Bharat Rakshak

kiranA

Also bambawale is saying here what I have been saying this thread before - there is no backyard or frontyard . That rhetoric badly costed India.

"Those countries are free to have relationships with any third country including China"

kiranA

My hunch is that all this currying up favor with China is result of the muddle headed handling of doklam fiasco by India which riled up China and forces India to curry up. Let me be clear I am not saying Indian army action was muddle headed but the populist reaction by both Gov and Army muddled it u...

kiranA

So US is planning 25% tariffs on about 50 to 60 billions of china goods . This amounts to 12-15 billion dollars extra burden on china importers. This money can be taken as loss to chinese firms or paid by american consumers and is loss to american people. Probably a mix of both. And few years back U...

kiranA

^^ Wow the CPC spokie couldn't have done a better job than kiranA Could you be more specific where you think I am speaking like CPC. CPC claims that Doklam is chinese area I never said that. My problem is it is very hard to rationalize India's stance. It is clear China occupied Doklam and India has...

kiranA

The main question regards to doklam is - why is bhutan not raising hell on chinese occupation? If they were to do so India would be compelled to defend it as treaty obligations. Also it is bound to get sympathy from countries like USA and west which may like to play up chinese threat. But they dont....

kiranA

Shiv sir, based on your logic, Tibet is a colonial construction, so is Bangladesh. We never had a Dharma to liberate Bangladesh. It's colonial hubris of Indira Gandhi. Now I understand your bhakti. Tibet and BD are certainly not Colonial constructions. Indian state is colonial creation but not Indi...

kiranA

Akhand Bharat is a cultural construct never a state forget a nation-state. The modern Indian state is clearly a colonial creation. Therefore when India got independence in 1947 the only statecraft Indians were exposed to was british. They had no Akhand Bharat statecraft to draw wisdom from. And that...

kiranA

There is a colonial hangover in both India and Pakistan that has not done us well. I will come to Pakistan in a bit. Britain was a superpower at least until World War 2. They spoke and behaved like a nation who could force events in various parts of the world. Tibet was preserved as a "buffer ...

kiranA

String of pearls is popular theory not necessarily correct. It is popular with defense establishment because they can show it to get more budget allocations. It is popular with media because anti China rhetoric sells.

kiranA

India's influence is clearly waning in its neighbourhood ranging from hindu nepal to budhist sri lanka to muslim maldives. I actually have a problem with this statement in the sense that it simply rehashes "conventional" statements without examining the truth We (Indians) somehow imagined...

kiranA

^^^Shiv sir, that was sarcasm out of frustration... I am not as cool as you. I would have wanted India to intervene in Maldives and conduct elections, and even if yameen wins, we should give a strong warning not to mess with India, and make him renege on China agreements and all that that a non-pus...

kiranA

The following is India's GDP (nominal, USD) as a fraction of world GDP, as per World Bank data, 2000-2016. World Bank data for 2017 is not available. IMF data (estimates for 2017) puts India at 3.24% of world GDP, which is squarely on the long-term trend line shown below. Per this chart, PM Modi an...

kiranA

by Kirana I am not sure what is proper nation to you. But from where I see - Saudi is in every parameter a modern sophisticated nation. Its credit rating is A or AA depending on agency - its banking system is sophisticated. Its shipping company is one of the worlds largest. Its stock exchange marke...

kiranA

Saudi is in every parameter a modern sophisticated nation. Yeah, it's as sophisticated as periyar is the greatest intellect of 21st century (your own words). You and your stupidity. Bringing in periyar here ? there is a reason GDF got locked. However you may whine, hate and personally attack you ha...

kiranA

I suppose unlike the Saudis who actually bankroll a significant part of the world. How can decent hardworking saudi be poor ? they have free healthcare, free education, interest free loans, subsidized food, practically zero utilities. yes there will be some lazy asses or mentally sick people there ...

kiranA

Every welfare state will have problems that doesnt make them less of nations or failures. yeah right keep using rolling emoticons - makes you feel "sophisticated" I suppose unlike the Saudis who actually bankroll a significant part of the world. PS : I saw the links you added. Apparently u...

kiranA

KiranA: I am not sure what is proper nation to you. But from where I see - Saudi is in every parameter a modern sophisticated nation. Its credit rating is A or AA depending on agency - its banking system is sophisticated. Money does not equal "sophistication" -- one would have to be spect...

kiranA

kiranA, you are defending the indefensible. The Al Saud family is not a 'nation builder'. They are personal-wealth builders. The Institutions that they created are to further their family's wealth, power, and hold on the people. True, they built glistening airports, universities, ports, hospitals, ...

