2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Santosh · Post by **Santosh** » 15 Mar 2021 09:54

Dixit ji says Sujamal offer should not be considered and Swamy says old alliance partner should be given second chance? What is the third option?

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Mar 2021 13:10

guaranteed to cause jealousy amongst relatives and neighbours

India's foreign-exchange reserves become world’s fourth-largest

Manish_P · Post by **Manish_P** » 15 Mar 2021 14:34

And some RNIs (resident non-indians) within desh..

madhu · Post by **madhu** » 15 Mar 2021 15:22

banking strike update:
this is a normal strike update from a small district of Karnataka. what caught my attention that prompted me to give this update is that this incident will never be reported in any media. today banking union strike people were shouting against the privatization of the bank and the leader of the strike (obviously union guy with microphone) leading the strike slogans. when the whole cacophony of sloganeering went high the union guy started rising slogans against farm laws. very very few people started shouting "banking, Banking"..... then after some time the guy started rising slogans against Article 370... at this point many people started shouting "banking banking...." looking at it the union guy asked all the people not to be in group but to disperse and be united as one group. may people in the crowd shouted united for bank only...
the question one should ask is
1) what is AIBA got to do with farm laws?
2) what is AIBA got to do with Article 370?
it is good to privatize the bank but more importantly all unions should be dismantled and dissolved before selling. if not with these komis will be a nightmare for the buyer.

Haresh · Post by **Haresh** » 15 Mar 2021 17:34

sanjaykumar wrote:This is one of the saddest things I have seen.

The greatest mockery of intelligence is hypocrisy. Well done Sikha.
At any rate does anyone doubt that all these people, for good or bad, are our people.

that was bad enough, however I also found this link, and this is really what the protests against the new farming laws is about.

Punjab's Landwars - How Dalit Landless Farmers Are Reclaiming Their Share of Land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJKgbBWNTm8

When the agri companies come, they will provide employment and opportunity for more than just the Jaat community and I am afraid to say it, but their are many in the Jaat community who think employment and opportunity is just for them.

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 15 Mar 2021 21:10

Congress MLA driven out of the assembly for wearing t-shirt again, violating previous instructions not to do so
https://www.deshgujarat.com/2021/03/15/ ... g-t-shirt/

Chudasama later speaking to media persons said, ‘I wear t-shirt even when on visit to my constituency area. I don’t have kurta. If my voters have accepted me in t-shirt, why I can’t come to the State assembly wearing t-shirt? It’s my constitutional right to wear and eat whatever I wish. I am being targeted wrongly.’

It’s worth noting that the Speaker is lawyer by profession. While there’s fix rule about how lawyers should dress while appearing in courts, there are no specifically mentioned, written rules regarding the dress code of MLAs.

Worth noting that the MLA’s t-shirt had ‘Free Spirit’ written over it and the color was black. The Speaker has number of times in the past asked MLAs not to wear black cloths when attending the house.

Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel when asked about this row, maintained that some conventions are unwritten even and they need to be followed. He gave example of parliament of England in this reference.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Mar 2021 22:22

They say a picture is worth a thousand words

How many words is this one

via@ragarwal

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 15 Mar 2021 23:29

Ariz Khan gets the death penalty in the Batla house encounter case

A Delhi Court on Monday awarded death penalty to Ariz Khan for the murder of Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who died while leading the raiding police team at Batla House in Delhi in 2008, terming the offence as “rarest of the rare case”. “Convict (Khan) on account of his despicable act has forfeited his right to live.

Batla House encounterAccused gets death penalty for killing inspector

bharathp · Post by **bharathp** » 16 Mar 2021 00:17

chetak wrote:Ariz Khan gets the death penalty in the Batla house encounter case

A Delhi Court on Monday awarded death penalty to Ariz Khan for the murder of Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who died while leading the raiding police team at Batla House in Delhi in 2008, terming the offence as “rarest of the rare case”. “Convict (Khan) on account of his despicable act has forfeited his right to live.

Batla House encounterAccused gets death penalty for killing inspector

notice how "the hindu" still headlines the convict as "accused". once he is convicetd, he is no longer "accused".

