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- 03 Mar 2022 19:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
- Replies: 5804
- Views: 1031808
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Btw IAF has a serious airbridge going between Delhi and Romania/Hungary/Poland with the C-17s. At least 3 round trips already today with another 3 outbound (IFC2622, IFC3822, IFC2822). No other country has even attempted an evacuation on this scale. Not China or US or EU. Something to be proud of. ...
- 26 Feb 2022 20:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 9026
- Views: 2633870
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Please, let's argue honestly. Saudi US relationship is transactional, and you are seeing the outcome when transaction is not worthwhile. Same with Pak - the west is not some cult of personality - people have to have shared values................ Western democratic systems are eventually driven by t...
- 02 Feb 2022 03:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
@Primus and Indrad Sirs, I have been watching Modi ji's hands trembling a little(kashi or republic day), reading the net created fear, is this okie at this age ? Yes, I noted it too. However, there can be many causes for tremor at this age, from simple benign tremor (age related), to Parkinson's - ...
- 18 Jan 2022 04:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2883225
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Mean-e-while, the usual suspects are at it again. Science , in its latest issue publishes another rubbish article as the leading page, stating India's death toll is 4-5 times higher than reported, at over 3 million. Quotes Prabhat Jha of Toronto, the same Ramanan Laxminarayanan of 'epidemiologist' f...
- 17 Jan 2022 19:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2883225
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Do not dismiss their studied recommendations. Indians who migrate to US -- doctors, university professors, economists -- suddenly become experts on how Indian Govt. should run India. They also make sure that their advice is released to the media too. Where does so much wisdom come from? Is it in th...
- 17 Jan 2022 19:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Assembly Elections - 2022 & 2023
- Replies: 1718
- Views: 423021
Re: Assembly Elections - 2022
Should be 'Na Bahubali'. There are a lot of memes running around on SM. SaPa is said to be promising a ton of freebies to Peacefuls. This election too will be mostly run on caste and H/M polarization. That trumps everything else it seems. One can hope that the good work done in the past five years, ...
- 13 Jan 2022 17:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Thanks Vijay Ji. Big improvement. In UP alone, Yogi has made such a difference.
- 13 Jan 2022 01:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Great graphic. Vijay Ji, could you cite the source? I am getting numbers that are all over the place from google chacha. In any case, incredible progress. When I graduated there were just about 106 colleges.
- 11 Jan 2022 05:55
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
So the only way to prevent such events in the future is to preempt them. If the Peacefuls know that they will face severe retaliation by an equally well armed and hostile Hindu crowd, they will not do it. Good post. Responding to some specific points. That is why people like Yati are saying what th...
- 10 Jan 2022 20:33
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Mods please indulge in my digressing ................. The reason I ask if this was a chance thing or deliberately done to skew the demographics so that the peacefuls will always be there for the mass voting during election period. If Congress had a hand then this should be used properly in the ele...
- 10 Jan 2022 20:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
This is, nothing personal, a ridiculous argument that expects better results from a mob vs mob approach instead of the Govt doing its effing job as per law to implement and enforce the law. What Yogi is doing in UP is a start. Namaz on streets is a simple traffic & law and order problem if deal...
- 10 Jan 2022 19:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
I've said this before and will say it again. Hindus are a dying civilization, we are, most of us, HINOs, that's all. What PK is saying is that we focus too much on the 'package' which is the absolute truth. Ask around in your own family, the only question whenever somebody gets a job or gets engaged...
- 08 Jan 2022 18:54
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6368
- Views: 1438193
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
Anybody watched Pushpa on Netflix in the US? Hearing good things about it. Is it good to watch with parents?
I see that Pushpa is available in multiple languages but not Hindi on Amazon Prime here in the US. Does anybody know if it is subtitled, or is there a Hindu dub anywhere?
I see that Pushpa is available in multiple languages but not Hindi on Amazon Prime here in the US. Does anybody know if it is subtitled, or is there a Hindu dub anywhere?
