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Sridhar K

Posting here since the Pulwama thread locked and anyway this is the right thread. Sridhar K would really appreciate your first hand views, regarding the security situation on the ground. I am a novice on security issues augmented only by a daily feed of wisdom from BR since 2002. So please take my o...

Sridhar K

Just returned from a trip to Kashmir. The terrorist attack on CRPF, the subsequent loss of more soldiers last night, the KMs double speak, their anti Indian and pro paki views, their sense of entitlement, their preference to Pakistan, the plight of the CRPF and RR men in and around Srinagar, has fil...

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From Sudhanshu Mani's Twitter Good news for Train 18..the intractable stalemate on Elect. inspection of the train resolved today with the intervention of PCME ICF@shubhranshu..it finally took the passion & plain speak of the builder, moistened by blood & sweat of ICF, to get an unconditional...

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I saw Uri in Chennai this weekend with members of my family who don't understand Hindi. They all loved the movie more than me. The hall was full but the emotion was lower in Chennai, perhaps due to not knowing Hindi+ rest of the Hindi speaking crowd was more elitist DCH? Tamil dubbing or at least Su...

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After all the bashing from us, the new nexon (starting Dec 9th or so) has scored 5 star in global NCAP whilst the earlier iteration scored 4 star along with Zest, Morazzo, Etioa and Brezza.

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Sudharsanl ignorance alert: Will Silapadhigaram, Manimegalai, civaka cintamani provide any Indian viewpoint? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimekalai Beyond the parts of them that appeared in தமிழ் poetry in text books in School, haven't pursued them Also Tamizh Shaiva and Sri Vaishnava texts may...

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Had typed a long post that got lost while posting. There are similar stuff in Tamil epics and poetry which talks about how Tamizh country got converted to Buddhism and Jainism in the manner mentioned in Sudharsans post primarily though coopting the king, black magic practices against Shaiva Saints l...

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Vips wrote:
From various you tube videos you can see Sudanshu Mani is a very realistic, no-nonsense, kick ass performer and he has mentioned Jan/Feb 2020 as the deadline for delivery of the first Train 20 which he says will be truly world class.

Unfortunately he is retiring per Twitter feed

Sridhar K

Very good point about the generator car. The old ICF coach train had 2-6 ac coaches whereas IIRC old full A/C. Rajdhani and shatabdis with ICF coaches also had a generator car since I guess the load was higher. Dont the Old ICF coaches also have battery + dyanamos unlike LHB derived ones which warra...

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The video posted above states that it is BHEL motors for WAG 11. Remember that WCAM3p of CR and WR were from BHEL. While Kapurthala graduated to LHB, ICF was doing older coaches up until a few years back. Heard a few whines from x ICF relatives some 8 years ago. Wonder with the upgrade in ICF, lot o...

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ICF has been manufacturing EMUs for donkeys years and now with LHB manufacturing capability, shouldnt it be much of a stretch to design and manufacture coaches like Train 18. The sheet metals, seats etc may have been sourced from 3rd parties which could be wrapped.

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If I am not wrong, even the private ones uses IMD radar and data. From Pradeep John, it is one of the best available but IMDs inference are too generic

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The Kings of Thondai Mandala aka greater Chennai and sorrounding districts had built a beautiful system of ponds ->smaller lakes>big lakes>rivers like Adyar and linked them to natural rivers like palar, kosathalaiyar to form a beautiful system of storing water from mansoons supply the paddy field al...

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ramana, september rainfall is pending. Yes, Pradeep John did take into account potentially 2X the normal quota of rainfall in Sept for the projection. BTW, both during the lead up to the Chennai and KL floods, he was warning about delayed release of water from the dams. We cut short our holiday in ...

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Last time I visited Kerala in 2016 on a temple tour, I had unusually a large number of bat sightings, but my trip was south of Guruvayur though. May be resident Keralites can confirm if that is normal

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Chetak sir done but have very few followers

On the point about these things not being new, though very true, the time to influence today is very less and is getting lesser. Jallikattu protest is perhaps a great case study. Let us see how Anna Hazare fast spans out

Sridhar K

The ckyc project by NSE IT is on blockchain. PoC was completed http://m.nasdaq.com/article/how-stock-exchanges-are-experimenting-with-blockchain-technology-cm801802 NSE is also exploring BC for other usecases Latest https://www.coindesk.com/government-think-tank-to-trial-blockchain-verification-in-i...

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Chetak saar, you're right. Though I'm not sure that we send the PAN numbers to Amreeka, yet it is still a bit insulting. Here's what I'd posted a year ago: https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7280&p=2079387&hilit=fatca#p2079387 Chetak, Srin saars I was aware for corpor...

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The biggest problem is regulation or lack of it in India. When the Indian cars fared poor in NCAP crash test, MSIL and Renault said that their cars comply to Indian standards. However, I see more and more vendors moving slowly towards offering airbags and ABS standard in all variants like the new dz...

