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
India did not struggle for swarajya for centuries just to barter it away to appease a Trump.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 08 Sep 2025 18:15
by 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.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 08 Sep 2025 19:36
by Jay
chetak wrote: ↑07 Sep 2025 12:15
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.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 09 Sep 2025 09:55
by chetak
A_Gupta wrote: ↑07 Sep 2025 19:54
India did not struggle for swarajya for centuries just to barter it away to appease a Trump.
Well said, A_Gupta ji.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 11 Sep 2025 19:15
by 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.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 14 Sep 2025 16:18
by 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.
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
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 14 Sep 2025 20:06
by 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!!
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 15 Sep 2025 14:19
by 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.”
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 15 Sep 2025 15:24
by Manish_P
What division of england is he talking about?
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 15 Sep 2025 15:42
by Tanaji
Perhaps he is using Great Britain and England interchangeably. Wont be the first time…
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 15 Sep 2025 20:29
by 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.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 15 Sep 2025 22:38
by 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.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 17 Sep 2025 11:43
by 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!!
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 18 Sep 2025 02:13
by Vayutuvan
SRajesh wrote: ↑17 Sep 2025 11:43
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.
SRajesh wrote: ↑17 Sep 2025 11:43
Wow!!!
Bratanistan spreading everything for the Big Bully's welcome!!
The gushing admiration the idiots at Fox news is quite disgusting.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 21 Sep 2025 22:22
by 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??
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 21 Sep 2025 23:58
by 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."
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.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 22 Sep 2025 04:15
by 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.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 22 Sep 2025 14:41
by Tanaji
Exactly - given the complexity of interactions, and the trend of combining less serious vulnerabilities from different platforms to create a more serious one, it is impossible for a developer to be aware of everything.
Secure software requires multiple audits and in addition fail safe mitigations which adds to cost significantly which no CxO level will sign off on. They would rather pay the cost of breach…,
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 22 Sep 2025 14:44
by Tanaji
Meanwhile the Temu version of Trump aka Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the concept of ILR ie green card in UK:
It is unlikely to be policy though as it will have multiple judicial challenges. But that is not the point- it is similar to the 232M savings claim during Brexit. He knows he will never be held to account and the announcement will make the racists and people who just hate anyone not from UK all vote for him.
Demonstrators carried the Union flag of the UK and the red and white St George’s Cross of England, while others brought those of the United States and Israel. Some wore the “Make America Great Again”, or MAGA, hats of US President Donald Trump.
They chanted slogans critical of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and carried placards, with some saying, “Send them home”.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and who is known for his anti-immigrant and anti-Islam views, called the march “a show of patriotic unity like nothing seen before”.
“Today is the spark of a cultural revolution in Great Britain. This is our moment,” the 42-year-old activist told his supporters.
He billed the march as a demonstration for free speech, British heritage and culture, and pumped up the crowd with claims that migrants now had more rights in court than the “British public, the people that built this nation”.
Other speakers at Robinson’s event included US billionaire Elon Musk, who joined via video-link, French far-right politician Eric Zemmour, and Petr Bystron of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
“There’s something beautiful about being British, and what I see happening here is a destruction of Britain, initially a slow erosion, but rapidly increasing erosion of Britain with massive uncontrolled migration,” Musk said, calling for a change of government in the UK.
Zemmour reiterated the far-right, white nationalist so-called “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which claims that white Europeans are being deliberately supplanted by non-white immigrants.
“We are both subject to the same process of the great replacement of our European people by peoples coming from the south and of Muslim culture. You and we are being colonised by our former colonies,” he said
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 25 Sep 2025 10:27
by chetak
Shabana Mahmood is dragged into storm over the hidden £700k fortune for think-tank run by Keir Starmer's right-hand man
The new Home Secretary has been dragged into the growing scandal over £700,000 of hidden donations to the think-tank run by Sir Keir Starmer's right-hand man.
