Narendra Modi vs the Dynasty: Contrasting Ideas of India

[vic]

Jaitely was lawyer for Rupert Murdoch, is friend of Shobana Bhartia and has v v close relations with MSM. Therefore all attacks on Modi had his implicit approval. In fact, as BJP is gathering massive momentum, there is attempt to renew attacks on Modi, now to hold him below 220 seats, as with 240 seats he will be unstoppable.

[Saral]

From Varun Gandhi's perspective it is completely rational to (eventually) hitch his wagon to the Gandhi brand. He does have some degrees. I haven't listened to him though. I was puzzled when he was appointed as national general secretary of the BJP. Is he a cut above Rahul or what? Not that this is a valid standard.

[anmol]

Why most women would never marry Narendra Modi…
by Shobhaa De, mumbaimirror.com
April 12th 2014
Important disclosure: I have asked approximately a hundred women this idiotic question: "Would you marry Narendra Modi?" I have even asked myself the same one (errr... maybe he goes for older women?). Why? Because when a woman looks at a man with any level of interest, she generally asks herself a set of absurd questions, starting with: Is he 'husband material'? Would I like to make babies with him? Is he a keeper?

This has nothing to do with age. Since I am writing about NAMO's attractiveness / sex appeal vis-a-vis the women of India (key voters!), how could I resist or hold back? So here's the first cut on this sizzling topic: Narendra Modi - Stud or Dud? Namo is definitely not the sort of guy you want to take home to mother. He'd probably scare the hell out of her. You wouldn't want to introduce him to friends either (this is key... girls- friends must approve of boyfriends/husbands). As for getting Dad to hang with this guy - oooops! No chance. After all, Dad is the real 'chowkidar' in a daughter's life. Why hire another? Next criterion: Would Namo make a compatible travel companion? Doubtful. He'd probably make a speech wherever he finds five people. And the only sight seeing he'd be interested in would be restricted to helicopter surveys of expressways. Could Namo be a good listener (this is perhaps the single most important quality women look for in men)? The answer is an emphatic 'no'. Modi loves the sound of his own voice. And he doesn't listen to anyone - man or woman.

Besides, he doesn't speak - he thunders. He talks at people, not to them. A woman likes to be spoken to. He gives the impression he'd have neither the patience nor the interest in listening to her and may consider such interactions a complete waste of his precious time - unless of course, the woman was gush-gush-gushing and drooling all over him. Modi appears arrogant and dismissive, self-absorbed and conceited. Chicks like appreciation... compliments .So do men! Modi always appears in self-congratulatory mode, rarely bothering to make eye contact even with someone sitting two feet away from him. Basically, Modi gives the impression of being madly in love - with himself.

Just to balance it out a little, let me say it's not entirely downhill for Namo, either. There are women who admire cave men. There are women who do consider Namo 'manly' in the old fashioned sense -remember, he has that impressive 56-inch (now downsized to 44-inch) chest. While it may not translate into a 'Me Tarzan, You Jane' script, some women do believe Namo represents the strongsilent prototype - a guy who focuses unambiguously on masculine concerns and cares a damn about metrosexuality. My worry is that he looks as if he doesn't care a damn about any kind of sexuality - metro, new age, whatever. Power is sex for Modi. Where is the space for a woman in this equation? Some ladies insist it's a relief to come across a man who doesn't give off a lecherous vibe. That's fine. But zero vibe is also not nice, na? Then again, he himself says marriage is not for him. Never mind what Jashodaben, the wife he abandoned when she was just seventeen years old, feels about that. His 'bachelorhood-equals -sainthood- equals honesty' theory is equally bizarre. He recently said no wife, no parivaar means no temptation to accumulate wealth, which in turn leads to a drastic reduction of corruption. This is another crazy pronouncement of his, and it makes him sound like some sort of a weirdo not in sync with the times we live in.

