Youtube comments of M Shastri (@libshastra).

  1. Don't underestimate the Himalayas. The Himalayas would be like mountain trench warfare. Drones don't work well because of the height and thin atmosphere not to mention line of sight issues. China will likely try to hit the Siliguri corridor rather than hit the Northern Himalayas. Most likely what'll happen is India might get badly damaged because of Pakistan's lack of no first use doctrine when it comes to their nukes. That's a huge wildcard and Indian strategic planners have acknowledged a two front war Myanmar is actually a battleground between India and China, right now. When push comes to shove, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal will come to India's side. (Their Foreign policy acknowledges it). Iran will sit this one out, they seem to be trying to move into a very neutral position.
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  2. Urban Land Ceiling Act ruined Delhi and almost killed property rights. Delhi tried to parcel land equally to everyone and tried to ban sales outright. That law was scrapped sometime in the 90s and that's how Haus Khan was able to be gentrified. Indians cities are a great example of planning and land use policy failures. They actually make for a great case study. You should consider making a video on Mumbai. That city has its own challenges, it needs both roads and transit.
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  3. Modi has done a LOT. The rest of the World needs to appreciate that. But we Indians know, he needs to do A LOT more.
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  4. I spoke with my friends and family in India. They are angry and very united against Trudeau. They specifically blame him for this rapid deterioration. I have never seen Indians this angry. The anger is justified given our Govts' inaction (not just this one). They don't trust us especially after the Air India 182 debacle. So good luck trying to "lecture" them about rule of law or sovereignty. I think things are going to become much much worse.
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  5. Inheritance tax is tax paid to help Gandhi family maintain it’s khandhani wealth, rights and privileges.
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  6. Post 1997 Nuclear tests at Pokhran Sanctions hit this program harder than any corruption or bureaucracy. HAL had to develop several subsystems indigenously to circumvent them, it probably set the program back by a decade.
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  7. Jairam Ramesh is Nehru incarnate. This guy was disastrous for India's strategic posture. We really need a Congress Mukht Bharat.
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  8. Suresh Kalmadi has a very long history of corruption. Man, the corruption of the Commonwealth games doesn't compare to the one that was conducted during the Commonwealth Youth Games. The kickbacks were enormous, land grabs by Kalmadi's goons were pretty common, all that land grab cases are yet to contested in courts. Kalmadi, is also a Gandhi family sycophant and was close the Gandhis. He orchestrated Sonia's ascension as Party President and later did the same for Rahul. He damaged Congress and the Gandhi family's reputation with his corruption with Sports in India.
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  9. 1000 people attacked ED. This atrocity in Sandeshkhali could not have been sudden, it was probably going on for a while. If it wasn’t for ED driving away Sheikh Shah Jahan then we would have not known about the tyrannical atrocities was committed by Shiekh Shah Jahan. I’m pretty sure Bhadraloks in Kolkata turned the other way and kept silent.
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  10. My condolences. This is just horrific and indiscriminate. There's no way to justify barbaric violence.
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  11. Indian History textbooks excludes a LOT of regional cultures and leaders (like Vijayanagara empire, Maratha confederacy, Cholas etc.) to simply highlight the greatness of Mughals and Nehru-Gandhi. It is a systematic assault on regional history and this is the legacy the previous dispensation and their entrenched intellectuals left us. Many of us learnt very little history from our textbooks but learned a lot through field visits and local folk lore. It creates a lot of cognitive dissonance when you see ruins of a culture but there's no mention of that culture or the events that happened in your history textbooks. These rewrites are in a positive direction, corrects a lot of wrong and as much as it reduces the significance of the Mughal, it also downplays a lot of Mughal atrocities and massacres. But DW thinks these changes are bad because some posh de-rascinated Cambridge educated Delhite thinks otherwise. Yogendra Yadav and his cotorie erased a lot of local regional history.
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  12. BJP has also promoted several regional leaders as well (Rijuju, MP Temjen Imna Along, Namgyal to name a few). I think they have done that better than Congress.
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  13. This is on Jagan. What a waste of taxes and everyone’s sacrifices. He shouldn’t have stalled it’s development. This is good coverage.
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  14. Shekarji, the Print needs to cover the atrocities in Sandeshkhali. Your publication justifiably made a huge cry over atrocities in Manipur, it's time to extend that coverage to the poor people of Bengal.
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  15. Before anyone claims the reporter is biased towards the Congress, that’s kind of her job - she’s a beat reporter, her beat is The Congress party.
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  16. Nobody can ignore public pressure. This incident would have been buried just like Marichjhapi and Lutyens would have heaped praises on Mamta, just like how they did with Jyoti Basu. Thank you comment section for all the support.
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  17. There's absolutely no justification for barbaric violence Hamas enacted on those civilians. This was 26/11 but 20 times worse mixed with Medieval barbaism. They did not see those civilians as people but as Jews, Kafirs meant to be slaughtered. Palestinians need to unambiguously condemn this barbaric act. While they lecture us about Bhagat Singh, the Palestinian Ambassador also forget that Gandhi ended Non cooperation movement over brutal violence at Champaran. They can learn something from him about condemnation. Edit: Pakistanis are invading the comments.
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  18. Here's the impact of Swacch Bharat and Smart Cities Program. It has enabled cities like Indore to rapidly build capacity.
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  19. Modi just listed what he aims to achieve in his third term. Even if he achieves 70% what he listed (Modi Govt finishes 65% of what they aim for), that'll be a good achievement on it's own. Lots of exciting stuff. Look forward to Modi 3.0 Meanwhile, sathiyo, I'm going to work hard and build the expertise Bharat needs by the time Modi is half way through his 3rd term. You too focus on that. Bharat needs us more than ever.
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  20. Muslims "othered" themselves when they voted for Pakistan and stayed behind insisting on their "unique" culture. They need to introspect and think about where they went wrong. Learn from Shias on how to be part of the Cultural mainstream. Don't make us force change in your community. Introspect and propose reforms, abandon your conquest mentality.
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  21. Modi Govt is still engaging in reforms - just not big ticket ones (at least not until after 2024). This might seem minor, but this is a very consequential reforms.
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  22. The proposed reform is really promising. But this won't pass in the current term though. Jan Vishwas Bill took roughly 3 years of work before it was passed by both houses. I anticipate this will take roughly the same amount of time. Under the new laws, Sedition now specifically target Anti-nationals (calling for division of India) rather than folks who express displeasure towards Govt policy. Arresting people because they called a progeny of a Politician Penguin is no longer sedition. This is a step in the right direction. The new laws completely removed references to "unnatural carnal desires" aka gay sex completely. Also a step in the right direction Mandatory chargesheets notification and publications!! Time limits for chargesheets with automatic bail! This is a huge step in the right direction. One has to wonder, why so called "liberal, progressives" did not bother to pass such comprehensive reforms? Instead we get essays that extols the beauty and genius of IPC. Edit: So "Liberal, Porgressives" are calling these reforms as a work of an Autocratic regime and quoting Nazi concentration camp survivor Hannah Ardent (Hai Bhagwan!). Long overdue reforms occur because Mudiji is fuscist. Hot take ke bhi haad hoti hai.
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  23. Let’s achieve Congress Mukht Bharat before Congress comes with worse ideas to propagate and promote.
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  24. Man, I wish she lived those words and gave the chair some respect. The sense of entitlement is amazing, just cause they are MPs they think they are nobles in council. None of the opposition have any respect for the speaker or chair. They don't care about their constituent. TMC MP from Dum dum wasted question hour arguing about DMRC and high court judgement while ignoring stalled Metro development in his constituent. That question wasn't even part of the agenda. Leader of the opposition thinks he set the rules and he allows people to speak in the house. Thankfully Speaker put him in his place. And now we have this ex-investment banker, who thinks they can stomp over the chair. Where is the humility? Has the honorable MP learnt nothing about Parliamentary conduct while living in London?
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  25. Balasaheb's biggest contribution was he fought the Unions and didn't let Mumbai become into Kolkata. He was the Don who ensured your business, your concert, event wasn't disrupted by Leftists hooligans. He kept Mumbai's economy afloat despite intense pressure to get on with Socialism.
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  26. Interesting days, looks like BJP wants to secure UP and help Capt gain Punjab. Hopefully this is a learning moment for the BJP. Part of the problem with the farm laws was lack of consultations leading up to it's passing. These laws can come back with a massive rural infrastructure push (which is in progress). Dunkirk retreat was a battle lost however it helped win the war. Similarly this repeal might help with push reforms later, hopefully right after 2024 elections.
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  27. Even left leaning Social media influencer came out calling the Congress party’s manifesto as a disaster.
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  28. It doesn't matter if you are market oriented or not, it is unacceptable for Govts avoid paying DISCOMMs their dues and use their future revenues as collateral to pay for previous year's bills (or force a write off). That is just bad fiscal management, left or right, it should be treated as bad governance. Also, if you read history, the only reason why the East India Company was able to rapidly conquer India was because Indian Kings never paid their dues (often over generations) to the merchants. The Merchant to whom the Royals owed money to, simply allied with someone who understood the basics of upholding contracts (i.e. The British).
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  29. Sikhs are devout to their faith not their institutions. SGPC has failed the community and has done nothing about rampant conversions. Instead, SGPC choses to legitimize Bhindrawale. Misplaced priorities abandoned the community.
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  30. Thank you for this. We need to know more about the Muslim community. Everyone consolidates them into one monolithic block but they have their own issues, aspirations and voting patterns. Edit: Comments are garbage.
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  31. The Wire, Newslaundry journalists are now moving to DW. Expect the coverage to be permanently biased and skewed.
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  32. The report assumes that India gets it's Industrial policy in order. These reports are free advertising for India. However, our toxic economic history and bureaucratic culture makes the authors look like fools and makes it a point to waste away any demographic advantage we have. Case in point: - DESH Bill, which is supposed to rationalize rules and simplify setting up units in our current Industrial clusters has petered out after all the Hype. - Labor laws, which is the step in the right direction is yet to be notified. - Electricity is given away for free while industrial units pay double the tariff while getting half the supply. - We keep dumping billions into PSUs and PSU Monopolies while under funding our schools, ITIs and basic services. Besides, the one thing that inhibits our manufacturing sector is labor size. We make it difficult to hire more than 100. It is easier to setup a new company with a parallel HR org structure than it is to expand the number of workers in your current factory by 150. We make it a criminal offence to hire anyone above 100 without the permission of a Babu. We make it criminal offence to hire seasonal workers. We make it impossible for businesses to improve productivity and reap the benefits of economies of scale.
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  33. Still no word on Sandeshkhali. Even Barkha got to Sandeshkhali earlier than the Print. As a subscriber, I find that disappointing.
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  34. Someone the other day said, Games journalists are journalists who failed to get into WaPo and NYT. I think they are right.
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  35. Pawar can't speak and everyone is wondering what the heck he's talking about. Thank God for subtitles.
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  36. Desh mein Ghar wapsi ki zaroorat hai.
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  37. Saba Naqvi is so wrong about why Muslims aren't becoming politicians in Parliament. Essentially, since the 1970s, the number of seats in Parliament has been frozen while population has been steadily climbing. There are now around 2 to 2.5 million constituents per MP for a particular seat in the Lok Sabha. Essentially, the Muslim vote has been getting diluted since the freeze in enlargement. More seats that could have improved representation of Muslims was stalled. The minorities got further marginalized in a every growing population in Lok Sabha seat. She conveniently won't mention about the seat freeze. This is a structural issue rather than an issue with Indian polity.
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  38. Rahul Gandhi’s economic plan is ridiculous. He’s saying we should just give up on manufacturing and keep staying rural.
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  39. Upto the mid 2000s, State DISCOMs used to harass paying customers. MSEB (the predecessor to MAHADISCOM), would retroactively hike rates, then send you a bill with the retroactive rate and then proceed to disconnect electricity. Those DISCOM babu relied on the fact that paying customers would not maintain 20 years (I kid you not) of electricity bills, payments receipts to dispute with them. Some of this billing harassment shit still happens today however, they can't retroactively hike rates and make you pay for them. I kid you not, I would run around with my mom or dad with stacks of bills and payment receipts disputing this nonsense, jumping through all the hoops. It was miserable.
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  40. I'm sick and tired of Kashmiri azadi grift. From Yasin killing and corrupting his way into our politics to JNU and their defense of Afzal guru. Kashmir and Kashmiri politicians have taken things too far and abused the system for too long. Time for special treatment is long over.
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  41. Content Moderators have a really tough job. Imagine having to make a subjective decision regarding a video by watching 5 secs samples in 60 seconds. And do that with large moderation queues. Also Most of the heinous videos are exclusively moderated in places like India.
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  42. This is the real oil inflation that hurts the kitchen. This is real inflation. Regarding onions and other farm products - it's not a production issue. India has one of the highest amounts of farm product losses in transportation and storage. That's a big reason why we have seasonal onion spikes.
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  43. A good analyst would use the GVA number to argue for a rate cut or tax cut. The pessimism makes no sense.
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  44. India's Judiciary does not have the capacity for 8-10% growth and it is a big limiting factor. It's supreme court alone has about 40,000 cases pending for more than 20 years. India needs judicial reforms.
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  45. Maldivian Ministers and MPs were claiming Lakshadweep as their territory. I say we make it happen, make Maldives a UT of Lakshadweep. Make Male report to Karavatti.
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  46. "It's going to get much worse". Ya Company rule was just the beginning, the British Raj was a much worse entity. In the later half of the Raj, the imperial civil services were sympathetic to the misery dealt by the Raj, however the racism and cruelty of London made things worse and London accelerated to strip every Indian's sense of dignity and humanity. You can see this in the desperate correspondences for relief from Delhi, begging for approval and help to a deaf London. Bengal famine is a famous one but there was plenty more famines, plagues and epidemics. My great grandparents were survivors of one such event. Edit: Top level Imperial Civil Services administrators were middle-class Englishmen. They were the ones who sent correspondences to London begging for authorization (to invoke acts, budgets etc.) and relief.
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  47. I think it's a big deal. ISRO and NASA signed Artemis protocol and this landing was one of the criteria for increasing future cooperation and further collaboration. One thing India really excels at is keeping costs low. SpaceX despite its innovation is still costs about $15k/kg. With ISRO's collaboration you can bring that cost down further. It just makes space exploration so much more cheaper and affordable.
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  48. US has something called as Romeo Juliet statute. If you're in a relationship with a minor with a 2 year age difference, age of consent is relaxed. That's what you call reasonable relaxation of statute. However at 25, if you're deliberately dating a minor, that's not love that's grooming. Consent doesn't matter in cases of grooming, it would not stand in US Court, less so in Indian courts. That man was not unfortunate, he was deliberate. The judge recognized that and punished him accordingly.
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  49. DW conveniently leaves out the policies and programs in place to help India grow. Infra boom - skipped New education Policy - not mentioned Labor law reforms - not mentioned Farm laws - they didn't even mention protests or support from western activists/govts to repeal it Women specific Corporate Schemes (Govt policy) - not mentioned. This is what balanced coverage looks like.
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  50. Comparing political dynasties in the West and India is like comparing apples to oranges. Here's the thing about Indian Political dynasties and Western political dynasties: - In India, the dynasty dominates the party and uses the party for their wishes. Party positions are inherited. - In the West, a dynast still needs to fight the nomination process, they have to earn the trust of the party. Roosevelts, Kennedys, Bushs, Clintons and Trump, all had to win the nomination. Bush Sr. did not appoint Bush Jr. as his successor. In a sense, the party sometimes uses dynasties for their advantage. If Justin Trudeau loses the next election, he will be asked to resign his position. But in India, the Party acts more like a monarchy of a particular family.
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  51. Indian and US soldiers are starting to look visibly alike in terms of equipment carried by the average soldier. That's good progress.
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  52. Modi govt. it's delivering on the trade front. This is great news for exporters. Both prosperity shower on both nations.
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  53. Honestly this is shameful. However along with condemnation, we should demand changes to the process of remission. For every optically controversial case, we judge it to be wrong but we stop short of demanding changes.
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  54. The perennial truth in India is always "More needs to be done". Anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves.
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  55. Gandhi's vision was as flawed as the man. His economic vision would have killed entrepreneurship and kept India rural. His social policy would have left casteism as an issue to be resolved by the good hearts of the upper caste. Non violence was the only redeeming political legacy he left behind. I think we need a more complete picture of Gandhi.
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  56. India's Naval build up is not just about China. It is part of India's core national security strategy. Afterall, the British did not conquer India by land, they came from the sea. 😢😢
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  57. If Unions can't get the Fed Govt to pay a livable wage, then what would that mean for the rest of us? Our Govt without question or scrutiny prepares aid package after aid package for a war in a distant land but yet can't find fund to pay those same workers who prepared that aid package a living wage. Treating our federal worker like a minimum wage worker is quick way to spiral into bad governance.
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  58. Every student in India knows a classmate that has attempted or committed suicides. Roughly, 2 students commits suicide every hour. Let the gravity of that stat sink in. Student suicides are consistently ignored by mainstream media.
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  59. Lebanon (and our own Partition - Jinnah argued for the same) is a good example of why Congress party's Jitna Haq Utna Abadi is a terrible, treasonous and poisonous idea. Proportionality derived from confessionalism is a disaster, you will never get the right person with the right skill set and experience to the do the job. If you want social justice, you need to remove barriers, not add new ones. You need to grow the economy, increase opportunities, increase the amount of choices a person has access to pursue opportunities.
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  60. Fun fact: The Indus Delta used to flow into present day Rann of Kutch (about 250-300 kms east of the current Delta) until a 19th century earthquake diverted it's course. So it's not unusual for rivers in the Indian subcontinent to shift it's course wildly. Also, Thank you Dr. Miano.
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  61. Liberal MP engages in bullying tactic to raise awareness about bullying. This is better than satire on CBC Gem.
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  62. I don't think RSS chief is worried about "woke" culture. He's worried what people in academia will do with woke culture. Some of the stuff emerging from woke culture in India is pretty ridiculous.
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  63. This is one of best examples of good procurements since Independence. This was large volumes order that justified investing in local manufacturing. There are long term maintenance contracts that allows for onshoring/local manufacturing of spares. It leverages local industries in the supply chain (or will). Now look at how the Army orders - Army orders 50 M4 APCs with no indication for future orders and then expects local production. How do you expect local productions when you order so little while paying so little? Guess what happened, Kalyani imported M4 as CKD kits and assembled them locally.
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  64. Is CM Stalin willing to fund Tamil language schools outside of TN like TN state did back in the 60-70s? Otherwise there is no point asking for Official language status. Stalin is all talk no action - Tamil this, Tamil that. As a Tamil I am disgusted by his inaction. Our current generation of Tamils who live outside of Tamil Nadu are functionally illiterate because of decades of inaction by TN govt. How can you expect Hindi speakers to learn Tamil when you don't facilitate learning Tamil amongst the Tamil community living outside of Tamil Nadu?
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  65. Delhi was meanwhile gasping for breathe and busy spending money on ads saying "All is well". Almost half the hospitals which needed O2 plants were stuck waiting for approvals by Delhi govt. So ya, this gets us nowhere. This guy is at best no different and probably worse than the rest of them. Besides Delhi claiming to get anything done is like getting 40/100 and claiming that you passed First class.
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  66. The current Health Minister was appointed during the 2nd wave. He is awesome, he fixed the vaccine procurement and distribution, testing and genome sequencing. He beat the Govt timelines to get India vaccinated. That's the thing about Modi Govt, they have erred but they have also rapidly course corrected.
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  67. Andhra has been going through a very silent green revolution. The state govt has invested a lot in lift irrigation, natural farming, multi cropping and diversifying yields from their farms. It's a lesson for States like Punjab, Haryana and UP. Andhra farmers have embraced the new farm laws (actually their market reforms formed the backbone of Centers farm laws).
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  68. DW should ask Vandana Shiva about the state of Sri Lanka. She just plunged that country into poverty, she was Gotabaya's advisor.
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  69. A Historian (Shaktikanta Das) and MA Political Science (Modi) handled multiple crisis better than a Chicago School of Business professor (Rajan) and Economics Alumni from Oxbridge (MMS). Hard work is definitely better than Harvard
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  70. When will our experts admit that things are not working or as advertised? When people express concerns is dismissed as misinformation. Safe supply hasn't worked as advertised - we were told, it will reduce consumption, it will increase rehab, it will reduce crime, save lives. But ever since this policy was introduced, the exact opposite has happened.
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  71. Modi Govt for basics done but now needs to rapidly go up Maslow's hierarchy. This means better inner roads (gully roads), better drains, steadier supply of water and finish the last 5% of remaining work. SBM needs to be expanded to include building a good trash collection and handling system for villages.
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  72. "Even when we increasingly see it .. we compulsively tried to deny it". - Shekar Gupta, 2019 after General Election.
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  73. The sites on which temples exist today existed prior to 500 AD. Garbagriha of Hindu temples were worshipped prior to 500 AD.
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  74. "Hopefully, this will cause a backfire effect, people will see the injustice and mobilize to act" There is deep irony in this statement. There's a backfire alright, commuters frustrated by protestors.
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  75. The Church has been blocking road projects as well. National highway projects in Kanyakumari district has been facing trouble from Churchgoers thanks (sarcasm) to them blocking access to gravel and other construction material. They are a real nuisance. Medha Patkar is back. Man I hope she fails so miserably that she becomes utterly poor.
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  76. Shekarji, you should talk more about this at a TVO panel. BTW, Liberal Party of Canada is in alliance with NDP. As long as Jagmeet Singh leads that party, the Khalistani elements will be tolerated. Besides Khalistanis are essentially Jat supremacists (they think Jats are above every other "Pajeets"/Indian). Outside Punjab, Canada is probably the only place where you will find plenty of Ravidasi gurudwara. You don't find such segregation of Gurudwaras by caste in India.
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  77. It takes 3 weeks to get an appointment to a Family Doctor (even if they are your primary Family physician). Fruits and Veggies are 2x the price of what they were 2 weeks ago. Housing has become out of reach even for folk who earn more than 200,000/year. Yet our PM is Missing in Action sheltering in Ukraine, our Deputy PM is asking us to cut our nonexistent Disney+ subscriptions and they are gas-lighting serious national security issues as political polarization.
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  78. After all this Dramabaazi, I think voters in Amethi would prefer Smithi Irani.
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  79. I watched the entire debate. I will admit, this was a trash fire. I apologize to Raja Mohan and Sanjaya Baru on behalf of Jyoti and the Print.
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  80. Hagia Sophia was reconverted into a mosque recently. The same can be achieved with Shahi Igdah. Reconvert it into a temple. No need for a demolition. Just admit to basic facts.
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  81. About Diversity, the West sees diversity as a salad bowl and advocates for that model everywhere (It's kinda rich to insist that's the only true model of diversity). BBC describes Indian diversity as a thali, neatly segregated and that doesn't mingle together. I believe, diversity in India is neither a salad bowl, nor a thali - it's a sandwich. Layers, mixed together with each other's flavor and texture contributing to the entire package of a sandwich and yet each layer maintains it's distinctions. This is a good interview. P.S : Please feel free to comment with your favorite Sandwich recipes 😋
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  82. I watched the press conference of Modi and Biden. One thing that stood out was the West's lack of insight into our (Indian) perspective of rights, freedoms and liberty. The West's ignorance (and condescension) is an irritation that sours the strategic value of any relationship with them. I think we need to explain to the Western world, the fundamental difference in priorities in Indian and Western democracy. Our constituent assembly deliberately choose to give broad powers to our Govt to violate individual rights because their priority was to enact social change. Ambedkar believed that political freedoms is useless without social change and economic freedoms. Western democracy's primary concerns were violations of individual freedoms - Magna carta was created because Nobles thought the king was usurping too many powers and freedoms away from them. US constitution was written under similar circumstance. Once you understand that deliberate choice, you will start to understand all our conversations regarding domestic politics - they are always about Social change. This is why I hate Western hectoring about India's domestic issues, it's extremely ill informed because it comes at it from the wrong perspective. Thankfully, Tripurdaman Singh and Rahul Verma have started to press this exact point to Western Intellectuals and have broken through "faaaassschit" glass ceiling that our own Liberal intellectuals place.
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  83. “Ask not what the Gandhis did for you but what you can do for the Gandhis”. I think Vir took that to heart.
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  84. Dress codes are there for a strong reason. It is too prevent escalating competition between communities and it brings a sense of equality. No matter how rich you are, who you pray to or what language you speak we are all the same.
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  85. Procurement is a huge mess in our Armed Forces. Armed Forces places few orders and expects companies to maintain production lines. You can't do both.
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  86. Regarding covering our neighbors, the reason why we missed this has more to do with our Media institutions reluctance to setup proper press bureaus in our neighbors. Our foreign news coverage is either syndicated feeds or some kind of feel good news, (Eg: "Look at the Pakistani and their backwards slide")
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  87. We would need to see how Bangladesh performs once "under developed" favorable trade agreements expire in 2024. But then again, where's the reforms that were promised in 2020? Labor code hasn't been notified yet. Land acquisition is still a mess. We got two trade deals and plenty of opportunities, why is our bureaucracy sluggish when it comes to seizing them?
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  88. Had the opposition shown some basic discipline or decorum, I would agreed with this opinion. But the opposition instead had doubled down on their behavior. In the Rajya Sabha, during question hour, the opposition were obstructing their own member's questions. A Congress, Shiv Sena and RSP MP were asking the Railway minister about the status of electrification in their constituency, the opposition couldn't have the basic discipline to allow their own MP ask questions to the minister. They were shouting, screaming, protesting by the chair, raising placards and blocking the Members. They can't even maintain basic discipline and that makes BJP ramming through Parliament way more palatable. If anything, they keep giving Modi Sarkar more ammo to behave they way do by behaving way worse than them.
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  89. "Our thinking has become very Delhi centric or Lutyens centric." It has always been Lutyens denominated. National media is an echo chamber. Even the political crisis in Maharashtra is seen through the eyes of Lutyens and all kinds of nonsense is justified as protecting democratic values because Lutyens echo chambers want to one up each other. I mean, where is the maturity? Where is discussions about collapsing governance/rule of law/abuses of State govts? All abuses of the Central Govt are way more pronounced at the State level, yet somehow because a State is against the Center - sab changa hai, ignore kar sakte hai.
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  90. Well, can someone bring up the ongoing deindustrialization in West Bengal? State regulations of West Bengal, makes Bengal a manufacturers heaven.
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  91. The proposed Electricity Bill is supposed to mandate states to buy renewable energy. The issue in India is that it run it's coal power plants really poorly (wastes about close to 50% of it's generated power away) - Most of them are run by State Govts (Private players don't waste as much). Solar is getting a lot of traction in rural India. Some farmers have used it as an alternative revenue stream (some engage in fishery below the panels). So ya, improvements are happening. Just hope it picks up pace.
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  92. Oldest rule in Indian Politics - Do not shit on your homeland when you are abroad. In other words, you are part of Team India when you are abroad, domestic politics are internal matter of India.
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  93. TMC only becomes unruly when they are called out for their corrupt ways.
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  94. Trudeau is completely responsible for this diplomatic crisis. I don't care if India did it or not, but Trudeau and his immaturity got us here.
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  95. Probably not. There's a lot of anger in the country, Pierre is bringing that to Parliament.
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  96. I was a kid when Balasaheb came up to me and asked me, in Hindi, "Do you speak Marathi?" We're not Marathi but I replied yes in Marathi. He said "Endeavor on, you are Indian and Marathi". It's sad to see his legacy and charisma get thrashed this hard by his own chosen successor.
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  97. The money taken away from UNRWA can be better utilized in UN anti Malaria program. Saves more lives and far less corrupt.
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  98. You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them to only bite others. We need to treat this extremism very seriously.
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  99. I thought Canada was a democracy and not a military dictatorship. Since when did MPs "need permission to speak freely" just to air their constituents' anxieties and grievances?
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  100. Sardar Sarovar is a big FU to pseudo-environmenralists. While it should be celebrated for the defeat of fake environmental concerns, we should also highlight the default of bond payments of Sarovar Nigam limited. The withdrawal of World Bank funding, auditing and monitoring was left to Govt of Gujarat and GoI - they just stopped paying their bond payments after the finished construction and both GoI and Gujarat pocketed the bond payments.
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  101. The Print should seriously consider downgrading Yogendra Yadav as a opinion columnist for "The Fine Print". This pseudo analysis is nothing more than political propaganda dressed as psephology and it reduces the value proposition of the premium offering. As an early subscriber and supporter of The Print, offering YoYa's as a premium offering takes away from the dehypenated journalism I was promised especially considering the high quality journalists and reporters who could put the premium offering to better use.
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  102. Those 16 words aside. Why is this guy so hellbent on scuttling efforts to generate employment in India? Why is he hellbent on making India into a Philippines - A country with a permanent underclass that emigrates to take up low paying jobs abroad? What kind of classicism does he internalize within him to say something like India does not need industrial capacity to manufacture things? Or that poor do no deserve a shot at gainful employment?
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  103. Harsh Vardhan wasn’t a great health minister. Mansukh Mandviya his replacement turned covid around. Harsh Vardhan was like Shivraj Patil of health.
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  104. REM is running at slower speed and frequency. Despite that it was still faster.
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  105. It is important to note that Foxconn doesn't have the expertise in chip manufacturing (They have extensive experience in packaging.). Vedanta's doesn't have expertise in chip making either but they have experience producing pure quality inputs for chip making. This investment pretty much a brand new venture for both companies. That deal has fallen however, doesn't mean, either companies plans have gone down the drain. Either way, Foxconn was looking into entering the chip market by manufacturing RISC-V chipsets. GoI is dangling good amount of money for RISC-V chip production which will help us leapfrog ahead quite a bit (work around existing licensing, testing and manufacturing). For folks who aren't keeping an eye on the chip space - there are 3 microchip architectures: x86, ARM and RISC-V which is new. x86 and ARM are proprietary, require specialized licenses for base circuitry ("other stuff" and "patterns" as Shekarji calls it) and instruction set from respective companies. RISC-V is a clean slate design and open sourced/licensed from the beginning. So any breakthrough made in the RISC-V space can be licensed and owned locally with very little dependencies on Western Chipset IP.
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  106. Congress is the definition of insanity. They do the same thing and expect different results.
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  107. Critics have it wrong. US UK etc have rules of law and a functional Judiciary that our neighbors don't have. US justice system will go after that bloke that engages in hate crime against Hindus, Sikhs, etc. In Pakistan, the political system subjects them to severe hardship and punishment. There's a necessity for CAA and it should be the first step. Critics and their false equivalences have led to Delhi riots. Maybe over time we might not need to apply CAA to the subjects of Bangladesh but the time is not now.
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  108. They have enough equipment to push through the Durand line. I'd be nervous, if I was Pakistan.
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  109. Nehru's blunders are long and it would have taken several episodes of National Interest to cover it. I understand why SG limited it to just 50 years.
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  110. I'm too deep into Ancient Indian History but this breach of the dam incident reminds me of Dasarajna war from Rigveda. During the Dasarajna war, Sudas of the Bharatas breached a dyke to drown his enemies on advice of Vashishta. It is probably the oldest recorded battle that used dam/dyke breaching to gain an edge over the enemy.
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  111. I thank EU for providing India with more business opportunities. Russian diamonds will be bought from the Diamind Bourse at Western India just like Russian Diesel 🥲
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  112. The irony of Environmentalists crying about falmingos on the Mumbai side of MTHL is that the area sits right at the mouth of HPCL refinery. That is one of the most polluted areas of Mumbai. None of these Environmentalists opposed the expansion of that refinery and extension of oil pipeline further into the wetlands. But if it's a project that benefits everyone, environmentalists have all the objections of the world.
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  113. Shekarji, I have some (hopefully) constructive criticism. Lately your editorials stances have been decontextualizing a lot of reporting and that robs the quality of reporting away from the Print. To highlight a case, the recent article regarding Jan Vishwas Bill's amendment disregards both the Govts and Judiciary's the push for Alternative dispute resolution as a way to reduce the case workload on the Courts (Yes, even CJI Chandrachud has been pushing for out of court settlements). Rather than ask Lawyers what their thought about Out of Court Settlements, the reporter simply quoted an activist who is skeptical of everything capitalism. What's worse is that the reporter was quoting his tweets. IMO, this is poor reporting and worse decontextualizes a policy that will genuinely improve performance of the Judiciary.
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  114. Ask a Bangladeshi, what is the priority for economic reforms and they'll say to eliminate Poverty. Ask a Sri Lankan, Nepali, Bhutanese, Burmese or Indian the same question, they will have similar answers. Ask an African what is their first priority and they will say it is to get rid of Poverty. But ask a Pakistani what is their priority and the response will be 'Kashmir" And that is the problem, the entire establishment is tunnel visioned about Kashmir. At LSE panel titled "Can Pakistan become South Asia's Powerhouse?" hosted about about 6 months ago, the Pakistani establishment was making a case that the economic reforms should take place because "A stronger Pakistan will help with Kashmir". When you are tunneled visioned about capturing Kashmir, then everything else becomes secondary. Only failed dictatorships who have ruined their country into oblivion treats economic well being as tool for territorial conquest. Frankly, I'd encourage it. If they want to doom themselves with debt acquired for territorial conquest, so be it. Better help them drown themselves in more debt. Great empires collapsed under the burden of debt - a backwater State like Pakistan will collapse sooner. P.S.: Bangladeshis, you have our respect. Y'all crawl from being a backwater traumatized with a genocide to a textile powerhouse. More riches to you, we hope to trade more with you and become richer together.
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  115. This is really concerning. If Pakistan is unable to pay it's diplomats money, that means their Govt. will soon not have enough to pay Scientists and engineers. So what's stopping their scientist from selling nuclear tech (centrifuge designs for eg) to terrorist groups for money to buy basic stuff like food, education etc.?
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  116. There's been a lot of diplomatic shuttles going on in Delhi in the past two weeks. Austria, China, EU foreign Secretary, UK Foreign Secretary, Japanese PM and now Russian FM. Most of them avoided to fumble except Liz Truss, the UK Foreign Secretary. Man she's a walking disaster. During a joint press conference (summit) with External Affairs Minister Jaishankar, she mentioned UK has "historical" responsibilities with Ukraine since 1994. The crowd in Delhi was not pleased at all. Talking about "historical" responsibilities with Ukraine in a former colony whose wealth was raided for 2 centuries was pretty tone deaf and left a bad taste. That did not win any Indian hearts. Edit: I wrote ties but the phrase Truss used was historical responsibilities. That's even more tone deaf.
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  117. After lecturing the Global South about "freedoms", "human rights" etc. the Europeans reach over to cuddle with Xi and forget all about all lectures it gave about "values" to the Global South. "Europe’s problems are the world’s problems but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems." indeed.
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  118. India's politics is more polarized than Canada's but Trudeau managed to unite them all against his disaster of a trip. Even opposition media who are extremely critical of Modi in India had extremely strong words for Trudeau's remarks and stood behind Modi. A rare sign of unity. Even if Modi was not in power, the Indian govt would have reacted the same way. No one in India is interested in supporting secession movement.
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  119. Man, Pakistani Army has reduced itself to a Private Military Corporation like Wagner group. That's mildly concerning.
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  120. Well, you can’t blame Modi govt for the pandemic. You have to give it to you to them they tried to bring subsidies down to 1% of GDP. The question we should asking which revdis are investments and which ones are freebies?
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  121. BJP is trolling with the invites. I'm sure Modi will reference this in his campaigns.
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  122.  @Vizorfam  I'd rather vote NOTA than vote AAP. We can't afford another socialist party that gives away freebies.
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  123. There's a meme where a little girl is smiling while the house is burning behind her. That meme appropriately describes the Congress right now.
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  124. Wow, what a terrible attitude displayed by an IAS officer. IAS is not the Govt, they are the administration - they don't get to dictate what is welfare, that's the Govt's job. It is the Sarkar's decision if it wants to give away free condoms or not. This is why Govt should have the ability to fire IAS Officers. Edit: She threatened Press Council to take down this video. This lady is quite the scumbag.
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  125. AAP will set us back by 3 decades. Instead of enabling locals to start their own businesses, provide them job training, improving ease of doing business, providing loans and technical assistance to improve productivity these socialists wants to backdoor License Raj with job quotas.
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  126. BJP is smart. I don't think they should give into the Missionaries demands and loosen anti conversion laws. Let Malayali Christians decide if evangelism is more important than culture and identity.
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  127. Shekarji, you should consider covering Chinese interference in Canadian elections (and Rahul Gandhi's effusive praises for China at his Cambridge talk - Sam Pitroda uploaded it on his youtube channel).
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  128. This guy spews hate against non Muslims. I’d like to know what have the poor Zoroastrians done to become a target of his hate? Their entire way of life was destroyed.
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  129. AAP learnt from it's mistake from the previous assembly elections. They stayed away from controversy and ran a clean campaign. Everyone else on the other hand, were busy fighting their own party members and fighting against other political dynasties. AAP's power similar to BJP comes from it's cohesion and lack of political dynasty. Also Mongols religion was Tengrism i.e they were animalists. They just looked for fealty to the mongols and left the internal affairs to the people. They were pretty meritocratic considering it was the 11th century.
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  130. Wait, it’s the first time A Govt in power recognized the indentured Indians who were shipped away by the British. Every other govt treated them as pariah and ignored them. GoI should apologize for ignoring them and excluding them from being Indian. Some humility goes a long way.
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  131. I think people should admit lockdown was a desperate measure at a desperate time. Had that not happened we would have been dealing with the Delta variant much much earlier rather than now, after vaccines are out. Here's the thing though, we also ought to acknowledge the human tragedy of the migrant crisis. But you can't simply wallow in that sorrow forever. We need to move ahead and grow faster.
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  132. Gobi Manchurian is actually a symbol of successful integration of Chinese culture into mainstream Indian culture. For folks who aren't aware, we have a very vibrant Chinese community in India (Pre-independence and more recent ones too). They invented Indo Chinese cuisine and all our fave Chinese dishes. This integration makes the CCP afraid to the core. It is a direct contradiction of their world view. That's probably why they hate us so much and keeps denying that we are a nation and a "union of states/coalition of tribes". In addition their wumaos always tries to stress that we were never united.
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  133. UP is not Bengal where there's a cultural space to accommodate a regional leader. Given it's proximity to Delhi and the ridiculous amount of seats in UP, it's politics is closely tied to Delhi. If there's a weak leader in the Centre, then local leaders are able fill the vacuum left by the Centre. If leader at the Centre is strong then National leader is usually able to put their weight in UP politics. It has happened with Indira, it is happening with Modi.
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  134. IIRC, this is the first time both the Gujar Bhakarwal and Valmiki community have been recognized as voters in J&K.
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  135. Actually, one of the most invisible and under rated reforms of Modi govt is removing the Sarkari Babu out of the picture. Faceless assessment, faceless delivery of welfare etc are a godsend. Prior to all this digitization, one had to stand in front of a Sarkari babu and get humiliated, beg for them to hear you. Modi govt could be more popular by simply removing more Babus out of the process.
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  136. Politics is a game of resolve. Those who have the most amount of resolve will always come up on top.
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  137. Indian immigrants should organize. Learn from the Jews. They have a strong network of lawyers, professionals and a lobby. Nobody dares to ignore them and takes them seriously. It's time we protect ourselves.
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  138. Raga should sack Jairam Ramesh. He stalled Border Roads construction for an entire decade while the Chinese were building heavy infrastructure and preparing for land grabs. But he won't do it. He's the most useless politician ever. So why listen to Raga or consider voting for the Congress?
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  139. "In summary, India shares some common interests with the other three Quad countries but is less able to withstand the costs that could be directed its way if it became a more active partner. This is due to internal weakness, proximate adversaries, the lack of an external alliance partner and a strategic culture which precludes the formation of formal alliances." Internal weakness. Unless our economy grows, our strategics aims will always remain unfulfilled. Also Quad should help build capacity of it's members. The one thing that kept NATO strong was strong state capacity of it's member. The Marshall plan helped build that State capacity that acted as a force multiplier of NATO in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately, we don't have a luxury of decades to build capacity.
