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- 17 Jun 2015 08:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Myanmar news and discussion
- Replies: 641
- Views: 550053
Re: India-Myanmar news and discussion
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150324/jsp/opinion/story_10387.jsp#.VRCp-2YbgoA It never looked like it could get this worse. The close ties that China has developed with the military junta in Myanmar since the late 1980s now appear to belong to the past. China was the only major nation that firmly ...
- 12 Jun 2015 07:41
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
- Replies: 748
- Views: 256779
Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems
Aadhar and Digilocker are the building blocks of a digital dictatorship in India.
- 09 Jun 2015 10:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1898656
Re: Internal Security Watch
Chetak, why blame the termite queen for everything? This was done the great economist Mand-mohan Singh, who only wanted to ensure that Bikram Singh, who has a pakistani for a daughter in law, was made army chief.
- 01 Jun 2015 16:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 619430
Re: Geopolitical thread
It is more than just having encryption keys - US intelligence developed the random numbers tables, the encryption algorithms, the frameworks, etc - everything. People built 'privacy' tools with software that were 100% compromised.
It is like building secularism with pakistanis ...oh, wait...
It is like building secularism with pakistanis ...oh, wait...
- 29 May 2015 16:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
- Replies: 5804
- Views: 1030142
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Yes, Europe's inability to define itself independent of an adversary predates X-religion. That region has always been composed of highly violence-prone tribes, and that has always been a challenge to the dominant imperial center of that region. Hence the need for a bogeyman to bring the fractitious ...
- 28 May 2015 09:19
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
- Replies: 4734
- Views: 693490
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
I think there is a flaw in the assumption that IS and Taliban are fundamentally different. Taliban is ISI offspring. ISIS is 100% Quranic, they will not tolerate un-bearded, whiskey sipping Paki generals and will latch Paki crown jewels, saying that it belongs to all Ummah. If ISIS ever steps in Pa...
- 18 May 2015 10:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2308150
Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
From my observation on one Chinese guy who had come to our India office (to learn how to operate our MIS systems), I can vouch safe that these guys can sit for hours at the desk - they do have a huge ability to take pain without complaining or flinching. However, when it comes to work, they can slac...
- 05 May 2015 08:58
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian investments thread
- Replies: 441
- Views: 87510
Re: Indian investments thread
I'm helping someone who has shares, MFs and bonds from an era when ze internets didn't exist. Someone sold them with the old paper method. So how do I get started? I have the list and quantity of each. I'd like to set them up with something like icici direct so everything is brought online and trad...
- 04 May 2015 14:49
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
- Replies: 1747
- Views: 438181
Re: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
Joshi ji, There might be a few places in India that do that, but Nepal is almost entirely like that. Even pakis and BDs suffer from the same inferiority complex. I am surprised to know about Bhutan though. These countries do not have any cultural or identity depth which is separate from India. There...
- 04 May 2015 11:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
- Replies: 1747
- Views: 438181
Re: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
Nepalis have a very racist attitude towards Indians, and I don't think it is because of anything we do, or even because of EJs and China. These guys just have a huge inferiority complex wrt India. I remember when we were there about 15 years ago, me an my father went to a restaurant and put our orde...
- 28 Apr 2015 13:57
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
- Replies: 4318
- Views: 669130
Re: Perspectives on the global economic changes
I read the Sarao articles, thanks for sharing. I think I get the gist of what he was doing. See, since the advent of HFTs, the markets have become fundamentally broken. The HFTs themselves work by placing and removing orders (they place orders in multiple markets, and when someone tries to buy it in...
- 02 Apr 2015 12:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Saudi Arabia and its impact on Indian security
- Replies: 499
- Views: 108919
Re: Saudi Arabia and its impact on Indian security
There is another reason for that. Arab countries have high restrictions on non-Arabs working in their countries. They have to keep expats in highly contained circumstances. This poses problems when the expats are muslims, as they can ask for arab girls in marriage, and thus gain property/residential...
