India's Tibet policy: It is not that India did not have excellent strategic thinkers at the time, but Nehru decided not to use their competence. Tibet would never be discussed as a result. Today, one priority for Delhi is to have an in-depth discussion with Dharamsala as soon as possible.
Russian weaponry: This war has revealed a major design flaw, for instance, in the T-72 main battle tank -- the wrong placement of the ammo storage compartment under the crew cupola, which tends to blow up with the first guided anti-tank munition hit midship.
It is a matter of grave concern to the Indian armoured forces featuring the T-72. Maybe, this will finally convince the army headquarters to take ownership of the indigenous Arjun MBT (which handily beat the Russian T-90 and T-72 tanks in test trials). If the Ukraine crisis proves anything it is for the Indian military to 'Buy Indian'.
Farm machinery exacting heavy toll on soil: In soil that has been squashed by heavy weight of farm machinery, air is forced out and the soil becomes compacted, leading to flooding and poor harvests. "Compaction can happen within a few seconds when we drive on the soil, but it can take decades for that soil to recover".
Machine learning for farming applications: John Deere's autonomous tractor will usher in a new era of farming. Farmers are losing control of their machines and accuse John Deere of creating a monopoly in farm equipment manufacturing.
When Shiva appears, Chandala disappears: The disappearance of the Chandala therefore marks the disappearance of the whole ideas he represented. The ‘meaningful nonsense’ of the Chandala of the local myth is thus changed — while the former questions the caste system, the changed version makes such an illusion, but behind it, it in fact seeks to revitalise and legitimise caste.
Recipe for disaster: English-medium in rural primary = recipe for complete destruction of Indian talent.
Absolutely. And this policy is being pushed when the data clearly shows that Telugu medium students outperform English-medium students at primary level, *despite* Engish apartheid set against them.
English-medium in rural primary=recipe for complete destruction of Indian talent. https://t.co/cfaYxsg7pK
Cities are often markedly warmer than the countryside, and that's critical in a heat wave. This image, taken by @NASA's ECOSTRESS instrument on the @Space_Station, shows "heat islands" in and near Delhi, India, with nighttime temps up to 102° F (40° hotter than nearby fields). pic.twitter.com/yjzkdjDYev
But wait, there's a solution: Shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C. Concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C in the summer.
What if I told you there was a single intervention we could deliver in our cities that would cool them during heatwaves, reduce flooding, scrub pollutants from the air, boost biodiversity, improve public health, and even reduce crime? You wouldn't believe me. But it's true. pic.twitter.com/W1KWm6RHFk
Gulags are thriving: China is pushing Tibetans off their lands and turning them into factory workers . 500K Tibetans were forced into labor camps this year and quotas were set for transfers outside the region.
Himalayan villagers support Indian troops: “We want to help the Indian army to secure their positions immediately. We are carrying supplies to them, doing multiple rounds in a day, to ensure that the army doesn’t face too many problems.”.... The Tibet factor.
China's tech prowess: Increasingly, China is supplying the kind of sophisticated machinery that German manufacturers once dominated, like high-end tunnel borers and hydraulic valves and pumps used in wind turbines. “It’s only a matter of time until Chinese firms are No. 1,” says Ulrich Ackermann of German Engineering Association.
State Media: Chinese tech companies going abroad are ‘spreading China’s influence’
Good riddance: Facebook may leave Europe if Ireland enforces ban on data sharing with US
China’s 40-Year, Billion-Tree Project: Launched in 1978 to protect the north, northwest, and northeast, three
regions affected by sandstorms sweeping out of the Gobi Desert, the
so-called Three-North Shelter Forest Program aimed to grow 87 million acres of new trees—a forest the size of Germany—across the country’s north by 2050.
Pakistan begins phase-3 trial of Chinese vaccine: It was an “honor” for Pakistan to be among the few countries
participating in “the biggest and relatively difficult” phase-3 study of
a vaccine.
