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This represents a dangerous and undesirable freedom of speculation. The remark makes little difference, and does not particularly benefit the people of Bangladesh, the examination of Bangladesh history, and the military historian.

Fair criticism. These journalists are by and large worthless. Their interviews are exercises in sycophancy, their conclusions carefully tailored to the sensitivities of their own contemporary government, their interest in leaching out the patriot element and determination of as many facts or...

Ultimately, yes. Until there is a critical mass, splitting the broad theme into these sub-topics is a diminution of each component separately.

A fascinating post. Unfortunately, it is very often - most often - in the clash of different views that much of the obscuring supposition is rubbed off, and the bare facts stand out in their most undisturbed forms.

Tempting! Oh, so tempting!!

I just to see this and read it, and it embodies the most clear-headed, rational and FAIR articulation of this forum's policy. It is hugely comforting to read this in its present form; however much we may consider that we have thoroughly understood the policy of the administration, getting to see...

My eminent friend reminds me of the doggerel children's verse, about "...the little girl, with a little curl...": "When she's good, she's very, very good..."

You have grasped the heart of the matter better than we have had a right to expect. That is to put it as modestly as can be.

@Saiyan0321 You notice that this could have been lifted word for word from Ayush' comment?

@Saiyan0321 If he was Indian, or Pakistani, I would have pointed at his point cited and said he was quoting Ambedkar. As it is, I can only point to Ambedkar's general perspicacity.

Exceedingly interesting. However, a disclaimer: it is too complex to read at one go, and requires a degree of almost-bovine rumination. I'm on that.

Please feel free to tell Revi that it's ghaatuck, not ghutuck. Ghutuck is a marriage negotiator.

Yes, I acknowledge that, and I also acknowledge one statement that you made, that I have consistently preached on PDF, for example, and on many other fora. That is the statement that we should each try to clean up our own acts, and should intervene only on invitation on developments on the other...

Only current bullfights indulged in, this time. You should see my Veronica.

True, he did not agree with Modi, but he let him continue, and let every effort to bring home the accountability lapse by the wayside. That ranged from departmental enquiry to private enquiry, to the court cases, to the intervention of the Supreme Court and Raghavan's special team (I forget the...

I do apply that standard to the opener of this topic. The results are dismal. They are not very complimentary to him. That does not lift your posts to any level of acceptability. Two wrongs do not make a right.

FWIW, I disagree with Aitzaz Ahsan, although I recognise and sympathise with his initiative in the context of Pakistan's identity formation, and cannot take his views seriously beyond a point. Your concluding sentence was disappointing. Very disappointing.

There is an overlap of the revisionists of palaeological issues and pre-history, and the anti-science, anti-education, anti-academic views of the Hindutva followers. If you had any serious views on the Aryan-Dravidian matter, and had followed it in its winding course through Academe, you would...

Promises, promises..... Regards.

No, you would not lie, you would merely confirm that you are on the same level as those cretins. That outcome is defined by some Americans as making the rubble bounce.