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  140. This would be a great time to pressure Pakistan to denuclearize and rumour has it IMF is asking for that. Maintaining nukes is not cheap, it costs somewhere between $1 to 2.5 Billion dollars to maintain nukes.
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  141. RBI should make banks (both public and private) publish their gross outlays and NPAs in their quarterly results. I don't think any Private Bank publishes it. We shouldn't have to wait on an MP's question in Parliamentary session for such information.
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  142. We need to declassify our documents, far too many of them lies locked and rotting in some archives. Today the only way to learn about the past is through archives of the US or UK govt. That is really shameful to be honest.
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  143. DMK and Social Justice - what a joke. If it doesn't involve purging Tamil brahmins, it's not DMK's version of social justice But then again, Southern parties are experts when it comes to caste politics. They are playing to their strengths. One reason why Pan Indian parties have it real hard to penetrate the South is because of it's very complex caste politics. Commies will deny but even Kerala has a very intense caste politics.
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  144. I like this series. We should celebrate more talented people and learn from them. Talent comes in every form, trade and skill.
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  145. Tripura teaches us why we need to reclaim Bengal, Kerala and Kashmir more aggressively. Btw if GoI was an Islamist govt then kiss goodbye to tribal rights. Only Hindutva ensures cultural rights are protected.
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  146. Option 4: The Opposition gets called out by Owaisi a lot, he is a thorn in their politics. He was against triple talaq. He bold faced told Imran Khan "to learn inclusive politics of India, when Pakistan can't even have a non-Muslim President". He is also a constitutionalist and a nationalist. There are plenty of things to disagree with him on but he is better than the Opposition in a lot of important issues.
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  147. Question for PK: What would it take to build a non dynastic alternative to BJP? Also do you agree with the violent electoral tactics employed to whip votes in Bengal by former CPM cadres of the TMC?
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  148. DK Singhji, please write a book. This piece is beautiful.
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  149. Ludhiana used to be a automobile hub. Back in the 90s everyone thought it would become the Chakan or Chennai of the North. All of them moved to Haryana instead. Punjab university used to be the place to do really good R&D but today is hard to get a degree issued by Punjab university recognized by other universities. Punjab has come a long way to the bottom from there.
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  150. This is a false equivalence. In the Dutch and European case the predecessor govts or Royal family had involvement in slave trade. In our case, the Mughals were conquered over, the Marathas are no more, we literally got our first self rule in 1947. Govt of India doesn't need to apologize, neither does soceity.
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  151. Central Govt should allow asset forfeiture of State govt assets (PSUs) that engage in off budget borrowing. They are mortgageing State assets as a collateral to fund freebies and then depresses the values of these assets. Why should the State still keep the asset? It has clearly shown it can't handle the asset responsibly. It should be taken away from the State.
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  152. After watching this, I have a even lower opinion of Rahul Gandhi. In school, while learning history, it was quite evident to us that everyone’s contribution was acknowledged and appreciated - irrespective of them asking for clemency. Rahul Gandhi constantly attacks that ethos. As a Maharashtrian, I will tell you attacking Savarkar is like attacking Bose in Bengal. No one is going to appreciate that.
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  153. Sometimes a divorce is better than a forced marriage. ADMK and BJP alliance at this juncture proves that notion. Let's see how much vote share the BJP is able to capture on its own. It would be important to see which seats it wins. If BJP wins Madurai (where they seem to have a strong presence outside Kovai) then it means BJP has a solid footing in TN. I do look forward to BJP coming to power in TN. Down with Dengue Malaria Kosu party.
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  154. This is how you de-legitimize an independent body. Accuse them of bias , dispute their findings and then call it a conspiracy. Delimitation commission purely uses population as it's criteria when it creates or merges electoral districts and the entire process has been verified and certified by OECD election monitors several times as fair and independent.
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  155. There was one thing that Shekarji missed in the speech was a specific focus on women. There was some new announcements of women specific schemes and of course a summary of the Govt towards emancipating women.
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  156. Vir was justifying Udaynidhi the other day, now he is condemning. Freedoms for me not thee is the motto Vir lives by.
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  157. Our intellectuals are not Gyannees or Jyanees, they are Macaulay-putra
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  158. The entire speech might be worth listening to. RSS chief drawing the line for Hindutva has interesting implications for politics.
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  159. And Sanctions. People forget that sanctions set this program behind by a decade.
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  160. Kapil is right. We need to stay vigilant. Can't have a repeat of Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 and Communal Violence Bill and Waqf Act and Places of Worship Act and various bans enacted at the behest of Minorities (Remember Da Vinci code was banned). We need to protect Secularism from the Secularists.
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  161. Interesting. To kick the Gandhis off the Congress, you sue the Congress. I wonder if a PIL covers political parties. That will definitely set new and bold precedent.
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  162. We haven't expanded our diplomatic corp to expand our influence into our neighbors. Also we haven't capitalized on trade deals with our neighbors. Our strategic thinking has evolved into grand strategy but if it does not account for gaining our neighbor's goodwill and alliance. Our partners in the West are genuinely concerned about our ability to sustain ourselves as a great power. We have a lot of work to do.
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  163. One big reason why Modi's re-election is good for India: Inheritance Tax. Modi is against it.
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  164. Guardian has stopped featuring Kapil, he has stopped getting invites to give talks. So here comes the condescending lecturing in a fine English accent on why Hindu revival anything is "evil". Aaaah yes, we should embrace this neo-colonialism from folks like Kapil wholeheartedly. Most intellectuals like Kapil who have completely divorced themselves from their Indianess are losing clout and attention.
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  165. We should wach out for whoever is heading this policy in the US State dept. The folks heading the Bangladesh desk only listens to BNP lobbyists.
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  166. Translation: I'm sad I am not VP. I will air my disappointment by expressing my disdain at the Indian voter.
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  167. Delhi MCD is going to be interesting. About 50% vote percentage and apparently word on the street is BJP supporters did not vote at all.
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  168. Imam wore an angavastram when he accomplished Mohan Bhagvat to his car. In Marathi and Tamil culture, an angavastram is gifted to someone who you respect and wish for their well being. Also as a sign of respect, the Imam did not take until after the car door was closed. To me, that shows the RSS and the Imam treated this meeting as serious and sincere.
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  169. The rice ban is not terrible as it seems. India banned export of wheat last year and ended up exporting them through Govt to Govt deals (Mostly African countries). Bad for markets, great for Govts and their welfare/aid programs. Unlike western countries, India does not have a commodities future markets, so volatility wrecks a lot of havoc in the market and seasonal inflation spikes more dramatic than western countries. This was something Modi’s farm laws would have fixed.
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  170. Maharashtra has a history of vertical splits in Dynastic parties. Raj Thackeray split from the SS to form MNS, Bhugbal (unsuccessfully) split from the Sena. etc. This is just the latest series of vertical splits. These splits have become a natural feature of dynastic parties in Maharashtra. BTW, BJP Maharashtra absorbing NCP and SS will not dilute it's vote share and on other hand, Ajit's NCP compliment's BJP's lack of presence in Maratawada. Also Pawar and Sule smiling only means they saw Ajit Pawar as a thorn rather than an asset. Sule/rather Pawar especially will likely use this opportunity to clean house, just like what Balasaheb did when Raj split from the SS.
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  171. If I remember correctly, Imran Khan mentioned that he would push for a repeat of 1971 style independence if he was not elected as PM. Now I wonder if he will follow through with it.
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  172. Liberal partisan need to understand that Trudeau's actions in India managed to unite India's deeply divided and polarized polity behind Modi. In a rare sign of unity, India's opposition media, rather than critisize Modi supported his pushback against Trudeau. That's the exact opposite of what Trudeau wants to achieve or Liberal partisans hope as a result. Trudeau's incompetence momentarily made him, Modi's best campaigner for the week.
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  173. I wish our political and judicial establishment understands the weight of what Jaishanker is preaching here. Our domestic politics is pretty toxic and prioritizes building feudal dynasties and satrap over building a resilient nation that can take responsibility for Global affairs. India's potential is held back really terrible unambitious politicians.
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  174. Some people need to update their perception of reality. Prasadji is definitely one of them. Pretty sure Dalits don't think they aren't Hindus.
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  175. Pakistan's domestic issues are concerning. TLP is essentially running amok in Punjab, TTP is going to resume their guerilla warfare. Pakistani Govt power is waning, the Govt is running out of money and is unable to pay salaries. This destabilization woes spells bad news for nukes. Our foreign policy must stress on this and immediately push for denuclearization of Pakistan. What's worse than Pakistani Govt with nukes is a bunch of rabid islamists with nukes.
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  176. It would bloody hilarious if farmer’s protested in Canada while Trudeau is in office. Mr. Motormouth opened his mouth during India’s farmer protest and something like that here would be karma is coming back at him.
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  177. When Rahul Gandhi is questioned about his incompetence, he replies back with "Media is not doing it's job, go look at (insert trendy news of the hour)". And Congress devotees wonders why Voters don't vote for Raga and screams that voters are "Modi-Bhakts". Voters don't like to vote on a sinking ship.
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  178. What does the NDP want from the Liberals? Jagmeet's pensions.
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  179. The threat to children is SOGI. Teaching kids not to tell their parents or talk to them about their identity (it doesn't have to be just about identity) is a line no parents wants to be crossed. It is even more so worrying when Govt ignores this and labels those expressing concern as "bigots".
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  180. This is how you write a Cop out. 1. Insist you interpreted it the wrong way 2. State "real" interpretation 3. Use Echo chamber buddy "scholar" as a source 4. Inject some confused circular logic 5. Conclude by saying "Everything is for political reason." There is some actual good stuff after that.
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  181. Siddis are African Indian community that lives around the Gujarat and Maharashtra coasts. They are a pretty cool community
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  182. This analysis would have been more forceful if Shekarji spoke more about the lack of follow through. NAM died because of Nehrus lack of focus and follow through. Just like reforms, The kid and grandkid never bothered to follow through. A foreign policy can only be successful if there’s consistency and follow through especially between Govts.
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  183. Parliament has been quieter since the suspension. Also it is noticeably more civil.
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  184. I think it would be useful to look at Early American history to understand why India wants to stay independent. Right after the US became independent, it had a very hostile relationship with the UK up until after 1900s. By that time America became a pretty vibrant and rich country. Also America was never subservient to British interests, so it is surprising that many Westerns think tank that India should be similarly subservient. I wish they looked at their own history beyond WW2.
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  185. This phenomenon is neither a Punjab thing nor is it a recent phenomenon, Political parties have always co-opted various cults and god-men. Baba Ram Rahim is not that different from Asaram Babuji.
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  186. Moving away from Nobel Peace Prize. BJP is tabling a new Decriminalization (of compliance) Bill for the Winter Session. If they pass that bill (and not use it as a bait and switch like they did with DESH Bill and Telcom Data Privacy Bill), it will be a massive improvement and likely have a consequential impact on corruption. Perhaps it is time to have a Cut the Clutter on how compliance is criminalized and how it enables corruption.
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  187. Modi Govt should give us a tax cut after the election. It will kick off investment.
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  188. Banhammer Guibeault is one of several competing top reasons why I dislike the Liberal govt. There was no thought put into this policy announcement. The guy could said, "All large road projects should have bus lanes". It would have been particularly more effectively than banning "large" road projects. Edit: There are way better policy tools than banning roads - ever heard of toll or congestion pricing or even improved transit operations?
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  189. This is why CAA should be implemented. They would have been eligible to ask the PM schemes like housing, hospital access etc.
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  190. Actually, our R&D suffers from access to material and tech. Our labs have to wait years to months for approvals from Customs to import equipment, you can't write off R&D in your tax (most countries have a credit/rebate), up until recently we disallowed Corporates from co-operating with Universities etc. BTW Excellent new opinion column. Also we need more folks who write about specific reforms - for eg: I would love to see an article regarding how to reform and improve State Govt regulations.
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  191. I believe Bhutan will likely move closer to India as the Chinese engage in land grabs along their border. The border talks would have likely been a way for Bhutan to explore it's options against incursions. CCP is very much an existential threat for Bhutan. BTW Doklam is a nightmare for anyone defending, it sits on a valley and both India and Bhutan control the heights. It is the exact opposite situation along far eastern Arunachal Pradesh like Wallong.
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  192. Calling Sibal principled is quite a stretch. But he is a good lawyer, otherwise he was very unremarkable at most portfolios he held. Anyone remember the cheap tablets that were supposed to be distributed at public schools?
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  193. We really need to tone the volume down. This kind of sectarian violence is good for nobody. What we really need is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We have too many scars and a lot of them fresh. We need to have an honest calm discussion on it.
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  194. I wish Sanjay Raut gets kicked out.
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  195. Virji discounts personal ambitions and makes the mistake of attributing the fall of Uddhav Thackeray to failure of the politics of moderation. It's like a blind man who holds an elephant's tail and calls it a snake.
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  196. I used to be a Liberal, I believed them, volunteered for them, donated and campaigned for them. After 8 years of Trudeau, I'm done with Liberals. No more LPC until they ensure Trudeau's permanent retirement. Pierre has my support.
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  197. Logistics. Our logistics holds us back a lot.
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  198. Trudeau invoked Emergency Act over a bunch of protesters making very loud noises (that was the initial complaint). No wonder the judges found it unreasonable. Also, the invocation of the Act made Canada look like fools on the international stage. Our most esteemed PM lectured the world's largest democracy about the right to protest but he couldn't tolerate a noisy one for more than a month.
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  199. TBH, calling Modi and his govt a Nazi reflects worse on Satyapal Malik than it does on Modi and BJP. Let's entertain him for a bit. If Modi is Hitler, then as J&K Governor, Malik was equivalent to the Head of The General Government of Poland - the Government that enthusiastically created concentration camps. Ya something about pointing one finger at someone and four fingers back at you. 🙄
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  200. Congress khudh ki party ko tukde karke BJP ko free karyakarta de rahe hai. Let me present to you two examples: Punjab - They installed Sidhu, kicked Amarindar Singh out and is trying to scuttle Channi's chances. They gave away the advantage they had going into the campaign to the opposition - PLC+BJP, SAD and AAP. MP - They snubbed Jyotiraditya Scindia and installed Kamal Nath as CM. That sowed the division between them that led to Scindia defection from MP Congress and entry into the Union Cabinet. Unlike the British, the Gandhi family's Congress seems to divide their own party and let people walk out to let them rule through BJP instead. India doesn't need a Congress mukth Bharat but it needs a Gandhi parivar mukth Congress.
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  201. I was afraid today's episode would be about criminal defamation and Rahul Gandhi's disqualification. I am glad that wasn't the case. Shekharji's silence on RaGa's disqualification is quite telling. I think he is tired of repeating the same thing again and again about the Congress imploding because of it's sycophancy. I encourage everyone to look back at his 2019 elections speech at CPR and compare that to the Congress today and it is evident how little the Congress has improved. Shekarji, thanks for not covering the Congress' rotting death, today.
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  202. Man, I must admit watching this guy's loud mouth get shut up in such a manner, gives me joy. The gloating has come back to bite him.
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  203. When Ireland was going through a debt crisis, he was in favor of an Irish default because big banks could use some hurt. He was very much against regulations that would have helped Irish job creation. He strongly was against policies that helped Ireland become EU’s tech hub that it is today because it would have made Ireland dependent on USA. 12 years later he is going after India with his ideology. Lesson: Don’t trust left liberal economists. They only give you advice as per ideology - that’s the worst kind of advice you can receive.
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  204. "Pawar politics runs sugar in Maharashtra." I appreciate a good pun. Shekharji must be relieved that MVA no longer runs Maharashtra otherwise he would have been staring at an arrest for perceived insult of Pawar politics.
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  205. "We achieved Independence from British Colonialism, now we are entering the age of Cantonment colonialism." - Some Pakistani intellectual. Imran's arrest cements that notion. You might not agree with his motivations, policies or politics but he did confront Cantonment colonialism.
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  206. It is always a pleasure to see Rahul and Yashwant in a panel. They always have deep insights in our politics. They always bring nuance which is sorely missing in mainstream media.
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  207. Joanne Chui works in concert with Khalistanis. Of course she would say something like that. She was/is a pen writer for Khalistani mouthpiece - Baaz.
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  208. Ahhh this is an armed version of Belgaum dispute between Maha and Karnataka. The 80s are back. 🙄
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  209. We just blew our chance at being peace brokers in the Middle East. Our PM jumped the gun (just like India) and accused Israel for a bombing they didn't do.
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  210. Europeans are getting a solid deal by importing Russian crude refined at Indian refineries. Asking India about Russian oil is just European hypocrisy and virtue signalling. Btw Deputy US Energy Secretary was fine with India selling refined Russian crude to the rest of the world and keep some of the margins. Americans are happy as long as Russians give deep discounts on purchases.
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  211. Well, we don't have parties, we have monarchies disguised as parties. Unfortunately, there are only two parties that seem to break that trend, BJP and AAP. Until party leadership positions are open to folks outside a particular dynasty, we will never have a conversation about inner party democracy. Let's start with Party Presidents first then we can talk about vote of no confidence within parties.
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  212. India actually needs judicial reforms. Everything else will fall in place with a efficient judiciary. If India improves contract enforcement then everything else becomes way less painful. All this investing pain in India comes from it’s dismal judiciary.
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  213. Shekarji, a while ago I promised I would share my family thayir sadam recipe. Since we are talking about inheritance, there’s no better time than now. - 1 cup ponni rice - boiled - Couple of leaves of kadipatta - 2 tbsp oil - 2 teaspoon black mustard seeds - dried red chilli - Dahi - Milk couple of tablespoons Mix cooked ponni rice with dahi, add some yogurt and splash of milk. With the remaining ingredients, do a tadka and pour over the dahi rice. Salt to taste. Enjoy This recipe is invaluable, a recipe I inherited from my grandma. I hope Congress doesn’t come to power and come after me asking for inheritance tax.
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  214. Walking out was super stupid. The opposition gave away their right of response. And as they walk out, Modi mentions that they were offered a session specific for Manipur. The timing couldn’t have been any better. Modi couldn’t have asked for anything better. We really need a better opposition. The days of parivar amateur hour has long passed.
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  215. Peacefuls engaging in peace.
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  216. Re: Women. Women drop out of the workforce once household income reaches a certain threshold. There's a ILO paper that talks about the region. It is a cultural preference but it will improve dramatically over time.
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  217. This debate is really something. At 12:50, Jyoti: “Should India reduce it’s dependence on Russia? Should India become closer to the U.S.?” Raja Mohan: (visibly confused) “It’s already doing that.” Turning facts into questions and presenting them to your panelists doesn’t make a good debate. It also demeans Raja Mohan and Baru’s expertise.
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  218. Constant firing for non performance followed by constant recruitment. Fixed that for you.
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  219. Peaceful community has forgotten that this is Mumbai and not Pakistan. Jyada shaanagiri karega toh laat milega - 1992 riots ki taraha.
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  220. This is interesting. In 2009-2010, 10% of Indian expenditures went towards cereals (wheat, rice). In 2022-2023, that expenditure has come down to 5%. Almost every category in food items has had a “secular” decline except dry fruits! This is most likely because of Modi govts fight against inflation.
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  221. Let's put things in perspective. Govt has spent $40 billion dollars to recapitalize Public Sector Banks. That's $40 billion that you can't use to fund other priority issues. For $40 billion, - You can double the output of Nal Se Jal (It costs $60 Billion/yr) - Double the Capital expenditure of the Armed forces. Programs like MRFA/AMCA/Aircraft carrier/Light tanks etc. would get better funding - Salaries of Teachers in almost every state can be doubled with leftover money used for pensions - 15 more Metro lines in our Cities - Roughly 60 new expressways. Any one of those programs could have given better returns over recapitalization of PSBs.
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  222. This is one of those rare reversals that’s actually quite beneficial for the country as a whole. Good judgement and the arguments were pretty well made. Politically, don’t be surprised by increased ED and IT raids.
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  223.  @edlubitz2968  I'm preparing myself to suffer through this. You best do the same. I seriously don't think we are going to come out of this in good shape.
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  224. You might agree/disagree with what's being discussed here. But here's the thing, Which party apart from the BJP (It's a sham but they still do elect their Party President) has a functioning inner party democracy? Is there a political party in India that isn't a party run by a dynasty? Our dynastic parties worsens our democracy and reduce our elections to one where are choosing between monarchical parties. I think the answer lies in our political parties. They are monarchies masquerading in a democracy. Note: The jury is still out for AAP. Kejriwal's son hasn't come of age yet. BJP is a Corporate masquerading in a democracy
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  225. DK criticism of BJP national convention is unusually weak. It’s more like “they didn’t meet their goals” in time. But here’s the thing, they are still committed to their goals. It’s not like Congress, where a program is announced in their manifesto, it is launched with gusto and quietly never spoken about once it fails.
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  226. You know what, the best way to honor the World war soldiers is by building a museum of colonialism. There's no point of making pompous speeches.
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  227. Jagmeet was busy playing landlord and gaslighting over foreign issues to focus on housing. Great leadership Jagmeet.
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  228. Court does not want to declare India's Sharia laws unconstitutional. They simply punted that responsibility to India's Parliament.
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  229. Basically Prashant Kishore is calling out Rahul Gandhi's sense of entitlement. PM seat is to be earned and not inherited.
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  230. Going on a tangent for a bit. Perhaps Modi sees himself in Biren, after all Modi went through a decade of the same calls for sacking and resignations after Godhra train burning (Maut ka Saudaghar etc.). After all, it was a high court decision that triggered this entire set of violence. Who knows? Biren might become NorthEast's own Modi. Edit: Neither Modi nor Biren were directly involved in their respective State's violence unlike Rajiv Gandhi ("Jungle shakes when big tree falls"). So if you want to bring up claims of cleansing, at least be fair and factual.
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  231. Good start but this work should have done by the Parliamentary committee not in the Supreme Court. It's sad that the Supreme Court has become a negotiator between political parties rather than an institution that ensure it's own diktat of "Jail is the exception" is followed by lower courts.
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  232. It is very much possible to defeat Modi. But the current crop of opposition leaders are garbage. Folks are not choosing Modi among a cast of great candidates or political parties rather they are choosing Modi because there are no good candidates. Opinion poll spells it out pretty well.
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  233. Strategic timeout is a nice way to mask the lack of political acumen shown by Rahul Gandhi. Eg: Veer Savarkar is considered a son of Maharastra. There are streets, schools, parks and chowks with his Statue named after him. Yet Rahul Gandhi choose to throw jibes at him, putting his Ally Uddhav Sena in an uncomfortable position. Throwing jibes at Savarkar in Maharashtra is like throwing jibes at Bhagat Singh in Punjab. He still hold public attention centre of the Congress party. This alone might bring things down further.
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  234. DK Singhji, I know you are dying to say something about Rahul in UK trip. :D
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  235. If she really cares, she would retire and ask her family to retire from politics. Otherwise Gandhis are very much part of the problem.
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  236. I'm disappointed at the bills that have been left out from this session. DESH, Electricity Amendment Bill, Decriminalization Bill are missing from the House agenda. The limited discussion on UCC and Collegium was insightful.
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  237. Remember Librandus in India trolled Mansukh Mandaviya for his "improper" English. Pakistani Librandus are no different. First they insist that we should perfect English and then they treat us like jokers. We should condemn this behaviour and ask our public officials to speak in the language they are most comfortable with.
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  238.  @jant3566 That's the depth of poverty and social degradation the British left us with. It took 50 years just to claw back out of basic poverty and sort out most of our differences.
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  239. Shekarji should consider doing a cut the clutter on Kerala. CPI + Jamaat-e-Islami + Catholic Church + RSS - you couldn't ask for a better State Poltiics for Cut the Clutter.
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  240. We grew up hating wealth. Our textbooks and movie culture was heavily influenced by Marxism and Socialism. Bollywood movies would always show the Businessman as a cheat, lying, evil and diabolical anti national. Textbooks would heap enormous praise regarding the accomplishment of Govt owned enterprises. Nehru, India's first PM publicly said, "Profit is a bad word". Govt always used Private sector failures to mask it's own enormous failures. So ya, it's been 60 years of Brainwashing. The current generation is the first one to have not lived under Govt's Democratic Socialism policies. If you are wondering, why didn't anyone come to the defence of free enterprise? Well they did. They were systemically socially excluded. Govt excluded them from printing papers, Business friendly policy makers were denied Govt Advisory positions, Businesses were denied access to policymakers, (Indian National Congress) unleashed their goons at Businessmen, criminalized their businesses overnight and harassed them with non compliance, despite all that if they complained the govt nationalized it or shut it down by unleashing labor unions at them.
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  241. For more than a decade and a half, ASEAN would request the Indian Navy to conduct anti piracy and maritime patrols along the Mallaca straits. India for the first time responded with force under Modi govt. (Congress govt refused citing China). Indonesia approved a listening post at north of Sumatra pretty much immediately. For Pakistan, we need a strategy to advocate for and gather support for denuclearization of Pakistan. That’s the strategic depth we need. We also need to accelerate IPEF negotiations and get that rolling.
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  242. As long as they don't rehyphenate Indo Pak relations it's fine. The Americans are subsidizing our National security.
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  243. I think there is a difference between BJP and Congress high command. You can expect the BJP to reform itself should the situation become evident to them that High Command culture is not working for them. Congress on the other hand, even if you write down and explain to them like they are a 5th std student, why reform is required in their party, they will still stick with the Gandhis and largely leave it's High command intact.
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  244. "Woke" is not the word I expected to hear from the RSS chief. 😂
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  245.  @studytime2570  and how did that work out for them? Well, they got wiped out in Bengal. And recently in Tripura, Congress was unable to transfer it's vote to CPI - which means Congress was pretty much finished.
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  246. Loyalty to the Congress is like loyalty to King George during the British Raj. We paid for their castles, palaces and vacations to India. For Rahul Gandhi, it's paying for his vacations abroad - his family has already looted Govt of India for their palaces.
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  247. What we are seeing in NITI Aayog is simply a headstart advantage that West Bengal always enjoyed. It is an advantage that West Bengal is squandering away. Gujarat grew up from the bottom. 80s and 90s Gujarat was a drought prone backwater like UP or Rajasthan today. Beset with political instability, lack of state institutions, obstructionism spearheaded by India's leftists and Andolanjeevis stunted it's growth. Things changed since the late 90s, political stability that BJP majorities brought, focused that State's resources to economic development. Much of the State is still Work in Progress and that's what we are seeing. And with more tax revenues and resources, I am confident that Gujarat will focus on those lagging indicators. Contrast that with West Bengal, it was a rich state endowed with resources and infrastructure and blessed with educated urbanites and industrialists, created in 1947 - far earlier than some of our rich Southern states. But West Bengal's growth has stalled, political stability it enjoyed turned into autocratic violence. Any advantage West Bengal had was let to rot and atrophy. West Bengal is not beating Gujarat in MPDM indicators because it did something new or brilliant, but it is beating Gujarat because of institutions that were established prior generations ago are still somewhat functional. Odissa is ahead of West Bengal, soon UP will surpass it as well. IMO, Odissa and Gujarat would be a better comparison but comparing Gujarat with WB is an editorial decision. Side note: Besides, no State has made headway in it's poverty intensity indicators but I suspect it is still early days. MPDM is still a fairly new index. However, with such marginal decline across states, I doubt State Govts have anything to do with reduction in Poverty Intensity. Any reduction probably came from Centrally Sponsored Programs. (And Yes, I spent 3 days reading through every detail in NITI Aayog report.)
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  248. Vote her out, get support to vote her out.
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  249. This presentation is an excellent evidence for why Railway Board should be scrapped and Railways should be throughly corporatized like OFB.
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  250. The road between approval and procurement is long. Army bureaucrat tend to put a wrench in its own procurement by insisting on long trials with impossible demands. Let's hope that doesn't become the case with this round of new approvals.
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  251. The question we should be asking is can Trudeau keep himself in control? His clever by half patronizing demeanor annoys every leader especially Trump.
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  252. Of course there’s Ashok Swain. That guy just can’t leave us alone.
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  253. Indian history textbook is very Mughal centric. Imagine living in Maharashtra, learning about Mughals but nothing about Maratha confederacy - (who participated in Napoleonic wars, fought with the French against the Brits). 100 years and 4 wars of history simply wiped.
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  254. No Biofuels will not threaten food security. Waste of produce definitely threatens food security. Today in India, about 40-50% of all produce is wasted because of bad storage and the inability to sell food in the Market or Mandis (markets are too far or Mandi price is too low). We also over produce a lot of sugarcane and rice (especially in Punjab). Loss of food produce also leads to high volatility in prices, means people cut on nutritive veggies. So unless we tackle produce losses and food processing and storage, we will see issues with food security, nutrition and hunger.
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  255. Brings a smile. 😌
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  256. I believe we might be staring at an Outsourcing boom followed by an immigration boom. This level of job vacancy will eventually get outsourced.
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  257. Thank you Sirs. Aspirants must ask themselves how they want to be viewed by the public. Do they want to be respected or do they want to be viewed as corrupt individuals who are only after pensions and job guarantees. Unfortunately, none of these rioting aspirants have shown any discipline or morals that command the respect of an Army, Navy or an Air Force veteran.
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  258.  @kishinchhabria  CBSE had one para at best. One year of Shivaji from State.
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  259. BJP wants to buy time. They have several second/third generation leaders but they need time to build a model like Gujarat model. Delhi journalists have a habit to dismiss anyone not from NCR area. Yogi is not going to get votes outside UP but a Biswa Sarma or Fadnavis will. Fadnavis was campaigning at Gujarat - he’s definitely building his image and base. AAP really needs to watch out for Punjab. That will break them.
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  260. Why isn't the MHA deescalate the situation? Where's the PIL against these blockades?
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  261. Fulfilling MSP will kill India's remaining industry completely. Just look at Punjab, until the late 2000s Punjab used to have really competitive industries. Punjab used to be the Shenzhen of Sporting equipment. They are all gone since the burden of MSP and endless demands for free electricity and loan waivers was placed on Punjab's industry. A similar fate awaits rest of India if we let farmers get their way.
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  262. Shekarji, have you ever covered the D-Gang encounter killings of the 90s in Mumbai? Maybe you should go back in time and talk about how Mumbai was cleaned up.
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  263. LPC at this point is just giving Pierre talking points to use in his campaign. There's definitely a noticeable absence of leadership.
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  264. We don’t even get acknowledgement of a massive tragedy. Instead we get lectured on how wrong we are. Lapid was really insensitive. We could have left it at that. A Holocaust survivor understood the hurt better than some journalists and liberals in our country.
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  265. Kashmiri and valley residents need to understand that they are living in the UT/soon to be State of India. If Tamils, Gujaratis, Kannadas, Tulus and even Kashmiris get to vote in Maharashtra assembly elections once their residency is established, then why should Kashmir get special treatment? It's been 75 years, Kashmir must be treated like the rest of us. The valley must accept it.
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  266. Punjab is too dependent on centre. The only reason Punjab is not begging IMF for bailouts is because of Centre. Punjab needs to restructure its fiscal policy bite the pill and stop the farmers freebies. Bihar needs to get rid of Nitish and abolish the abolition, start collecting revenues on alcohol sales. UP is on the right track, it may soon (4-7 years) become a net contributor to economy.
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  267. It's clever by half to restrict oneself to textual sources while ignoring archaeological ones. If you only relied on texts, this video is 100% right. But then again you're looking at Hindu dharm with a very narrow lens.
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  268. LPC has lost sight of every issue that is important for the people. On Housing JT says, "It is not the primary responsibilities of the Federal Govt". We would not be asking the Federal Govt to do something about housing if lower levels of Govt did their bloody job. On Ukraine, when asked if Canada should pursue a peace plan, JT blames the person questioning for falling for Russian Misinformation. On Inflation, JT is silent. But somehow, Trudeau Govt thinks defending C-18 is more important than Housing and Cost of Living problems.
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  269. Sherkarji, US Think Tank CSIS released a new report titled "Accelerate: 175 - A Plan for Targeted Renewable Energy Cooperation with Key Indian States" and the Power Ministry also released it's annual Integrated Ratings of Power Sector in India. It will be definitely worth looking into both those reports for a future CTC. I will send you both reports.
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  270. Europeans need to understand Asia better. When Jaishankar said, China and India predates Ukraine, he was talking about China's claim and aggression. China is willing to break the rules based order and they did when they broke their own agreements and killed Indian troops.
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  271. We need a dedicated weekly or monthly video on all the infrastructure projects under implementation. Exclude the projects that have been approved but include ones whose tendering has been done. BTW good job Moushumi.
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  272. More power to you. May you gain glory through victory
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  273. Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi, both of them are examples of Congress sycophancy and royal privilege. Sanjay wasn't even an MP but he got stadiums, chowks, colleges and National Park named after him. Rajiv, right after his "Big tree falls" speech Buta and Zial Singh rushed to hold Rajiv's hand and convince him that he was the sole successor of Indira Gandhi's legacy and he had to become PM. Both became pilots despite dropping out of college, at a time when you had to acquire a permission letter from DGCA before you could enrol in pilot school. While writing my 12th board exams, I wondered who created this terrible system of education that tortures students till they commit suicide and turns out it was Rajiv's National Policy on Education. NPE's insistence on equalization policy made us dumber and made teachers insist on memorization rather than critical thinking. Board exams became a test of who can vomit the most accurate canned answer. This is probably the most understated terrible reforms enacted by Rajiv Gandhi.
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  274. This month's hafta vasoli goes to 🥁🥁🥁 Nawab Malik of the NCP. The absurdity of this claim would put even the plot of Kanti Shah's Gunda to shame.
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  275. BJP should not accept Kamal Nath. For the sake of Bhaichara, please BJP don't do it. This guy who killed Sikhs for the Khangress first family. MP is in BJP hands, they can work on breaking down Kamal Nath's bastion. Kamal Nath is not worth the cost. Don't do this BJP - you will lose a lot of goodwill.
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  276. Say what you will about Owaisi, at least he has more balls than any of the other opposition members. Unlike Congress which created halla over downgrading security of the Gandhi family.
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  277. The party has taken lives too. Anyone remember 1984 riots? When a big tree falls the Congress unleashes it's sychopancy driven violence. Congress has also handsomely rewarded folks who engaged in that violence.
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  278. Use the rupees we gave you to invest back in India. That’s how you show your friendship is not “all talk no action “
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  279. @Zaydan Naufal ummm. You have not experienced property rights in India. It's one of the few places in the world where transfer of property is not recognized as a transaction between private parties. In India, unless your local bureaucracy "validates" the two parties are of sound mind you can't transact it. India has a lot of laws with good intentions but they are applied horribly and often yields poor (often comical) results Moving away from property rights, a more relevant example is Coastal Regulation Zones Act. It was enacted to protect Mangroves around Mumbai (Coastal regions around India to be more precise). The act, the way it was formulated overnight made several parcels illegal including the govts own facilities like water treatment plants. Decades of capacity upgrades were stuck in court litigations. The end result was rivers in the city became sewers, plastic pollution became rampant in the mangroves.
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  280. Folks in Nuh got housing from the Central Govt under a "Hindu Nationalist" Govt. Nuh was the top village in it's District for number of piped water connections it got under Nal Se Jal scheme. Mewat District invested heavily in Nuh and made it the lead village in Mewat's Aspirational Districts program. Nuh got disproportionately high amounts of funding from Centrally Sponsored Programs and State welfare program compared to every other village in the same district. All of this is public information and available on NITI's website. Despite that the Muslim majority village of Nuh got provoked by Yatra to a temple in that village. Goes to show how much hate they have against anyone Non-Muslim. Thanks for being thankless and now face the consequences. Hadd se jyada ho gaya hai.
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  281. Don't call them Sikhs, they are Khalistanis. Despite that, we are still with you.
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  282. What a shame. Prejudices are so deep in Hindu and Sikh society that the depressed/oppressed communities are turning to Christianity to find that sense of belonging. It's especially shameful that the Valmiki community are lower caste, that's the level of reverence we hold towards the Ramayana's author. Unless Hindu and Sikh societies address their (our) prejudices and become more inclusive, we will keep seeing more conversions. No law can stop that.
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  283.  @climbeverest  no guarantees. Just give em low interest rates loans and scholarships. That's what the US's GI bill did and their entire economy boomed.
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  284. It is indeed ironic that Nehru implored reservations using the excuse of merit and inefficiency. Nehru built the worst aspects of IAS - the aspect that rewards shoddy work, dishonesty and inefficiencies.
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  285. One of the most fascinating theories about the language of IVC comes from Iravathan Mahadevan. He believe IVC is proto-proto Tamil and Tamil is the closest candidate. That position recently got support from Asko Parpola
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  286.  @PresidentEvil  Nukes did not come at the expense of the Indian Economy. Indian economy grew significantly despite sanctions that followed nuclear tests.
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  287. Adani stock price was pretty overvalued and FII were looking at how to extract the most appropriate value. Hindenburg report helped with that.
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  288. Europeans are not ready. You folks are going to have a very rude awakening. India has been dealing with this for 1100 years and they partitioned the country (and that didn't satisfy them)
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  289. So basically, Pakistan is buying Russian oil refined at Gujarat for $69/barrel. Russian sells to India at $52/barrel, then India sells the refined oil to UAE and then it is sold to Pakistan at no less than $69 per barrel. Some Indian trader must have been like, "Pakistan? Price is $69. Special price". lol
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  290. I'm disappointed by the Print's editorial position and silence regarding Udaynidhi Stalin's remarks. I know Guptaji is a pious person and a humanist at heart, it is extremely hurtful to see him stay silent on dehumanization of Hindus. Just how Nazis compared Jews as rodents, DMK and I.N.D.I. allaince is engaging in the same dehumanization of Hindus by calling us "mosquito, dengue, corona that cannot be reformed and thus must be eliminated". It is even more disappointed considering that Barkha covered it on her channel and there's been silence here beyond two op eds. Shekharji, I implore you to stop monkey balancing because this is how media org loses trust and respect.
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  291. Delhi University toh bahut unserious aur dramabaaz University hai. Isiliye wahi ki chatre sab unqualified banke aate hai.
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  292. We are revising GDP figures for the previous year even today. We do have a poor data problem.
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  293. I appreciate the Print positions and editorials. I also appreciate drawing the line between reporting and expressing an opinion. Unlike mainstream media, The Print doesn't seem to institutionally prejudge events as they happen.
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  294. Terracotta army was always a cultural icon. PLA is trying to compete with that, I think that's what's going on here.
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  295. Our Railway babus would rather import from abroad rather than involve local Indian private players. Heck they could have generated jobs with an order like that. Shame on the Railways!
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  296. Mr Sibal ensures our sessions and district courts don’t function. When a criminal is sentenced, Mr Sibal is there to free them to create crime again. Sibal is the worst kind of lawyer, he will sell the country (he has) for money. Whatever happened to Sibals Cheapest tablet project when he was a minister under UPA? Where did that money go?
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  297. Dang, we are so intent on destroying our R&D depts. This is going to be a disaster.
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  298. This concern for migrant workers is extremely rich coming from Shiv Sena. They still actively harass and demean UP Bihari in Maharashtra and used to beat them up. Also Sena should turn around and condemn MNS. The real question to ask is when will Sena stop their harassment?
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  299. We know Shekarji is heading to the US this week. He is also flying on Turkish airlines, hence today's Cut the Clutter is about Turkey/Turkiye. P.S.: I am merely speculating. Just have fun don't take it seriously.
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  300. Darkha's debate tonight is going to be fun. She's going be freaking out.
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  301. BJP must not be complacent, they should work on shoring up their lead. The Congress is desperate and animal on the verge of death is at its most vicious. 2024 is going to be a very vicious campaign. It’s do or die for the Gandhis.
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  302. Powerful speech. It's sad Punjab is becoming the drug and alcohol state of the country.
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  303. These guys are the last folks to talk about National security. They left our armed forces high and dry. By the end of their term, Army barely had a day of bullets in stock. They forced INSAS rifles on our Jawan despite numerous issues in them. They hollowed out the Air force. R&AW was a laughing stock, BSF had staff shortages, Mig-21 were falling out of the sky. And let's not forget the Agusta scam.
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  304. Nothing will move unless housing market collapses or starts seeing 20-30% decline in prices. At this point, folks have given up on this Govt and they want it gone.
