G2 is a lesson for India. Here is China which has quietly built its strength and is now taking on the US which it has by its unmentionables. But the Chinese still say they are a developing country; and here are we who are at best a middle power pretending to be a super-power without the necessary wherewithal or the economic and military heft to be a great power, forget being a super power. By the way, why do we want to become a super-power? What is our grand strategy if we were to become a super-power? What do we propose to do with it? We cant exercise the power we have and we pretend to being a superpower?
Get real. Keep quiet. Stop boasting. Build the economy and military strength. Stop asking for technology - no one will give it to you. You can either buy outdated tech, or build your own tech or steal it. It wont come on a platter which our babus and netas hanker and negotiate for. Reform the economy. Reform governance. Demolish the bureaucratic stranglehold. Or get left behind.
The type of canine cleansing advocated in the name of law is unconscionable. There is a bonding that invariably develops between a community & its street dogs. Some people will never appreciate this. I offer my sympathies to them & hope they soon learn what it is to be human.
The day you think you will sleep early, someone decides to fire missiles on someone else and a new reality tv show plays out in real time keeps you mesmerised, shuffling between @X and the TV. Damn, I am so sleep deprived.
This tweet stands testimony to everything that’s wrong with strategic communications of India. The Pakistani propaganda has been going on since morning when the news of US bombing came, and GOI responds after the entire news cycle is done and dusted, fake news has spread and been internalised. This is a 24x7 job and you don’t get sundays off during wars, including info wars.
Madhavi Latha, one of the awesome engineers who helped build the Chenab bridge. She began looking at the issue 17 years ago!! The bridge has four times the steel at the Eiffel Tower - held together in a mountainous, earth-quake prone zone.
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@sunandavashisht His prophesy that unless Pakistan redefines its national identity on inclusive and democratic lines, it may continue to be a "tinderbox"—prone to internal combustion and regional unrest, definitely seems to be coming true.
@KanwalSibal Definitely, Ukraine and its European backers are banking on Russia’s predictable retaliation and thereby involving Trump administration. It reflects a brutal reality of modern warfare, where battlefield decisions are tightly woven into diplomatic and geopolitical aims.
Some would get this … from the #GodFather
“But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself in his cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane should fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here. Gentlemen, that ill will, that bad luck, I could never forgive. But aside from that let me swear by the souls of my grandchildren that I will never break the peace we have made.”