Bharat Rakshak

Anand K

See the email the Chief Yak Herder pasted in the General Elections Thread ? IMO EVM are probably not rigged - and surely not on significant scale. But there's another CT, hat-tip to Singha-style storytelling: Light up the enemy's air defences with probing attacks to know his cards. Fight mayayudh w...

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These exit polls have been a case of hit and miss for lack of sanctity in the sample. Look at Chanakya's sample size. It is a total of 38584 voters across India. For a presidential elections where the aggregate votes are taken ( at least within a state), a random sample across the state, roughly eq...

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Maybe it's dietary habits that lead to heartburn and not the running itself? I know a few of cases like that - fit guys having regular heartburn while exercising and sometimes when they wake up..... and some cases developing GERD. The advice apparently is to eat dinner really early - at least 4 hour...

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Talk about Soylent Green and synthetic eggs.... will the Ahaara (soul-input), Sattwik, Rajaswik & Tamaswic funda apply to cloned and artificial meat?

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In the conclusion of his magnum-opus, S. Radhakrishnan's speaks about the " dangers of doubt and the disturbing power of dialectic ". The apples have fallen far from the tree, swept by self-hate, blinkered dialectic and confirmation-bias? After Dilip D' Souza (remember that joker?) we have...

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After the penultimate round;

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After the penultimate round;

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ORF Guru's Gyan

This guy writes for the Pioneer too.

Anand K

I guess there are many here with wrist RSI issues and Carpals - mostly keyboard warriors, with the odd loh-purush who strains his wrist doing MTB or Shaolin Iron-Fist or the Fist of the North Star :(( . I had the mouse pretty much grafted to my right palm (hate the touch-pad) since Lower Madrassa an...

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I haven't been following all threads these days due to work load but is there a discussion about the whole opinion poll thing? Like the actual mechanics of it all - sample sizing & locating (various factors such as caste, region, age etc AND possibility of voting), raw data & extrapolation, ...

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Internal Remittance in China

Article is almost nine years old but is indicative.

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There is the sanity & bluff aspect and the credibility aspect to all this IMO: We say Pakis who publicly and volubly draw red lines at everything, including Veena Malik's Indian citizenship, are Irrational. They also DO HAVE nukes (doesn't mater who gave it to them) and seem to be ramping up the...

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IM Leader Ashraf Ali captured from Kadaloor, TN

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Now that this round is ending in an hour or two I think I can say,

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Now that this round is ending in an hour or two I think I can say,

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^^ A perveretd form of Lord Shiva with the Halahala eh? Some churning brought out a world-ender and you can't spit it out or can't swallow it either. Walk around with a blue throat for everyone to see. To reiterate I think maybe the GoI see the tactical exchange thing as a cul de sac in the Indian c...

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It seems like the Roopesh-Shyna wonder couple and core team comprising of a Mahatao, a "Kanya Kumari" and a couple of others have been traveling all over Wayanadu district at will, evading cordons of cops and IB. This is while dozens of hard-core naxals have been reported to infiltrate the...

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The keystone of the MR approach is apparently the belief that things can't be contained at tactical level in India-Pak-China situation and escalation WILL be rapid. This already assumes (high degree of) irrationality OR desperation on one side or both side in the India-Pak case. Also SS was quoting ...

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Maybe it's the GOI public posturing against TSP "Government" which is absolutely careless about dropping the N-word (or just appearing to be suicidal). Like " Oh, you'll tac-nuke us if we capture even your Gyari wh0re-house? Then we'll nuke your top 20 cities and the rivers of blood w...

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There's a number of articles from him on the accountability of security agencies, or lack thereof and the lack of parliamentary oversight on R&AW. Maybe not a regular spook - maybe a bean-counter mandarin, uncomfortable and wary of the military and spooks and the turbulent worlds they inhabit, b...

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Status of Opinion polls in India

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>>Prasannanarasimha As I said, deterrence is a changing landscape - but what made us go for the expensive triad, i.e. a second or third strike capability? Is it just the numbers game or for the heck of it or is it also due to our some new threat matrix and new perception of Pakis and Chinese strateg...

