Ashutosh Malik
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CoFounder: AaramShop (Now JioMart). Earlier: Astrum (T&D). Tech Entrepreneur. History, Geography, Wildlife. Krav Maga. Exploring, Reading, Reflecting
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Yup. That is why riots were rampant in India in 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s.
Many of India's present problems can be solved instantly if
#WhatsApp
started charging a fee for forwarded messages. 50 bucks a forward. Peace and harmony within 24 hours assured.
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What kind of a War Studies Professor, & Historian, doesn't know about 1971 refugee crisis that led to approximately 10 million refugees coming into India from erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh?
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This is very interesting. So a chap threatens to blow up Indian planes, kill Indian diplomats, and that doesn't risk "hard-fought" progress in mutual ties? What else will help the ties - actual killing of an Indian diplomat?
India should cooperate fully and immediately with U.S. to address this shocking development or risk hard-fought progress in US-India relations.
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Ha ha ha! And un-professional ones run Short Service Commissions of 5 years, Colour Service for 5-7 years, and go about selling the excellence of human resources they created to Corporates, post retirement.
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Ha ha ha ha ha. There is a class of Indian journalists who would likely give their kidneys to get some parliament somewhere to "adopt" some resolution criticising India. Cartoons.
Hours before PM lands in France, European Parliament in Strasbourg adopts with a show of hands a strong resolution criticising India for violence in Manipur, Slams intolerance towards minorities and " politically motivated, divisive policies that promote Hindu majoritarianism in…
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😂! A chap whose father & grandfather grew the business in times of "Rent Economy", with supply constraint forcing citizens to buy in "black". Folks so close to the Nehru family that the argument between Rahul Bajaj & Mrs. Indira Gandhi was about naming of their respective kids!
"Bajaj is also the rarity in India - an industrialist who has never met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an era when most other biggies make quiet pilgrimages to South block and the PMO."
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Vast improvement! During the famine of 1870s in India, 'The Economist' was scolding the Govt for "encouraging indolent Indians" to believe that it was Govt's duty to keep them alive. So Brits used the Famine Fund to fund Afghan war, railways & to reduce custom goods tarrif.
The Indian Premier League is taking over global cricket, laments The Economist.
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Where is that cartoon when you need it? Recently the Germans were getting a bit angsty!
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Hilarious! Within 3 generations the deterioration is complete! Grandmom wouldn't stop talking of foreign hand causing trouble in India; Father - "nani yaad dila denge" fame; Grandson/son harking back to the past seeking Brits to get him to be PM by "saving" Indian democracy. 🤣
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Ha ha ha. So our chap writes in english - "...man looks like he hasn't ever left his hometown..", so thinks that the 'native' can't have a view about India's position in the world, its progress. Also assumes the man can't read, or can't have a kid who travels. Pathetic chap.
Here’s an example (although not from today) of someone planning to vote for the Modi govt because it has raised India’s stature abroad. The man looks like he hasn’t ever left his hometown.
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Now what can one say! Courts, Law Processes, Systems all are irrelevant! Mind boggling.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to DC next week, it’s vital for the Biden administration to base its cooperation with India on the reality of shared interests, not on the hope of shared values.
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Vishal - Kellogg's planned to change the way Indians ate breakfast, when it entered in early 90s. That didn't really happen. So Kellogg's sells upma too. Netflix will learn too.
@vjgtweets
There’s a massive cultural gap between the cosmopolitan Indian capitalist class and average Indians. American corps looking to penetrate the Indian market rely on the former thinking that they “get” india, only to realize that the Indians are just as clueless as they are
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So basically anything that can clean up a place, make it look better, etc. is bad. The best part, the condescension towards common folks & their beliefs - "Lord Shiva has now been imprisoned in a monumental stone just as Lord Rama has been in Ayodhya."
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Wow! So this is the man being protected. No wonder things have turned desperate.
