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- 03 Nov 2025 05:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
- Replies: 8032
- Views: 2971339
Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Karachi should have lots of coconut? They should switch to coconut gravies with tamarind, clearly onion tomato is too expensive! 
- 03 Nov 2025 05:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 584739
Re: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
^^ Go to Nepal and these same people abuse Indian and Indians. Had a bad experience during my visits to Nepal. But the same people have no problem in freeloading in India. The problem is unrestricted access -- India being a dharamshala for everyone in the neighborhood, and everyone free to come and...
- 03 Nov 2025 05:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
- Replies: 4902
- Views: 1177912
Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
Before that we need some dedicated ISR assets to track them. Personally I would rather that they are not left with any and if they do let Cuba or Mexico also test some !
- 03 Nov 2025 05:26
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6833
- Views: 2146963
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
Congrats to the ladies, well deserved ! Indian kids of the future will now be able to play cricket with both Dad and Mom… Save your windows !

- 01 Nov 2025 16:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis (9-8-2014)
- Replies: 4177
- Views: 1203949
Re: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis (9-8-2014)
All these Hinduphobic problems will go away once we get back to peak economy and tech. Suddenly even Germans and Malays will come running explaining how they have Indian ancestry just like these engagement seekers on YT or consultants and think tankers who want to lobby on our behalf 
- 31 Oct 2025 07:09
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2799
- Views: 1561723
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
So gurus who has replaced the Mig-21 in the interceptor role now? Is it Tejas or Mig29 ? If Tejas will it be Mk1 always or Mk2 in the future? Or will it be a CATs warrior ? Or do we need(dream) of a Mach3+ jet these days?
- 31 Oct 2025 07:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6617
- Views: 2522042
Re: Internal Security Watch
I hope GoI realised that even after trade deals etc BIF won’t relent. I recall once WTO got Cheen in, in a few years they purged a lot of their assets internally. Why are we missing out on the money trail for these judges etc. Italy has a separate Financial police force (obviously to get a grip on m...
- 31 Oct 2025 06:41
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
- Replies: 4999
- Views: 2200820
Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
Euston-Milton Keynes yes will remind us of what we can achieve but it uses advanced signaling too. The 2 separate fast tracks where Tilting Pendolino trains do 220kmph+ while on the 2 slow tracks you have the Electrostar trains like VB that can do 130kmph+ easily. Both are EMU. Don’t think any locom...
- 31 Oct 2025 06:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
- Replies: 4902
- Views: 1177912
Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
Sorry but I was wondering if Tho is so great and not as abundant in other countries, have others tried to make it in N reactions? I know that would be super expensive but wanted to throw the gauntlet.. Also how does it compare to Fusion economics … should we also double our efforts there or let the ...
- 28 Oct 2025 09:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
- Replies: 833
- Views: 572894
Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
It is funny how despite political turmoil they have upgraded their bases in 5 years while with so called stability we make the most of that time to discuss some more. Plus they need space to park their ever growing aircraft collection! It’s a different story if their pilots are trained well but won’...
- 26 Oct 2025 02:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Bangladesh News and Discussion
- Replies: 4000
- Views: 1377807
Re: Bangladesh News and Discussion
Should follow with soya and corn imports. Some meat free meals will help cool the restive mullahs and Taco will finally get some wins ! 
- 26 Oct 2025 01:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 6345
- Views: 2526117
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
I once attended an online RE seminar in Singapore. Lot of Singaporeans(as does Sino) buy in the UK because they know it is a rigged game against buyers as there is no appetite to build more. The newer investors are moving to the North... Manchester etc buying new build flats only to rent them out. R...
- 26 Oct 2025 01:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 6345
- Views: 2526117
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
UK house sizes are closer to Hong Kong than Europe and forget about US/Australia. Plus remember 6 months of winter with no sunshine and 3 months of summer with some sunshine if lucky. Don't be fooled by movies and serials that show Indian summer sunshine, that is like 20% of the time in summer. Mayb...
