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My views are sadly constrained by my fixed belief that democracy in India is at present in the throes of a gradual, creeping coup d'etat. The government has lied consistently about the extent of the damage to Indian interests caused by China's new-found bellicosity. They have also displayed not...

You are quite right in quoting the redoubtable Major Amin at length on this particular encounter, and in reminding us of his take-away from his own and from others' reports of the matter. It was indeed a very well-planned defence by a specific segment of the Pakistani defenders, and stood out...

Yes, with the greatest pleasure. Please wait for the evening.

There is absolutely no evidence about immigrants from the steppes having come in around 2000 BC to 1800 BC. This is a favourite ploy of both the Out Of India and the Inheritance of the IVC propaganda machines - putting the earliest evidence of Indo-Aryan language presence so far back that...

There is no evidence either way, nothing concrete, but her publicised remarks were remarkably ethno-nationalist, remarkably in line with the prejudices behind the massacres. At this moment, even after the deplorable occurrence of the coup, I am a Suu Kyi sceptic.

In a first, Tata to build military aircraft in India as it acquires IP rights...

In such situations, it is difficult and almost irrelevant to try and disentangle the combinations involved. A soldier in plain clothes, carrying a dao, a monk screaming to people to burn everything in sight, a civilian with a torch - who is going up to them and asking for id?

Absolutely. Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.

That does not equate to borrowing theological concepts from the IVC. That could come from completely autonomous beliefs of system. Even today, the vast gulf between north India and south India, even between north India and east India is glaring and obvious. Commenting on these aspects requires...

I sincerely recommend that you do some serious reading.

LOL. Already proven wrong.

Sure, sure.

You realise that perhaps without meaning to you have outlined a template for war among Asian powers (to remain unnamed)? A very clear plan of action emerges, albeit one that requires a 50-year span of time.

<sigh>

Busted.

You completely distracted me. Here I was, at 1:30 in the morning, toasting a slice of bread, to smear the tip of a knife of Marmite over it. <slurp> Be right back.

It's called - and packaged - as Marmite in India. Obviously, because the non-veg equivalent, Bovril, is unlikely ever to sell even the contents of one crate.

:cautious: Huh. What was that insult about '...bandar kya jane...'?

*Lives in Oz*...hurdehurrrr... What's with you guys about vegemite? If you don't like it, don't open the jar! ZIMBLE.