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This is a prime example of pathetic behaviour by us citizens. Gyan all over the place - "Govt. doesn't do this, Railways etc don't do that, Swachh Bharat isn't working....". Yet chaps can't even store & dispose of their refuse properly. Always expecting someone else to do it.
It's a shame that India will take minimum 35 years more to get a basic civic sense. 😪
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This will go on. While 2nd Lt Khetarpal was awarded the Param Vir Chakra within 6 months of his service, and Subedar Major & Honorary Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav was 19 when he was awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
A veteran's view- as recieved. Anyone under the delusion that an 'intern' on a 4 yr tour of duty will match up to the Himalayan challenges & place 'Izzat' of the paltan before life & limb is clearly hallucinating.
If you think pension is expensive- try defeat.
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"Jack Ma is now "embracing supervision" at an undisclosed location, the CCP mouthpiece has reported" Ah! So this is what the Indian Communists & their fellow travellers, have in mind for Indian entrepreneurs & job creaters.
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Good to know that "Modi Govt" has been in power for decades.
After decades of dithering,
#Modi
govt moves with
#Arunachal
Frontier Highway
It is among India’s ‘toughest’ projects yet
#China
in mind
India is ramping up border infrastructure
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Yet no Indian seems to be running into Bangladesh. The generation that retired long back, & some still serving, can't seem to see what changed post 1991. We, of the generation that created the new India, don't revel in disappointments & self recriminations. Make things happen.
What is even more significant is that we are at 168th rank in PER CAPITA GDP; two rungs below Bangladesh.
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UK colonised India. Indians didn't force themselves on the UK. Indians didn't invade Italy. Nonsensical comparison.
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Well the answer is to block Spanish officials, business folks, from visiting India. And cancel their existing visas
Indian wrestlers denied visas for U-23 World championships. Taking no platforming to the next level….
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Jairam is just jealous that he/his government couldn't get it made! 😂
The first of the personal vanity projects. Every dictator wants to leave behind his architectural legacy. Collosal waste of money.
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Now is the time for IIMA and IIMB to combine forces & form the next Government of India. 😁
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Excellent point by
@myraemacdonald
! Parts of Niti Marg, Panchsheel Marg & Shanti Path around the British High Commission should be turned into space for hawkers on footpaths etc. Need more space for them in Delhi. After all they deserve more market areas, & will serve customers
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The common citizens are saluting, admiring, honouring the flag. They will make mistakes too, but the love and affection is more critical. Get off the high horse.
Anyone else remember when the flag code was a big deal? I sure as hell do. Rules for thee…
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This is so cute - Pakistan has the 'thousand cuts' policy because of India's policy towards Pakistan! And because of India's policy towards Pakistan, China wants to limit India to the subcontinent! How did this gentleman get promoted to be a Lt. Gen.?
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Very interesting. Perhaps the right strategy would be to stop all transport links with Hosur - Buses, taxis, 2 wheelers, cars etc. And build a fence on the border with Hosur. While we are at it might as well close down the airport too.
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@dhume
@TheEconomist
Excellent.
@TheEconomist
recommended, during the 1876-79 famine, that "indolent Indians" needn't be saved by the Government.
@ShefVaidya
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Aparisim 'Bobby' Ghosh - "India lines up with the bad guys". Ha ha ha! So this is the chap Hindustan Times made their Editor!
Dear ChatGPT show me the Sepoyest of all Brown Sepoys. The finest.
ChatGPT:
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Mind-boggling! Has Kalyani got any Indian order? The guns are in interminable trials, the company has invested money into the line, how is it supposed to recoup investments? And what was that about country needing infrastructure to make the Guns reach areas of use? Arjun redux!
Why India’s first export of artillery guns is a huge milestone — but why the road ahead needs to be tread with care. Insight on
#BattleCry
from former Army chief General Deepak Kapoor, who is from the Regiment of Artillery:
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"...provided...high-altitude training for Indian border forces". 😂. Does
@TheEconomist
have any idea of the altitude at which Indian army fights? Point Sonam on Saltoro ridge at 21,000 ft is a helipad to serve Indian troops. Mt. Denali the highest point in the US is at 20310 ft.