- 24 Oct 2025 17:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
- Replies: 3142
- Views: 1040146
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
https://x.com/ssaratht/status/1980971295450800637 @ssaratht Christmas says hello https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G33S5JZXsAAONuw?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G33S5JWXQAEHQFi?format=jpg&name=small https://x.com/TheBluePen25/status/1980523428273902052 @TheBluePen25 No civiliz...
- 24 Oct 2025 17:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
- Replies: 3142
- Views: 1040146
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
I will be very wary of Orangeman … in his buffoonery he masks a certain evil persona that was hidden in the 1st term. With his health condition and poisonous coterie around and the alphabet soup of agencies free to do anything anywhere until we reach a certain reset PM must be very careful. Even aft...
- 23 Oct 2025 14:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 2109
- Views: 6927551
Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
Engine will be gifted by Yanks or does HAL already have an alternate ready ? Have they not learnt from their earlier bidding experiences? This sounds like electric buses being exported to Africa - sounds nice until you see vintages still running in Indian cities. Wear your Pajamas and then gift some...
- 23 Oct 2025 14:22
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 2135
- Views: 612756
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
All i can say is that we need to buckle up against Cheeni threat … they will have 10x to throw at us and one of them will unfortunately have your name on it. Freebies for civilians should be matched by budgets for forces
- 23 Oct 2025 05:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 2135
- Views: 612756
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
Def talks has some more detail on individual pilot medals and citations - 3 of them are AF kids ! All i can say is that on the first night we conducted ops equivalent to Yankee terms of “Mig Alley” and I has visions of that movie “ Flight of the Intruder” although Vietnam was ages ago! Even subseque...
- 22 Oct 2025 21:21
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
- Replies: 3142
- Views: 1040146
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
<r><QUOTE author="sanjayc" post_id="2663040" time="1761104674" user_id="29649"><s>[quote=sanjayc post_id=2663040 time=1761104674 user_id=29649]</s> Times of India today has dedicated full 4 pages on anti-Diwali coverage. They are targetting every angle, from light pollution to sound pollution to air...
- 22 Oct 2025 04:55
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
- Replies: 790
- Views: 460940
Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Pankaj Dhir, who played Karan in the epic, sadly passed away last week. May he attain moksha Indeed! I recall in an interview it was his idea to not blink when delivering his lines when playing Karna. Also he got this role because he refused to shave his moustache when he was being offered Arjun/Br...
- 22 Oct 2025 04:43
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6833
- Views: 2146963
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
We lost a few well known actors recently- Pankaj Dhir who played Karna in BR Chopra’s Mahabharata and legendary Asraniji who played so many characters. Om Shanti !
- 22 Oct 2025 04:20
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
- Replies: 3032
- Views: 1102123
Re: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
Pardon my ignorance but have we started using FPV Drones in such cordon and search operations, might be good, where once the Cordon is formed, the Drones go.in for the kill I am no expert on tactics, but I have been listening to a number of current and former soldiers that have operated in the Vall...
- 22 Oct 2025 03:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 6345
- Views: 2526117
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Reform will polish off whatever little is left of the UK economy by selling off prime assets to private entities. Never trust a City boy to be able to do anything else with the economy
- 22 Oct 2025 03:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
- Replies: 3142
- Views: 1040146
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Crackers were never part of original Diwali celebrations, it was lights of diyas. So linking anyone asking for them to be controlled as anti-religion is not right. The word is “controlled” not “banned” . I dont like crackers going on at ungodly hours and i dont like azaan either on loudspeakers. An...
- 21 Oct 2025 20:59
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
- Replies: 3142
- Views: 1040146
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
कौन है यह लोग कहां से आते हैं यह https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3yP1yyXQAAykSo?format=jpg&name=large such scum as these will never yap on id, xmas, or new year Looking at chaps like these no wonder NaMo can’t sleep at night. His G20 Bakchodi has gone too far and is looking for some $$ jobs.
