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i will post a bit on the odisha assembly polls here, hopefully there is some leeway on that reporting on this thread without strictly being in the madate: first off, indian public is very media hungry, ravenous even, but ls sucks all the oxygen out of the room where vs elections are also held simult...

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Posting here though strictly ot as per the title because there is no thread to cover this mandate While LS 2024 is the big prize, there are 4 assembly elections on as well currently that will end today and results of which will be declared on 4th June. Thus the states of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Arun...

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All entities irrespective of who is in power at the time must obey the law of the land, but these laws are indian laws and the entities are answerable to indian institutions, is my point; as matters stand, the opposition class, including the political, intellectual, and manual (xitter warriors), wil...

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In crude desi, western media ka adani group ke liye khada hai https://archive.md/Yu3mc Adani Group passed off low-quality coal as far more expensive cleaner fuel in transactions with an Indian state power utility, according to evidence seen by the Financial Times that throws new light on allegations...

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a very very thorough report, recommend reading in full, about 18 .pdf pages, has details on newer state organs and thus newer power players who head them, struggles between the state and the party https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/files.cnas.org/documents/BeyondChinasBlackBox_2024_Final.pdf Beyond ...

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just to elaborate on the unlikely option that nobody else has expanded on till now; the next in-charge will be more business first than xjp, with xjp hopefully for the chinis would have solved the problem of inequal wealth distribution by then; next stage of the chapter is dhando again, probably not...

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i believe the region where the borders between india, china and bhutan meet are the most susceptible for the next conflagration

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https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_26_2_02_logan.pdf Although many observers may think of the twenty years from 2001 until now as a pivot from a costly effort to reengineer the Middle East to a focus on con taining China, the truth is more prosaic. In fact, defense planners had had their eyes ...

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https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Building-an-Enduring-Advantage-in-the-Third-Space-Age.pdf?x85095 Building an Enduring Advantage in the Third Space Age - is an exhaustive study from a US pov, posting some excerpts The United States is leading the world into a new era of space activity...

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https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/05/russia-using-soviet-playbook-global-south-challenge-west-and-it-working Russia has been courting the states of the Global South to circumvent Western sanctions and avoid international isolation – with notable success. In February 2024, Moscow hosted the first ‘F...

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https://www.aei.org/articles/weathering-the-crisis/ While a return of a majority-BJP government at the center could potentially lead to five more years of stable governance and macroeconomic outlook, the religious polarization and India’s turn to a more outwardly Hindu-nationalist nation cannot be ...

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the following is a sort of a primer / snapshot type of doco on the 2019 ls election, produced by ndtv for nat geo, okish, good production values, would have preferred more polish, but is good enough as an intro, specifically for those who have never witnessed indian ls elections before:

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"Modi will secure his third term in June. Though India remains an electoral democracy, if only occasionally a constitutional one, the process of holding fair elections has itself been deeply corrupted." ‘He likes scaring people’: how Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah, runs India https://ww...

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re: kejru and swati maliwal, man gets impaled on his own hard-on, a tale as old as time; but the politician kejriwal is not a person but a template, and we can expect more to keep cropping up, maybe even those with a handle on their pants on a certain level, the managerial class understands that it ...

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An even interesting thing is that kejru never applied for a bail, yet was granted one, the judiciary certainly has some intriguing ways of looking at things when certain people are involved

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Hoy there, folks, what's with the unsubstantiated doom and gloom? this is not India shining redux, by this time journos on ground and actual psephologists know which way the elections will turn and by what amount, additionally, you have a well oiled and well trained sangh political machinery, and pa...

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Why is there dissatisfaction with the BJP & CM in Rajasthan, so soon after their assembly win? If anything, anger against Congress must be at its peak after their 5 years of misrule i think its a combination of many things, first off, the victory in vidhan sabha was by a thin margin, the party ...

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So what is the gut feeling, gents? BJP and NDA will still have sufficient majority to form a government? I think 400 seats any ways is A Bridge Too Far . All said and done, if BJP/NDA has the majority even by 1 seat they can form the government. Only thing lacking would be the brute majority. But I...

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Nah, for Rajasthan, Amit shah is on public record a couple of days back that they are losing 1-2seats, if he has stated till 2 , then the number is higher, that is what I have heard as a feedback as well, that bjp is fighting a very tough fight in 4-5 seats in rj

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g_8n6_4eHUs a discussion with radhika khera, the latest spokesperson to have left the inc, listen to it all, she was mistreated in the party's office, a national level spokesperson as an aside, this is a new show from india tv, has saurabh sharma and deepak chaurasia, deepak recently left / was fir...