They are both led by men who feed off nationalism and historical grievances, want their countries to have a bigger role in global governance and refuse to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Ha ha ha.
@Ram_Guha
your hero Crocker came out in "support of a right-wing group protesting against Australia’s first Nazi war-crimes case, even taking part in a demonstration outside Adelaide Magistrates Court"! At 90 years of age!
“South India has counted for too little in the Indian Republic. This is a waste for India as well as an unfairness to south India, because the south has a superiority in certain important things – in its relative lack of violence, its lack of anti-Muslim intolerance, ... its…
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Correct. The Agni V goes 5000 km+ because it got designed and produced by scientists who got educated in Prakrit, written in Brahmi script. All manuals in Brahmi script too.
As India imports the S-400, it is worth remembering that all this advanced technology was developed using Russian, not English. Russians do all of their engineering education, to the Ph.D level in Russian medium.
Meanwhile India has "English advantage." So it imports that.
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"India was more culturally similar to Afghanistan". 😂. This level of insularity can only suggest that even an amoeba might have more intelligence.
@ny007raj
@jordanbpeterson
And Afghanistan had nothing until the 1930s. India was more culturally similar to Afghanistan.
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We have had a religion based insurgency running since late 80s, where a part of the citizenry was kicked out because they had a different religion, & our chap has a view on "can we continue to ignore the damage polarisation & division...".
Can we continue to ignore the damage that the politics of polarisation and division is doing to our country, and to us as a people? My column today in
@mathrubhumieng
:
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15% of GDP on Defence, every year! 😁. Our chap doesn't understand the difference between yearly Budget and GDP.
India "invests" 15% GDP on defence each year & then expects health sector with 1.3% of GDP public "spending" to save it's ass when s**t hits the fan!
#Covid_19
Time ppl realize that public health is an *investment* not a *spending*
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Jairam, your government investigated and arrested him! How can you be so uninformed? How pathetic is that!
Wheelchair-bound Prof GN Saibaba’s acquittal after 5 years in jail proves that 'urban naxal' tag invented by PM's brigade is completely bogus. Many others are still in wholly unjustifiable custody. Such smear tactics must be resisted.I wouldnt be surprised if PM calls me one too!
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Another proof about the lot that has to retire before anything changes in the Defence establishment. The chaps just don't have it in them to build an Air Force of a country that aspires to be a global power. If it were left to them, they would import till kingdom come.
For AMCA, we have committed 7 squadrons. The numbers for LCA Mark-II, we will take a call on it when the first production model comes: IAF chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari
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Ha ha ha. Among the reasons why East Pakistan became Bangladesh, were West Pakistanis commenting on their skin colour, eating habits, etc., to look down upon them. Reading helps prevent stupid comments like "South is Different Bro".
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The only thing interesting about this comment is that Raghuram has certainly not really lived/been in a Sub Saharan country. If he had been, he wouldn't have been this disrespectful towards Sub Saharan Africa or India outside Noida & Gurgaon. He is clueless. The chap is an idiot.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! This from a gentleman who reported about a Coup by Indian Army! 😂😁
PTI files a vague story, the warrior TV channels jump the gun & declare war on Pakistan. Now Army HQ is made to clean up the mess with rebuttals. It will be sad if the next war is set off by fake news. It might just happen.
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Ha ha ha ha ha. Maybe the CO (imaginary one?) needs to be relieved of his duties for failing in his work. By the way is the CO able to work with Short Service Commission chaps, or are they also thinking they are daily wage workers?
Agniveer Scheme - Nightmare for a Commanding Officer: Today, I received a call from a CO for advice whose Unit is undergoing an Exercise. He is having a tough time making these Agniveers(AVs) work. Argument given by the AVs is that they are daily wagers working @ Rs 700 per day…
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Hi
@Indrani1_Roy
which part of what happened in Kashmir in 1989 or so was propaganda? And what parts of the events shown in the film Kashmir Files were propaganda? From what one understands, based on public sources, real people died, got raped, lost livelihoods and property etc.
