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by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 10:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

chetak wrote:
Dipanker wrote:
1+ million year is time period when Rama actually lived, I am not claiming Valmiki wrote Ramayana a million+ year ago.
who told you this?? yechuri or daniel raja??
I learnt that during my school years reading books.
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 10:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Yes, yes, you quoted wikipedia, just great. Now collect a prize at the door. Which part of "dating the texts" do you find hard to comprehend? "dating the texts" has nothing to do with "Rama's existence", or is this concept overloading both your neurons? The whole point...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 09:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Dipankar: 1+ million year is time period when Rama actually lived, I am not claiming Valmiki wrote Ramayana a million+ year ago. And that is so because of the claim you pulled out of some orifice that a yuga is X million years? Sheer brilliance. The kind of quality in thinking that one only comes u...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 09:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

So are you now officially adopting this stance, which, by the way, is totally contrary to the one adopted by SriJoy, the guy whom, not too long ago, you were +1-ing and cheering along with cries of "satyamev jayate"? As SriJoy has made clear a dozen times, it is 100% certain that there wa...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 09:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Arjun wrote::rotfl:

So Dipankar, who I thought was my comrade-in-arms for data-driven sociology, cleanly pole-vaults all the way above Shiv, Rajesh, Nilesh et al to a date of Million+ years for the Ramayana !!!

Chuppa Rustom is a mild term for this. :lol:
I think you are misreading it.
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 09:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

That may well be the case, but you are providing a solid answer to the wrong question -- one that was not put to you. The question you were asked was about the claim that "one yuga equals X million years", which seems to be rock solid according to you, since you are pretending that can be...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 08:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

"Seriously, It is you who is being moronic. How is the claim of 1+ million year indefensible when the Yugas are of specific time length? If Rama existed in Treta, we live in Kaliyuga, in between there was Dwapar roughly a million year long, ergo Rama lived at least 1+ million year ago. How is ...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 07:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Dipanker:The 1+ million year is age of Ramayana, the period of Rama not the book, the context should have made it clear. The only material available for evaluation is the text and what is mentioned in it, to map it to specific times and dates. Randomly making the indefensible claim that "Ramay...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 07:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Dipanker: Dating Ramayana is pointless exercise when we already know Lord Sri Ram...(witless vomit deleted) One need not buy into the religious aspects of texts to consider that the author(s) would have made observations of the night sky, or of their environment and incorporated it in their texts, ...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 07:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

IMO you are nitpicking here, when I write "I find blah blah" I am exclusively talking about myself, not for anybody else, "I find" should not mean "everybody else finds", "the whole world finds" etc. you get the drift. The gospel truth about Haldighati battle...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 06:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Dating Ramayana is pointless exercise when we already know Lord Sri Ram lived at least a million year ago, given that he lived in Treta yuga, we live in Kali yuga, in between there was Dwapar yuga which was roughly 1 million year long. Models are only as good as their underlying principles, garbage...
by Dipanker
12 Sep 2017 06:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Dating Ramayana is pointless exercise when we already know Lord Sri Ram lived at least a million year ago, given that he lived in Treta yuga, we live in Kali yuga, in between there was Dwapar yuga which was roughly 1 million year long. Models are only as good as their underlying principles, garbage ...
by Dipanker
11 Sep 2017 20:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

I fail to see how I can be alleged of "shifting the goalpost" when the question of "who won the battle of Haldighati" is part of my original post as an example of attempt to rewrite history with added presentational emphasis . In fact for emphasis, this part of the text is bolded...
by Dipanker
11 Sep 2017 09:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

OT here Is Indian interest served by this rewrite of history? Is it o.k. to rewrite history in the name of serving interest even if it is lie? I strongly disagree with those who subscribe to such ideas! Truth must prevail - Saytamev Jayate! That should be our guiding principle. Rajasthan rewrites h...
by Dipanker
11 Sep 2017 00:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Is Indian interest served by this rewrite of history? Is it o.k. to rewrite history in the name of serving interest even if it is lie? I strongly disagree with those who subscribe to such ideas! Truth must prevail - Saytamev Jayate! That should be our guiding principle. Rajasthan rewrites history: M...
by Dipanker
10 Sep 2017 07:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Just checked her bio, she has a PHD from Columbia University and teaches Indian History at Rutgers. Columbia is one of the top university. So she does have the impressive credential to back her claims.
by Dipanker
10 Sep 2017 04:56
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

(i) during start of NDA1 NPA was 1.3% NDA1 brought it down to 0.3% by the end. then UPA2 brought it to 3.8% which rose to 6% in 2014. since then it is steadily climbing down despite 786% more loan amount disbursed by banks.This goes to show how useless UPA1 and 2 were. (ii) NDA1 average growth was ...
by Dipanker
07 Sep 2017 03:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Primus this is not the first guy to poop on this thread series. There was a guy who did it in the first iteration of this thread as well. There is something about the topic that makes some people want to fight desperately against the weight of opinion being expressed here. There is a common factor ...
by Dipanker
06 Sep 2017 03:57
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

hanumadu wrote:
You are just a troll, so I will ignore you.

