That will be a confusing anti-jinx there Pratyushji. It will be a jinx for the Dienasty which will be antithetical to anti-jinx for BJP.Pratyush wrote: Dilbu please help.
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- 10 Mar 2022 15:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Assembly Elections - 2022 & 2023
- Replies: 1718
- Views: 407999
Re: Assembly Elections - 2022
- 01 Jul 2021 12:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
- Replies: 1899
- Views: 512437
Re: Social Media Watch Thread
@m_sainiji - We are probably going OT with the discussions on OSS. I am sure we can pick it up in a different thread. For the context of the thread, I wholeheartedly support going away from absolute and proven offenders like Google / Facebook / Twitter to alternatives such as DDG and Brave. The prim...
- 01 Jul 2021 02:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
- Replies: 1899
- Views: 512437
Re: Social Media Watch Thread
Not that any of the above matters or prove anything but we should really be careful of thinking that any free product is ever truly free or cares about our privacy. Don't even want to go into details about DDG search engine but unless and until we have our own domestic Indian alternatives, privacy ...
- 30 Jun 2021 19:44
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
- Replies: 1899
- Views: 512437
Re: Social Media Watch Thread
Issue is I missed the http s URL should be https://duckduckgo.com/ i tried before - http://www.duckduckgo.com redirection is triggering with out S(May be Redirection should happen if http got used, its not happened) Brave has a feature which forcefully takes from http to https. A tiny little featur...
- 30 Jun 2021 18:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
- Replies: 1899
- Views: 512437
Re: Social Media Watch Thread
Guys, What is this duckduckgo.. :D I tried "www.duckduckgo.com" getting the below output "Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information. " Just mach...
- 30 Jun 2021 12:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
- Replies: 1899
- Views: 512437
Re: Social Media Watch Thread
I've been using DuckDuckGo for 3-4 years and it is 70% as good as google in terms of search results. Don't see as many ads as google though. Additionally, google search results, atleast the first page are all full of sponsored and heavily manipulated low quality pages. With duckduckgo, you can just...
- 27 Apr 2021 20:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2805482
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Thank you!Sonugn wrote:
Please see below. You might need to call & check them individually.
https://ibb.co/dpJnQg3
- 27 Apr 2021 20:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2805482
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Brilliant app - Covrelief made by IITD Alumni which provides live tracking of vacant hospital beds in your city, oxygen availability, plasma, videos by renowned doctors, etc. https://covidrelief.glideapp.io/ Hope it helps Thank you! Great resource. Have shared it out to my folks in India. The perso...
- 27 Apr 2021 12:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2805482
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
I am not on Twitter, but one of my wife's cousins is down with COVID in Kochi. What would be the best way to see if I can arrange a hospital bed for her? I checked the COVID resource page, and don't see a way to do any searches.
- 26 Apr 2021 16:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1130432
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
^ Thanks for sharing your experience. I am assuming you're in a Massa university. Each one has to make a decision on their own, but if its possible, go ahead with your project anyway and refer to our Nyaya system. Force them to point out why they have a problem with it. The worst form of censorship...
- 26 Apr 2021 13:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1130432
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
1) Lets define "mainstream". If you need a pat on the back from Western Academia, forget it. It'll never come I can vouch for this. I was writing some assignment paper for Masters in the field of AI and was looking to refer to Nyaya sutras for establishing trust propagation and provenance...
- 15 Apr 2021 13:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7490
- Views: 1728239
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Seems endemic there.Paul wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHJvcjReFI
Dine and Dashing.....I thought this only happened in IIIrd world countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNlBNGwB6rk
- 13 Apr 2021 12:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1130432
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
EashwarPrakash: if you want the exact chronology of the oldest Sanskrit layers (which is Vedic Sanskrit) and work forward from there, please read Srikant Talageri's book. The best one would be "Rig Veda and Avesta: the final evidence". Its also available online. He has systematically clas...
- 12 Apr 2021 22:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1130432
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
There must've definitely been a proto-Sanskrit, which would have been close to PIE, since India is the Indo-European homeland. Panini comes much later. He recognized various dialects of Sanskrit, Prakrit etc and codified their grammar EaswarPrakashji, there is no half-Sanskrit ... Vedic Sanskrit pr...
- 12 Apr 2021 14:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1130432
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
3) This is key: the Sumerian texts for musical instruments (that have been borrowed from Sanskrit), are attested to have a date of circa 2600 BCE. Sumerian language itself died out around 1800 - 2000 BCE. So, this means that Sanskrit itself is older than 2000 BCE and quite possibly older than 2600 ...
- 15 Feb 2021 01:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 2972822
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Couldn't be more relevant as an answer to the kind of defeatist attitude displayed in the post right before this.darshan wrote:
- 10 Jan 2021 15:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
- Replies: 1899
- Views: 512437
Re: Social Media Watch Thread
OK...checked out Tooter. I am not on Twitter (don't have an account...don't plan on creating one) and follow selected people (<10) in offline/not logged in mode and it seems like that can't happen @Tooter. As of now, it is a no-go as a platform for me. Perhaps in future, they will introduce feature...
- 02 Jun 2020 23:56
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2163691
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
https://twitter.com/SqueaksMedia Squeaks @SqueaksMedia Official Twitter Account of Squeaks Media. Squeaks: Powerpacked Integrated Social Media. (For help on how to use the product: @SqueaksHelp ) India Flag of Indiasqueaks.inJoined April 2020 Would be interesting to know where they host their servi...
- 14 Jan 2020 22:18
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2163691
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
sir he has already issued a retraction / clarification. https://twitter.com/MicrosoftIndia/status/1216790874639589376 he mentioned that every country has a right to define its immigration policies. Looks like buzzfeed tried to spin it as something else. Half hearted, assinine and heavily retracted....