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Why is this nonsensical question even being asked? It is an independent country. It should remain independent.
If Sri Lanka wanted a union with India, would you be happy?
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🤣! So this retd. Lt. Gen. thinks that India should - continue importing weapons; shouldn't - design & make them in India through manufacturing strength, or provide jobs to Indians, or develop ability to defend w/o worrying about sanctions, to satisfy his "Akhand Bharat" tripe?
'Akhand Bharat shouldn’t enter Indian military gates. Army can’t afford to lose focus'
Lt General (Dr) Prakash Menon (retd)
@prakashmenon51
, director of Strategic Studies Programme at Takshashila Institution, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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Hi
@orfonline
what kind of clowns are contributing to your stuff? Fascinating to see a Bachelor of Arts & Masters in "Int. Journalism" have a view of iterations of fighter aircraft development. BTW "Int Journalism" reminds me of Masters in "Int. Business". What does it teach?
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What is fascinating is the Saidian gaze at citizens of India, & deciding that their votes & their democracy are tainted. No agency whatsoever - worthless in taking democracy forward. Earlier generation of these chaps, post 1947, would get "baffled" at democracy surviving in India
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"India functions best when there is no leadership". Yeah that is why for decades people of India - didn't get water, toilets in their homes, had high maternal & infant mortality, why China went ahead. Pathetic chaps like
@DILIPtheCHERIAN
had it well while citizens suffered.
According to
@INCIndia
’s PR man Dilip Cherian, India is a “momentary coalition of unfriendly tribes put together under one flag & we need to recognise that”.
He just spelt out the INC worldview in clear terms.
This view is fundamentally incompatible with our idea of Bharat.
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Interesting. So
@RDXThinksThat
isn't allowed to point out what Mr. Malik said in public? Did Col. Dev take the decision to sack the pilot, or the airline? Why don't you ask Go Air, why they sacked?
@VishnuNDTV
are you implying Mickey Malik is a better veteran than Col. Dev?
In fact, Mickey Malik is an exemplary pilot - flew into Vavuniya during the SL war, served during Kargil (Leh, Thoise), flew PM MMS into Great Nicobar after the tsunami, air dropped supplies for troops near Galwan. Now sacked for twitter remarks on the PM after your complaint.
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"UK government had such a report" - Hmm, so they sent "Scotland Yard" fellows to get the information out of Gujarat, while the SIT formed by the Supreme Court of India, with all resources, didn't have a clue! What nonsense! Just looking for morsels thrown by an ex-colonial power.
@Iyervval
Yes, the same one. But that the UK government had such a report that he is on the record about is the new information here.
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Ha ha ha! Tellis should get back to selling F-16s. 1962 war happened because of.......? 1967 at Nathu La because of......? 2013 in Eastern Ladakh Depsang happened because of......? India wasn't liberal enough & had changed something? Analysts!
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Yeah. Make a failure out of among the richest States in the country. Bestowed with a great canal system but get beaten at Agriculture by Madhya Pradesh. Don't listen to even Montek Ahluwalia. Have limited manufacturing. Can't do much on Tech. "I am angry" is all that is left.
Punjab's Sikhs have 99 problems but Khalistan ain't one. They're very proud Indians, but angry…
And here’s why…
#NationalInterest
for the week
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Guards are "imposing" Hindi on apartment owners etc.! 🤣. Guards!😂
Most of the Sobha apartments in Bengaluru have security guards from UP-Bihar who are imposing Hindi on the tenants & the guests. If you've witnessed this at any building, were you able to bring a change somehow, like reporting to manager?
#stopHindiImposition
#Bengaluru
#Kannada
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"Military's connection with tradition"! Our soldiers come from a vast Indian cultural milieu. Their war cries come from that milieu. Our folks have fighting traditions going back thousands of years. What is this nonsense about continuing with some piddly pre 1947 English legacy?
