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What....? What are you doing here? I thought you were part of the establishment there! OK, never mind, welcome to this forum.

I had to run to the dining room, take a look at my large jar of Marmite and calm my jangled nerves, and then settle down.

I read this, thanks to Nilgiri's post, on which he tagged me. I am so glad that he did. A brilliant article, and with far more to comment upon than I dare to start upon.

ISRO's inherent inefficiencies as a state-run company? Now I've heard everything.

I don't think @Jackdaws was fair to Jinnah. My note on the mass graves is entirely detached from my anguish about the day-to-day petty humiliations, the total lack of respect to women by the insensitive, coarse recruits into the central armed police forces, and the general atmosphere of violence...

Sadly, this has a sordid background to it, and the sordid component is from an unexpected geography. The practice in the Vale of Kashmir is to hand over the bodies of intercepted and killed terrorists to the J&K Police for disposal. The policemen execute their dreadful task as quickly as...

Bad history. It was not because China was under Mongol rule under the Yuan, and Tibet was also under their control, that China claims Tibet. These claims arose at different points of time; it must be seen concurrently with the attachment of Gansu and Qinghai with China proper. Regarding the...

OK, so I need to come back and read this at leisure, not at 2 in the morning. Looks interesting; I'm looking forward to reading it.

Right now, having subscribed to Netflix, with an Amazon Prime membership, and the unexpected delights squirreled away in YouTube, I am sated. There is a drastic overhaul due, in my viewing-normal life balance. But thanks, it was one of my fixations, and if I watch, I am sure it will become one...

Difficult to justify that horrifying bunch, merely on account of their having had unusual experiences for their time and place. They were really among the extreme points of depravity that the human race has reached, along with various Central Asian specialists in building mountains of skulls.

I don't know who this Kumata character is, but it was sad to see you arguing with him. Is he really your level? I take the liberty of speaking bluntly, as you know where I am coming from, regarding your outlook and balanced analyses.

I am following this in another context altogether. There is reason to believe that an Indian weapons industry was one of those eliminated by the British in their 190 years of increasing influence and increasing extraction of wealth.

It is one of the finest sweet wines going, spoken of in the same breath as Chateau d'Yquem (truthfully speaking, it is not in the same class, but at its price, nothing could be better).

The state struggles; curiously, the government in that state does not share that struggle.

Sad to think that Blue Tokai scores over Imperial Tokaj; O Tempora, O Mores.

I really never guessed that @crixus is such an irresponsible airhead. @Jackdaws My sympathies.

We really need to rectify the cruel genocide launched in Utkala by Asoka.

I had, I don't remember where, and remembered very keenly because of the second portion, that is a personally very disappointing reminder, of Gopal Bewoor getting to be Chief rather than Prem Bhagat. Travesty of justice.

I do hope you keep dropping in and contributing. It is an incentive to log in to read your posts.

...or Russia having closer relations with Pakistan than absolutely necessary. On our old platform, there is a wave of almost sexual arousal at a story that Russia is trying to sell Pakistan a SU57 contract.