V_Raman · Post by **V_Raman** » 16 Mar 2021 01:42

I repeat what i said before - our PSU banks are going to be the biggest issue for reforms - even worse than Air India. That is one company. PSU banks is a monster Hydra which will need a Krishna to slay with a cosmic dance on its head...

Ambar · Post by **Ambar** » 16 Mar 2021 02:17

Thanks to Vajpayee govt atleast they got rid of some excess PSU bank staff through the VRS scheme in the late 90s else the problem would have been 10x worse. Of all the harebrained decisions Indira took taking over private enterprises and nationalizing them has to be the worst .

About VRS, i do feel sorry for some of the banking staff who voluntarily chose to retire by taking a lumpsum during VRS scheme. Many did it trusting the rupee to hold value and no one expected the rapid devaluation and inflation which was to hit India in the coming years. So many of my close family members who were working for Canara, Vijaya, Syndicate etc. took VRS thinking the money will last them a while (it was something like 5 lakhs for a grade 4 officer which was a big amount back then ), but such was the tsunami of inflation that amount did not last long and many where left looking for employment in their 50s and 60s.

While i don't think there will be any takers for some of these banks unless the government guarantees against the NPAs they carry on their books, i do think these PSU banks are a ticking timebomb which will explode someday soon. It is estimated that over 12% of the loans in PSU banks are NPAs but the real number could be much higher due to forbearance of classification of assets. As of 2018, Indian banks had Rs 10 lakh crores (or about $150 billion) in NPAs, which would have only grown since. Then there's the problem with the culture itself, in 2021 when you give your staff allowance for newspaper, food, fuel, dearness , fully paid domestic leisure trip every couple of years and over 40 paid vacation time per year, no amount of merging banks will help.

Armuan · Post by **Armuan** » 16 Mar 2021 03:40

chetak wrote:
They say a picture is worth a thousand words

How many words is this one

via@ragarwal

No amount of words can do justice...

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 16 Mar 2021 15:49

The saga for Air India divestment has been going on for awhile. How long would banks take?

Air India privatisation: Centre to invite financial bids by March-end
https://m.businesstoday.in/story/air-in ... 33604.html

The shortlisted entities might be given time till June or early July this year to furnish their financial bids, reported CNBC-TV18. After the bids are locked, the sale of Air India will take another 3-4 months to finalise after evaluation of the financial bids.
...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said in her Budget speech last month that the privatisation of Air India will be completed in 2021-22. It is crucial to meeting Centre's Rs 1.2 lakh crore disinvestment target for the next financial year. Apart from selling its 100 per cent stake in Air India and Air India Express, the government is also looking to offload its 50 per cent share in Air India Airport Services Pvt Ltd.

The Centre is also rushing to divest helicopter service company Pawan Hans, a Mini Ratna-I category PSU.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Mar 2021 16:56

Aap chronology samjhiye

via@thakkar_sameet

Mukhi · Post by **Mukhi** » 16 Mar 2021 19:00

darshan wrote:The saga for Air India divestment has been going on for awhile. How long would banks take?
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The Centre is also rushing to divest helicopter service company Pawan Hans, a Mini Ratna-I category PSU.

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There was an interview by Nitin G of Puri. As per the minister, he expects this to be done by next few months. In any case, it felt that the Government is serious about this and so it should happen, sooner or later.

I personally used to comment to SuSw’s threats to NaMo against privatization of AI. Government has no business running a business. So don't understand what is his business in protecting AI.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Mar 2021 19:05

Jaishankar is among the most forthright of India's many foreign Ministers.

A lot of the others were party hacks and political weasels

Whereas, Jaishankar is a straight shooter, his words are always clean and crisp and there is no mistaking where he stands on any topic that concerns India on the international fora.

the hans especially, are aghast, at his plain speaking whenever china comes up.

they have always been used to mindless obfuscation and abject kowtowing whenever India speaks of the mighty hans.

This new EAM has literally sandbagged them, at every given opportunity

Jaishankar on global democracy downgrade: ‘Custodians can’t stomach we don’t want their approval’

Jaishankar on global democracy downgrade: ‘Custodians can’t stomach we don’t want their approval’

In its annual Freedom in the World report released on March 3, US-based NGO Freedom House downgraded India from the “free” to the “partially free” category.

