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Varoon Shekhar

"that Indian manufacturing is now in China for consumer products, computers, telecom, power, toys, furniture etc." So Indian companies manufacturing these products have moved their operations to China? Or do they contract the manufacturing to some Chinese interest, and import the component...

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Modern India is an idea greater than the sum of its parts, and greater than its colonial inheritance. It is an idea of a vast, diverse country evolving under a pluralist democracy, and resting on an ancient civilisation, whose actual political boundaries varied with different epochs.

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^^^ The British are not to be trusted on anything to do with the subject of communal relations, India-Pakistan, the Kashmir issue, the nuclear issue or India-China. They have shown a penchant, over and again, for being dishonourable, crafty and conniving. Even on the India-China question, when they ...

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Any news of India's first expedition to the south pole, which was scheduled to be flagged off today.

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"Also, I'm gonna make a prediction now that the CWG would be brought up by the western main stream media. Psy-ops ahoy!" Wouldn't surprise me. For many years now, there has been a kind of mental alliance between dishonourable elements in the Western media, more broadly dishonourable indivi...

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Since Barkha Dutt is very much detested in this forum, and mostly with good reason, I won't post her article about the Commonwealth games. But it is actually quite deep, lucid and eloquent. Give it a chance. It's in the Hindustan Times under "Columns" or "editorials", probably ye...

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What happens to folks from the North-east (Arunachal) and J&K. Will they get a regular visa for the Asian Games. If not, will India pull out altogether from the Asian games ? If they are not allowed in, for China's perverted reasons, then yes, the entire Indian contingent should boycott the gam...

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How parochial and shallow can the Japanese be? Very disappointing.

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Rajesh, almost needless to say, your comment was far and away the most thoughtful and comprehensive in that message board. It would be nice to see Indians get on these forums and tell the Japanese not to look at India through the eyes of American non-proliferationists like Gary Milholin. Rather, as ...

Varoon Shekhar

Hi Hari, Just to clarify what is being referred to, it is a (putative) policy of supporting or fomenting little wars across the planet, with the idea of keeping the wheels of a military industrial complex running, and constant, relentless strategic thinking and behavior, which supports dictators aro...

Varoon Shekhar

Very incisive, but the problem is that India and Indians being what they are, they cannot live with such grotesque mendacity and sleaziness for long. It's even likely that the specific groups promoting the gratuitous dishonesty will experience personal inner tumult, and stage some kind of revolt aga...

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There was a very thoughtful and incisive remark made by a Greek gentleman, speaking to an Indian journalist about the problems surrounding the CWG preparations. He said that Indians tend to make a mess of things, because they have a soul. This strikes one as so true. It doesn't justify the messiness...

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"whose intelligence are you trying to insult by singing India US strategic partnership even as you pump billions into TSPA coffers and won't even recognoize LET as part of the global war on terror. Her answer was that arms sales to TSP is a soverign right of US, and LET is an issue between Indi...

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CRamS: "Strange decision this by TATA. It also shows India's misplaced priorities in general. Funny how Harvard & other western "liberals" will turn out BS about India's poverty and why India should spend less on nukes," One way of assessing their sincerity is to see if they ...

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Thanks Johann, you said it really well. Paranoid, militaristic regimes is the heart of the matter.

Varoon Shekhar

"This is why the PRC's relationship with Pakistan (and its aid flows) are so much more stable and so much warmer than the US-Pakistani one; they can both agree that India is a common threat,..." What exactly is the 'threat' from India to these two countries? One can discount economic threa...

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"It promoted PRC TSP nexus to avenge Vietnam defeat."

But that is opportunism and perversity to the nth degree, because wasn't it Red China that was supporting the Vietnamese communists?

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Shyam, nice one. No scientific data here( me making a scientific post!) but I've read that Buddhism was the larger popular religion/ethic out of the 3, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism was more of a ruling elite, upper crust philosophy or religion; Taoism was never dominant, and was h...

Varoon Shekhar

".. and both give a crap for TSP-sponsored terror against India. " Once again, a little assertiveness from Indian spokesmen and supporters would be very pertinent and justified. The US is trying to strongarm India to reduce ties to Iran, despite the fact that Iran has not harmed India dire...

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"aligned with the Democratic Party" Here, some assertiveness by ethnic Indians would be welcome. It is known that both Democratic and Republican administrations have propped up very anti-liberal, unenlightened regimes in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. In SA, that guy Tyler Clementi would be ar...

