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by SriKumar
11 Mar 2025 09:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 2928
Views: 1163980

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

Justin is JustOut. Mark Carney wants to rebuild relationship ….well, he can start by sharing proof that India has been asking them for a year.
by SriKumar
07 Mar 2025 08:09
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
Replies: 448
Views: 279003

Re: Renewable Sources of Energy

Hydrogen with it's single electron is always looking for marriage. It's the smallest atom that can leak through cylinders seals. Needs huge amount of compression to liquify ie energy expenditure. From the discussion I note that there are no technological breakthroughs that address these fundamental...
by SriKumar
06 Mar 2025 06:30
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
Replies: 448
Views: 279003

Re: Renewable Sources of Energy

Since electricity from renewable sources is needed to produce green Hydrogen, the options are solar, wind and hydro-electricity. Relative to oil, these sources of renewable energy generate a rather limited amount of power (there are limits to how much area can be covered with solar panels/wind turbi...
by SriKumar
02 Mar 2025 06:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: European Union: Positive News
Replies: 523
Views: 447335

Re: European Union: Positive News

FT reporting the new British nuclear attack subs would cost appxly 40% of their annual defence budget !! .. if they spend more [ right now cutting foreign "aid" enabled them to go from 2.25 to 2.5% spending on defence !! ] , not sure where those monies will come from , most likely from we...
by SriKumar
01 Mar 2025 22:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: European Union: Positive News
Replies: 523
Views: 447335

Re: European Union: Positive News

EU defence spending will increasely significantly. Their social programs will suffer. They'll need markets desperately....and China is saturated.
by SriKumar
12 Jan 2025 00:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Replies: 738
Views: 433305

Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

I was in Japan recently. They are quite racist towards Indians and grovel before Whites. Forget the gaijin, how are they with each other, though.... A push for courtesy comes from inculcating such behavior from childhood, in school and at home. The challanges will be similar to, but MUCH more diffi...
by SriKumar
25 Dec 2024 23:10
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
Replies: 6998
Views: 3008122

Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion

.....and add another decade to the process. DRDO is going with Kaveri from the get-go per what's is on the web. It speaks to their confidence on this.
by SriKumar
25 Dec 2024 22:25
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
Replies: 6998
Views: 3008122

Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion

Dont know how reliable this news: Apparently Kaveri will be tested on UAV Ghatak Kind of old news. It came out in a tweet roughly a year ago. Logically speaking, this is the ONLY way to break the decades-old logjam of 'we cannot risk a human life without flying it first', and 'oh, a flying testbed ...
by SriKumar
23 Dec 2024 01:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2050
Views: 823940

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

ONOP: So if a ruling coalition govt breaks mid-way, say 2 years into the show (or fails a no-confidence vote for a justfiable reason) , and the biggest ruling party does not have majority MPs in LS, how will the govt continue without elections till the next cycle still 3 years away under ONOP. Will ...
by SriKumar
08 Dec 2024 21:01
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
Replies: 1300
Views: 1271381

Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion

Up around the top of their orbits Occulter spacecraft will cast a precisely controlled shadow onto the Coronagraph spacecraft around 150 m away , to produce solar eclipses on demand for six hours at a time. Reaching the optical performance by having its occulting disc fly on a separate, carefully c...
by SriKumar
07 Dec 2024 21:06
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
Replies: 1300
Views: 1271381

Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion

“On Earth, total solar eclipses only occur every 18 months on average, and last just for a few minutes. Solar scientists have to travel all over the world to take advantage of them. Proba-3 will be able to create solar eclipses on demand, observing closer to the edge of the Sun than any previous Ea...
by SriKumar
29 Nov 2024 06:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 2928
Views: 1163980

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

Kedar wrote:
Here are a few other high-profile terrorist attacks by Khalistanis
Assassination of Nirankari Chief Baba Gurbachan Singh.
Assassination of Punjab Kesari editor Lala Jagat Narain.
Assassination of DIG Atwal
; Punjab CM Beant Singh and possibly Harchand Singh Longowal too.
by SriKumar
23 Jun 2024 21:22
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
Replies: 1300
Views: 1271381

Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion

RLV-LEX-03 successful, JSR https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/isros-reusable-launch-vehicle-completes-3rd-landing-test-paving-way-for-orbital-re-entry/articleshow/111200124.cms Video here https://x.com/isro/status/1804709607576834363 Good video. Thankfully ISRO (and the poster of the video) ...
by SriKumar
12 Jun 2024 05:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
Replies: 4446
Views: 1815047