- 01 Jan 2020 12:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2163691
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Gerard wrote:
- 26 Dec 2019 19:17
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
- Replies: 4780
- Views: 1526083
Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
Gurus, Something strange happened when I booked a ticket through IRCTC using my phoren card from UQ. Not sure what to make of it. I had given my UQ phone number to ensure that my bank knows it was not a fraad transaction. I got a call from someone in "Mumbai" (because it had a Mumbai numbe...
- 13 Dec 2019 04:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
For me it was anyone but CorbynIndraD wrote:exit polls indicate a clear majority for conservatives with 86 seats. Labour punished for blocking Brexit and then not letting fresh election happen?
- 18 Oct 2019 14:08
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
@ArjunPandit - Can we find someplace in midlands? Not Brumy, since it is a mini Pakistan, unless you fancy a pincer movement deep into Paki territory?
- 18 Oct 2019 01:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
.many years back when I was in noi yaark...the room was that quiet that i could hear the noise of my table clock..thats the height of loneliness..thats when i fell in love with arnab..when major gaurav arya and arnab were slaying asiya andrabi and shehla bhatt gang...i used to turn on arnab just to...
- 17 Oct 2019 23:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Count me in, if I am not in India then.ArjunPandit wrote:should we have a brf jirga in al bartania?preferably after diwali or around xmas time..
- 16 Oct 2019 14:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: The Ram Janmbhoomi Verdict: News and Discussion
- Replies: 1043
- Views: 195793
Re: The Ram Janmbhoomi Verdict: News and Discussion
There is a massive beautiful temple for Kapaleeshwarar near Mandaveli in Chennai. No evidence of temple demolitions by Xtians (yet)Karthik S wrote:People from TN, is santhome really built on Kapaleeswarar temple? People are talking about it in twitter in the light of babri case.
- 03 Oct 2019 22:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
A single TV Licence covers all of the following in a single property: TV sets computers laptops tablets mobile phones any other device that can receive a TV signal You do not need a TV Licence to watch: non-BBC programmes on online catch-up services videos or DVDs clips on websites like YouTube clo...
- 03 Oct 2019 01:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
I live in the UQ and am SERIOUSLY thinking of cancelling my TV license. I don't watch BBC live or BBC iPlayer anymore. Only watch streaming services like Netflix and Amazon. Most of the TV license goes to BBC and I am no more willing to pay them money to them. I would recommend people take a real l...
- 02 Oct 2019 15:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Yes. Read through it all.ArjunPandit wrote:i hope you know the conditions entail that you dont watch any live program...
- 02 Oct 2019 14:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5634
- Views: 1609072
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
I live in the UQ and am SERIOUSLY thinking of cancelling my TV license. I don't watch BBC live or BBC iPlayer anymore. Only watch streaming services like Netflix and Amazon. Most of the TV license goes to BBC and I am no more willing to pay them money to them. I would recommend people take a real lo...
- 22 Sep 2019 23:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8782
- Views: 2427095
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Modi on Trump's popularity.
Was that brilliant, or was that brilliant!
Was that brilliant, or was that brilliant!
- 22 Sep 2019 22:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8782
- Views: 2427095
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Sitar guy playing 'saare jahaan se acchha', amazing handiwork, the dancer is of course clueless as to what's going on. Yeah what's with that dancer? She strikes up a pose thinking the piece is done, and then finds she has to twirl some more because the piece is still going on. Is she ABCD? Korean
- 08 Sep 2019 12:05
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 575504
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
Simple question. Simulating lander on earth is one aspect which ISRO must have done. However, without an actual flight testing on earth you are taking a lot of risk. Now I dont know if ISRO has done it or not. If software was to blame, what kind of testing should have been done to avoid sensor inpu...
- 07 Sep 2019 21:36
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 575504
- 01 Sep 2019 15:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 6664
- Views: 1362536
Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
I really hope so. Hope to see the Art 370 avatar of Modi rather than his Parliament-bowing, Constitution-kissing version! IMHO this is a very important part of his persona and people's perception of him. I strongly believe this love for our constitution is ingrained in him. This primarily means tha...
- 27 Aug 2019 15:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 6664
- Views: 1362536
Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
This is a strange one ... Watch the embedded video and try guessing the nationality of the reported who asked the last question. You guess is as good as mine. https://twitter.com/airassault71/status/1166251678279929856 Wolfpack @airassault71 Who is the female journalist who asked Trump whether he w...
- 20 Aug 2019 06:22
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 575504
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
... Snip ... From what we see in the above post .. Sivan explains that it is not a simple soft descent... It is an intelligent deciding engine working on several ' if not this then ' algorithms. From the first "trailer" video released by ISRO, I thought there was a bit of visual mapping a...
- 12 Aug 2019 11:08
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
- Replies: 4374
- Views: 1410086
Re: J&K Union Territory-2019
Shiv had a fav file: intellectual masturbation. That is where I would file that (again, with all due respect - nothing against you). After some thinking, I am in the Ajit Doval camp - not even in the Modi or Shah camp. I happen to think the brain behind all this is Doval Saheb. His (Doval's) thinki...
- 10 Aug 2019 21:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories
- Replies: 632
- Views: 136198
Re: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories
I think I saw a glimpse of N^3 there? Is it our N^3?UlanBatori wrote:Beloveds!!! Don't waste time here. See Reuters fB page pls ...
- 08 Aug 2019 17:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories
- Replies: 632
- Views: 136198
Re: Articles 370 and 35A Repealed, J&K and Ladakh to be Separate Union Territories
AoA!Abhibhushan wrote:Pakistan Minister of Railways Declares permanent cessation of Samjhaota Express with immediate effect.