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  305. Rahul Gandhi can learn from the Davos team. Aaditya Thackeray was asked about politics in Davos and he clearly said, "We are here for India". Heck even Tejaswi Yadav who was in same seminar with RaGa avoided politics. Tejasvi Yadav, barely passed high school and has better political acumen than RaGa. Gandhis should retire.
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  306. Sinha is the worst politician. His son benefits greatly from Modi's govts aggressive Green energy policy. Sinha family is a majority shareholder in ReNew Power and will greatly benefit from Har Ghar Solar program that BJP has in it's manifesto. But access to a competitive program is not enough, he wants preferential treatment. Old school bureaucrat like Sinha hates competition against family businesses.
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  307.  @Grant_S_M That's bullshit. Indian politics is deeply polarized and in that polarized environment Trudeau managed to unite everyone in India behind Modi. It's very rare for Opposition media in India to support Modi's position. The incompetence is staggering, Trudeau with his virtue signalling managed to unite India but divided Canada. Trudeau inadvertently became Modi's best campaigner for the week. Congrats Trudeau.
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  308. Thank you Modiji for being loud about inheritance tax. Thank you for bringing it to the attention of Shekarji
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  309. The term adivasi is a modern one, it was introduced in the vocabulary at the height of British Divide and Rule right around the time of Round Table Conference and Gandhi Irwin pact. The Vanvasi activist were given carrots by the British to divide the Congress and then gave them that term. Congress insists on using that term, while the constitution uses the term JanJati.
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  310. Kids, if you ever want to learn to lie with data, this is the series to follow.
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  311. I can't tell what Jyotiji reads and follows and/or if this is some form of elite projection. If you watch US House or Senate committee meetings (it's available on YouTube), you don't get any indication that they are worried about our freedoms or minorities. They have a larger concern about water pollution in India (I am not kidding) and how the US is not collaborating enough. They want a NATO style alliance and replace Russia and become India's primary arms supplier. On the contrary things have been moving at a faster pace. Quad meetings have become more frequent, even more so at the Ministerial level. Indian attaches have got clearances to access services of US intelligence and national security apparatus. If Americans have concerns they wouldn't have authorized those clearance or would have given a downgraded clearance to something meaningless. I genuinely have no idea where this is coming from.
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  312. Couple of months ago, I flagged tensions between Northerners and Tamils, I was called a fool and an Idiot. Now tensions have risen, Tamil entrepreneurs are publishing pressers in Hindi. Tamils can learn from Marathis and simply assimilate them, teach them Tamil, make Tamil accessible.
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  313. And India is spending on buses. The number of new buses and new and renovated bus terminals is insane.
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  314. We don't need more IITs or IIMs, we need more Western style universities with their own internal institutes of technology, management etc. The world is becoming more interdisciplinary. That means you need to be good at multiple skills. You need to be technical and entrepreneurial. You might also need to be technical at multiple fields like in healthcare - you need to know how to code and understand genetics. Our education system slots people into specific institutes and torture the student in them with no choice for them to explore their own capabilities. This leaves them either underskilled or underequipped for the modern world. Western style universities breaks those barriers down. It let's students become multi disciplinary, develop well rounded perspectives etc.
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  315. This was a bad decision the SC made. The SC did the same thing with Lalu Prasad Yadav and fooder scam. SC has never learned from that mistake and still refuses to do so. Edit: When Courts are lenient with corruption, then what's the point of bringing up Ajit Pawar and others? Courts themselves need to be invested in anti corruption. They clearly are not interested in it. Party ko blame karke kuch nahi hoyega. This is why Judicial reforms is necessary.
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  316. Also Places of Worship act should be scrapped. It’s an insult to the very definition of secularism. How can you say non-retrogression is a fundamental principle of secularism? That statement violates every legal principle.
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  317. Mauritius will probably take over it and use it as a source of revenue. Io domains are not in danger.
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  318. Disinvestment push requires a strong third mandate, Govt can't aggressively disinvest without Babudom creating a ruckus in the upcoming election. Let's not forgot, not too long ago, Babudom pushed for toxic OPS. And it took one complete term before Modi could touch OFB corporatization and tackle Indira Gandhi's toxic anti market laws (There's still work to do)
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  319. Make Punjab number 1 first ... Hopefully not in fiscal mismanagement.
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  320. Upcoming Budget session is going to be the one to watch. Where is that 1.5 lakh crore ($18 Billion USD) going to be allocated? I don't think it will all be used to get back under FRBM limit. Govt has a specific timeline for that. So is it going to go into Infra? PLI? Defence? Pension? Eagle eyed observers should keep an eye.
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  321. Unless this guy and his family retires things won't change. He's the true A+ campaigner of the BJP. He's not only the symbol of gross amounts of entitlement, but also mediocrity, inconsistency, incompetence, disconnected ... The list goes on.
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  322. There is no both sides after what Hamas did to innocent civilians. This attack on Israel was 26/11 but 20 times worse. Until the Palestinians Authority unambiguously condemns the violence without obfuscating it under the guise of "occupation", there's no both sides.
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  323. Karma has delivered, Atiq terrorized the people of Prayagraj and he died choking on his own blood. It is counter intuitive but this will greatly improve Law and Order in UP - judges won't be threatened to give favourable judgments, witness won't be murdered, Jail official families won't be kidnapped to fulfill one gangster's wishes. Praveen Swami is engaging in fear mongering by alleging that Police will be 'mis-used' by Yogi against the SP. No Politician in India is stupid enough to start an encounter war with a rival political party.
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  324. The new speaker is awesome. He's enforcing discipline. It doesn't matter if you agree with BJP or not, there's no denying they selected a good VP.
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  325. Gadkari recently has been looking pretty ill. It is evident that he doesn't have energy anymore.
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  326. The bloody police in our country is nothing more than legalized goondas or thugs with authority.
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  327. Barkha Dutt: "He (RaGa) is in London addressing which constituency, I don't know why?" Even the folks who worked closely with the Gandhi family are banging their faces against a wall. Man this guy needs to listen and read the room.
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  328. Canada is engaging in the worst kind of value engineering. If you want to build a HSR, then build a HSR. HFR is not only expensive but it also compromises on everything a good rail network should be.
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  329. Talking about free grain, our rulers including Mughal nawabs would give away free grain whenever there was a drought or famine. When the Brits ruled India, they stopped that grain distribution program and led to widespread starvation - every drought followed a British order against releasing grain. Pretty sure these stories are still narrated in rural India So I wouldn’t call free food grains revdi, that’s a cultural expectation. (It’s also a relatively cheap one) Since our warehouses are running full anyway, it’s actually a good reallocation of food grain.
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  330. Shekarji, I’m deeply disappointed that your editorial team gave a platform to Vir’s internalized racism. Implicating the entire country for one or two incidents is uncalled for. If you really care for the values you espouse, then please make Vir issue an apology.
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  331. This is unrelated. But I just want to take the time to say that I'm impressed by how The Print is incorporating feedback, improving the quality of articles and topics covered. I like that you're starting to cover legislative business and other Govt agendas. Along with the coverage, you're also adding links to Govt's documents, enabling the readers to read the documents themselves. This is really good digital journalism. It really shows you're doing your legwork. In addition, I like the increased coverage of State politics as well. It's an important areas that's usually ignored or relegated to State language readers. I feel the money paid for the subscription is really improving coverage and output of the Print. Good stuff.
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  332. Can we sponsor Chitleen to go to Canada and investigate the SGPC and Khalistan nexus? It will make the Print stand out.
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  333. You can't have an economy without security. Burma is collapsing, unfortunately our border states, particularly Manipur have faced most of the burden. I think Govt can come up with a better security strategy. But you can't have economy without security and stability in Burma.
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  334. I don't know, it feels like governance (rather, improved law and order) and infrastructure development is not enough to get voted back. Besides, the complaint against Yogi is he doesn't give out Govt jobs or handouts - your local reporters seems have to captured that sentiment especially around central and eastern UP. Maybe Hindutva fills that gap.
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  335. North or south Maharashtra is the best 😊😊
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  336. At 11:30, Shekarji is worried about Services fragmentation due to the drone deal. I believe that's misplaced. With the new Theatre command implementation, the Army and Air force will share their facilities and maintenance. So we should not be that worried about giving 8 to Army and 8 to Air force. I'd rather push for faster jointness and cohesiveness between the two services instead.
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  337. Raghav misses a couple of things about Smart Cities. The "smart" in smart Cities is all about smart implementation and not smart technologies. Second, it is a continuous program with either annual or biannual project durations. Each city proposes a program as per their local requirement (improved garbage collection, drainage, redevelopming a local area like Chappan or Chandni Chowk etc) to MoHUD. MoHUD selects projects based on costs, sustainability and a bunch of other criteria and the Centre allocates money towards it. The cities who are selected then gets their allocated money through a SPV that created for the project. Each city's Smart Cities program has it's own online portal with stats and progress reports on projects under consideration, planning and implementation. Also the SPV (each approved project is implemented by a SPV) is also supposed to publish quarterly earnings reports like a private company. So you can see how the money gets spent. This is the 3rd round of smart Cities.
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  338. When Lalloo went to jail, he made sure to make Rabri CM before he entered jail. Mrs Kejriwal is not CM, what is she doing acting like one?
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  339. While we are on the topic of Russia, Shekarji, I think you should re-evaluate who handles the long form shows about Foreign Policy at the Print. The style, manner and conduct of Interviews and Debates has devolved into cacophony and badgering. The interview with FM of Sri Lanka and the Debate between C Raja Mohan and Sanjaya Baru were particular low points. Case in point: When a Foreign Minister of a country says "it is a domestic matter", badgering him after that statement for a response is irresponsible and detrimental to the national interests of both countries (starts an unnecessary diplomatic incident). One wonders why is the host forcing such a response?
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  340. We should consider getting Tibetan here into India. Save their culture, bring their Sutras and Tantric texts.
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  341. I look forward to Shekarji's monologue at Constitution Club at June 5, 2024. That's where the real Cut the Clutter of the election will happen. "Even when we increasing see it .. we compulsively tried to deny it".
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  342. Jyoti has been warning us about "Waris De Punjab" and their extremism for years. We kept ignoring it. When Amritpal was roaming around rural Punjab abusing drug rehab to further violent cause, the Congress kept warning us about it. We kept ignoring it. None of that happened. They dismissed Khalistani movement even existed and blamed everything on Hindutva.
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  343. Immigration is not the problem. The real problem is pure negligence and incompetence of local and (to a lesser degree) provincial govts. Local govt don't want to issue development permits and are consciously or unconsciously intent to create slums everywhere.
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  344.  @rutvikrs  The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple is a starting point. I have also been reading British archive on Project Gutenberg.
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  345. Actually recognition and registration of live in relationships is great for Homosexual couples. It gives them equivalent rights to marriage. (Only Centre can define marriage btw). So live-in relationship is a good interim arrangement. Edit: Also registration also means you can't abuse live-ins as a tax loophole. The Print team maybe didn't realize this.
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  346. SPACs in the US context applies to Startups. Startsup are essentially privately listed companies, if they want to raise money for an acquisition they would need to raise an IPO on their company. This might not be suitable based on the situation for the Startup, so they work around it by creating a SPAC and listing that SPAC for an acquisition of other Startups.
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  347. As long as Gandhis are the helm of the Congress, Modi gets free ammo and free votes for the BJP. When the Gandhis resign/retire is the day Modi and the BJP will really need to defend their own positions.
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  348. Federal Govt could also listen to it's Unions and pay a livable wage. You can't prepare a quality aid for Ukraine without appropriately paying Federal workers. You can't pay for aid for Ukraine without CRA going out there and collecting taxes, auditing tax records and going after abuse of tax loopholes. Pay our Federal workers a livable wage.
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  349. Please reupload with better audio please.
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  350. NPR's foreign desk is US propaganda. Unlike it's domestic desk, NPR's foreign desk does not get to express it's editorial independence. Every foreign desk in the Western world works in the same way. BBC's foreign desk has no editorial independence and report to Foreign office in the UK.
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  351. Didn't Rahul Gandhi call the vaccine as Jhumla?
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  352. Western countries should compensate Asian countries for the stigma it gave when they forced Drug regulations down its throat. Thanks Reagan, we are still living with your stigma
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  353. One day I shall visit this place.
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  354. For folks who aren't aware, Krishnaswamy Subrahmanyam is father of Modern Indian strategic thinking. He was the one who drafted the "No First use" doctrine for nukes amongst many others. Also he is also EAM S. Jaishankar's father. (They did not work on the same space. KS stayed in IDSA. Jaishankar pursued IFS independently)
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  355. Punjab also elected a party that's not known for it's fiscal policy. Punjab should consider itself blessed to be part of India, otherwise given its budget, it would have gone down the Sri Lanka route of collapsing Govt finances. Punjab's current budget is pretty bad for the State. Free electricity and free money is the worst kind of expenditure. Punjab can't pay for it's teachers or Police. It's not just penny wise pound foolish, it goes beyond that.
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  356. What has Rahul Gandhi offered in terms of vision or policy? Nothing He says love but hates the institutions because Modi leads them. He goes abroad talks about India but insults the composite nature of the Indian identity.
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  357. The Print should consider to hosting a Conclave.
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  358. "A party which is experiencing a lot of internal dissenters. And coming from Congress leaders it's a bit rich". LoL, the burn. Congress can't even get it's act right that even when the BJP spoonfeds them messes, it can't help but keep burning itself.
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  359. People are underestimating BJP's ground game and RSS's presence. BJP workforce and RSS karyakarta are embedded deep within the community. That covers the digital gap, I'm not sure SP has presence that can match BJP.
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  360. Jyoti admitting Jaishankar made a master stroke. Does it mean people are coming to their senses about India’s strategic interests?
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  361. You can agree or disagree with Modi but we can all agree that the Opposition walkout was stupid. It made Tughlaq look smart. "Do your homework". Please bring the burnol.
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  362. The Democrats have been muted so far. American politics is getting extremely ugly at the moment and the Democrats are dealing with it. The nice thing about American foreign policy, it's nicely institutionalized. They will likely press India on better trade and security alliance. I think we should think seriously about maintaining a firewall between our domestic politics and foreign policy. Our domestic politics is just ugly and stupid.
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  363. BJP will likely drag it in court and lump it into UCC. Then they can tell their more conservative supporters "Court order hai". IIRC triple talaq was also because of a court order
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  364.  @sankalp6872 Every revolutionary chose to give up their life rather than sacrifice others lives. Bhindrawale, deliberately chose to sacrifice others lives rather than his own. He was a terrorist that the Congress incubated and SGPC choses to legitimize him despite his terrorism. No amount of “oppression” can justify the rampant Anti-Hinduism Bhindrawale was spewing especially in Vancouver, Canada.
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  365. Mitch is 81? Dang, he looks like he is close to 90. If he is like this at 81, means he is pretty unfit.
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  366. Y'all deserve this. When Middle class goes on vacation during elections then you deserve the most extractive budget that comes after the result. Live with it.
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  367. @Kenny Rabbit probably the speech writer gave them a copy. He was reading from a paper.
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  368. Shekarji, you should revisit your selection of authors you offer for the "Fine Print". I don't think Yogendra Yadav makes the cut for a premium offering. I don't think he's worth wasting subscription on.
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  369. People complain that Centre is despotic, however, State Govts are more despotic and authoritarian than Centre. Modi doesn't engage in blatant and open violations of rule of law like some State CMs do.
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  370. And why should we care? India has it's own affairs and they don't ask us to interfere in their domestic affairs. Also great day for Hindus. Jai Shri Ram.
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  371. He's asking for support at the right place. At this moment, WEF Davos has so many billionaires that is local GDP exceeds several countries. For a change, let the billionaires open up their purses for Ukraine.
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  372. Rahul Gandhi still hasn’t apologized for his remarks. Calling an entire caste as a bunch of thieves is akin to racism. Besides his return is a great boon to Modi. RaGa’s speeches turns long time supporters of his party into BJP supporters.
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  373. AAP's gamble might either pay huge dividends or backfire quite significantly. Congress made Channi as a CM thinking they would get the Dalit vote and win brownie points with "Liberals" by projecting their "progressive" values. It is unfortunate that a mild mannered Channi is getting battered by Sidhu in Punjab and distant Gandhi family. They are painting him as incompetent and indirectly reinforces perceptions against the Dalit community. If they gave Channi the freedom to govern they would have improved the situation. Congress should get completely decimated and Gandhi family should permanently retire from politics. They do more damage to India's social fabric with their shallow family worship politics.
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  374. The author implies is that Hindus of Ayodhya are pissed at the VHP and feel remorseful. This is quite far from the truth. People are annoyed however, they are annoyed over road expansions and demolitions that accompanied it. Plenty of shops that used to don the previously narrow streets of Ayodhya have been demolished since the beginning of the construction of the Ram temple. Older temples that were covered up are now getting exposed. Unlike Kashi Vishwanath, very little thought has been put to rehabilitate those structures. Author is intelligently using a reverse occam razor, attributing guilt where more mundane explanations exists.
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  375. ​ @abhishekshukla9182  The Adult has the burden on them to prove they care about the well being of the minor beyond just sexual intercourse. That could be in the form of waiting until the minor becomes an adult, passes out of school etc. Consensual sexual relations gets into grey areas that the court usually adjudicate on a case by case basis, however, impregnation is statutory rape. No judge would accept that impregnation of a minor or a relationship that started when one party is minor is love.
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  376. "Even when we increasingly see it .. we compulsively tried to deny it". - Shekar Gupta, 2019 after General Election.
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  377.  @diabloo7 SC does not convicted people over imagined crimes. Those days of Emergency ended long ago. Please see a doctor, you might be suffering from delusional mindset.
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  378. This is a bit of a bad take. The case in point that contradicts what TCA has to say is Agnipath reforms. It is a meaningful and crucial fiscal reform, that gives Govt a lot of flexibility in terms of how it spends its revenue. But look at the reaction, riots on the street, opposition parties clamouring for attention etc. Govt also gave Cantonment land back to Local Bodies, this might seem inconsequential but this is also economic reforms that will have tremendous impact on our economy (Places like Delhi, Bengaluru, Pune have huge Cantonment areas, the economic transformation potential in these lands are huge). But it shows that Govt is still pushing for reforms but maybe not louds but small ones that matters. We can't blame the BJP for not pushing through reforms, but like everything else, there's success, there's failures and there's success pushed through sheer will.
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  379. Trudeau is losing support amongst Indo-Canadians, so this week he is appeasing our community. (Brampton and Surrey - safe CPC riding is unheard of). Last week, he was appeasing Muslim-Canadians at Markam. The previous month he tried a similar stunt with Ukranian-Canadians. Lesson here: Appeasement and pandering angers more people than it pleases.
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  380. Well, it is because they are D4lits. Lutyens media doesn't like to talk about their suffering because it would anger the Bandaloks - their allies in Bengal. Lutyens media has a deep history of burying atrocities against Hindu refugees and D4lits in West Bengal since the early days of Jyoti Basu. Never forget Marichjhapi.
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  381. Without UCC, same sex marriage will become a wild goose chase of personal law loopholes after loopholes. Best bring same sex marriage with UCC. Ek jhatke mein do cheese.
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  382. Politicians should understand that giveaways and freebies are not transformational. You can buy votes but you can’t buy loyalty with Freebies. Nal se Jal is a transformation program and that’s buying loyalty, 7k of supplementary income didn’t not get the farmer’s loyalty.
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  383. If you are wondering if PM Modi's outreach through Religious leaders will work then look at the Shia communities of Gujarat. Some of his most ardent supporters are Shias.
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  384. Federal Government has $5 billion for refugees and $1 billion for DEI efforts but that comes at the expense of cutting defense budget by 1 billion, short changing Federal government employees by 600 million and taxing us with carbon tax to crawl back the deficit. Excellent budgeting skills.👏👏👏🙄
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  385. Or Standard Operating Procedure. Why would the Indian Navy carry nuclear missiles to Seychelles? It makes no sense. The US Navy does not go carrying it's nuclear arsenal to some other country's port (unless they have a treaty with them).
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  386. I'm from BC and I support PQ's protest. We don't need a monarchy, especially the one that pay allegiance to King Charles III.
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  387. The hilarious thing is that the opposition walks out, talks to the camera and inside the PM starts talking about Manipur.
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  388. Encounters is one way for the State to enact it's monopoly of violence. With a non functioning Judiciary that's the best form of Justice available.
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  389. We should invite the Bangladeshi Finance Minster to give a lecture on fiscal management to Punjab and PSU Bank babus. Bangladesh is in good hands. They will come out of this crisis stronger.
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  390.  @Beenteen95  55 year old is still called Youth and is Congress youth president. Says a lot about Raga's achievement. Or should I bring up how Congress just gave free votes to the BJP under Rahul Gandhi?
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  391. Centre can drag the horse to the water but can't force the horse to drink. Blaming Modi for Jagan's incompetence is just like dragging a horse to drink. BTW, Water is in the State's list. So Centre's hands are tied anyway.
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  392. Americans freed Jews from concentration camps and fought the Nazis as well. There's no way they will abandon Jews and Israel. It would be like if we abandoned Nepal. They've have difference of opinion but that should not be mistaken for abandonment.
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  393. In 2017, Central Govt sanctioned University Of Virginia and a Dutch company to evaluate Yamuna for waterfront development. The company assessed the water quality and the Univ lead by Delhi architect and an alumni of the university lead a study on Water management in Delhi. They spent 3 years just trying to figure out the organizational structure of Delhi Jal Board and are still investigating ownership structures. All institutions around Delhi have atrophied and ossified. They need a serious revamp but you can't do these things blindly. There's a talk on YouTube that goes more into the details of this.
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  394. India has always been a challenging environment to govern. Though, the scale of crisis faced by the current govt. has been unprecedented. With that said, when Modi isn't busy with elections or politics, he governs. We really need to reform both otherwise a future governance oriented PM will be unable to spend time tackling issues in the country.
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  395. Ye wapis chalu ho gaya - Adani/Ambani conspiracy. The real conspiracy is One family ruling a national party and treating it as their personal property.
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  396. Look at this statement made by Vir, "Govt Machinery decided to make him (Sanjay Gandhi) a crown prince." Indira Gandhi decided to crown him successor, Congress party sycophancy kicks in full gear but yet it is the Govt Machinery that is blamed by the sycophant. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what you call a sycophant's smooth talk.
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  397. Congress is pretty much finished and very much disliked in UP. Akhilesh is pretty intimate with that fact. People still remember “Chowkidar chor hai”, “Chaiwala PM nahi ban sakta hai”, “neech aadmi” statements from Senior Congress leaders.
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  398. The big thorn in swifting towards a military alliance is strategic autonomy. India is seen as a bridge to keep Russians neutral in an escalating Cold War against China. But unlike the Cold War, economic ties and supply chain resilience is going to be extremely important. Quad will need to become a multidimensional alliance.
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  399. Taiwan is an independent country. Jai Taiwan!
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  400. Treasury board was darn insensitive. Paying Federal worker a living wage is not "writing a blank cheque". Every $1 given to Federal worker creates $5 of economic value. Every $1 paid to CRA workers gets $3.5 of revenue for the Govt. The Treasury board is woefully out of touch.
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  401. The lynching is unfortunate but understandable. The attempts at desecration at the Golden temple is condemnable. It is concerning that people don't trust the police enough to investigate it. But Sidhu's rheoteric is dangerous, we must always condemn politicians who demand a hanging before a trial or demand a public hanging for sacrilege.
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  402. Jyotiji this time was way better moderator. Kudos to her for calling out on the secular narrative of BJP's opposition.
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  403. So when Indira started preserving Nehru's letters for a 1000 years, that was patriotism and not marketing genius. Keep shifting goal posts. Next you will claim we adopted the Swastika from the Germans.
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  404. Finally after much persistence, the print finally moves out of Hindi heartland.
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  405. What's missing is urban land reform (which is largely a state subject). Developing a piece of land in India is still very painful.
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  406.  @mg.f.9023 Congress party and INDI Allaince.
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  407. The irony is that the Taliban's founder was a Deobandi from Lucknow
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  408.  @pardeeptandon  he start around 12:00 and mumbles till 15:00
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  409. Well, I think Southern parties need to integrate Biharis and UPwalas in TN better. Tamils are emigrating from TN to OECD countries, Biharis and UPwalas are taking their place. Cases in point: One of the most subscribed TN politics Youtuber is a Bihari who speaks better Tamil than native Tamils. Besides, they are becoming their own votebank in places like Trichy, Salem, Coimbatore, Hosur etc. They are close to about 50% of laborers in these places. 20% of TN University students are from the Hindi heartland. They are primary income source for plenty of Tamil pensioners. Most Kollywood actresses are Punjabis. (Kushboo Sundar is/was a Sunni Muslim from Mumbai) In another 10 years, 'Dravidian' parties might no longer be 'Dravidian'.
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  410. Jeez the comments are uninformed. EMALS is a hard thing to build. The biggest advantage is the ability to change the catapult settings to launch a greater variety of aircraft. Current steam catapult requires that the weight of the aircraft to be about the same as the tow capacity of the catapult. EMALS will allow the carrier to launch heavier aircraft but more importantly lighter aircrafts like drones without structural retrofits. (Current catapults will break lighter aircrafts).
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  411. You can’t raise your rate out of a housing crisis. We need our leaders from every level of govt to do their job and build more housing.
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  412. Indus Water Treaty would be resolved the moment Pakistan abandons it’s support for terrorism. This brief specifically misses that. You cannot have a state that constant supports Islamist terrorism and not expect drastic and dramatic reaction to it.
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  413.  @TheGrimStoic  yes but Raguram Rajan excluded key banks that collapsed later on from AQRs and that made the NPA crisis even worse. As the Americans put it, "He missed the forest fire for the trees" and for a central banker that's just pure incompetence.
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  414. The Best Foreign Policy for India right now is > 8% growth.
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  415. Blame the judges. Thankfully CJI spoke about that mockery of justice culture today.
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  416. Chinese Gatling anti air might work great at the Himalayas. Himalayan elevations and terrain are a challenge for drones but not a big enough challenge for light attack helicopters. Himalayan warfare is heavy on infantry.
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  417. Long story short: No one is more shameless than the Congress party
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  418. The Ex-DGP is notorious. He tried to implicate a ISRO Scientist over a personal vendetta and set the progress of ISRO's PSLV by several years.
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  419. To throw a bit of bone on this topic - Man I wish our TV debates were less emotional and more substantive. This kind of emotional outbursts (and live heart attacks) will happen more frequently until the quality of moderation improves. Our new channels are enablers of garbage and trashfires
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  420. Our opposition is stupid. Opposition: We should talk to Pakistan. BJP: Nah, we rather talk to our own people. Opposition: BJP doesn't care about Muslims BJP: Visits slain cop who is also a Muslim. Our opposition has not tact only paves the way for the BJP to do some minimal posturing to show they are better than the opposition. You know what, it actually works.
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  421.  @alfredbernard9227  guess what, the Hindi states used to fund Hindi education as well through Dakshin Bharat Hindi Sabha until Rajiv Gandhi's Education Policy centralized it. Now DBHS is just rotting. Also guess what, CG was pretty heavy handed with Hindi education in Hindi states. They suppressed Maitili, Awadh, Bhojpuri, Pahadi basa in the name of Hindi. At least Modi govt is starting to fix that. At least take the time to learn about our country rather than rely on stereotypes.
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  422. Azad couldn’t manage to get more than 8,000 votes in UP assembly elections in 2022. This LS election he thinks he can win enough votes to win 14 LS seats 🤔
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  423. The person who actively participated in Radia tapes i is lecturing us about livestock trading. The irony.
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  424. It did so by growing the economy. They improved their Tax base and revenue collection.
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  425. Delhi University is so privileged that they can ignore the realities of the common man and fight on boutique issues. (BTW Mumbai University has had openly queer students for several decades. No one made a fuss or a political issue)
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  426.  @SeeLasSee  For India nukes were a necessity and not a domination strategy. For Pakistani establishment, nukes are a battefield domination strategy. India did not sacrifice it's economy to pursue nukes and worked on reducing it's foreign aid inflows.
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  427. Guha is an historian? When did an untrained public intellectual become a historian? It's sad that we label every person that can write flowery Socratic words on history as historian. It really insults the decades of study and dedicated hard-work (field work, textual analysis, manuscript analysis etc.) of real historians. What's worse is we treat a Doon school grads who grew up with deep political connections as authoritative historian. No wonder our politics is so ridiculous, we keep labeling charlatans as experts in their adopted fields.
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  428. Uttarakhand UCC live in relationship is no different from common law marriage registration in places like France, United Kingdom or Canada. In Canada, a year in common law is recognized as a marriage. It's a good step despite the complaints. The Registration process is worth the inconvenience.
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  429. How hard is it to understand, without a Strong Germany there is no Ukraine? Tanking Germany economically means tanking the ability to provide aid to Ukraine.
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  430. 30 drones is not a small amount of drones and it's an election year. US congressmen would likely not want to face job losses from loss of contract in their respective seats. They will make some noise but they'll approve it.
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  431. JNU students have a lot of privilege. Festival was cancelled or delayed and they have the contacts to make it into National News. Also, I've never heard a Malayali look around for a tragedy to celebrate Onam. Ye Malayali bahut vichitra hai. JNU Admin probably saw through the nonsense.
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  432. Thanks to RaGa, BJP's star campaigner, this campaign is now about all the faults of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty rather than unemployment and infrastructure development. Thanks Pappu - you entitled princeling. Gandhi family should retire from politics.
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  433.  @diabloo7 So you want SC to convict PM of crimes you conjured up. Kk. SC is not your solution, go see a doctor.
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  434. Ye dekh aa gaya woke. Polarization is an age old tactic. Yesterday's caste is today's religion. Also Congress started this trend.
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  435. Good interviewer. Strong follow up questions. This lady has done more to improve journalism with this interview than any press conference in this country. Please do not fire this lady.
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  436. Environmental movement has become mental. They dropped the ball when they abandoned building consensus and opted for performative theatractics and NIMBYism. Blocking highways and ruining works of art tarnishes environmentalism.
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  437. This is ironic. So basically in 2013, Rahul Gandhi publicly tore up an ordinance passed by his (then) Govt that gave immunity for Parliamentarians from immediate suspension for conviction by the Courts. As if that was not enough, in 2019 he engages in casual racism and calls an entire community a bunch of thieves. Fast forward today, he is convicted of it and without Parliamentary immunity.
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  438. And just like that Rajiv created a deeper wound on our country.
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  439. To Indians, Trudeau is a bad faith actor. He's proved to be one, not once but thrice. His dress up trip in 2018, in 2020 when he opened his mouth about India's domestic affair and finally this weekend at G-20
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  440. Wellington Review by the Stimson center presents some interesting insights which might be addressed by theatre commands. Mainly, it says that Indian armed forces don't have a good combined arms strategy and doesn't encourage Tri service integration. The brigade's exhibition seems to only put more evidence towards that finding. Air force and air assets is conspicuously missing, it's a display of the brigade's prowess but not it's ability to work with air assets to ensure a more certain favorable outcome.
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  441. This Independence day, Shekharji gained the independence to drive his car by himself.
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  442. Which PM Samadhis did he miss? Pretty sure Narasimha Rao wasn't part of the paying respects. I don't see it in this video. Edit: Confirmed, he missed Narasimha Rao.
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  443. UPA's Swacch Bharat Mission (they called it Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan) was charging 10x the price for a toilet. It was nothing more ditch in the ground, surrounded by a plastic tarp held up by 8 sticks.
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  444. I think nobody has learnt their lesson. Everyone is letting their guard down.
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  445. We (North Americans) sent Evangelicals for decades, taught them homophobia and embedded that principle in them for 2 generations of Elites. Now that Ugandan taking things into their own hands and acted on the principles that was taught to them, we are acting all smug and condemning them. Ya this is Human rights alright - teach them very thing we condemn and then condemn them when they apply those same lessons. Oh BTW, Saudi have dealth penalty (stoning) for gay sex but we are in bed with the House of Saud. So ya, some human rights we are standing up for.
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  446. This entire hearing for same sex marriage, rubs me the wrong way. I am for same sex marriage but not in the manner it is being conducted. India's court system has collapsed, it is dysfunction and the scale of dysfunction is huge. For eg: there are 73,000 criminal cases waiting for a trial date for more than 30 years (lots with death penalty, life imprisonment terms). The court has essentially ignored pending cases and made a choose to pursue legacy instead. It is not expanding rights rather it is engaging in monkey balancing and compensating for it's sheer incompetence.
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  447.  @ArbazAbid  they don't like Modi. This issue cuts across party lines.
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  448. You can't sustain communal sectarian and voting blocks without sectarian enforcers. The folks who come out for Palestine are these enforcers, they go around engaging in small scale violence, defending one of their kind arrested for violence, they go around badgering ensuring consequences for those who dissent against their sectarianism within their community.
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  449. Just a general observation, projects started under UPA have always been mired with poor planning, execution and management. NH-66 in Maharashtra which is also started under UPA has also been mired with enormous problems. I think it’s because of the way they structured the implementation agencies in their projects. It ends up becoming worse of everything. Just like Pollavaram, NH-66 in Maharashtra is also under implementation by Maharashtra PWD (everyone in Maharashtra knows they are terrible). Centre should find a way out of this conundrum.
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  450.  @sankalp6872  that's minuscule compared to the damage done by Babudom. For every 1 Sterlite, there is 10 enforcement action by babudom that denies economic growth. The same babus are supplemented by an army of retired Babus who justify actions taken by the babudom as natural justice.
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  451.  @neerajkumar-ts6om  dude, after the policy was announced, Vandana was touring around Sri Lanka conducting seminars on organic farming. It learnt a lot about agricultural industry conspiracies. It's all on YouTube - I'm not even kidding.
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  452. I pay for the Print for columns like DK's. Offering articles written by Yogendra Yadav, Vir Sanghvi and ilk diminishes the value proposition provided by folks like DK and Snehesh Alex Phillips.
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  453. I feel Congress dug themselves in a hole. Modi govt is leaving to regulators (whatever that means) and they’ve sort of moved on. Adani will likely not get rescued and Modi will use that to his advantage However, Congress factionalism will kill it right before 2024
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  454. They were targeted because of their religion. Pakistani treated them like Jews in WW2
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  455. I wish Govt also looks into the process of appointing acting CDSs as well. We need to fast track reforms of combined arms doctrine.
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  456. Congress has practiced manuvaad for a long time. When Pakistani and Bangla Hindus, most of them Dalits were asking for help, the Congress party refused to acknowledge them. They drove them into poverty that was worse than what they experienced in Pakistan or Bangladesh. For too long they demeaned their suffering. This attitude was so terrible that even Manmohan Singh could not tolerate it and in 2012 got Hindu refugees a form of nominal recognition by Govt of India (That poor guy was humiliated throughout his PMShip). This 2012 order which built upon 2003 order by Vajpayee was also the genesis of CAA. Congress party deserves to be relegated to the dustbin. We Indians deserve a Congress Mukht Bharat.
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  457.  @prashanttrivedi5155  please don't insult centrists by associating them with Congress. Along the same lines, please don't insult liberals by associating them with so called liberals in India. They stain our reputation.
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  458. The trads here are insufferable. SRK gave his dua poignantly, his respect for her was genuine. Gauri have her pranam poignantly, her respect for Lataji was equally genuine. Why ruin such genuine moments with conspiracy driven misinterpretation?
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  459.  @Vizorfam  it's Indian law and the Indian constitution that applies. You don't like it, get out and go to Pakistan. You are free to leave.
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  460. It starts with cleaning your mind.
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  461. Well Rahul Gandhi tore up the ordinance that would have given him immunity from prosecution for his hate speech.
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  462. They should keep the hologram and keep changing the historical figures. India has plenty of heroes, they all need to be acknowledged.
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  463. UK Tories are saying it's a win for China. The real winner here is India. Mauritius and India have defense cooperation agreements. Mauritius recently signed agreement to build logistics base and expand current facilities. I can see Mauritius lobbying for increased Indian involvement.
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  464. Rahul watches football match in Leh through Internet infrastructure built by Modi Govt. He dines with a man who had cooked his food on a gas cylinder subsidized by Modi Govt and walked on roads built by Modi govt. Rahul is the ultimate campaigner for Modiji.
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  465. Blame those who let it happen and invited problems in Canada.
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  466. Unfortunately, this is a bad move. China sees it as a zero sum game. They won't stop with LAC, they will keep pushing irrespective of our stance on PP15. Just look at the border incursions everywhere. Besides it's a lot more expensive for Chinese than it is for us. They need to build more support infrastructure than we do. They also need to more R&D for supporting mountain ops than we do. They would rather spend that money raising another battalion for invading Taiwan than keep troops on our border. They are pretty stretched across 3 fronts.
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  467. UK Foreign Secretary came to Delhi and during the joint press conference with EAM Jaishankar mentioned about UK's "historical" responsibility towards Ukraine since 1994. The crowd was not pleased at all. I mean, the Western world really need to step up and do more for India. Talking about "historical" responsibility towards Ukraine during a visit to a former colony whose wealth you raided for 2 centuries leaves a seriously bad impression that the UK (and The West by extension) hasn't learnt anything.
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  468. Dilip Mandal cares more about the demands of OBC rather than the atrocities committed against Dalits in Bengal. This is the true state of Ambedkarite politics.
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  469. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Govt of India seeking surveillance capabilities - even Western "liberal" democracies seeks such capabilities and uses them extensively to maintain law and order and their national security interests. To suggest Govt of India should not seek snooping software is stupid, self destructive and naive. On the other hand, the conversation should always be about, what process and procedure need to be strengthen to catch misuse. (You can never prevent misuse but you can definitely catch them). Despite what activists says, Stronger Due process and not rights, minority protections etc. makes our democracy more liberal.
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  470. The biggest exporter of gold in Switzerland is an Indian owned company called Rajesh Exports whose HQ is in Bangalore. India is their biggest customer.
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  471. Folks in Nuh got housing from the Central Govt under a "Hindu Nationalist" Govt. Nuh was the top village in it's District for number of piped water connections it got under Nal Se Jal scheme. Mewat District invested heavily in Nuh and made it the lead village in Mewat's Aspirational Districts program. Nuh got disproportionately high amounts of funding from Centrally Sponsored Programs and State welfare program compared to every other village in the same district. All of this is public information and available on NITI's website. Despite that the Muslim majority village of Nuh got provoked by Yatra to a temple in that village. Goes to show how much hate they have anyone Non-Muslim. Thanks for being thankless and now face the consequences. Hadd se jyada ho gaya hai. Bulldozer Baba ki Jai.
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  472. We are looking at service cuts. Thanks Trudeau for the careless spending.
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  473. Maharashtra politics is all about business. Shinde and his MLAs are developers and contractors. NCP and their MLAs are big sugar barons and co-op bank owners. BJP MLAs in Nagpur are farmers. Shinde will likely give away toll contracts or negotiate a sub contracting deal to get a chunk of toll money. His MLAs will likely get their development permits approved. Sarnaik has several projects that isn't making money because of stalled infrastructure projects. (He spends big money improving the Infrastructure around his properties). As long as the projects approvals keep coming, this alliance will likely hold.
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  474.  @prithvigulati6965  Andhra doesn't have Mandis or APMCs. They haven't been covered MSP for quite a while (a little more than a decade). Andhra agriculture is very liberalized and pretty formalized. There are a lot of contract farmers who work with big companies like ITC and Adani. Renigunta has a huge ITC warehouses and edible oil processing plants. Godavari Delta has several Adani warehouses that helps with Rice exports. Andhra has also generated employment for landless and lower caste farmers through schemes specifically aimed at food processing (All your pickles comes from Andhra). The PM KUSUM, Jal Jeevan component of MNREGA has given income to lower caste folks who were allocated dead land (you can't farm crops on them). Andhra has been very smart about us agricultural policy and they take advantage of schemes that the Center offers. Andhra has been very smart of how it spends it's money. I think it's time other States especially Punjab and Haryana learn from Andhra.
