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LOL. I've just got off the phone with my financial analyst cousin, who rang me up to enquire about this incident. Apparently rumours are flying around Bombay, and they have affected the Stock Market; shares have fallen. Shades of Danglars and the telegraph!

That, at the cost of sounding politically intransigent, is why I oppose the BJP/RSS combination. They have alienated 15% of our population in a brutally direct fashion, and potentially stand to alienate another 20%; to hide that inbuilt contradiction between caste Hindus and the Dalit (20%)...

I think that the problem lies much deeper. From the moment that Syed Ahmed Khan and, later, Khwaja Salimullah Nawab of Dhaka, coalesced large sections of the Muslim population around the Muslim League, instead of joining the very open organisation of the Indian National Congress (of which...

There are already reports of SAM engagement of PLAAF planes near Taiwan, and of a casualty.

This interview will address some of your questions.

You beat me to reproducing it by minutes. It was exceptionally good.

This is a new avatar - @Nilgiri the Bible specialist!! o_O

Windjammer, yes, that's easy to guess, and he really shouldn't use any nick with the phrase 'Wind-' in it; it's a hostile Internet out there. Aeronaut? Hmm. Didn't know that he had made such an impact.

Who are these two gentlemen in your last sentence?

From your wording, you are interested in only the current area that is causing so much tension. IMHO, that is a partial view; we need to get a lot more of historical perspective into this. I tried writing out a concise, short answer; that didn't work out, it turned out too long for a post...

You might like to inspect the ORBAT for XIV Corps, including recent reinforcements, and check the validity of that assumption.

Chinese PLA’s Western Theatre Command issues statement accusing Indian Army of violating consensus reached at multi-level talks between the countries. SNEHESH ALEX PHILIP 31 August, 2020 9:26 pm IST Representational image of military equipment in Ladakh | Photo: ANI Text Size: A- A+ New Delhi...

Army jawans patrolling near the snow-covered border on the occasion in Kupwara (representational image) | ANI Photo Text Size: A- A+ Ground forces dominate Indian military strategy. Since its independence, India has fought five wars along its unsettled northern land borders, and its most vexing...

I don't agree with many things said in this article, but acknowledge that Indian liberals have compromised themselves by not being honest about historical events, and about present-day social tensions. Najmul Hoda is a Muslim member of the IPS, the Indian Police Service, that provides officers...

Representational image | Muslims offering prayers during Ramadan in Srinagar India’s Muslims and liberals are withering in each other’s embrace. The liberal discourse in India has come in for sharp criticism not only from the Right-wing but also the non-partisan centrists for being...

Correction: 70 and 6 days. :)

Good for us long-suffering readers of posts with more than 10, 000 (10,000!! and it isn't enough!!!!) characters. Personally, I would prefer my characters to be members rather than posts. :)

Thank you! Good to be here. Looking forward to lots of topics, lots of discussions.