Sorry, but Namo doesn't quite cut it in the 'Main Tera Hero' sense. I mean - really! It is not about his portly physique. It is not about his strange kurta which stretches across his generous midriff. It is not about any of this. Fifteen years ago, nobody outside of political circles had heard of Narendra Modi. When he did shoot into prominence, it was for all the wrong reasons (Godhra). It is only in the past two years that Modi has registered strongly and become a household name. But here's the catch: he is more feared than loved. More admired than respected. Women loathe bullies/ tyrants/ autocrats/ egoists. Unfortunately, Modi falls into this reviled category. So... let's be upfront about this - we are emotional people. We like mushy, happy endings, particularly to love stories. If Narendra Modi were to be cast in an iconic Bollywood film - which role would he play best? Go on... ask yourself. Gabbar Singh or Veeru from 'Sholay'? The answer's pretty obvious. And no woman in her right mind would want to be Mrs. Gabbar Singh.

[member_23061]

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Seriously? Shobha Dee? Pulp fiction writer? Woman who sees the world through a pelvis?

[anmol]

The new BJP and the fringe
thehindu.com | Apr 7th 2014

The only thing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has to fear in this election is itself. As voting is underway, pollsters give the party a commanding lead over the Congress, even showing it expanding into states such as Tamil Nadu. Yet, the delay and details of the BJP’s manifesto reveal the marked differences in the tone and issues emanating from the new BJP led by Narendra Modi, and the party’s extreme fringe and what I call the “whiners wing.”

If the BJP really has a “160 Club” (that could limit the party’s success to that many number of seats) it is these extremists and whiners.

Where Mr. Modi is the man rallying a nation to reach for the stars and ensuring a manifesto that mentions the word “technology” 58 times and the words “Hindu” and “Muslim” just once, these groups are stuck honking at the potholes in the road. By insisting on inserting the mandir issue into the BJP’s manifesto, these groups want to cling to the cultural revivalism, militant nationalism and social restructuring that never got the party more than 34 per cent of the vote share or won it more than 182 seats.

To get 200-225 seats this time, Mr. Modi knows he needs to turn supporters of other parties into first-time BJP voters. He also knows he cannot win new supporters using every old trick in the BJP’s book. So his attempt to woo them with promises of clean, effective governance is bang on target.
Spewing hatred

But the extreme fringe is undermining this more than the Congress or the AAP. Beyond its insistence on the mandir issue, hatred spewed by saffron trolls on the internet is alarming many of India’s 150 million first-time voters that Mr. Modi wants to reach.

Rancid, unprintable posts from these online warriors spouting misread history, twisted logic and frenetic aggression routinely flood Twitter and Facebook and leaves people wondering if this is the real face of the BJP.

The “whining wing” is less poisonous but nurses deep a persecution complex that make it equally out-of-step with Mr. Modi’s upbeat new BJP.

Steeped in a “deny everything, attack everyone” propaganda model, the whiners fixatedly complain about the people and parties they oppose instead of evangelising the BJP’s ideas for housing, infrastructure and business.

Their 1980s predilection to prefix “pseudo” to any opposing idea makes the BJP look dated and petty at a time when it is all-important for Mr. Modi to appear prime ministerial and progressive.

Worse, while Mr. Modi’s own stance towards the world is open and assured, the whiners’ paranoid fear mongering about how half the world is out to destroy Hinduism thrusts a minority complex upon a majority community eager for self-confidence.

This is partly because the BJP has historically been a party nursing grudges. It was born out of a sense of cultural emasculation, reared on a diet of political and social isolation and grew to adulthood in anger that was carefully cultivated and directed by L.K. Advani.

This deadly cocktail was deftly contained by Atal Bihari Vajpayee whose half saffron-half Nehruvian nature turned him into a vital transition figure for a politically evolving India.

Now the BJP is struggling to come into its own as a positive party committed to delivery and development and fronted by leaders such as Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley and Vasundhara Raje.

This new BJP wants to represent the aspirations of millions of Indians beyond the party’s traditional voter base. Yet, or perhaps because of this, it stands threatened by old leaders clinging to old habits that need to die hard.