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  475. Despite the optimism, the judgement won't materially change anything with regards to Political funding. Why you might wonder? The judgement doesn't change the fundamentals of political financing. To illustrate what I mean, consider the following. Today, a Tata might donate money to a party thru SBI and it's gaurantee of privacy, tomorrow after the judgement Tata will do the same thing with several layers of shell companies. It's essentially the same system that worked under the UPA.
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  476. Pappu of TN, in some sense, in his call for destruction of Hinduism indirectly made it into a call for destruction of I.N.D.I Alliance and their chances in the polls.
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  477. IAF's incompetence is going to bite us real bad. They have dithered, delayed and mismanaged everything handed to them. MRFA was all hype, no action, no AoN either. AMCA, no commitment to purchase, no competition, no updates. Tejas Mk2, Air Force has stalled it's development by delaying testing commitment. Air Chiefs are complaining about theatarization and delaying it's implementation. Army has improved itself greatly, Navy is the best. IAF has been really incompetent.
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  478. I would love to hear a speech in Tamil by Jaishankar.
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  479. The opposition can sit and debate some bills. There are some critical ones that their input can be useful in line DESH Bill, Cooperative Bill, Cantonment Bill etc. but instead they'll protest to make some drama.
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  480. Love AAP or hate AAP. Praise AAP's policies or criticize them. You have to appreciate their tenacious politics and their attempts to win public opinion - it's not woke or driven by leftist antics. Congress can learn from AAP on how to campaign. This was a good speech. Closely emulates Modi. Look forward to AAP replacing Congress as the national party. They will give the BJP a tough competition in 2029 and in assembly elections.
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  481. Sports can unite people, however that unity can come in various forms. In some cases, it can bring nations closer together however, when nations are bitter rivals, it brings people in their respective nations closer. The 1980 Ice Hockey match between the Soviet Union and USA did not bring those nations closer together, but it definitely did brought Americans closer to each other. Unity of people across borders through Sport has to come through mutual respect of each other by sportsmen. I don't think we saw any of that happening in Dubai.
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  482. In the 90s, gangs were running wild in Mumbai, some of their enforcers used to call themselves "Patri ka don" (Neighborhood don). Guess what got them off the streets? A decade long encounter campaign, local cops became local legends, judges who were previously fearful of gang retribution were now giving out convictions, crime dropped like a rock, business improved, kids who were attracted to gang life stayed away from it. UP is at the beginning of such a phase, a phase Mumbai went through in the 90s, Gujarat in the 2000s and MP in the mid 2000s.
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  483. British definitely did try to centralize Hinduism (HRCE), heck even Hindus tried it (Arya and Brahmo Samaj etc.). They all failed because each time, they excluded the most devout abandoned their own community. Relevance matters more than dogma.
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  484. You can’t say we need an India free from Congress on YouTube.
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  485.  @prshntkumar0000  I know my history because I was alive and watching it unfound. NBA made everyone the loser.
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  486. Well, punch wasn't needed. Half the work was done by the opposition walking out.
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  487. In Sept, preya Rahulji is slated to go on his European tour to present his "Idea of India" to European politicians. If Mir Jafir were alive today, he would be extremely proud of Rahul Gandhi. Ye bandha British ko bhi nahi, pura Europe ko lekar aah raha hai.
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  488. Couple of other things to keep in mind: RSS now has consensus on how to handle Hindu Muslim relations and that consensus is heading in a good direction. That's good and must be cautiously encouraged. The Sangh parivar, it is not as top down as we think it is. Your local chapter of Bajrang Dal has quite a lot of leeway and freedom of action to take things in their own hands (This happens in every Indian political organization). Is the Sarsanchalak's outreach enough? Does the RSS have enough sway to maintain discipline in it's affiliates and make this outreach successful? I think that latter question is something Muslims must ask their respective organizations as well. Does All India Imams Organization have enough sway to not let things go out of hand?
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  489. Southern states can integrate northerners. Biharis in TN speak better Tamil than native Tamilians
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  490. Alcohol ban for a State like Bihar is utterly stupid. The state gave away 30% of it’s revenue that could have been used to setup rehab centres, fund teachers salaries, infrastructure etc. Heck Nitish could have worked with the distillers to make a brand Bihar hooch and sold it in places like Lutyens. Idiots will point out Gujarat but Gujarat never removed it’s prohibition which applied since British times. Bihar removed prohibition and then reintroduced it. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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  491. The BJP used to send someone to attend. They stopped that because Oxford was plain disrespectful and disingenuous.
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  492. It helps consolidate Punjabi vote for JT.
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  493. I think economist like Raghuram Rajan could have matured up and realized that "Hindu rate of growth" is plain offensive. In 2023, this should have been obvious to someone like Raghuram Rajan but his arrogance blinds him. Wrt to his economic commentary, it is fear mongering and part concern. The issue is extracting his "concern" is like pulling teeth.
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  494. Despite data, the perceptions of targeted killing and there's going to be ethnic cleansing still exist. Rather the targeted killing exasperates those perceptions. But here's the thing, we don't provide bullet proof working environments. The bank manager who was killed yesterday was sitting close to the door, with no barrier between him and the killer. These are some things the BJP govt can do to reduce targeted killing. At least start securing the workplaces against handguns. At least moves like this will definitely assuage those perceptions.
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  495. You can't sanction Gold, at least the ones in your own reserve.
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  496. Praveen Swami's article couldn't have come at a better time.
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  497. If you're talking about FDI and you're excluding the high interest rate regime currently in place in OECD countries, you're missing the point.
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  498. We should ensure Congress as a party does not exist by 2029. I’ve had enough with this party.
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  499.  @esparda07  India would simply throw her out. Patel community worldwide disowned her, Indians simply joined the Patels in disowning her.
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  500. Uddhav Thackeray and the Sena are treating Maharashtra as their own personal kingdom with a thin skinned king.
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  501. Rahul Gandhi does not respect Parliament. He treats it like a regular voter, makes promises and flys away. India needs a Gandhi parivar mukth Congress.
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  502. Actually it's a bit misleading to say Buddhist temples existed prior to Hindu ones. Buddhists pantheon and Hindu pantheon were pretty much the same (Like Vishnu in Mahayana, Shiva in Tibetan). Buddhists did use temples to mediate. Brahmanical dissociation can be best seen as rivalry against Buddhists. Buddhists who preached sanyas & forgoing family life, left out social obligations (duties to your parents, funerals, new home, birth of a child etc.). Brahmin focus on these rituals reflects the needs of the society at that time. That's why Brahminical texts is focused on role of householder (Ghrihasta). This is where Dharmashastra and sutras comes into the picture. Also only half of the dharnashashtras have survived into contemporary age. So what we know is quite incomplete. Maybe there's a dharmashastra that specifically talks about Devalaka.
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  503. Wow, Lockheed Martin is offering exoskeletons to the Indian Armed forces is pretty significant event. It means the US has either approved sale of tech like this or they are willing to develop it in India. Either way, this is a serious win for India.
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  504. Aaah yes, we are back to 'human rights' since Russia oil media campaign against India backfired badly against European.
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  505. I think we should read the Constituent Assembly debates. There is a lot of things we can learn from it like the tidbit in this video.
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  506. Spews hate against anyone not Muslim.
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  507. Did Rashid just unintentionally admit to corruption money?
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  508. Punjab used to be the world’s manufacturer of sporting goods but farmers killed that industry. Industry had to pay extra taxes to cover the state’s fiscal hole created by all the free stuff given to farmers. Punjab was charging its industries, a Cow protection tax before Hindu nationalists even dreamed of Cow protection squads. Btw, today the sports manufacturer’s kids are now moving to Canada by the plane loads.
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  509. We need to fix housing. You can't set a target of 100 million in population without investing in adequate housing. No one is interested in paying 2 million for a house while earning 60k in income.
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  510. The corporation behind the redevelopment is actually a Special Purpose Vehicle where Govt has a stake in the entity. It’s not just Adani. The CEO of the corporation is the Chief Planner of Mumbai. Bureaucrat who is leading Mumbai’s huge infrastructure projects. (250 km of metros, 100 km of be sewage, 70ish km of highways etc) This project should go ahead despite opposition, these folks are living in squalid conditions for 4 generations. There’s talks going on for far too long, enough is enough and now is the time for action. People will cry, so let them cry harder.
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  511. It is 2057, the Congress President Gandhi concedes defeat in the General Elections after 3 decades of losing elections. Congress karyakarta still pray the Gandhi remains as their President.
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  512. IAF got shafted thanks to it’s incompetence. Look at the hype around MRFA, all talk, no action. They didn’t even bother to get AoN from CCS. Except for Navy and some Army Corps, the Uniformed establishment are really incompetent.
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  513. "How to get your fish drunk" - Instructions by the Taliban
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  514. RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat met All India Imams and kick-started the conversation around reconciliation. Today Army has stopped counter insurgency in the North East. There's finally good progress happening we should be supportive.
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  515. And Jaishankar still needs to learn from Pathaan. Right?
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  516. D Raja knows he is protected by SC/ST act. That guy is a vile person. We may need to wait till 2029 to finish his career.
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  517. Indeed. A stricter immigration system would have not let him in the first placeplace.
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  518. We are a bilingual country and I support Quebec's right to preserve French. I admire it to be honest. English speakers should put more effort into learning French.
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  519. अमृत काल में हिंदू को न्याय मील रहा है। Finally.
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  520. Govt Of India needs to fix the issue of funding for R&D. At the moment, it is very haphazard - CCS determines if something has to be funded on biennial basis and that just creates a lot of stoppages. (I know Permanent R&D fund is coming but we won't see it materialize at least until next year). The other issue is culture, DRDO labs are too dependent on Govt for everything. Even when they have freedoms they are too eager to submit itself to the Govt. That needs to change. When you go begging to the Govt, Govt decides your priorities - this is how we get DRDO to make masks rather than research. The other part of this equation is procurement and/or commercialization. Our procurement are still a bloody mess, our Generals asks too much, demand too many changes but pays too little and then finally dumps the project. They are not invested in a programs success and building real capabilities. It is more about proving the Govt that we are incapable to build things and hence we must import equipment. Now Every R&D project has a potential for commercialization, if private sector is not allow to commercialize it and is stuck with Defense procurement then I guarantee you this reform will be a huge failure.
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  521. Uddhav: "I will bootlick the Congress for giving me a CM seat." Additya:"Penguins!" Balasaheb: "Mi kay paap kela aahez?" (What sin did I commit to suffer through this?)
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  522. Last I checked Bengal elections were held last year. So where is this non existent pressure?
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  523. In the 60-70s TN govt. used to fund Tamil language lessons outside of TN. They used to help build syllabus for both Tamil and non Tamil folks to learn Tamil. My father's generation learnt Tamil from schools in Maharashtra run by the State. Ever since they stopped, the Tamil community lost the ability to learn Tamil. The current generation are functionally illiterate when it comes to Tamil DMK should expand access to learn Tamil in every state in India. Every state should improve access to learn state languages. Otherwise they will simply just die.
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  524.  @alexseguin5245  well you need to look at his Indian Rap Sheet. Bombed a court, killed a priest, another attempted bombing, political assassinations.
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  525. One wannabe dynasty is asking an older dynasty for tips on how grow their dynasty. Yuck. BalaSaheb's soul would be crying with disgust at this unholy reverence of the Gandhi family.
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  526. Shekarji, the word you're looking for is "impact" not fallout 😌
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  527. Never trust a journalists. Always pressure them to cover things you find important.
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  528. Our foreign policy is limited by two things: - Economy : Our Governments waste too much money and over regulates everything. Liberalize the economy further, nurture it's growth. - Staff: MEA is woefully understaffed. It needs to be 4-5x it's current size. We don't have enough strategic advisors, enough diplomats, enough trade advisors, enough military attache to inform our country and help our strengthen our relationships.
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  529. This might become a good series. However please improve the audio.
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  530. The issue with Armed forces is not the shortfall in number of people for infantry divisions but the shortfall is of officers and non combat officers. The Armed forces should work on Rawat's reforms that allows for internal training and recruitment. They really need to build more defense colleges and institutes. On the other hand, we should increase recruitment for Police and paramilitary. We actually need more beat cops and facilities for them.
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  531. BJP needs to reevaluate it's Voter outreach. AAP needs to come with an alternative to "revdi" to make inroads into Gujarat. And Congress .... well, less said the better. Sooner or later, they will be nothing left of them. Honestly, I can't wait for the day when Congressi whining stops especially in Academia.
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  532. Jyoti can ask some really dumb questions. Take the one at 3:00. What is she trying to imply? The U.S. can talk to China because China doesn’t sit on American territory or India should not because China is sitting on our territory. Either way it’s a stupid stance - there’s plenty of equally important issues to talk about like de-escalation ladder, nuclear weapons controls and transparency, rules of engagement etc. To stop these dialogues over a stupid stance is just plain dangerous
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  533. I look back at the lost era of the UPA era and come out angry by how much of a lead they gave away to China by doing nothing. That was the lost era, we wasted away good growth, traded it for poor infrastructure, "secularism", going after "Saffron Terror" and sycophancy. Any comparisons with China misses it point unless it also acknowledges all the opportunities that were wasted away. This Govt has fixed a lot of those issues, steered the political economy in a sustainable direction however, much work remains to be done. We are finally starting to make headway into catching up with our peers. Agglomeration effect will set in a couple of years if we are able to maintain the momentum of reforms of every size and in every sector. That can only happen with a Leftist Stalinist Statist Mukth Bharat (everything the Congress whole heartily embodies today).
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  534. Shekharji misses the point. That was an UP election speech. He wasn't speaking to parliamentarians, he was reminding UP voters about Congress. The opposition ate it up and are now counter attacking it.
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  535. These traders want to hide their sales and avoid taxes. But if they keep avoiding and resist GST, it will work against them. GST facilitates easier loan disbursement, easier credit checks and more importantly it shows a business can pay on time. The second order impact is it helps reduce NPAs. When the time comes when they want to get loans from banks, they will simply refuse and these guys will have to get loans from private lenders at 20-30% interests. Go ahead dig your own grave.
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  536. Even if Modi doesn't come back, the relationship won't improve. There is bipartisan consensus regarding Canada and it's Khalistani problem in New Delhi. Trudeau+Jagmeet needs to go for relations to improve.
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  537. Local reports suggests this was a failure of the switch (sabotage, mechanical failure, maintenance failure is yet to be determined, negligence). Switch diverted the train on to the parked freight train and caused the derailment.
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  538. Basic structure started with basic rights and protection from Govt overreach. It has evolved way beyond that simple origins into a catchall used by the Courts to shutdown any legislative actions that Judiciary disagree with. Basic structure was used to birth Collegium into existence, used to shutdown NJAC and also shutdown lawsuits against acts that violated basic structure itself. When a doctrine/principle is disabused to an extent that it is unrecognizable from it's origins, that doctrine loses it's significance.
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  539.  @branduncensored Hindu caste groups trust the institutions that we have built. There are way more lawsuits filed by lower castes than riots (it’s almost nonexistent). However rioting by peaceful have only gone up (globally) Hindus can learn to live with democratic institutions despite caste divisions.
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  540. I think we need a long form series that discusses UCC in detail. The issue is this goes beyond just equal laws for all or bringing Sharia law in line with the constitution. UCC touches something more fundamental than enforcing constitutional principles. What is secularism? How do you accommodate pluralism while enforcing UCC? How would UCC recognize matriarchal social norms (Malayalis are pretty matriarchal)? How should UCC handle tribal social norms? What about Nilgiri tribes that engages in polyandry (Draupadi marriages)? We should be thinking carefully about them. We can't just hand wave it with a 5 mins video on UCC. It deserves more attention.
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  541. I encourage everyone to read up the early 2010s interview of Shah Bano's son about how Personal Laws killed the sanity of a poor pious lady on Hindustan Times. UCC would have spared her the suffering.
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  542. "Europe’s problems are the world’s problems but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems.". Please keep lecturing the Global South about "values" we need to live by. So much for Europeans lectures about International Law and Sovereignty.
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  543. She called Prewar Transjordan as "crappy piece of land with nothing on it". Well ... that is a fact.
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  544.  @tapemaj  we fought it and decline to pay the retroactive rate hike (just like Vodafone, Cairn, etc.).
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  545. Soft loans, good consulting and machinery can help the Global South greatly and stem the proliferation of Chinese BRI projects. For eg in India: German loans and machinery (TBMs) have helped build Transit projects in India in cities like Pune and Nagpur. Alstom manufactures Metro coaches in India and exports them thanks to a French loan. Italian tech helped build signalling systems have helped throughput on many clogged railway lines. Austrian consultants have helped navigate tunnelling issues. Dutch expertise on coastal development has helped Mumbai decongest its roads and build new parks. That’s the example of what Europe can do and it can do a lot more. $300 billion can be pretty well spent.
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  546. GM should be rebranded as accelerated hybridization. You can get the same results as GM with natural crops, except it will take way way longer and several more generations.
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  547. Xi admonishing Trudeau is the perfect example of Wolf warrior diplomacy. Like they say, diplomacy is cheap talk, it is not diplomacy until there are real costs to pay. Xi knows that, he think there is very little cost to pay if he publicly admonishes Trudeau.
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  548.  @anujsethi7845  sure, they can set it up in Canada. There's Brampton and Surrey, it's almost Jatt Khalsa Raj.
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  549. Well, if Rajasthan Congress implodes like Punjab (they likely will) then none of this will matter. BJP will win without any effort.
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  550. You don’t need content moderation when DW can provide you with all the liberal biases of the world directly to you. Just look at their selection of guests - every one of them is aligned with extreme liberal (ultra progressive) positions. They could try and bring someone less ideological.
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  551. The translations are misleading. Eg: Shradhalu does not mean visitor but pilgrims. It completely changes the tone of the sentence spoken by the person from Badrinath board. That’s just one example, but entire translation uses wrong words, mislabeled entities and misleading tone.
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  552. "Court must not enter into a larger canvas of whether certain parts of the Quran are essential or not, as it does not arise for consideration over here". That is what the petitioner told the courts. I am aghast. We are telling the courts not to intervene in one religion, this is what our country has come to. This would be an outrageous thing to say in any democratic country.
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  553. Shekarji, your participation in TVO Panel the other day was quite refreshing. It brought a lot of nuance in the discussion.
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  554. DK Singhji can't help but laugh and I know how he feels. Uddhav Thackeray with CPI .... It's tough to swallow. Balasaheb was an anti communist, he would not be happy about this.
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  555. And you assume they don’t use beyond visual range missiles
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  556.  @reach2prasanna  the answer lies in her own State administration.
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  557. When are we going to start exporting vaccines? Because if we don't vaccinate the World then all this effort will go to waste. Also what's the Govt's plan for stockpiling booster shots and annual Covid vaccines? These are the questions we should be asking.
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  558. Remember when Hamas said it would release all the hostages? That never happened.
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  559.  @sagarshetty3175  My Tamil father learnt Tamil along with Marathi from a Public School in Pune. I had no facility to learn Tamil from a school in Mumbai in the 90s and 2000s because TN Govt. stopped Tamil language programs. You can't say Tamil is not accepted by Hindi speakers when you don't allow Tamils living outside of TN to learn Tamil. How can you expect Hindi speakers to learn Tamil?
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  560. It is time we use our money power to make Kerala the land of Parasuram again. Dharm pravesh ki Jai.
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  561. Courts are holding up privatization of 3 PSUs. Maharashtra Govt can somehow stall the sale of Shipping Corporation of India for "security concerns" of real estate. BPCL makes sense, Aramco IPO was pretty lukewarm - probably not the right time plus it helps us purchase Russian oil. Can't really blame the Govt. for things that aren't in it's control - like litigation. Great work, we do need more journalism that tracks the Govt's own targets and policy implementation.
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  562. He does criminally spends tax money on freebies. They should let him go to Singapore. The Singaporeans will criminally rip his fiscal policy apart.
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  563. Punjabi farmers killed Punjabi industry. The farmer's demand for free electricity killed the State's fiscal capacity. So while India was booming in the 2000s, Punjab was adding cess after cess on residential and industrial electricity tariffs to cover the shortfall. While China was selling boxing gloves at Rs. 30/unit (Punjab used to own that market), Punjabi manufacturers were charging around Rs. 50/unit which includes about Rs. 15 in cess owe to Punjab Govt. Today Punjab is completely de-industrialized - local industries have shifted from Punjab to Lower Himachal Pradesh. Today Himachal Pradesh manufactures more goods in a year than Punjab in the past 5 years. Lesson here is if you listen to Punjabi farmers, say goodbye to any industry and start saving for a ticket to Canada. Fun fact: 1. Punjab was charging a Gaurashak cess before BJP even came up with the concept of Gaurashak tax. 2. Jalandar used to be the Shenzen of Sports equipment manufacturing until the late 2000s.
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  564.  @dawnofkitty  it's a legit business strategy called diversification. Diversification is expensive and difficult to pull off but can save companies. Tata is a great example, Tatas started with Steel but diversified into other products. When Tata Steel was bleeding money, Tata Chemicals was making tons of money. It padded the cashflow of Tata group.
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  565.  @Kokachiii-r1b  well, the ruling class initially made rules designed to beat businesses into submission and eventual nationalization. However, those rules became tools for the ruling class and the bureaucracy to engage in rent seeking behaviour. So as a businessperson, you either pay a bribe to get anything done or do the right thing and watch the business die waiting for approvals.
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  566.  @pardeeptandon  3 are failed States. 2 are a monarchy and UAE is a semi monarchy with large business relationship with India. Please learn to pick better examples.
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  567. Collegium must be scrapped. Judicial nepotism should be punished.
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  568. Indian journalist wouldn't ask a question like that but Pakistani journalist would. I don't think they realize that this will end up helping Modi.
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  569. Absurd analyst. His answer to every question is "There's a discomfort against Mahayukti." Masala dalna hai toh dhang se karo. Don't make it bland.
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  570. I listened to several discussions of Lambah's book, a couple of things becomes very clear: 1. Any good we extend always gets reciprocated with terrorism and backstabbing. 2. We are actually doing Pakistan a favour by not excluding them out of Debt relief discussions with the IMF, Govt Officials don't talk about it openly but it's evident if you read between the lines. They are not bitter like the Pakistani elites and are cognizant of the suffering of Pakistani people. 3. Any Trade deal with Pakistani is too much meherbani and will come at the expense of our interests. (Any other concessions is also kuch jyada meherbani) 4. Our elite who pursue a Ganga-Sindh-Jamuna tehzeeb are knowingly or unknowingly advocating for more Pakistani backstabbing. 5. We should make denuclearization of Pakistan our strategic priority. If you think Pakistanis have learned their lesson, well look at Indian Punjab. While Pakistani Punjab is collapsing, their elites are still busying droning in drugs into Indian Punjab (and funding Khalistanis abroad). Talk about priorities. I will buy this book because it is important to understand how much we have bent over backwards to make peace and how much we were back-stabbed and terrorized.
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  571.  @parvadhami980 You're right but Palestinian authority is using him as a poster boy to justify indiscriminate killing. Bhagat Singh is remembered for both what he did and restraint he showed. His contribution will never be forgotten.
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  572. @The Indian Socialist but AAP got more of their supporters. It means two things - Delhis voting population has reached a peak. BJP has it fix it’s problems with getting voters to the booth.
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  573. Man, I feel like Shekarji's head will be thoroughly scrambled when he looks at TN caste politics.
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  574. Ugh. Sonia and Mamta again? Both of them have serious baggage of corruption and scams. They don't offer anything new or an alternative vision of India. Nobody in their right mind wants to go back to the 90s or 2000s, people want to move forward. Modi came to power by selling a dream of New India (he is definitely delivering that dream when it comes to Infrastructure), where's the oppositions vision of a New India? The opposition needs new faces and new thinking.
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  575. What Congress really needs to learn is A for Agency. They need to start to give their leaders agency to get things done
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  576.  @mehnurevolution.899  All you have to contribute is just emotional nonsense. Look at how much better representation in smaller state assemblies are. Infact Muslim MLAs have increased with redistricting and state reorganization. Also, our population grew 400% while seats in Lok Sabha stayed the same. Ever minority population has been impacted by this - I mean every minority, caste, language and religion.
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  577. There’s no way Azad is winning Nagina. It’s a seat dominated by peacefuls however reserved for SC. This will either go SP or Azad will cut into SP (and BSP) votes and give BJP the win.
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  578. A suggestion: A mic and a boom set roughly costs about 1.5 to 4 thousand rupees. I think everyone in The Print who does regular columns like Shekar Gupta, SAP, Jyoti, Ruhi and others can use that. It will cut out the background noise and improve production quality greatly.
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  579. Niall Ferguson said something very interesting that's relevant here. Dictators don't need to worry about the general happiness of their citizens. Russia with a $1 Trillion dollar GDP is still dangerous because Putin can sacrifice it's entire society to meet his geo-strategic goals. Scandinavian nations joining NATO is not all doom and gloom for Russia, but it only means more sacrifices from the Russian people.
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  580.  @92sathish  then why are you even commenting. Here take your Rs. 2 and scurry to your next shallow dive.
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  581. Unlike Israel, India's judiciary needs deep reforms. The Judiciary is not only a deep deep den of corruption (5k for a tatkal hearing is the going rate at Bombay HC) but it also makes every other wing of the Govt look competent. Also unlike Israel, our Judiciary consistently makes up it's own laws, bypasses legislature and does not respect separation of powers.
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  582. "Gold rings to all patients in the hospital" Imagine the amount of money looted by DMK MLAs.
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  583. Even after you consider this entire controversy, the BJP is still leagues ahead of the Congress. Can you imagine a Jagdish Tytler getting booted out or suspended by the Congress? Absolutely not, they welcomed him back with sweets and garlands.
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  584. Crying at Wayanad about Parliament is not going to win new seats.
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  585. So soon we’ll have Deshbhakt*cough*vipaksh Akask Banarjee and Rathee as well. Rathee is now settled in Germany btw.
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  586. Earlier this year, the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies held a conference regarding how Hinduism is defined along Euro centric and protestant lines. What does this Euro centric perspective of Hinduism mean? Well it means, if Hinduism doesn't follow the Protestant model, it is not modern, incapable of reforms, stuck in it's old ways. It also means you ignore reform within Hindu practices and institutions. This means people with 'Protestant' leanings and/or influences are projected as the sole class of reformist people. For eg, Reforms promulgated by anti caste Ramalinga in the South are labeled as not modern, maintaining barbaric practices. That's why we learn more about Raja Ram Mohan Roy (I must stress, his efforts should not be understated) and not someone like Ramalinga. Thanks to Nehru, this perspective has essentially been cemented into Indian intellectual thought and propagated by Govt since Independence. In some sense previous/contemporary generation of Indian intellectuals, have ironically become Macaulay's children or Macaulayputra. This was just with Hinduism, now the same intellectual extends that thought tradition to India as a concept, country, idea etc. I think we do need a serious rethink about several things about India.
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  587.  @Gappasappa a good economy needs specialists and experts, folks who build systems, entrepreneurs and innovators. Modi cannot play all those roles and be everything. It's also incumbent on us to push ahead. This is our moment, this is Bharat's moment.
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  588. ECI bills restores sanity back into our Govt system. CJI deciding on appointment of CEC is a dilution of separation of Power that India really does not need and will lead to disastrous consequences. Including Leader of Opposition (Currently Adhir Ranjan Chowdury) is a step in the right direction. Besides, CEC was always chosen by Cabinet (in part) and wasn't a problem until some "Intellectuals" imagined it as one since 2014.
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  589. 100% of the 36% that couldn't find a job placement are from the Humanities department.
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  590. "I don't always talk about love but when I do, I make sure voter loves to abandon me" - Srimati Rahul Gandhi
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  591.  @Ashwyn123 it was far worse prior to electoral bonds. Electoral bonds cleaned up a lot of black money and made donations taxable.
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  592. Jaishanker's book is more like a white paper than a book. I'd say it's the MEA's white paper. Initially I thought it was odd that a current Foreign Minister would write a book. Then I realized Shiv Shankar Menon's comment that Govt of India doesn't write white papers because it would be perceived as land of the law rather than a white paper.
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  593. Congress will BJP’s B team in Delhi and AAP will be BJP’s team everywhere else. Congress will help BJP gain more votes by conducting rallies with Jagdish Tytler and making RaGa talk more about his ideas of India he presented to Europeans.
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  594.  @AJ-vu5gv  they codified their law with our constitution. It's called essential practices. Ever community has the right to essential practices as long as they are compatible with the basic doctrine. If certain Muslims communities feel hijab is essential then denying then hijab is a violation of the constitution. Bohras have done this just like the Sikhs. There are other ways too. We have plenty of private schools attached to ashrams as their promoters and plenty schools attached to mosques as well. We have language minority institutions. Plenty of legal avenues are available. They should fight it in courts. Not on the streets. Know your constitution, fight with the constitution.
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  595. That's exactly opposite of what the report. Investors are vary about India's judiciary rather than govt. Bilateral investment treaties allows investors to litigate outside India. We want the opposite of that, we want them to litigate in India - investors don't trust our courts to deliver judgements on time.
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  596.  @Kingzombiemyanmar  ye aagaya aur kya Lutyens wala. Do you even understand the implications of that statement? Or is it that you want us to be harassed even more than right now? Tell me, if today I can get arrested for just making an oblique comment on a State politician, what makes you think more power to the States is the solution to rampant abuse of power?
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  597.  @AyushPandey-tm9qr  dude, BMC sends bulldozers to people's homes without notice acting on the whims of a local corporator. Complain about their property violation or conflict of powers (they own Malls etc) and you get the bulldozer sent to your place, your utilities are disconnect, you licenses are suddenly revoked and Police are harassing you where you go. So again, I will ask you the same question , what makes you think more power to the any local body is the solution to rampant abuse of power? Ye sab abuse of power kaun check karega hai (because right now, no one is stopping these abuses of power)? Have you thought about that question at all? Fukat mein advice koi bhi de sakta hai.
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  598. I wouldn’t be surprised if Congress gives these intruders tickets. 3 of 5 were Congress supporters. Indira Gandhi used to engage in similar dirty tricks.
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  599. Yes. He did it the last time he was in pressure.
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  600. Why is this guy so hellbent on scuttling efforts to generate employment in India? Why is he hellbent on making India into a Philippines - A country with a permanent underclass that emigrates? What kind of classicism does he internalize within him to say something like India does not need industrial capacity to manufacture things? Or that poor do no deserve a shot at gainful employment?
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  601. Pappu's Unkle campaigns hard for Mudiji!
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  602. Well if he could visit some of those project sites where the project is stuck that would be great. So many things will get unblocked.
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  603. Nepali Congress should try to form a broader coalition with the other parties. They need to learn some Indian Parties.
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  604.  @smd4051  corporate tax cuts are not revdis. We saw a huge jump in corporate tax collection. So that’s an investment.
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  605. This Govt is quite responsive and I like that. They saw that as a problem and now they are looking to fix it. They've done similar tweaks with IBC. Refreshing to see a Govt tweak policies to make it work unlike previous Govts. People tend to forget, it is pretty hard to get Public Policy right.
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  606.  @92sathish  nope. The announcement of new programs tailored for women and he mentioned women of Manipur. I think you forgot about Manipur.
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  607. Well if you read Mahabharata, you'd know what Krishna is a crafty incarnation of God. He was the one who blew the conch when Ashwatama's death was announced.
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  608.  @saurabhkumarsingh9556  when you understanding of basic economics is non existent then you buy into the trusteeship model propaganda. Gandhi's economic philosophy was deliberately small in scale with no growth. He was against economics of scale, against machinery and voiced strong distrust towards economic units that employed more than 10 people. It was a pipedream of micro self sufficiency which was neither practical nor grounded in reality. It is essentially a non violent version of Trotsky or Pol Pot.
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  609. We have some culpability as well. We messed up prosecuting these guys for Air India 182.
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  610. It will be interesting to see how BJP whips up anti incumbency in 2025 to their advantage.
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  611. In 1971, Canada sent assassins to Paris to kill Mario Bachand. He was a painter, leftist activist who advocated for the Independence of Quebec. He was not prosecuted but he was still killed. At that time we decided that it was in our National Interest to violate French Sovereignty and eliminate Bachand. If Canada can (and has) exercise it's right to protect it's territorial integrity, it is natural India acts the same way. We either take Khalistani extremism seriously or we accept that India will simply keep exercising it's right to maintain territorial integrity on our soil.
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  612. Yes we need to provide Taiwan with Political support. Maybe also export LAVs to them to defend themselves.
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  613. NWFP is the home of Abdul Gaffar Khan, how far it has come from that.
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  614. It's a rebranding exercise. There's obviously been a process reorganization but GoI hasn't released anything that will give us insights into what those changes are.
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  615. Aaditya Thackeray, no more in cabinet, Uddhav no more CM, it's beautiful when karma hits back this hard for their arrogance and smugness. But that doesn't compare to watching Sanjay Raut lose his shit. That loud mouth did not see what hit him
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  616. The print is scrubbing comments
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  617. All of this inverted duty structure mess would be solved if we combined all the GST slabs into one rate. That would also give the Govt space to enact other forms of tax like property tax, transaction tax etc.
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  618. VP Singh introduced the politics of caste based Mandal politics to spite Rajiv Gandhi. Had he put in a little more forethought or was genuine about social justice then we would have had EWS and a reservation that really uplifted the Dalits, Scheduled Castes/tribes instead of the current mess of reservations that makes everyone suffer while enriching the creamy layer and the politically connected.
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  619. Rajiv Gandhi made Vir's career. Remember, this guy became a DD News Reader at the age of 19 under Rajiv Gandhi. Of course Vir is motivated to keep his idol's image clean.
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  620. More power to this lady. I hope she gets the organizational support that BJP provides to others local leaders in other states.
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  621.  @rodgerbloor6680  I dunno lol. Looking at the political dynasties ruling the States raises serious concerns about any further federalization. Just look at Mumbai and the Aarey colony Depot issue. It was a 50-50 JV between State and Centre and now that project is in limbo thanks to a local satraps ego. Basically, the Centre under this government has proved that it can govern. The jury is still out for State Governments. Any additional powers will most likely be abused against the locals is the State. We are well aware about the abuse of UAPA by the Centre but States are way worse when it comes to UAPA. For every abuse of power the Centre engages in, States are 2x-3x times likely to engage in abuse of power. Federalization is a beautiful word and a lovely concept on paper but reality suggests otherwise.
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  622. Why should India take Muslims in Pakistan who openly call for its conquest back into it’s borders? It is a huge existential risk. Secondly, why would India want to re-litigate the partition? The Muslim who live in these countries did not want to live with Non Muslims anyway. The non-Muslims in the same country are citizens we left behind due to the chaos of the partition. It’s not India’s responsibility to care for Muslims in those countries. They made their choice, the exclusion respects that.
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  623. Folks in Nuh got housing from the Central Govt under a "Hindu Nationalist" Govt. Nuh was the top village in it's District for number of piped water connections it got under Nal Se Jal scheme. Nuh was made lead village in Mewat's Aspirational Districts program. So tell me, Muslim Majority Nuh gets showered with all kinds of welfare programs, in fact gets put on a pedestal by Central Govt and this is how the people in that village treat their fellow taxpayers - violence, destruction of property and vandalism. The real hypocrisy is in amongst Muslims. Every other community tolerates the nonsense that comes from your community and we still treat you like human beings. Thanks for being Thankless.
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  624.  @utsavdasgupta8489 they can’t ignore numbers. You need numbers.
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  625.  @dibqip  IMO, she could have used commitments rather than "historical" ties. So the atrocities of the British Raj are still living memory for a lot of Indians. Indians perceive that the UK (by extension the West because UK is seen as part of it) lectures India about it's foreign policy (and domestic issues) and still treats India as a colony rather than an independent country. UK's history and lack of acknowledgment doesn't help remove that perception. A lot of atrocities committed during the Raj are still living memories - survivors of the Bengal famine are living grandparents of the aspirationa generation of young Indians. The horrors of the Partition of India are still talked about in the homes of Indians. On the other hand UK keeps boasting that it gifted railways and democracy - it is a disingenuous statement. Her statement about "historical" responsibilities just cements that perception. Her comment was pretty tone deaf given the current environment where more Indians (also citizens of former colonies) are asking for recognition, reconciliation and symbolic reparations for the colonial era.
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  626.  @dynamitebsb4520  UK has a very long way to go. It's not just about GDPs. It's the lack of acknowledgment. And it's not just about India, it's about UK's relationship with it's former colonies. Like I said, the perception of being treated as a colony still exists.
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  627. It's way better than the monarchial rule of the Gandhi family's Congress.
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  628. Govt should abolish their land deeds and redistribute it. That way this middle men will stop protesting and making ridiculous demands.
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  629. Basically Ukraine War disrupted Manufacturing and they experienced two quarters of degrowth. But now that supply chains have settled down, manufacturing is growing again. That's what it seems like? But ya, Govt can sweeten the deal by pressuring State Govts to reform laws and notifying pending laws.
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  630. Haha, he's trying to pin Shivraj Patil on Modi. It's not going to work to be honest. Besides AAP's presence on the ground is not exactly improving. They should go after Congress votes instead.
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  631. Regional gamand. They seriously underestimate the amount of groundgame required to play at the National level. The only folks who have that kind of ground game is BJP and Congress. The Congress will be a spent force as long as the Gandhis are at the helm.
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  632. 100 Million??? Wow, what would even get for that price? India's incentive starts at $10 billion, EU has theirs at $16 billion, why are we aiming so low?
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  633. WTH, there are limits to blindly praising someone. End of Zamindars, land reforms, linguistic states was not a result of Nehru. Heck he was very reluctant against those reforms. All of those reforms came as a result of grassroot movements. He ruined the IAS (ICS) with his diktats and rampant nationalization after 1955. He was the founder of IIT, AIIMS and IIM. However, Nehru was already dead when ISRO was founded (1969, Nehru died in 1962). He cracked down on Freedom of Speech, he whipped his party to pass Article 19(a). Incidentally, the BJP's spiritual founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Ambedkar were staunchy against it. Election Commission was not his brainchild, it was a combined genuises of the Constituent Assembly. All the Liberal values you claim to cherish, was a result of Ambedkar - Nehru was against the passage of Hindu Code Bill (which itself was a compromise from UCC).
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  634. We couldn’t call Aaditya, Penguin when he was partying with taxpayer money as a cabinet minister. So this is a case of Aditya projecting his wish to get back to the good old days of Penguingiri
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  635. This was very informative. The best thing about cut the clutter is that assumptions and opinions are made transparent to the viewer.
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  636. I support the bill. It's setting things right. Courts can't simply inject themselves into executive powers. That's very undemocratic.
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  637. Whoever came up with “Yoya is India’s Johnny Sins” needs to be given a Padma award.
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  638. An 18 year college student died from spiked candy containing fentayl. She was offered that candy at her university. Thanks to Trudeau and his decriminalization, we now need to deal drugs again.
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  639. Rahul Gandhi is proposing the abolition of Collegium? 🤔
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  640. Ramachandran Guha ruined this book release with his loudmouthing behavior. I apologize to Patrick on his behalf.
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  641. And after this speech, Rahul will leave India for Thailand. There’s no Bharat Jodo Yatra starting from 25th to New years. It’s on their website.
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  642. The ban of Rushdie's book in India backfired a lot and was largely seen as appeasing Muslims. It became a seminal moment in the rise of Hindu nationalism. Ironically Modi owes it to Rushdie for the rise of his party to what it is today. For me it's a teaching moment, you can't compromise on Liberal values without damaging social cohesion.
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  643. New Yorker magazine might find that Jai Shree Ram disturbing but New Yorkers won't. They will chant Jai Shree Ram with cricket fans and go home and watch RRR again or anime Ramayana. Garv se bolo - Jai Shree Ram.
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  644. Ever since UPA made Maharashtra PWD the implementing agency, that project has been jinxed. PWD refuses to let any other agency take over that project and thanks to a court order, Govt is forced to pour in more money into NH66. Corruption Pro Max thanks to Maha PWD - Paisa Wasoli Dept.
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  645. "RSS ki Shajid" strategy worked really well for the Congress the last time they used it 🙄 Yup this is going to backfire again.