- 30 Mar 2015 16:12
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
- Replies: 4734
- Views: 693490
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
Absent KSA funding, Paki terrorism will stop too. Simple. except that its not so easy in reality. Pakis have many more sources of funding. Their biggest source of dollars is narcotics, somethings they do in alliance with the Anglo-Americans. Another source of funding is terrorism against India (yes...
- 30 Mar 2015 14:12
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
- Replies: 4734
- Views: 693490
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
The Yemen imbroglio was promoted by Russia (vectored via Iran) - it is punishment for Saudi support to Islamic terrorism against Russia. On top of that, Russia is telling the US that just like US cut Russian energy supply line to Europe, Russia can also cut the energy supply line that is the backbon...
- 10 Mar 2015 13:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Re: Nukkad-76
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6978
Re: Nukkad-76
Read the book 'Bad Samaritans' to understand how the west stole IP to build its industry.
- 06 Mar 2015 12:26
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Combating Terrorism Using Soft Power
- Replies: 170
- Views: 39708
Re: Combating Terrorism Using Soft Power
Shaft power works better than soft power.
- 24 Feb 2015 22:08
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
- Replies: 5804
- Views: 1030142
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
You also have to consider the possibility that the Ukraine war was unleashed by Anglo-Saxons to attack the Euro. EU and Euro *need* Russian materials and markets to get the kind of economic stability and market depth that would ensure that the Euro remains a credible threat/balancer to the USD. Howe...
- 24 Feb 2015 10:05
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 619430
Re: Geopolitical thread
There is a link to a book of the same name: The Ideological Basis of The British Empire by David Armitage.
Is it the same book : http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/ca ... 087438.pdf
Is it the same book : http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/ca ... 087438.pdf
- 20 Feb 2015 14:53
- Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
- Topic: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
- Replies: 194
- Views: 86364
Re: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
Secularism khatre mein hain types quit this forum some time back , allah ki kasam this has been a far better place since then, at least sophistry and hypocrisy meters have not been redlining these days. Why did they leave? Not that I care, but curious. Where did they go? Its great to rile these peo...
- 11 Feb 2015 14:26
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
- Replies: 4734
- Views: 693490
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
Irresistible force meeting immovable object.symontk wrote:Jordan should not have attacked ISIS, well there was no choice for them as they only had US weapons. Now they will be ransacked literally by ISIS with ISIS troops reaching borders of Israel
- 10 Feb 2015 12:27
- Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
- Topic: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
- Replies: 194
- Views: 86364
Re: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
I found BR on the FAS site (Federation of American Scientists) looking for info on Indian nuke/missile capabilities.
- 09 Feb 2015 16:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Dawood Ibrahim & Underworld Watch Thread
- Replies: 444
- Views: 79125
Re: Dawood Ibrahim & Underworld Watch Thread
Ramana,
They have had children too.
They have had children too.
- 09 Feb 2015 10:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: How to help a martyr's family
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2398
Re: How to help a martyr's family
Please do post how to help his family, I will post on my company's email network to get them to donate.
- 05 Feb 2015 09:02
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
- Replies: 4734
- Views: 693490
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
IS is killing people in Islamically sanctioned way and it sends a message every time it does so. Non-muslims are killed with a knife, like animals are killed. Islam prescribes killing non-muslims in such a way because it is a form of insult. The message was that non-muslims are animals and not equal...
- 03 Feb 2015 20:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: International Intelligence news
- Replies: 93
- Views: 14313
Re: International Intelligence news
Here is a top resource: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files
- 31 Jan 2015 08:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
- Replies: 104
- Views: 18287
Re: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -I
Ramana ji,
Reading your earlier posts in this thread, a question popped in my mind - is it possible for India to rise without the destruction of the west?
Reading your earlier posts in this thread, a question popped in my mind - is it possible for India to rise without the destruction of the west?
- 31 Jan 2015 08:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
- Replies: 104
- Views: 18287
Re: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -I
Partition of India removed the most disturbing elements in India's body politic - muslim separatists. If those people had been pat of post-independent India, then e would have been a fragile country. So partition truncated the nation physically, but strengthened its identity. Inclusion of parts from...
