India Coffee House

[Deliorman]

Why don’t you guys just delete this thread... some 50 cent CCP troll posting fake news from Greek City Times and Paul Antonopoulos about some retired Indian general pulling stuff out of his ass.

 

[Ryder]

Why don’t you guys just delete this thread... some 50 cent CCP troll posting fake news from Greek City Times and Paul Antonopoulos about some retired Indian general pulling stuff out of his ass.

Paul Atonopoulos also had a Stormfag account.

The guy is a joke.

 

[Nilgiri]

This clown-subject was already opened:

Major General Bakshi: ''The Indian Navy must immediately come to the Aegean for military exercises"

@Nilgiri Who is the clown?

defencehub.live

So there is a greek city times side to the same thing, big deal.

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

This clown-subject was already opened:

Major General Bakshi: ''The Indian Navy must immediately come to the Aegean for military exercises"

@Nilgiri Who is the clown?

defencehub.live

So there is a greek city times side to the same thing, big deal.

Merged the threads, maybe I should've just deleted the new one.

 

[Mis_TR_Like]

Btw Greek City Times is the Major General Bakshi of news outlets. Both should be taken with a pinch of salt.

 

[crixus]

Do we have any beef with Turkey ? ........ some loudmouths will definitely help in ruining the relations. If some misunderstandings are there I think diplomats of both countries are experienced enough to sort them out.

 

[Nilgiri]

Do we have any beef with Turkey ? ........ some loudmouths will definitely help in ruining the relations. If some misunderstandings are there I think diplomats of both countries are experienced enough to sort them out.

Indian media dunderheads now spreading on social media fast = *shrug* -->*cringe*--->*facepalm* ....repeat as neccessary.

This is not the first or last time they will undo in just few minutes time (given social media wildfire speed) among lot of people (listening and influenced and take it to heart etc).....stuff that takes months and years of hard work by both lot more regular laypeople and also the highest representations like govt + diplomatic quarters as you state.

Why societies are beholden to social media bullhorning (in the worst ways imaginable) increasingly is beyond me. ...it is what is feeding this stuff.

Hopefully there is just enough calmer heads outside of social media that look past this stuff.

Everyone has lot of local examples and variants of the same phenomenon so this is what sometimes helps too.

 

[crixus]

Indian media dunderheads now spreading on social media fast = *shrug* -->*cringe*--->*facepalm* ....repeat as neccessary.

This is not the first or last time they will undo in just few minutes time (given social media wildfire speed) among lot of people (listening and influenced and take it to heart etc).....stuff that takes months and years of hard work by both lot more regular laypeople and also the highest representations like govt + diplomatic quarters as you state.

Why societies are beholden to social media bullhorning (in the worst ways imaginable) increasingly is beyond me. ...it is what is feeding this stuff.

Hopefully there is just enough calmer heads outside of social media that look past this stuff.

Everyone has lot of local examples and variants of the same phenomenon so this is what sometimes helps too.

I get it, but what they will achieve after making such conflicts that have been non-existent. I don't know beyond some statements there is something on the ground between India and Turkey.
The only visible areas of conflict between India and Turkey are seeling some basic radars to Armenia by India and Turkey's visible support to Pakistan on the Kashmir issue but such thing can be sorted out diplomatically.

 

[Barry]

He's got a banging colonial British moustache.

 

[crixus]

He's got a banging colonial British moustache.

Naa those mustaches are Rajputana

Or the most popular man with mustaches in India

 

[Barry]

i stand corrected!

 

[crixus]

i stand corrected!

naa, it's fine they have some regimental traditions :

 

[Nilgiri]

but what they will achieve

You are going about this all wrong, its not about actual achievement and objectives.

That needs a basic temperance of knowing what your lane even is when you get a platform for it..... and cold calculating persona like say myself or even more than that as needed w.r.t the subject and platform at hand.

But this stuff is about participation trophy (to add to all the rest) in feel good, warm echo chamber. The damage done outside the echo chamber matters zilch to these people...it doesnt even exist to them. Simply go all in on some agenda item for the dopamine hit on offer, no matter how irrational it really is.

 

[Nilgiri]

Gather all your thoughts, comments, analysis etc here.

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Budget focuses on health, farm sector, infrastructure

Union Budget 2021: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman provided a major boost to healthcare and infrastructure in Union Budget 2021. However, there was no change in Income Tax slabs this year. Stay with TOI for Union Budget 2021 live updates and highlights

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Jackdaws]

First pictures: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds up the tab from which she will present and read out the Union Budget 2021-22 at the Parliamen, instead of the traditional 'bahi khata'.

We hope the tab will be symbolic of a new deal in the Budget and not just another lackluster one.



As usual, more optics and rubbish than actual substance. I would be happy if proved wrong.

 

[Nilgiri]

Most was same ole same ole Some highlights of what I noted :

India budget:

Federal Planned total Capex - 26% increase to about 76 billion USD (Most capex spend is done state side ofc...so lets see).
broad gauge to be fully electrified by 2023 (my pawp has been talking about this dream since i was a wee young lad).
bunch of bad banks being created to handle stressed assets/bonds/securities
bunch of disinvestment planned
Planned Defence budget around 4.78 lk crore i.e about 65.5 billion USD.
Finished year fiscal deficit reached 9.5% (mostly due to corona crisis)....Planned 6.8% deficit for upcoming year. Will ramp down over the years.

N.B Someone tell me who was that fish-market haggler in opposition screaming now and then during the middle? Gawd that was annoying.

As usual, more optics and rubbish than actual substance. I would be happy if proved wrong.

It is all mostly (and long has been) just about what level of theft and thuggery the govt is doing. Its the biggest guy in town with biggest stick.

All these fancy things and words and (coerced) transfer of wealth (by their clean hands) for whatever reason....and theres basically very little law and order where it matters.

So of course its "optics"

 

[Nilgiri]

In northern India as many as 150 people are feared dead after part of a glacier broke off and crashed into a dam in in the Tapovan area of the northern state of Uttarakhand, unleashing flood waters and debris.

As of now, 7 bodies have been recovered.

RIP to all that have perished.

 

[Jackdaws]

It's tragic. Uttarakhand is prone to such stuff - have to strike a balance between development and ecology.

 

[adenl]

One can expect these natural distasters to become more frequent because of climate change.

 

[Jackdaws]

One can expect these natural distasters to become more frequent because of climate change.

And haphazard development.