Party insiders say Mr. Modi, Mr. Jaitley and others are trying to rein in these groups and are setting the tone for the new BJP through personal example. They point to Mr. Jaitley’s running of a positive campaign despite his opponent Amarinder Singh’s petty jibes and the exemplary manner in which Mr. Modi kept the crowd at his Bihar rally cool after bombs were set off. “Ask yourself if you want to fight each other or poverty,” is how he sent people home peacefully in one of the most remarkable public performances of any Indian politician.

Yet, while Mr. Modi is rightly pilloried for the riots in Gujarat he is unjustly not praised enough for averting one in Bihar. This is because the extreme fringe and whiners wing still cast doubt over Mr. Modi and the BJP.

Critics accuse the party of simply trying to speak in two voices — using Mr. Modi, Mr. Jaitley, Ms Raje, Mr. Chouhan etc. to speak of development and attract one set of voters, while using the extremists and whiners to stir Luddites with the mandir and other issues.

But such dual messaging isn’t viable. As we saw, what Amit Shah says in Uttar Pradesh’s further corners becomes a national headline and one tweet from a fanatic can turn-off a thousand middle-ground voters. Put together, the extreme fringe and whiners wing could cut 20-25 seats from the party’s final tally. For the BJP to truly Modify itself it will have to do more to silence or sideline these groups.

It is now quite clear that there are more votes to be won by talking of building India than can be got by demolishing mosques and building mandirs. This is where India’s heart is. If in the next few weeks the BJP takes a few more steps in its new direction it could win a much wider place in it.

(Jehangir S. Pocha is the editor-in-chief of NewsX and a former editor of Businessworld.)

Keywords: Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi, BJP election manifesto, Modi wave, Lok Sabha elections 2014

[Anantha]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 661990.cms
One more rat ready to run away. Expect more Gowda, Chivda and Lav$as to start running away around May 1st week.

[anmol]

Dancing with the nuclear djinn
thehindu.com | Apr 11th 2014 9:38 PM

He saw the signs of the approaching doomsday all around him: in moral degradation, in casual sex, in the rise of western power, in space travel, in our high-tech age. God, wrote Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons guru Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood in Mechanics of the Doomsday..., had not privileged man to know when it would come, but “the promised Hour is not a far off event now.” It would come as a “great blast,” perhaps “initiated by some catastrophic man-made devices, such as sudden detonation of a large number of nuclear bombs.”

Long mocked by his colleagues for his crazed beliefs — the physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy records him as saying, “djinns, being fiery creatures, ought to be tapped as a free source of energy” — and condemned to obscurity after his arrest on charges of aiding the Taliban, Mr. Mahmood may yet be remembered as a prophet.
The doctrine debate

India’s next government will, without dispute, find itself dancing with the nuclear djinn Mr. Mahmood helped unleash. In its election manifesto, the Bharatiya Janata Party has promised to “study in detail India’s nuclear doctrine, and revise and update it to make it relevant to [the] challenges of current times.” Mr. Seshadri Chari, a member of the group that formulated this section of the party’s manifesto said: “why should we tie our hands into accepting a global no-first-use policy, as has been proposed by the Prime Minister recently?”

The debate will come in dangerous times. Pakistan has been growing its arsenal low-yield plutonium nuclear weapons, also called tactical or theatre nuclear weapons. Estimates suggest some 10-12 new nuclear warheads are being added to the country’s 90-110 strong arsenal, and new reactors going critical at Khushab will likely boost that number even further. New Delhi must respond — but the seeds of a nuclear apocalypse could sprout if it gets that response wrong.

Mr. Chari’s grasp of fact doesn’t give much reason to hope for much else: India’s no-first-use commitment was made by a government his party led, not Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In 1998, battling to contain the international fallout from the Pokhran II nuclear tests, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee promised Parliament that “India would not be the first to use nuclear weapons.” Later, in August 1999, the National Security Advisory Board’s draft nuclear doctrine stated that India would only “retaliate with sufficient nuclear weapons to inflict destruction and punishment that the aggressor will find unacceptable if nuclear weapons are used against India and its forces.”

