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For centuries, many of India’s major inland powers treated the #sea less as a #strategic threat than as a commercial highway. Few anticipated that a trading coy would come to rule much of the subcontinent. The consequences remain with India today.

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@Fintech03 These were all private companies with no Indian state backing. Silicon Valley and BigTech success is hugely dependent on the Military-Intelligence complex backing it.

Read Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine.

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India’s fortress had one fatal flaw.
For centuries it watched the mountain passes.
Nobody was watching the sea.
Then a handful of European ships arrived, and a trading coy ended up ruling the subcontinent.
The gate nobody saw coming still shapes India..

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India’s fortress had one fatal flaw.
For centuries it watched the mountain passes.
Nobody was watching the sea.
Then a handful of European ships arrived, and a trading coy ended up ruling the subcontinent.
The gate nobody saw coming still shapes India..

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Part2 ranks in the top 5 of 65 substack posts short listed and evaluated in a 100 point rubric 🍸

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For centuries, many of India’s major inland powers treated the #sea less as a #strategic threat than as a commercial highway. Few anticipated that a trading coy would come to rule much of the subcontinent. The consequences remain with India today.

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7 #Maps that explain why #India is strategically vulnerable today.

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For centuries, many of India’s major inland powers treated the #sea less as a #strategic threat than as a commercial highway. Few anticipated that a trading coy would come to rule much of the subcontinent. The consequences remain with India today.

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7 #Maps that explain why #India is strategically vulnerable today.

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For centuries, many of India’s major inland powers treated the #sea less as a #strategic threat than as a commercial highway. Few anticipated that a trading coy would come to rule much of the subcontinent. The consequences remain with India today.

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@TantriPrasanna Do read the Weaponised Interdependence by Farrel & Newman and Beyond the Kinetic by Hooda & Rajan https://t.co/NKNkA0iJWD

These will give you completely different perspective on what are the larger strategic implications of the whole debate.

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Wrote this in 2024. It’s a commercial battle for the money bags. For the Indian state it’s a battle of #sovereignty itself with huge #military implications. #starlink

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You are being too clever by half, dear @elonmusk, and you know it.

Saying "11,256" villages sounds a lot. But it is a way of lying with numbers.

What if the handle had said, "1.7% of India's villages have no 4G coverage"?
That wouldn't fit the narrative, right?

And it only gets worse.
The post deliberately chooses "4G".
Why?
Do those villages not have access to 2G and 3G internet? Perhaps you know. The world's richest man who wants so desperately to enter the Indian market with satellite internet coverage should know, right?

You, who have talked about the 'Deep State' would know the perils that satellite can pose to national security. The terrorist attacks on Mumbai, better known as the "26/11 attacks", were facilitated, in part, by the use of satellite phones. The terrorists' handlers, sitting in Karachi, communicated with the terrorists using satellite phones and ordered them to kill as many people as they could, including Jews.

As for "oligarchs", well, you mean Mukesh Ambani (his mobile and internet company, Jio), yet hesitate to even taking his name. You, who didn't think twice before posting Trump's alleged links with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein!
I think that will go down well with most Indians, to see the world's richest man in fear of an Indian🙂

Which brings us to the elephant in the room - racism.
It would take a blind man on Pluto to not have seen the explosion of racist screeds and shitposting and ragebait content against Indians over the last year-and-a half on your platform, X.

Perhaps it got your platform more engagement. Perhaps this is what the MAGA gang wanted and you obliged to get back in Trump's good books.
Perhaps you didn't care about racism against Indians.
Perhaps you saw it as a bargaining chip in your negotiations with the Indian govt.

In either case, you don't have a lot of sympathy in India because of racism on your platform, Elon.
Please stop pretending that there isn't racism on X against Indians, or that you don't know about it.

Coming back to broadband coverage.
The areas that do not have adequate 4G and 5G coverage are Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, parts of Rajasthan that border Pakistan and which are sparsely populated, the Kutch region (also sparsely populated, what with the world's largest salt pans), Arunachal Pradesh, tracts that are either heavily forested or till recently had suffered from Naxal terrorism.

So, what exactly is your target market?

Offer satellite coverage in Arunachal Pradesh and China will cut off your businesses at the scrotum before you can say Tesla.
Or did you plan to make a killing selling satellite coverage at $50/month in Bihar and Jharkhand, where 4G and 5G plans cost $3/month?

Get honest. Get real.

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This is the GOAT moment

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When you buy a new phone, it seeks a WiFi to initiate it

Bingo!!!

And that’s where you are trapped

Then it seeks permission for connecting to all other devices on the WiFi, that’s a red herring

It actually already has

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@ColHunnyBakhshi @adgpi @hq_ids @LtGenHooda @Ptr6Vb @dushy40098 @smitaprakash @NEquaker @ajitkdubey These sir are historical patterns that have existed since millennia. Ghor & Ghazni were some of them that are still remembered in the cultural memory.

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Pavithran Rajan

#Geography & #history largely constrain a nation’s strategic possibilities. #Leadership, #institutions & #technology determine what happens within those constraints.

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@SpfAdmin @adgpi @hq_ids @LtGenHooda @dushy40098 @smitaprakash @ColHunnyBakhshi @NEquaker @ajitkdubey Good one

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Pavithran Rajan

#Geography & #history largely constrain a nation’s strategic possibilities. #Leadership, #institutions & #technology determine what happens within those constraints.

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@Being_Che10 Sure, look forward to your queries.

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Lacunae in military training. In today’s The Tribune.

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How an Indian Theory of War Found Its Way into European Strategic Thought

✍️ Pratap Heblikar

@nitingokhale #India #NATO #RussiaUkraineWar

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The broadly sold cars with “INTERNET INSIDE” are the most dangerous vehicles

Simple: they give u an app, seek permission to make calls on your behalf, ur GPS location

Damn u r a sitting target
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