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- 12 Apr 2024 21:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 1157
- Views: 250815
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...
- 12 Apr 2024 21:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 4497
- Views: 1382633
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...
- 03 Mar 2024 00:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
- Replies: 5655
- Views: 1655540
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...
- 27 Feb 2024 06:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 866547
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...
- 14 Feb 2024 06:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 866547
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 ...
- 14 Feb 2024 05:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 866547
Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
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.
- 09 Feb 2024 05:16
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 866547
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...
- 02 Feb 2024 05:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 866547
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...
- 31 Jan 2024 08:06
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
- Replies: 4234
- Views: 1250357
Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
Yep, I forgot. How did you know.
- 31 Jan 2024 06:44
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
- Replies: 4234
- Views: 1250357
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.
- 03 Jan 2024 09:25
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1362560
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.
- 02 Jan 2024 07:06
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Know Your India
- Replies: 606
- Views: 257672
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 ...
- 28 Dec 2023 23:54
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1362560
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...
- 25 Dec 2023 20:38
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Judicial System
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6663
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...
- 20 Dec 2023 03:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8977
- Views: 2612929
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.
- 02 Dec 2023 09:08
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 1030
- Views: 6033867
- 26 Nov 2023 04:12
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 1030
- Views: 6033867
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....
- 25 Nov 2023 19:05
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 1030
- Views: 6033867
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.
- 18 Nov 2023 22:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
- Replies: 655
- Views: 202122
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...
- 18 Nov 2023 20:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
- Replies: 655
- Views: 202122
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.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Comp ... Country%3F
Vivekananda responds to a reporter's question, from what I understand. Crocodile story is mentioned.
- 18 Nov 2023 19:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
- Replies: 655
- Views: 202122
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...
- 28 Oct 2023 04:36
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8495
- Views: 3097073
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Not sure what thread this falls under but these B. Tech graduates are applying for peon jobs and taking a cycle test. Sounds weird....
In Gods own country...
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... s?from=mdr
In Gods own country...
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... s?from=mdr
- 25 Oct 2023 22:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
- Replies: 2009
- Views: 500035
Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Looks like Canada blinked. they have seemingly taken measures on diplomat security. Indian missions resume operations but not Canada. Net-net a loss to Canada. Their missions in Chandigarh, Blore and Mumbai cannot resume operations now due to the massive reduction in their diplomatic staff. And this...
- 21 Oct 2023 20:05
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
- Replies: 1042
- Views: 767105
Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCfEDlNPTP0&t=3s The ISRO video shows good technical data. I wish the DD commentators do not talk over the mission callouts. From the relative velocity vs time plots the capsule sees significant shocks a few times during the drogue chute operation. With astronaut...
- 11 Oct 2023 20:16
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 3288221
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Some sanity ... This Nepali Harvard Student has second thoughts and retracts his shameful earlier statement he issued , and issues an apology .. I think neither group has any idea of what's actually going on. The Nepali retraction seemed more thought out. The ghunguroo group still waffled in their ...
- 09 Oct 2023 21:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 3288221
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
It seems there is military action now on the Lebanese border as well. Gaza will be difficult. There will be numerous tunnels, many of new and constructed recently for which maps may not be there. They prepared meticulously. Am expecting tunnles to be booby-trapped. Separating civilians/children from...
- 08 Oct 2023 06:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 3288221
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
The videos are crazy....this was a suicide assault on a massive scale, with hostages being taken. They took women and children as hostages- I'll bet this too was all planned carefully.
- 21 Sep 2023 08:46
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
They said Pragyan (or Vikram) was tested for cold temperatures. I assume it must have been soaked in liquid nitrogen or something colder. Both have to survive.
- 09 Sep 2023 19:04
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6367
- Views: 1427785
Re: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
^^^ Wish I had seen this yesterday in time. I watched the movie and it was very difficult to sit through it after 30 minutes. Predictable and over-dramatic. The message was clearly political... farmers' suicides, loan forgiveness etc. Coming 8 months before an election, it tries to be neutral about ...
- 07 Sep 2023 05:37
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Sideview (YZ plane) of the 2D view from sankara.net (no issues here) https://i.imgur.com/rYyUb61.png Following three 2D images in the XY plane show CY3 approaching the moon, or rather, the moon approaching CY3. CY3 is poised at (what I believe to be) the beginning of the Lunar orbit insertion phase....
- 06 Sep 2023 04:49
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
So is the orbit shown in sankaranet accurate i.e. did CY3 essentially traverse the same path as represented here. https://sankara.net/chandrayaan3.html The orbits shown are extremely accurate -- they are based on *actual* ISRO/JPL data. (that's why some times we have to wait till the data is availa...
- 05 Sep 2023 07:22
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
So is the orbit shown in sankaranet accurate i.e. did CY3 essentially traverse the same path as represented here. https://sankara.net/chandrayaan3.html I am talking specifically about the lunar orbit insertion portion of it (and not the other parts) i.e. after the end of TLI and before CY3 settles i...
- 04 Sep 2023 20:14
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
^^^ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5K0jq7a8AAc86G?format=jpg&name=large The picture on the left has Pragyaan still on the ramp before it rolled down- no tracks. The picture on the right does not have Pragyaan and also is zoomed out. This also means that the left picture is during lunar sunrise i.e...
- 31 Aug 2023 21:55
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
- 27 Aug 2023 21:27
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
I think you are right, sir. It completely threw me off that a +ve value meant it was going deeper. So all but 3 of the measurements are actually above the ground (odd :) ). This squares with the linear drop in temperature as one goes above the ground and away from it. The temp drops from 50 C to -1...
- 27 Aug 2023 20:51
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Why would the temperature increase above the lunar surface relative to the surface. The heat on moon surface is entirely due to the solar radiation absorbed by the moon surface. I guess the above-the-surface measurements are being done not in shade, and are catching the sunlight directly (typical t...
- 27 Aug 2023 19:44
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
Ye to kaam karna chalu kiya !!! https://twitter.com/isro/status/1695725102166671448/photo/1 Why would the temperature increase above the lunar surface relative to the surface. The heat on moon surface is entirely due to the solar radiation absorbed by the moon surface. I guess the above-the-surface...
- 27 Aug 2023 19:33
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
In Surya Sidhant we are given a few different figures of length of Lunar month : (I am giving approximate values in modern (commonly know) units (All in days); (There figures are given, how many cycles it will make in a whole yuga etc.) 1 - 29.53059 days 2 - 27.32158 days 3 - 27.32166 days 4 - 27.5...
- 26 Aug 2023 20:34
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
did isro say explicitly at any time that vikram landed in nominal orientation? From the point of view of solar energy capture, it is pretty close. If you notice the opening of the solar panel of the rover , it is almost (but not quite) normal/orthogonal to the direction of sunlight, even while on t...
- 26 Aug 2023 18:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 923339
Re: Chandrayaan 3: Launch and Discussions
I like these names a lot better: ShivaShakti and Tiranga. Tiranga, while meaning the tricolor flag, is an indirect reference to the people of the country rather than one person. These are names that lakhs and crores can directly relate to on a personal basis. On a technical note, it appears that the...