kiranA

Regarding saudi's not having their own workforce - there re some cultural issues there . Arabs dont like physical work. But instead of forcing reservations and taking false prestige they recognize it and generously pay foreign talent to run the show. But they do watch them like hawks and dont get ta...

kiranA

KiranA: They have huge sovereign wealth funds and this is in addition to trillions of dollars of wealth royalty has . if you want success yourself you need to learn to respect success of others. You are overestimating value of engineering and underestimating nation building skills. That is not enti...

kiranA

To be fair no one knew how much would be tax collection beforehnd. Now that GSt council has data for a Q they perhaps could afford to reduce some tax due to net increase in tax collection. There was no net increase in tax collection. Their was massive decrease - just the rate of decrease came down ...

kiranA

That's a lot of ignorant horsesh!t,pardon my bhojpuri. Saudis got trillions of dollars just sitting on their butts and allowing the americans to do the prospecting and extraction and pretty much everything else (via Aramco) back from the 50s. All they did was blow all this money away by purchasing ...

kiranA

I take contrarian view here. Saudi success and stability is important not only for USA but also India. Saudis - give them credit where it is due - are capable nation builders and administrators. They successfully transitioned their national resources to national prosperity something a lot of countri...

kiranA

The US developed "a strong relationship" with the saudis, and the only result was the Saudis bribing the US govt. at all levels in Washington DC over the course of many decades, against the interests of the US public at large. Politicians from both parties and people in the US govt. have ...

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kiranA

GST is a terrific solution. I will explain by example. Take the case of a trader who imports goods from overseas into Mumbai and distributes across India. Here is a list of taxes he had to pay earlier: Customs duty, CVD, SAD, OCTROI Now, post GST : Customs duty, GST. The amount of harassment saved ...

kiranA

{Deleted} Seriously Suraj ..what is unattributable ..did I not give a link from hindustan times ? How long you prefer to hide, cover and control the truth ? you think you can succeed in anyway ? cant you verify what I said over the internet. Very dissapointed. I want to know from Ramana - does BRF ...

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kiranA

Below are the reasons why GST is and will be an unmitigated disaster for India : a) Its wrong in principle. Everyone I talked to says GST "simplifies" everything and repeats it like a parrot. But how can you simplify a country of 1.2 billion people with so many cultures ? shouldnt taxation...

kiranA

Chennai old part is congested. New part is largely unplanned. One ECR and one OMR I believe and a ring road perpetually in making. Nothing much to shout about. Countryside not much different from even AP. You have to move out of your comfort zone to explore the country. Chennai has 3 ring roads ( I...

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kiranA

Ok just saw Ramana post . Will stop.

kiranA

Just take a step back and think. Building a road in remote china Bhutan border is not very high on china agenda . Core china is atleast 2000 miles away. But strongly securing the border is obviously high on india agenda. In this light shouldn't india have a better vision than ..." hey we tempor...

kiranA

Shiv, india moved troops in to their or bhutans territory. And you blame their reaction as " heated rhetoric " . How exactly should one rhetoric when somebody else's troops enter their claimed land ? Mildly you think ? What do you mean "Bhutan's territory" It was Chinese wasn't ...

kiranA

But it's a good question from shiv why did china stop border work while publicly still claiming the intent to do so if it wants . And why does India not challenge China's intent ? Did china stop because winter is anyway coming and not let its brics party be pooped . Did china stop because it figured...

kiranA

When the Doklam face off started there was some apprehension that there would be war and this very thread hosted discussions about wild mijjile attacks on Delhi and other cities and our inability to return the compliment to Beijing and Shanghai. The Chinese indignantly claimed that they were buildi...

kiranA

We failed and we lost. I am unable to comprehend many posts here. Its one thing to be a patriot but quiet another to be delusional. It was poorly executed, poorly communicated and utlimately buckling and blinking by GoI. I made a post in another thread on this and I havent seen anything that contrad...

kiranA

Gus wrote:Kiran - in our area there were folk who got suddenly rich by a scheme locally known as "two for one".

Those people did not turn in theirs.

what does that mean

kiranA

Fine. But on what basis are you claiming that 42 CR FICN was all that there was in circulation? Gus - If FICN is in circulation then that means somebody believes its genuine and it will end up at bank. Why wont it ? why would anyone trade his actual goods for fake currency knowing its fake currency...

kiranA

Some simple theorizing (without a lot of ifs and buts) on low GDP growth over the last 3 years: * Govt is inherently inefficient. It has become increasingly better at tax collection over the last 3 years. It has been able to reduce fiscal deficit drastically mainly because of maintaining fuel price...

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