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  646. Supreme Court enabled Amritpal to contest when they allowed Kejriwal's bail. SC is an enabler. Our MiLords are the biggest threat to our country.
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  647. Aditya should get a shoutout for quoting Vas from Farcry! The definition of insanity
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  648. Interim budget, waiting on certain acquisitions to be done etc. The dullness in the budget is understandable. A dull interim budget is better than giving RaGa another opportunity to scream "Rafale scam"
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  649. OCI and dual citizenship question and the reply was interesting.
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  650.  @chiruboy23  socialism limited their choices and rather than eliminate, it extended the caste system. One Dalit group became the oppressor of another Dalit group, the bureaucracy created and empowered that power structure with its pervasiveness. The States relentless pursuit to control everything almost destroyed Indian capitalism and job growth. That meant a manual scavenger, who could escaped the job destined by his caste was unable to. Socialism stagnated social progress. In our esteemed communist states, Castes became class but the caste discrimination remained, became viscous and violent. Our movies inspired by marxism, merely made us blind to caste discrimination. Our Marxist historian misinterpreted our own history to suggest caste was bound by blood and not profession. Socialism sold us a fool’s paradise.
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  651. It's a modern imitation of the terracotta army.
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  652. The editorial decisions at the Print also seems like a bad idea. Shekarji is burning good bridges trying to convince people to vote against Hindutva. Look at the Kalanidhi 50 word edit.
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  653. Those who claim Railways should focus on safety are missing the point. It's making the same argument as "We are a poor nation, we should stop funding ISRO or building Nuclear plants." Railways should be able to invest, prioritize better facilities, faster trains etc while still retaining it's core competency, i.e. safety. To claim it is distracting just shows how lazy and unproductive Railway babus are.
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  654. They are called ASHA workers. They have basic medical training and are the Frontline public health workers of India. They are extremely hard working people and some of them face enormous stigma from their own community. Sadly, India's decades of neglect of healthcare means they are paid pittance for the amount of work they do.
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  655. LOL. Dude thinks he runs a Government. What kind of talks is he holding? This is hilarious.
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  656. Kudos to Ishadrita for maintaining her composure at 4:04 This must have been a tough panel to sit through.
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  657. Man, Modi beat Raga up so bad that he got reduced to going after Chief Ministers. That's like getting relegated to a Minor League.
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  658. Of course there’s Ashok Swain. That guy just can’t leave us alone.
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  659. Average Canadian owns multiple homes. They treat it like investment
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  660. It does reform higher education and opens up private universities market. It won't be resolved immediately but over time it should produce enough teachers. (Teaching is taught in University) Also it's up to us to ensure it's success as much as it's the Govts responsibility. If we don't keep up the pressure, nothing will happen.
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  661. With such wonderful people like Shibu Soren, Mamta Banarjee, BK Handique (who came up with the policy that 26% of Mining company revenues should be awarded as annuity to project affected people in perpetuity) and most famously Pranabda who handed Ministry of Mines, you can only expect Canada and Australia levels of competence (sarcasm). Pranabda, just like his retro tax also wrote our most regressive mining laws. He helped make illegal mining a permanent feature of our economy. Such wonderful Ministers, most competent.
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  662. Even by our own standards we have a long way to go to improve human rights. At least we can acknowledge that we are making progress and we need to make more progress.
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  663. We should start a new association with Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Mauritius and Sri Lanka + ASEAN as an observer. Just not bother with SAARC and ignore Pakistan.
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  664.  @joroberts484  this is not an Indian problem. This is a Canadian problem. Jagmeet and Trudeau has been legitimizing this movement. These guys got a free pass DESPITE Air India 182.
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  665. Isn't it Govt. of India's policy to return kids to the parents? I would imagine Govt of India might have a procedure to verify who the boy's parents are. The distressed person in the video, claims to be the boy's Uncle.
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  666.  @மலைக்கோட்டை-ள5த  ya it's very clear. Tutoring mila toh at least Indian politics basic toh samaj mein aata. Instead RaGa party ko fail ke upar fail laa raha hai. (In English: If RaGa got some tutoring, at least he would have understood the basics of Indian Politics. Instead Raga is bringing failure after failure to his party.)
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  667. I think you mean Secession not succession. Besides it is a bypoll - most voters vote against the incumbent to send a message. This is definitely a message for both Centre and State.
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  668.  @IndiaTides The words used in Parliament is not hate speech, you can't sue anyone for anything said in Parliament. Not to mention it was in response to being called Neech. The Udaynidhi one is pure hate speech. So you're right they are not equivalent. Udaynidhi one was way worse and this guy justified it.
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  669. This cases was never about drugs or a drug bust. Anyone who lived or lives in Maharashtra knows Police raids aren't about law enforcement. It's all about projecting power and hafta vasoli or extracting huge bribes. The Session court judge can absolutely squash the charge sheet and deem NDPS as unconstitutional (it violates habeus corpus). Anyone in Mumbai knows courts aren't about protecting fundamental rights, let alone expect justice and search for truth. This case and the media coverage is a sham of the entire police and justice system. If you think democracy is backsliding because of Modi, think again and think hard. It's backsliding because the Police and the Justice system can't perform their fundamental duties.
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  670. Om Shanti
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  671. It is a two way street. The States needs to make learning Indian languages accessible that means, setting up adult learning institute similar to how foreign languages have their institute. It will be a booming industry, just standardize the test and the curriculum. This requires some forward thinking leaders but our State leaders are just garbage.
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  672.  @millennialmind9507  yes but they’ve achieved it to a large extent. It’s a huge quality of life improvement.
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  673. Kharge is a Gandhi family loyalist. He named his Son after Rahul Gandhi, his daughter after Indira 'Priyadarshini' Gandhi. He is that Loyal. The family is not going away, they are going to use Kharge as a puppet.
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  674. Kashi, Mathura baaki hai.
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  675.  @deflexion3677  yes we can tell the future by tracking what has changed in the present. Sorry to disappoint you, the judgement doesn't change the fundamentals of Political financing. It actually reverts it back to the days of UPA - instead of directly funding parties under the guarantee of privacy, you now have to do the same thing through layers of shell companies.
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  676. Everyone else have shown how terribly they handle things. Modi's way is the best way
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  677. He's free to live and lives free in Gupkar road. He is free to speak to the press and has free access to them. He's not censored and free to say anything that comes out of his mind. So yes, he lives in a free country. He's more free than some of our compatriots. We can't be critical of our local govts without the local politician's goons knocking on our door.
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  678. basically it's a Bhiwandi
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  679.  @sankalp6872  Except Gujarat, every other State makes it a chore to renew your licenses and retain your industrial plot and then forces shut downs of units over allegations of tax disputes (and loses those dispute). Maharashtra Police is pretty well known for invoking Colonial epidemic laws (Cholera Act mandates businesses to maintain log books of when toilet were painted with limestone lining) to engage in rent seeking behaviour aka bribery
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  680. TLDW: Udaynidhi is the very definition of privilege. He's the alt-Raga of TN.
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  681. Aaah the Capt. is taking lessons from his Canadian diaspora and Naveen Patnaik. He's trying to get a Punjab first regional party. Smart move, he gets to keep Punjab while maintaining distance from Delhi.
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  682.  @nilanperera4774 call it what you want. But Trudeau managed to get Modi more support and votes with his idiocy. Great way to lend support to a "fascist".
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  683. It's very rich for China to lecture us about democracy. They are scared, very scared. A country with the diversity and size of India that accommodates multiple perspectives scares them. It leaves them with very little space to defend their authoritarianism.
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  684. Re: Your 50 word Edit. I want to express my disappointment at that Editorial. The editorial could have been an opportunity to highlight the structural and institutional deficit in our Justice system. There's 1.2 million pending criminal cases in Gujarat. The courts in Gujarat on average processes less than 2000 cases/month (cumulatively). Public support for flogging only shows the deep distrust of our Justice system to deliver justice in time. The Print, which prides itself as an institution, should have highlighted these deep institutional issues rather than just condemn the public flogging.
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  685.  @ayush3927  it's the same infrastructure projects that GoI has been working on since Modi-1 that's getting a fresh cash and integrated approach towards implementation. I'm not saying it's a bad initiative but it's not new announcements.
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  686. I wish the NDP used their Supply and Confidence agreement to get the federal govt to be more aggressive on housing. But they rather spend their political capital on piecemeal policies. They are definitely not getting my vote.
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  687.  @ashishsunny7963  They are already learning the local languages and adopting local culture. That's my point. UPwalas are doing their kawad (kavaddi in Tamil) yatra to Murugan temples instead of doing them in the North.
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  688. It took a while for the electricity to reach Kegriwal and now his tubelight is screaming Manipur. Hota hai, muft ka power hamesha deri se aati hai.
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  689. I understand you are promoting your book and the praise is understandable. But let’s not bury the fact that Roys lost their way and engaged in tax fraud, money laundering and the infamous Radia tapes.
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  690. I'd like to be a Trucker. But with high housing costs, I have no choice but to look for a better paying job so that I can afford to buy a place or pay rent. Trucking does not bring enough money for it be a sustainable job. The lesson here is, you can't have nice things in life with insane housing costs.
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  691. Reality is, education especially higher education is a huge money making business for far too many State politicians. The fight around education most likely involves Center stepping over State politicians' quota livelihood
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  692. Anyone remember the "United India Allaince", announced with such pomp and circumstance in Kolkata in 2019. Tejaswi was there with Mayawati and Kejriwal too. Guess how well that worked out. Previous opposition meetings have been 'historic', 'pathbreaking', 'groundshaking', 'mahagathbandhan' etc. for me to consider this one any more different.
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  693.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  Now you are just spouting nonsense.
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  694. After all this our Champagne Liberalati still advocates for Pindi-Dilli Tehzeeb. BTW, our Supreme Court culture is not that day off from the Pakistani court culture. Thank God our judges early in our Republic didn't invent something as damaging as doctrine of necessity.
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  695. While China and Russia seems to be the focus, but we forget there's Brazil and South Africa. We have significant trade ties with South Africa and we are seeking investments from Brazil particularly in aerospace sector. There are few forums where we can engage with them. Brics is one of those forums
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  696. Please move to Bihar.
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  697.  @chubbymoth5810 n our case, only invaders were involved in it. Babur and the Delhi Sultanate considered themselves as Ghaznavids/Persians. Even their descendants haven't survived to the modern era. So no one in the contemporary era was involved in it. In case of the Dutch, the Royal family is still alive, they (their grand and great-grandparents) benefited from it. They held shares in companies that traded slaves.
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  698. Germany's role in Indo Pacific is similar to it's role in Ukraine where Germany was fattening Russian coffers. In other words, Germany will feed China, make it rich and when a war comes Germany will blame the rest of the world for the war. Der Spiegel will publish a racist cartoon potraying Asians as barbaric tribes, DW will run media blitz dehumanizing the rest of world, EU FM will talk about the "the West" is a garden and look at the "Asian Jungle".
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  699. These guys say BJP undermines it's Allies but looking at BJP's allies, it seems like they are undermining themselves. Uddhav's Sena is a good example of how to give away your best vote bringers to the BJP.
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  700.  @legendahmad8548  Last time I checked, Pakistani scientist AQ Khan sold centrifuges and rough designs to Libya and North Korea - unstable autocrats. And he was made a national hero. A National hero for selling WMDs to unstable autocrats. 30 kgs of uranium was discovered by Indian security services and procedures were tightened. That shows how serious Govt of India when it comes to proliferation.
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  701. Fulfill Ambedkar’s wishes. He wanted Hindus and non Muslims in India and Patarbaaz deported to Pakistan.
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  702.  @Rising._.Thunder  naaah, Australia will become the new Canada.
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  703. In India the rallies have gone online. Narendra Modi gets more support on a YouTube livestream than he gets with a physical rally. Cheap data FTW.
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  704. IIRC PPP. The folks there have to pay a portion and the govt pays a portion. The service is contracted out.
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  705. Shekarji will come out and say, "This is not racism. Sam is attacking our racial sentiments." just like how he defended Udaynidhi Stalin's statement.
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  706. I don't think I've ever seen a more thin skinned politician than Uddhav Thackeray. Maharashtra is now like Bihar in the 90s. Also we need Cut the Clutter with Mansi Padke.
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  707.  @ayush8971  his relative used the Charles Sobraj strategy. Get jailed for a lenient offence to avoid punishment for a greater offence.
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  708. We can all relate to Ms. Lahiri here at 2:32 😂 Besides did anyone understand what the General Saheb was trying to say?
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  709. Welcome step. Better late than never. Sadly, I wish Government of India had welcome Sri Lankan Tamil refugees back in the late 2010s (and throughout the Civil war). Our country has done great disservice against it's diaspora over the decades - Sri Lankan Tamil, Fiji Hindis, Ugandan Gujaratis and Marwadis. Our country still does great disservice to them today - around 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils are denied their natural right to integrate with Indian Tamils, Chakmas are denied their right to become citizens despite being resettled 3 generations ago, Fiji Hindis can't naturalize in India.
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  710. In Ep 1038, Shekarji talks about toxicity of Bank nationalization. The reality is Nehruvian Socialism was bad for everyone. Back then I said post the comment below, I will post it again. Let's put things in perspective. Govt has spent $40 billion dollars to recapitalize Public Sector Banks. That's $40 billion that you can't use to fund other priority issues. For $40 billion, - You can double the output of Nal Se Jal (It costs $60 Billion/yr) - Double the Capital expenditure of the Armed forces. Programs like MRFA/AMCA/Aircraft carrier/Light tanks etc. would get better funding - Salaries of Teachers in almost every state can be doubled with leftover money used for pensions - 15 more Metro lines in our Cities - Roughly 60 new expressways. Any one of those programs could have given better returns over recapitalization of PSBs.
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  711.  @parvadhami980 yes indeed and self destruction isn’t limited to Punjab. SGPC has a hand in Gurudwara politics in Canada as well.
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  712. Congressi on Twitter have completely forgotten that Rajasthan exists. Tehseen Poonawalla gets hilariously called out by Barkha. Ashok Swain is whining about the media not covering BharatJodoYatra while boosting Hollywood sees greatness in Rahul Gandhi. I never knew they were this delusional. No wonder Congress is going down the drain.
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  713. Gandhi is understood better through Ambedkar. I'd recommend everyone read through their correspondences, MEA hosts them online.
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  714. The issue with JNU is politics is center to JNU. Which other University has politics this deep in it's culture? It takes the worst aspects of Nehru and amplifies it in it's polity. Also why should we care about JNU? This intense coverage of JNU is how the media loses credibility. It's very arrogant to propagate JNU's issues as national issues. There are way more serious things to talk about and debate.
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  715. जब में जवान था तब पंजाब और पंजाबी समाज बहुत आमिर था. मगर अब पंजाब ना अच्छा फसल ना अच्छा रोजगार. पंजाबी लोग, पंजाब निकाल के आमिर हो रहे. पंजाब सद रहा है. अफसोस हो रहा है. दिल दुःखदा! AAP पंजाब का सड़ना की तेजी लेख रहा है.
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  716. US India relations used to be pretty decent until the 70s. Kennedy and Nehru were on good terms and he stemmed some of Nehru's socialist tendencies. Kennedy helped India build it's first Nuclear power plant and allowed Indian scientist to study in the US (one of them became the President of India, APJ Kalam). Nehru reached out to Kennedy to get 400 F4 phantoms and starfighters (IIRC) in the middle of the 62 war - Kennedy considered it but couldn't fulfill it but sent ammo (Nobody had spare fighter lying around.). Kennedy also put significant pressure on Pakistan not to attack India while China was invading our borders. Things turned south as Nixon and Indira Gandhi (Nehru's daughter) came to power. Nixon hated "Hindus with their ugly women and nose rings" and Indira went deep into Socialism. Up until then US has quite a lot of business in India until the 1970s nationalizations. Esso and Standard Oil were nationalized to become BPCL and HPCL. Chevrolet used to sell it's cars in India their production was sold to Premier Automotives (IIRC), Coke was forcefully sold to local business to Parle (Thumbs up), AIG became LIC and GIC. etc. And relationship kept going South until Hilary Clinton convinced Bill Clinton to make a trip to India because of the progress India made with improving the condition of women (Still got work to do but it has come a very very long way). Mumbai was the cleanest city for that week when Bill made his visit. Bush Jr. elevated it further when he signed the Indo US nuclear deal and dropped sanctions. The goodwill that came from those two Presidents still drives the relationship forward.
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  717. In 2019, in Kolkata, every leaders came together and held hands on stage. And then Chowkidar chor hai happened.
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  718. Talking about corruption - the best way to tackle corruption in India is by reforming regulations. We have way too many “rent seeking” regulations that enables corruption. While Central govt has made good progress on that front, State govts are dragging on that progress. We need more reforms from State govts.
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  719. In Democracy, wins and losses are not permanent but Congress' sychopancy to the Gandhi family and it's decline are permanent.
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  720. Congress Govts underfunded and corrupted the Govt services to a point that they were unable to provide Govt. services (which Govt should have in the first place instead of nationalizations). Schools which Govt should have built and managed by the Govt was instead (thankfully) left to organizations like DAV, RSS affliates to fulfill, services which is supposed to be provided by NALSA was left various Shakas to manage etc. And today Rahul Gandhi is attacking those same institutions - man this is going to backfire.
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  721. Anyone who comes from a democratic country knows and understands the sacrifices veterans make to keep their respective country safe. This is a value shared across democratic countries but we celebrate it in different ways. I'm a new citizen and I've been pretty upset that this country treats Remembrance Day like it's nothing and not an important value to adhere too or uphold. My City in BC has little to nothing to keep the spirit of Remembrance Day alive. It's time to fix that, I'm writing to my City Council who thinks it's absolutely necessary to pass resolutions about Gaza but not necessary to spend money for Remembrance day. We can't let people forget that there are veterans in country that have helped keep this country safe.
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  722. Modi's campaigner is back. CBC might cheer for Rahul Gandhi but it won't work like they think it would partly because the Party putting forward the message is incompetent and has long lost credibility with India's voters. The Congress Party dropped the ball on this issue IN Parliament when it's session was being live streamed across India. They raised the wrong issue at the moment when everyone was watching. 2024 is definitely going to be a win for Modi.
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  723. That's why Congress Mukht Bharat is important. We can't trust the governance of India to one family i.e. Nehru-Gandhi family.
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  724. Snatching implies BJP had some genius strategy to make it happen. The truth is, the BJP did not do anything, the Opposition simply handed the stick to the BJP and asked Modi to beat them black and blue with a velvet glove.
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  725. Jab tak conviction nahi milta hai tab tak ye sab tamasha hai. ED needs to convict.
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  726. Maharashtra mein legislation bandh ho gaya hai. Uddhav ghar pe baitha hai aur Vidhan aa nahi rahe hai
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  727. Also Judiciary. Nobody wants to invest after looking at the State of our courts
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  728. When Pravin Chakraborty joined the Congress in 2018, Rahul Gandhi called him the "much-needed MRI for the party". Since then MRI results have shown Congress has become a joke.
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  729. IBC needs help. The tribunal is back to old habits of the regular judiciary. Tariq pe Tariq and poor judgements. The judges need a little reminder of their role in the tribunal.
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  730. How to milk the proverbial Congress cow. The only folks who will buy this book are RaGa fanboys and academics (one of them will be forced to buy). Everyone else knows how much bakwass is there in the book.
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  731. Ironically, AAP's free electricity is nothing more than a handout to Adani power. The gullible Delhi taxpayer money is paying Adani Power at full commercial rate and like a little extra topping, saving Adani power costs involved with collecting payments for bills. Great for anyone who holds Adani stock, sucks to be a Delhi taxpayer though.
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  732.  @Anil-ct2xh there's expectations and there's putting pressure to fulfill those expectations.
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  733. May Indian football grow from here.
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  734. This line has been under construction for the past 20 years. It was supposed to be done 10 years ago. Countless lives were lost waiting for better conditions to commute.
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  735.  @firstpostmaster  he was booted out of Reserve Bank of India for poor performance. He’s been very salty about it.
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  736. Anna do your best, we need to oust DMK from Tamizhagam. Evict EVR from the land of Perumal, Andals, Siddis and Arul nadu!
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  737. Finally a good topic in CTC in a while.
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  738. The print should file an RTI for the DPR and then let people read it. MMRDA is fairly chill to share DPRs
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  739. Apart from 'Dignity' was there any strong reason why an extension can't be given? No, these lackeys were part of the system and are change averse. How is 2 years any good? Even a case in the Supreme court takes more than 2 years to prosecute and these Retd cadres want 2 years? If the Govt. of the day gets 2 chances to pick a Chief of the CBI or ED, how does that make either institutions Independent? If these folks want functional CBI/ED, then they would have mentioned FBI Chief's tenure is 6 and advocated for 7.5 years.
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  740. Sir, it would be great if you spoke about Chinese actions in Myanmar. How are they reacting to the crisis in Myanmar? Just like us, China's Yunnan province is particularly sensitive. I don't think they are sitting idle watching what's going on.
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  741. Yogendra Yadav's motto: Maintain the mediocrity to thrive in the mediocrity.
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  742. I'd be cautious to interpret 2024 results just thru the lens of caste and diversity. BJP themselves made tactical error in campaigning particularly in candidates selection and GOTV.
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  743. Talking about Defence, I came across very interesting Journal Paper titled, "Assessing Nuclear Security Risks in Pakistan" by Sitara Noor. It is on open access, Shekarji, Snehesh Alex Philip and Praveen Swami might find really interesting. P.S.: I can send you the paper.
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  744. Jyoti should just come out and say she is pro Palestine and spare us the awkward monkey balancing.
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  745. How about we handle Trump by electing someone who does not irritate Trump with his passive aggressive behaviours (and can be polite like Shinzo Abe)? That strategy would work much better than whatever stuff Liberals come up.
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  746. "(Congress) It is a party of slaves" Spicy choice of words. 👍
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  747. TBH, Concerts are just a den of sexual encounters. So none of this is surprising.
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  748. Adani's investments within India are pretty sound (some will have solid returns once policy headwinds are removed for eg Adani Solar will benefit from renewable commitment.) Adani's investments outside India - is no different Govt Of India's numerous loss making PSU investments (but strategic investments). That should tell you everything about Adani. BTW the NDTV deal is a ruthless really well executed deal. It should be a case study in B schools on how to pick a ruthless deals.
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  749. I don't think Narendra Modi has harassed a police personnel unlike Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra. The first video of Priyanka was her harassing cops, it's not as carefully choreographed as the examples presented. Belchi was carefully choreographed.
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  750. Amartya Sen, the man who hogs all investments into human capital ands squats on Govt land. The guy also almost succeeded in destroying Nalanda university. There are theories of Amartya and there is his practice.
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  751. It’s not Sikh political muscle but Jatt Sikh political muscle flexing. They need to be taught a lesson.
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  752.  @double_courage57  Gadkari. He was good during Vajpayee and he's pretty good now. Goyal is also pretty good - those trade deals don't come easy. Unfortunately, UPA was marred with rampant policy paralysis (or corruption) that I can't name one remarkable minister. Heck even Modi is a good administrator, JAM Trinity is quite an achievement.
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  753. Basically what used to be Management Quota is now Collective Philanthropy. Either way, our institutions need funding so money from Management quota or philanthropy should be welcomed.
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  754. The end is a new beginning
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  755. We should aim like the Americans and be the ones launching Telescopes like JWST for the world to see the Universe. We are not there yet but we should make progress towards it!
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  756. I think the South will vote for the BJP just to keep Nitish out. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't poll pretty high. That might actually be a real possibility.
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  757.  @MA-fn6tg  I don't think he believes that. If he did, then he would fight election rather than solicit EU and US to "do something" about India's democracy .... especially at Chatnam House in front of British MPs. That's a great Jaichand move right there.
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  758.  @PakiloserMan ya I think he'll end up like Chandrashekhar Azad. Make a lot of media buzz but at the booth all that buzz will fizzle out.
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  759. The irony of Chandrachud's statement is that the Supreme Court itself engages in a lot of contempt of court proceedings for criticism of the court and delegitimizes the press by constantly attacking it for "selective quoting" judges (To quote someone by definition means borrow/select a statement - so there's even more irony in calling it "selective quoting"). Press rarely talks about the deep nepotism in the higher Judiciary because of the threat of contempt proceedings against them. Chandrachud is all talk, no action. I don't think he really believes in the lectures he gives.
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  760. My provincial premier (BC) has passed comprehensive reforms but the Federal government is MIA. We did not even get a mention in the Federal housing accelerator. In BC, we have organized crime groups washing money thru our property market. It's something Federal government can help with but they've been silent about it. We've been asking you help with homelessness but the Federal government has been woke and performative about it. Federal government could push for ALR reforms. There's so many places the Federal government can help but it keeps hiding behind jurisdiction.
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  761.  @drathul123  Govt does but babus essentially ensure private players aren't allowed by imposing impossible standards that excludes them
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  762. Leaks aside, the real drama was Macron in China. Macron goes to China and reminds us why "Europe’s problems are the world’s problems but the world’s problems are not Europe’s problems." is not just mere rhetoric Jaishankar impressed upon Euro journalists but actual reality.
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  763. I hope G7 throws Trudeau out. He's been a disaster at every multilateral summit. Drama teacher does a lot of drama.
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  764. Congress will never learn. They think Adani allegations will stick, they are in for a surprise. Even Pratap Banu Mehta said Adani Hindenburg issue will be difficult to explain to the electorate and will likely not become a poll issue.
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  765.  @sujithkvarghese5616  Urjit Patel improved AQRs significantly. AQRs failed to capture ILFS’s collapse and needed significant restructuring. You can’t simply blindly credit people for starting stuff.
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  766. Bring Arya Samaj back and send them into places like Nuh.
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  767. Congress has learned a little from Maharashtra. Dismissed MLAs before they can split and take a chunk of the party.
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  768.  @Critic224  turbans are protected. They are recognized as Essential practice of the Sikh faith and hence protected by the Constitution. Sikhs codified their personal laws in line with our constitution and they enjoy protections accordingly. Hijab is neither codified nor is it in line with the constitution because Mullahs prefer not to codify anything.
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  769. Jinnah's soul? It's more like Congress thinks Gandhi family is the Royal family and they have divine right to rule.
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  770. Afghanistan, beautiful country great food. Would love to come make a trip. Magar yaar, Mr. Suhail, better start letting those girls go to school. Uske bina, nahi jumta hai.
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  771. I doubt it would split. The BJP didn't split under Advani, it will less likely split after Modi. I think everyone in the BJP realizes this is a make or break election and I don't think they will let it go that easily. But yes, BJP needs to invest in maintain some level of continuity in the organization - keep producing good leaders, campaigners etc.
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  772. Oh yes! Unfortunately, we don't have a Police recruiting system that is open as the US. Using them for Police is a good idea.
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  773. Selectively remember history. Wasn't it Rajiv Gandhi who opened the flood gates by performing a bhoomipojan at Ayodhya? Why stop at Kalyan Singh? At least Kalyan Singh had the dignity to resign after the demolition.
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  774. This Govt is quite responsive and I like that. They saw that as a problem and now they are looking to fix it. They've done similar tweaks with IBC. Refreshing to see a Govt tweak policies to make it work unlike previous Govts. People tend to forget, it is pretty hard to get Public Policy right.
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  775.  @tapaskumarmahapatra1382  pot calls the kettle black. Or in Hindi as they say, "Chor chor ko chor bula raha hai". Of them all his is probably the bigger chor because he wastes taxpayers money on ads.
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  776. Man, Karnataka, Rajasthan is staring at UPA-2. High revdi spending, write offs everywhere, lagging capital expenditure, terrible governance etc. These guys want to drag us back into poverty.
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  777. "TV debates .... It doesn't make us any wiser". Mainstream Indian news media makes us dumber to be honest.
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  778. When the country's priorities is tunnel visioned and focused solely on one thing, everything else suffers. Matches with Pakistan used to be entertaining, hope they are able to come back to entertain us again.
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  779.  @raviinder6406  and they are stupid. They are hell bent on killing Punjab's economy and drag India along with it.
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  780. Nothing is wrong with Same sex marriage. Everything is wrong with the way the court is going about it. It has sped up SSM petition while it has ignored 70,000+ criminal cases that are waiting for a date with the court for 30+ years.
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  781. Today's lesson from Prof Kegriwal is about: How to take money away from governance and divert it to freebies during elections.
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  782. Singhvi can say all he wants about the judgment but it does not erase the irony that Rahul Gandhi tore up the ordinance (and called it 'nonsense') that would have given him protection from such judgements back in 2013. UPA passed an ordinance to reduce the sentencing and remove immediate suspension from Parliament over a conviction. Guess, who publicly tore that ordinance? Rahul Gandhi.
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  783. True but TN's economy and tax revenues have grown tremendously as well. There are limits to bad spending, that reckoning will come when TN hit it's growth ceiling and it will come in a way different form. For eg: TNEB losses and debts will eat into it's Electricity service delivery. TN state can't sit idle while factory units shutdown thanks to lack of electricity.
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  784. Tamil Nadu used to facilitate learning Tamil in the 60s and 70s. You could learn Tamil from a Public School in Maharashtra. They stopped all that since the 80s and the current generation became functionally illiterate. There is an estimated 20% Tamils (plenty of them are 2-3 gen) in Dharavi, Mumbai, they have no access to learning Tamil.
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  785. Both. The Crown, the institution is at fault. They did invest in East India company.
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  786. With that kind of simple messaging, Pierre is hurting the Liberals where it hurts.
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  787. The winter session in Maharashtra has been a joke. Uddhav has been sick for months and hasn't moved out of Matoshree (his home), nobody knows who is running the state anymore. There's been discussions of recruitment scam in Maharashtra and the Sena MLA derailed the session by attempting to insult the PM. Also speaker was selected by voice vote. Our state assemblies are sad joke. We should show more clips from them and talk about them more. Our most prosperous State is being run by a CM in name. This is really sad.
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  788. You lack the lived experience of an Indian and it shows. Compared to the past, Indian identity has actually amalgamated towards smaller set of sub identities than you think. For eg: Back in the 80s and 90s, folks used to call Pilayar (Ganesh) - Anna logo ka ishwar (Tamil people's God). Holi used to be an exclusively Uttar Pradesh festival. Today linguistic proficiency is an accepted as a form of integration into State's identity - that wasn't the case as far as 2000s. 2024 verdict can cloud you're judgement but it is a much needed reality check. Don't confuse the political for the social.
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  789.  @AmalTan I disagree. I think Modi has handled internal issues better than previous Govts. However with the current protests, Jury is still out there but this protest seems to be limited to Punjabi Jatts and they've been unable to solicit support from Canadian Punjabis and Khalistanis. I think the actions of Unknown person are providing dividends.
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  790. Liberal Partisan, in the comments can take this opportunity to learn something about what people want and addressing them. While you are at it, please let the Liberal caucus know. Pollievre at least has some credible plans to address housing. Is it great? Naah, but at least it is something. Guess what other are saying about Housing? Nothing. 8 years of voting Trudeau for housing and we the electorate have been reduced to picking up scraps from someone like Pollievre. It actually says a LOT more about Trudeau's governance.
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  791. Uddhav stalled infra projects for 2.5 years. Where is the blame on him?
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  792.  @raviss98  then she should report on the rabid hostility. At least Indians will be better informed about Canada.
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  793. Turns out, accused was a Congress supporter, that’s why Congress was quick to politicize the issue. SP MPs were quick with the pictures and cell phone. This seems like a Congress dirty trick played for electoral gains. Indira Gandhi used to do these shenanigans.
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  794. For alcohol, you do what some of the locals do. Drive 4 hours south to Daman, hit beach and sip any drink from a beachside bar. There’s also a new highway that will cut that down to 2-3 hours.
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  795.  @lalityay  It is not as terrible as you think. LUV is a different beast altogether, however the robots are manufactured locally. ABB has a huge plant outside Bengaluru that makes robots. Rare earth processing, I'm not sure where that would come? Because you mostly just need Silicon Ingot - we have two domestic players who can already produce that and excess processing capacity lying idle with Rare Earths India Ltd. We can print PCBs/Wafers even without Dutch LUVs, we have some decent players who make Lithography machines at Bengaluru, it won't be anything fancy but would likely be sufficient for anything greater than 30 nm. Software is the easiest to solve - there are openPDK kits that's easily available and getting a lot of industry support (Google and Amazon have their own Processor Design projects similar to Android). We have a good shot at RISC-V.
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  796.  @sike3605  Army is not a job guarantee program. CDS Bipin Rawat if he was alive would drill that in your head first. If you can't figure out what to do with your life after your tour of duty then you don't deserve to be a veteran. All the training and discipline of the service is wasted on your pathetic life.
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  797.  @dkblaze9072  lol no. Planners were actually planning according by socialist ideals mandated by law. The Govt. this very stupid law called Urban Land ceiling act which limited land parcel. It tried to divide parcels equally to everyone. That disaster of a law forced parcels to be small and banned property developers from buying large parcels of land to build tall. In addition to that, Indian planning standards mandated 35% of a parcel should be greenspace on a per parcel basis. Say you manage to buy 100 parcels, each of those 100 parcels needs to have 35% of it's land set aside for trees. Try building tall with that kind of code.
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  798.  @tapemaj  if I'm not wrong, his only achievement was that he was never caught in a scam.
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  799. It's election time, it's time to demand more reforms. The first thing we need to demand is cutting more red tape - it's too darn hard to hire and fire people in India. It's too hard to find a place to establish an office in India. I don't need a 10 person legal team and contractors of HR to hire or fire someone.
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  800. Roughly two weeks ago, this series was worried about drop in “salt” consumption and claimed rural consumption was collapsing. We in the comments mentioned it was misreading of data. This week this series concurs with the comments.
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  801.  @sleepingduty2987 free palatial housing, govt paid servants, free car, priority access to Kendriya Vidyalaya (KVs are darn good schools), dearness allowances, priority access to first class in Railways, discount on taxes etc.
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  802. Congress is the definition of insanity. What is the definition of insanity? Well, it is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. They keep the Gandhis at the helm despite a decade of losses and still expect different results. That is insanity.
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  803.  @greenrico10 well they are the ones calling for peace in Gaza after breaking it into pieces. What else do you call them?
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  804. I think Average Infantryman Cappy is the wrong person to ask a political question of Western hypocrisy. Middle powers like Indonesia and India have LOT of issues with State Department, not Pentagon. Cappy, (rightly so) did not give a satisfactory answer.
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  805.  @WorldAffairsInEnglish  1. I have a hard time believing banks can't do it. Every bank in the Western world publishes their NPA in their results. 2. Concall is a poor excuse to not publish it in text. Sorry not acceptable especially in this data centric world 3. Good on MPs but bad on RBI for not pushing for better transparency. 4. Expand your horizons, learn from the world around you rather than trying to be a smart ass.
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  806. Get good insurance and pray your car is not stolen. Ya, you can't rely on Police or the Govt to act on it.
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  807. When your local Govt has to pay for incumbent party's huge legal fees and paying back Khalistani loan sharks, you have very little money left for Governance. Delhites should elect a party that doesn't engage in 90s style brazen corruption like Sheesh Mahal.
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  808. We can't with religious laws. We need UCC and include same sex marriage in that legislation.
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  809. It's actually a case of stereotyping. One South Asian is "obviously" knows a lot about South Asia. 🙄
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  810. And you're not in the same boat?
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  811. Poll: Who cares about JNU and it's stupid student politics?
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  812. In India, The Nehru-Gandhi family holds a tight grip on The Indian National Congress party. Rahul Gandhi, the outgoing 'interim' President, 4th/5th generation scion of the Gandhi family is ironically called Modi's best campaigner. And this party elected a Gandhi family loyalist, ya, 2024 is going to be a easy win for Modi. The Congress is going hand them at least 100 seats/ridings for free to Modi's BJP. If you thought Andrew Sheer or O'Toole was bad, wait till you meet Congress Party leaders.
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  813. Blame the Govt as much as you want but parts of Chennai was built over lakes. I think we really need to re-examine our urban plan and start accounting for this water to be drained somewhere and help with replenishing the water table. A lot of societies can help too, they just need to accumulate that water into a percolation well.
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  814. It takes more than just "fact checking" and Congressi nomination to win a prize.
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  815.  @BharatThatIsIndia govt does not cover all food items. Dry fruit purchases went up - that’s actually discretionary spending.
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  816. If you keep crying wolf all the time, nobody will believe you when the real wolf is around. It is even worse when you selectively cry wolf. Congress is pretty complicit when it comes to abuse of State power, look at Maharashtra where the MVA is and has been abusing Mumbai and Maharashtra police since they came to power.
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  817. Two states that was missing from this analysis is Bihar and Maharashtra. Prashant Kishore says Nitish is a spent force and his Kumri vote is dwindling. Maharashtra is in an interesting spot. Congress is a spent force, Maharashtra Congress is pretty much dead. Pawar and NCP is acting like the split with Ajit Pawar didn’t happen and he seems pretty lukewarm about the opposition alliance. Also he was praising Centre at Baramati when he inaugurated a IT park there. It will be interesting to watch his next move.
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  818.  @Amit_Gupta_India  we have expertise (why else would companies establish research and design centers?). It's just infrastructure and business environment that's lacking.
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  819.  @Theactualstoic  well, I'm saying it's unfortunate that the Taliban is more progressive than Deobandis in India
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  820. BJP will still come back to power. BJP doesn't have a presence where Ajit is strong.
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  821. Lately the RCMP's performance on crime (particularly organized crime) leaves a LOT to be desired. Money laundering is rampant, gun running has increased, drug smuggling has ravaged our streets. Some of the increase in crime can be attributed to policies but lately it has become evident that our law enforcement simply lacks capacity and capabilities. I support these reforms PP is proposing. They are quite sensible and plugs gaps in our policing and intelligence.
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  822. PB Mehta seems to live in an echo chamber. He finds it necessary to impose change on people rather than build a foundation for change. Quoting the French revolution doesn't bring change or build a just or free society. I wish liberals spent more time studying our own history and highlighting reformers and thinkers within our own society. India has her own set of thinkers who are equal if not better than western thinkers. Where are the liberals highlighting their contributions to changes in Indian society?
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  823.  @nishankbhati3188  TN parties are ruthless. If you don't plaster 10000 posters in a day, the cadre will come and bash you up. Also DMK does not pay for those posters, they always collect their hafta in kind.
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  824.  @mailtorajrao even the British Raj wasn’t this cruel.
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  825. Today is April fool's day. Pakistan will say anything to fool us.
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  826. Congress will try to make Adani a long standing issue. But then again, factionalism will break the Congress, there’s a bunch of State politicians who depends on Adani for his investments. Unlike bofors where there was opposition unity, Congress unity is not a guarantee, they can’t go interview Hindenburg without someone quitting the party in frustration. Edit: Maharashtra Congress just saw a huge resignation of Thorat and a series of suspensions.
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  827. I support the sentiment. I believe Canada needs more bilingualism. I also think Quebec should fund and encourage learning French ... outside of Quebec.
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  828. I live in BC there is no rebate for me only increased carbon tax. And polls indicate we want Liberals out.
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  829.  @AyushPandey-tm9qr  ummmmm ..... identity politics is even more pronounced in State Politics. Tu kausi duniya mein hai? City city competition is nonexistent. Dharti pe toh aajayo.
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  830. Here comes DMK sympathesizer Kanesetti with his terrible interpretation of historical texts. Dude writes two books that's gets promoted at JLF and ends up calling himself a historian.
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  831. "Bangladesh happened because of a weak military and high insurgency". If that's the takeaway from '71, then Pakistani analysts have a lot of things to learn.
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  832. There was a time when Jyoti along with western media was highly critical of India’s stance and she called on the EAM to learn from Pathaan about foreign policy and geopolitics. (Great joke btw) The reality is the Ukraine war has become a proxy war and by staying away from it we served our strategic interests
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  833. Church is willing to parley. BJP should consider it. The church in Kerala and Nagercoil are inter connected. If Rumours about RaGa moving to Nagercoil to contest are true then the BJP can use this to their advantage.
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  834. When did Raghuram Rajan become a Congress spokesperson? Kk, let's entertain his ideas. Why isn't he telling the Congress to ditch the Gandhi's?