Shubhajit Roy
New Delhi
March 15,

S Jaishankar

DAYS AFTER reports by two international organisations criticised India over freedom and democracy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar slammed them for their “hypocrisy” and called them “self-appointed custodians of the world who find it very difficult to stomach that somebody in India is not looking for their approval”.

Citing the supply of Covid vaccines to more than 70 countries by India’s “nationalist” government, he asked about the contribution of “internationalist countries” in this regard.

On India-China ties, he indicated that if China extends a hand, then India will do as well — but if it points a gun, then India’s response would be similar.

Jaishankar’s unusually candid remarks came during an interview at the India Today Conclave Saturday.

On the recent reports of Freedom House and V-Dem Institute criticising India, he said, “You use the dichotomy of democracy and autocracy. You want the truthful answer — it is hypocrisy. Because you have a set of self-appointed custodians of the world, who find it very difficult to stomach that somebody in India is not looking for their approval, is not willing to play the game they want it to be played. So they invent their rules, their parameters, they pass their judgments and then make out as though this is some kind of global exercise.”

Referring to the reports, he said: “We are supposed to be the nationalist. So let’s talk nationalism. Okay, we are the nationalist guys, we have given vaccines to 70 countries in the world. So tell me, the internationalist countries, how many vaccines have they given, which one of these countries has said, while I’m doing my people, I will also do people outside who need as much as my people. So suddenly, where are these people when it comes to that. We are supposed to be, you know, shrinking civil rights because of, you know, apparently, our mindset.”

Jaishankar was referring to India’s vaccine diplomacy under which 80.75 lakh doses have already been sent free of charge and 165.24 lakh delivered under the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation — an estimated 339.67 lakh doses have been sent in commercial deals.

In its annual Freedom in the World report released on March 3, US-based NGO Freedom House downgraded India from the “free” to the “partially free” category.

Last week, Sweden-based V-Dem Institute said India is no longer an “electoral democracy” and classified the country as an “electoral autocracy” while contending that much of the decline in democratic freedoms occurred after the BJP’s victory in 2014. The independent research institute, based at the University of Gothenburg, has been publishing data-based worldwide democracy reports since 2017.

Jaishankar also took a dig at former US President Donald Trump and several Republicans for questioning the elections in the US: “Now, again, look at the politics of these places or whatever you might say, I’m in this country, nobody questions our election. Can you say that in those countries?”

Asked about his view on India-China ties, the External Affairs Minister said: “Now, obviously, when a relationship is doing well, we would respond positively. So, if you extend your hand. I’m going to extend my hand too. But if you point a gun at me, I’ll point a gun at you. I mean that’s reasonable, that’s logical.”

Jaishankar described the rise of China as a “phenomenal happening” — the rise of a potential global power after the Second World War.

“Now, we happen to be located directly next to this global power. So, when a global power rises, it will have its repercussions, it will have its ripples and we feel it directly. Now, we have problems, historical problems, boundary issues… So, the possibility of the impact of that on us is, obviously, quite significant,” he said.

“Our message to the Chinese is very clear, look we want good relations. We will be the second and third largest economies in the world, in the very near future. We would be, we are the most populous countries in the world. We are the two Asian civilizations, which are, in a sense, regaining the place in the global order. I need peace and tranquility on the border. I can’t have tension at the border. I can’t have the kind of issues I had in Galwan, and then say, well, you know, let’s carry on with business in the rest of our relationship. That’s unreal,” he said.

India and China have locked in a border standoff in eastern Ladakh for more than 10 months with disengagement having started in one of several friction points.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Mar 2021 19:36

the hans fear the QUAD and are helpless to oppose any coalition of forces that gang up against them.

the britshits have sensed an opportunity here and are planning on moving in.

Let the QUAD remain a QUAD without any more additions. The britshits already have a base here in the region

BTW, globalization has become a dirty word and many early movers are having a quiet rethink about the concept.

