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- 30 Oct 2023 21:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1250
- Views: 2429295
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
UN to send in their orgs and security personnel into Gaza and surrender/capture Hamas terrorists? Put some onus on these orgs too. Make it timebound after which resume operations to destroy/clean up the terrorist infrastructure. This was my exact thought process. This is happening in Africa for aeo...
- 16 Oct 2023 01:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1250
- Views: 2429295
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Nothing much happening Israel's intention is not to block these basic utilities, but at this point, they don't have much cards to play. This is one of the negotiation card to release the hostages. They are not in hurry to attack, once the hostages are released they will intensify the fight. Till th...
- 13 Oct 2023 20:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1250
- Views: 2429295
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Chetakji,
No Saar please.
Not just Antony Blinken from Government Machinery, the whole of Tech/Oil/Corporate/Investment Banking/MIC are run by these Jews. Our diaspora has strength in Tech services only. But these guys have real power to steer this super tanker (US).
- 13 Oct 2023 17:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1250
- Views: 2429295
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
What is happening in Israel is deplorable. But our support ends with voicing the same. They are of little use to us in our strategic independence posture. Its a tiny country. They can add values on tech and agri but there isnt much else. And even here, we can do without if we put our minds to it. I...
- 11 Oct 2023 17:06
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1250
- Views: 2429295
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
There's another Aleppo is unfolding. The whole area is carpet bombed. The Main Israel failure is giving 16k work Visas for these guys, who come and do whatever they want inside Israel. They could not weed out the rogue elements out of it, hence the whole security system crumbled at a weak point. We ...
- 10 Oct 2023 01:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1250
- Views: 2429295
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
There's always double/triple crossing of intelligence between them.In the age of information overload it's really tough to take decisions.If time permits watch the serial "Tehran" in Apple TV to understand how they work.
- 17 Sep 2023 23:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
- Replies: 1960
- Views: 563186
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
Turkey has got few cards it can play. 1. Refugee flow: They always played this card with Europe and Europe is shit scared of this, and gives concessions to Turkey, to calm it. They always used their strategic location, sitting on the edge of an unstable region to their advantage, this time also Euro...
- 16 Sep 2023 00:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indian Interests_2
- Replies: 643
- Views: 268263
Re: Indian Interests_2
Not just trading, India provided security for the shipping lanes all through Indian ocean to Malacca Straits. Chola Kingdom is one of the truly global kingdom in India. They were controlling the whole of southern peninsula's trading routes, Ports of Musiri, Thondi, Puhar and Trincomalee(Worlds large...
- 15 Sep 2023 14:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indian Interests_2
- Replies: 643
- Views: 268263
Re: Indian Interests_2
Not sure were to post this. Its one of the best video explaining Indian values.
Although I don't agree with some of his points about impact of foreign civilizations on India.
https://youtu.be/tHR1wNH7z6k?si=k0-slrK5rdndJ0_X
Although I don't agree with some of his points about impact of foreign civilizations on India.
https://youtu.be/tHR1wNH7z6k?si=k0-slrK5rdndJ0_X
- 13 Sep 2023 01:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
- Replies: 1960
- Views: 563186
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
Looks like one more entitled dick who learned from his northern neighbour: https://www.firstpost.com/world/no-corridor-without-turkey-erdogan-opposes-india-middle-east-europe-mega-project-13113812.html As long as Erdogan thinks he's the Ottoman Emperor, others won't forget the fall of Constantinopl...
- 12 Sep 2023 14:32
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8446
- Views: 3030054
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
IMEC Corridor solves many geopolitical issues and brings win-win for many countries involved. Background issues: 1.Europe is struggling with energy issues 2. India is supplying Europe, refined oil produced from Russian crude (We're the refining super power). This is worrying for Saudi's and creating...