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INC's game plan is certainly not made by Shri. Pappu Ghandi and his India based foot soldiers. They don't have the mental capacity to do that. The current programs and even the manifesto has been clearly drafted by people who know India, much better than we Indians. What fault lines to be used, and...

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the inc's gameplan is pretty slick it must be said, whether this is the output of the leadership that is seen publicly or targeted from abroad, it is a dangerous adversary the main hindrance that foreign countries encounter on forcing their overt viewpoint on indians is the feeling of the freedom st...

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https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the-geopolitics-of-the-central-caucasus/ The Caucasian Chalk Circle In the context of the so-called emerging New World Order, Russia was at first left on the periphery, while Turkey and Iran were the first countries affected by geopolitical turbulence. Entering t...

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i believe that this is the right thread for this, the following paper would have been the run-of-the-mill democracy khatre mein hai but for the inclusion of the governance as a topic, this would be the actual first step by the west to understand indian stance on many issues https://www.chathamhouse....

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Ricky ji, I have been living in Germany for a long time and it was pointed out to me (by an American, of all things) that I speak English with a German accent. There was no point at which I even considered speaking English with a German accent. Maybe us Indians are simply more comfortable picking u...

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2. Musical instrument skills are driven into them by parents and research has shown that there is a correlation between musical ability/practice with intelligence and math skills. but why only classical western instruments such as cello, violin, lyre, piano? is there also a correlation between type...

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There are far too many Desi kids who get caught up in "wanting to be more american than americans" than Cheeni kids. During my time in the US, I knew many desi kids who could not speak the their language and almost zero cheeni kids who did not. My personal theory was that Desi kids were n...

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https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2024/04/brazils-geopolitical-moment/ Brazil’s enduring aspiration for great-power status will receive a significant boost through its leadership of the G20, BRICS and COP conferences in 2024–25. Despite the many unprecedented political and econom...

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<OT>Really wish this forum had dedicated thread solely populated by admins who could post the good enriching posts or maybe a 'flag and filter' kind of functionality wherein Admins/Mods could flag specific posts as say 'Star' and then one could simply go to any thread and click on Star filter to ge...

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all good, Manish_P ji, forum is looking a little bleak in terms of articles and factual discourse, either members are not reading much or they are holding out on sharing interesting literature, dont know which is worse

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https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-infinite-connection-how-to-make-the-india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor-happen/ The initial memorandum of understanding for IMEC – signed by the United States, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, India, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia – envi...

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https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/amid-china-india-rivalry-nepal-s-political-shift-tips-scales-in-favour-of-beijing/ar-BB1klK6L Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" won a vote of confidence in parliament. His Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)'s decision to ally wi...

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https://www.msn.com/en-xl/asia/nepal/nepal-qatar-to-sign-nine-agreements-during-emirs-visit-in-april/ar-BB1ko6JJ The Emir of Qatar Sheikh bin Hamad Al Thani, whose Nepal visit was postponed in November, is scheduled to arrive on April 24 for a two-day visit. The official announcement of the visit w...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-21/the-gulf-state-rivaling-big-players-such-as-china-and-the-us-in-africa The Gulf state is splashing out on a blockbuster $35 billion deal to help bail out Egypt, pledging billions of dollars more in investment in other countries and picking sides...

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https://www.ft.com/content/5ed52635-ea20-41f7-91c8-038fc6fedb41 Australia and the UK have signed a defence and security treaty and announced £2.4bn in Australian investment in Rolls-Royce’s nuclear reactor facilities as the two nations tighten ties in the face of rising Chinese power. The treaty, s...

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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tom-friedman-iraq-syria/ Among their whistlestops were U.S. installations in Syria. About 900 American troops are there, distributed in penny packets among seven bases. Some of these protect oil fields that supply U.S.-backed Kurdish authorities; others are in the ...

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/22/maximally-pragmatic-how-central-asia-navigates-russias-war-on-ukraine “Central Asian nations, including Uzbekistan, have developed a maximally pragmatic approach towards the war,” Alisher Ilkhamov, head of Central Asia Due Diligence, a London-based think-tan...

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/20/iran-khamenei-supreme-leader-strategy-middle-east/ Earlier this month, Iran conducted elections for its parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a body of elderly clerics nominally responsible for choosing the next supreme leader. The massive disqualification of ...

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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/16/africa/niger-ends-us-military-agreement-intl-hnk/index.html Niger’s military government announced that it has ended an accord with the US that allowed military personnel and civilian staff from the Department of Defense to operate in Niger – days after holding hig...

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https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/03/17/a-game-of-leverage-de-constructing-chinese-indian-soft-power-in-the-gulf/ In the intricate fabric of international affairs, China’s foray into the Gulf region epitomises a sophisticated exercise of soft power encompassing economic, social, and cultural interpla...

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