It is china that seems to have benefited the most from the concept of globalization by exporting aggressively, and not always legally, to every corner of the world and built up a huge balance of trade position in its own favor

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Mar 2021 20:45

THIS IS THE KISAN MAHAPANCHAYAT at SINGUR

ATTENDED by Medha Patkar, Rakesh Tikait and other netas from Punjab

PS :This is not an image from Punjab it is from Bengal

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 16 Mar 2021 23:01

But if Indian Govt does the same on FCRA or anything - Our freedom rank falls

Denmark bans foreign countries from funding mosques in the country https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201 ... extremism/

V_Raman · Post by **V_Raman** » 17 Mar 2021 00:49

I have a thought on the news of some IM vote going to BJP in WB. The more RG makes statements like NM is like Saddam/Gaddafi and autocracy etc. - the more IM will be inclined towards BJP. The majority is watching and IM will not want to be on the wrong side with such asinine comparisons. They know that there is actually not much wrong on the ground - all is noise and maya onlee.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 17 Mar 2021 01:56

Some of the data and research/analysis done by Suraj is excellent.

I wonder if we can have our own OTT channel to propagate this information especially in regional channels or work with some one like bharatvaarta to present this data in very neutral way. May be Bharat rakshak channel presenting economy, industry and defense news

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 17 Mar 2021 07:14

shaun · Post by **shaun** » 17 Mar 2021 09:12

Cyrano wrote:Already math skills of many engineers coming out of private "donation" colleges is on an average, quite poor. Most IT services companies who recruit freshers have to put them through lots of training to get them to grasp basics such as how to write an algorithm because logical thinking is very poor. AICTE's move seems to want to create even more incompetent "engineers", and fill the coffers of private colleges which will increase in number. Dumb move.

Whats next? Doctors without required biology knowledge ?

Doctors require licence to practice , not mandatory for engineers . Anyway we can debate on the quality of doctors even though they score "high" in biology .

When calculators were introduced by one private board , every one jumped to conclusion that it will destroy our math skill. Now every board allows the same.

Previously class 9, 10 and 11,12 are clubbed together for one final exam. That tradition broken by the same board and now followed up by every boards.

Diploma students get applied physics and mathematics and jump to 3rd sem of engineering after passing diploma. Well those students are par with their 12 pass counterparts .

Apart from the commie naxal strategy to infiltrate engineering colleges , maybe this new policy is not that bad. Well open for comments .

nandakumar · Post by **nandakumar** » 17 Mar 2021 09:55

madhu wrote:banking strike update:
this is a normal strike update from a small district of Karnataka. what caught my attention that prompted me to give this update is that this incident will never be reported in any media. today banking union strike people were shouting against the privatization of the bank and the leader of the strike (obviously union guy with microphone) leading the strike slogans. when the whole cacophony of sloganeering went high the union guy started rising slogans against farm laws. very very few people started shouting "banking, Banking"..... then after some time the guy started rising slogans against Article 370... at this point many people started shouting "banking banking...." looking at it the union guy asked all the people not to be in group but to disperse and be united as one group. may people in the crowd shouted united for bank only...
the question one should ask is
1) what is AIBA got to do with farm laws?
2) what is AIBA got to do with Article 370?
it is good to privatize the bank but more importantly all unions should be dismantled and dissolved before selling. if not with these komis will be a nightmare for the buyer.

AIBEA, AIIEA (Insurance) and ARBEA (RBI) are all communist controlled unions. The communist use these unions to make political points.

nandakumar · Post by **nandakumar** » 17 Mar 2021 10:15

vijayk wrote:Some of the data and research/analysis done by Suraj is excellent.

I wonder if we can have our own OTT channel to propagate this information especially in regional channels or work with some one like bharatvaarta to present this data in very neutral way. May be Bharat rakshak channel presenting economy, industry and defense news

It is more efficient (time wise) to consume information via the printed/written word than listening to an audio podcast or video podcast (which is usually listening through the voice of a pretty face). Also, OTT platforms can eventually end up becoming white elephants over time. I dare say many on this forum can afford to chip in with contributions. That said, the money can be spent on more worthwhile causes.

venkat_kv · Post by **venkat_kv** » 17 Mar 2021 12:06

Suraj wrote:JE Menon and I wrote an article in Swarajyamag analyzing the V-Dem ranking of countries, where India rated as 'Elected Autocracy':
An Analysis Of The V-Dem Data On The Decline of Democracy In India Reveals Interesting Insights—About V-Dem

The article is a purely a review of their raw data with some insightful commentary.