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  835. Barkha goes on ABC (US Channel) and says Opposition and it's coterie is trying to score brownie points with Manipur and it is disgusting. Barkha has her reasons, she says, "Opposition instead of coming up with solutions is instead sloganeering" (quoted verbatim). Vir is engaging in the same long form sloganeering. Maybe Radia tapes veteran Vir can learn something from his fellow veteran, Barkha.
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  836. Permanent stable funding like that will greatly improve Research Output.
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  837. The data varies largely because of their methodology. For eg: CMIE doesn’t consider household work like servants as employment but govt does. Both have valid reasons for their considerations. That’s why CMIE shows lower rates but Govt numbers show a higher rate.
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  838.  @iamDamaaldumeel never say never. You'll regret saying it.
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  839.  @blackbrownyellowearth2615  Switzerland is also a third world country. Look it up, if you don’t believe me.
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  840. I cancelled my subscription with the Print. I was a subscriber since the Print was founded and the Print has failed in it's objectivity. It took numerous outrage to get the Print to acknowledge calls for violence against Hindus but the Print was too slow. Mr. Gupta, please learn from Bangladesh, no one will come to save you when things go south.
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  841.  @raghulrags  discipline isn't as issue with Indian police as much as lack of facilities and distance from State Govt bureaucrats and politicians. Unless reforms are instituted, recruiting Agnipath cadets into the Police would be a waste resources
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  842. What's ignored by Western press, the hit on retail investors and homeowners. They are going to be worst impacted.
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  843. Gehlot should be concerned about the State of the Rajasthan Congress instead of other states. Besides Rajasthan has been falling behind on social indicators and Govt schemes such as Jal Jivan Mission.
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  844. If you’re a good analyst, you take the lower consumption, the reduced subsidy, good GDP growth, high interest rates and better than expected tax collection to along with the GVA to argue for a rate cut and a tax cut.
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  845. You called it genuine. If the PMO tweeted it, Sania Mirza would been called Sanghi (As if Congressi aren't doing it right now)
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  846. If true then we should definitely embrace BNS.
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  847. Gen Panag makes really good points and spends good time pointing out doctrinal issues within the Army. My mild disappointment is that he doesn't go further and recommend where changes can be made. Pointing out problems is easy, coming with good solutions that accounts for 3/4th order impacts is hard.
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  848.  @zion3335  it's not road or rail. It's storage, that's where majority of the losses comes from. Under the previous farm laws (mainly essential commodities Act), FCI and APMCs had the monopoly on most major produce. Decades of neglect and lack of funding left them in extremely dilapidated state. Produce losses would be as high as 50% in their warehouses. That's exactly why food prices are high for consumers. But there's one thing Modi Sarkar has done really good and got right is infrastructure. The amount of money going into logistic parks (a significant portion of it goes into food parks with cold storage, dry storage and sorting facilities) is huge. In the coming years, there will be a boom in produce distribution. I anticipate that Govt. will no longer need to rely on export bans to keep prices stable. I think it'll be a net win for everyone especially if Govt. gets good trade deals that allows for exports.
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  849.  @sanatanotaku8194 I know. I used to work there at HQ. It's important that GoI puts an end to the nonsense policies dictated by California and enforced by Brown Sahibs in Hyderabad.
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  850. I’m not sure anymore. Old trade rules are being rewritten. Indonesia banned Nickel exports, it got Nikhil refining insourced. We do have laptop PLI and large laptop market. A little bit of trade protectionism can kickstart insourcing. It worked well for mobiles. If the incentives are right it will work for laptops s as well.
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  851. BRS = Gunda Raj + Parivarvad
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  852. How rich of the Congress to accuse BJP of horse trading especially considering the amount of Horse trading that went into forming the MVA govt or securing a seat for RaGa in Kerala. You can clearly see CPIM is pissed with RaGa overstaying (or should I say, not staying) at Wayanad
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  853. Further reduction in food inflation can only come from supply side reforms. Farm laws would been the foundation of these supply side reforms but we got that squashed.
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  854. Can we get a panel of legal scholars for an off the cuff and ask them about judicial reforms?
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  855.  @varunkhugshal9049  Our seasonal CPI spikes are related more to food waste and bad good storage. That was a sector the Govt. tried to fix but ..... Farm laws were repealed.
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  856. Rahul probably thinks he is in Cambodia and this is his vacation.
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  857.  @avirupmallik4562 then move aboard and let the people who want to reclaim Bengal do their job. We want Mamta out and want to restore the glory days of Bengal.
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  858. It's a mixed bag. ISI is broke, JeM, LeT are broke as well. None of them have the money to run camps anymore. That's kind of why recruitment has been flat for the past 3 years at around 200 (also we have been killing around 200 militants for the past 3 years). But this won't last long, so the window is closing and Infrastructure can't be the only jobs generator in the valley. The answer for the next couple of years should be: Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
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  859. We should either abolish the monarchy or replace with the Crown with natural born Canadians. Either way, the days of monarchy are numbered and coming to an end soon.
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  860.  @chalsiamazadeng9024  I empathize with your emotions. This tactic is no different from Marathis and Kannadigas fighting against each other, except instead of stones and sticks, they are using bullets. That's a really sad escalation. Perhaps we can learn from that Belgaum dispute and come up with an amicable solution. Perhaps we can look at Chandigarh as a way to resolve this. Maybe an autonomous hill district might work. Either way, the ethnic minorities can demand that. Anything is better than kicking this issue to the next generation.
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  861. Alright, remember he is British Hindu. Let's not get carried away and make him into another Kamala Harris.
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  862.  @pp_01123  It's uploaded on the Print's channel. The Chinese praise starts at the 40 mins mark (There is like 15 mins of blind praise). RaGa is really tone deaf to think that blindly praising the Chinese is going to impress the Indian Electorate.
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  863.  @mg.f.9023 Adani has employed more people than any Congress govt in the past. And what kind of luddite are you? You’re advocating that UP should always remain backwards. No wonder Amethi was so underdeveloped despite being a Gandhi family bastion. This mentality of abandoning states is typical for Congressis.
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  864. This is a disappointment. This scheme does nothing to address the real issue of shortage of NCOs. NDA batch sizes have pretty much stayed the same for the past 2 decades. Defence education hasn't expanded since the establishment of Indian National Defence University. Agnipath itself is very light on how they will train the soldiers to be prepared for a job market or how they would provide career opportunities in specialist roles (like your Signals officers). We are taking these recruits away from Colleges and Universities and giving them guns without a path to reintegrating them back into society. I get the objective was to reduce the pension budget and improve the median age but that Objective was scoped very narrowly.
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  865. Projection. Congress wish it was there and then it would have sent the full loot of the sarkar. Just like Indira did, these vultures are looking at Adani ports so that they loot at port of entries.
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  866. That's local commuter trains. This is a inter city, sleepers. They aren't as crowded.
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  867.  @Humanity0101  the same Sikhs forgot the tragedy and trauma their parents and grandparents experienced during the partition and are trying to orchestrate another partition. I don't think they are the same.
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  868. Kya good editorial. He offers no solution, just simply blames the Govt. Vir is exploiting a tragedy for political brownie points.
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  869. This is a good example of false equivalence. Media calls out Rahul Gandhi's incompetence and he thinks he's entitled not to be questioned about his competency.
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  870.  @iamrobot396  UP? Yamuna is very much alive before it passes Delhi. It dies the moment Najafgarh drain vomits Delhi's untreated sewage into the Yamuna. Mr. Librandu here thinks UP has been dumping waste meanwhile it's Delhi's elite that's been killing it for decades. Please take your fake environmentalism abroad.
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  871. As Time magazine once put it, Karma birthed Rajiv Gandhi into one of the World's greatest dynasties but with his arrogance and naivite made enemies of everyone. His appeasement pissed off every section of Hindu society (Mandal politics intensified because of his antics), his "big trees fall, jungle shakes" speech demonized Sikhs, his arrogant test of "secularism" destroyed many Pradesh Congress units, IPKF intervention made us colonizers of Sri Lanka and pissed off Tamils, his economics created a free fall and bought us to bankruptcy. The only saving grace for Rajiv was that his assassination ended up saving the Congress party. Congress was polling around 5-6% behind others, his assassination gave the Congress a boost to come back to power. Rajiv and Indira will be remembered for their disaster of PMship. Even Nehru (and Indira) is redeemable but Rajiv is far from it.
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  872. Doctors need to pay their taxes because according to Justin Trudeau, they can hire an accountant. Is this guy for real?
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  873. 3 Afghans managed to hold on to the landing gear and then fell to their death minutes later. This withdrawal is an disaster to say the least. Worse than Saigon. The sense of betrayal felt by Afghans is palpable.
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  874. Europe threw a tissy to oil prices. When they sanctioned Russian oil & gas (ships were sanction), they cut off almost 30% of O&G. Unless we somehow cut the demand for that 30% (or increase supply that accounts for that 30%), inflation is going to stay high. Man, that pipeline would have been useful, at least we could have used US refineries to refine Alberta oil.
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  875. Moving away from politics, what we are seeing is a classic example of "Poverty is a state of mind". None of these aspirants want to face up to the challenge and get a permanent commission. None of them want to see beyond their own delusions and heartbreaks. None of them want to introspect about their path ahead. When you lack motivation to succeed in life at such a young age, then poverty becomes a reality.
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  876.  @sagarsonawane1698  my own Delhi? Mumbai majhi aahe. Mi Mumbaikar nahi he sangayala tu kaun aaheez? Chaila penguin party chaatu.
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  877. Eknath got Abdul Sattar to join him in his rebellion. Sena will have it extremely tough to hold on to Aurangabad. They were just expanding there too. Edit: India TV has the entire list but here are some heavyweights: - Pratap Sarnaik - Sanjay Gaikwad - Yogesh Kadam (Ramdas Kadam's son) Ekanth essentially is taking Mumbai Suburbs and hinterland with him.
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  878. They are. Congress is counting their eggs before they hatch. The deal is still under final negotiations, so we don't know final costs. Congress itself is basing the deal on older reports (like 2008)
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  879. Yes, if you watch the entire video, it's a warning against political dynasties usurping party and replacing idealogy with dynasty worship and sychopancy. (Also remember, "Chowkidar chor hai" campaign) One example he gives is Political dynasties don't respect the common man neta - the 40% of MPs, MLAs, Gram Panchayat who come from very simple background, work absolutely hard for every vote.
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  880.  @karankapoor2701  they didn't make it worse. AAP definitely is.
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  881.  @vikramaditya47_  self awareness if fine and all. But don't underestimate the power of Comments and potential of the idea it transmit.
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  882. I pay the Print to support ground reporting. I do not pay the Print to read Chatgpt generated trash authored by Yogendra Yadav. Please drop him from "The Fine Print".
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  883. Actually, the data you presents highlights a broader issue and that is the lack of data granularity. Electronics is a HUGE basket and it's growth in import should not come as a surprise even though it seems bad. What we don't know is how much of that Electronics is CKDs (Complete Printed Circuit boards, plastic shells, etc.) or how much of that is individual components (Integrated Circuits instead of Printed Circuit board).
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  884. Unless there's Modi clones in every State micromanaging every program things won't improve. BJP must whip it's MPs who use Modi's name but don't do anything.
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  885. Are AAP supporters Pakistanis? Yes. When your funding comes from Khalistanis, Gazwa-e-hind Mullahs and Anti Nationals then it's not a stretch to imagine hard core AAP supporters are Pakistan in their hearts.
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  886. Unions submitted their work sheets. The previous year, the federal govt set (unofficial) tax collection targets for CRA, they beat that target by ~20%, Service Canada had similar targets, they beat that too. Despite, beating the Federal Govt's targets, the Treasury Board decided to stab them in the back.
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  887. Shekarji, come and live in Maharashtra. Centre state politics was always fractured. Outside of the Hindi heartland, States with strong local cultures always has the space for local leaders. This was always a point of contention between Delhi and the States.
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  888. It is not Projection when Gandhi family's Congress sown divisions in it's own party and lets their party workers freely deflect to the BJP. We need a better opposition, this Congress is wasting away the political infrastructure that it has built over the past 75 years. India needs a Gandhi parivar mukth Congress not a Congress mukth Bharat.
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  889. And just like that Congress gave away another vote base to the BJP.
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  890.  @addy32045  The channel's name is Chanakyaa. The guy's name is Rangaraj Pandey. Here's another tip, Most Kollywood actresses are Punjabis
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  891.  @rajkumarsahu4018  kinda yes and kinda no. The reason why Modi is able to trigger those nerves is because the opposition is stupid and keep conceding ground. Take Raga as an example, in the entire Hindutva=ISIS controversy, he could have stayed quiet or simply said, "Khurshid's position are not representative of the Congress". Instead he dug a hole for himself trying to explain Hinduism is not Hindutva. This just makes Modi a default choice.
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  892. Thailand vacation！
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  893. Tsai Ing-Wen is the only one who is strong enough to resist Xi but she needs help.
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  894. This policy is also suicidal.
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  895. Wah wah. Rahul Gandhi's Grandma Indira, was elected as well and she almost succeeded in killing democracy. She was a genuine maut ka saudagar. Besides, the Congress ruled our country for 65 years and what did the Congress do when institutions were controlled by them? Hollowed it out and made it into Gandhi family memorials. They enabled people like Sanjay Gandhi to act like a dictator, they kept heaping praise at Indira and now they are at it again with Rahul.
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  896. Obama and Trump's popularity is tied to Modi. That's what we can glean from this. Also Indian American people to people ties are growing stronger and Americans are starting to understand India. Most folks who return from India are starting to grasp how unique and diverse India is. Finally that British colony stereotype is breaking.
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  897. Many will look at BRICS members and the constant tension between them and simply dismiss it. But that’s the wrong way to look at it, India and Indian diplomacy is extremely flexible and led primarily by India’s interests. India will collaborate where it needs to and use its bureaucracy to stall where it must. The question we should be asking is on which issues is India going to collaborate with other BRICS members? Trade is definitely one of them, India has collaborated with China on trade before.
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  898. Congress got their account frozen because they didn't pay their taxes. They haven't responded to tax notices for more than 7 years. The party has the ability to dispute the notice in court, they still choose not to pursue that path. Congress party deserves it.
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  899. Public finances are fine. Forex reserves that we have been saving have been pretty handy. Also Govt of India has a lot of under used assets. It's not an issue of finances, it's an issue of hamfisted and turfing administrative services and judicial overreach through PIL against purely commercial transactions.
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  900. Congress admits that it discriminates based on religion. This party needs to become history.
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  901. Exactly. Let them keep the pressure on Missionaries.
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  902. Today we have to imagine The great works of Benaras dynasty because Congress and its secularist buried this great history to please the patarbaaz. Before Modi, any mention or celebration of Indic art, culture or civilization was seen as communal. After Modi, the folks who used to join the Congress to oppress Indic culture are coming out to acknowledge it’s beauty and existence.
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  903. She seems like a spent force.
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  904. What's missing? Well, No one from Yogi's faction.
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  905. There's plenty towards South Indians too. They form the backbone of India's modern economy. It's only the urban elite with their snotty sense of entitlement that looks down on people. Rather than celebrate or embrace the diversity, they insult, belittle and disparage people for not being "polished" enough.
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  906. The amount of Infrastructure UP is building outside of NCR is ridiculous. UP had essentially combined MSRDC and MIDC (GSRDC and GIDC for Gujarat) into one entity (YEIDA, UPEIDA) and built highways and industrial parks in the same project. Similarly UPMRC has supersized MahaMetro and built metros rather very efficiently. Infrastructure watchers are not surprised all at. UP might beat Southern states pretty soon. Southern states are the only ones that solely relies on Center's funds to build Infrastructure outside of their capital cities. Btw Agra Lucknow expressway makes about Rs. 1cr/day in tolls, that's roughly 1/3rd of Mumbai Pune expressway within a year of operation. It shows that their infrastructure projects are sound and not just throwing away money.
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  907. One advice for Garcetti, stop being woke and learn about local culture.
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  908.  @climbeverest  it's not about costs as much as it's about providing them with choices and aligning them with their own competency. They can choose to get the education at a private or a public university or any course they feel will open up opportunities.
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  909. Modi inherited a declining economy in his first term. In 2013, India was amongst the “Fragile five”. He restructured it, it was painful but he pulled it off.
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  910.  @MohamedAli-ko8gc  no amount of good intent would have balanced out the terror he enacted on people of North India.
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  911. I miss younger Lalu. His interviews were always entertaining.
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  912.  @VivekKumar-rb7zk  the wire? I don't like their style of narrative pushing. I was extremely disappointed by their coverage of the second wave (rather they ignored State govts and only blamed Center.) and their shallow RTI based coverage of infrastructure projects (0 sight visits, 0 satellite analysis, 0 analysis of court dockets).
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  913.  @tapemaj  I disagree. They have used shell companies to fund political campaigns and pay haftas. The transactions done by them through shell companies (during UPA) are actually all available in the open if you know where to look for it. Sometimes the same transactions takes the form stock manipulation of small cap firms. IMO, invariably the judgement has made things worse - the guarantee of privacy allowed Tatas/Birlas etc. to be more direct about their political funding instead of resorting masking it's transactions.
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  914. CBI has been investigating this since 2017. Linked assets across states, linked several bank accounts. It sounds less like politically motivated and more like a good amount of case work
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  915. Congress is the definition of insanity. What is the definition of insanity? Well, it is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. What we need is Gandhi mukth Congress, what they deliver is Congress mukth Bharat. If Gandhi loyalty is all they offer then I will shed no tears in the collapse of the party.
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  916. It is Finally happening!!! Is it?
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  917. Money money money. BMC Councillors are all property developers and road contractors, a seat at BMC means they can pluck fresh money feathers from the golden goose.
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  918.  @bigfigher  yes, what Modi does is policy because the policy is fully funded, accounted for and more importantly has tracking and auditing of outcomes. Which other revdis have that level of detail. Most Revdis are shot from the hip during election campaign.
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  919. @ThePrint can we have Shekerji do an episode on environmental petitions?
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  920. Age of consent is fine. We need to relax them to within 2/3 year age difference between the couple in a consensual relationship. But that's not what triggered the Print to talk about this issue. Disgustingly, the Print's editorial stance goes beyond that. Guptaji unfortunately was defending a relationship between a 25 year old and a 17 year old. In no court in the world, would that be seen as a consensual relationship, also considering the guy impregnated the minor, it is straight up grooming and statutory rape.
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  921.  @PanakaluPoonakam they also use the Kitab to justify the worst and most regressive practices. Nobody in the BJP says Brij did it, so I can do it too. Kitab is a political means to justify a regressive and oppressive end.
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  922.  @Vizorfam  thanks for the compliment. That's why I think it will be DMK > BJP > AAP. But if Nitish is PM Candidate then it will be BJP > DMK > AAP. There's no need for AAP when there's DMK.
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  923.  @2Uahoj  which means her pov holds more credibility.
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  924. Abdullah (Faroq’s dad) asked Rahul Gandhi’s great grandfather, Lehru for “H-in-du Toilet cleaners”. Lehru obliged and gave them Valmiki community. For 70 years, Abdullah family and Kashmiri political elite has been treating them worse than slaves. They oppressed them, denied them basic rights and recognition while inviting Rohingyas, Uighurs, Afghans, Punjabi Pakistani Muslims to come, settle and enjoy the rights and generous taxpayer funded lifestyles. Abrogation of Art 370 ended all those “privileges”. Abrogation is not the end but the beginning, a lot of damage needs to be undone.
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  925.  @Surajrawatrandom  yes, it's Parliament, that means, members should maintain decorum. There is a civil way to present your point and Parliament, it's rules and regulations facilitates that. UK Parliament, EU Parliament, Canadian Parliament all are quiet and civil institutions. You can hear the Member's speech, the grievance they are expressing. That civility and respect for some basic discipline to maintain the decorum of the house, that's a sign of a healthy democracy.
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  926. The Stryker package is way more impactful. It’s the army version of C-295 deal we made with Airbus. Also Americans are finally turning around and starting to realize that it’s better to partner and cooperate rather than engage in human rights rhetoric. We will see less “criticism” from American Govt overall. (Private companies like NYT will do NYT things, don’t expect them to change)
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  927. Man, Hyderabad MLA worried about farmers. Ya that's believable, these guys are out for a cash grab. Get the Govt to procure paddy, sell the rice in the global market for a high price (there's a wheat and rice shortage - prices are high. India has a surplus of both) and then they'll eat it up with themselves while in the govt. MLA wants a renovation, state govt will pay for it.
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  928. It’s a convention. When you refer to particular Govt, you call them as PM govt. When MMS was PM, his govt was called Manmohan Singh Govt.
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  929. Good segment. Patrickji should not restrict himself to just the Puranas. He should talk about shastras as well.
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  930. Challenging people to boycott your movie and then saying boycott has outlived it's relevance is not a great way to market your movie. It might backfire pretty badly.
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  931. I'm convincing folks from my Community to vote against the Liberals.
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  932. They actually marry into each others family. My teacher is from Belgaun, her hubby is Marathi from Maharashtra, her brother back in Belgaum has a Marathi Wife.
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  933. Here's the thing about our courts - they have the right for judicial review. Judges always have the choice to squash a particular charge sheet as unconstitutional or violating habeus corpus. Their reluctance to exercise that option says a lot of about the State of Fundamental rights than any act of Parliament.
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  934.  @TripleAAA787 I pay for the Print and donate money. I have every right to demand changes.
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  935. Compared to Hungary, the Opposition in India has it very easy. Have a Godi Media of their own and sychopancy - check. No curbs on funding - check. No gerrymandering - check. Yet they lose, just shows how just plain incompetent they are.
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  936. Goodluck trying to work with Korea or Japan without India. Both countries are focused on Asia and we don't have much to offer besides gender languages and vague platitudes. Korea would gladly replace us in the markets where we're competitive - particularly in nuclear, pharma, green energy and high tech manufacturing. The sad reality is Trudeau destroyed our reputation in that part of the world. We are not getting it back until he's gone. We are also going to be a small power rather than a middle power. Thanks Trudeau, you took what was nice about Canada and made it into a nightmare.
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  937. Good in some ways. Kerala transport agency was over employing folks (by about 8k but they claim 4k). It also gives out pensions for 2 years of employment, that's just insane. It's just very poor fiscal management.
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  938. You mean '71 genocide.
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  939. I wish G7 was enthusiastic about climate financing as much as they are about Ukraine.
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  940.  @anujsethi7845  Punjab was never yours to begin with. Punjabi culture came from "ganga people". Granth itself derives it's philosophy from Adi Shankara's Advaita. Own culture my ass, you take stuff from Hindu text and claim it's original - that's plain nonsense.
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  941.  @rakhiyadav4160  Gandhi emboldened the folks at Nuh. Asked them to stay behind, told them their 12 century Sharia way of live would be protected.
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  942. She is also lying about Privacy at 20:08 . Marriage is a public affair, you can pay your DM and get a list of registered marriages - live-in relationships are no different. NGOs conduct marriage registration events and they get the list from the local DM - tab privacy ka problem nahi tah.
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  943. We welcome it. Regional history was erased from our textbooks and now it's back. It's not just about Mughals anymore.
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  944. I wish the same of kind of un-judgemental prospective and academic vigor was applied to all communities of India (not just the North East and Adivasis). The moment you mention any one community within the Golden quadrilateral, the entire political can of worms opens up.
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  945. We need seriously good casework and convictions. PFI wasn't founded solely because of domestic politics, similar to SIMI, it has consistent foreign support and funding. To go after them you need solid casework and convictions in our Judiciary.
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  946.  @deepakranjan4844  $40 billion would have tripled deposit insurance. There are far more effective ways to use $40 billion. Recapitalization is the best way to waste $40 billion.
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  947.  @ShubhendraSingh2808 but his notifications to District Magistrates says otherwise.
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  948.  @reach2prasanna  I doubt it. The BJP has dynasties, but they use the dynasty for the party. Just look at State units, they are making Raje work for her despite Raje threatening dissent for not getting guarantees for CM post.
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  949. The Congress does not believe in the values it espouses. It's all about the Gandhi family. If they did believe in liberalism, they would have introduced this bill as a party and not as a private members bill.
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  950.  @blugaledoh2669  inaction???!! What part of deliberately diverting relief grain to yet to be liberated Greece and Yugoslavia is inaction? What part of ignoring desperate pleas for famine relief from ENGLISH Imperial Administrators in India is inaction? Churchill himself considered Indians as expendable over breeding rabbits. The British Raj and especially the Parliament in London was excessively cruel and brutal. Let's not whitewash that.
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  951. Kya joke marta hai be ye. He employed a jester and a Dalit thinking he could remote control both of them. Now he’s giving gyan about a drunk.
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  952.  @Silence.580bc  it is not. It doesn't change anything and can be argued makes things worse. Now doners will be subject to harassment from political parties.
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  953. Decoupling takes several years. It'll be interesting to watch this over the year. All our policies, lack adjustments or follow through. This is slowly changing, journalism like this helps us realize it's not a sprint but a marathon.
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  954. Let's not forget Chandrasheker. He initiated the reforms process. PVR pushed it through and it must be commended but Chadrashekar had the foresight.
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  955. BJP and Sangh have purged folks before Modi came to the center stage. Shekarji, you forgot about Praveen Togadia.
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  956. Karnataka govt is so stupid. They went from revenue surplus to revenue deficit state within a year. The sheer recklessness when it comes to spending is astounding. Freebies ruined Karnataka just like it ruined Punjab. Now Karnataka has no money to spend on infrastructure and only complain and beg. Congress made this state into a beggar state.
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  957. If we are smart about it, we will get there sooner and drive innovation like we are doing with Computers.
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  958. That’s why we should support the passage of UCC with same sex marriage.
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  959. It’s weird. If you look at bike sales, the consumption data looks quite different. Pulsar 200-250 range has 1000% yoy growth but Pulsar 150 saw a -30% growth. CT saw a 90% growth in sales but platina saw drop in it’s growth from the previous years ~50% to 30% this year. TVS has posted similar numbers. Tractor sales were flat at -4% after the previous years (22-23) sales growth of 12% with M&M saying they saw growth in sales to mining and construction sector. Market is going through a churn. Also I think FMCG may no longer be indicator of consumption, I think it’s growth has peaked a while ago.
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  960.  @sankalp6872 All I want to say we should make the Maldivian MPs dream come true. Unite Lakshadweep and Maldives under one flag - the Tricolor.
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  961. Actually we should lobby for a bailout for Pakistan under the condition that they give up their nuclear weapons. Also not to mention, nuclear weapons are expensive to maintain - they don't have the fiscal resources to keep them secure.
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  962. Nehru responded to Ho Chi Mihn, "Wooing women and aping the West". Ho Chi Minh since then never bothered asking Nehru to support Vietnamese independence from the French.
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  963.  @ThePrintIndia  Shekarji, that is the executive's prerogative that it exercises on an individual basis. If the executive wishes to grant citizenship, it can within the powers that has been provided to it. Presenting Adnan Sami as a counter example misses the distinction between executive and legislative actions. There's a need for legislation that covers aspects of CAA that you highlighted in the video. P.S.: You already have my email.
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  964. You know, you as a Liberal Partisan, you can take this opportunity to learn something about what people want and addressing them. Pollievre at least has some credible plans to address housing. Is it great? Naah, but at least it is something. Guess what other are saying about Housing? Nothing. 8 years of voting Trudeau for housing and we the electorate have been reduced to picking up scraps from someone like Pollievre. It actually says a LOT more about Trudeau's governance.
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  965. This is very cool. Glad to see Alberta is taking Climate Change seriously despite the rhetoric. This is actually a good win for Farmers, they can be GHG sinks and reduce their input costs.
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  966. Congress should get decimated and the Gandhi family should retire. This speech is nothing more than "throw issues at the wall and see what sticks" kind of amateur hour attacks. They don't even have the brain to pick the right issues. Congress's biggest liability is the Gandhi family and the sycophancy towards the Gandhi family. India needs a Gandhi family mukth Congress - it needs it's own Quit Congress moment.
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  967.  @sayantadas1622  he can’t. Because BJP hasn’t touched any freedom fighters. Yes they’ve gone after Nehru but only his post independence avatar
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  968.  @shahrukhkotwal7125 why don't we ask him to come up with better policies instead? Please point us to a program where quotas has worked. Lemme flip this a bit, why doesn't Kejriwal propose a hiring incentive? For every Goan hired, add x amount to their salary as an incentive for 1 or 2 years. This is how folks in the US and Canada gets local hired. It's effective and efficient, it makes companies think before hiring candidate from a different state. If they hire someone from the different state, it's because that person is talented. Why don't we ask for better programs instead of failed policies?
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  969. Do CBSE textbooks cover post Independence India in detail? I think it's high time we start talking more about 62 than the freedom movement
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  970. That tibbid about MK Gandhi and high command is solid correlation. Alas as long as we have the Gandhis, we can't access their archives. We will definitely find documents that highlights the relationship between high command and cadre
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  971. Great video as always! I feel you missed out on how the region as a whole is adding to the housing crunch. The recent tech boom as be attributed to suburban Tech companies such as Google, Facebook and numerous other startups south of SF. Cities like Mountain View readily zone high density commercial without proportional allocation for housing for workers who work in these high density commercial blocks. For a long time SF was the only place dense enough to accommodate (not to mention have enough cultural activities) relentless Tech Hiring.
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  972. Hafta vasoli was deposited, NCB officer maligned. MVA got it's bribe from Mannath. This justice under MVA
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  973.  @PK-tt5kk  To each their own. We will work with those who want to work with us. If Pakistan keeps insisting on reinstating 370 Kashmir for economic ties then we shouldn't bother keeping ties with them. We should work with Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Sri Lanka etc.
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  974. Shekarji, The Print has been doing good reporting on the implementation of the NEP. Maybe just similar to the episode on "Nal Se Jal" scheme, it is time to revisit how much work has been done on NEP and how much work is left to be done.
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  975. Arif needs to be clearer. You can tell he is a backbencher by the way he mumbles his words.
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  976. China’s intransigence and opaqueness got us Covid, 3 years later the same opaqueness and intransigence is going to get us the kraken variant. Thanks Xi.
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  977. Nepotism. Nepotism is the first step to create a new upper caste.
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  978. The Print used to ask for our support to send journalist to Afghanistan. Why aren't they sending journalist to Bangladesh? Gupta does not care for Hindus unless there is immense outrage. I think it is high time we ensure the Print drop it's Hinduphobia or enact consequences upon them.
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  979.  @bigfigher  “accounted for” means there’s a budget behind it and there’s outlays that covers for it. FYI. It seems you don’t understand the basics of public policy.
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  980. We have allocated USD 5 Billion for 5 years for National Research foundation that's USD 1 Billion/year. Given our PPP that's close to $8-9 Billion/year, that's 1/5th US Research budget (roughly adjusted to PPP). Wish it was higher but nonetheless, this is a good amount of money and more importantly, it's stable funding for Research and isn't subject to annual swings. More sustainable than whatever we have at the moment. Now I wish with iCET, Govt also improves ease of importing material and instruments and reduces the paperwork.
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  981. Ya, unfortunately the planners had to deal with really stupid Indian laws. Urban Land Ceiling Act and Forest Act pretty much made density illegal. ULCA divided land into very tiny parcels and made it impossible to consolidate parcels into one parcel. Forest Act made it impossible to build anything without allocating 35% of the parcel for trees.
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  982. This is Islamic propaganda. Kashmiri pandit are constantly derided as propaganda despite the cruelty of those events. A simple house demolition of rioters is somehow not propaganda. Until news media gives Kashmiri pandits their due respect and dignity, news stories like this will always be treated as Islamic propaganda.
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  983.  @mg.f.9023  well he didn't bomb Manipur like how Indira did back in the 80s.
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  984. Congressi volunteers will come and cheer for Rahul. Meanwhile the party is intent on making the same mistake, twice and looking at Chattisgarh maybe thrice. We've been made immune to launches and relaunches and rerelauches and re of the rerelaunches to realize nothing is going to change with the Congress. This rain gimmick and the Yatra will not work on us anymore. Bye Congress, you had a good run.
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  985. Sadly India's Judiciary is pretty dysfunctional. Cases are piling up and it has shielded itself from reforms. It really needs deep reforms
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  986. Uddhav Thackeray was probably pleasant with politicians but he never extended that plesantries to linguistic and religious minorites. He never hesitated to boast about beating away UP Biharis and calling them a stain in Maharashtra's culture.
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  987. Vir is the kind of person that will produce and write a script for Shootout at Lokhandwala but will blame the public for doing nothing for his "freedoms and liberty"
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  988. The only Indian companies that need to be broken up are the ones owned by the Govt. Indian Railways desperately needs to be broken up - it is the one monopoly that's genuinely holding back progress. Inefficiencies and the monopoly of the Railways adds to logistic costs rather than reduce them. It demands a price rather than discover a price. CONCOR is a similar company that needs to be broken up. There are so many Govt companies and monopolies that need to be broken up, why is Viral Acharya distracting us by talking about breaking up private players? The question that private players should be broken up is very very very misplaced. Viral Acharya has gone absolutely nuts.
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  989. Baltics are quite the freeloaders. Lithuania has a single mechanized infantry division, Estonia has no air defence except for radars and Latvia is the only decent one with several divisions. They need to arm themselves and increase their defence budgets up instead of begging other NATO members to donate equipment.
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  990. They didn't get rid of "Milords"
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  991. These movies will stimulate the Intellectuals in Kolkata. Their intellect has been degraded by being fed a steady diet of foreign Art house movies.
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  992. @Pierre In it’s not. Undivided would be more accurate. Uddhav didn’t control the cadres as much as regional MLAs did.
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  993. We got a LOT of work to do. The People of Indian Origin were consistently ignored by the Govt of India for decades. That neglect has led to some amount of resentment by these communities. We are starting to bridge and address that resentment but there is a LONG way to go.
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  994.  @elborrador333 absolutely. First we bring back those M who disguise themselves as H. Unka Dharm pravesh chalu karna chahiye.
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  995.  @sujithkumar2041  he does speak against Modi, quite frequently. I dunno which den you have been living under. Also, Right Wing in India is rapidly becoming way more mature while the Secular elite, like yourself are becoming more sycophantic. The right wing, unanimously called the judgment excessive and discussed ways to reform whereas, the secular elite was busy crying for Rahul rather than call for reform.
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  996. Well, Kharge cannot claim to be PM Candidate, otherwise how will Rahulji become PM? These guys don't have a spine, why would I trust them to govern and lead this country?
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  997. Pawan Khera goes down the castiest route and got a mere helping hand from the SC. If anyone remembers Devadasis, they would realize why calling someone "Das" mentioned in the manner of Khera comment is castiest and extremely offensive. If Modi was a Dalit, Khera would have likely violated SC/ST Act.
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  998. 24:00 Shekarji is reading the situation the wrong way. In Armed warfare, for an offensive you need 2x more troops to attack over the defenders. In other words Russian and Ukrainian offensives are failing not because they are good at defense rather they don't have enough troops to attack. All recent battles have been conducted with 50% troop strength.
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  999. Noice! Glad to see you come to Youtube. The audience is wider and you will get a LOT of inputs.
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  1000.  @hawkingdawking4572  no by feeding on their own anti-hindu bigotry.
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  1001.  @khishalassudani4516  yes precisely. Today the real Liberals are being courted and cultivated by the BJP and has been for a long time. KM Munshi, the founder of VHP was a Liberal - a true Indian Liberal.
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  1002. Folks in Amritsar should move on. Get the Punjabis in Canada to see reason and get them to stop supporting Khalistan (Be vocal about your disapproval with your relatives in Canada). There's more reasons to trade with Canada compared to Pakistan.
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  1003. Basically, 2024 depends on how votes are split outside the Hindi Heartland. Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal is are going to be the states to watch closely and carefully. The thing about opposition unity is that it can spectacularly backfire. Tripura is a prime example, Congress + CPI got into an alliance, Congress ended up decimating CPI - Congress votes did not transfer, CPI votes went to TIPRA/BJP. This is why Mamta doesn't want to get involved with the Congress at all in West Bengal. I think NCP is looking to gobble up Congress and Uddhav Sena but then again, it can backfire and end up decimating the NCP.
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  1004. The best part of devolution is that activists sitting in Ottawa can no longer derail issues that goes against the decisions made by the fine folks at Nunavut.
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  1005. Innovation is not a monopoly of the Americans. India innovates to solve it's own problems the way American entrepreneurs do.
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  1006. Can we get Radhika Pande Mam and TCAji to start a new series that teaches us how to analyze state budget?
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  1007.  @Vizorfam  yes. He survived torture techniques that inspired the Nazis. Why are you even in India if you don’t know the basics of Indian freedom fighters like Savarkar.
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  1008. Should India enter a nuclear sharing agreement similar to France? This is a question worth pondering.
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  1009. IMO RSS chief was loud and clear on where the line should be drawn. However, the question remains if the message will percolate down to the individual shakas, sanghs, manch, etc.
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  1010.  @Agnosticcc-x3m  MMS stood for the US Nuclear deal when no-one else wanted to. I think that's his biggest achievement, the rest is just painful humiliation. History will be kinder to MMS but it will definitely be harsher towards Congress and Sonia Gandhi.
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  1011. Glad to see Mann share the stage with PM. Manish Tiwari is also there too. I cherish this rare moment of unity.
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  1012. Nehru Memorial appropriated for something more appropriate. PM's Museum is a good initiative.
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  1013. Better late than never.
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  1014. You folks should start a discord channel. There's a lot of very political aware folks here.
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  1015. Baramati, Sharad Pawar's stronghold has a chance to become the next Amethi. Back in the 90s when Pawar was at his peak, he helped bring Manufacturing and Chemical producing businesses to come and establish factories in Baramati. He also promised he would make Baramati the next Chakan (Huge Auto manufacturing hub in Pune), Baramati has stagnated since Supriya took control. In 2019, DFad Govt established Baramati's first Govt Medical College + Hospital, BJP has been laying the groundwork to unseat the great Pawar. BJP's strategy incorporates a lot of long ignored local demands, that's what makes them aggressive.
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  1016. Welcome step. Better late than never. Sadly, I wish Government of India had welcome Sri Lankan Tamil refugees back in the late 2010s (and throughout the Civil war). Our country has done great disservice against it's diaspora over the decades - Sri Lankan Tamil, Fiji Hindis, Ugandan Gujaratis and Marwadis. Our country still does great disservice to them today - around 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils are denied their natural right to integrate with Indian Tamils, Chakmas are denied their right to become citizens despite being resettled 3 generations ago, Fiji Hindis can't naturalize in India.
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  1017. I think I found Pakistani Justin Trudeau there at 1:07
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  1018. Infrastructure and schools. Both those projects will boost the economic growth by .5 to 1.25%. Schools will help with consumption, infrastructure will help with investments. The rest is just a case of improving regulatory software. FinMin can do us all a big favor by simplifying lots of red tape. Decrease the compliance burden, change Companies Act to ease registration of companies (help informal sector formalize) and consolidate GST into one rate. Oh yes, get rid of inverted duty structure. It makes us very uncompetitive.
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  1019. Blame Stalin. He's had been sitting on approvals and permits. AP and KN portions of Bengaluru Chennai Expressway is getting built at a rapid pace but TN section is waiting on land transfers from The State govt. If that's the level of cooperation Stalin is providing for an Expressway, then think how much he cooperates to get larger projects done.
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  1020. Please do, DLF land scam and National Herald case from India.
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  1021.  @dukhi_aatma372 if Balasaheb was alive he would ensure they forget their Pakistanigiri. Sena has become weak.
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  1022. Our community has become pretty thin skinned lately. We give too much importance to the dignity of inanimate objects. If we were equally outraged or gave the same amount of importance to Infrastructure projects like Metro projects in Mumbai stalled because of a penguin's ego our country would have been ahead of China. Infrastructure projects at least brings very tangible benefits to the community compared to outrage over mangalsutra.
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  1023. Bold? What’s so bold about this piece? Bold journalism is when you call a spade a spade despite death threats. When the Print calls out the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, an unfortunate event of ethnic cleansing that’s when you call it bold journalism.