- 08 Jan 2022 06:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2883225
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
I know of three people in my own close circle who got COVID, all confirmed with PCR. Two were young, immune compromised boys in their early 20s, they had fever for 24 hrs nothing more. Third, woman in her early 60s, only sx was cough for several days, no fever. Another woman in late 50s, no sx at al...
- 08 Jan 2022 02:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2883225
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Would like some advice due to a situation I will be facing soon: My elderly parents are covid positive, with father being detected on the 1st Jan and mother one day before. Father is recovering at home, mother was in hospital (for another terminal condition) and will be discharged on 10th. We will ...
- 07 Jan 2022 21:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2883225
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
As with everything else, there is another side to the debate wrt COVID too. I am by no means an anti-vaxxer but sometimes I think we get carried away and do not slow down or stop to think things over. The "Great Barrington Declaration" is one such example. A proposal put forward by three t...
- 07 Jan 2022 06:05
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
I am getting a sense of deja vu in some ways. I remember just before the Balakot response there was a sense of outrage building up in the nation and among the people. Everyone was angry and yet willing to wait for the government to respond in a meaningful manner. I do hope Modi Ji stops being anoth...
- 07 Jan 2022 02:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
I am getting a sense of deja vu in some ways. I remember just before the Balakot response there was a sense of outrage building up in the nation and among the people. Everyone was angry and yet willing to wait for the government to respond in a meaningful manner. I do hope Modi Ji stops being anothe...
- 06 Jan 2022 00:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
We need to organize on a community level across the country. Be ready to assemble and protect our community and our temples. As these inimical forces realize that they cannot defeat the BJP in a fair election, they are embracing violence and moving the fight to the streets. The usual suspects will ...
- 05 Jan 2022 23:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
It is a horrifying lapse in security on both sides and a potential mega-tragedy that has thankfully been averted. You can only imagine the nation would have become a bonfire had something happened to the PM. Khalistan supporters perhaps were hoping something like this would happen to then bring in e...
- 05 Jan 2022 22:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
And what would that be? Not suggesting Bitcoin are you? Just curious.banrjeer wrote:The slow and steadily depreciating INR will always incentivize social unrest instigated by non-Indian vested groups. If there was an alternative to the INR available to people then India can counter the .5 of the 2.5 front.
- 03 Jan 2022 19:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2883225
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Leadership, governance and execution of protocols matters too. I don't know about MH, but in UP at least they seemed to be doing a better job than Delhi. At Lucknow airport as we exited the airport there was a police inspector (not a constable), checking to make sure each arriving passenger had eith...
- 02 Jan 2022 20:16
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
primus sir coming from you it is scary Please, no sir for me. I am not a political pundit either. It is just a fear, an irrational one. It is like when things are going well in life your biggest worry is that something will happen to change it all. I spent five days in UP last month, traveling flyi...
- 02 Jan 2022 06:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
same videos popped up in WB election All parties run several such youtube channels with "journalists" going around doing paid and scripted interviews ...... Agree, and it would be naive to assume that all the stuff we see is real. However, it is good for optics and perception is all that ...
- 01 Jan 2022 00:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Amazing documentary. Great production. My only wish is that they produce one on the origins of the real Swastika and its true meaning and value to our culture. For me the visuals of the holocaust are nothing new, have been seeing them every couple of years on television when they revisit the liberat...
- 27 Dec 2021 22:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Yes, great source, although you cannot download them from there, I found other sites like archive.org where you can.
Sita Ram Ji was a great soul, way ahead of his time, a real scholar. He, along with Arun Shourie used to be my ideal, sadly the latter turned out to be not so.
Sita Ram Ji was a great soul, way ahead of his time, a real scholar. He, along with Arun Shourie used to be my ideal, sadly the latter turned out to be not so.
