Bharat Rakshak

Adrija

BJP, if they really care for Hindu interests, must repeal the POW act and allow excavations everywhere. But knowing them (from Modi downwards), they will try to extract political mileage from Gyanvapi & Mathura - and pretty much stop at that. Prem Kumar ji, Before we start cursing the governmen...

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i suppose we should not be fixated on numbers., if the Uke conflict is any indication., India needs to "sanction proof" the economy , else the big forex reserve would mean nothing Kit ji, not sure if I understood your comment fully- apologies upfront for that 1. This is about India's over...

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https://swarajyamag.com/economy/imf-cor ... -heres-why

Reference our conversations regarding India reaching USD 5 trn mark and the USD: INR exchange rate

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Mercantilism (keeping a currency deliberately lower than what its REER- real effective exchange rate- would imply) to drive exports is a policy long favoured by China, and before that Korea, and before that Japan However, for India to practice it, requires two enabling conditions, one external and o...

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I will be happy with 5T by 2029. i will not be happy with 1-USD=94-INR though. INR should strengthen rather than devalue. V_Raman garu, the two are linked to each other- if the rupee strengthens/ does not devalue as much as predicated, the USD 5 trn target would be achieved correspondingly earlier ...

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How many people do we take for Para Military forces per year? How many armed constabularies did we take per year in each state? If we can handle all of them from the armed forces after the service of say 5/7 years, then no pension + trained personnel will be taken in with little additional cost for...

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nandakumar ji, Idev-garu has already responded to your post, just to add to it: availability outside of home country is at best a supporting factor, as I had also originally mentioned. The core requirement to be a reserve currency is economics. US dollar supremacy will endure as long as Murica remai...

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For a country's currency to acquire the status of a 'reserve currency', it is not necessary that it should be current account (trade in merchandise, services and invisibles) surplus. In fact I don't know far long back US posted a surplus. Actually, it is the exact opposite- to be a reserve currency...

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That this experiment called India has managed to stay alive for 75 years is not a tribute to our constitution's robustness but proof of our collective dharmic civilisational psyche that believes and practices those values. Those outside who believed India would flounder and fail are surprised by ou...

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I can understand not reacting to provocations like the killings. But what stops them from reacting against the source of all this? Just putting the disposable brown sepoys under UAPA and stopping NGO money isn't going to work. The intellectual masters sitting in foreign universities and various org...

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Cyrano ji, Our biggest still to be tackled agenda items/ messes are (a) judiciary, and (b) power sector In any other country the SC striking down the NJAC as unconstitutional would have been grounds for a constitutional crisis... the NaMo government chose to shelve that confrontation........ wise or...

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Which is why Modi will only tweet, say anodyne stuff while boring comitttees silently sit and fix schoolbooks etc. Rest against the conversion racket is happening via FCRA, UAPA etc. Is it 100%? No. But its enough to have NYT rush it's reporters down to India and try to force the Govt to change. An...

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Agree w Karan M and the other posters, with a small caveat- NM's rise to power was NOT on the basis of RJB or other cultural issues, but on the disgust on UPA by mango man on the lack of economic progress + corruption (the latter was seen as causing the former to at least some extent), and pull towa...

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Ambar ji, I believe all the Municipal Corporations of Delhi are controlled by BJP

So Kejri has not done even one good thing

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Lohit, ji, if I may- equating US economic supremacy to USD as world's default settlement currency is IMVHO mixing cause and effect. USD is the global settlement currency because the US is the world's largest consumer market, not the other way around........ if/ when China becomes the world's single ...

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Janamdin ki Hardik shubhkamnayen Modiji

May you continue to serve Bharat mata for long

We touched 25 mn- vaccinated an entire Australia

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Yes, it certainly is a heavy read!

I am eagerly waiting for the next - in which he promises and hopefully will lay out in as much detail as he has in this- what all exactly needs to change in our current constitution for Bharat to graduate from being a nation-state to being a civilizational state

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Interesting this from a 'Closet Jihadi' Should we not applaud and support such a declaration please? If nothing else, it is an acknowledgement that there is something called Indian Islam and it is worth preserving and adhering to by Muslims in India..........and it does requires bravery to speak ou...

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The US always needs an enemy. After USSR it is now China and after China it will be us; in fact, perhaps even before- it is quite possible that US reverts to the G2 continuum if/ once XI is overthrown and China and US reach an agreement. They are culturally and economically quite similar and complem...

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Happy Independence Day

गणतंत्र दिवस की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं

Vande Mataram! Jai HInd!