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  1024. Because they are from the same set of families. It's nepotism. Our political classes - Judges, politicians, lawyers are reseeding a new caste system. One that locks the rest of the country from becoming part of the political system. You can't become a judge without a family name, you can't become a party secretary without a family name. You won't become a high court or a supreme court lawyer without a family name.
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  1025. Toll tax is a scam already? Was it flagged by the CAG? Was it judged as such by a court of law? Shouldn't this be called an allegation?
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  1026. Deng said "Maybe today's generation does not have the wisdom to solve today's problem. It is better to leave it to the next generations." Similarly, it would be honest to admit, the previous generation of Indians wasted precious time made us ill prepared to face the Chinese threat. We best be wiser than them, build the capacity to hold the line this gen and build capabilities to push them back before the Next gen. We are at a juncture where it becomes extremely necessary to have the mindset of "paying it forward for the next gen to take it forward". In the meanwhile, we should really prepare for an invasion (looking at the CAPEX expense, Govt is doing it.)
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  1027.  @231rosslyn it is still very anti democratic. And Germany has the gall to lecture others about democracy.
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  1028. We have a Jewish population that's part of Konkan culture. We should talk about their festivals as well which falls on the same time as Christmas.
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  1029. Shalom, I was a Shabbos goy for the Bene Israels in Mumbai. There's a local legend the Bene Israels believe in. Close to Mumbai, in a district called Raigad, there's a bunch of rock features on the Western Ghats ranges. Rock features look like huge etches made on the truck face. The Bene Israels believe that Moses rode to heaven from that location on Chariot whose wheels were on fire. Also in Marathi, they are known as Shaniwarteli or "Folks who oil their hair on Saturdays"
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  1030.  @adity126  Yes they are important. Land once lost can never be regained. Look at Pakistan, it used to be our land.
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  1031.  @Dhruv_Jain  BEST is already jam packed. You need to diversify transportation options not limit it.
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  1032.  @amitsrivastava4539 that’s one of the reform proposals the centre is mulling. It’s high time we abolish the collegium. Judges appointing judges with no accountability in this day and age is no longer acceptable.
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  1033. We need to get rid of Poverty of Aspirations. And that starts with shaming folks who leave their well paying jobs to pursue IAS especially through UPSC rather than lateral entry. That’s not a sacrifice for service but rather a cynical attempt to latch on Govts generous benefits. Also I strongly believe all Babus must be constantly disciplined. The govt must be extremely dictatorial with the bureaucracy. That’s also how Chanakya managed the state.
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  1034. 36:30 Rahul Gandhi claims Americans pushed manufacturing away because US didn't want to deal with force of labor 😂😂 Maha deep fried thinking hai ye.
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  1035. It shows how spent Congress is as a political party. The Gandhi family have pretty much made it decrepit with their monarchial rule of the party. Get decimated Congress, please make the Gandhi family retire.
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  1036. Modi has accomplished a lot and that needs to acknowledged. But I don't want Modi to continue the momentum of Vikas, I want him to double it. The 400 baar is that new social contract to double the momentum of Sabka Vikas.
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  1037. 😂😂 They should have paid attention to their education, got good marks, pursued a job. Ghar pe baitke, maa ka khaane se kuch nahi hota. BTW, if 12th pass Bihari construction workers can get rishta working in TN or GJ, then it shouldn't be that hard for Haryanvi. Besides nobody wants to marry people who don't have the basic drive for success, something these men lack. Even that 44 year old UPSC aspirant is a more attractive Rishta than these guys.
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  1038.  @theaccidentalguitarist9688 it only exists to please Lutyens
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  1039. 😂 and what happened before that wasn't oligarchic support? Industrialists and Entrepreneurs have always been roped into political campaign funding every since Nehru passed 1955 Avadi resolution. Electoral bonds or no bonds - there's no difference.
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  1040. We should not trade with Pakistan at all. These guys have not changed their outlook at all. London school of economics hosted a summit to discuss Pakistani economy and at the end of it they wanted trade with India ….. so that they could fund a war with India. Trade is not about improving lives or getting out of poverty but merely a means for them to achieve their vile objectives.
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  1041. It's frustrating for policy decisions to be third guessed by the Supreme Court. Not to mention the courts lackadaisical approach to get the govt to respond. Na idhar na udhar, this how our various branches of our government makes us suffer. They keep overstepping on each other.
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  1042. LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1043.  @rockytartaros6403 you folks are so ignorant. While the entire same sex marriage case was going on in the SC, the LGBT community in Chennai and Bangalore were demanding reservations for LGBT in admissions and jobs.
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  1044. It'll be a short one. Won't last beyond a couple of mins. Shekarji can definitely talk about Unfulfilled promises of Congress, it will easily help him create several episodes.
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  1045.  @CaptainGeek5 they are not bro. Buddhist scriptures and Sangam literature attribute to him. Heck, Buddha's birth city was called Kapilavastu. Get out of your Ambedkarite bubble. Kapila is an actual historical figure.
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  1046. Resistance is the term you're looking for.
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  1047. The print is censoring comments.
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  1048.  @TeluguBusinessChannel Congress promises something and doesn't deliver. Just look at UPAs budget allocations, revised budget and personal wealth of Scamgressi and you'll see where all that development went.
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  1049.  @pulipakasrikiran9307 one can conjure up a number of ways to tackle the country's problem but none can be implemented without political capital. A strong mandate means you have the political capital to push controversial policies
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  1050. Tamils of Moreh suffered the most. They were driven away.
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  1051. 2% in import growth over 3 years means trade with China has been flat. But we should utilize our FTA with SK and Thailand.
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  1052. This is very one sided panel disguised as a book release. Also here's the problem with Guptaji argument - Rather than question if SBI has enough firewall between itself and govt (it does have a decent firewall), Guptaji accuses SBI that they let govt see what it wants to see. Let's assume Govt has access to who is the anon donar, then has the govt cracked down on Opposition party donars? No We need more categorical evidence before we pin the blame on anon donars and SBI. P.S.: ED action is based on GST receipts.
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  1053. I cancel my subscription. I can't take Gupta's hinduphobic editorials anymore. He is a danger to our own community.
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  1054. The day Gandhi family retires from politics is the day we'll know the real truth of their excesses. The looting, the anti Sikh riots, the violation of basic human rights under the emergency, bofors, the numerous scams under UPA. Please take your family and retire. You're holding India back and paving the road for the BJP.
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  1055. @Andhbhakts Be awake Clarification is not an apology.
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  1056. Once UP elections are done, Teni will be made to resign and purged from the party. He gave the farmers movement all the more momentum with his antics. There's no way anyone in the Top leadership particularly Modi will sweep it under the carpet and move on.
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  1057. Uddav Sena is on life support. Eknath convinced a LOT of heavyweights who can bring the money and have mass appeal. - Pratap Sarnaik - big money guy - Sanjay Gaiwak - big money guy and sugarcane producer leaders (also owns a coop bank in Buldana) - Abdul Sattar - Aurangabad heavyweight - AIMIM counterweight - Yogesh Kadam - Ramdas Kadam's son - Konkan heavyweight. He has taken a huge chunk of the Sena votebase. Suburbs, Thane Urban and Palghar MLAs are with Eknath.
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  1058.  @Vizorfam  well you care enough to comment about Savarkar.
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  1059. DK Singhji, in The Print's article titled - "‘Sabka Saath’ in BJP cabinets", the article mentioned SC/ST Dalits and OBC hold token portfolios - well, given that Women are the up and coming electorate, wouldn't it be appropriate to say the SC/ST, Dalit and OBC ministers who hold Women Welfate and Development are holding significant portfolio? If they mess that portfolio up, then the BJP loses a huge chunk of the voting population.
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  1060. Delimitation exercise chal raha hai.
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  1061. Capt is old but he still has clout. He knows his politics, the Congress high command especially Rahul Gandhi is unnecessarily stirring the pot.
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  1062. Well it's not. It's just the enthusiasm from the poll win hasn't faded yet. It's been about 100 days since MK Stalin was elected. It's a well known poll phenomenon.
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  1063. Impossible demands gets the silent treatment. I don't think Centre has the appetite to create new states.
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  1064. I can't believe you're encouraging States to rely on lottery for revenue.
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  1065. The most underrated reforms of the Modi govt is Jan Vishwas Act. The act decriminalized around 40 provisions and removed imprisonment clauses from 27,000 acts (Eg: 2 years prison sentences for not maintaining a woefully outdated cholera registry.). Prior to the act, these laws were used by govt officials to solicit bribes. While License Raj went away in 1991, Inspector Raj remained until recently. Modi still has a lot of work ahead of him.
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  1066. IIRC Chavan wanted to be made BJP State President (Tall ask). I think he'll be kept in cold storage (Rajya Sabha) while BJP works on his followers.
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  1067. Building a Business is a great life skill. Glad to see them building their life skill.
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  1068. Previously Cities like Kolkata would only clean up for US presidents. Now they are cleaning up for an Indian Prime Minister (Credit to Modi). Soon they will start cleaning up for the average Citizen.
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  1069. He runs Rajiv Gandhi foundation. He can use those resources to give away warm clothes to those that don’t have it. He’s all talk no action.
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  1070. You're the lead party of the opposition alliance and a political party. Of course the internal matters of the alliance matters to the average voter and your alliance partners. If youn are that worried about privacy of the inner working of your party then quit politics and dissolve the Congress. It's supposed to be a democratic party, not some Royal family. The amount of bootlicking for the Gandhi family is disgusting. Congress is the real reason why India's democracy is backsliding - constant sychopancy and bootlicking.
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  1071. It was your mistake. Why did you employ a developer from that horrible country?
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  1072. Talking about labor laws, Central government hasn't notified it. Our industrial and labor laws are ridiculous - we give folks imprisonment for not filing forms about cholera. With laws like this, corruption becomes endemic, policemen become mere gangsters running a protection racket. That bribe could have helped the businessman grow his business, hire more people etc. We have a huge issue of over criminalization of normal activities. This is a structural issue that very few talk about.
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  1073. Isn't this a violation of right to privacy, haebus corpus, warrantless seizure of personal artifacts? The way NCB gathered WhatsApp messages would make that evidence inadmissible in court since it was seized under duress or without a warrant.
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  1074. Baby Penguin is trying to take credit for the bridge renewal.
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  1075. Let's not forget the Industrial Revolution was funded by Colonialism and extensive resource extraction.
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  1076. I wouldn't discount some state agencies. MSRDC under Fadnavis, YEIDA, UPEIDA under Yogi, MahaMetro, GMRCL, UPMRCL have done a tremendous amount of heavy lifting. MSRDC and YEIDA, UPEIDA are self funded without Centre contributing money into the project. I think that should be highlighted as well.
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  1077.  @BestOfPodcast_45  data and state budgets. About 40% of govt salaries in Punjab are paid by the Centre and they got another 15% top up last year.
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  1078. In Assam, local Congress leaders were importing bus loads of Bangladeshi M to undermine tribal power. They were quite systematic about it. Yes Tribals have been marginalized in the name of Secularism.
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  1079. Patrick is Buddhist turned Dharmic. He's Sri Lankan and his works are respected by our Mathas. He's actually a bhakt of Mata AmritaNandamayi.
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  1080. Congress is useless as it is. They are the original Suit boot ki sarkar. If Congress was in power, everything Govt does would be a no bid contract. Remember those cheap tablets that Kapil Sibal was showing off? That was a no bid contract given to Bharti Airtel. CWG contracts, no bids.
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  1081. Hahahaha. I had a hunch today's CtC will be a republish an old episode.
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  1082. I encourage everyone to watch Jyoti's participation in a debate with Nalin conducted by France 24. I think that presents a better picture than this vlog.
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  1083. Congress made defamation a criminal offence in 1973
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  1084.  @Vajrapani108  I honestly don't care if he's pro or anti. That's irrelevant in this context. I do believe equating the Western and Indian dynasties as equals is wrong and simplistic. It ignores a very fundamental difference in how parties work in the West.
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  1085. OFB corporatization is nothing to cough about. So is insisting on private sector participation in defence procurement. I can agree, the pace is not up to the mark and the BJP needs to whip some of the bureaucracy to speed things up but I wouldn't call it indecision. I think we can comfortably say the BJP has a tendency to make hasty decisions (Farm laws is a great example of hasty decision making).
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  1086. She's the Editor of Communist Party of India - Marxist Leninist's mouthpiece - The Liberation. Of course she would say their talking points.
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  1087.  @sankalp6872  precisely. These folks think a footnote and one sentence is all the history we need to learn. There's more to history than a textbook that downplays contributions to independence to one sentences and over emphasizes contributions of Gandhi and Nehru. Why do we need to read the same shit Gandhi did for 3 years in school? There are more regional leaders. Heck Poona pact is one paragraph in NCERT textbook!!! The foundations of our constitution was laid at that moment is relegated to one paragraph. That's the incomplete history we are so proud of. We are told it is shameful when we ask for better.
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  1088. Was Channi able to get his ideas implemented despite being Punjab CM? Nope. So what makes you think Shashi can do it? His ideas might be great to listen to but it's irrelevant because it won't happen.
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  1089. One thing the BJP is absolutely on point on is this outreach to everyone. They really do make it point (even if it is not genuine) to put the spotlight on students, sanitation workers, other folks who work in "Nichda" professions. This is how they win votes, folks remember these things for a long time. My mom still raves about how her distant relative fed Rajiv Gandhi vathal kozumbu.
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  1090. The journalists needs to check his manners. “You’re taking over from a woman, you are an old.” reels of ageism. Old people are quite capable.
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  1091. At least 35 MLA might be defecting. Dang.
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  1092. Well, isn't that a good thing? Just cause you are a member of the BJP doesn't mean you need to be loyal and be subservient to the BJP. BJP members can exercise their independence when it comes to voting. Unlike Congressi supporters, if tomorrow the BJP engages in Anti National activities, BJP members won't take that quietly. The lack of Sychopancy should be celebrated. It also means BJP can't take it's member's vote for granted.
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  1093.  @Trollge398  kannadian 😂🤦‍♂️ it’s Kannadigas
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  1094. I still don't know why or what power is derived by keeping these criminals.
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  1095. I think you have a lot to learn. Look up Mubin Shaikh, he is the expert on radicalization.
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  1096. Question we should ask is how much cadre and street presence it has? Also who is polling Gujarat?
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  1097.  @anujsethi7845  Buddha and Nanak are both prayed as hindus and there are temples with both Buddha and Nanak. Tu kaunsa Khalistani desh se aaye hai pe? Clearly you don't live in India.
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  1098. "They dare touch my Prince. They tainted his pure soul. This vile hands of the Govt. are out there to corrupt my Prince, my dearest Prince." cried with anguish Surjewala. Man, Congress is the BJP's biggest campaigner.
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  1099. Let’s remind ourselves that Jairam Ramesh stalled (effectively canceled) infrastructure projects in the north east that made the borders volatile on the Indian side while giving the Chinese space to make their claims static.
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  1100. Defense capital expenditures is a positive to the economy. We need more Tejas orders, more Arjuns, more local assembled, manufactured, maintained arms.
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  1101. Bhagwat Mann hasn't retweeted any of Kejriwal's 'anpad'tweets. Kejriwal's statement must be hurting the poor 12th pass CM of Punjab. I don't think Kejriwal knows he's insulting his own party members.
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  1102. You misunderstood him. Women have made great contributions but we've also had to make them into a footnote. 1000 years of invasions made women a target of subjugation, in response we kept them indoors and boring.
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  1103. "Misinformation" and "Disinformation". I guess I got the Bingo. Ladies, Gentlemen and those in between, we are misinformed about our houses without bricks. Bravo PM JT. Bravo.
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  1104. Because fundamental rights and violation of habeus corpus at home is more important than our neighbor treatment of minorites.
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  1105. We need a dictatorship of the bureaucracy. Strip freedoms of bureaucrats and IAS class until they comply with State and Janata.
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  1106. Please vote out the Congress. Congress should get decimated and the Gandhi family must be made to retire from Politics.
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  1107.  @okman9684  that's the wrong kind of logic. Nupur could have put in better words. She put national interests at stake. Without nation there's no Lord Shiva or Gyanvapi. We just became a bunch of bickering tribes without a nation.
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  1108. Right now. The judiciary is the most dysfunctional branch of Govt. Granular data is fine but there needs to be a serious reform in the culture of the Judiciary. It's insulting to see someone like Advocates like Prashant Bhusan treat the Supreme Court as a whimsical institution and their family asset (khandani ghar). We also have High Court judges who are supposed to uphold habeas corpus but rather declare that a constitutional body (ECI) should be charged for Murder and people should be hanged (for blocking Oxygen) without trial. This kind of unprofessional behaviour just casts more doubt on the Judiciary's ability to be a Guardian of Justice and Fundamental Rights. The day Judiciary walks the talk and comprehensively reforms itself will be the day India reaches it's greatness as a democracy, civilization and society.
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  1109. The question is how big is their majority going to be? 325? 350?
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  1110. I think the dependence goes both ways. If they push us to far, then the Gulf Countries are looking at an Arab Spring style revolution. We provide them with cheap and good quality food grains. Religion does not fill stomachs.
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  1111. State govt need to start reforming regulations. State govt fiscal imprudence is driving away investments. Just look at Punjab, it got very little investments, even less than UP & Bihar. Sit on it for a moment.
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  1112. Indian Punjabi farmers killed Punjabi industry. The farmer's demand for free electricity killed the State's fiscal capacity. So while India was booming in the 2000s, Punjab was adding cess after cess on residential and industrial electricity tariffs to cover the shortfall. While China was selling boxing gloves at Rs. 30/unit (Punjab used to own that market), Punjabi manufacturers were charging around Rs. 50/unit which includes about Rs. 15 in taxes owe to Punjab Govt. Today Punjab is completely de-industrialized - local industries have shifted away from Punjab to neighbouring states or China. Lesson here is if you listen to Punjabi farmers, say goodbye to any industry and start saving for a ticket to Canada. The same farmers now want to bring the same ruin to the rest of India. Fun fact: 1. Punjab's secular govt was charging a cow protection tax before Modi's party even came up with the concept of cow protection tax. 2. Jalandar used to be the Shenzen of Sports equipment manufacturing until the late 2000s.
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  1113.  @arunsar7893 policing is a state subject. Police is not. IPS reforms are in the concurrent list.
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  1114.  @raviinder6406  don't drag Mahabharata into the stupidity of Punjabi farmers.
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  1115. When it suits you, you want the SC to interfere into matters that are solely the affairs of the executives
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  1116.  @vedsaipandla3259 no 😂. Modi actually ran with it, spinned it around and won 2019. You guys forgot the trashing he gave you in the polls?
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  1117. He is speaking at World Hindi Conference.
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  1118. 5:00 This point is debatable again. Nehru actually inherited a strongly centralized state. By the end of his 3rd term, Nehru was presiding over a decentralizing India. States Reorganization movement was at it's peak. You are right, that a LOT of India was defined in Nehru's term. But Nehru was a pawn rather than the live player. The Unity in diversity we see today, would not exist if Nehru had his way. He wanted to wipe India's language and replace them with Hindi or English. Individual states rebelled, in Maharashtra you had the Samyukti movement, in united Andhra you had the Vishalandhra movement, in Gujarat it was deshashmita etc. Same things can be said about IIT and ISRO. Nehru was not involved in the creation of either, he only took credit. If you visit BARC, you will realize how uninvolved Nehru was in the entire program. Nehru almost tried to shut down India's nuclear program, if it wasn't for JRD's intervention the program would have been scrapped. India's tone was defined in Nehru's term but it wasn't Nehru's achievement. It would be wise to move away from Nehruvian myth making and recognize the contributions of others.
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  1119. Selection process of a "Democratic" leader just started in Pk
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  1120. These guy have enormous immunity and privilege to attend parliament. They are abusing it and bringing down the decorum of the house. Suspend the miscreants.
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  1121.  @lightboi9752  you need help. Infrastructure is the best way to make our industries competitive. We pay 18% of our costs in logistics and you think that's an insignificant amount
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  1122.  @abdulhakeem7707 tere Free Hajj trip ke liye paise nahi rahega.
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  1123. The issue with India is Government and infrastructure. While Infrastructure is getting fixed but Government is still a problem. The reason why India's semiconductor industry is limited to chip design is because humans don't need infrastructure or industrial policy. They have very low setup costs. Up until recently, Industrial policy in India was nonsensical and very hostile to any privately owned industry. Industrial labor policy was skewed towards labor unions and Indian Govt always maintained substantial market share and market monopolies. When it comes to things like electricity, social welfare policies like free electricity for farmers, means the cost of that is borne by industry. The bureaucracy is absolutely horrible. They make you go through absolute pain for simple things like proving your residency. The semiconductor industry is a symptom of the larger structural issues with Industrial, Business and labor policy and the rotting bureaucracy in India.
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  1124.  @bhaskarganguly7  He's an Kejru fanboi
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  1125. Well ... what baffles me the most is why does the Congress persist with Rahul Gandhi despite deliverying multiple losses in electorate.
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  1126.  @MayankJairaj you are confidently illinformed.
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  1127. Our textbooks betrayed us. It never taught us to see beyond our linguistic ethnicities and culture. With the internet and folks like Shekharji, we are finally learning about our country and it's diversity. I hope we learn more, appreciate the diversity, celebrate it and learn to respect it. Thank you for your comment. Please do tell us more about the North East. I hope to make a trip one day.
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  1128. Gadkariji should groom a successor and retire. He has worked hard and earned some time to retire. He looks very tired.
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  1129.  @hiteshgujarathi4636 it’s not about digesting. It’s all about making more money. As an analyst and a reporter, Ruchi failed. She can’t use the information she has to argue for better returns. It’s just very poorly thought out analysis.
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  1130. Harm reduction is good but it can't be the only thing we should be doing to reduce drug overdose problem. Right now all the focus has been on harm reduction and it's coming at the expense of other valid approaches like Drug enforcement, supply disruption, rehabilitation etc
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  1131. Where our subsidy to build new housing? Where’s the funds for provinces to reform permitting and land use to speed up housing construction? We are spending $16 billion for VW, $3 billion for Ukraine but where the millions that the federal govt could use to build housing on federal land?
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  1132. Just like how they destroyed the air
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  1133. It definitely won’t come from your moralizing on YouTube comments. Here take your Rs. 2 and enjoy your Haus Kaus coffee.
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  1134. He should also have his segment in The Print podcast.
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  1135. British sensibilities are still embedded in the older generation. Homosexuality was accepted in Hindu society before Victorian laws became the norm in India.
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  1136.  @sreerag3354  ya, we need UCC and include same sex marriage in the same legislation.
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  1137. Law and it's interpretation always lies in the hands of the people, not the Govt or Judiciary. This has been made painfully clear several times in our country's history (Eg: Places of Worship act). When laws deviates dramatically from how people perceive it, such laws loses it's relevance. Basic structure is one such doctrine that has lost it's relevance because of such deviations from people's expectations. It was a statutory doctrine bought to help protect people from Govt abuses but devolved into simply protecting the institutions rather than the people. Folks will decry saying that laws can't be decided by a "mob", sure but neither can any institution enforce laws without the support of the people. Real life doesn't work by the diktats of folks who believe their ivory tower opinions is morally righteous.
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  1138. They are 17-21 years of age. They have an entire life ahead of them. Stop treating them as near retirees. You can't be so entitled at 17.
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  1139. The Congress will splinter before BJP takes a dent. Factionalism has become worse.
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  1140.  @vishalkrish6425  Canada had a big impact. They declared LTTE as a terrorist group in 2006 and LTTE lost a major source of donations.
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  1141.  @PK-tt5kk  forget 1962, they were cowering after Mumbai attacks. They were so timid that they couldn't even gather the strength to mount a diplomatic offensive against Pakistan for the attack. Instead, they blamed it on "saffron" terror and treated it as a bigger national threat than LeT. That's the kind of ridiculous party we are talking about.
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  1142. I'd add the terrible governance (because of terrible bureaucracy) and public policy to the mix. You really need a lot of extra resources to be successful in India. Take education as an example, you need extra tutoring to supplement basic education for anything taught in school to be useful, that extra resources only exasperates inequality.
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  1143. It's an interview and it's one person. Besides, good journalism presents multiple perspectives, even those that you disagree with or are uncomfortable about. It's supposed to give you a well rounded information. If you prefer being tunnel visioned then may I recommend The Wire or OpIndia? Don't like Private players then maybe try Rajya Sabha TV.
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  1144.  @aravindc102  yes and it impacts Kerala too. Construction on NH 66 south of Trivandrum has stalled because there is no gravel to pave a road with. The foundation (GSB) work had reached it's completion late last year/earlier this year. Gravel comes from Nagercoil area.
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  1145. Chiddu: This Bill strips away my influence with Delhi Govt and MCD. I can’t engage in loot with the help of the local govt. Now to engage in loot, I need to win General Elections. This is unconstitutional.
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  1146. Shekharji, I have some constructive criticism abut the Print editorial. There's an over reliance on "unnamed sources". I think it's high time The Print starts naming them. If they are a govt source, then start naming the Dept and position within the Dept. This unnamed sources problem is particularly noticeable with Defense and Finance articles. (The journalists working on them are good) Until we get rid of Mr. "unnamed sources", journalism will never improve and folks in position of people and influence in this country will not held accountable.
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  1147. Abhe oi, Modi ke wajese hai ye sab ho raha hai. If Modi's policy didn't liberalize sectors of the economy and privatize loss making PSUs then Tata wouldn't have been able to arm our soldiers or buy Air India.
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  1148. There's a lot of frustration between the Executive and the Judiciary. Judiciary often oversteps and functions as the executive - SC/HC directs road repairs. Executive is trying to play the same game with Judiciary by messing around with appointments. I think the Govt. and SC should sit down and come up with comprehensive reforms and more importantly procedures. Side note: It's extremely frustrating to see a project get a green light by the National Green Tribunal only for that judgement get stayed because of an appeal in the High courts. No executive will appreciate that.
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  1149. Judges whine, Delhites finally realize their city is no where near global standards, Govt scrambles to "curb pollution", meanwhile farmers keep burning stubble, the farmers lobby intent on maintaining their feudal system keep protesting at the border for the status quo and contribute to the utter gassing of people. This too shall pass and just like clockwork next year we'll have the same conversation.
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  1150.  @kundanverma4183  so fix that rather than scrap it. The call to scrap things is like throwing the baby with the bath water
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  1151. It’s expensive because we are demanding customization. NAVIC integration, MRO facilities, local subcomponent manufacturing, integration with our communications infrastructure all add to the cost of the procurement. You are not just buying 31 drones.
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  1152. National Dam Safety Authority is already starting to show results. I hope it fixes the issues and gets the project back in good health. Meanwhile, ED should investigate graft in this project.
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  1153.  @SK-fs1gd  that will not resolve Management or ownership issues with Delhi Jal Board
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  1154.  @Stallion_1044  Bakwas ke alawa tereko kuch aata hai kya?
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  1155. Uddhav, did not learn from Maratha history. I don't think he learnt anything beyond Shivaji Maharaj. Maratha political culture prefers a symbolic head and administrative control is given to it's Peshwas, Amatya, Prathinidhi. Dighe and Shinde used to style themselves as the local Peshwa or Prathinidhi.
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  1156. The Captain is in tune with Canadian politics and he has clout and following. He should consider starting his own party similar to Bloc Quebecoise. He might dent the Congress that way. Also the Captain needs to nurture his own proteges, he's too old.
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  1157.  @joal9235  of course and pork too. That's a staple of the North East
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  1158. The recent humanitarian disaster of a second Covid wave got me thinking a lot. I am a NRI, I have an emotional connection with my country and I absolutely want to grow and succeed and I hope to see it within my lifetime. We are at a crisis and a juncture - people are dying because they are unable to breathe. That symbolic of massive paralysis of the social fabric of this country and that paralysis has now been laid bare in front of us as a pandemic. We need to be extremely honest, unless we are honest, we will keep repeating mistakes. We Indians, do not understand our society, our government, our legal system, bureaucracy and more importantly scale of problems we face. And amazingly, we still don't understand and refuse to study it. It was very disappointing to watch people celebrating Holi, going to Kumbh, weddings, partying. It was absolutely shameful and infuriating to watch NDTV host a bloody solutions summit while cases rapidly rising in Maharashtra - key official who are supposed to manage this crisis were on Bloody News Channel instead of making preparations, increasing testing, making arrangements for migrants. I was horrified in late March when Uddhav was pondering, if there should be a lockdown or not in Mumbai. I was horrified when the CM of Delhi would rather be on NDTV doing press conferences than starting stockpiling process. I was angry when PILs were filed in the courts - in the middle of a crisis, we are pulling away decision making resources to attend courts. I was extremely angry at Amit Shah's arrogance at throwing stats like "It is under what we expect" (Bloody hell, a Million deaths is just a mere statistic). I was absolutely angry that our political parties are still engaging in trench warfare on News Channel - they still are. I was horrified to watch your Bengal coverage and no matter what the Election Commission still wanted to proceed with elections and I am in absolute shock at the lack of coverage for Panchyat Raj elections in UP - We are in a middle of pandemic and our largest state with abysmal health infrastructure is conducting elections in of it's most vulnerable rural population. How can anyone tolerate this madness? Have we lost our sense of responsibility? Where is the seriousness? You can blame Modi sarkar for this mess but if we stop there then we have learnt nothing. This is a complete breakdown of everything and everyone is paying for it including the NRIs who haven been rejected and thrown away. We need more people to talk about these things. We need people to be educated about our government, governance models the deep hole of trust.
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  1159. It's exploitative, that's true. Is there human trafficking, there's no doubt about it. Have we done anything to address it? Not so much. Is it slavery? I think that's stretching it by a mile.
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  1160. Along with changing the structure of IIM, Reservations should also be part of public debate. Slotting 50% percentile folks amongst 90% percentile folks is/was/will always be a disaster. The impact of lower the bar at such a late stage of one's education has led to very bad consequences and we see that manifest in high drop rates and ridiculously high suicides. It is also a lame excuse to not provide scholarships.
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  1161.  @mg.f.9023 which community uses Kitab to justify bad behaviour? It's not Shias or Dharmic community. It's the one that think they are "disenfranchised" and their secular allies.
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  1162. Where are you going to get the Lithium mined and refined from? China.
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  1163. Speed and efficiency is something we should strive for however Tharoor thinks it’s a bad thing. MPs and MLAs would squat bungalows rent free for generations. If Parliamentary Secretary took a weekend to evict a disqualified member of the Parliament, it should be celebrated as progress. Also Congress just slept through this case just like how they slept through major governance issues. Heck whatever happened to 2 am SC appeals? That was a thing Congress used to boast about during the UPA - subverting common sense norms used to be a badge of honour for the Congress
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  1164. Conflict is inevitable. The Chinese will try to invade and violate previous agreements the moment they think they have the better hand. We have to prepare for it when it comes. I'm glad we have Centre that's finally starting to understand this inevitability and is starting to turn things around. It needs to be constant endeavour.
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  1165.  @neetootripathi3018  we always run a deficit, so by getting rid of revdis you are not going to find surpluses. We also have socialist obligations - Right to food, Right to Education etc. that we are not supposed to default on. So looking at from an investment point makes better sense. So Rs. 1000 to every woman is a bad investment. There’s 0 returns, free food decent returns since we don’t have to spend scarce policing resources managing riots etc.
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  1166. Scholz needs to turn his Govts unpopularity around. The incumbents demeanour and policies is helping AfD become popular.
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  1167. Eknath, Paranjpe and the rebel MLAs have actually moved away from the more aggressive action of the yesteryears. They are more business oriented. Paranjpe owns plenty of industrial units, Eknath has his hand in tolls and commercial property and his buddy Sarnaik is a huge property developer.
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  1168.  @jaswindersinghnarula4379  precisely Delhites are full of themselves. First they kill the Yamuna by letting the Najafgarh drain shit into the Yamuna and now they think can boss around telling others to adjust.
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  1169. What a bizarre episode. Normally, you'd be concerned about credit given to large industries but we're worried about $1.5 billion market. Personal loans market is tiny and we've just opened it up. Our Commercial and Industrial credit market is 100 times personal loans market. Lending in the commercial sector has only grown 11% and there's still a liquidity crunch in that market. It has been a drag on growth particularly in Infra where most companies live on a month on month basis (Govt never pays on time).
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  1170. I don't think Rajiv would have liberalized the economy - he's more dogmatic than his mom and son. The liberalization process started under Chandrashekar. He roped in MMS and told him to drop the socialism, got him to work with Yashwant Sinha.
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  1171. It's not even for domestic consumption. It's for our strategic oil reserves.
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  1172. Every veteran online has welcomed the move. They had different reasons but they all welcomed the move
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  1173. On the Flip side, if the Adani Controversy becomes like Rafale 'scam' (i.e. doesn't gain traction among voters) then it would be first time in Indian political history where market actions haven't resulted in political interference. That would be something worth celebrating.
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  1174.  @sam83santy  forced nahi. It is breaking down barriers, once you do that they will naturally ghar wapis aa jayegay.
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  1175. NPR’s coverage of events outside the USA is definitely propaganda. NPR’s foreign desk does not maintain editorial independence unlike its domestic desk.
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  1176. Ottawa is uninterested in building roads and apparently we have “adequate” infrastructure. Thanks Guibeault, you’re the source of all this whackiness in Federal policy.
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  1177. They are looking to get pets from Rahul Gandhi
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  1178.  @thehellyousay  then India is in no obligation to follow Canadian law to protect it's territorial integrity. In the grand scheme of things, Territorial integrity comes above every other International Law, that's been the case since the Treaty of Westphalia.
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  1179. At Sakshgam Valley, we command the heights. Indira Col West is great place for 155 MM artillery. Also in summer time, Sakshgam valley becomes a lake thanks to glacial melting. I don't know how Chinese can use the valley offensively. BTW, search for Gunner's shot's take on the same topic. The General presents a more grounded take on the issue.
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  1180. Shekarji, you need to change your channel's comment filters. It is censoring legitimate comments made in this channel. Too much censorship will come with extremely dire consequences.
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  1181. Talking about India, Balaji Srinivasan, a Silicon valley investor says that he is pretty bullish on Indians and not bullish on India. I think that highlights the potential that India has and how Govt of India holds Indians back. Until we realize where and how our Govt is a major roadblock and push back on them, India's potential will be limited to the effort of Indians. Our Govt, its bureaucracy and the Judiciary tend to have a negative multiplier effect on entrepreneurship. The Print does an excellent job highlighting how India (Govt) holds Indians back.
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  1182.  @mg.f.9023 State Bank’s job is to help govt achieve it’s directives. SBI by its definition is doing its job. When it was under Congress, it was a parivar Bank, now it’s a Janata’s bank
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  1183.  @mg.f.9023 he does and so do many others. Congress hasn’t paid its taxes and had to get reprimanded by IT dept. Congressis should look inwards before throwing stones at others.
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  1184. And this is how BJP gains votes in Tamil Nadu. There was no need to fight.
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  1185. No but intoxication and addiction is a taboo.
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  1186. Delimitation will help kill dynastic political parties. Right now, there's about 2 million Indians for every MP, western democracies have way more MPs than India does. Canada has 338 MP for it's 40 million people, that's roughly 120,000 for every MP. Mumbai has around 20 million people and yet has about 15 seats in Parliament (7 in the Island, rest in the surrounding suburbs). Because of how little representation we get out of MP, we have to deal with our ugly politics.
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  1187. Very interesting insight into BJP ground game. This is excellent stuff. Maybe you should consider publishing a long form article of this.
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  1188. All you want is handouts and freebies. Shameful. Take control of your own destiny rather than wait there for handouts.
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  1189. Why don't they enable locals to establish business? You know locals can benefit from doing business. AAP will set us back by another 3 decades. This is backdoor version of license raj.
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  1190. I wish CBC also spoke about the crisis in Canadian diplomacy. G20 was a disaster for Canada, we came out looking like fools with nothing to offer.
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  1191. You can buy equipment with oil money but you can't buy training and experience. India has one of the best military training academies (especially Naval, Mountain and Jungle Academies) in the world.
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  1192. ⁠ @Aditya_0211 nonsense. You don't have the right to dictate who is Marathi and gatekeep Marathi identity. So Ghup bas.
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  1193. Lucky, the Print Journalists got early access. Can't wait to see it in person.
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  1194. Man, look at those schools and houses. 5 hours to go to school, bad roads.
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  1195. We lose about 40% of produce this way. This is the contributing factor to malnutrition. This is evidence right here, the lady can't afford to buy nutritious food. Why? Veggies are ruined by rain and hence expensive. You can have a vegetarian diet and still live a long healthy life. You can still grow tall. Good nutrition comes from easy access to good food. We need more investment in reducing loss of produce.
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  1196. The problem with Mahua (opposition in general) is she doesn't understand the concept of "Choose your battles". There was no reason to make that comment, she just gave away free ammo to the BJP. The poster controversy would have died down in a week but it will be extended for months. This is what happens when you conduct politics on Twitter. Any street politician would just assess this isn't a battle worth fighting
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  1197. Man ANI has no sense of tone or mood. Unintentionally made a sombre moment into a hilarious one.
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  1198. All of the worms are coming out of the woodwork. Mr Dynast here is offended that Govt refuses to entertain his royal Lordship pedigree. (Lokur's Father was a judge and 100% Congressi). Seeth complain, the man who passed minority sub quota should watch his legacy wither away.
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  1199. Exactly. Is rate mein kuch dino mein BJP aur Congress ke bech mein kuch farak nahi padega. This culture of sycophancy holds the development of our nation back.
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  1200. CM is Jagan bit blame is on party that is non existent in the state? wah kya logic hai.
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  1201. US needs to resolve it's domestic politics first. Debt ceiling and US Congress' (not to be mistaken for The Gandhi family Congress) inability to pass a budget is really pours water on any strategic and geopolitical plans.
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  1202. I would love a Green Economy bond. Climate change is making our environment. BC just almost lost its Salmon stock due to climate change induced drought. The Global South is looking for financing to get them off fossil fuels. If we can start a bond for Ukraine, why can't we raise money for Climate change?
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  1203. We have always learnt about the failures of private industry but we haven't learnt about how Govt. sets private companies up for failures. Jet airways almost collapsed until NDA-1 (Vajpayee) government liberalized aviation industry further.
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  1204. This is weird rant on love jihad. Says nothing about policing or how police refuse to even file FIRs for very obvious forced marriages and domestic violence. This is not the standard of editorial that got me to purchase a subscription and donate money to the Print. Please improve.
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  1205.  @meteor541 it'll take a few hours.
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  1206.  @TheArb6  yup. Religion matters when you are applying for govt scholarships for lower caste Muslims, a program completely redone and revamped by Modi govt.
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  1207. An unelected Sanjay Gandhi was dictating family planning. Shows the extent of nepotism.
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  1208. The problem isn't their loudspeakers. The problem is our bureaucracy can't enforce it's own laws. Supreme court ordered municipal corporations to enforce noise laws and get religious buildings into compliance with noise regulations.
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  1209. IPC and CrPC is garbage but we weirdly celebrate as some kind of stroke of genius.
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  1210.  @tomriddle4110  Mahatma Gandhi's economic policy makes Pol Pot economic policy look like child's play. The Fake Gandhi family corrupted the Mahatma's economic thought even further and mixed it with their half assed socialism.
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  1211. Sharad Pawar's ploy. Just a couple of week ago, he started grabbing land around Lavasa under the guise that Modi was going to use it to build a statue. Today in Baramati, (his daughter's seat), he got his party folks to demand quotas.
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  1212. I know Shekarji is going to be invited by CPR to give a talk about the upcoming elections. It would be nice if he mentioned Hinduphobia and Anti Hindu hate that Congress and its supporters constantly engages in since 2020.
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  1213.  @logosnongrataest7671  Chandigarh lobby trips intensifies.
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  1214.  @truemore2018 hero types got a lesson of a lifetime. They turned new leaf and realized it's India not Pakistan.
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  1215.  @theinterruptedlife1783  money only goes so far. Ultimately you need party cohesion to win. Just look at TN. No amount of money could help ADMK win back another term.
