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- 26 Dec 2023 01:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Miscellaneous Topics thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8995
Re: Miscellaneous Topics thread
US just gets more publicity. There are extensive incidents in Soviet records available after their collapse and declassification, including big ticket items from secure nuclear facilities, air bases, mining towns and so on, they had even less incentive to fake these. Iran and China also have multipl...
- 29 Aug 2023 07:40
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6364
- Views: 1405467
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
Here's the video. 8qCZq-Dlrso Actually, I thought that the Pakistani guy wasn't putting too much effort and yet came close. Neeraj Chopra needs to hit 90m to fortify his position. Neeraj looked about a meter and some away from line when he released, that alone means he was throwing about 90
- 29 Aug 2023 07:40
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6364
- Views: 1405467
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
Here's the video. 8qCZq-Dlrso Actually, I thought that the Pakistani guy wasn't putting too much effort and yet came close. Neeraj Chopra needs to hit 90m to fortify his position. Neeraj was looked about a meter and some away from line when he released, that alone means he was throwing about 90
- 26 Aug 2023 23:52
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1354
- Views: 742161
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
ISRO Chief, S. Somnath (Lord of the moon!) talks about ancient Sanskrit texts (Surya Siddhanta, etc) which describes concepts which are today accepted worldwide and form the basis of modern science. FWIW: The reason of my learning Sanskrit well was to read Surya Siddhanta in original (English Trans...
- 18 Oct 2022 07:47
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Autos Thread -2
- Replies: 703
- Views: 260093
Re: Indian Autos Thread -2
All in Hindi, but the Indian 2 wheeler industry has been quite a success story completely sidelining the Chinese & becoming global brands. ehUIxALEL5s HNZIUaHPbH4 1PIHN0CHCOM Didn't know an Indian brand finally got around to developing their own engines :shock: and they are pretty reliable: bp3v...
- 18 Oct 2022 07:36
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6364
- Views: 1405467
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
This is the most competitive era in chess ever by far, Arjun had an almost perfect olympiad tournament as Amber pointed out (the one Magnus applauded was Prag, who seems to enjoy playing for his interesting moves). The games by the teenagers are very hard fought (they attack Magnus with no fear, for...
- 19 Aug 2022 14:18
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8447
- Views: 3031367
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
We dont like rNdtv but generally I find these programmes useful with Ruchir Sharma. India's Economic Progress @75 His bottomline - 1. we need more women participation in workforce from 21% to around 45% ..... Why is this an important goal? Keep seeing this where Indian authorities & groups jump...
- 17 Jul 2022 22:48
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: BR Maths Corner-1
- Replies: 2239
- Views: 458654
Re: BR Maths Corner-1
Do you think India does bad in IMO comparitive to China/US because it doesn't have the prestige or be future prospects in the country (like doing well on IIT-JEE does)? Or are Chinese just inherently better at math tests? (Was there something to having to learn the structure of the their written lan...
- 16 Jul 2022 22:04
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6364
- Views: 1405467
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
First Sanskrit animated feature
- 08 Jul 2022 05:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1141098
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Enigmatic Designs Found in India May Be The Largest Images Ever Made by Human Hands Didn't think geoglyphs would be ever found in India, like famous ones in Americas and Europe. Link has aerial photos Hidden in the vast, arid expanses of India's Thar Desert lie mysterious old drawings carved into t...
- 18 Apr 2022 23:21
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3024816
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Quite simply, there is no long term solution involving co-existance, doesn't matter how much Hindus start asserting themselves, it will always be a constant struggle requiring huge effort and resources to just retain parity in social power and influence. But Hindus just don't have the nature to even...
- 22 Nov 2021 05:12
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Multimedia - Indian Armed Forces
- Replies: 2239
- Views: 603798
- 13 Oct 2021 03:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 803355
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
I cannot help but wonder how did the US and EU powers get to where they are by being this stupid ? Clearly they want to see as few refugees from Afghanistan entering US/EU as possible... This is an assumption that the powers that be act in a monolithic rational manner for the benefit of the populat...
- 12 Oct 2021 20:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1141098
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Hello Prem, that thought had occurred to me too actually as it is so disruptive they will do everything to dismiss it ahead of time. On the other hand Niraj seems to have no problem talking about it in public and it has also shown up on twitter. Most of all, since they will be using the peer-review ...
- 12 Oct 2021 08:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1141098
- 07 Oct 2021 22:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Let us Understand the Chinese - II
- Replies: 277
- Views: 87243
Re: Let us Understand the Chinese - II
This channel has two western guys who have lived and bike around in China for years, glimpses of everyday life but also lots of stuff from rural areas and underground stuff you don't see in mainstream media. Had good video on ghost cities before, this is a followup with Evergrande failure. Lots of s...
- 07 Oct 2021 22:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Let us Understand the Chinese - II
- Replies: 277
- Views: 87243
Re: Let us Understand the Chinese - II
Student leaders with the aura of CCP officials; Militarized educational model get popular in China.
- 08 Aug 2021 01:35
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: The Tokyo Olympic Games Thread
- Replies: 306
- Views: 67869
Re: The Tokyo Olympic Games Thread
Why leave out archery? One of the few other sports where performance has been at world class level. As I said, if Deepika had been in other bracket where she didn't meet the Korean gold winner, she would taken silver. Her and Atanu can also medal in mixed if performing well. Also for sports where ra...
- 03 Aug 2021 22:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1746944
Re: Understanding the US - Again
The wokification and bureaucratization of American education continues. Post-secondary is needlessly expensive and bloated and most of it is now useless https://cspicenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DEIpic.png The Black Hole of DEI Spending at Public Universities For decades, universities have w...