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Having owned a Hyundai, Tata Manza, Suzuki swift and close friends owning Ford, VW, Honda, Suzuki has its own sets of advantages Availability of service centers, spare anywhere anytime in India, frugal mileage, low spare cost, pretty decent quality of customer experience with service centers, excell...

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Tatas design had started turning for good right from the days of vista-Manza Aria days and it has become better and better. However their manufacturing and QC especially for their vendor supplied components were a big let down. Though things are still improving, they are still some way before the ca...

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^+108 to the post on agri revival in Guj.. For someone who lived in Saurashtra in 1999 2000 and revisited Gujarat on a full state tour in 2014, the agricultural growth was so visible to see.

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Thank you sir. I have beeen lurking daily on BR with occassional posting in the burqa forum

Sridhar K

Karthik S wrote:
chola wrote:
Camps in Chennai? What the hell?! How and why are they camping in Chennai? Sobering if not down right scary that they are all the way down to Tamil Nadu.
IIRC, it was through govt assistance.

Yes at Kelambakkam

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There was an organised protest by Muslim muneetra kazhagam today near my home in Chennai against atrocities on Rohingyas by Myanmar. Looks like the leftist and islamist cells are activated to orchestrate some trouble There has been a sudden advent of Burmese food in Chennai over the last few years a...

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An amateur blogger on weather has been prett spot on with the predictions on rain so much so that he is the defacto weather channel for most in Chennai. He is predicting a huge deluge in Malwa region over the next few days. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2090097811217492&id=14719366...

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Iyersan ji, was just seeing Wion channel. One analyst (forgot the name) mentioned Cheen want to show that if we use Bhutan, they can use Pak to hurt us. But not sure if they are involved in the attack. I was wondering if it is the other way around. IA was keeping the Paki border hot and whether the...

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Came across an article on the Chinese infra built-up in the higher ranges of Himalayas (from a Kailash yatri) http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/travelogues/62315-traversing-tibet-plateau-mount-kailash-3.html Javee saar infra has improved a lot now and there is a complete motorable road all the way. Lan...

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Shivji Adding some couple of annectodes to your excellent reasearch on the Chinese sabre rattling thread. The Simikot Hilsa route takes half an hour by chopper but 2 days by trek. once you cross the Mandakini river at the Hilsa border, The Chinese have laid excellent roads on their side. The village...

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OK ... http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-embassy-urges-pilgrims-to-avoid-nepal-route-for-kailash-yatra-1414482 The Nepalgunj-Simikot-Hilsa route is considered difficult due to a treacherous terrain but a lot of Indians prefer the route that is close to the China border. I have been on this route...

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Take it fwiw. From a railway board relative of mine. Her view of this Govt especially railway ministry is that there is too much hype and lot of media mgmt by Mr. Prabhu. Visible improvements on the ground are because political interference is very less when compared to the days of Laloo, mamta etc....

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Prasad. 20-30% reduction in mananged services contracts is not suspect. Yes margin pressures are very high.

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Our company bought CMC and few of them ended in my team. Real good techies who had pretty good experience due to the Govt projects. These guys had done wonders with legacy tech and not so gr8 infra. I am yet to see a state of the art digital enterprise that is better than what i saw in Reliance petr...

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One of an ex-BRFite (more lurker), whose parents and inlaws were in the higher echelons of the Intelligence fraternity once told me how the Govt of the day (UPA) was bribing the Hurrirats, NCP, PDP and other separatist to keep the violence off and how it has morphed into a thriving blackmail industr...

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Except for WRV the other choices seems to be diesel which is an overkill for your running. Creta and s cross will not be in sub 10 lakhs. Scross turbolag is your dampner for city. You should also consider Ecosport petrol

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Kjo Delivery manager refers to the guy who manages the delivery of services to the client. It started with the delivery of turnkey projects but slowly morphed into providing IT services of ADM, production mgmt services, assurance or testing services over a 3 or 5 year contract. However most of these...

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From my experience of recent travels in TN, there is visible improvements. The stations are much cleaner after SP took over, electrification all the way on the Egmore -madurai-TVM, fast phased doubling of the line, bio toilets, toilets with health faucet, jaguar fittings, LHB rakes on rockfort, pand...

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For a free service as of today, data is pretty good but voice sucks atleast in Chennai suburbs. I just use airtel prepaid for calls and jio for internet. Airtel postpaid is chortel for me.

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Marten saar, i was under the same impression but recently my brother was chatting up with one of his buddies who is running a Jio center ( which uses Aadhar as the method to authenticate and provide a new SIM) He ( and i ) was under the impression that the way it worked was that the Jio center woul...

Sridhar K

+1 Marten Saab. Spot on. The public feeling based on the people we meet on day to day from different walks of life is turning neutral from initial positive. I am extremely supportive of the move. The 2000 needs to go, replaced with 500 and 100 and working ATMs dispensing 5K per day max. Current raid...

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