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- 05 Jul 2015 20:22
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
- Replies: 4318
- Views: 644688
Re: Perspectives on the global economic changes
The drama about Greece is mostly about the downfall of one of the inner circles of western cultural moores and hence it is very symbolic. With hardly 12 million population, the narrative is being created as if sky is going to fall down. Greece is an extremely tiny nation, in grand scheme of things a...
- 25 Jun 2015 17:05
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Reflections on 40 years after Emergency
- Replies: 85
- Views: 12886
Re: Emergency 40 years and its aftermath.
The facade of democracy that Nehru and his legacy (was a communist par excellence) was running, - was unmasked and culminated in revealing its original face during emergency. Nehru's legacy has cursed India with the following four important things from which India is yet to recover. 1. Nehruvian Soc...
- 25 Jun 2015 16:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Reflections on 40 years after Emergency
- Replies: 85
- Views: 12886
- 25 Jun 2015 16:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Reflections on 40 years after Emergency
- Replies: 85
- Views: 12886
- 25 Jun 2015 07:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Two-G (2G) Spectrum Scam Tapes and follow-up
- Replies: 4139
- Views: 590162
Re: Two-G (2G) Spectrum Scam Tapes and follow-up
Lalit Modi's leakings are entertainment and media driven droppings, nothing will come out of it. Lutyens is still going strong. Corruption got institutionalized during Indira Nehru's regime with ushering in of Emergency. The body politic and every democratic institution has been gravely mauled, and ...
- 25 Jun 2015 03:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Reflections on 40 years after Emergency
- Replies: 85
- Views: 12886
Re: Emergency 40 years and its aftermath.
Hardly was of age, when I could utter few sentences at the time of emergency. Unfortunately, The constitution, extremely fat book, made of legalese mumbo-jumbo, for most part was not construed and written with aam admi in mind. It was kichidi of legalese borrowed from many other legalese from other ...
- 21 Jun 2015 17:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Achievement Tracking - Modi 2.0 Govt - No Discussions
- Replies: 1312
- Views: 727878
- 21 Jun 2015 17:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: First International Yoga Day
- Replies: 101
- Views: 17250
Re: First International Yoga Day
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- 21 Jun 2015 17:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: First International Yoga Day
- Replies: 101
- Views: 17250
Re: First International Yoga Day
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- 21 Jun 2015 17:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: First International Yoga Day
- Replies: 101
- Views: 17250
Re: First International Yoga Day
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- 16 Jun 2015 03:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sri Lanka - News and Discussion
- Replies: 3770
- Views: 601618
Re: Sri Lanka - News and Discussion
It is a rebel political party which is being setup for eventual break India project, Indians should start identifying them and expose the NGO and the foreign links This nonsense has been deeply setup for a long time. Was reading some of the publications from so called "elite -Delhi Tamil Sanga...
- 13 Jun 2015 03:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Positive News from the USA
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 442018
- 09 May 2015 06:13
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 617816
Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
Question: Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build . - Ed Miliband , tiny island, circa 2000's Answer: "A tiny island... no one pays any attention" - Vladimir Rangaswamy , svestopol, circa 2000'...
- 08 Feb 2015 20:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 449868
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
These Orgs and fronts are part of the machinery to pressure and shape the policy abroad. The main aim is to stall "anti-conversion" bill to be brought in India. This is a big no no. Hence, pressure and interference to nix any such move. It is a warning shot across the bow to say anti-conve...
- 08 Feb 2015 20:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 449868
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
^So unkil wants to eat cake & have it too. Wants to have cosy relations with both India and Pak. IOW, will continue to ply Pak with funds, arms, intel and lifelines. Don't see why we shouldn't call this sham for what it is. Why purchase arms from unkil if the same fungible monies goto subsidizi...
- 31 Jan 2015 20:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indian Foreign Policy
- Replies: 2499
- Views: 527803
Re: Indian Foreign Policy
BO speech lecturing India is par for the course, given how the Indian establishment continues to behave. There is some serious need to get rid of long legacy of being a door mat. Just when one thought that legacy of MMS regime was ending, habits die-hard. For example, just as everyone was de-hypenat...
- 31 Dec 2014 19:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
I do not know, why do you say more people in India have read the Koran than the constitution or our legal histories. Most hindus would have never read the Koran. Most Indians would know about the basics of our constitution in their formal education. Most of the elite in India know about our constit...
- 30 Dec 2014 23:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
If one reads purusha sUkta literally - shUdrA are people who came from the feet of a man who had been quartered (in a literal sense). that is one definition and as old as one can be. It is part of rigveda which is widely held to be a collection of the earliest works of humankind. Literal definition...
- 30 Dec 2014 21:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Honestly posit these two questions. 1) How many have actually studied nay let us just say read manu smriti? 2) How many have actually read Indian Constitution? My fair guess is there are very few to question number 2, and even less to question number 1. More people who are alive in India have read k...
- 09 Nov 2014 20:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 10 Oct 2014
- Replies: 2857
- Views: 329510
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 10 Oct
The "pax-arabia" was the most useful tool for many including the four fathers. Allam Iqbal and other closet and open jihadis are very interested in pushing "pax-arabia" to rest of the duniya. While this push for "pax-arabia" is facing a little bit more resistance than u...
- 05 Nov 2014 18:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Just to complete the thought my last post on this topic in this thread. On Shri.Doval's Nationalistic ____fill your favorite group/groupings. No need to rehash the background. But to help understand where the following reasoning comes from. Countless number of people in India were given a stark choi...
- 05 Nov 2014 05:59
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
It is more interesting when if for example suppose Doval said "BRForum is not friendly to nationalists, please consider changing", rather than "BRForum is not friendly to nationalist Muslims, please consider changing". Then such a scenario could be discussed. Else it is same old ...
