Agnimitra wrote:J&K
Separatist Basharat Pir made head of NYTimes India blog
Just like Raheel Khurshid with Twitter India...
TSJones wrote:svinayak wrote:
There is geopolitical reasons for India to participate.
PRC wants to cooperate with ISRO. PRC will change its policy going forward with India with ISRO achieving successfully.
ISRO wil cooperating with all the 3 major powers in the world. This is unique.
you guys can team with the Chinese all ya want, but kindly don't allow them to copy anything we jointly develop. Those guys will steal you blind if they can. serious beans. Space X won't even patent any of their ideas and processes. Elon Musk says why give the Chinese a play book?
vivek.rao wrote:
Join development with China is like Sybase working with Microsoft on database and IBM working with Microsoft on OS/2.
Cisco and several others did their development in China and now they are all doomed.
pankajs wrote:At this stage we have very little to go on. Going by the above reports, India seems to have broken from the past practices. While the US will use every forum and all methods to push its case a strong India can certainly push back.
chaanakya wrote:^^He is script writer (co) of filum Haider.
vivek.rao wrote:Agnimitra wrote:J&K
Separatist Basharat Pir made head of NYTimes India blog
Just like Raheel Khurshid with Twitter India...
All the anti-Indian,EJs,traitors,MAFIA Queen and even Twitter all were working so closely with one another in a coordinated fashion to take control of India.
Was this co-ordinated or is it the visceral hatred of these people to Hindus civilization makes them select people with visceral hatred automatically
Bhardwaj and Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer co-wrote the film's screenplay and they must be praised for their courage to speak strongly about what is happening in Kashmir. Haider goes beyond Bollywood's Pakistan bashing for Kashmir's troubles and speaks about the alleged atrocities of the Indian Army on Kashmiris. Haider jokes about 'chutzpah'--pronounced as 'chootspaa' in the movie--and equates it to AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the security law which gives armed forces immunity from prosecution while operating in the militancy-hit areas but has been criticised by human rights groups).
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Their joint statement, as well as a co-authored op-ed in the Washington Post by Obama and Modi, was a powerful statement of 'strategic and global partnership'. As the Stimson Center's Joshua White noted, India's previous Congress-led Government 'believed much of this, but wouldn't have said it' out of sensitivity to real and perceived domestic political anti-Americanism.
Moreover, four security-related items stand out.
1. Commitment to counter-terrorism against a very specific set of Pakistan-linked groups, including – as India has long demanded – those, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and D-Company, both of which are of particular concern to Delhi.
2. US acknowledgement that India is ready for membership in key missile and nuclear export control groups (the Missile Technology Control Regime and Nuclear Suppliers Group), something that would represent the latest stage in its gradual entry into parts of the non-proliferation regime – of obvious interest to Australia as it debates its recent civil nuclear agreement with India.
3. New areas of defence cooperation, including a US commitment to work with India's future National Defence University, an expansion of military-military partnerships, and 'enhancing exchanges of civilian and military intelligence'. Much anticipated joint weapons development didn't quite make the cut, although this seems to remain on the table awaiting Indian approval.
4. Although China went unmentioned, the South China Sea did not, a first for US-India statements. More importantly, an implicit parallel was drawn between the US pivot ('rebalancing') to Asia and India's own engagement with East and Southeast Asian nations, something that, however mild, constitutes one of the strongest indications of Indian support for the US policy (see the suitably petulant reply from the People's Daily). The leaders also agreed to upgrade the US-India MALABAR naval exercises and explore 'technology partnerships' for the Indian Navy, perhaps a very oblique allusion to earlier hints of joint shipbuilding.
QUESTION: Yeah, sorry. Ashish Sen with the Tribune. Could you elaborate a little bit on what the collaboration between India and the U.S. in dismantling and disrupting Pakistan-based terrorist groups is going to look like? What sort of coordination, what would that coordination look like?
And also, specifically on the financial networks, while the PM was in Washington there was an announcement about asset freezes of groups that are based in Pakistan. How effective have these asset freezes been, considering a lot of these leaders don’t have assets in the U.S.?
ASSISTANT SECRETARY BISWAL: First of all, with respect to counterterrorism cooperation, we have a strong and growing collaboration between the United States and India on counterterrorism, on sharing information and intelligence and capabilities, to essentially advance our shared objectives of security. Terrorism is a threat to the region. It is a threat to the United States, to our people and our institutions around the world. And so we have sought to have a robust relationship on counterterrorism with India, with Pakistan, with all the countries of the region. And we will continue to look for ways to expand and extend that cooperation bilaterally with each of those countries as well as looking for opportunities where we see collaboration in joint arenas as well.
With respect to groups that emanate in the region versus more global threats, I think we have had longstanding discussions with all the countries of the region on that, and we will continue to engage very, very proactively on those issues. And I think we are also looking to see that regional groups and global threats – there’s not a far distance between working together to address one versus working together to address the larger, broader global set of challenges. And I think that that’s where the conversation is, is how we link up these efforts that are ongoing.