- 21 Oct 2025 02:06
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Light Tank: News & Discussion
- Replies: 183
- Views: 123685
Re: Indian Light Tank: News & Discussion
I think we need more ECM and ECCM vehicles mixed up with tank platoons. That should be the way - if not some kind of low flying sentry drones that can keep sweeping the vicinity of drones like minesweepers. May be they will be part of engineering arms ?
- 16 Oct 2025 15:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
- Replies: 3142
- Views: 1040146
Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Question - am I alone in both feeling optimistic about India as well as simultaneously feeling that no matter how fast India goes, it is not fast enough? That happens sir because our population still sometimes gives you only 240 seats. We get these backwards pulling governments like the current Kar...
- 16 Oct 2025 15:09
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 2135
- Views: 612756
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
I think we are caught between Buddha, Gandhi and Kalki avatar. We want to attract investments while providing stable supply chains and be seen as nice boys. What we need is our own TV channel where our view points are presented online and no holds barred discussions can take place. That won’t happen...
- 14 Oct 2025 05:59
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 2135
- Views: 612756
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
The shameless part is how the AQ Khan network was able to proliferate to Libya, NoKo etc giving US the target list of Axis of Evil who they would hit and make money for their MIC. A game perfectly setup for the world to be fooled and that was possible because of unipolarity and institutional capture...
- 13 Oct 2025 17:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 5780
- Views: 2492468
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
RE: Contiguous Neighhbour Afghanistan. Reminds me of a joke on YT. British guy says Netherlands is amazing they don’t have potholes on their roads. A Dutch guy says not just potholes we don’t even have a word for that in Dutch. Another Dutch joins in and says there is actually word for pothole in Du...
- 13 Oct 2025 17:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 5780
- Views: 2492468
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
kancha wrote, the reason this short clip of the Army Chief piqued my interest was the fact that he wasn’t the first one or the only one from the highest echelons speaking thus. In fact, the first such instance was Prime Minister himself when he promised the Navy their dues in next round! What has f...
- 10 Oct 2025 22:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 11533
- Views: 3317703
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Apparently India was also asked to ensure no rare earths from China ends up in US when we buy Chinese rare earths
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- 10 Oct 2025 04:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 6345
- Views: 2526117
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
A new £350 million deal with India will support hundreds of jobs in Northern Ireland and supply India, a key strategic partner, with air defence missiles and launchers. The contract is set to deliver UK-manufactured Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMM) built in Belfast to the Indian Army, deliverin...
- 10 Oct 2025 02:33
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 6345
- Views: 2526117
- 08 Oct 2025 05:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12597
- Views: 4246470
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Agreed that India is tying up either on economic or cultural ties with as many countries as possible. There is no record of any country helping us always - not Russia not Israel. Gulf has been pseudo-Pak in the past, SEA pseudo-Cheen. We are not driving anyone away either. However we need to step on...
- 06 Oct 2025 02:52
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
- Replies: 2135
- Views: 612756
Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
Bakis must already be making IAF crash videos using Sora2 etc. we are doomed already 
- 06 Oct 2025 02:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12597
- Views: 4246470
- 06 Oct 2025 02:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12597
- Views: 4246470
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Looking at how Xian SoKo workers were recently harassed - they gave US everything - that US demands of us - yet see the Raj style humiliation they went thru. This should open our eyes to the ugliness of that country that has not improved spiritually in the last 300 years. Wonder what founding father...
- 29 Sep 2025 17:08
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 12597
- Views: 4246470
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
People should watch the David Mamet play (it's also a movie) "Glengarry Glen Ross". It's about salesmen for a NY real estate scheme. Gives a solid impression about what types of people & culture dominate Trump's inner circle. Of note, they complain bitterly (and with many racist slurs...
- 29 Sep 2025 13:45
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6833
- Views: 2146963
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
Exactly so was there no BCCI or ICC officials that could present the trophy and medals and complete the formalities? Considering the antics already? Presence of mind lacking in BCCI babudom I think
Bakis of course as Major Arya would say Beizzati itni hi jitni Mehsoos na ho
Bakis of course as Major Arya would say Beizzati itni hi jitni Mehsoos na ho
next will be maintenance- fixing F-35s