- 11 Sep 2023 18:57
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Samudrayaan - Deep Ocean Mission
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6526
Re: Samudrayaan - Deep Ocean Mission
NIOT is one of the unsung heroes. Watch this video to understand the vital importance of this institute and future mineral security of India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHSSi1oXuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHSSi1oXuU
- 28 Aug 2023 22:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1746327
Re: Understanding the US - Again
This guy comes from Palakkad Tamil clan. They're the most resilient/elite clan in the south India. They're originally from Tanjore Delta district, mostly elite governing class in the Chola Kingdom of 10-13th Century. After the fall of Chola kingdom, during the invasion of Barbaric Commander, Malik K...
- 27 Aug 2023 22:24
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1354
- Views: 740156
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Kenya has many Geothermal power plants , but they use steam to generate electricity. But this kind of heat differential is really useful. Using heat pumps , this underground heat can be used to keep the habitat warm even during freezing temperature. This process is already in practice all over Europ...
- 26 Aug 2023 23:04
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1354
- Views: 740156
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
So I 'm sorry, but I feel I must digress into a small personal peeve of mine in regards to this mission. I wanted our PROPER TRICOLOUR FLAG to be PROPERLY VISIBLE on this mission. I beg to differ , the Indian flag is clearly visible on the rear side of the rover when it landed from Vikram. In fact ...
- 24 Aug 2023 22:20
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1354
- Views: 740156
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Now ISRO can do magic 3. How easy it would be to launch rocket from moon to outer space compared to launching from earth, with moons low gravity advantage, provided we can generate rocket fuel from moon's water/gas/elements.b][/b] We will still need delta-V of about 30 Km/sec to, say go to Mars (unl...
- 24 Aug 2023 06:31
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1354
- Views: 740156
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
I've few questions popped in my mind after this landing. 1. With lunar gravity very low, returning to earth should consume much less thrust. What would be the ratio , is it 1:100? 2. Entering back to earth, how much thrust ratio needed compared to escaping the earth's gravity, my understanding is hu...
- 13 Jun 2023 02:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Assembly Elections - 2022 & 2023
- Replies: 1718
- Views: 411651
Re: Assembly Elections - 2022 & 2023
This temple is near Kumbakonam(Tanjore District) in Tamilnadu. Late CM Jayalalitha used to do this Yagam before going to election campaigns/important political decisions.chetak wrote: where is this temple, kindly let us know
- 22 Mar 2023 16:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1630174
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
We can quickly bring them to negotiation, by tightening the student recruitment from India. There are twin benefits: 1.We can put a list of 'accredited' institutions and allow students only to this institutions. All the bogus marketing of universities will be gone. The irony is they don't have tutor...
- 04 May 2021 23:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 318095
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
The only true win for BJP is from Nagercoil assembly. Others two are ADMK strong men, jumped to BJP, since they could not get seat in ADMK. The Coimbatore South BJP win is due to ADMK's plan to defeat Kamal Haasan at any cost. Nainar Nagendran (Tirunelveli) is ex-ADMK, but he didn't jump ship recen...
- 04 May 2021 16:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 318095
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
View from TN elections: The only true win for BJP is from Nagercoil assembly. Others two are ADMK strong men, jumped to BJP, since they could not get seat in ADMK. The Coimbatore South BJP win is due to ADMK's plan to defeat Kamal Haasan at any cost. The central parties (BJP/Congress) cannot run on ...
- 07 Apr 2021 02:49
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 318095
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
The music album 'Enjoy Enjaami' released on March first week hitting 100 Million views is indication of the DMK wave. The eastern and southern TN both agrarian is consolidating to DMK. Western TN(industrious) , which the successive governments always takes for granted but EPS (who is from West) focu...
- 27 May 2019 17:59
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 473126
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
Media has strong roots in southern states since the independence struggle right from the street theatres. It just morphs along with technology. The memes you are referring to were generated with the events happening day to day. The events occurred since JJ was in hospital, Jallikattu, the introducti...