QUESTION: Would that involve – sorry, just to follow up. Would that involve military cooperation, I mean coordination on drone strikes? I’m trying to understand how you –
ASSISTANT SECRETARY BISWAL: No --
QUESTION: -- dismantle terror groups when you’re not (inaudible).
ASSISTANT SECRETARY BISWAL: Well, those are not – those are not conversations that I’m going to get into here, but we’re certainly talking about all of the different actions that we’re taking ourselves through U.S. strikes in – against ISIL, for example. And we’re also open to our conversations with all of our partners in the region about what role they want to play and how they can be helpful in those efforts.
I mean coordination on drone strikes? I’m trying to understand how you –
ASSISTANT SECRETARY BISWAL: No --
Narendra Modi was speaking in code when he visited America. Here’s what he was really saying to his Hindu nationalist base
By Meera Nair October 3 at 10:30 AM
Meera Nair, who teaches writing at New York University, is the author of "Video," a short-story collection.
Narendra Modi’s first official visit to the United States, which ended on Sept. 30 was quite a spectacle. There was a campaign-style appearance before 18,000 adoring fans at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Jumbotrons in Times Square broadcast an extravaganza that featured Bollywood dancing, convention-style balloon-drops, and a receiving line of dozens of U.S. congressmen. Modi was working hard, it seemed, to introduce himself favorably to Americans and the Indian expatriates who live among them.
But he wasn’t just speaking to the people on this continent. In fact, the symbolism and rhetoric of this trip were carefully calibrated toward his Hindu nationalist base at home (and here, too). This was old-fashioned dog-whistle politics, and it was a master class. The message: I may nod to tolerance and openness, but I’m really still with you.
For starters, take the jacket Modi wore on stage in New York. It was in a color that his personal tailor, Bipin Chauhan, has called a “silent” variation of saffron. The color is a favorite of Modi’s. Many of his iconic calf-length shirts, now rebranded as #ModiKurtas (yes, they have a hash tag), and other accessories sport some shade of saffron. In India, saffron has deep connotations for Hindus, symbolizing sacred fire, sacrifice, asceticism and a quest for light and salvation. But the color has also been co-opted by Hindu fundamentalists. The armed Hindu mobs that roamed Gujarat in the 2002 riots that led to the death of over 1,000 people, three-quarters of them Muslim, wore saffron. Modi was Gujarat’s chief minister at the time. While evidence exists of state complicity in the riots, he personally has not been found guilty. Still, given the loaded iconography surrounding the color, Modi’s style choices seem awfully brazen.
In his speech on Sunday, the prime minister evoked yet another symbol of India — the river Ganges. In asking for help from affluent Indian Americans in the audience to clean up the polluted river, he referred to the river as Maa Ganga or Mother Ganga, an honorific routinely used by Hindus who revere the river as a Goddess and believe its water is holy. He exhorted the audience to watch a film that is a paean to Hindu rituals associated with the river. His reclamation project has been named NamamiGange; Namami is a term borrowed from Sanskrit prayers and means “obeisance.” Namami Gange translates as, “We bow to you, Ganga” — a sentiment that the hundreds of millions of Indians who depend on the arterial river may not share. In contrast, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s cleanup mission was simply called the Ganga Action Plan.
Modi also made sure his audience at Madison Square Garden knew that he was fasting for Navrathri, a Hindu religious festival. At two meals organized in his honor by the White House, Modi sipped warm water — a gesture of ascetic renunciation that was widely publicized.
Even the joint op-ed penned by President Obama and Modi in The Washington Post had problems. It doffed its hat to Swami Vivekananda, whose advocacy of a more socially engaged, more “masculine” form of Hinduism that stands chest to chest with other religions, has been appropriated by Hindu fundamentalist groups like the reactionary Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its political offshoot, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Modi has in the past positioned himself as a leader in the mold of Vivekananda — even going so far to hang posters of the teacher as a backdrop for his public appearances.
The fact that the leader of a self-professed secular democracy associates himself overtly and unabashedly with the symbols of India’s majority religion should suggest that America needs to tread carefully or risk being seen as endorsing a Hindu-centric re-branding of India, a country with 176 million Muslims, some 20 million Sikhs, and many other minorities. Yes, Modi mentioned Sikhs once in his speech, and he drew attention to the Muslims who were grouped prominently near the stage, but the predominance of exclusively Hindu symbols and language in the rest of his rhetoric made these references feel like token gestures.
By themselves, wearing saffron or gifting Bhagavad Gitas to Obama could be dismissed as aesthetic or lyrical flourishes from a master politician. But taken as a whole, it is hard not to see these actions as an attempt to assert India’s Hindu-ness on the world stage — at the expense of its minority faiths.