The no-first-use posture, scholar Ashley Tellis has noted in his magisterial book, India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture, was founded on a pragmatic judgment of India’s strategic circumstances. Even if India needed to fight shallow cross-border wars, Dr. Tellis argued, its “nominal military superiority over Pakistan and its local military superiority, allow such operations to be conducted by conventional means alone.”

For more than a decade-and-a-half, the commitment has held, but there have been signs it is fraying at the edges. In 2003, India announced it reserved the right to deliver a nuclear-weapons response to a chemical or biological attack, a significant caveat to the no-first-use promise. Then, in a speech delivered at the National Defence College, National Security Adviser, Shivshankar Menon, appeared to add a caveat to India’s nuclear doctrine, saying in passing that it committed to “no first use against non-nuclear weapon states.” This was interpreted by some observers to mean India might consider first strikes against nuclear-weapons states.

Dr. Singh reiterated Mr. Vajpayee’s formulation early this month — but there is at least some reason to believe the caveats reflect ongoing debates at the highest levels of the strategic community.

From its genesis, questions have hung over India’s no-first-use commitment. How would India react to credible intelligence that an imminent Pakistani first-strike against its own nuclear arsenal, would degrade its ability to retaliate? How might India deal with an attack that came from an insurgent group operating from within Pakistani territory, which seized control of a nuclear weapon? In addition, as the scholar Vipin Narang has argued, India has not committed against using its superior air power against Pakistani missile launchers armed with nuclear warheads — confronting its western adversary in a “use-it-or-lose-it” dilemma.

Bharat Karnad, a strategic affairs commentator who will likely influence a future BJP-led government’s nuclear thinking, thus described no-first-use as something of a pious fiction: “one of those restrictions which countries are willing to abide by except in war.”
Dangerous future

This much, we do know: the next government, whoever forms it, will command a more lethal nuclear arsenal than ever before. Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris have noted that while India’s nuclear arsenal, at some 80-100 warheads, is smaller than that of Pakistan, it is set to expand. India is introducing new missiles and is inducting almost-impossible-to-target nuclear-powered submarines. The experts estimate that India already has a weapons-grade plutonium stockpile of 520 kilograms, enough for 100-130 warheads, but will need more from the prototype fast-breeder reactor at Kalpakkam to meet the needs of its growing arsenal.

India’s strategic establishment seems certain it needs these weapons — but remains less than clear on just how and under what circumstances they might be used.

The threat from the east is relatively predictable. For years now, India has periodically suffered from dragon-under-the-bed nightmares — the prospect that a more aggressively nationalist China, whose conventional forces are expanding and modernising dramatically, could initiate a war to settle the two countries’ unresolved conflicts. China is bound by a no-first-use pledge, but some experts fear India’s conventional forces might be overwhelmed. It is improbable, though, that these losses would pose an existential threat to India.

“Ironically,” Dr. Narang has written, “China doubts India’s no-first-use pledge for the same reasons the United States doubts China’s: that in a crisis, no rhetorical pledge physically prevents the state from using nuclear weapons first.” For India’s nuclear strategists, this is a good thing: China’s fears should deter it from a large-scale war.
The TNW challenge

From the east, though, the threat is more complex. In the wake of the 2001-2002 India-Pakistan crisis, the Indian Army began acquiring the resources to fight limited conflicts at short notice — in essence, wars of punishment for acts of terrorism. Pakistan responded by growing its Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNW) arsenal, for use against advancing Indian formations inside its own territory. Last year, eminent diplomat Shyam Saran lucidly explained the thinking. Pakistan hopes “to dissuade India from contemplating conventional punitive retaliation to sub-conventional but highly destructive and disruptive cross-border terrorist strikes.”

From Cold War experience, Pakistan likely knows its nuclear-weapons strategy makes no sense. In 1955, historian David Smith has recorded, a NATO exercise code-named Carte Blanche concluded that a war using TNWs would leave two million dead in the north German plains. Exercise Sagebrush later concluded that all participating military formations would also end up being annihilated. Exercise Oregon Trail, conducted from 1963-1965, showed that when forces concentrated to fight conventionally, they “offered lucrative nuclear targets” — but if they “dispersed to avoid nuclear strikes, the units could be defeated by conventional tactics.”