Same to you.
by Dipanker
05 Sep 2017 17:25
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

This is how commies peddle lies till it becomes the truth. There were no NPA loans during NDA1 era. When NDA1 left, growth was high. Demand was high, capacity was insufficient. Most of the loans were during UPA and more so during UPA2. There were graphs on loan offtake during each year that were po...
by Dipanker
04 Sep 2017 02:20
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

Anything in circulation will end up at the bank after demo. :rotfl: so out of touch of reality. banks do not accept FICN. They'll notify police and tear it up immediately. If teller lets it through, he takes the hit. The ones that made it through would be the ones that are so good that it slipped t...
by Dipanker
03 Sep 2017 19:23
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

Actually that was one of the reason touted for demonetization. In the end the amount of fake currency found was a mere 42 crore, or something like 0.0007% of the total. Interesting many of the fake notes were of the newly issued 2000 notes! "Despite the rise the total value of counterfeit note...
by Dipanker
03 Sep 2017 19:18
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

Warned government about cost of demonetisation, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says But he forgot to remind the previous government of stop the open loot on PSU banks. For someone who predicated 2008 crash could not see the obvious path to NPA. These happened long before Rajan joined RBI in 201...
by Dipanker
02 Sep 2017 09:35
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

Apart from the Rs 16,000 crores that did not get deposited in banks and thus turning worthless, what about all the fake currency that was in circulation which became useless at one stroke? It is not in the public domain, but the Govt must have had some estimate of how much it was, and that has all ...
by Dipanker
31 Aug 2017 19:00
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

The cash is back in the informal economy if you are on the street I have to disagree with this comment. If GoI catches the person who has released this money in to the economy and make him pay taxes.. well it is not informal anymore. Since almost everyone has deposited, you now know the source of 9...
by Dipanker
30 Aug 2017 20:36
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

Initial 15.44 lakh was never an official number "According to a reply given in Rajya Sabha on December 2 by Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal, there were 1,716.5 crore pieces of 500 notes and 685.8 crore pieces of Rs. 1,000 notes in circulation. That amounted to a total of Rs. 15...
by Dipanker
30 Aug 2017 20:19
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1462182

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

Ok I have figured this out, the Value of currency not come is ~ 831.5 Billion rupees or Rs. 83,150 Crore. If all 15.28 Lakh crore of currency received is genuine and not fake. Based on FICN Aldready detected this could increase by a few Thousand Crore Going through the Curreny Management one can no...
by Dipanker
30 Aug 2017 08:41
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
Replies: 4780
Views: 1540611

Re: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)

Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express derails near Kalyan, none injured

No one injured, how is that even possible with this pile up? Anyway that is good news.

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by Dipanker
30 Aug 2017 04:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1143079

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Possible spins on Rakhigarhi DNA outcome: I. Rakhigarhi DNA turns out to be none R1a1: How do we know the rest of the people were also none R1a ? It likely that R1a1 population was also present. II. Rakhigarhi DNA turns out to be R1a1: How do we know the rest of the people were also R1a ? It likely ...
by Dipanker
28 Aug 2017 14:59
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2273726

Re: Neutering & defeating Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)


“China will continue to exercise sovereignty rights to protect territorial sovereignty in accordance with the rules of the historical boundary,” she said.
Is China claiming the territory and India has conceded? If so, this is a abject surrender.
by Dipanker
24 Aug 2017 02:54
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 771
Views: 158871

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

ALASKA’S PERMAFROST IS THAWING YUKON DELTA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Alaska — The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as other parts of the planet, and even here in sub-Arctic Alaska the rate of warming is high. Sea ice and wildlife habitat are disappearing; higher sea levels threaten coastal nat...
by Dipanker
22 Aug 2017 05:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8806
Views: 2484283

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Cosmo_R wrote:
At the technocratic level, yes. At the political/elected office level--no.
2016 wasn't bad, including Kamala Harris, who is 1/2 Indian origin, a total of 5 Indian Americans won Congress/Senate seats (Pramila Jayapal, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ami Bera, Ro Khanna) .

All Democrats.
by Dipanker
16 Aug 2017 11:56
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2273726

Re: Neutering & defeating Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)

China seem to have virtually occupied POK, potential threat to us? Make it so much harder to recover POK.

by Dipanker
14 Aug 2017 21:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8806
Views: 2484283

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Indians In Virginia Anxious After Violent Rally Of White Supremacists CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: A disquiet anxiety has gripped the residents of Charlottesville, many of whom are Indian Americans, after a rally of white supremacists ended in clashes with counter-protesters and claimed the life of a...
by Dipanker
13 Aug 2017 00:28
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1089612

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

No, what you originally said is bunkum, it is possible for a economy to grow without any appreciable change in money in circulation. Best e.g. would be financial year 2016-17 where due to demonetization the money in circulation actually went down but economy still grew by 7%. But you want to be purp...
by Dipanker
12 Aug 2017 21:47
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1089612

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Supratik wrote:Are you being dumb or what. In a economy growing at 7% plus, numbers would remain static for one year.
No, that will you because you are assuming one to one correspondence between GDP growth rate and amount of money in circulation.
by Dipanker
12 Aug 2017 20:50
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1089612

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Iirc many on the forum were predicting a much higher reduction in circulation, apparently they have been proven wrong. https://quintype-01.imgix.net/swarajya/2017-08/058e5d4c-0dbb-410a-9dcd-5e7e4e1f7285/1.PNG?w=661&q=60&fmt=pjpeg&auto=format From the Swarajyamag article. Cash as a share...