CRamS wrote:Makes my blood boil at this scum bag Vishal whatever
http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertain ... 71010.aspx
Bhardwaj and Kashmiri journalist Basharat Peer co-wrote the film's screenplay and they must be praised for their courage to speak strongly about what is happening in Kashmir. Haider goes beyond Bollywood's Pakistan bashing for Kashmir's troubles and speaks about the alleged atrocities of the Indian Army on Kashmiris. Haider jokes about 'chutzpah'--pronounced as 'chootspaa' in the movie--and equates it to AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the security law which gives armed forces immunity from prosecution while operating in the militancy-hit areas but has been criticised by human rights groups).
svinayak wrote:http://sacredcows.typepad.com/weblog/2014/10/an-open-letter-to-all-you-abcd-modi-maniacs-out-there.html
ANother one
She broke both American and Indian taboos when she married an Englishman, who arrived at their wedding on an elephant.
CRamS wrote:DoCji, also read in HT that the movie is not getting a pass in TSP because of some "controversial" scenes. Anyone know what scenes are offensive to TSP. From the reviews, I thought the whole movie was India bashing, Indian army blood thirsty monsters slaughtering the oh so poor Gandian Barshat Peers seeking "self determination" from big baad India?
csaurabh wrote:Bollywood 'hindi' and hindi songs are way too urdu-ized. One could even just call them urdu ( atleast 80% of them ). I mean how many people understand all these arabic and farsi and turkish and whatnot words. I see no reason to have so much of it.
Folk songs/ rural dialect songs / other Indian language songs are not that way. Obviously there is a pressure group acting in the interest of making it that way. Then when you look at all the hawala and D company and the underworld, the connection should be obvious.
NaMo speaks highly sanskritized hindi ( totally unlike Bollywood ) rather than English. This is a message to the Islamic world as well as to the West.
In an echo of the late 1980s, foreign investment in US, real estate has taken off with foreign buyers now making up 7 percent of total existing-home sales of $1.2 trillion, the Times said citing a survey from the National Association of Realtors.
Of those, Indians represent 6 percent of the purchases, spending $5.8 billion, up from $3.9 billion over the same period a year ago and on par with buyers from Britain.
Buyers from five countries account for over half of international home sales, with those from India ranked third, paying a median of $343,000.
Canada still accounts for the largest share of buyers, but China is the fastest-growing source of clients, according to the realtors' group.
"Buyers from India include parents living in India who buy apartments for students attending college, making sure the units have concierge service and an extra bedroom so they can visit for extended periods," said several real estate agents cited by the Times.
After the students leave college, the parents often keep the apartment and rent it out.
Irene Barnaby, a broker with Weichert Realtors in Jersey City, was quoted as saying her Indian clients generally spent about $600,000 to $800,000 on condos.
Indian real estate agents are also getting in on the action with many recruiting brokers in the US to help clients overcome tax issues and red tape that otherwise would apply to foreign investors, the Times said.
CRamS wrote:PingaleJi, that article says more about WP and its elite readers than it does about a self-loathing twit like Mira Nair.
The piece of crap brings out the solid truth about Indian secularist perverts and their western backers: The very sight of someone asserting their Hindu identity is "communal", a standard expected from no other democracy.
svinayak wrote:http://sacredcows.typepad.com/weblog/2014/10/an-open-letter-to-all-you-abcd-modi-maniacs-out-there.html
ANother one
svinayak wrote:http://sacredcows.typepad.com/weblog/2014/10/an-open-letter-to-all-you-abcd-modi-maniacs-out-there.html
ANother one
The BJP’s main political challenge is to appeal beyond its old strongholds in the west and north. In mid-September it did badly in state by-elections triggered by members of state assemblies who had won national parliamentary seats. Three factors explain the poor showing. Voters forced back to the polls usually blame the incumbents; Mr Modi did not campaign; and in Uttar Pradesh, where it lost seven of 11 seats, the BJP blundered by putting a Hindu nationalist thug, Yogi Adityanath, in charge. His crude efforts to stir up antagonism between Hindus and Muslims mercifully flopped.
Remarkably, the BJP even fancies its chances in Jammu and Kashmir, though an election there may be delayed because of devastating September floods in Srinagar, the summer capital. Meanwhile, the BJP looks especially strong in the Jammu region. It will draw support from both Hindus and Buddhists in the state.
A_Gupta wrote:svinayak wrote:http://sacredcows.typepad.com/weblog/2014/10/an-open-letter-to-all-you-abcd-modi-maniacs-out-there.html
ANother one
The very name in the blog, "Sacred Cows", is a mockery of Hindus. "Sacred cow" refers to a custom or tradition that is deemed unreasonable (by whom)?
She broke both American and Indian taboos when she married an Englishman, who arrived at their wedding on an elephant.
Raja Bose wrote:Why are folks here getting so much heartburn discussing these turds Anand and Nair?? When you see a turd steaming on the roadside in the summer, do you typically spend so much effort dissecting its aroma, texture and taste? Or do you sidestep it, hold your nose and go on your way?
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