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First, his ill-health, then the totally lunatic work-load that comes with greater responsibilities, and also with a visible slackening of the norms that government servants follow. He shares some very meagre and tight-lipped detail with me, at long intervals, and the situation frightens me...

That horrible shower does Configurational Fluid Dynamics (and other things) for a living!

Of course, through this and similar discussions, we have to keep firmly in mind that submarines are defensive systems (not counting the boomers in this point of view) and aircraft carriers, for however many more decades they survive, are offensive systems. It is better to build one's defences...

As the @Nilgiri post a few posts earlier suggests, the three 'types' of vessels in any class, in any fleet, need to be identical and designed for two things: (1) complete interoperability of weapons systems munitions and ordnance, and linked aircraft and missiles systems; (2) complete open...

Brilliant - seldom seen a cleaner summary. That is the core of the matter. Really, you outdid yourself. This is when jbgt90 is missed; what he has shared about subterranean procurement prospects and the addle-headed response to those is sorely missing here. Really good one, @Nilgiri.

If there had been a legitimate way to abolish 370, I'd have been standing placard in hand at the picket lines in front of Parliament urging it. My objection is to the way they did it, nefarious, dodgy and through a weird legislative bootstrapping that has a twisted, convoluted logic associated...

Ooooh.....my head aches! I read HISTORY, for Heavens sake.

Good Heavens, man, I wasn't contradicting you; I was smarting from a resentment of the blatant chauvinism in quite another post, and addressed you as an audience in the abstract, if you get what I mean.

Your reply just increased my melancholy. It was sad to contemplate those good-hearted Titans, ben Gurion, Meir, Eshkol, Yigal, Peres (my particular favourite - one of the very few world figures whose hand I would like to have shaken), and Rabin - I wouldn't tag on Rabin, who ultimately paid his...

As a matter of vulgar curiosity, whom did you demolish with this message?

Personally, I deeply regret the drifting away of Israel from the Mapai and its ideals. Can't stand Likud oafs and barbarians.

Of course! The Haffkine Institute is still famous world-wide, surely. This was another factoid leading to the belief in certain Indian academic circles that Jews were the only intellects to be regarded with respect - with great respect akin to reverence - for their acumen. We Bengalis carried it...

It is a deliberate choice, @Nilgiri, not to be in response to any earlier post in this discussion, but to put in a word of my own. It is certainly right to state that the deaths due to the Great Leap Forward and to the Cultural Revolution were the results of failed and over-ambitious (in the...

Above my paygrade, but @Saiyan0321 and his new-found associate, Usman Sadozai, would make a significant difference if the former cared to join in, and the latter could be persuaded to join.

?? Do tell. Whatever does that mean (apart from the CPI - ML)?

Thanks for the reminder. I'll pass it on to the Nut hisself, for necessary action. He's losing it, not thinking of something as simple and as obvious as this.

You clearly have a marked hatred for Alabama. It is a haven of peace and contentment, next to the UP.

Simple. The Muslim partner and his (or her) family will be persecuted (no, not a typo, not a spelling mistake). The Hindu partner will be socially isolated. There may be one or more deaths.

Fascinating! I have been ploughing through two gorgeous series on Turkish history, and am totally engaged in the goings on. Learnt more about the Ottomans than ever before.

Drat! Running low on popcorn....