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... Anand your post is full of innuendo, analogies and ill defined concepts. It sounds more like poetry than logic. In a vague sense you sound like Arjuna worrying about why he is on the battlefield, when discussions about nuclear deterrence and war should be centered around the basic concept of ki...

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Shiv, The fact that nukes exist in the dynamics is never in doubt. Neither is the fact that there should be a strategy of response. You take the "length of the sword" point again which imo is just one aspect of deterrence. Before coming to the fun part about how big our sword should be, wh...

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Just letting off a few thought balloons here.... a maximalist position actually from POV of our foes. We all laughed at the "Mineshaft Gap" and "Multiple Fertile Women per Man" snippets in Dr. Strangelove but I think the key here is continuity of State, under the current ruling e...

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So if I understand correctly, your view is that India is not going to do an all-out FU. I thought in your above post you meant India was scared of going all-out in any scenario. I agree, India will not go all out FU. I don’t think it will go for FU even in the case of small tactical strike… the maj...

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Fear of losing the near and dear is not something that has not happened before to Indians, at a mass scale. IC-814 passenger manifest cannot really be scale fitted to the nation at large. Chinese too have tasted mass deaths. BTW, when was the last time mass death directly due to war happened in Ind...

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Do Indian security agencies keep tabs on former establishment figures - i.e. if they "stray"? I mean, the revelations regarding armed forces brass in Siachen Track-420 and others (maybe even a respected scientist who came back with a shady looking Sankhya Vahini project)? By virtue of thei...

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But then if fear is so universal then why not just ban nukes :P and release each other from continual fear - would that be too MMS too the taste buds? (ok the later part was mischief) Well, fear was the root cause of the original WMD question, no? Projected 200K U.S. fatalities in Op Coronet/Op Oly...

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Anand K, You mean unlike Indian leaders who are scared of what will happen in a nuclear devastated India, the Paks, Chinese, Americans, etc are not scared of what the situation will be in their own nuclear devastated countries? Or are you suggesting that India won't do anything in the face of a con...

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IMO if a large section of our professional armies are destroyed in such a war and sections of executive/police/military leadership are killed it will be difficult to bring the rump in order. Even if you have a sliver of very capable leadership surviving. And PAC/SAP/CRPF type units don't have the di...

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If I may go out on a limb, Pakis and ChiComs know that India fears nuking them not because India doesn't have the strength (or doubts it's strength) to nuke them enough [at least in a unacceptable loss terms anyway]. Indian leadership would be shit-scared about what to do with a heavily nuked India ...

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Service Sector of Brazil equals about 90% of India's total GDP. From this, Financial Services alone is nearly a fourth of India's total GDP. Savings % against GDP is half that of India. Much higher consumerism, good access to American products, money flows around various aspects of economy in copiou...

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I did a quick search and saw that there is no equivalent high-power "Indian deep research initiative" in the Social Impact/PubAd departments of other major B-Schools . Of course Harvard Kennedy School and other schools directly concerned with Government and Society have similar research wi...

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Talk about not enough CRPF....

There's almost no apocalyptic fiction in India right? Even though we have cyclic mythos and a Shiva the Destroyer..... and also a large number of Muslims who have Armageddon fundae. Does that mean something?

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Exhibit-A: Industry captains rushing to ABV to "stop the Parakram atikramam" instead of going all IG Farben or Siemens or Imperial Japan Elite. Exhibit-B: Fearful, anguished screaming relatives picketing 7 RCR when the flight was hijacked. Instead of proclaiming them as martyrs for the cou...

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I just did some string searches in this dhaaga - "panic", "riots", "law+order", "breakdown" and saw that the scant times these appear it's in relation with the size of the bombs dropped. That is as a variable in the "length of the sword" issue. Not e...

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^^
Which one?

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"Feedback" anyone? In case of extended nuclear exchange? Setting aside the possibility that the NATO/Russia/China/Klaatu + GORT/etc will not bomb our nuke assets to stop our retaliation, what about feedback generated within the country on the " See what they did to our Armored Brigade...

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Any Indian organization, i.e. of the non SAJA/FOIL variety, directly in contact with them?

Like..... asked them what all these news report and website articles actually mean? Any response will be on record right and people can guess what's going on?

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