Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

[chetak]

The Guardian calls India’s refusal to crawl before the US a diplomatic blunder, while American bullying ‘realpolitik’: Brown sepoy mukul kesavan blames PM Modi for standing up for India’s sovereignty

mukul kesavan recently authored a piece in The Guardian, blaming PM Modi for the recent Indo-US strain, conveniently absolving Trump’s bullying and America’s double standards.

From tariffs for buying Russian oil to casteist jibes by trump’s advisers, washington tried every trick to bend India into submission. Modi’s refusal to crawl is not weakness but maturity, something brown sepoys like kesavan cannot comprehend.


what drives these misbegotten gutter snipes to vent their bile publicly, is it still the same "thirty pieces of silver", adjusted for inflation


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... orld-order

[A_Gupta]

India did not struggle for swarajya for centuries just to barter it away to appease a Trump.

[Rakesh]

Imperial Receipts with Dr Shashi Tharoor | Episode 1: The Empire

"Imperial Receipts with Dr Shashi Tharoor" is a new series that revisits the history and legacy of colonial rule. Dr Tharoor examines how the British did not simply govern India, but looted its wealth, dismantled its institutions, and reshaped its story. In Episode 1: The Empire, we step into the early years of colonial rule and begin uncovering its layers. The conversation looks at the arrival of the railways and the institutions that followed, revealing how empire shaped India in ways still felt today. This opening episode sets the stage for the rest of the series, tracing how the empire left marks that extend far beyond politics or economics, influencing the way India’s resources were used, its systems reorganised, and its people governed. These legacies, as Dr Tharoor highlights, are not relics of the past but forces still visible in the present.

[Jay]

what drives these misbegotten gutter snipes to vent their bile publicly, is it still the same "thirty pieces of silver", adjusted for inflation

Mukul Kesavan is an Indian historian, novelist and political and social essayist. He was schooled at St. Xaviers' School in Delhi and then went on to study history at St. Stephen's College

This parasite is professionally trained in the craft of Hindu/India bashing and will spin every story to buttress that narrative, however idiotic and illogical it will be.

[chetak]

India did not struggle for swarajya for centuries just to barter it away to appease a Trump.

Well said, A_Gupta ji.

[A_Gupta]

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday fired the country’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

(This follows publication of emails Mandelson sent to Epstein in the 2000s, supporting Epstein even after his sex offenses were public.)

Good to know that at least one country in the North Atlantic tries to have some standards.

[chetak]

Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer & @YvetteCooperMP must provide a clarification to the UK and the world if their governments long standing stated position has shifted, on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir being a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan to resolve.

Under the previous @Conservatives government, imagine the uproar from @UKLabour and its Pakistani origin MPs had @RishiSunak, @pritipatel or @SuellaBraverman taken a position coloured by their Indian heritage. They instead demonstrated that their loyalty lay firmly with Britain’s progress and its politics, refusing to import the politics of the Indian subcontinent onto the streets of London.

In stark contrast, the current Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood has repeatedly chosen to platform foreign politics, especially that of the Indian subcontinent onto British soil, even alongside @MayorofLondon.

This sets a deeply worrying precedent for UK, especially when her leanings appear contrary to established British foreign policy.

The British Government owes a clear explanation not only to @HCI_London, @narendramodi & @DrSJaishankar, but also to the ~2 million British Indians.

They deserve to know how @ShabanaMahmood intends to carry out her duties as @UKHomeSecretary without allowing personal bias to seep in - a bias that aligns with a state whose official state doctrine openly embraces asymmetrical warfare and terrorism.

WATCH VIDEO

[uddu]

Al Guardian reporting
Aerial footage shows scale of 'unite the kingdom' rally
Aerial footage shows a crowd of tens of thousands of people marching through central London on Saturday in a protest organised by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson. The Metropolitan police believe about 110,000 people attended his ‘unite the kingdom’ demonstration and about 5,000 a Stand Up to Racism counter-march

[SRajesh]

^^There's been a lot of anger following the Southport Stabbings.
And add to this total cockup by the Labour Government on the National Enquiry on Grooming Gangs.
Madam Mahmood who is the current Home Secretary was in cahrge of Law and She openly admitted to supporting Sharia Law!!
Listen to Calling of God:https://youtu.be/obrEF1UhoDshttps:
//www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct= ... MsPNd5WjD6
And now in charge of controlling the illegal immigrants!! Who are almost all RoPers!!