- 05 Nov 2014 05:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
1. Pakistan is nothing but arab imperialism in action. That's in short "pax-arabia". 2. Arab-imperialism is essentially a zero sum game. i.e., arab-imperialism has very clearly defined that non-muslims have no space. period. The very existence of non-islamics is a crime. The most the so-ca...
- 25 Oct 2014 20:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 449868
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
Meanwhile, there will always be efforts to scuttle the relationship, because of various lobbies. The lobbies never take a rest just because one is in lame duck session. There is still lot more capacity left to damage the relationship and foreign policy disaster by the administration. http://www.indi...
- 25 Oct 2014 20:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 449868
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
Meanwhile, the white "pink" guys can never be wrong even if they run a plantation. No Preet Brar or otherwise conducting cavity searches. Pink guys always "find" things, while the "black" guys thugs would always rip off things as during Katrina. Pink guys always "o...
- 18 Oct 2014 20:59
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Looks like we are missing "know your India" thread. Because it seems panties are getting into a wad, when western universalism is being discussed, one still feels the need to learn about India in this thread. Thought there was already a thread - "know your India" for that.
- 18 Oct 2014 20:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Re: US strike options on TSP
- Replies: 2412
- Views: 243905
Re: Understanding the US-2
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/woman-goes-to-jail-for-not-mowing-lawn-182126275.html saga began last summer, when Holloway was sent a citation for her overgrown grass and shrubbery. Holloway, who works a full-time job and has two children living at home, a husband in school, and one family vehi...
- 09 Oct 2014 17:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 19 Jul 2014
- Replies: 2846
- Views: 296722
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 19 Jul
That kind of analysis about the capability and sustainability of Modi is left to pakis and their sympathisers. There is no need to do their homework for them by others. If pakis and their sympathisers do not learn they will soon found out how it is going to pan out. This is not Modi this, Modi that....
- 30 Sep 2014 17:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 449868
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
No matter what the outcome of the talks with Ombaba are we must not forget this news blackout on American media. These are not friends and never will be :evil: The media has problem in formulating headlines. They are used to baiting. They are pondering as to how to spin, perhaps: "Hindu Nation...
- 24 Sep 2014 07:27
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Mangalyaan: ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission
- Replies: 2760
- Views: 390354
Re: Mangalyaan : ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission
Shubh Mangalam! Shubham astu!
Congrats and well done ISRO!
Congrats and well done ISRO!
- 09 Aug 2014 06:52
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
- Replies: 12577
- Views: 1313950
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
Thanks Nageshgaru for the correction. Although noticed they have picked up some of Islamic traits, and were involved in 'honor killing' in european lands. Gosh once islamism touches, everything goes down the gutters. The biggest joke is the secular English language media in India, which went ape-sh1...
- 08 Aug 2014 18:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
- Replies: 12577
- Views: 1313950
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
In one captured town, Sinjar, ISIS executed dozens of Yazidi men, and kept the dead men’s wives for unmarried jihadi fighters . Panic on Thursday spread even to the Kurdish capital of Erbil, long considered a safe haven, with civilians flooding the airport in a futile attempt to buy tickets to Bagh...
- 03 Aug 2014 18:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
- Replies: 2559
- Views: 472533
Re: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
That's because many of them confuse that proselytization is as fundamental right, as right to life. Restriction of proselytization is seen as being biased and being discriminatory. Such is the hold of these ideas that any restriction to proselytization immediately brings out responses like "isl...
- 03 Aug 2014 18:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2992
- Views: 377724
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
Well, if the European migrants had respected Red Indian views on land ownership they would not have owned quite so much land. There are only title insurances in many cases in US. This is to cover the fee of the lawyers to recognize title deed, whenever there is dispute, which sometimes happens when...
- 01 Aug 2014 04:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis
- Replies: 4002
- Views: 448769
Re: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis
Gentle reminder folks. Islamism in India needs to go in different thread. This has to be only for islamism (near abroad and far abroad) so the thread continues as intended.
- 31 Jul 2014 05:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
- Replies: 2559
- Views: 472533
Re: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
The fact of the matter is very simple. The so called civilians in the combat zone, should actively put an end to firing unguided rockets in the direction where civilians reside, with the express intent to kill any non-muslims. This alone will help to a large extent. Being irresponsible to cultivate ...
- 31 Jul 2014 04:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
- Replies: 2559
- Views: 472533
Re: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
^ That report is from NOvember 2004. An old report about a decade back. But why is it being recycled now?
- 30 Jul 2014 17:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
- Replies: 12577
- Views: 1313950
Re: West Asia News and Discussions
One must ask why the Hamas/Palestinians are firing rockets into Israel. It is a result of the appalling conditions there due to a 7 yr. blockade Hamas is firing unguided rockets into Israel is because their interests is in eliminating the kafir jews. Any reduction in kafir is a cause of celebration...
- 30 Jul 2014 06:55
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
- Replies: 2559
- Views: 472533
Re: Indo-Israel: News and Discussion
Technically, what happened in India was/is Ethnic cleansing attempt, through mass killings for centuries. No doubt, given half a chance the Hamas and their supporters (including presumed civilians) would have completed ethnic cleansing of the Israelis. Even now that is the stated objective, but hama...
- 30 Jul 2014 06:26
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 9599
- Views: 1187857
Re: Internal Security Watch
The timings for such happenings are all too common knowledge. Anytime, anyone from US is making a visit, the peaceful always will go on overdrive to get maximum mileage out of such coverage. With the willing media going on prolonged orgasm at such news. It is too predictable, either be it pakis or w...