Re: J&K Union Territory-2019

Your comment doesn't make any sense. The forum, core voters and public at large asks for better media management by BJP, and yet here your are endorsing sheer display of professional incompetence. It did make sense to some posters. Perhaps you meant that it did not make sense to you. Good idea to a...
by SriKumar
10 Jun 2024 04:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
Replies: 4446
Views: 1815047

Re: J&K Union Territory-2019

With all the might of the state at your perusal, you still have to resort to begging for pics of an accident site. In other words BJP media management is useless. Uncalled for. If you can help in any way, please help. If you cannot, then ignore the post in peace. Sneering at a sincere request for r...
by SriKumar
27 May 2024 08:36
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Mangalyaan-2
Replies: 29
Views: 28864

Re: Mangalyaan-2

Doubtless, engineering and technology advancements have made things easier, but a Mars landing requires engineers to deal with an additional set of physics not existing on moon- aerodynamic forces and frictional heating. To be able to use aerodynamic forces to its benefit (i.e. slow down the lander)...
by SriKumar
26 May 2024 09:34
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Mangalyaan-2
Replies: 29
Views: 28864

Re: Mangalyaan-2

Allow me to post this from basic physics and engineering principles -- Landing on the Moon is indeed more complex than landing on Mars -- because of its airless environment, which means : I think the presence of atmosphere, while it helps with braking/slowing down the lander, may create other compl...
by SriKumar
25 May 2024 17:55
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Mangalyaan-2
Replies: 29
Views: 28864

Re: Mangalyaan-2

If ISRO had it in their plan, then there is a possibility it gets launched this year. Interesting that they have a GSLV allocated for this as opposed to satellite launches. If they miss the 2024 chance, the next landing will be in 2027 ( ~1 year to get there). And all development gets delayed by 3 y...
by SriKumar
20 May 2024 00:59
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Mangalyaan-2
Replies: 29
Views: 28864

Re: Mangalyaan-2

^^^ Is the launch date above correct? Launch to happen In 6-7 months?
Seems aggressive for all the new technologies that need to be developed and tested.
by SriKumar
12 Apr 2024 21:30
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Replies: 1668
Views: 615268

Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]

INC's 1 lakh per year promise will make women vote INC? A related point is asking the mothers (or mothers-to-be) whether this scheme of 1 lakh will be available for their daughters 10-15 years from now. And if not, which is a better way to ensure the daughter's future: empowerment via education, ec...
by SriKumar
12 Apr 2024 21:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5264
Views: 2258517

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

^^^ Pakistan Army soldiers entered a Pakistani police station and thrashed the policmen and gave them a bloody nose (literally). The beating captured on video. https://twitter.com/zzbaloch/status/1778339918231527790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1778339918231527790%7Ctwgr%5E0e...
by SriKumar
03 Mar 2024 00:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6103
Views: 2367755

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

officially "cambridge" has nothing to do with it. These jokers are on a narrative building spree, trying to build up the dimwit dynast's "reputation" as an intellectual I had no doubt in my mind. If it had turned out out that any department in Cambridge Univ. in its formal capac...
by SriKumar
27 Feb 2024 06:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1080972

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

What's interesting about Dr. Kaul's saga is that she had no clue of what was to come, until she landed. And she spent the next 48 hours at the airport, and flew back to UK. Some OCI walas, particularly in Canada, will now start wondering about how they determine if they might meet with the same ummm...
by SriKumar
14 Feb 2024 06:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1080972

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

:D Well, I had to give it a PG13 spin (chakka) in this august forum; and glad to return the favor, Sir. Your own earlier BRF handle was a source of occasional mirth for me when it had the letter P in it. Please to excuse but once when a poster referred to you as KLPD ji, I lost it. Too bad there is ...
by SriKumar
14 Feb 2024 05:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1080972

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

sanjaykumar wrote: 14 Feb 2024 01:30 What is the connection?
PErhpas the farmer said 'gaantht' (to rhyme with can't) which means knot (as a knot in a thread). The connection with chakka could be the spinning wheel (Gandhian one, used to spin cotton into threads). Maybe a knot in the thread is a way of saying something is off/awry.
by SriKumar
09 Feb 2024 05:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1080972

