Bharat Rakshak

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How can a potential reactionary threat will greater than the original threat. Saying Hindu extremist groups are more dangerous than LeT show a high degree of naivete. Wonder what he will do when he becomes the PM. Scary thought. No wonder Diggy Raja has been shouting hoarse about "Hindu" t...

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Digvijay’s latest: Advani helped RSS infiltrate government, media

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Digvijay- ... 35231.aspx

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Chinese analyst view of India Japan relations. http://china.org.cn/opinion/2010-12/11/content_21518845.htm Indo-Japanese relations in the post Cold-War era International relations in Asia are characterized by an unprecedented buildup in the power of China, Japan and India, in the context of the cont...

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China's finds India's presence at Oslo weird. http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-presence-at-Oslo-weird-China/Article1-636986.aspx I merely regard this vicious handout of prize an allied efforts to demonise China, unfortunately India joined the China bashing chorus, its weird for a former colonized...

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What is Barkha Dutt going to say now? "Working the sources". This lady is so shameless, she continues to appear on TV as if nothing has happened. Kudos to Outlook for publishing the tapes.

I think it is about time the Sarkari journalists are exposed.

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Agni IIP successfully tested http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2010/dec/10/liveupdates.htm India successfully test fires Agni II: Just in: India test-fires modified version of Agni-II nuclear-capable intermediate range ballistic missile from Integrated Test Range off the Orissa coast despite incleme...

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There is no point in appeasing PRC. Not clear what India would have got in return for boycotting the Nobel Prize ceremony. How can such a thing be of such great importance to PRC? The question is why is India unilaterally offering concessions to Huawei inspite of security implications. What is the p...

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KS writes on what China is offering to US for peaceful co-existence. http://www.maritimeindia.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=632 It is asserted that the article represents only the views of the authors who include John Milligan-Whyte and Dai Min, authors of China and America's ...

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From Economist World in 2011, India's GDP size appears to be at no 9. This seems to be the highest ever on that list. As I was saying earlier, some of the WB, IMF, CIA numbers on Wiki show India at 12th. For example I have a hard time believing that Russian economy was bigger than Indian economy in ...

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Heart rending to know that a two year old has died. When is this going to stop? The people of India need to rise up and ask for accountability from the people who are ruling them.

Didn't the US ambassador say that if India did not reacted to 26/11, it will never react.

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IIRC, one of ex IAF chief (maybe Tipnis) had said that if we know Pakistan is going to drop nukes on us, we are not going to sit quiet or something to that effect.

The change could be prompted by the prospect of two front war that India is factoring in as a real possibility.

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The Economist World in 2011 shows India's GDP in excess of 1.8 trillion dollars. For some reason, IMF, WB, etc always have smaller numbers. This also means that by 2012 India will a 2 trillion dollar economy. http://www.economist.com/node/17510318 GDP growth: 8.2% GDP: $1,832bn (PPP: $4,508bn) Infla...

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From Orbat # Second batch of two Indian mountain divisions under raising The first batch of two was for the Northeast; the second division will complete raising in March 2011. The next batch of two is for Ladakh, and we thought they would be raised in 2012-2014, but but it seems raising is already u...

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Everyone can have any kind of view. Only time will tell which version turns out to be true. For example, Germans had poor opinion of Russians during WWII. In the end, the German views of Russians turned out to be wrong. The Pakistanis had some view about Hindus prior to 65 war. That did not turn out...

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It does not seem like Arihant can target a lot of cities in the country to the north of India with 3500 km range. I am assuming Arihnat is sitting somewhere close to Vizag.

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http://www.rediff.com/news/report/how-can-a-chargesheeted-person-be-cvc/20101122.htm How can a tainted man be CVC, says SC The government placed the file relating to the appointment of P J Thomas as the Chief Vigilance Commissioner in the Supreme Court, which questioned as to how he would function i...

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Barkha Dutt's statement that journalists do not influence govt formation is laughable. What is apparent from the tapes she is not a journalist but a fixer (at least part time). She might have been a journalist at some point but from the tapes she appears to have graduated beyond that. As someone poi...

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Acharya that is a one year old article. Quite a few things have changed since then.

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One political commentator had written recently that one school of thought within Congress (Rahul's supporters) is that Congress should engineer a crisis and then go for mid term elections elections with Rahul as PM candidate. Is this the crisis that this faction was looking for. Regardless of what h...

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That Vir Sanghvi tape is disgusting. This guy has lost his credibility. He is talking about doing scripted interviews with Mukesh Ambani and is essentially asking directions from a fixer on what kind of slant he should be putting.

Media seems heavily compromised. More and more reason to believe CTs.

