were considered aryavartha All the kings in the south considered themselves as Aryans.
by svinayak
13 Apr 2002 03:58
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
Replies: 86
Views: 65065

Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast

The most recent episode of sudden sea-level rise that Anderson discerns occurred about 2000 B.C., when global climate was presumably similar to present conditions. His work indicates that sea level may have jumped considerably in just a few centuries. But so far Anderson has been unable to establis...
by svinayak
12 Apr 2002 05:16
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
Replies: 86
Views: 65065

Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast

Between 17,000 years ago and 7000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, terrible things happened to the world our ancestors lived in. Great ice caps over northern Europe and north America melted down, huge floods ripped across the earth, sea-level rose by more than 100 metres, and about 25 mill...
by svinayak
12 Apr 2002 05:06
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast
Replies: 86
Views: 65065

Re: Lost City found off the Mahabalipuram coast

How long ago? When were these strange, man-made structures above sea level? After 1993, the structures lapsed back into obscurity because the NIO had insufficient funds for further investigation. But in February 2000, Graham Hancock, a best-selling author internationally renowned for his unorthodox ...
by svinayak
07 Feb 2002 12:29
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
Replies: 241
Views: 82452

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> Kgaon<p>The other point is that the Pak elite lack a mechanism for the exchange of power. Instead, power shifts on a subtle basis based on intangibles such as status, who's perceived to be "up" at a give...
by svinayak
06 Feb 2002 22:17
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
Replies: 241
Views: 82452

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)

Arun here it is.<p>Japanese rocket fails to release satellite <p> AP [ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2002 10:57:08 AM ] <p>OKYO: Japanese space officials acknowledged on Tuesday that the H-2A rocket failed to release one of the two satellites it was carrying after blasting off the day before.<p>The Institut...
by svinayak
06 Feb 2002 05:24
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)
Replies: 241
Views: 82452

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 2)

Arun_S we need some expert opinion on this Japan launch and test probe. Looks like th probe experiment is a university class experiment. How are they getting orders from only two tests. Off course lot of clout is used in these contracts?<p> http://www1.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1880365...
by svinayak
25 Jan 2002 11:47
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
Replies: 227
Views: 82847

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)

India flexes muscles with missile test <p>The test on the eve of India's most important national celebration was meant to send a message to the world and Indians that New Delhi is resolved in the standoff with Pakistan, analysts said. <p>"Making this test today sends out a very powerful signal...
by svinayak
25 Jan 2002 11:23
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
Replies: 227
Views: 82847

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)

Arun, The question I have is does this test tell the world that this is a solid fuel mobile based missile that can be launched in very short time.
by svinayak
25 Jan 2002 08:49
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)
Replies: 227
Views: 82847

Re: Agni-I/SR: Strategic Implications (Thread 1)

No TSP cant even open its test site right now.
I think there is a rift growing between US and TSP since last few weeks.
by svinayak
25 Jan 2002 04:35
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
Replies: 46
Views: 47770

Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?

Partition <p>Sir, — Apropos the article `The man who divided India upsets Pakistan' (Dec. 7). Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been excessively blamed for what turned out to be the catastrophe of Partition. The fact was that the division was half-baked and incomplete. For Jinnah and a number of Muslim leader...
by svinayak
18 Jan 2002 22:06
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: T-72s in Chechnya, From Armour Magazine
Replies: 254
Views: 69874

Re: T-72s in Chechnya, From Armour Magazine

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> GOI/MOD should come out with a clear statement on the status of Arjun. Ambiguity on their part, repeated hankerings in the press about the "failed MBT program", and to top it all the CAG reports keep the...
by svinayak
17 Jan 2002 22:54
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: The Road to World Power
Replies: 120
Views: 79488

Re: The Road to World Power

Envisioning A New India: The Prahalad Prescription The challenge before us is daunting. What should we do and where we do we begin? CK Prahalad spoke recently at a CII Summit in Bangalore. The following is taken from a note on the CII website on Prahalad's talk:<p>Domestic companies should consider ...
by svinayak
09 Jan 2002 02:40
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
Replies: 46
Views: 47770

Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?

The Partition debate <P><BR>Sir, - I am amazed that Mushirul Hasan should be surprised (The Partition debate, Jan. 2- 3) that Partition led to widespread violence. The Indian state was a living reality and an organic unit in 1947. That its cutting up should lead to much bleeding was as natural and i...
by svinayak
06 Jan 2002 16:29
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
Replies: 46
Views: 47770

Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?

EXAMPLE<P><BR>TO:<P>The Hon. Tony Blair<BR>Prime Minister of The UK<BR>C/o AskBlair@yahoogroups.com<P>Honorable Prime Minister:<P>Greetings.<P>This is in response to your position on Kashmir. When Pakistan was created <BR>by His Majesty's Government in 1947, his government was wise in letting the <B...
by svinayak
06 Jan 2002 16:18
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?
Replies: 46
Views: 47770

Re: Who was responsible for Kashmir being taken to the UN?

Some Important Events Enlisted:<BR>> <BR>> 1949, October 17: Article 370 of the Union<BR>> Constitution adopted.<BR>> <BR>> 1952, July 24: Prime Minister Nehru announced<BR>> special<BR>> position for J&K under Delhi Agreement; Parliament<BR>> told Kashmir's accession to India is complete in law...