Modi doesn’t quite get the military’s connection with tradition.
I’m wondering when we will see the old cavalry regiments change identity.
Skinner’s Horse will be Savarkar’s Horse, I presume. Watch this space…
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Okay, Pravin. Thanks for warning us. I know nobody listens to you or cares about you, but admire your spirit. Once we lose those parts, we will come to your house to live in. Thanks once again
Xi inspects readiness of PLA in Xinjiang Mil Command.
Before 5 Aug 2019, PLA focus was only Arunachal Pradesh. Now expanded to Ladakh - where in combined ops with Pak mil, it will change map on ground.
India should worry of losing Siachen, Ladakh, AP & ties with Bhutan!
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Ha ha ha ha ha! Interesting to see an ex Fauji spend his time shilling for separatist views. The chap has learnt the ropes well on how to be successful in a certain part of Indian media, & of course in a certain type of external ecosystem. Piddly.
So
@NaveedIqbal
and
@nazir_masoodi
asked questions of the govt officials in Srinagar that got a cheap, vicious insinuating reply from the union minister. It also features an argument with a French journalist. That we come to know of this from
@ttindia
is rather interesting.
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How dare a party emerge that has deep social base, especially among women & "lower" castes? Or have a PM from other than the Pandits of the Nehru clan, or provide means to others to acquire political power, unless of course it has been mediated by the likes of Mr. Mehta! 1/n
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Yup. We know how India was managed in the first 40 odd years since Independence. Beat all other countries in terms of performance & development. Bravo!
'The quality of persons working in public life like civil servants has deteriorated dramatically in the last 30 to 40 years,' says Arun Shourie at
#ThePrintOTC
with
@ShekharGupta
Watch the full conversation on 13 April at 7 pm
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This tweet is a classic example of how mediocre folks get so much traction in our media ecosystem.
Scathing column in today's
@smh
asks why PM Modi raised Australian internal issues (vandalism at temples) during Sydney visit, while PM Albanese made no such comment on India's internal developments.
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"In the farming sector, taking a risk with the self-confidence ultimately helps the farmer to win. I have taken the risk for experimenting with the cultivation of hop-shoot in Bihar and hope, it will set a benchmark". Brilliant!
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The chaps who launched this book, wrote this book are all fine & kicking. Nothing happened to them for the bullshit they spoke & wrote. Reminder to all the cartoons who besmirch the name of India on the altars of democracy, freedom of expression etc. Pathetic.
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What stupidity is this? Why doesn't the administration arrange for creches for kids, so that mothers can do their duty well without worries, & kids can stay safe. Why should this kid be breathing the polluted traffic exhaust! Why celebrate this utter nonsense!
Watch: A woman traffic constable seen doing her duty with holding her baby on road in Chandigarh
@PunjabPoliceInd
@DgpChdPolice
@Akali_Dal_
@capt_amarinder
@BJP4Punjab
@AAPPunjab
@INCPunjab
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Excellent points by the lawyers. None of the Editor types came out with articles on the folks in jail for months, with matters not being listed. Another form of feudalism basically. Privileged get dates for their cases, articles get written, etc.
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So DSP STF took authorised action. Got back stolen LMG. Filed POTA case against Ansari. Within 48 hrs IG, DIG, SSP transferred. DSP & his team stood alone. Took 17 yrs to retrieve honour. Delhi MSM - lionised the criminals in power then, & the Son later!
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Very shocking indeed. I used to think that IFS folks were recruited directly from the European Union bureaucracy. The constitutional structure envisaged by our founding fathers has been irreparably damaged by making IFS an arm of Government of India.
I’m shocked, shocked to note that INDIAN Foreign Service officers are acting on the orders of the INDIAN government.
And even more shocked to note that this seems absurd to some.