[uddu]

The important point RSS chief said was once was separated, we will join that as well mentioning Akhand Bharat
https://x.com/MeghUpdates/status/1967445807537463304
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat:
“Churchill once said India would not SURVIVE & would be DIVIDED after Independence. That did NOT happen.”

“Today, it is England on the verge of DIVISION — but India will stay UNITED & move forward.”

[Manish_P]

What division of england is he talking about?

[Tanaji]

Perhaps he is using Great Britain and England interchangeably. Wont be the first time…

[Manish_P]

Probably.

But their split, if and when it happens, will hardly be 'partition scale'.

It certainly will not be any more violent than maybe the local weekend football matches.

[Lisa]

^Just saying, you need to fill in a customs form if you ship a small package, 100g, to Northern Ireland from UK mainland! Partition has already begun.

[SRajesh]

Wow!!!
Bratanistan spreading everything for the Big Bully's welcome!!
They are Tom-Tom ing that its a biggest Red Carpet Welcome!!
Weather Gods are playing Traunt though!!
It will be a Soggy Wet Day!!
Remember the Gold Carriage drive through for Emepror Xi sometime ago when they were kissing Chinese Arse!!
Bratnistan have become Super-Jihadistan atleast in kissing Arse and Spreading things to go by!!
They are one better than Napaks as they have the Royal Family to do the Masseuse's job!!

[Vayutuvan]

Bratnistan have become Super-Jihadistan atleast in kissing Arse and Spreading things to go by!!
They are one better than Napaks as they have the Royal Family to do the Masseuse's job!!

But their Oxford debates inspire awe in low self-esteemed Indians and expat Indians. See the link below.

viewtopic.php?p=2659910#p2659910

[Vayutuvan]

Wow!!!
Bratanistan spreading everything for the Big Bully's welcome!!

The gushing admiration the idiots at Fox news is quite disgusting.

[SRajesh]

Bhailog
In all the Orange Spring/Summer/Autumn there’s been a complete silence on the Cyberattack on the Heathrow and few European airports this week
Rumours are that it was of the Green kind
The UK government spokesperson on the Radio said the government knows of the origin but has decided not to make it public
Any news as to what happened??

[A_Gupta]

The UK Daily Mail says: "The technology is used by airlines globally for automated check-ins and boarding. Collins Aerospace, a US firm, could have been targeted by Russian hackers as it is a major supplier to the Ukrainian military."

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Dunno how reliable this is:

"today’s breach stands apart: preliminary NCSC forensics suggest state-grade persistence, with IOCs (indicators of compromise) matching APT28 toolkits—Fancy Bear‘s signature—from Russia‘s GRU, though attribution remains provisional pending FBI joint task force confirmation expected by October 2025."

https://debuglies.com/2025/09/20/europe ... d-shadows/

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APT28:

https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0007/

[Tanaji]

The UK has been hit by a multitude of cyber attacks in the past few months and all of them belonging to the same group.
Ocado which is a major online grocery vendor suffered a major breach and had to suspend operations
Co-op and M&S which are brick and stone grocery vendors had a similar extortion attack that went on for weeks with store shelves going bare as a result with companies curtailing most operations for weeks together
Jaguar Land Rover is currently undergoing an attack and it has suspended car manufacturing for weeks- it is suffering losses at £72M a day. This is still ongoing.

The UK with its much vaunted cyber security experts haven’t been able to find a counter to these. Predictably they have started finger pointing at TCS and TechM who were involved in the periphery of the affected companies operations.

[A_Gupta]

In cyberattacks, the human element is the weakest - e.g., was successfully phished.

Second, the Linux kernel may be good, but the surrounding packages are riddled with vulnerabilities. E.g., if you are running a server with Ubuntu, you can expect about 10 new vulnerabilities per month, as the vulnerabilities are uncovered. And that is just the published vulnerabilities. State-backed hackers will undoubtedly have a whole library of vulnerabilities not disclosed and with exploits developed and ready for use.

Software development is not an engineering discipline, it is just glorified hacking. Until software developers are required to have cybersecurity certification before they are allowed to write software for sale or public use, and until companies have to have cybersecurity auditors just like they have to have financial auditors, the situation is not going to change. Of course, it will make software more expensive to produce and slower to produce, and none of the people in charge want that.