Leaked emails have revealed that Shabana Mahmood was involved in discussions over why the political funding watchdog was not told about huge amounts of cash being given to Morgan McSweeney's Labour Together group as required by law.
She and her fellow MP Steve Reed, now in charge of electoral law, are said to have believed the money was being kept hidden from the Electoral Commission to protect a Jewish donor at a time when anti-Semitism was rife within Labour.
Terror Attack at a Synagogue in Manchester UK, on Yom Kippur.
Perp Shot dead
Pee Pee See very careful not to identify the perp!!
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 02 Oct 2025 21:20
by sanjaykumar
In Jane’s Goodall’s obituary, the Guardian mentions her old school friend's father had acquired a farm in the Kenyan Highlands.
That is a totally sensitive way to describe the sordid conduct of the colonialist, from the left wing press even.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 08 Oct 2025 11:42
by uddu
Keir Starmer India | UK PM Keir Starmer Lands In Mumbai, To Meet PM Modi On Thursday British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will undertake a two-day visit to India next week in his first trip to the country since assuming charge of the top office in July last year.
Keir Starmer's visit to India from October 8 to 9 will provide a "valuable opportunity" to reaffirm the shared vision of India and the UK to build a forward-looking partnership, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday.
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 09 Oct 2025 19:17
by Manish_P
Full circle. The IAF to work on training the RAF
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 10 Oct 2025 02:32
by Cyrano
LoL ! Will this India visit with a plane load of businessmen and meeting with Modi shore up Starmer's sagging political fortunes?!
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 10 Oct 2025 02:33
by S_Madhukar
Manish_P wrote: ↑09 Oct 2025 19:17
Full circle. The IAF to work on training the RAF
next will be maintenance- fixing F-35s
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 10 Oct 2025 04:23
by S_Madhukar
A new £350 million deal with India will support hundreds of jobs in Northern Ireland and supply India, a key strategic partner, with air defence missiles and launchers.
The contract is set to deliver UK-manufactured Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMM) built in Belfast to the Indian Army, delivering on the Government’s Plan for Change in another significant boost for the UK defence industry.
It secures over 700 jobs in Northern Ireland as the air defence missiles and launchers due to be manufactured for the Indian Army are the same as those currently being manufactured in Belfast for Ukraine.
The deal paves the way for a broader complex weapons partnership between the UK and India, currently under negotiation between the two governments. A new milestone has also been reached in the UK and India’s cooperation on electric-powered engines for naval ships as both countries signed the Implementing Arrangement to advance collaboration to the next stage, worth an initial £250M.
The LMM or Martlet missiles are around £30K per missile and used in Ukraine. They are laser guided with speed of up to 1.5 Mach. Versatile to be used in A2A role as well as targeting drones and fast small boats
Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Posted: 10 Oct 2025 08:06
by Manish_P
S_Madhukar wrote: ↑10 Oct 2025 02:33
... next will be maintenance- fixing F-35s
I will humbly suggest that the hub be based at Thiruvananthapuram due to their experience
A new £350 million deal with India will support hundreds of jobs in Northern Ireland and supply India, a key strategic partner, with air defence missiles and launchers.
The contract is set to deliver UK-manufactured Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMM) built in Belfast to the Indian Army, delivering on the Government’s Plan for Change in another significant boost for the UK defence industry.
It secures over 700 jobs in Northern Ireland as the air defence missiles and launchers due to be manufactured for the Indian Army are the same as those currently being manufactured in Belfast for Ukraine.
The deal paves the way for a broader complex weapons partnership between the UK and India, currently under negotiation between the two governments. A new milestone has also been reached in the UK and India’s cooperation on electric-powered engines for naval ships as both countries signed the Implementing Arrangement to advance collaboration to the next stage, worth an initial £250M.
The LMM or Martlet missiles are around £30K per missile and used in Ukraine. They are laser guided with speed of up to 1.5 Mach. Versatile to be used in A2A role as well as targeting drones and fast small boats[/quote]
This is the time for them to apologize for colonialism in India too. There is no money to give out to anybody anyway.
