Bharat Rakshak

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^^^ Puzzling. White House officials warned the Modi government this month that The Post was close to publishing an investigation that would reveal new details about the case. It did so without notifying The Post. The claims: "In reports that have been closely held within the American government...

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Because this is politics.. You cannot wait for voters to change their minds simply based on the good work you have to convince them and if that requires effective use of media and subtle propaganda then so be it. Every other "democracy" in the world does it and in many cases better than u...

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The failure of Indian policy and Indian right wing policy specifically is that we do not have 1 single such publication/content creator who can make effective reports/documentaries/in depth analysis pieces that can be shared with the wider world. IMO, there are quite a few good content creators. Th...

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OmkarC wrote: ↑28 Apr 2024 11:49 So, overall, very conservatively it seems like a +22 seat gain for NDA.

If the NDA falls short of 400 by 25-30 seats, what happens to the Opposition complaints about EVMs?

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Good podcast - Smita Prakash and Shashi Shekar
EP-165 | Exposing Global Media's 'Bias' on Modi & India with Shashi Shekhar
https://youtu.be/Yyrioxqv6CE?si=fNaBz-m6Oet5pJpc

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Pakistan tops the list!
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1784501493103526193

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^^^ Yes, Indian-American. After being born in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore, Achinthya Sivalingam was raised in Columbus, Ohio, according to the university's official website. Before enrolling into Masters in Public Affairs in International Development at Princeton, she studied international politics and ...

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(Hindi). Jaishankar On Sam Pitroda : सैम पित्रोदा के संपत्ति वाले बयान पर एस जयशंकर ने क्या कहा ? Loksabha https://youtu.be/Y7pNCQASsDc?si=fg9ZnUTNarOeP2Rl He says, to understand what Pitroda said, you have to look at the big picture. This is not Pitroda, or Rahul Gandhi alone, this is the longstand...

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> One of those: Himal Southasian is supported by the Open Society Foundations and our membership programme. Our funders have no influence over the editorial direction or output of Himal Southasian. The kind of stuff they publish: https://www.himalmag.com/politics/india-modi-election-2024-pakistan-ka...

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Developing India should be for Indians.
https://youtu.be/sI1oxvuojRc?si=lh26pqkaZw5MtyUj

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https://paw.princeton.edu/article/two-s ... -princeton

Princeton story.

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> jinnah's antecedents are well known in India. there is nothing new in ahmed's book for an Indian audience @chetak, on this one point, I disagree. Well-known to most, but apparently not to the Leftist-Marxist ecosystem. It is very good to refute them with a Pakistani author -- their usual charge of...

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@chetak - Ishtiaq Ahmed has pretty much demolished Jinnah as he is understood in Pakistan and the basis for Partition in his recent books. So in that he has done a service. Even in the attached video, he tells Durdana Najam that Indians have a basis for their hostility to Pakistan, e.g., Vajpayee wa...

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This Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed came to India and stayed for 4 months on behalf of International conspiracy to dislodge Modi and praise Congis. He gave interview to snake Paki women called Durdana and said that Modi is most evil in India and he will destroy Indian democracy He went to Rama mandir and did dr...

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Not to get "theological" or any such thing, but in Tulasi Ramayana (Ramcharitmanas), the sage Kak Bhusundu narrates how he traversed many worlds and in each of them there was an Ayodhya and a Rama; so, presumably, they all have their own Ramayanas, too.

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Ahsan Iqbal - OCTOBER 1 2014 In August {2014}, professor Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan's minister for planning and development, launched the 'Vision 2025' programme, which aspires to make Pakistan one of the world’s top 25 economies by that year. (Two years ago, Goldman Sachs forecast that the country would...

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https://tribune.com.pk/story/2463713/3tr-economy-possible-by-2047-ahsan-iqbal $3tr economy possible by 2047: Ahsan Iqbal “Pakistan targets a 9% growth rate to realise this goal,” he said, underscoring the current favourable climate for international investments, with notable commitments from China ...