Kudos/Congratulations on a well written and collaborated article Suraj San and Deans Saar. I never thought that an extreme stickler for stats and iron fisted forum rules could pen a dry/dark humor laden article with the same stats.

I have a feed back/suggestion/question on your article.

1. A lot of parameters in the article reference the 98-99 period of uncertainty, but the score is missing for that period ( we have scores for 1952, 1976, 2018, 2019). if that can be added as well (though you do make the reference to the number in the paragraph concerning it).

2. Why was 2018 selected? was it to show a contrast in numbers for the preceding year of the general election with 2019? and for the same thing why not display 2014/2015 instead of 2018?

thanks

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 17 Mar 2021 14:22

Curiouser and Curiouser...

Man in PPE kit seen in CCTV footage when explosive-laden car was parked near Antilia was Sachin Vaze, confirms Vaze’s staff to NIA

https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/sachin- ... ff-to-nia/

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2021 15:03

Lisa wrote:Curiouser and Curiouser...

Man in PPE kit seen in CCTV footage when explosive-laden car was parked near Antilia was Sachin Vaze, confirms Vaze’s staff to NIA

https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/sachin- ... ff-to-nia/

no one, especially a cop, is ever that dumb, so as to leave video evidence and telltale fingerprints all over the explosive-laden car, unless of course the car was meant to blow up and pretty soon too. It is as farcical as it is tragic.

it looks like a conspiracy gone horribly wrong or maybe even a deliberate attempt at entrapment and the politico biggies lurking in the shadows have thrown this guy vaze under the bus.

vaze will not go down alone and also the guy is a hired gun and is far too dangerous for the said politicos to allow him to be let out.

As has happened since times immemorial, deals will be struck and political posteriors will be protected under the ancient and enduring principle of quid pro quo

it has all the elements of a C grade bollywood potboiler with third rate actors.

The pretty ladies in this potboiler have not yet surfaced so we will give them some more time. can't have C grade bollywood potboilers without pretty ladies, it's against the law.

the only really sad thing is that Mansukh Hiren wound up as the bali ka bhakra (sacrificial goat) and was messily silenced

Anyway, planting explosives is an old habit of these khaki guys in MAH, especially when the sickular parties are in power.

Under hemant kharkare, a MAH ATS officer shekhar bagde had planted the RDX to frame Lt Col Srikant Purohit.

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 17 Mar 2021 17:58

V_Raman wrote:I have a thought on the news of some IM vote going to BJP in WB. The more RG makes statements like NM is like Saddam/Gaddafi and autocracy etc. - the more IM will be inclined towards BJP. The majority is watching and IM will not want to be on the wrong side with such asinine comparisons. They know that there is actually not much wrong on the ground - all is noise and maya onlee.

The true maya is the belief that the IM vote will swing in any major way towards the BJP. Not gonna happen. In 2 back-to-back wave elections (2014 & 2019), the BJP polled not more than 6% of the IM vote. Didn't change one bit. In spite of the doles handed out to them between 2014 & 2019.

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 17 Mar 2021 18:00

chetak wrote:Jaishankar is among the most forthright of India's many foreign Ministers.

Truly a great pick! He, alongwith Piyush Goyal & possibly Gadkari are our 3 top performing ministers. The late Shri Manohar Parikkar (whose 2nd anniversary is today) was top-drawer too

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2021 19:22

Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh has been transferred forthwith

Hemant Nagrale is to be the replacement CP

the wickets are beginning to fall and the umpires seem to be quite helpless in preventing a collapse.

what a dumb bunch of inspector clouseau types seem to be so ineptly running the bombay polis and their double distilled, triple filtered politico lords and masters seem to be even more blunderingly ham handed, not to mention abominably club footed too.

There will be no forgiveness from the likes of people who have been targeted by these dumbos. Such folks have not reached their lofty perches by "forgiving" those who dare to strike at the king.

