Posted on 28 November 2009. Tags: Gandhi's shameful collaboration with the British, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Almost two centuries of the British colonial rule is a fact of our history. An alien power can resort to two tactics to strengthen its hold over the conquered people: it can either resort to coercion by brutal use of superior force or can resort to persuasive means to co-opt the natives in the process [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: IAEA, Iran
In an all-time low in Indian-Iranian relations, Bharat (aka India) has come out in the open and voted against Iran. The last Bharati vote against Iran came with a heavy price—energy starved Delhi lost the multi-million Dollar CNG gas deal and Tehran signed the gas pipeline deal with Pakistan. Iranian diplomats were in Delhi last week and [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
The Bharati objectives for the trip to Washington were to secure firm US support for Bharat’s (aka India’s) applications for a UN Security Council seat, the final operationalization of the US-India 123 Nuclear Treaty, the beginning of a Bharat centric focus for the US in Asia, and a repudiation of Pakistan as an instrument of American policy. Bharat lost out on all four counts. [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: Maoists, Naxals
Naxals collude with north-east insurgents. India fails in fight against Maoists: PM Singh A CNN-IBN exclusive report has discovered that the collaboration between the Naxals with the North-East insurgent groups runs well beyond the supplies of arms from the latter. The Naxalas also get on-spot help from the NE insurgents. Maoists camps dot the Jharkhand Bengal [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: JF-17 Thunder
ANALYSIS: JF-17 Thunder —Ikram Sehgal One must not forget to mention all those airmen who remained associated with the project since its inception and their constant belief that such a monumental task could be achieved Air power has a dominant role in modern warfare. Unable to defend itself against air assaults of its adversary, the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 27 November 2009.
Delhi has always tried to outflank Pakistan and somehow surround it from all sides, to place pressure on it. What it is doing with the TTP today, it was previously doing with the help of the Russian. It had picked Afghan rulers who could be used against Pakistan. High on the horse of regional hegemony, [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: Nawaz Shairf, Vajpayee
The Nawaz Sharif relationship with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, before, during and after Mr. Nawaz Sharif was in office has to be scrutinized in view of the reports published in the Bharati 9aka Indian0 press–about the leading role fo Mr. vajpayee in the destruction of the Babri mosque which left 2000 Muslims dead in ethnic and [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: Bangladesh
The home of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, sits down a tree-lined street in an affluent corner of the capital, Dhaka. Tourists and locals file into the compound daily to view its insides and his personal belongings — a dressing gown, old books, his favorite pipe. But they also come to see [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US Int Rel.
Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: Bangladesh, Dhaka
Judging by some of the recent postings on NFB, it seems the age old spats between die hard Awami Leaguers and the rest of the Bangladeshi community have come to a head once again. This reminds me of a brief conversation I had with an old friend couple of days ago. Both of us were [...]
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