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by krithivas
03 Dec 2008 00:17
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Indian Response to Terrorism
Replies: 2748
Views: 442895

Re: Indian Response to Terrorism

This is day 6 after the mayhem - GoI has the following to show: 1) Two resignations, not including one withdrawn resignation; and, 2) One Demarche consigned to the dustbin even before it was issued; 3) Unilaternal condemnation and sympathy; and 3) High profile visits telling us what not to do. R. Kr...
by krithivas
30 Nov 2008 02:56
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Terror Attacks in Mumbai - III
Replies: 1969
Views: 334311

Re: Terror Attacks in Mumbai - III

Once India verifies that PoK was used as a staging ground for this mayhem, Revenge must be extracted. I'm sure India has good understanding of terrorist breeding grounds there, and offers excellent test runs for Shauryas. R. Krithivas I used to like Jason Burke, one of the first westerners to point ...
by krithivas
30 Nov 2008 02:35
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Terror Attacks in Mumbai - III
Replies: 1969
Views: 334311

Re: Terror Attacks in Mumbai - III

None. I was more inspired/touched by Pres. Bush's statement of support over radio, EDITED Heads figuratively must roll within Indian establishment for this monumental negligence, and literally within TSP establishment for their terrorism. Sorry guys - Eye for an Eye. Indian establishment must not sl...
by krithivas
28 Nov 2008 05:38
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Terror Attacks on Mumbai-II
Replies: 1918
Views: 320144

Re: Terror Attacks on Mumbai-II

Eric Margolis on CNN - WinTV recorder crashed at the wrong time.

R. Krithivas

a) Fixed - Now recording after 30 seconds.
b) Joker is calling for Afgan war to end, and then wants Kashmir to be solved for such type of terrorist attacks to stop. Now drags in nuclear war with Pakistan.
by krithivas
28 Nov 2008 05:33
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Terror Attacks on Mumbai-II
Replies: 1918
Views: 320144

Re: Terror Attacks on Mumbai-II

Eric Margolis on CNN - WinTV recorder crashed at the wrong time.

R. Krithivas

// Fixed - Now recording after 30 seconds.
by krithivas
27 Nov 2008 09:29
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Terror Attacks in Mumbai
Replies: 1912
Views: 315654

Re: Terror Attacks in Mumbai

CNN is repeatedly talking about Afganistan, Pakistan and India in the same breadth .... that the arc of instability is now extending to India. Hope this is not a ruse for re-hyphenation.
by krithivas
27 Nov 2008 09:14
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Terror Attacks in Mumbai
Replies: 1912
Views: 315654

Re: Terror Attacks in Mumbai

NDTV Reports http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080074233 Even as a little-known Deccan Mujahideen group claimed responsibility for the coordinated terror strikes in Mumbai on Wednesday night, the identity and nature of the attack has left security agencies baffled. In the cam...
by krithivas
20 Sep 2008 05:51
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Delhi Blasts news and info
Replies: 634
Views: 149498

Re: Delhi Blasts news and info

Let us end this week with something positive - Dont know much about Radio Jamia what their antecedents are, but in this case appear to have been a stabilizing factor. Radio Jamia plea helped maintain calm in area 20 Sep 2008, 0357 hrs IST, Manash Pratim Gohain,TNN http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...
by krithivas
17 Sep 2008 22:30
Forum: Terrorism Archive
Topic: Delhi Blasts news and info
Replies: 634
Views: 149498

Re: Delhi Blasts news and info

The Hindu regularly gives space to Kasim Sait in the Letters to the Editor section- The prattling of the POTA mantra after every dastardly bomb blast sprouts out of an irrational outrage, with total disregard for an evolving, humane justice system. It should be strengthened with modern intelligence ...
by krithivas
05 Sep 2008 01:50
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: India nuclear news and discussion - 1 sep 2008
Replies: 679
Views: 149806

Re: India nuclear news and discussion - 1 sep 2008

Question to BR -
1) Which NGO is opposing GoI efforts to mine NE for Uranium?
2) Do we know the composition of that mysterious NGO? Specifically - Connection to EJ's.

Thanks
R. Krithivas
by krithivas
04 Sep 2008 00:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
Replies: 1747
Views: 438921

Re: Nepal News and discussion

Maoists shut down Dabur factory in Nepal Even as Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal sought more foreign investment and assured full security to industries, Maoists on Tuesday forced the closure of Indian ayurvedic giant Dabur’s subsidiary in Nepal. http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/03/stories/20080903610...
by krithivas
29 Aug 2008 20:27
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Internal Security Watch
Replies: 2843
Views: 561228

Re: Internal Security Watch

GoI must call on the European Union to demand immediate action to end the centuries of shameful neglect, unacceptable discrimination, rabid abuse and total disenfranchisement of Gypsies. Italy continues to be the leading abuser of Gypsies. In fact, GoI has all the right to do so - Gypsies are Indian...
by krithivas
17 Jun 2008 23:36
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Indian Nuclear News & Discussion - May-2008
Replies: 370
Views: 120123

Re: Indian Nuclear News & Discussion - May-2008

India's Left is doing China's bidding. These Indian traitors have not changed. During Congress's rule, India has increasingly become the play ground of every power on earth - From Jehadis to Christian Evangelists to Chinese. The chaos level within the nation from Gujjars to Gorkhaland strife has onl...
by krithivas
22 Mar 2008 08:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: North East & Eastern Himalayan: News & Discussion
Replies: 1140
Views: 280210

1 million face famine amid 'bamboo death'
Plague of rats eats Indian region's entire paddy crop


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23673239/

This appears to be a repeat phenomenon and GoI/Mizoram as usual was ready ....

