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Originally posted by arun: So perhaps the US has not after all bought the private enterprise thesis being peddled by the Pakistani’s and much will be happening in purdah. Any volunteers to demolish this thesis ? Or add to it. It is almost certain that US has not bought the charade. Looks like they ...

Originally posted by shiv: As for the population of Pakistan - fck them - who is bothered - let them rot. Shiv Since this is off-topic, I will be short - Indians should try to uplift the sorry lot (mirroring the RAPE's unneeded attention to Dalits) from under the oppression of RAPE. A perfect D&...

Originally posted by Johann: A good summary of the compromise produced by the friction between two competing priorities; WMD risk mitigation, and preventing revolution in Pakistan. For India, these are not competing priorities. India wants both - WMD risk mitigation and a revolution in Pakistan whi...

Originally posted by suryavir: Ideally of course the Pakistani program must be completely dismantled (as Nandu says above) on grounds that Pakistan has proven, beyond a shadow of doubt, that it is reckless and irresponsible state that cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. Agreed. I made the earli...

Originally posted by James Bund:

-turn into a liberal, secular democracy.

Turn into 5 or 6 liberal secular democracoes would be even better.

Originally posted by suryavir: 2) How can anybody rest assured that the international community (led by the US)has the will and the wherewithal to blow the cover off the proliferation racket and ensure its permanent death? Suryavir I agree with the rest of your post, but the above is impossible. It...

Originally posted by Johann: There's no doubt that there were mistakes in Western threat assessment. Its possible to recognise that without public self-flagellation. An absense of such a public self-flagellation is a hallmark of somebody who does not learn from past mistakes and would be punished f...

Originally posted by Johann: Originally posted by Rangudu: Johann, When you say overt inspection, I take it you include the Pakistani facilities. Yes absolutely. Musharraf has said (paraphrasing here) that no rollback of Paki Nuke program will be allowed. Also, just heard a wail by IAEA spokeswoman...

Originally posted by Sriman: Tim, Two points. 1. If the Libyan connection was "known" (granted, circumstantial) even to me -- heck, Tim, why else would a prould man like Bhutto name the largest stadium in his country after Gaddafi -- I find it hard to believe that the US intel agencies we...

Originally posted by Rakesh_Koshy:
I can't believe Abdul 'Queer' Khan has been sacked. Heheheheh

I wonder what purpose is served by this juvenile comment.

From the Wash. Times article posted by VTAbraham ...U.S. intelligence began suspecting AQK and President Pervez Musharraf were not on the same page. ... For the past two years, Mr. Musharraf suspected AQK was free-lancing his nuclear assets, ... Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Mr. Musharraf co...

Originally posted by John Umrao:
2)The above will also help the PRC / Unkil combo get out of undue scruitiny from world.

I don't think either of them is overly worried about such a scrutiny.

From article posted by John Umrao:
Pak helped North Korea build nukes: Report

Shyam Bhatia in London | January 23, 2004 17:28 IST
The IISS identifies the father of the Pakistani nuclear programme, India-born Abdul Qadeer Khan,

Why the gratuitous refernce to his being born in India?

Originally posted by raj singh: A Vasu then there is the movie Shaheed (the old old one) with the song "Aye Watan, aye watan" From the same movie another excellent number/song is... Mera rang de basanti chola One of my fav. movies of all time. At about the same time, there was this other ...

From artcile posted by Rangudu: New Iran uranium find reinforces bomb fears Diplomats said intense efforts were under way to receive answers from Islamabad, but the results were not yet clear. :roll: [/b] Basically they made some phone calls and left messages with the Bakwasi clone and eagerly wait...

Originally posted by Rudra Singha: AP Govt gets 3 NRI firms to start centers http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/sep/02biotech.htm [/QB] I gave a quick scan of the contents here. The AP guys are giving VC funding to the tune $0.5 Millon each to these three companies for a stake of 15%-25% in each of t...

From LA Times article

Technology and scientists from Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan have propelled Iran's...

is in actuality

Technology and scientists from Russia, China, China (via North Korea), and China (via Pakistan) have propelled Iran's...

Originally posted by Sai:
[Anil, are you Gult!?

Is this from neethi sathakam?

Yes, I am.

It is my understanding that the above padyam is a translation from Bhartruhari's Neethi Shatakam. May be I will saunter down to the library here to see if I can get the original.

Originally posted by John Umrao: kaushal garu>> .... Cheri moorkhuni manasu ranjimparaadu. To fil in the dots in the above post thiviri isumuna thailambu theeya vachchu dhavili mrugathrushna lO neeru thraga vachchu thirigi kundheti kommu sandhimpa vachchu chEri mUrkhula mansu ranjimparAdu Does anyb...

Congrats. It is a dream come true. Hope BRF beats Strom Thurmand.

Originally posted by Sudarshan: Hauma, That distance table you posted says Russians are closer to Indians (distance=29) than east and southeast Asians (98). Or am I reading the distance values wrong, i.e., a higher value=closer? Sudarshan The distance is the genetic distance - not geographical.

Originally posted by John Umrao:
Some of the fine variety of Rice used to be Nellore (molakulukulu) and Rice from Ghanapur between Hyderabad and Warrangal.

And Sambrani and China Sindhuvayalu

Originally posted by Harish: Why would a hardcore chankian like PVNR decide to rub the world's only super power the wrong way ? that too back then when India was no where close to where we are now ??!! Surprising, isn't it? it could have been a miscalculation. But going by his Chanakyan mind set, t...

Originally posted by Kaushal: PVNR must have recounted that story in the context of non-proliferation, But it is water of a ducks back. A majority of americans are convinced that they need nuclear weapons and an even greater majority feel India should not be allowed to have them. Kaushal You are qu...

Originally posted by Harish: - I think in his address to the American congress, when talking about the pressures being applied on India to sign the CTBT (?), he quoted Gandhiji. He recounted an anecdotal story of Gandhiji, which goes as follows. One day a woman brought her 7 year old son who is ver...

Originally posted by shiv: Drama, as in "graphic, explicit and colorful and emotive" is a very Indian form of expression. Hindi movies are an example, and another example (for those who have seen both) are the 8 hour english play "Mahabharata" made by phoren (Can't recall now) -...