Pakistan’s generals know expert studies, like that of A.H. Nayyar and Zia Mian, demonstrate that TNWs would be near-useless in stopping an Indian armoured thrust into Pakistan. The generals know that TNWs have to be dispersed, vastly increasing the risks of miscalculation by local commanders, accidental use, or even theft. Ejaz Haider, a Pakistani strategic commentator, has bluntly stated that the confused state of the Pakistan’s TNW doctrine “essentially means we don’t know what the hell to do with them.”

India doesn’t either. Purely symbolic gestures like revoking the no-first-use policy will yield no dividends, though. If Pakistan is desperate enough to use TNWs, thus inviting an Indian second strike, it certainly won’t be deterred by a threat to unleash Armageddon first. Backing down on no-first-use will, moreover, deny India the fruits of being seen as a responsible nuclear-weapons state, one of the reasons Mr. Vajpayee made his call in the first place.

It isn’t clear, though, that reason will prevail: Mr. Mahmood, after all, isn’t the only crazed South Asian in shouting distance of a nuclear bomb. In 1999, as war raged in Kargil, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh journal organiser had these words for Mr. Vajpayee: “Arise, Atal Behari! Who knows if fate has destined you to be the author of the final chapter of this long story. For what have we manufactured bombs? For what have we exercised the nuclear option?”

It is critical that voices like these be nowhere near the ears of the leaders whose hands hover over our nuclear button.

praveen.swami@thehindu.co.in

Keywords: BJP election manifesto, India’s nuclear doctrine, Pokhran II nuclear tests, nuclear weapons

[harbans]

One thing Shoba is completely wrong about: Modi is an avid listener, not used to interrupting. Plus he was well known for his abilities. He rose up to prominence for his dedication, loyalty, focus and organizational abilities by mid 70's, that is when he was in his mid 20's.

[SRoy]

^^

Why did you even read that article?

[Anantha]

The Non proliferation jokers are out of the woodworks. Today a new expert called Vipin Narang, political science Asst prof from Munna's Inst of Tech giving advice to India on how bad it will be to turn away from NFU.
Expect verbal diarrhea from Cohen, Purefool etc... on Injia-Pakiland in the next few days.

[krishnan]

the attacks are getting more personel

[Klaus]

Today a new expert called Vipin Sarang, political science Asst prof from Munna's Inst of Tech giving advice to India on how bad it will be to turn away from NFU.

Surely you mean Vipin Narang?

[IndraD]

For god's sake pls do not read Shobha De article it is an insult to your intelligence

added later--Saffron Hindutva in driving seat of Indian democracy, from massa land
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news ... s?page=0,1

[anmol]

The Non proliferation jokers are out of the woodworks. Today a new expert called Vipin Sarang, political science Asst prof from Munna's Inst of Tech giving advice to India on how bad it will be to turn away from NFU.
Expect verbal diarrhea from Cohen, Purefool etc... on Injia-Pakiland in the next few days.

A Risk to India’s Nuclear Doctrine
by THE EDITORIAL BOARD, nytimes.com
April 10th 2014

With India’s national elections in full swing, the campaign promises of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the presumed front-runner to lead the next government, are drawing more scrutiny. Among the more troubling proposals in the party’s election manifesto is one to “revise and update” the country’s nuclear doctrine.

Neither Narendra Modi, the party’s candidate for prime minister, nor any of his allies have fully explained what they have in mind. Some news reports suggest the B.J.P., the Hindu nationalist party, may not just reconsider but jettison India’s “no first use” policy that was adopted in 1999 when the party was previously in power. The policy committed the country to show restraint in not being the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict.

The lack of clarity about the party’s intentions on this issue introduces more uncertainty into an already unstable region. Should Mr. Modi scuttle the “no first use” policy if he wins, he would exacerbate tensions with China, which subscribes to the policy, and Pakistan, which does not.