Irony: China struggling to convince citizens to take Chinese-made flu shots
Forget China, can India match Vietnam in manufacturing? Vietnam has been quick to realize the importance of hi-tech exports amounting to 40%, whereas India’s share stands at 9%. In comparison to Vietnam's technology-oriented
exports, India’s top exports comprised largely low-tech manufacturing
products like mineral fuels, pearls and organic chemicals.
If it were this easy to grow your economy, every tin pot dictator would hire a consultant and get rich overnight. In most sensible places, consultants peddling instant cures seen as little better than snake oil hucksters. In India, they advise NITI and the UP government. pic.twitter.com/BFFazgIWq9
How Communist China weaponized the waters of Asia: Nine great rivers of Asia descend from the Tibetan plateau. After the
Chinese Communist Party occupied Tibet, it has essentially monopolized
these waters
Threat to Rafale: Bird menace due to garbage dump danger to Rafale in Ambala, IAF tells Haryana govt. The IAF has sought the immediate implementation of Solid Waste
Management scheme to reduce the activity of large birds like black
kites in the aerodrome zone of 10 km around Ambala airfield.
“This would involve instituting of littering penalty, improvement in
garbage collection and setting up of a suitable SWM plant at a suitable
distance from the airfield,” the letter states.
Rahul Baba's failed attempt to create rift in Army ranks: The defence ministry officials clarified that there is no difference in the quality and quantity of the items served, except that the officers are served different items than those served to the jawans.
Spare a thought for commanders and soldiers on the ground. Difficult terrain, harsh weather, faced with the enemy barely 300-400 metres away. Its a tinder box out there. One small tactical incident going out hand will have strategic ramifications.
The enemy within: How Indo-China border dispute once split the Communist Party of India.. “A Communist Party statement praised the Chinese for leading the Tibetans from ‘medieval darkness’ and blamed the rebellion on Tibetan ‘serf owners’ backed by Indian reactionaries and Western imperialists”.
Sexualization of girls: #CancelNetflix trends on social media after preteen twerking film ‘Cuties’ debuts
Gee, Hindutva folk are a hopeless lot. They misdirect their energy to illusory goals like "unity" or "declaring Hindu Rashtra" -- a verbal gain that increases the quotum of hostility you'll have to deal with but won't yield anything tangible. Instead, abolish the discriminations. https://t.co/A1twp98bgT
India shot itself in the foot: Indian authorities demolished commercial tourist structures along the banks of Pangong Lake, citing violation of Wildlife Act. "Had these commercial set ups not been demolished, we could have easily detected Chinese intrusion into Pangong Tso area. Taking advantage of darkness, Chinese troops managed to enter eight kilometers inside Indian territory"..... "The govt decision to demolish the tourist structures had left more than 500 people jobless. Besides, tourism activities by these temporary tents were preventing the Chinese from staking claim on territory".
Bharat: DRDO drone likely to be deployed in Ladakh. The drone can provide real-time video transmission and has advanced night vision capabilities.
Indian VCs are missing: "Good start-ups are getting sold to foreign firms, Indian investors need to play greater role"
App craze: TikTok may be gone but another ByteDance app is thriving in India. About 74% of those who downloaded the Resso app are from India.
Some people ("traditionalists") questioned my reading of those who didn't do Sandhya can't be considered Brahmin. But that is exactly what the Manusmriti states.
न तिष्ठति तु यः पूर्वां नौपास्ते यश्च पश्चिमाम् ।
स शूद्रवद् बहिष्कार्यः सर्वस्माद् द्विजकर्मणः ॥ २.१०३ ॥ pic.twitter.com/aWg9DLRqeh
Actually Varna of a person is decided after completing of education not on the basis of birth. यज्ञोपवीत is a संस्कार to begin वेदाध्ययन. Vedas do not prohibit education to shudra but it says to teach vedas even to a shudra.