- 27 May 2019 17:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
- Replies: 1964
- Views: 473126
Re: Kerala, Andhra and Tamil Nadu - news and strategy thread
In general southern states give first preference to social mobility. If am more specific about TN, right from the days of Kamaraj, this is the Mantra. This was achieved through many tools, either free schools, free midday meals, quota for BC, free bus travel for students, free bikes for girls etc. T...
- 23 Aug 2018 16:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala
- Replies: 2419
- Views: 467193
Re: Kerala Floods - Aug 2018
This solution is far cheaper and has so many use cases including town and country planning. compared to the kind of loss we faced this time(~4-5Bn USD and loss of lives) this is pennies.
- 23 Aug 2018 16:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala
- Replies: 2419
- Views: 467193
Re: Kerala Floods - Aug 2018
Ulan Batorji, The following ArcGIS product from ESRI is gold standard in environment management, my partner has done some not-for-profit project in EU environment agency, they use this very extensively. http://www.esri.com/library/brochures/pdfs/gis-sols-for-env-mgmt.pdf It is high time India use th...
- 02 Aug 2018 15:50
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: India's Power Sector
- Replies: 1712
- Views: 491519
Re: India's Power Sector
^^^ I am not sure about the MWHR capacity. The recent presentation from national workshop on Pumped storage gives wealth of information about its potential. It is estimated ~ 100GW. The Europe's harnessing of pumped storage, Indian scenario and the way forward. The presentation from Mr.NAMASIVAYAM S...
- 31 Jul 2018 18:42
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: India's Power Sector
- Replies: 1712
- Views: 491519
Re: India's Power Sector
Theo Sir, Tamilnadu already has 400MW Kadamparai pumped storage in use since 1987. It has more than 2GW potential, but due to the health of SEB it is not proceeding quickly. The Kundah (500Mw) and Sillahalla(1000MW) are in papers since 2000, but still not moving at speed. Attached link for recent CE...
- 27 Jul 2018 20:32
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1316912
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Then there is high chance IR might go BSNL, DoorDharshan, Air India way slowly, all were some kind of national network of yesteryears. Since rail is high capital intensive industry no government can afford to hold its losses perennially and invest on top of it. It will goes into vicious circle and t...
- 27 Jul 2018 18:23
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1316912
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Singha Sir, Murica is a bad example to wish for. The key to solvation of IR is Electrification and operational Efficiency High asset turn/ getting more juice out of assets, since transportation is very low margin business only way to be profitable is high asset turn and operational efficiency. Almos...
- 20 Jun 2018 19:24
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8446
- Views: 3030054
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
We cannot hope to become magically competitive just by devaluing the rupee. Especially considering we import >80% of our oil and gas and what impact the devaluation will have on that. While thinking about the oil import, One thing came to my mind is the transportation of coal. Why not go for Pit He...
- 19 Jun 2018 04:43
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
- Replies: 4780
- Views: 1538319
Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
vsunder Sir, Inspite of all these projects, i fear they are becoming white elephants. Since the operations side is not getting improved and infact getting worse. Take the example of Coimbatore - Chennai, this is one of the oldest FEDL in IR fully welded tracks, the running time of 7 hours 30 minutes...
- 18 Jun 2018 20:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8446
- Views: 3030054
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Much of the attention of the commentators, on this forum and outside, is focused on economic statistics like GDP, inflation and PMIs, but IMO what truly matters is whether industrial competitiveness is improving or degrading, across a range of industries. In this sense, the picture is mixed: some i...
- 14 Jun 2018 21:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1630174
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
but can individuals be targetted with fat packages. It will be far cheap and easy to get individuals rather than buying the company. may be if we get say 10-20 people experienced. While they might have luxury of data. They might still be able to set the ball rolling for us. In these matters we real...
- 26 May 2018 16:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1630174
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
There is a huge difference in perceptions on these things, depending on whether one lives in the UK with citizenship or other legal right to stay, or one lives in India. In other words, where one's bread is buttered. It is only natural. One should expect no different, and it would be very Paki were...