The unresolved conflict over Kashmir between India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since 1947, and the existence of extremist groups in the Afghan-Pakistan border region make any shifts in nuclear policies particularly dangerous.

India and Pakistan, each with about 100 nuclear weapons and building more, have little regular communication, which raises the potential for miscalculation. Pakistan, in fact, has the world’s fastest-growing nuclear arsenal and recently added short-range tactical nuclear weapons that experts say are more likely to be used in battle. That existing threat, however, is not a reason for India to abandon its “no first use” doctrine; its conventional arsenal is far superior to Pakistan’s and sufficient to respond to most threats.

Although the B.J.P. initiated the “no first use” policy in India, a B.J.P.-led government also conducted a series of nuclear tests in 1998. In signaling its willingness to take a more provocative stance toward Pakistan and China, the party does not advance India’s interests.

The current government led by the Congress party has focused somewhat more on developing the country’s civilian nuclear energy sector rather than on nuclear arms. In fact, last week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proposed a global framework to promote a “no first use” doctrine among nuclear weapons states, a laudable goal.

Instead of abandoning the “no first use” doctrine, whoever wins the election would do better to commit himself to improving ties with Pakistan and starting an arms control initiative that could lead to a regional equilibrium on these dangerous weapons.

An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a B.J.P.-led government conducted India’s first nuclear test. The first test was in 1974; the B.J.P.-led government conducted several subsequent tests in 1998.

[IndraD]

I do not why west is whining over Modi, go mind your own business, Indians are not dumb , what ar they scared of ??

[SaraLax]

The Non proliferation jokers are out of the woodworks. Today a new expert called Vipin Sarang, political science Asst prof from Munna's Inst of Tech giving advice to India on how bad it will be to turn away from NFU.
Expect verbal diarrhea from Cohen, Purefool etc... on Injia-Pakiland in the next few days.

Purefool has already been venting his spleen against Modi in both Western and Eastern neighbour opinion pages since last few weeks.

[anmol]

For god's sake pls do not read Shobha De article it is an insult to your intelligence

[Saral]

http://www.indiatvnews.com/livetv/ Aap Ki Adalat live at 10 pm IST

[Muppalla]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 661990.cms
One more rat ready to run away. Expect more Gowda, Chivda and Lav$as to start running away around May 1st week.

Good. His son is asking to merge the party with BJP.

[Singha]

looks like the mere passing mention of review of nuclear doctrine with no goals or specifics has driven a wave of panic into the NPA beehive, looking at the howls of pain and "advice" to india to cease and desist.

for the record , neither US or Russia have a NFU policy, and cheen has some vague assurance not to FU against non N-weaponized states, which is certainly not India.

so everyone can have fun being in bed with FU and having 10 big-O daily, but we are supposed to be celibate and dharmic and not touch wine/women/n-weapons/meat.

[Anantha]

Could some one do a graphic on this and post here/tweet

https://twitter.com/The_Sleigher/status ... 76/photo/1

Equation of Modi wave:
Planck: n Lambda = 2 Pi r
Einstein: correct, Ab ki baar Modi sarkar

Use symbols in the equation.
Thanks

[vivek.rao]

[Muppalla]

looks like the mere passing mention of review of nuclear doctrine with no goals or specifics has driven a wave of panic into the NPA beehive, looking at the howls of pain and "advice" to india to cease and desist.

for the record , neither US or Russia have a NFU policy, and cheen has some vague assurance not to FU against non N-weaponized states, which is certainly not India.

so everyone can have fun being in bed with FU and having 10 big-O daily, but we are supposed to be celibate and dharmic and not touch wine/women/n-weapons/meat.

He needs to say in his final rally that there will be a new test series. I bet there will be a test anyway.

[Anantha]

Today a new expert called Vipin Sarang, political science Asst prof from Munna's Inst of Tech giving advice to India on how bad it will be to turn away from NFU.