— Viśhāl | विशालः | விஷால் (@vedicvishal) July 7, 2020
Feminists want patriarchy of Islamists: Swedish feminists have
destroyed the patriarchy and with it the male dominance hierarchy. In
doing this these same feminists forgot that most women's instinct is to
mate up and across that hierarchy. So what happens when the dominance is
gone? Women withdraw from men, marriage, and childbirth. But the
feminists actually run Sweden now, and the instinctive need for the male
dominance hierarchy hasn't gone away. So the feminists import hundred
of thousands of men who regard feminism as dangerous nonsense, and who
will restore the male dominance hierarchy the only way that it can be
restored: by restoring the patriarchy. This will solve the women's
deep-level problem, because instinct trumps ideology every time.
Setback for indigenous alternatives: The planned import of several categories of weapons -- specifically light tanks, Israeli Spike LR anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), Israeli Heron unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), US-made SIG Sauer assault rifles and MiG-29 fighter aircraft -- will undercut Indian programmes to develop indigenous alternatives.
China may buy Russia's Su-57: Unlike China, India does not have a fifth-generation fighter, so the Su-57 is an attractive warplane to India.
Floods force China to blow up dam: China blasted holes in the Chuhe River dam in order to “alleviate the pressure of flood control” at the massive Three Gorges Dam.
Visa Gods and Brain Drain: Why the Indian govt and media get all worked up about declining opportunities for Indian out-migration has never made sense.
In the early 2000s, when India’s rise was viewed in a positive light, many had hoped that like the East Asian communities in the US — Japanese, Koreans and Chinese — Indians in the US would also return home, invest in India and contribute to the home country’s development. However, for a variety of reasons, this expectation is yet to be realised.
It would be interesting to see how many of those who attended Modi’s rallies abroad have decided to return home to contribute to India’s “atmanirbharata”. . . . Taxing the Brain Drain.
Chabahar port rail project: Iran drops India after inking $400 billion China deal. That China pulled the strings behind the scene cannot be doubted. The possibility of Iran leasing out the Chabahar port to China at a later date cannot be ruled out. If that happens, China would have extended its strategic reach to the Pakistan-Iran coast.
Act quickly: India dragged its feet on building the rail link from Chabahar to Zahedan. First, the delays were over contract disagreements, then the fear of US sanctions, and later, after the US provided a “carve-out” to India on the port and the rail link, the difficulty under the sanctions regime in finding international suppliers for material...
From Nepal to Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Iran, Delhi has made commitments on building power projects, highways, railways, and other infrastructure. Each proceeds slowly or not at all. The Pancheshwar Dam project in Nepal, for instance, has been hanging fire since 1991.
Commercial satellite imagery reportedly shows the LAC has shifted 12 to 15 kms in Depsang, 1 km in Galwan, 2 to 4 kms in Gogra and 8 kms in Pangong Lake. This would be by far the largest loss of territory to China since the 1962 war. Is this observation correct?
I have been warning since the beginning about the quite considerable loss of territory.
I estimate that China's policy of what I have called incremental annexation has resulted in the loss of some 1,300 sq kms of Indian territory in the new millennium.
Should the buck not stop with NSA Ajit Doval?
Well, yes, because he is supposed to ingest all intel, field reports, military briefings, analyses and recommendations from the China Study Group, et al, and alight on policy options for the PM.
You have said repeatedly that Indian intelligence knew about the Chinese build up for the last one year.
More specifically, intelligence had told the army about Chinese movements in the LAC area, but the army took this to be normal spring time activity.
Would you say this has been an operational lapse by the army?
As I have already said, there's no excuse for XIV Corps Headquarters in Leh or army headquarters in Delhi and for the army misreading imagery intelligence transmitted to the Defence Intelligence Agency by DIPAC.