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Interesting! Was the tunnel made wide enough to get Salil inside to rescue the workers? Now that they are out perhaps Salil can be sent inside to collect any of their belongings.
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Till every screw is "designed developed & manufactured" in India, the "learned" won't stop cribbing. Creating jobs in India, manufacturing 60% in India, making most of value add happen in India,.... nothing counts. Most of "learned" are likely not in manufacturing jobs themselves
All of you learned people know it is manufactured in India.
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Well, David - an Indian Diplomat, Ravindra Mhatre was killed in the UK in February 1984. Shall we start talking about costs to be imposed?
When Russia murdered Britons on UK soil in 2018, Canada backed UK in imposing serious costs on Moscow (degrading its intelligence capability by expelling “diplomats”). We may now see whether the favour’s repaid, or whether India’s deemed too strategically/economically important.
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This nonsense, particularly from some North Indians, on numbers serving/fighting qualities of those from Gujarat, is pathetic. Reminds also of nonsense among some Pakistanis such as 1 Pak soldier=10 Indian soldiers, & of West Pakistanis attitude towards erstwhile East Pakistanis.
Gujarati people contribution in Indian Army
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw was once addressing a public meeting at Ahmedabad in English when the crowd started chanting, "Speak in Gujarati. We will hear you only if you speak in Gujarati." Manekshaw stopped. 1/n
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After how many years did Mr. Aiyar admit it? He hasn't quantified the loss to the beneficiaries & tax payers due to the delays caused. Now can we look at what has happened to the Copper plant in Tamil Nadu & loss of jobs & the country? Now being repeated w.r.t the Vizhinjam port?
Trust Swaminathan Aiyar for honesty so rare in our public debate. Anti-Narmada campaign wasn’t just a giant con, it was another far-Left “block everything” hobbyhorse at the cost of the poor, farmers, & tribals. India should thank people of Gujarat & MP for defeating it.
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Mr. Zeeshan seems to have had a brain wave! Everyone else seems to have missed it - completely out of box thinking that suggests that now China and India will band together to help China in South China Sea.
On the other side of that equation is the fact that Modi’s India now has far more in common with Xi’s China than with the US. So far, Xi has been blind to this strategic convergence. But if he decides to plan for an invasion of Taiwan, he may well begin by reaching out to India.
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"With India, it is very unfortunate that we have tried to resolve our issues through dialogue like civilised neighbours, but it has not worked out". Best part - "like civilised neighbours"! The more Indians bleed in bomb blasts, the more India gets civilised. Makes absolute sense
India should make a move for peace, says Pak PM Khan, amidst softened tones on both sides, sporting team invites after 2 years, Indus Water talks, and the opportunity for FMs face to face at Heart of Asia conf in Tajikistan this month. Reporting
@the_hindu
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Absolutely. "Pakistan, or the Partition of India", by Dr. Ambedkar, should be made compulsory reading for anyone in the public space, or media, in India. Lots of nonsense floating around among most of the chaps.
@ARanganathan72
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How did this kind of intelligence get to become a Wing Cdr in the IAF?
सवाल ये है कि 51 बिलीयन डालर *कर्ज* पे लंकापति निकल लिए
621 बिलियन डालर के क़र्ज़ वाले डंकापति का क्या होगा?
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"Indians" + "cow shed" - interesting. However, our chap forgot that the Portuguese ran away in 1961. They aren't coming back.
To every Indian visiting Goa. Please please keep your behaviour in a cow shed before entering the state. Please act civil is all we ask. This is in North Goa and a usual pattern now.
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What after 30 days? Chief Justice of India will takeover as Prime Minister?
Binding upon the Union Government to follow Supreme Court’s collegium system. Top court should fix 30 day timeline on Union Government for names recommended judges by Collegium: Former SC Judge Rohinton Fali Nariman
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The Braves of 2nd Rajputana Rifles thought otherwise before attacking Tololing!
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Good for Mumbai!
Stuff like - "never expected this in india", "last i saw platform screen doors in London" - only tells how insular some of the folks are. 😁. Never came to NCR!