R. Krithivas
by krithivas
07 Dec 2007 22:58
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Tackling Islamic Extremism in India - 2
Replies: 319
Views: 124926

Re: New to the Forum

....It is after reading their works that i am convinced that Christianity and Islam are not religions, but totalitarian and imperialistic creeds like Communism, Fascism..... I've thought about this myself, and am very glad to see that there are others who think the same way too. The systems of Chri...
by krithivas
30 Nov 2007 00:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India and ASEAN / East Asia
Replies: 721
Views: 147144

A good starting point will be an active boycott of Malaysian Airlines by Indians.

R. Krithivas
by krithivas
15 Mar 2007 03:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: North East & Eastern Himalayan: News & Discussion
Replies: 1140
Views: 280210

http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/14/stories/2007031403811300.htm "If you land at the Guwahati airport at night, you will be in complete darkness till you reach Hotel Brahmaputra Ashok. Even the streetlights don't work." If infrastructure was provided, the growth potential of the region would ...
by krithivas
23 Jun 2006 01:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-EU News & Analysis
Replies: 1806
Views: 418105

That would not be secular. It may offend the sensibilities of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Dalits, BC's, OBC's, MBC, and other supposedly-non-forward-community. R. Krithivas Why does the "Center for Hindu Studies" have to be in Oxford? Why is it not in India? This is like ...
by krithivas
11 Mar 2004 02:12
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Shaheen 2 - proliferation unlimited?
Replies: 128
Views: 53714

Re: Shaheen 2 - proliferation unlimited?

Didn't the Samar Mubarakmand and proliferation thief AQ Khan have significant professional rivalry(i.e. pi$$ing contest). If so, this missile launch appears to be a flaunt by the current victor (Samar) and the last loser (AQ Khan). That is, until they find that Samar stole the missile blueprint from...
by krithivas
18 Feb 2004 20:24
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 11 Feb 2004
Replies: 333
Views: 99298

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 11 Feb 2004

San Fransisco Chronicle: Consul General of India response to recent editorial on Paki Proliferation. Very weak letter. Implied reference to India, no reference to Pakistan. Price of the peace process. R> Krithivas San Fransisco Chronicle : Consul General Letter to Editor LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Wednes...
by krithivas
13 Feb 2004 18:50
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 11 Feb 2004
Replies: 333
Views: 99298

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 11 Feb 2004

"Nine Pak nuclear scientists abandon jobs"

The dismantling of the Paki nuclear infrastructure has reached its next logical step. Remember Ukraine and other formal Soviet republics .... Uncle went on a hiring spree.

R> Krithivas
by krithivas
12 Feb 2004 02:06
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004
Replies: 354
Views: 106376

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004

MSNBC hit it right on the head. Quote from the article: "After Abdul Vader Khan :) confessed last week to transferring nuclear secrets, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at first granted him a pardon and then made it dependent on the outcome of an investigation". The disgraced scientist...
by krithivas
11 Feb 2004 20:05
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004
Replies: 354
Views: 106376

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004

Nothing to complain. This incident and a string of others only demonstrate the outer reaches of the actual (vs. perceived) US power. Everyday the US is positioniong itself to becoming the "mother of all paper tigers". R> Krithivas Originally posted by jrjrao: See, like Terrorist Chief Mush...
by krithivas
10 Feb 2004 21:48
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004
Replies: 354
Views: 106376

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004

Just for the records: India has not forgotten Dr. Homi Bhabha who died in one such mysterious aircrash (Jan 24th 1966). I don't care about the disgraced thug A.Q.Khan. It is Khan who truly deserves the fate that had befallen the scholar-scientist Dr. Homi Bhabha. It is widely suspected that Western ...
by krithivas
09 Feb 2004 04:46
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004
Replies: 354
Views: 106376

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 07 Feb 2004

Those are quotes from the MSNBC article ..... The context also (IMO) is pacifying the rabid Paki H&D crowd. Though Pakiland may be nuke-nude, they once have better nukes than India. R> Krithivas Originally posted by Rye: Ananda seems to be a troll of some sort. Has not bothered to make much sens...
by krithivas
05 Feb 2004 20:07
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 04 Feb 2004
Replies: 339
Views: 107846

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 04 Feb 2004

As the heat on Pakistan due to nuclear proliferation cools (or rapidly cooled by the US) violence in J&K will (is) increase (increasing).

R> Krithivas
by krithivas
29 Jan 2004 19:50
Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004
Replies: 325
Views: 98435

Re: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 22 Jan 2004

I disagree. MR. C. Raja Mohan has a very good point. Everyone is looking for a foot-hold, a leverage. Denuking Pakistan is a foregone conclusion. Pakistan has lost its nuclear weaponry, and all the Uncle Sam song and dance is H&D. The non-proliferation eyes will then slowly turn on India. We nee...