The open season on the MVA and it's loud mouthed backers has only just begun.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2021 19:42

Suraj wrote:JE Menon and I wrote an article in Swarajyamag analyzing the V-Dem ranking of countries, where India rated as 'Elected Autocracy':
An Analysis Of The V-Dem Data On The Decline of Democracy In India Reveals Interesting Insights—About V-Dem

The article is a purely a review of their raw data with some insightful commentary.

Critic, scholar pratap bhanu mehta resigns as ashoka professor

Is this an fallout of the v-dem data analysis and review

RKumar · Post by **RKumar** » 17 Mar 2021 19:45

V-DEM Madrasa math data and analysis

International Advisory Board

Aitzaz AHSAN
is Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. In 2007-08 he was president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association. During 1988-93 he was a member of the National Assembly. In 1994-99 he was a member of the Senate, where he was Leader of the Opposition. He has also served as Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Law and Justice.

Abdullah M. ALSAIDI
is Senior Fellow at the International Peace Institute. From 2002 until 2011 he was Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations. He served as Yemen’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2002, and as a member of the National Arbitration Committee from 1996 to 2002.

Yun-Han Chu
is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He served as Coordinator of the Asian Barometer Survey and is currently on the editorial board of Journal of Democracy, Pacific Affairs, China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, International Studies Perspectives, and Journal of East Asian Studies. He is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of fifteen books.

FRANCIS M. DENG
has served as a Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide until end of July 2012. From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Deng served as Director of the Sudan Peace Support Project based at the United States Institute of Peace. He was also a Wilhelm Fellow at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Before joining MIT, Mr. Deng was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John Kluge Center of the Library of Congress.

Larry DIAMOND
is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, where he is the director of the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy.

Sonia FLEURY
is Professor of Political Science at the Brazilian School of Public Administration and Business, Rio de Janeiro. She has served as a member of Brazil’s National Council on Economic and Social Development and on the Brazilian Health Social Determinants Commission.

Emmanuel GYIMAH-BOADI
is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana and Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana). He is also codirector of the of the Afrobarometer project.

Cyd HO Sau-lan
is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. She is also chair of Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, a founding councilor of the World Future Council, and co-convener of Project Civil Referendum.

Niraja Gopal JAYAL
is Professor and currently Chair of the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Previoulsy she also served as Director of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study. She has held visiting fellowships at Princeton University, University of Melbourne, and the Maison des science de l’homme.

Jeremy K. B. KINSMAN
is Director of the Community of Democracies project, Regent’s Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Diplomat-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He served as Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in 2000-02 and Canadian Ambassador to the European Union in 2002-06.

Saiful MUJANI
is Executive Director and cofounder of Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI, Indonesian Survey Institute) and Professor of Social and Political Sciences, State Islamic University of Jakarta. He is also Director of Research at the Freedom Institute, Jakarta.

Ziya ÖNİŞ
is Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization and Democratic Governance (GLODEM), Koç University, Istanbul. He has also served as Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University and Professor of Economics at Boğaziçi University.

Ismail SERAGELDIN
is the Founding Director of The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002 in Egypt. He has held many important international positions, including Vice President of the World Bank (1992-2000), and Chairman Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR, 1994-2000). He has lectured and published widely and has received many honors and prizes and over 30 honorary doctorates. He is a member of many academies, and held a chair at the Collège de France, Paris (2010-2011) and at the Belgian Academy (2013-2014).

I guess report on India is prepared by
Allen Hicken
Parties and Party Systems; Asia
Associate Professor of Political Science Faculty Associate, Center for South East Asian Studies and Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan

Kharis Templeman
East Asia & Southeast Asia

Program Manager, Taiwan Democracy Project, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

Julio C. Teehankee
Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Professor of Political Science and International Studies, International Studies Department, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

South Asia team
There is no one responsible for India, but they still released a report on India.

From surfing their website for 10 mins, it is any body's guess why democracy is in danger in India since 2014.

Dark green colour is at fault.

hai allah!