Took a ride on the first day after Inauguration by
@narendramodi
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The overall experience is pretty pleasent. Everyone around in coach was feeling proud. Heard people talk "never expected this in india", "last i saw platform screen doors in London".
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For a family that earned billions off the Indian customers prior to 1991 using license raj, creating artificial supply constraints leading to a black market, limited options, poor product quality, it is rather rich to comment on the subsidy to push manufacturing of electric vehs
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Ha ha ha - "British Govt concluded" - Oooh! Former PM Mr. Gujral, a normally mild gentleman, referred to Britain as a "third-rate power" in 1997. Much water has flown down the Ganga & Thames since. Now it's 2023.
While much of BBC Documentary on PM Modi is based on archival footage and his own interviews, there is a startling account by fmr UK FS Jack Straw, who says British govt concluded that as CM,Mr. Modi "proactively" prevented the police from stopping riots. Awaiting MEA response
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भई वाह! Our chap wants that the lounges ought to be reserved for "discerning travelers"! Must be some exam they crack to become "discerning", or does it happen by birth? The hoi polloi seem to be causing the cute "discerning" ones a lot of bother!
Complimentary visits offered by card companies to the
@DelhiAirport
T3 domestic lounge continue to ruin the experience for discerning travelers.
I am told the
@EncalmIndia
branded lounge opens next week. Hopefully the section earlier reserved for
@airvistara
frequent fliers,…
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Chaps like this are taken seriously in the community of international relations/geostrategy!? These guys are bloody kids, busy looking for the next lolipop from their incestuous twitter world. Amazing.
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"As a first step, we must delink national security from domestic politics." Fascinating. Is this what gets taught in the Higher Command courses that NDC runs? How does that work? Which nation has compartmentalized National Security decisions from its political processes? Chinese?
National security must be delinked from domestic politics | The Indian Express
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Everybody" said "Someone" should do it, but "Nobody" did it.
I believe today India has good animation talent and capacity to make our own animation movies and series. Scripts galore from our civilisation and texts. Why is no one taking initiative?
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Kamaal hi hai! And from May 1999 to July 1999, the brilliance in our two countries' ties reached its crescendo! This chap was one of the key Editors of India, supposedly set the agenda, etc. 😁
That was a brilliant phase in India-Pakistan ties. Afterwards, India under Rahul Dravid toured Pakistan, won Test and ODI series there, and were similarly lionised and celebrated by crowds. Our pacer Balaji became a rock star of sorts there…the period was too good to last
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Oooh! Robert has got his knickers in a twist! Approx. 29+ mill Indians died in famine over 2 periods. "Famine Insurance Fund" - was used for Railways (2nd image). Other uses of the fund were Afghan War & to reduce cotton tarrif - "Late Victorian Holocausts" by Mike Davis.
Robert Tombs writes about the new Netflix-promoted Indian "pseudo-historical blockbuster ... called RRR (which stands for Rise, Roar, Revolt)" and set in 1920s India, in which "the villains are British" and the portrayal of the British "amazingly silly".
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"Ruled India, from the 16h to 19th century"-Ha ha ha ha ha! Marathas had destroyed the Mughal badshahat by early 18th century itself. After Aurangzeb's death in 1707 the Mughal "Badshah" served at the pleasure of the Marathas, till the British took over, after Anglo Maratha wars
Today marks the 404th birth anniversary of Badshāh Muhi-ud Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir (R.A.), the 6th Timurid emperor of the Mughal dynasty that ruled India, from the 16th to the 19th century.
A customary birthday
#thread
🧵
#Mughal
#History
#Aurangzeb
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This is very strange stuff. What is brewing here in this retired gentleman's mind? I have never come across anyone even allude to such a thing as the Supreme Commander of Indian Armed Forces being put in the harm's way, by anyone serving or retired!