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A century after independence Pakistan will have more people than India had at independence.

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Still on the light note, how well a person performs their role is more important than whether they can perform someone else's role. Pappu may get a few crore votes but is overall a failure. Ranganathan and Abhijit do their commentary job well and don't want or need a few crore votes - they are succe...

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Palki Sharma hits a sixer at Oxford.
https://youtu.be/yjFEYRN17hU?si=856Kr-HcupesU4va

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Pappu is ill, apparently.

But I am with commentators like Anand Ranganathan and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, that Modi by himself can barely get BJP to a majority; it is Pappu that gets the BJP to well above majority.

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Annamalai is a great communicator.
https://www.youtube.com/live/fu-2GGKM2i ... bGTORSKQVt

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Modi’s tone in Aligarh is different from in Rajasthan.
https://youtu.be/3t3DfeMoZgo?si=ruxL-UCwK5GIhbZ2

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All is well with the world. Dommaraju Gukesh (born 29 May 2006) from India is the youngest ever challenger for the world chess championship.

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This is a headline: Turnout down by 4 per cent points in Phase 1 over 2019, EC looks at ways to bring more voters out

How is 68.3% 4 percent below 69.6%?

The media is misleading us.

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Dilbu-services while phases 2-7 are still there would be good.

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Dhoti-shiver.

The "चार सौ पार" seems to have created a complacency, which will turn sure wins into nail-biters.

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Social media and regular media are full of contradictory data.
I guess trust it if and only if you can get it from the Electoral Commission of India website, and make sure you haven't reached a spoofed site!

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Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore constituency, which went to polls during the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on April 19, registered its highest voter turnout since the past two decades. According to Election Commission data available at 7 pm, the Lok Sabha constituency saw polling turnout at 7...

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Turn out in Lakshadweep is lower than usual, but the BJP is not even contesting there.

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Continuing: This particular meeting seems to have served two purposes: first, in the context of widespread defections among Congress party workers, man on the pillow clarified to Seema any confusion over whether or not his people would vote for her, communicating to Seema that her future win would p...

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While waiting for June 4th, you might peruse this: https://www.mmg.mpg.de/60561/WP_13-01_Bjorkman_Cant-buy-a-vote.pdf The abstract begins: The 2012 Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections were characterized by report- edly-unprecedented flows of cash – a phenomenon has been described in both popu- la...

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Pakistan's over-engineered rivers.
https://youtu.be/3bVGuXrd5mg?si=BxHOxol9aXZdRQFe

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"Jerome Powell just revealed a hidden reason why inflation is staying high: The economy is increasingly uninsurable" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jerome-powell-just-revealed-hidden-210653681.html Driving the increases in insurance are factors such as climate change and rising prices for ...

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If Pakistan breaks into three or four parts, think of all of the mutual politics of all those parts claiming Cashmere.

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"108 reasons to vote for Modi" turned into 1,81,512 per these authors.

https://www.youtube.com/live/jimF-AvYzg ... rOI9A9L0X2

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A long but good analysis of the BJP manifesto:
https://www.youtube.com/live/hhKiw8Ehg9 ... KJQBo7tr5t

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I just had an aha! moment. Demonetization was not directed against Pakistan counterfeiting operations. Pakistan had no reason to accumulate cash in Indian rupees - they would put it into circulation as soon as possible. Once put in circulation, there is no way to withdraw it. The RBI would find the ...

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IMO, the Indian system is good and more rational that the US. (1) Political contributions via white money are encouraged - get a income tax deduction for any non-cash donations to any political party registered with the Chief Election Commission (in the US, political donations do not get a income ta...

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Sounds to me like it’s a huge stretch by the Supreme Court. One point in the journey was whether voters had the right to know about candidates' criminal convictions and asset accumulations. The Court said, yes, they do. Then later it noted that political parties are not mentioned in the Constitutio...

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