Tanaji · Post by **Tanaji** » 17 Mar 2021 19:46

The whole Vaze affair is quite strange and curious. We are to presumably believe that an experienced officer of many years service was completely unaware of the beat that he operated in. He did not know that Antila which is home to the richest person in India and protected by former SPG members would not be bristling with CcTV and other visible and invisible security devices. He then further proceeds to use a vehicle that is linked to him personally to plant gelatine sticks. The choice of gelatine is also strange. The owner of the vehicle is then subsequently killed and is someone known to Vaze. The said officer is also seen in cctv using “a PPE” store parking this vehicle.

The gelatine stocks are not detonated thus allowing for convenient gathering of evidence. The said officer also purports to confess and also is identified by fellow officers.

The above is just ridiculous and not even a kid will believe this. There is far far more to this than what meets the eye.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2021 19:47

^^^^^^^

@RKumar

didn't they do a similar thing to trump

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2021 19:53

Tanaji wrote:The whole Vaze affair is quite strange and curious. We are to presumably believe that an experienced officer of many years service was completely unaware of the beat that he operated in. He did not know that Antila which is home to the richest person in India and protected by former SPG members would not be bristling with CcTV and other visible and invisible security devices. He then further proceeds to use a vehicle that is linked to him personally to plant gelatine sticks. The choice of gelatine is also strange. The owner of the vehicle is then subsequently killed and is someone known to Vaze. The said officer is also seen in cctv using “a PPE” store parking this vehicle.

The gelatine stocks are not detonated thus allowing for convenient gathering of evidence. The said officer also purports to confess and also is identified by fellow officers.

The above is just ridiculous and not even a kid will believe this. There is far far more to this than what meets the eye.

hogwash and whitewash are what the politicos are peddling to save their skins.

looks like the story may actually start with the dispatch of sushant singh rajput and his colleague/manager within days of a rogue polis officer being reinstated.

RKumar · Post by **RKumar** » 17 Mar 2021 19:56

chetak wrote:^^^^^^^

@RKumar

didn't they do a similar thing to trump

Our Media is at a fault, who don't do a proper investigation of the facts. They simply publish a story without putting any efforts to understand the context or doing a background check on a story. Zero effort, negative outcome. Mango people suffering continues

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2021 19:59

chetak wrote:
Tanaji wrote:The whole Vaze affair is quite strange and curious. We are to presumably believe that an experienced officer of many years service was completely unaware of the beat that he operated in. He did not know that Antila which is home to the richest person in India and protected by former SPG members would not be bristling with CcTV and other visible and invisible security devices. He then further proceeds to use a vehicle that is linked to him personally to plant gelatine sticks. The choice of gelatine is also strange. The owner of the vehicle is then subsequently killed and is someone known to Vaze. The said officer is also seen in cctv using “a PPE” store parking this vehicle.

The gelatine stocks are not detonated thus allowing for convenient gathering of evidence. The said officer also purports to confess and also is identified by fellow officers.

The above is just ridiculous and not even a kid will believe this. There is far far more to this than what meets the eye.
hogwash and whitewash are what the politicos are peddling to save their skins.

looks like the story may actually start with the dispatch of sushant singh rajput and his colleague/manager within days of a rogue polis officer being reinstated.

coincidences and fairy tales, or ...........

Not insinuating any connection, just noting a timeline.

June 6, 2020: Sachin Vaze gets reinstated.
[Reason: Shortage of cops due to Covid-19.]

June 8, 2020: Disha Salian dies.

June 14, 2020: Sushant Singh Rajput dies.

via@KartikeyaTanna

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 17 Mar 2021 20:29

I don't see any panic in MVA or Thackreys or fox Pawar! Is something going on there?

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 17 Mar 2021 20:31

chetak wrote:
Suraj wrote:JE Menon and I wrote an article in Swarajyamag analyzing the V-Dem ranking of countries, where India rated as 'Elected Autocracy':
An Analysis Of The V-Dem Data On The Decline of Democracy In India Reveals Interesting Insights—About V-Dem

The article is a purely a review of their raw data with some insightful commentary.

Critic, scholar pratap bhanu mehta resigns as ashoka professor

Is this an fallout of the v-dem data analysis and review

He will cry Revenge ...