Surely you mean Vipin Narang?

yes, as a musician, raga Sarang is always in my mind, Indics are like that only

[SaraLax]

Jaitely was lawyer for Rupert Murdoch, is friend of Shobana Bhartia and has v v close relations with MSM. Therefore all attacks on Modi had his implicit approval. In fact, as BJP is gathering massive momentum, there is attempt to renew attacks on Modi, now to hold him below 220 seats, as with 240 seats he will be unstoppable.

Well .. if AJ is indeed a member of the 160 Club then to me .. it doesn't really make sense as to why INC has put AMRINDER SINGH (a heavy weight, true Punjabi) against Jaitley in AMRITSAR.

[Anantha]

Notice the tone in that NYT farticle. 1st it talks about China because it has a NFU.
Then in the end the morons switch to Pakistan dictate a arms control (with Pakis only not China) and do a equal equal.
It is LOL time. These jokers are getting painfully laughable.

[KJo]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 661990.cms
One more rat ready to run away. Expect more Gowda, Chivda and Lav$as to start running away around May 1st week.

Good, we could do without him and his clan.

[RajeshA]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 661990.cms
One more rat ready to run away. Expect more Gowda, Chivda and Lav$as to start running away around May 1st week.

Good. His son is asking to merge the party with BJP.

Merge? When did H. D. Kumaraswamy say that?

[abhik]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home ... 661990.cms
One more rat ready to run away. Expect more Gowda, Chivda and Lav$as to start running away around May 1st week.

Good. His son is asking to merge the party with BJP.

Can you elaborate? thanks.

[Vikas]

Good that these Morons in west have found new job to paint Modi as next Putin. The way Modi operates, I think India and china will be aligned more closely while Modi will focus on East Asia more than any other place. West can take its O-moments and moan till thy kingdom come.

[SRoy]

No, West will prod and provoke every irredentist element in PRC.
Chinese irredentism helps West.
Such tendencies within PRC if tamed, then its game over for the West.

[vivek.rao]

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PAPPU's interview reactions

[sooraj]

Shri Narendra Modi addressing a massive gathering in Pune LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKfl7VU9cxk

[member_20036]

Narendra Modi padhare on India TV

[devesh]

Good that these Morons in west have found new job to paint Modi as next Putin. The way Modi operates, I think India and china will be aligned more closely while Modi will focus on East Asia more than any other place. West can take its O-moments and moan till thy kingdom come.

no need for that. I think we are getting too exuberant. we are not in a position of strength. and neither is Modi.

we might not like it but it will have to be give-and-take for the foreseeable future. we might have to give some tempting apples in return for venturing into areas which no Indian post-1772 has had the audacity to dream of.

it will have to be piecemeal expansions. getting access to crucial corridors and tightening the noose. but will not happen unless some important levers in the Euro+American see the benefits of such increased access for us. Modi, I think is level-headed enough to understand this. he is not a gung-ho jingo in his actions. in his heart, he is one. but in his actions he has shown a good mind to understand the realities.

[Prasad]

Statues of many temples of TN were shifted to Thirupathi during jihadi attacks into deep south. The deity may not be Lord Vishnu as per some versions and may be Karthikeya (some TN people says this) and some says it is the Goddess Durga.

He is anyway regular partner for Gujarathi people.

Srirangam temple's Utsava moorthy was taken to Thirupathi when Malik Kafur's army invaded the south. Link. When you enter the Thirupathi temple, you can see a brass plate inscription saying this, in english.

[Hari Seldon]

the audience @ aap ki adalat spontaneously chants "Modi, Modi" at the drop of the hat.... what a festive atmosphere! amazing! me, shq, my mother - we're all sitting up way past bed time to see this....

[devesh]

The only hope I have is that Modi can start healing the catastrophic change of course that India's destiny took in 1772. the demise of that Peshwa also marks the demise of the last man who had both the ambitious dreams and the actual ability to see a unified Bharat from Gandhara to Pragjyothish in the East.

I don't think anybody since him has had the audacity to dream of such things, let alone the intellectual, administrative, and coercive tools at his disposal to achieve it.

[Prasad]

any live streaming links for the namo intv?

[ManjaM]

http://www.indiatvnews.com/livetv/