- 31 Jul 2021 10:25
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: The Tokyo Olympic Games Thread
- Replies: 306
- Views: 67869
Re: The Tokyo Olympic Games Thread
For archery, the world's do mean something. Deepika was the best non-korean going in. She beat the current Olympic silver medalist earlier this year just before the Olympics in one of the stages she won a gold in and would have beaten the bronze medallist too. She got unlucky with her bracket, to me...
- 18 Jul 2021 07:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Psy-Ops techniques employed to sucker Indians
- Replies: 224
- Views: 87707
Re: Psy-Ops techniques employed to sucker Indians
Brits (working for Netflix in this case, but same behind BBC docs) even casually manipulates nature documentaries for their own agenda, they can't be said to have credibility when covering complex societal issues:
- 07 Jul 2021 07:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 633307
- 04 Jul 2021 22:16
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Naval News & Discussion
- Replies: 3870
- Views: 1085764
Re: International Naval News & Discussion
The so called "The Battle of May Island" is one of the most extraordinary and absurd naval incidents of all time. A parade of Murphy's law in action (though not throughout the incident, it could have been much worse) and demonstration of the incompetency of British leadership starring the ...
- 04 Jul 2021 20:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: China's Global Strategy-I
- Replies: 125
- Views: 41721
Re: China's Global Strategy-I
Wasn't sure where to post this as couldn't find a general China thread. Still useful in understanding various methods Chinese state employs, especially the non-physical dimensions, which are also often employed by other groups, especially in India. This is something India is very susceptible to and ...
- 10 Apr 2021 06:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Books Folder - 2008 onwards!!!
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 250809
Re: Book Review Folder - 2008/2009/2010/2011
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower - a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that a...
- 21 Jan 2021 03:27
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6364
- Views: 1405467
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
Here's a long form article relevant to discussion about Australian behavior and written by an Australian, discussing their aggressive win at all costs mentality and its nasty effects.. The Ugly Australian The ugly Australian: the evolution of a cricket species How did Australian cricket come to be s...
- 18 May 2020 05:44
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1630899
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
David Icke, one of the interviewes also beleives that in the correct light, members of the royal family can be seen for what they really are, reptiles and 5G is the cause of the Wuhan virus! I was thinking of mentioning that Icke is in there and here is someone already possibly dismissive (if not t...
- 18 May 2020 02:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1630899
- 14 Apr 2020 05:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Military Discussion
- Replies: 3005
- Views: 837333
- 20 Feb 2020 08:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2993
- Views: 387164
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
New York was probably the first successful implementation of neo-liberalism which eventually took over the western world, government's main job now became being business friendly and serving finance over citizen interests, now common wisdom the world over.
- 10 Feb 2020 06:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8805
- Views: 2476228
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
New Way Forward Act The woke left will continue to march forward, if not now then in the future. And my guess it will lead to increased third worldification of US, it will become an increasingly latin america like banana state. Those of you staying in the US better ensure your kids are the ones livi...
- 17 Jan 2020 11:50
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: BR Maths Corner-1
- Replies: 2239
- Views: 458654
Re: BR Maths Corner-1
Featuring Jayadev Athreya on a new discovery about platonic solids, in particular dodecahedra.
- 14 Jan 2020 22:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1746944
Re: Understanding the US - Again
4bu36QjaHHM One reason for hostility among some sections of black and Jewish communities. Regardless of extremeness of Nation of Islam and other organizations which are outright anti-semitic, there do seem to be many sources pointing to extensive Jewish involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade...
- 09 Jan 2020 09:15
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Military Discussion
- Replies: 3005
- Views: 837333
Re: International Military Discussion
More balanced view than the Greek jingoistic viewpoint common in west, wasn't simply quality vs quantity.
- 26 Dec 2019 04:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5642
- Views: 1630899
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
SCHOOL APOLOGIES OVER MANCHESTER ARENA BOMBING ESSAY TASK A school in Yorkshire has apologised after setting homework that required children to imagine themselves as the parent of a victim of the Manchester Arena bombing. The task, given to year eight pupils at Bridlington School as part of a perso...
- 28 Oct 2019 02:08
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Mangalyaan: ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission
- Replies: 2760
- Views: 402386
- 28 Sep 2019 06:09
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
- Replies: 4318
- Views: 654123
Re: Perspectives on the global economic changes
-During Asian economic crisis of 90s, west (IMF and US Treasury) came in and lectured Asian countries to not print money despite what they wanted, caused pain but they recovered -When the same happened in west in 2008, they printed money and did exactly what they had told Asian countries not to do. ...
- 25 Sep 2019 13:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
- Replies: 6071
- Views: 1273671
Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis
aCixl4B6j1A Stephen F. Cohen argues that cracks are emerging within the NATO-led consensus that has pushed Moscow from the West. Guest: Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies at New York University and Princeton University, contributing editor at The Nation, and author of "War...
- 25 Sep 2019 07:29
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8805
- Views: 2476228
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
I'm wondering if the impeachment proceedings will be done in time for the elections, I'm sure the Dems will be pushing for that (unless it becomes clear it won't be favorable). Worst case, Pence comes in who is much worse for India but at least he won't have long at the helm before elections. Long t...
- 25 Sep 2019 05:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8805
- Views: 2476228
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Breaking: Pelosi initiated impeachment inquiry against Trump. Most experts saying Ukraine revelations over last few days finally got her to give in to the pressure from a lot of Democrats.