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"This Indian American guy is being accused of kinds of things, a bigot; they want him charged with hate crimes and locked up for good. My goodness, all this over a prank that went horribly wrong?" Well said, it was a crude, tasteless student prank, that should be punished in some way. But ...

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"As of now, China's economy is pretty much dependent on the west and in many ways controlled by western companies using China as a production base. Indian economy is based on domestic growth and hence not as dependent upon the west." This is really interesting. When we read of all these Ch...

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"Stop Sighing and stop reading the gutter press of Australia, UK and India (except The Hindu)."

At this instant, I am watching the games on Canada's CBC live. Pretty good. The 'sigh' was for that awful mishap or stupid blunder, whatever you call it. It was embarrassing and harrowing.

Varoon Shekhar

The Chinese are bogus. India also has concerns about the US, but they are not so crudely expressed, even though the US has done things that have affected India adversely. Also, when India expresses apprehensions about China, it has a lot to do with China's ideology and political system, namely a reg...

Varoon Shekhar

Wasn't Agni 2AT supposed to be launched at the end of September? Perhaps they are waiting for the CWG to end?

Varoon Shekhar

Any good news from the Indian nuclear sector this past year? One reactor at RAPP was commissioned. A "Bhabhatron"(cancer therapy) was put into operation. What about desalination, gamma ray astronomy, irradiators, cylcotrons, synchrotrons, Tokamaks, supercomputers? Or findings from these in...

Varoon Shekhar

"Tibet is alien to most mainland Chinese. Either there is awe of spiritualism or contempt." Well said! I never tire of pointing out the irony and idiocy of Han Chinese bureaucrats, soldiers and politicians calling Tibet an integral part of China, while knowing nothing about the history or ...

Varoon Shekhar

"There is some serious angst on the Chinese side about India's ties with Taiwan"

There is a lot of vulgarity in China's behaviour with Taiwan. But if they have serious issues with Taiwan, why do they accept so much investment and trade from that country?

Varoon Shekhar

Montana: "Do you take pride in the fact that Chinese copy off Indian?" The Chinese official position, the claim of many of their propaganda drones and apologists, as well as even individuals( including Indian!) who are non-Chinese, is that China does virtually nothing with India in mind. I...

Varoon Shekhar

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/artic ... be-complex

From the US's neighbour Canada, an article with a vastly different tone than Pankaj Misra's- upbeat, cheerful, but always mindful of the problems of India. Quite a contrast!

Varoon Shekhar

Thanks, so the TTX02 bike is fitted with an Indian made motor, is that it?

Varoon Shekhar

"The PLA is making noises because they are insecure. " That's an insecure, immature, unworthy neighbour to have, that has an insecure military that says and does something other than the people or government. Can you imagine an Indian saying, "The Indian military feels insecure, so it...

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Just the other day, Montana admitted that China was indeed competing with India, in IT, BPO, animation, English, IIT's, statistics, alternative energy, automotive industry, moon mission, Antarctica exploration, diamond polishing and granite et al. In all these activities, it was India that prompted ...

Varoon Shekhar

Does the "Agni" motor have any connection to India? Excuse my ignorance.

Varoon Shekhar

""The assertion that "All nations are some form of coercion"" That's a very cynical and false way of looking at reality, and it's usually, not always, expressed by propagandists or apologists of the more repressive regimes. By this philosophy, Denmark and North Korea are equ...

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"GSLV launch was postponed as a matter of abundant caution but should fly before year is over - fault analysis is nearly over for mk2" Whoa, are you referring to the GSLV with the Indian made cryogenic engine, or the GSLV with one of the remaining Russian engines? If the former, that is, l...

Varoon Shekhar

Quote: Ever since independence it was India that was badly hit by the United States at all times. And what has Pakistan gained by being Washington’s strategic partner? It is a broken nation and is steadily going to pieces. US has used every trick of the trade to contain India in the 1950s and 1960s...

Varoon Shekhar

"Thus the "Chinese People" thing. It's my opinion that India needs some sort of national unifying strategy. You can be different, but one people. Not different and different people." India could use more unity on vital issues; the problem is there are different views, openly expr...

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"The sooner people can seperate the pre-1989 "Old China" with the post-1989 "New China" the sooner people can understand what happened." It's not enough to show Chinese smoking, drinking, wearing jeans etc, leaving aside whether these are always good( esp smoking). Ther...

Varoon Shekhar

"However, the comments of the average joe on the street is totally negative."

Abstract thinking and understanding the nuances of India, are something quite beyond the average Canadian Joe in the street!

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