- 27 Dec 2021 19:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2883225
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Anecdotal but worth sharing. In my extended circle, two young lads in their early 20s, both immunocompromised due to being on Humira for Crohn's, came down with COVID last week. Probably Omicron, not sure. Both had received two doses of vaccine but not the booster. One had low grade fever for 24 hrs...
- 27 Dec 2021 19:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
This is HUGE! Wait for randi-rona on this one from the usual suspects.
- 27 Dec 2021 18:26
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
I think I will allow Yati some slack. Let us see how things work out. I too have watched his videos and he often states how he had a 'parivartan' after studying Islamic thought and scriptures. So perhaps his intentions are good but methodology is bad. Wasim Rizvi was also a high-born elite Sayyed Mu...
- 26 Dec 2021 23:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Books Folder - 2008 onwards!!!
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 258139
Re: Books Folder - 2008 onwards!!!
Thanks Manmohan Ji, will order it here. I did manage to get quite a few books in the end, will take some time to finish them all.
- 26 Dec 2021 23:29
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
True words Suresh Ji and Chetak Ji. I confess, after years of indoctrination at school (typical, English-medium, run by missionaries and then by Hindus aping them), indifference from media, parents both working hard to build the family, poor leadership from our own elected representatives and I, alo...
- 26 Dec 2021 21:21
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Ashish Ji, in India, the government will do whatever it needs to stay in power. Which is why we have the anti-Hindu stance of Mamta in WB and the same in Kerala. If Hindus unite the way Muslims are, no government will think of going against Hindu interests. Hence, IMHO, the first step is self-empowe...
- 26 Dec 2021 20:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Many years ago I was invited to a big party given by a good friend, a Muslim from Hyderabad, celebrating his son becoming a 'Hafiz', i.e. a person who has memorized the Koran. Neither my friend nor his son speak Arabic and yet the boy had spent many years in this exercise. Islam promises multiple re...
- 26 Dec 2021 20:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Books Folder - 2008 onwards!!!
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 258139
Re: Books Folder - 2008 onwards!!!
I usually do that, but did not have time to order and wait for shipping. Generally I order before I leave the US and have them ship it to a relative. Too late this time.ramana wrote:Try Amazon India
- 26 Dec 2021 19:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Suresh Ji, I too am a product of a peaceful upbringing, having drunk the Koolaid from childhood. It took a lifetime to see things differently. Today, as we wish our Hindu family and friends a "Merry Christmas" we do not realize what we have lost. Was watching a video sent by a young niece ...
- 25 Dec 2021 23:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Good observation on willingness to escalate to violence Primus. Even genteel Americans will tell be honest if they think you have little sympathy for Islamic aggression. This is self censored. You will not find it in the MSM. I would not betray this confidence of any individual American. Especially...
- 25 Dec 2021 21:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Either that or he is just another loud mouthed, camera loving fool. With the exception of Yogi Adityanath and Baba Ramdev, most of these self-proclaimed saadhus and thekedars of hindutva are politically unsophisticated and unsavvy, this includes Uma Bharati, Sadhvi Pragya, Sakshi Maharaj and many o...
- 25 Dec 2021 21:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Chetak, the total money from a number of raids on SP functionaries is over 5000 crores. Incredible, esp after all the Demo events. Goes to show the real power in this world is money. One caveat though, according to some people, whoever gets raided before elections usually wins, at least statistical...
- 24 Dec 2021 00:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Books Folder - 2008 onwards!!!
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 258139
Re: Books Folder - 2008 onwards!!!
I was browsing through Khan Market's two major bookstores last week, looking for the books mentioned here. Most are not available, sadly. What was interesting though, was the fact that the shelves were full of the works of Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar, Ravish Kumar, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyaya, Dalrymple a...
- 23 Dec 2021 21:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3180864
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
I spoke with a 'prominent person' in Ayodhya who told me that the plans for the place are indeed very grand. A new airport to start with and then ropeways connecting it to all the major temples. The main RJB temple itself is going to be a huge complex in itself. I looked at the overall scheme of thi...