- 27 Jan 2015 09:35
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
- Replies: 4318
- Views: 669130
Re: Perspectives on the global economic changes
Its a side show. Syriza or no Syriza. Greeks do not want to leave EU. For the sake of exercise, lets think what could happen if Greece leaves Euro; 1. Drachma will be devalued overnight against Euro or Dollar. 2. Bone crushing hyperinflation will ensue as the government tries to keep palliative pri...
- 13 Jan 2015 12:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2995
- Views: 402240
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Please show where he has said something like this.Vivekananda ranted about how the ancestors of Hindus were even more fair-faced and floppy-haired than the Brits!
- 12 Jan 2015 13:44
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2995
- Views: 402240
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
I am not 'insinuating' anything. You don't have jump on a horse and start galloping everytime a pan falls :) What I simply meant was, the constitution would be embedded with Ambedkar's unconcious biases. One of the biases can be seen in the sheer size of the Indian constitution, which is the largest...
- 12 Jan 2015 10:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2995
- Views: 402240
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
I am currently reading a book by BR Ambedkar, called - 'Problem of the Rupee - Its Origin and Its Solution'. Reading it, I find that there was much congruence between the thinking process of BR Ambedkar and the bruts. Not necessarily the POV, but certainly, the thinking process was very much similar...
- 30 Dec 2014 17:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
- Replies: 6071
- Views: 1296204
Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis
2014 oil price crash will not have the same results as late 1990's oil price crash. This is because there are powerful economies today, other than the US, which the Russians can turn to - India, China. Also, EU is not likely to listen to the US for a long time, as Russia is the only viable supplier ...
- 29 Dec 2014 10:44
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Bomb Blast in Bangalore
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8534
Re: Bomb Blast in Bangalore
Small blast with shrapnel definitely indicates a lone jihadi suffering from 'Sudden Jihad Syndrome'. Someone with low/no amount of training or trained with his father or uncle (both can be the same person).
- 29 Dec 2014 10:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Bomb Blast in Bangalore
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8534
Re: Bomb Blast in Bangalore
If it was a cylinder blast, it would have been accompanied by a raging fire.ChandraV wrote:Ten to one, this was a cylinder blast or some such thing. I don't think this has any terror angle. Let us see.
- 29 Dec 2014 10:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9824
Re: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
A big wild card is what will happen to the nukes pakistan is (alleged) to have, assuming the allegation is actually correct. A broken pakistan will no longer be able to shield the anti India elements in ISI, PA, Clifton area, etc. It will become far less costly for us to go after them. ISI will no l...
- 29 Dec 2014 09:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9824
Re: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
Nageshks, The amount of anti-India feeling varies among the different ethnic groups in Pakiland. Some of them hate the Punjabi Muslims more than they hate India, but right now, since they are under the thumb of the Pakistani Punjabi army, they have to keep quite. Once these people are free from the ...
- 27 Dec 2014 10:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9824
Re: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
Is the Shankaracharya Hindu? Hell yes breaking pakhanastan is in India's favour.
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And who is the kuffar who voted for a stable pakhanastan? Hain ji?
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And who is the kuffar who voted for a stable pakhanastan? Hain ji?
- 26 Dec 2014 12:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
- Replies: 104
- Views: 18287
Re: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -I
Kaplan is usually a very perceptive commentator, but I am surprised at this article - looks like written by somebody of much lesser calibre. It could be that since Kaplan is not an expert on Indian history, and because he had to read up on the region in a hurry, he has not thought through his points...
- 23 Dec 2014 11:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2995
- Views: 402240
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
In Hindu system, who runs the government is an incidental thing - it can be one king or another, it does not matter. Because the polity that runs the country is based on Hinduism, and that creates the balance between the various parts of society. No segment of society can achieve absolute power. Thi...
- 23 Dec 2014 09:44
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2995
- Views: 402240
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Regarding US, if you look at the news, you will see a lot of events indicating that the breakdown is quite advanced. For example, the shooting of police personnel, the standoff at Bundy ranch, even the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement - are all indicators of the breakdown of the glue.