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by abhischekcc
17 Jun 2015 08:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Myanmar news and discussion
Replies: 641
Views: 547632

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 ...
by abhischekcc
12 Jun 2015 07:41
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
Replies: 748
Views: 252858

Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems

Aadhar and Digilocker are the building blocks of a digital dictatorship in India.
by abhischekcc
09 Jun 2015 10:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Internal Security Watch
Replies: 6211
Views: 1799460

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.
by abhischekcc
01 Jun 2015 16:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitical thread
Replies: 3955
Views: 608693

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 :lol: ...oh, wait...
by abhischekcc
29 May 2015 16:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 5804
Views: 969237

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 ...
by abhischekcc
28 May 2015 09:19
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 679615

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...
by abhischekcc
18 May 2015 10:03
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Replies: 10352
Views: 2273991

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...
by abhischekcc
05 May 2015 08:58
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian investments thread
Replies: 441
Views: 85905

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...
by abhischekcc
04 May 2015 14:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
Replies: 1747
Views: 418119

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...
by abhischekcc
04 May 2015 11:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
Replies: 1747
Views: 418119

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...
by abhischekcc
28 Apr 2015 13:57
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
Replies: 4318
Views: 655138

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...
by abhischekcc
02 Apr 2015 12:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Saudi Arabia and its impact on Indian security
Replies: 499
Views: 107157

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...
by abhischekcc
30 Mar 2015 16:12
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 679615

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...
by abhischekcc
30 Mar 2015 14:12
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 679615

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...
by abhischekcc
10 Mar 2015 13:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Re: Nukkad-76
Replies: 46
Views: 6770

Re: Nukkad-76

Read the book 'Bad Samaritans' to understand how the west stole IP to build its industry.
by abhischekcc
06 Mar 2015 12:26
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Combating Terrorism Using Soft Power
Replies: 170
Views: 38953

Re: Combating Terrorism Using Soft Power

Shaft power works better than soft power.
by abhischekcc
24 Feb 2015 22:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 5804
Views: 969237

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...
by abhischekcc
24 Feb 2015 10:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitical thread
Replies: 3955
Views: 608693

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
by abhischekcc
20 Feb 2015 14:53
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
Replies: 194
Views: 84462

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...
by abhischekcc
11 Feb 2015 14:26
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 679615

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

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
Irresistible force meeting immovable object.
by abhischekcc
10 Feb 2015 12:27
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
Replies: 194
Views: 84462

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.
by abhischekcc
09 Feb 2015 10:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: How to help a martyr's family
Replies: 12
Views: 2319

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.
by abhischekcc
05 Feb 2015 09:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 679615

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...
by abhischekcc
31 Jan 2015 08:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
Replies: 104
Views: 17883

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?
by abhischekcc
31 Jan 2015 08:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
Replies: 104
Views: 17883

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...
by abhischekcc
27 Jan 2015 09:35
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
Replies: 4318
Views: 655138

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...
by abhischekcc
13 Jan 2015 12:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Replies: 2993
Views: 388250

Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?

Vivekananda ranted about how the ancestors of Hindus were even more fair-faced and floppy-haired than the Brits!
Please show where he has said something like this.
by abhischekcc
12 Jan 2015 13:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Replies: 2993
Views: 388250

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...
by abhischekcc
12 Jan 2015 10:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Replies: 2993
Views: 388250

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...
by abhischekcc
30 Dec 2014 17:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Replies: 6071
Views: 1275562

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 ...
by abhischekcc
29 Dec 2014 10:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Bomb Blast in Bangalore
Replies: 55
Views: 8284

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).
by abhischekcc
29 Dec 2014 10:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Bomb Blast in Bangalore
Replies: 55
Views: 8284

Re: Bomb Blast in Bangalore

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.
If it was a cylinder blast, it would have been accompanied by a raging fire.
by abhischekcc
29 Dec 2014 10:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
Replies: 56
Views: 9594

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...
by abhischekcc
29 Dec 2014 09:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
Replies: 56
Views: 9594

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 ...
by abhischekcc
27 Dec 2014 10:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Is breaking Pakistan in Indian interests?
Replies: 56
Views: 9594

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?
by abhischekcc
26 Dec 2014 12:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Future Strategic Scenario for the Indian Subcontinent -III
Replies: 104
Views: 17883

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...
by abhischekcc
23 Dec 2014 11:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Replies: 2993
Views: 388250

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...
by abhischekcc
23 Dec 2014 09:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Replies: 2993
Views: 388250

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.