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https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1739949 quote: Total 41 AoNs worth Rs.86623.55 crore have been accorded to domestic vendors for capital acquisition since May, 2020. For the impatient Brakshaks who keep on berating the government for not doing enough in the defense sector We would all ...

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So, Mallya didn't divert the bank loans given to Kingfisher to fund the F1 team and RCB ? Also his company didn't deduct TDS of salaries and not pay the IT department? Srin- garu, all that may be true, but that does not detract from the essential observation... our economy continues to suffer from ...

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Gurulog, some basic questions... appreciate your views: The Great game was driven essentially by two basic drivers: 1. Search of Mother Russia for warm water ports, and the consequent response by West to block it and choke off Russia (driven by the belief that RU is THE enemy and hence a stranglehol...

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But then I am reminded of the fact that after WWII the West established NATO to bring down the Red Army. Even during WWII, the D-day was postponed to weaken the Red Army. Gautam Precisely... which is why supposedly Sh PVNR- who was probably one of the most geopolitically sagacious Prime Minster eve...

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Some universities do, but others (e.g. the University of California system) accept any vaccine approved by a local authority as sufficient basis for coverage,

Suraj-san, appreaciate if could share the basis/ reference for the above please

Many thnaks in advance

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Facebook seems to have towed the GoI line, but others have'nt.

Doesn;t really look like that Sachin garu

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/exc ... 021-05-26/

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I know folks here have faced and are facing a lot of difficulties in both treatment and for getting vaccinations.. but FWIW, thought I would share my experience - SHQ got her second dose today (Covaxin) in a drive-in facility organized by the local administration (Gurugram, HR). We landed at 9:30 am...

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CSaurabhji, I appreciate your drawing a difference between "manufacturing services" (to use your term) and manufacturing technology. However, may I submit that perhaps the former is also an equally valid route for India at this stage- it does lead to jobs immediately and in manifold number...

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KVRaghaav ji, I understand your frustration but a bit of fact -check- tax agricultural income is reserved by the constitution for the states. Centre cannot tax it

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^^ yes certainly... please do so! Some tangible forward looking recommendations would be immensely helpful

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Please quit with gratitude. Adar Poonawalla soundbytes are an abomination at a time like this. He has opened the floodgates and I fear we will face the consequences of this. Let’s call a spade a spade shall we. It’s a consistent trend. And yes, I am saying that the community basis has something to ...

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Allying with the British empire, marrying into the East India Houses (some of the families) provided huge benefits. If a few did something after that, why must India treat them with awe. Once they leave India, they become Persians and vicious India haters if they are associated with any. What Poona...

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^^^ 108 that Separately, and slightly tangential (but not much) - this is a perfect example of shooting ourselves in the foot... unless we not only allow but celebrate wealth acquisition by lawful means and worship such wealth creators, India will NEVER become rich and prosperous and powerful The he...

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CSaurabhji, Agree fully with all your sentiments, except: More than government policy it is also a cultural thing May I submit that all folks world over try to do the same thing- make easy money if easy money is on offer. And that is exactly what Indian elites have done... either through trading, &q...

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FWIW, my guess is that NaMo is actually following the third model- India led growth, if one were to extrapolate from his actions, and also RSS vichardhara ... that IMVVHO is also the correct model- neither capitalist nor communist but more centred around dharma and sustainable... consistent with our...

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Thanks for that AshishA-ji... IMHO and all that, China's position vs India is very very clear- its a rival and competitor. We have to be able to foil's China's gameplan on both fronts- attracting GVCs as well as building up our domestic capabilities... they are clear on that if one goes by their act...

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Dr Kalam's books are a gem. I have read several especially books like India 2020. But I believe since kalam's passing, there has been a lack of intellectual thought as to how India can tackle various problems it faces. I hope that our best minds can work on the problem and show us the way by writin...

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Unfortunately there is no single book which I have come across on this subject AshishA-ji... but i would recommend Dr Kalam's books as a good place to start

As mentioned,GoI has done studies on this as well.. will try linking them here if those are online

Hope that helps

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^^ Thanks csaurabhji Govt already provides tax benefits (150%) for R&D- both in-house and contracted As you say, there is no silver bullet. There was a study done by the erstwhile Planning Commission (~in 2013) to "increase the R&D intensity of Indian industry".... so its not that ...

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With electric cars getting momentum, this will reduce our oil bill. Any estimate? The question has many variables embedded in it, so let me try to answer each one separately: 1. As of now, unless energy conversion improves materially, the shift to EV is actually net energy negative i.e. total energ...

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