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A bit shattering, but well deserved.

Article 370 of the Indian Constitution had nothing to do with the ability of non-residents and registered citizens of Kashmir to buy land in Kashmir.

This is a major tragedy, and so utterly meaningless.

The UPI system is one of the genuine achievements of this present administration. I don't have an opinion yet about their subsidy administration, but on the radical impact that the UPI has had among the middle classes, the upper segments of working classes, and the retail market, there is no...

Hungary not even as much of a democracy as Turkey. What happened, he forgot India?

I am looking desperately for someone to carry it from Sheikhupura to Dubai. A personal friend is in Dubai from the 5th to the 15th, and has already offered to carry the book back to India, and to get it to me thereafter. The money is not holding things up. Usman knows it will get to him sooner...

Ah yes, there is that. I was looking at the situation as it obtains with regard to military history. Incidentally, one of our Pakistani friends did something so audacious that I am still stunned by it. You may have heard of THE definitive history of 65, by General Mahmud Ahmed. It was so...

কি সাংঘাতিক বাজে বাংলা বানান! এমন খারাপ বাংলা বোধহয় পচ্ছিমারাও লিখবে না।

It has a lot. I can't think of ways in which it falls short.

I must warn you, you are not setting too high a bar.

Their father was a doctor, so one of the two sons kept up the family profession.

This is a profound observation, and I am left with the wish that it could be read as widely as possible, that it could be discussed, also, as widely as possible.

We did, and I am sad about it. There was no need - absolutely no need - for Pakistan to go that extra mile and get the bomb. Having said that, after some preliminary exploration of the situation in a simulation-based war-game, it is abundantly clear that the only guarantee for Pakistan against...

The bottom line is this. There was occasion to mention how in an organisation that was intimately connected to aerospace, an opportunity came up to convert ALL the manuals for ALL the aircraft in the operations of the IAF from whatever they were into English versions in SGML. The project was...

One of the reasons was the PRC's own decision to isolate itself behind a wall of flinty rhetoric. These were the days when the Chinese behaved far more like today's North Koreans than their current demure statesmanlike attitudes (compared to the way they were, today they behave demure and...

Pure Indian science and technology, verging on purely Bengaluru science and technology. Almost all the design work was done in NAL (National Aeronautical Laboratory, an ISRO-like organisation in Bengaluru). Brilliant guys, insulated from politics, from cross-currents, totally focussed on R&D.

Am I telling you what to think? No? Right, return the favour.

Will someone tell him that in real life, things usually come in the reverse order? Wife, job, money?

If I were to share with you (I dare not!) what it has done to me, you'd fall off your chair laughing.

?? Did you mean, "...sanity prevails in our democratic set up..."?