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Yeah! Ms. Mayawati & Ms. Jayalalitha, CMs of their huge States multiple times, MPs, got abused, accused, & attempts were made to disrobe them in the respective assemblies. These cartoons expect us to think Moitra is special for being accused of corruption! Waste of space & time.
“With around 25 years of experience covering politics, I have never witnessed a female leader enduring the kind of relentless attacks and slander that Moitra is currently facing,”
@bainjal
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Hi Jairam. You are shaping up well. This is precisely the right time to ask about your Familia's position on Moradabad 1980, Nellie 1983, Meerut 1987, Bhagalpur 1989, & various other riots in Meerut, Moradabad, Aligarh, etc. before you chaps became insignificant in UP.
A statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in the Zakia Jafri Case.
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Now that a "First World" chap has spoken, DRDO needs to step on it immediately. Time for the resident "Editors" to also pipe in.
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Oooh! "Jat filled ilaka". 😂. The Jats aren't going anywhere, Ms. Manchanda. Still all over there. In the last few days some of us have been winning medals in Tokyo, too. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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Shashi finally getting how Congress (I) ruled India. Progress. For example - R K Laxman had something to say on how Mrs. Indira Gandhi used to choose Chief Ministers.
A word we'd better start learning in India: ANOCRACY. Form of government that mixes democratic w/ autocratic features, permits elections, allows participation through opposition parties& institutions accommodating nominal amounts of competition, but acts w/minimal accountability.
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On the "Socialist" thing, Dr. Ambedkar made a critical point during the debates on Constitution - How can one impose an economic philosophy on future generations? He was spot on. In any case the so called "Socialism" was a Rent Seeking State made by Politicians & Bureaucracy. 1/n
On Republic day we must recall that "Socialist & Secular" were added to Preamble during Emergency. India was neither theocratic nor Capitalist till then. It became Capitalist post 80s and theocratic in the eyes of Nations whose own polity was never Secular, de facto or de jure.
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What this episode tells us is that if any reforms have to be made at all in the Military establishment in India, these chaps will have to be dragged! Hidebound culture, terrible inertia, limited understanding of financial aspects. Manohar Parrikar had to do the same with LCA.
This is NOT what we have been given to understand by unimpeachable sources.
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Ha ha ha. Patanjali is just left to seethe & fume. Mohammed Shami who plays for Gujarat Titans is also a part of the same Indian team. And Axar Patel of Gujarat got Usman's wicket. Noor Ahmed & Rashid Khan also play for Gujarat Titans. Shall we do further analysis of castes too?
Rajdeep Sardesai put it more politely. But I'll say it bluntly: I'm glad (make that ecstatic) that a Muslim (Australian) batsman scored a big hundred in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in a stadium named after a man who oversaw an anti-Muslim pogrom of shocking savagery.
#INDvAUS
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Chap, with no clue on Arthshastra & Kautilya, now says Mr. Modi has turned 'hard Right". Same Govt. created through JAM Trinity the world's largest Direct Benefit Transfer Program for poor, & extols wealth creation by Entrepreneurs, to support distribution to poor. "Hard Right"!
Economic ideology is the new binary in Indian politics as Modi swerves hard Right & Rahul Left...
My
#NationalInterest
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Ha ha ha. Here we voters of India keep voting in large numbers. Voter turnout for 2019 Lok Sabha poll was highest ever - around 67.4%. Himachal just had close to 75% voting. Tripura 87.6% voting! But some joker sitting somewhere will say India is an autocracy. Dunderheads
India Is 'One of the Worst Autocratisers in the Last 10 Years,' Says 2023 V-Dem Report.
@vsirnate
writes
via
@thewire_in
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Amazing. This chaps couldn't even gather courage to take on the MVA government in Maharashtra when it was putting up false cases against Arnab Goswami. What a compromised bunch.
EGI is deeply concerned about the IT “surveys” being carried out at the offices of BBC India. Is distressed by the continuing trend of government agencies being used to intimidate and harass news organisations that are critical of ruling establishment.
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