“You must make Tibet a core issue”: By referring it as the India China border, India had ceded 2.5 million square kilometres and legitimized Chinese claim, he stressed. “Now in Doklam and Galwan Valley, what are you arguing about..one kilometre here, or two-kilometre…you have already conceded 2. 5 million square kilometres of land. You must take it back; say it is the Indo-Tibet border and it is disputed…You must make Tibet a core issue”.
Boondoggle Record floods raise questions about China's Three Gorges Dam. “One of the major justifications for the Three Gorges Dam was flood control, but less than 20 years after its completion we have the highest floodwater in recorded history”. . . . . Dikes collapse
Tibetan Government-in-Exile: The US has for the first time directly provided funds to
the Tibetan Government-in-Exile based in India, a move likely to rile up
China.
Rajeev on Chinese overreach: 'If the economy begins to flounder, the empire may fall apart sooner than we think... The fatal mistake for the USSR was the invasion of Afghanistan. Quite possibly the fatal mistake for the Chinese empire is the assault on Ladakh'.
The big secret of tech innovation: Although this may sound strange, copying is good for innovation. This is how Chinese technology companies got started — by adapting Silicon Valley’s technologies for Chinese use and improving on them. The Chinese routinely monitor what app is achieving success elsewhere, and duplicate it before they start adding features and innovating; they learn from the best and improve.
Steve Jobs built the Macintosh by copying the windowing interface from the Palo Alto Research Center. As he admitted in 1994, “Picasso had a saying, ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal’; and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” Almost every Apple product has features that were first developed by others. Mark Zuckerberg also built Facebook by copying from MySpace and Friendster, and he continues to copy products.
Chinese firm among bidders for Vande Bharat trains: The emergence of a Chinese company for these train sets being promoted as indigenous products comes after a violent face-off between India and China
Fail: India’s top exports to China remain in the raw materials category. “China has been very effectively using non-tariff barriers to curb imports that it wants to avoid. On the other hand, it also uses these restrictions as a political tool to control bilateral relations”. A contingency plan, prepared by the govt bats for increasing duties on the top 100 imports from China.
Delete Facebook: Delete FB account or quit army: Delhi High Court to officer
Cycling could become the new normal: "Cycling for short distances can result in an annual benefit of Rs 1.8 trillion to the Indian economy and it also has the potential of increasing personal fuel savings by over Rs 27 billion. Investment in cycling infrastructure has economic benefits up to 5.5 times the initial amount pumped in," says a communique from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Superstrata's carbon fiber e-bike: True unibody construction with no seams or welding. “This piece comes out as a single piece from our machines”.
Play the Tibet card with China: 'The logical step is to challenge the very legitimacy of the Chinese claim over Tibet'. China abrogates treaties at will.
Bharat Ratna & loud mouthed A.B.Vajpayee formally recognised Tibet as part of China in 2003.'Lion' Modi ended all formal relations of GOI with Dalai lama & with Tibet Govt. in exile in 2018 .So appeasing China was a joint Congress-BJP project, despite 'tu-tu mai mai' in TV shows.
Brig John Parashram Dalvi: The man who told India about Nehru's Himalayan blunder. "And let the guilty, and their political successors contemplate, the great crime of sending brave men to do battle against AK47's with WW I obsolete.303 Lee Enfield bolt action rifles".
Rethink of India's China policy: “We need to join forces with the US, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Indonesia and western Europe to take on China economically''. . . . . “Will Mr Modi pitch national interests over economic ones is a political question”.
Intellectis hate techies because we mean business, we get things done. Modern intellectualism (more hopefully later on this from this twitter handle) is all about the abstract and the art of not doing anything while appearing to be doing a lot!
Elmer Yuan: #BeijingIntercoursJoe Biden was responsible for China relationship under @BarackObama his very corrupt family made huge money from China. It will be hopeless for🇭🇰,Taiwan and the free world if he gets elected b/c it will mean the #CCP won against the free world. pic.twitter.com/2R4nwMQ4Q0
— Against the Tide (Idź Pod Prąd) TV (@AgainstTideTV) July 6, 2020