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

^^^Whats on your wish list for 3.0 bhailog? ;) Top 5 please... 2 international, 3 domestic ? My guess on 'big decisions' is that they will relate to internal policies (i.e. not UNSC or external affairs). Maybe the constitution.... I have only one: reform judiciary such that cases that the common ma...
by SriKumar
02 Feb 2024 05:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
Replies: 3327
Views: 1080972

Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1

^^^ fikar not mere yaar. Kamal Hassan (the great south actor) tried this stunt of southern unity a few years ago and lost the elections in TN. Southies do not have a common language (each is proud of their own mother tongue, and of course, we all are), some are neutral to Hindi (TG) and some anti- H...
by SriKumar
31 Jan 2024 08:06
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
Replies: 4237
Views: 1441188

Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir

Yep, I forgot. How did you know.
by SriKumar
31 Jan 2024 06:44
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
Replies: 4237
Views: 1441188

Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir

Imran Khan, the Pakistani Vazir-e-azam who had Abhinandan in his custody and in jail, is himself now in a jail 5 years later. Wheels of fate.
by SriKumar
03 Jan 2024 09:25
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6089
Views: 1646802

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

All passengers and crew survived. I think the evacuation took less than 2 minutes. A miracle of orderly evacuation if there was one. The cabin crew must have reacted as soon as they heard the collision with Dash 8.
by SriKumar
02 Jan 2024 07:06
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Know Your India
Replies: 718
Views: 568975

Re: Know Your India

It does make sense to me that Indus Valley Civilization (Harappa) - IVC (with its yet undeciphered script) should pre-date Sanskrit and Vedas (and Mahabharata story) as well. Sanskrit language and the Vedas are of the 5000 B.C. vintage or earlier and arose in the exact same geographic area of about ...
by SriKumar
28 Dec 2023 23:54
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6089
Views: 1646802

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Traveled out of Mumbai airport this week. Great facilities, however found a couple of oddities - 1. The WIFI at the airport, although technically free requires an OTP sent to an active mobile number to sign in. This is not feasible if you're trying to use a laptop or don't have a working mobile num...
by SriKumar
25 Dec 2023 20:38
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Judicial System
Replies: 25
Views: 34211

Re: Indian Judicial System

Good thread, tandav. It is unimaginable pain for someone unfortunate enough to get tangled in the justice process which can take anywhere from 5 years to 30 years- people are born and die over such timescales. The new bills, as I understand, are to replace the current system of laws- a very major st...
by SriKumar
20 Dec 2023 03:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10424
Views: 3788540

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

It just struck me that Modi's speech was scheduled and then cancelled by U Penn (Wharton) in 2013; and Subramanya Swamy was removed from his adjunct (?) teaching post at Harvard a few years ago- for similar types of reasons. Perhaps the same forces were at play then.
by SriKumar
02 Dec 2023 09:08
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
Replies: 1662
Views: 6726851

Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022

deejay wrote: 01 Dec 2023 18:21 I had said Indian Military will order 500-600 LCAs at least, long back. This is a step in that direction.
Welcome back. I still recall the story about your friend who went and bought an elephant from the Sonepur mela... :D (am still not sure it was real or what).
by SriKumar
26 Nov 2023 04:12
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
Replies: 1662
Views: 6726851

Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022

The pilots of 2 Tejas squadrons will be pumped up with this event. Flight must have taken weeks/months to plan out....
by SriKumar
25 Nov 2023 19:05
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
Replies: 1662
Views: 6726851

Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022

….probably a first for any GOI leader to fly in a single engine aircraft. Not even republic day parades have Tejas flying.
by SriKumar
18 Nov 2023 22:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Replies: 738
Views: 433305

Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

Pretty remarkable - Bernier says the same, almost word for word, back in 1650: 200+ years before Swami Vivekananda. It was the women themselves who insisted on burning themselves on the pyres of their dead husbands. The Brahmins would do their utmost to dissuade the women from doing that. But if th...
by SriKumar
18 Nov 2023 20:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Replies: 738
Views: 433305

Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

sudarshan- you can follow this up.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Comp ... Country%3F

Vivekananda responds to a reporter's question, from what I understand. Crocodile story is mentioned.
by SriKumar
18 Nov 2023 19:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Replies: 738
Views: 433305

Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

^^^ I think the stories if Indian mothers dropping their babies to crocodiles (a variation of what you have written above) are a complete fabrication; done by religious missionaries to denigrate India and Hinduism. Vivekananda had to respond to these stories by reporters in the US (on many occasions...