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Shashi Tharoor's review of Kaplan's book. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202516.html These are all worthwhile ideas. But Kaplan too often strains to justify his interests with portentous claims: Sri Lanka is "the ultimate register of geopolitical trends...

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Why this article in WaPo on LeT talking in detail about PA's link to LeT? Is US serious about LeT?
The article clearly mentions that it could be ISI carrying out strikes outside of India like in Australia.

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What Sudershan said might have been a warning to Congress that the Sangh will not hesitate to attack SG if they keep dragging it into terror cases. What he said was might have been the contours of a campaign. If the Sangh takes up such a campaign in a full throated way, I do not see how it can benef...

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That brazen sense of entitlement can be explained by Mughalitis. I cannot find any other rational explanation. Btw, this constant refrain of stable, prosperous Pakistan is in India's interest needs to be countered. India should say terrorist free Pakistan is in India's interest regardless of whether...

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As I had posted in the Obama visit thread, whether US has addressed India's concerns regarding China Pak threat would not be known since it was discussed behind close doors. That is exactly what Satish Chandra is saying. On the face ot it, it looks like a very successful visit. It was clear that the...

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Ashley Tellis who has provided the intellectual foundation for the US drive for closer US India relation said this. http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/19inter1.htm Is the US trying to balance out China by having strong relations with India? The US does not need India. We can balance China on our ow...

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The main thing is what is the American position if India faces a two front military pressure from China and Pakistan. As Brajesh Mishra said that is what will determine whether the visit was a success or not. Surely in terms of creating a pro US atmosphere, the visit has been a success and Obama has...

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Where is the meat for us, asks India Inc http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_where-is-the-meat-for-us-asks-india-inc_1463624 “Talking about a partnership based on equality is fine but what about the ground reality?” asked industrialist Rahul Bajaj. Speaking to DNA soon after Obama’s address, he sai...

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Following is the the link to the timesnow video on the objectionable clauses in the defence agreements US is interested in. No wonder India is not signing. But it goes to show how US deals with all countries including India. http://www.timesnow.tv/Americas-six-clauses-to-bind-India/videoshow/4357725...

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So India cannot create means to retaliate against a terror strike. India should just shut up and take as many terror strikes as the neighbouring country decides to deliver. That seems to be the solution that is coming from India;s strategic partner while it provides billions of dollars of arms to th...

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Ex RAW chief says: 'Crying before Obama is not the solution' http://news.rediff.com/special/2010/nov/04/obama-visit-why-india-must-fight-its-battles-alone.htm "I find it strange when India acts as though it needs the US to solve its problems pertaining to Pakistan and Afghanistan. I agree that ...

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Watched Arnab Goswami's The Newshour which had a panel of eminent personalities like Retd ACM Krishna Swamy, Ajit Doval, Leela Ponnappa, Adm. Bhagawat accompanied with Maroof Raza. I was delighted to watch them beating Hussien's speech at Taj left and right...and emotions were ruffled when some doc...

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I am reading Robert Kaplan's latest book Monsoon and have also been reading some of his interviews on the subject. I get the feeling that he is kind of hyping this China in the Indian Ocean thing a bit too much and a bit prematurely. Sure they might have ambitions to play a role here bit considering...

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iUs_V_Da-N6lgjRO-khksU5J3kiw?docId=CNG.6f4b5aa5633087bf3a787c537dc06ab9.871 India, Japan PMs to confirm trade pact Hideaki Kase, a historian and commentator on diplomatic issues, said the timing of the Indian leader's visit, amid the Japan-China spa...

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From Sheela Bhat from Rediff. http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/oct/24/slide-show-1-pm-obama-will-discuss-balance-of-power.htm The sources pointed out that India cannot comprehend why the US is boosting Pakistan's naval capability when the Taliban are not known to have any naval forces. Robert ...

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Chinese workers teach India how to build a steel plant in 18 months. Something to learn from China and this will help India. Chinese workers fuel India's staggering infrastructure boom http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/23/AR2010102303956.html Perched precariously on scaffo...

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Didn't India allow US access to Kasab right away? What was the wisdom in that? Even after 26/11, FBI had not mentioned anything about Headley to India and that guy kept making visits to India. The Headley episode shows that India has grounds for legitimate doubts about US cooperation when it comes t...

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Chinese view. Interesting cartoon. http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2010-10/22/content_21181802.htm India and China's great game in full swing The current geopolitical reality in Asia is that: under the overarching umbrella of American power, China, Japan and India are growing more rapidly than ever ...

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When is India's Q3 GDP number coming out? What are the estimates?

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Shri Nicholas Burns writes thusly The transformation of U.S. ties with New Delhi over the past 10 years, led by Presidents Clinton and Bush, stands as one of the most significant triumphs of recent American foreign policy. It has also been a bipartisan success… Many prominent Indians and Americans, ...

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