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  1216.  @dipmalyagantait4716  I don't disagree but time to resolution is getting longer and longer. That's not a good sign. Case load is increasing, wait times for initial proceedings is increasing. It does not indicate NCLT and NCLAT are in good health. These are things the Law Minister should tackle but Judiciary tied his hands with Collegium system.
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  1217. Without a steady supply of BVR missiles, those F/A-18 Hornets are sitting ducks. Sukhoi Flankers will run circles around the Hornet. This is true for most NATO fighter aircraft.
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  1218. No matter what these guys say, the BJP is far better than them. Remember AAP MLA was directly involved in Delhi riots. Every Congressi has had a hand in inciting rioting. Heck Congress is still rewarding Jagdish Tytler.
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  1219. He kept the one of the most incompetent Cabinet Ministers and shuffled the competent ones. Why is Hussen and Sajjan still part of Cabinet? Why was David Lametti removed? Anand for Treasury Board? That's a demotion, she's competent to deal with labour issues but she was just getting started with DND (which is a trashfire). Qualtrough for Sport is a mismatch. Sean Fraser for Housing & Infra might be a silver lining. Beech is competent but I am not sure what Citizen Services entails.
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  1220.  @ericme5715  sure even if you exclude missionaries, it won't change the outcome. They might go with Buddhism or start their own religion. As long as we are exclusionary and prejudicial against our lower caste, we will drive them away from our religion. Why would anyone tolerate generation after generation of discrimination?
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  1221.  @chaljhootha7334  which vision have you been closing your eyes to? Let’s take China, what vision does Raga have? Nothing and at best appeasement. Modi govt has covertly and overtly developed and implemented Strategies to tackle China. Quad was a vision that was revived. I can go on and on but all you have to offer is a self like and some terrible snark.
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  1222.  @SaifurRahman92  do you have anything to offer apart from nothing?
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  1223.  @krto7663  misplaced priorities. The pace at which the court is pursuing Same Sex Marriage is offputting. 2 years for a petition regarding civil union takes precedent over a criminal case that's been waiting for 30 years for a trial date. CJI is pursuing legacy rather than improving the court's competence.
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  1224. @Peter Lang criminal cases. Like I said 70,000 cases lie pending for more than 30 years. I'm not including all pending cases but FYI in total there's about 45 million pending cases with about 15% pending for less than 2 years. Same sex marriage can genuinely wait, they are least impacted by a dysfunctional judiciary
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  1225. @Peter Lang criminal cases are way more important than same sex marriage. A functional judiciary works to the benefit of everyone than the current dysfunctional judiciary that chooses to serve a few.
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  1226. Short Answer: No We set our Immigrants up for failure.
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  1227. That's because both DMK and ADMK are entrenched in the economy. Sun Group is DMK, Sundaram group is ADMK, plenty of factories in Hosur have DMK, ADMK hands in them.
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  1228. Sincerity and innocence is killed at the borders of Delhi.
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  1229.  @ahefazajani2820  Rightly said. The argument that cost of living in India is better than any Western country is delusional. It is a re branding of old socialist justifications of povertarianism.
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  1230.  @grandcentral3007  I'm an immigrant but my partner is a native born. For me it's easy to pack my bags and move to a cheaper location. No problem, I've done it several times. But it pains me to watch my partner who is slowly getting priced out. I can imagine how hard it is for her to internalize that you no longer can live in the place you grew up in. I know that feeling and it is not pleasant.
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  1231.  @berserkhorimiya courts weren’t biased in this case. RaGa’s lawyer and his casual attitude towards the courts got him his judgement.
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  1232. Baramati is vulnerable. In 2019 BJP lost the seat with a vote difference of 1,00,000.
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  1233.  @Dhruv_Jain  are you thick headed? Roads will be used by cars, buses, trucks and motorcycles. They will divert north south traffic off the bottle necks around Nepean sea area. Think bigger. Our roads are clogged as is. No amount of buses or increasing frequency is going to solve that. We need more roads, more options to travel from a to b. Mumbai is small with a large population. You just can't have one type of transit option. You want to fast track metro, go to Matoshree and protest for building that Depot at Aarey.
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  1234. FAME subsidies made this possible. If it wasn’t for FAME then we would be stuck with old buses carefully repaired with sheet metal
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  1235. Aproova here is talking about procedural admission of electronic evidence in courts but it misses the point of warrantless collection of evidence.
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  1236. Send the bulldozers after the Agnipath rioters. Ban them from recruitment.
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  1237. In a democracy, when there are far more intelligent and valid comments, what is the need for your comment? Second why are you speaking about democracy when you don't understand the basics and the importance of dialogue in a democratic society. And you are nothing special. We can agree on that
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  1238. He is super popular thanks to Jal Jivan
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  1239. On one side Congress claims to be the party of secularism and on the other side, they still keep Jagdish Tytler around as their party chief of Delhi. Way to be true to your values. 🙄 Congress says they are progressive and appoints Channi from the Dalit community as CM. On the other hand, they insult him by letting Sidhu run wild with his mouth and second guessing Channi's governance at every step. They don't even let him make decisions. Good way to empower someone 🙄
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  1240. This entire hearing for same sex marriage, rubs me the wrong way. I am for same sex marriage but not in the manner it is being conducted. India's court system has collapsed, it is dysfunction and the scale of dysfunction is huge. For eg: there are 73,000 criminal cases waiting for a trial date for more than 30 years (lots with death penalty, life imprisonment terms). The court has essentially ignored pending cases and made a choose to pursue legacy instead. It is not expanding rights rather it is engaging in monkey balancing and compensating for it's sheer incompetence.
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  1241. Rajan even excluded private banks that collapsed from Asset Quality Review. That guy was just plain incompetent
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  1242.  @orkkojit  when you are a company with large number of transactions a portion of those transactions will always be suspect. There's no 100% compliant or 100% clean business companies at all.
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  1243. I nominate Shaghai Central Train terminal to be renamed after Kurla
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  1244. Keep the pressure up. Make Trudeau fess up.
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  1245. I wish the data was collected by the govt rather than a private company like Air Canada. Unlike the govt, private companies have no restrictions to who they sell private data to. Govt of Canada cannot sell it’s data and there’s way more accountability.
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  1246. Approva, you should upload a video about the Basic Doctrine of the Constitution.
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  1247. Disappointed by Maharashtra. The state has pretty good administrative capacity and business model to improve healthcare but they are squandering it away in gundaraj. Maharashtra should have been around the 80s.
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  1248. Technical skills. Army has a lot of vehicles like tanks that need mechanics. They do construction and engineering (like Bridges). There's a whole set of non combat roles that are more hands on that would translate well into manufacturing m
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  1249. "After bragging he smuggled 1000 people across the river". Dude thinks he's some James Bond Villain engaging in a monologue. Good riddance.
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  1250. When your electorate is shrinking because of your own deliberate actions, it is called “disenfranchisement”. SGPC did not “shrink” the electorate as much as it disenfranchised them.
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  1251. @@ut2104So you're fine with RSS ignoring the fight against academia for their support of reservations for LGBTIQTS++ community?
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  1252. Kejriwal should let Atishi become CM. He should resign.
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  1253.  @abracadabra42 that's $4 billion spread across key swing districts. It's actually money well spent.
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  1254. RaGa’s vacation is coming up soon. He needs to say some nonsense before he heads for his vacation to unwind
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  1255. They have their own style of cuisine as well. They also get very little support from TN Govt. with respect to education.
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  1256.  @gauravaggarwal6083 Your underestimating the b fundamental change in American society that occurred after the war. The US Govt went above and beyond to tackle anti semitism.
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  1257. isn't that under construction? Satellite pics seems to indicate that construction is happening
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  1258.  @sarvajanhitaay she is also lying about privacy. Marriage is a public event, you can pay your DM and get a list of married couples - Govt is treating live in relationships the same way.
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  1259. It's called family infighting spilled on to the streets
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  1260. Please take some effort to learn regional languages. Pickup Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, they are beautiful languages.
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  1261. Did you get your Rs. 2 from the CJI?
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  1262.  @prathameshbhalerao96  we have more people. That does not mean we lack ethics or morals. There’s at least around 20-30 on a monthly basis similar incidents in the US and more if you include fights with Airlines staff. Does that mean Americans lack ethics or morals? Stop engaging in internalized racism.
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  1263. Imran Khan's tactics kinda reminds me of Indira Gandhi. I wonder what Imran Khan thinks about her.
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  1264. Dear Jains, I apologize ahead of time for Devdutt Patnaik. Please politely let us know where he's wrong, hum apke behalf usko peez lege.
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  1265. Just incorporate Maldives into the Union of India. So many problems solved.
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  1266. UN is a necessary but largely useless organization. So much of it's functioning has been hollowed out in the past 2 decades.
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  1267. Maharashtra would have been a better place for a F1 track
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  1268. Students are just pawns for folks who think an improvements is elitist. They'll prefer students go through the grinder and commit suicide to satisfy their own world view.
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  1269. Looks like Raga has learnt something. Last time he was in Goa, a Goan called Rahul out and said, "Don't promise, then fly away". I guess he learnt to stay away and make promises.
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  1270. He might be Pakistan's first Lalu Yadav
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  1271. So the Lady wants India to accept Trudeau's "trust me bro" because he is from a G7 country. Ya, good luck with that. I think India gains more with bashing Canada because it is acting smug with it's G7 badge. It will make India pretty popular with G-20 (minus Canada) countries. Man, Canada seriously needs to reevaluate it's diplomatic strategy.
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  1272. There is nothing wrong with an import ban. However, in Sri Lanka's case, the ban impacted their agro production by roughly 50%. Their entire agro industry was warning the Rajapakshas about severe impact of the ban (for months before and months after).
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  1273. They do need to change it - Judiciary is one thing that's driving investors away and Collegium has failed us miserably - just look at case pendency.
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  1274.  @facttruth685 and for that we are sorry. We made mistakes and we are rectifying it. We are listening to what you have to say and we are fighting for your place in India. This is a long fight.
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  1275. You know what Erdogen is promising that Kemal can't seem to promise? Agency/Independence. Most folks (outside Europe) intrinsically understand "agency" once given away is near impossible to get back but an economy can recovery in a couple of years.
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  1276. TMC doesn’t want to accept Centre’s demand for auditing and digitalization requirements and hence CG refuses to disburse money.
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  1277. Commercial rents and local business taxes are too high. When you have extremely high property prices, the first victims are always local small businesses.
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  1278. It likely will go down the Punjab route. Thanks for voting for the Congress - you get what you vote for.
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  1279. The interesting bit here is the villagers don’t want BSNL network connection. They want private networks. Even villagers in remote villages don’t believe that a PSU can deliver. Good luck trying to convince them that anything in RaGa’s manifesto will work in their favour. P.S.: I read the article
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  1280. In case you are wondering why Taiwan is important, then maybe the highlights of a CCP military policy doc might help. So basically the CCP thinks they have a multiple fronts to deal with, West with India, North with Russia and East with Japan, American forces in Korea and Japan and finally Taiwan. On the front with India, China has 2(+3 reserve) army groups v. 10 army groups for India. So the PLA would be using a lot of resources fighting Americans and Japanese on the Eastern front. They want to push the front further into the Pacific. Capturing Taiwan means the PLA Navy and Air Force can push their Eastern front further into the Pacific and thus allow more troops and air forces to be used on the Western front to "resolve" issues with India. Most analysts think Taiwan can be invaded within a week, so after a week that the Western front can be get adequate forces to "resolve" the issues with India.
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  1281. Snehesh is a good journalists. I just have one complaint about him (and the Print editorial in general), over reliance on "unnamed sources". I think it's high time you start naming them. If they are a govt source, then start naming the Dept. Until we get rid of Mr. "unnamed sources", journalism and folks in position of people and influence in this country will not improve.
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  1282.  @pardeeptandon  kya joke hai.
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  1283. I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding that caste system is a part of Hindu society and discrimination is based on one's varna. But rather caste system is part of Indian/South Asian society and discrimination is based on one's Jati (community) and ones Jati doesn't change with religion. A Valmiki Christian is discriminated against merely because they are from the Valmiki community. This is also why we have Jat sikhs and Jat Hindus. I think until we and the government recognizes Jati as the basis of caste discrimination, caste will remain with Indian society.
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  1284. Two conservatives and two liberals united together against an authoritarian bully.
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  1285. These are reasonable demands. I think it could use a little tweaks. 85% seems like a lot.
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  1286.  @sankalp6872  I always strive for excellence :)
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  1287. Rahul Gandhi is like a European tourist. He takes buses and trains for joy rides rather than for commute. Now that he’s disqualified he might learn what it means to commute. Probably?
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  1288.  @Jobingeo0706  L1 aka Lowest bid policy se aise hi hoyega. BTW, China went through the same phase, their early 2000s infra was just plain ugly. They became rich and then rebuilt it with better aesthetic.
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  1289.  @TheTechnoPilot India is secular because of Hindus. India will remain secular because of Theocratic Hinduism. Allah and Jesus will still be one among many in Hindu pantheon and atheist are also welcome. It'll be the end of Political Islam and Political evangelism but that's a cost worth paying.
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  1290.  @sankalp6872  i disagree partially. I think both issues are valid. Our education system needs to revamped fast.
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  1291. It will come. It would be too cost prohibitive to setup manufacturing without the ecosystem of supplier. Both Boeing and Airbus are building dedicated MRO facilities in India, that will kickstart that supplier ecosystem.
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  1292.  @AJ-vu5gv  they are essential practices. Sikh have codified their religious laws, they opted into our constitution. If Muslims feel that hijabs are essential, then they should codify it as such. Let them fight it out courts. Bohras have done so. We also allow them to run their own education institution and enforce their dress code on us. I'd encourage them to take the legal route. It's not like we aren't providing options.
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  1293. Delhi excise policy was a corrupt politicians wet dream. Kejriwal almost got away with it. BTW, Kejriwal has spent 300 cr on shesh Mahal. How many kickbacks was involved in that will come out in due time.
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  1294. Translation: Congress, please don't implode too quickly. We need Pappu for another 15 years so that he can remain the Star campaigner of the BJP.
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  1295. Did the Courts order the removal of barriers? Genuine question.
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  1296. Kettle calls the pot black. Let's improve conditions for our farmers first before generating outrage for our farmers farming abroad. Our farmers work under worse conditions than them. We give them low pay, no holidays and don't respect the work they put in. Arbitrarily deny them the opportunities to improve conditions for themselves by forcing them to go through monopolies like Mandis and enforcing export bans.
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  1297.  @suchender801  NPA has gone down, collections have increased. Defaults have decreased. So where’s the revdi? Corps are paying back with interest. The only tenders that are given away without T&C are the ones doled out by Govt Ministries to Govt PSUs. That’s crony socialism.
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  1298.  @KamalSingh-qd9jr  the lack of faith in authorities is a more disturbing sign than the barbarism. It says more about the lack of governance than perceived extremism of a community.
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  1299.  @dungavhai3319  I don't think you understand the difficulty of scale. Scandinavian model doesn't scale very well without a lot of money lying around to tax. Trade is what generates money, money gives you more taxes, more taxes means more revenues means better services. We need to move towards better govt services rather than benefits. India isn't beholden to big businesses, anything that asserts that India is beholden to big businesses is socialist nonsense. Politicians in India are too powerful to be beholden to businesses. On the other hand we have politicians who use businesses to their own benefit.
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  1300.  @jayantjolly  if you lived outside Delhi, you'll realize the how bad UPA was with Infrastructure development. The scale and pace makes UPAs infrastructure development look like child's play. Additionally, the entire process has become pretty transparent (tenders and designs are available to download, progress reports can be queried, land acquisition status is available on Bhoomirashi) You can rightfully criticize him about the economy. Infrastructure and inclusive development is an undeniable bright spot.
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  1301. I doubt it. They are absent on the street, very little booth presence. They will likely make inroads but won't unseat BJP
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  1302. In 2013, the Indian Parliament passed a bill that gave lawmakers temporary immunity from convictions. Rahul Gandhi, de jure backbencher called a press conference and tore that bill in front of the press, forced parliament to withdraw it. Fast forward to today, Rahul Gandhi is losing his seat because of a criminal conviction. Also fun fact, Rahul Gandhi's grandmom, Indira, extended the punishment for Criminal defamation to the current 2 years. India's opposition party is more despotic and dynastic than the current dispensation. (Imagine Justin Trudeau grandson is automatically nominated as leader of Liberal Party when he turns 21). India needs a better opposition and hopefully Rahul Gandhi's expulsion triggers the opposition to be better.
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  1303.  @Abdullah-mn6sw  she is disingenuous. The way she contextualizes it implies discrimination, whereas in reality that's just electoral math. If your seats stay the same and population increases 400%, then your electoral math will deviate towards the biggest voting block.
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  1304. Sure. But why not incentivize them to reinvest in the economy rather than complaining about their wealth? Pretty sure the millionaires and billionaires put in a lot of work building their wealth in an extremely business hostile environment.
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  1305.  @92sathish prepare and work harder. Opposition can’t just sit there waiting for things to be delivered to them on a silver platter
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  1306. Congress lost their money man and now they are asking for Online donations. I pity the poor fools who will end up donating money to this Dacoity party.
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  1307.  @rishav2463  I came up with that analogy when my significant other (she's not Indian) asked me about the Pew survey and how BBC called it a thali.
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  1308. LOL. Clearly you were born after the 2000s. 90s India was much worse - we had real insurgencies - Punjab, TN (LTTE was actively trying to create a Tamil Nation in India not just Sri Lanka), Kashmir, NE was burning, Gujarat & Maharashtra was like 1946 Bengal (Peaceful community rioting in every city) and on top of that you had Ram Janmabhoomi. All that was happening while India was way poorer and every great power was hostile against us - US wanted to divide our country, they thought that would "solve the Indian problem". India will be fine even with INDI alliance guys fanning regional tensions.
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  1309.  @harishgoud3628  it's abused to squash dissent and genuine grievances against the courts. Today if I complain against constant adjournment by lower courts, the judge would promptly impose "contempt of court" against me.
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  1310. This guy was suing Delimitation commission in court. The verdict came against him about a month ago. Now he’s claiming commission is not doing enough.
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  1311.  @dranonymousnotafraid2893  he calls himself British Hindu rather than British Indian. It says all there is we need to know about how he sees himself.
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  1312. Jai Shree Ram
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  1313.  @roflkohli2853 so instead of making time, you choose to call folks you disagree with dickheads. That's a great insight into opposition thinking. Thank you for presenting yourself as a great example of opposition thinking.
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  1314.  @subhmaypatra5562  he looked pretty winded out and pale in his recent videos.
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  1315.  @OrwellsHousecat  ummm calling it an subsidy is a stretch. IMF has always tried to push for denuclearization of Pakistan (and India until the civil nuclear deal). But pressure for denuclearization wasn’t consistent, it was nice to have.
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  1316.  @joshihemant2568  Padashai Pappu 😂😂😂😂😂
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  1317.  @fretted4life  well that will never work. You drop Jairam Ramesh another more worse character will emerge. Sycophancy is not a meritocratic system. The entire party is just terrible. There's Mani Shankar Aiyer, Shivraj Patil, Digvijaya Singh etc. The entire party is rotten to the core and that rot is spreading and festering in our intellectuals and celebrities.
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  1318. I endorse this. All the OBC (DMK Dravidiods primarily) abuse of reservation will be out in the open.
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  1319.  @ALOKKUMAR-ls1mi krodit kyun ho? Sach bahut kadva tha kya?
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  1320.  @alwaysrushil  Active military operations can get expensive really quickly especially when you're Homeland is 2 oceans away. The Americans definitely paying top bucks for on the ground intelligence and to send carriers with drones. If India has to perform similar operations, we would need to raise our defense budget to at least 3-3.5% of our GDP. The Americans doing this is definitely saving us money and they are subsidizing our National security by sharing intelligence with us.
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  1321.  @TimePass-qw7vq  it is not but that determination is made by the courts.
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  1322.  @shekhargupta3911  I think we fail to recognize/teach that identity is layered. I can be Tamil and a Maharashtrian at the same time. Rajnikant is a Marathi speaking Kannadiga who is a Tamilian. We impose a singular Tamil identity on him. His layered identity should be celebrated.
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  1323. @ahs pm you just proved my point. We Indians don't realize that identity is multi layered. You see it as a solely tied to one's ethnicity, there's nothing wrong with that. But in my case, my identity is layered, I'm ethnically Tamil & culturally Maharashtrian (I deliberately don't call myself Marathi). My point is we accept one form of identity one but don't recognize the other. In reality, both forms of identity is valid.
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  1324. Well it won't figure in the bank balance sheet. Typically Govts promises to pay bank in exchange for a waiver. In reality though, State Govts don't pay and forces Centre to recapitalize the banks. Private banks typically avoid farm programs loans. Business loans provides that level field to compare performance between PSUs and Private banks.
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  1325.  @Badbadderbaddest sure. NRIs have been successful because Gandhi got us independence. That’s why NRIs needed exit visas (ECNR) and forex limits up until 2000s so that they can remain successful. 👏👏👏👏
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  1326.  @Aditya_0211  मराठी कोण हे ठरवण्याची permission तुम्हाला कोणी दिली? घप बस
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  1327. Last year Chinese diplomats tried to pressure the IAEA pass a resolution to call AUKUS deal as nuclear proliferation. The entire resolution collapsed after Indian Diplomats corralled support from non western countries to defeat the resolution. It pays to have friendlier relations with India, they do come and help at those clutch moments.
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  1328. He went to UP and said the same thing. Every state he addresses he says that state is important for development. It's a standard statement.
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  1329. This will only marginally improve the situation. Instead of bootlicking CMs, IAS officers will have to bootlick the PM. Thankfully the PM is somewhat of a taskmaster.
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  1330. Shekarji, you should consider giving another series of interviews in Canada and UK. Talk about the violence of Khalistan insurgency.
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  1331. LOC is tougher and it's fenced too. Govt spent 6 years building it.
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  1332. Public housing or no public housing. Tower blocks and condominiums are designed like hotels, they are poorly designed for families and discourages meeting neighbors and building that community. Compared to Asian condos, North American condos makes you hate condos.
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  1333. Each State should make learning the State languages accessible and they should make it accessible to the diaspora.
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  1334.  @alistairlasrado9328  there are better ways to answer that question - like for eg: "Everyone put in their effort for the Freedom Struggle, including Savarkar. He was jailed in Cellular Jail". Besides Congress vets the questions that gets asked at Press Conferences. So this was deliberate.
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  1335. Anyone in public policy studies who follows National Mineral Development Corporations' history and all the mining laws that came to establish it's monopoly is in for a treat. This is one of those things that has decades of bad governance, bad economic policies and bad public policies all rolled into one. You would think NMDC is a rich corporation but it is far from it. It is a underperforming Govt. owned entity with a lot of sovereign backed equity and assets. The mine along with the corporations existence is an example of a lose lose situation.
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  1336. Europe would need to spend about $800 Billion/year for 2 decades before it can match American capabilities. The question everyone should be asking is, is it sustainable? Can Europe spend $800 billion every year for at least a decade?
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  1337. ​ @LIATH420  That's between the child and parent, school admins should stay away. I don't want the Govt (and school admins by extension) engaging in third wheel parenting of my children. It is a egregious violation of my natural rights as a parent. My children are a product of me and my partner, they are not some manufactured human provided to me by the Govt. I also don't think the Govt has made an appropriate case for introducing a policy that keeps parents out of the loop. Instead they Govt is labeling concerned parents as bigot over a super tiny fraction of cases. I'm not a bigot for demanding the Govt revisit a truly intrusive policy.
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  1338.  @ThePrintIndia  it was only South Mumbai + outlying areas though. The rest of the City had to deal with MSEB now MahaDISCOM.
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  1339. Looks like Winnie the Pooh bots are here. The people of Arunachal Pradesh prefer to be Indians than Chinese. I'm sorry, but democratic rights stings really hard against CCP propaganda. Arunachal Pradesh has been exercising it's democratic rights since 1947.
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  1340.  @92sathish sure. But then the opposition would have had a better narrative in hand. But they walked out and gave away the mic to Modi. This moment was the oppositions to take, not give away like a wedding gift.
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  1341. Let's not forget the Transactionalism in the relationship (It's not a bad thing, good relations are mutually beneficial) France has security interests in the Indo-Pacific. They have reunion and Seychelles in IOR which benefits from increased presence of Indian Navy and New Caledonia in the Pacific where France takes advantage from Indian Navy logistics.
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  1342. A US vet commenting on Indian issues. Welcome sir. Deep respect for the vets, pleasure to have the opportunity to work with a lot of them.
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  1343.  @tapemaj  basically plant breeding is called hybridization.
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  1344. It will be interesting to see how Thailand and Malaysia react. Thailand is experiencing a lot of pressure from China and will likely be under greater pressure from the PLAN base. We aren't sitting idle either, we signed a logistics and base agreement with Vietnam.
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  1345. Take a way longer view. I'd say 30-40 years. I think it will pay off in the long run. We understand democratic culture. They will slowly understand ours.
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  1346. What's wrong? It's gainful employment. Do you think it's easy being a guard? They need to be alert and have the strength to push people around. Just like any other job it is a dignified job. There's nothing nicha about it
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  1347. He separated politics from governance by doing no governance. Saving Penguins was this guy's politics.
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  1348. I don't understand the constant fascination we have for AUKUS. It was created to fulfill a particular strategic need in that region quickly. Also, let's think about it this way: What is India willing to give up to gain entry into an alliance like AUKUS? - Are we willing to give up our nuclear policy? - Are we willing to give up on development nuclear technology? - Are we willing to give up on advanced submarine technology? - Are we willing to give up diplomatic strategic autonomy? Do the costs of AUKUS outweigh the benefits?
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  1349. I think you're being excessively harsh on the Armed forces. They are actually pretty exceptional and perform above their weight despite a very very terrible bureaucracy. The Non Combat side of the Armed forces .... they pull things down along with the attached IAS officer.
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  1350.  @Maharashtra_man  come to the suburbs it becomes more evident. The pace has visibly slowed.
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  1351. And what excuse does the Congress members like Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have to keep the Gandhis as the head of the Party? To quote, Adhir's own words, we all need a responsible political party, not one that is mislead by one family. Let a healthy debate prevail about the top leadership of the Congress party.
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  1352. Just threaten to nationalize Meta Canada and Meta will come back to it’s senses
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  1353. DK I think you are overthinking on this one. Belgavi is a political compulsion that no one wants to reopen. Let me tell you a story of Eknath Shinde, Pramod Sawant and a few others in the BSS party. Back in the 80s when Belgaum issue was flaring up, a bunch Maharashtra politicians took the train to Belgaum, Shinde and 50-60 others were part of that group. KN Govt (forgot who the CM was) arrested them all, put them on buses and sent the bus towards Goa. The bus stopped in the middle of the forest and released the Sainiks and returned. The Sainiks had to walk about 4-5 days through a dense forest road before they were able to get help to get back to Maharashtra. Shiv Sainiks have privately admitted not to agitate and bring up the issue.
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  1354. Karnataka was dependent on Maharashtra, Central govt transfers and frieght equalization. Now please pay back all that money.
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  1355. Congress Mukht Bharat is the need of the hour. We need a better opposition.
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  1356. Das comes from Devdasi. I don’t think it is hilarious to use that reference. Devdasis were primarily Dalit women. Khera was being extremely castiest - not something to laugh about.
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  1357.  @ananthmadhav5148  shame on Khera for using it to abuse the PM. Modi is an OBC, Khera is a Punjabi Jat, upper caste. This is classic castiesm.
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  1358. She could have gone further and called for better curriculum to be included in NEP's rollout. Education in India is still very subpar after all.
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  1359. His Grandma almost killed democracy during the Emergency. The irony of hearing comments about democracy from a soul whose sole qualification was born to the "right" family is beyond me.
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  1360. There’s nothing wrong with Tuitions and coaching classes. Most kids learn concepts better at coaching classes than they do in school. Our exam system only tests on memorization and schools only teach you to remember. We should recognize the value tuitions provide and include them in the formal education system. Demonizing them only makes our students dumber. Also students (not just Indian students) in western universities swear by Indian Coaching class who post their courses on YouTube
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  1361. We have an open border with Nepal, I am sure instability in Nepal wouldn't have a dramatic impact on India. Palki is fearmonger, no country will enact sanctions over secularism. Heck Indonesia passed Sharia law and no one batted an eye. Nepal should pursue what is in it's best interests i.e. Hindu Rajya Nepal. Namah Shivaya. Santani Rajya Nepal ki is duniye mein swagat ho.
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  1362. LMAO. The hilarious thing is our politicians think otherwise. Guess what the ever liberal Shashi Tharoor has to say about Sedition law? Keep it, not the time to scrap it. After Amritpal, I agree with him. Tighten that law and reform it.
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  1363. We have a base at Sabang, Indonesia and we signed a logistics agreement with Vietnam.
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  1364. Maldives bhi baaki hai.
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  1365.  @nithin32166  no it's not. It is an predecessor to the caste system.
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  1366.  @freethinker262  you'll have more money to spend on schools. At least timely salaries will improve their output and outcomes
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  1367. That's why we should incorporate Maldives into India. Win win for everyone (except Islamists who wants them anyway)
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  1368. MK Gandhi were "NRI". There was no mention of Bose, Tilak, Lalaji. So much condescension from RaGa when it comes to anything Indian. He thinks independence started from an NRI and the idea was divined by NRIs. If it weren't for the Nationalists that preceded Gandhi, the British would have successfully wiped our identity just like they did in their other colonies. Talk about driving while looking at rear view mirror.
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  1369. In TN, a Sikh congregation runs an Old age home. The owner of the home sings thirukurral to them everyday every morning. Sikhs are wonderful people.
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  1370. Canada does need to improve it's charging infrastructure. Man, charging is atrocious - Electric Charging stations are more focused on getting your membership rather than charging your car.
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  1371. LOL. You’re right. This was a good laugh.
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  1372. Our stupid AGR policy forced market consolidation. TRAI saddled everyone with insane amounts of debt thanks to it's policy to include non telcom activities as part of it's AGRs. It was so stupid that TRAI was including Delhi Metro's ticket sales as part of it's AGRs - yes Delhi Metro uses spectrum to run it's CBTC signalling system. Stupid policy that got introduced by UPA.
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  1373. "So true representative of the people develops by attacking himself by giving up things that one desires, by not fighting for what you want but what people want" Who is this guy's speech writer? This speech sounds like a school kid's assignment where the teacher asked the kid to write a speech and the kid jumbled up a bunch of catch phrases from various personality.
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  1374.  @pushpinder53316  Kalapani was no joke. The torture technique created there inspired the Nazis.
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  1375. Jaishankar said the Quad shouldn't just be seen as a security alliance. He didn't say it is not a Security alliance. Presenting it the way Jyotiji did as straight up denial is misrepresenting the Govt's position.
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  1376. BJP, unlike other parties (except DMK and BRS) doesn't throw the state's budget out the door and saddle it with unsustainable debt. Man, I remember UPA-2, that populism was much much worse than what's happening today with CG budget. We had free flowing tax policy, run away inflation, oil bonds whose debt payments we owed to OMCs were written off by OMCs, just general economic mismanagement. We are seeing that in several States now, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and now Karnataka. Modi govt pays for it's programs and doesn't force write offs to PSUs. That's not a revdi, that's welfare.
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  1377. Life imprisonment for Beadbi is nothing more than toxic Pakistani mentality creeping into the Khalsa community. These guys should be deported to Pakistan, where they can understand the real impact of their ask.
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  1378. 5 years is a long time to find a successor. In 2012 Modi was nobody, by late 2013 he became the cadre’s favourite and high command couldn’t ignore him. In 2014 he built the momentum.
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  1379. We need more coverage like this. More city stuff.
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  1380. The comment section had to spam the Print and other media outlets for weeks to cover Sandeshkhali (longer for Stalin Jr. comments on Hinduism) but Shekarji and Lutyens media is rather quick to cover this story. Media and Congress takes Janata for fools. I assure you, the Media better reflect on itself and correct itself otherwise they will suffer immensely after the results are out.
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  1381. Don't blame engineers when the fault lies with BMC Project planners. Contractors and Engineers only follow design specification given to them and design infra based on it. If Specifications provided by BMC itself is faulty then there is very little an engineer can do to rectify the situation.
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  1382.  @Gharwapas  say what you will. But come down to earth sometimes and face reality. We are the second largest country with a Muslim population. That is around 170,000,000 people. They are as much Indian as we are. They have contributed a lot to our culture. Are you saying Kabir poem was inferior? Or are you going to condemn the Muslim sculpturers of the temples that built by the BJP government? Do you really think driving them away won't leave a huge hole in the heart of our culture?
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  1383. Freedom fighters? Which British is this grand nephew fighting against? kuch bhi.
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  1384.  @mohibquadri4053 yes they do feel pretty let down when they are attacked by the second largest majority community. Very peaceful community indeed.
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  1385. When I come to see your newsroom, I will bring better audio equipment with me.
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  1386. I hope that culture of no complacency and passion to get good outcomes also gets imbibed into the bureaucracy.
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  1387. The Fine Print keeps disappointing by offering Yogendra Yadav as it's opinion columnist. Please don't waste subscribers money with shoddy articles written by Yogendra Yadav. I'm not against him publishing on the Print but please don't ask subscibers to pay for his shoddy articles.
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  1388.  @sachinnayal  you have it mixed up. Yes there's an Islamic lobby and they provide support to the candidate/politician that aligns with their goals. But politicians there still have their own agency/exercise their own ideology. The question we should be asking is why isn't there an Indian lobby? Who is lobbying Rep Jaypal, Ro Khanna, etc.? Politics is a game of gaining influence, lobby helps the politicians with campaigns and politicians pay back with pro lobby policies. Certain things are beyond lobbying - one such thing is National interest. CAATSA waiver falls into that basket.
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  1389. I think they are being cautious. Just look at how silent they are wrt disinvestments. They don't want to rock the boat.
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  1390. It depends on the Congress. If they implode like the Punjab Congress does (it’s likely), then BJP might be able to eek a win. Also let’s not discount Yedurappa I think a hung parliament is likely.
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  1391. CTC with a pseudo science/history quack is going to be interesting
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  1392.  @rutvikrs  I dunno about that but a Bangladeshi FM lecturing about fiscal policy would definitely generate short term outrage amongst our Lutyens intelligentsia just like the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill.
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  1393.  @sankalp6872  most people dislike Nirmala Sitharaman because she is a woman. Any investor who objectively looks at her policies will tell you she is a pretty decent finance minister. She hasn't reigned in some of the excess regulations of the Finance ministry but she has managed to consolidate a LOT of them. Besides, UPI wouldn't be a thing if the Finance Ministry didn't support it. It would have died a LONG time ago just like every other program under Congress govts.
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  1394. Trudeau is whacko. What's wrong with that? Decorum cannot be used as an excuse to deny the truth.
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  1395. Aren't our courts filled with geniuses with genius genes passed from one generation to another that they can live with fundamental contradicting precedents? A mere commoner like us who are not part of the neo-Brahmin caste called the Justices of higher Judiciary of India won't understand how to comprehend such contradictions. Yes I'm being sarcastic
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  1396.  @sauron2000000 they were barely a month old. Party ka organization kaisa banega uski decision bhi nahi li gayi and you accuse they were involved. Smells like bullshit.
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  1397.  @orkkojit  that's why we should look at convictions rather than raids. I find regulatory actions more reassuring rather than the lack of them.
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  1398. As if minority appeasement took us to great heights. I think we can definitely do away with the superlatives.
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  1399.  @meetadi4u absolutely. I think we are heading in that direction. Wealth is empowering and liberating. These conversations will naturally come. Without wealth, freedom is pretty useless - life of mere sustenance is a life without freedom.
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  1400.  @metagde6402  it's because of the bureaucracy. It's corruption made by the Govt. for the Govt. to the benefit of the Govt. It's the regulations and more importantly the interpretation of those regulations that makes the environment really conducive to corruption. Given the backlog in the court system (and quality of judges), you can't even dispute the interpretations of those regulations. So you're left with one choice and that's to pay the bribe. Lemme give you an example: You want to build a warehouse, you find a plot of land, look up it's development use and apply to purchase a land deed from the owner of the plot. In every other country, this is typical a two step process, verify the use is appropriate according to the development plan and the purchase of the plot. The purchase is private transaction between two private entities. In India, in addition to that, you need the local District magistrate to sign off on your purchase and the court clerk to validate the seller was of sound mental health at the time of the transaction. So, the DM will not sign off until the clerk is done with their validation of the seller's mental health and vice versa. Now if either DM or clerk refuses, you're left with disputing the decision in your local sessions court. Sessions court judge will likely adjourn your case ad nauseum until either your business dies or it makes no sense to build that warehouse. So you, as a businessman is essentially blackmailed by regulations and forced to pay a bribe. In such an environment, do you really think anyone would think about running an business without bribing someone? It's foolish especially since business transactions are time sensitive.
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  1401.  @metagde6402  it's not just politicians. It's the entire system. At several occasions, our politicians themselves need to beg/scream at the bureaucracy to do it's job. A Minister in Delhi gives an approval in writing but a mid level bureaucrat in Karnataka will not accept that and will deem that as fake. Minister has to scream at bureaucrat to get things done, papers moved, wait days for project status etc. They can't even fire them. Just look at Gadkari's speech on the opening of NHAI's HQ and his interviews. That should give you an idea of how rotten the bureaucracy is.
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  1402. 3rd wave is here. I pray it's not as severe as the second wave.
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  1403.  @sankalp6872 you missed my point entirely. Even the best opportunities can become failures without follow through. Even the slimmest chance can become the greatest opportunity with good and consistent follow through.
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  1404. That's a good one.
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  1405. I was just thinking about when we'll get a CTC episode on monetization and here it is.
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  1406.  @tarunkaushik1635  it helps a particular section of society and not all of them. JAM helps all and the benefits are tangible.
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  1407. I hope PM negotiates some good Japanese investments and pathway to a trade deal.
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  1408.  @garyhaggquist740  I met Jagmeet in person and asked him about his housing plan. I was deeply unconvinced by his housing plan. He blamed it on "foreigners" and "rich corporates". I asked him about the commodification of housing, he went on a rant about rich corporates. He is a landlord himself, he bought out 2 condos in my riding, sold one at a premium and bought another. The landlord that he is, puts the blame on someone else. He himself is part of the problem.
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  1409.  @thrillhouse7867  call me what you want. I care about housing, I ain't getting it from the Liberals. I've campaigned for Liberals, door knocked, phones, volunteered for GOTV for the previous 3 elections. I've participated in Riding associations, I've volunteered time reviewing policy docs for them. Paid for those expensive convention events, townhalls etc. I've filled survey after survey after survey for Liberal Party. So ya, I've put in effort to get my issues of housing on the forefront. So ya, you can go on and keep telling me about Poilievre's failures and how is the enemy of the working class but it won't find any traction. Because even after 8 years, Liberals don't have a solution, not even a partial one. The disappointment that comes from not being heard is deeper than anything you have to say about Poilievre right now. And that's the sad reality for many Canadians not just me.
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  1410. I always wondered why Hockey never got the same amount of coverage as cricket.
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  1411.  @CaptainGeek5  Samkhya in Mahabharata came from Kapila and his Kapilasutras (legends say the last copy burnt away in Nalanda) and he was born 150-250 years before Buddha. Vedic religion had a direct impact on Buddhist thinking, it's not the other way around. Kya bakwas bol raha tu?
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  1412. Now it’s up to Modi govt to deliver on good economic policies. They need to deliver on improving the regulatory environment. Economics and trade is the best pillar of foreign policy that India has right now. It is imperative that India leverage this pillar, eve deliver on growth and gather geopolitical brownie points.
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  1413. So Telangana is a mini Sri Lanka.
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  1414. What’s your source?
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  1415. I hope the Congress gets completely decimated. The Gandhis need to leave politics.
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  1416.  @omkumar185  internal debt is debt denominated in local currency. Debt denominated in local currency can easily be written off unlike dollar or yuan denominated debt. Basically, you can force a write off for a loan lent by a family member, however you can't do the same thing if the loan comes from outside the family.
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  1417. Yusuf is battling Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Looks like Trinamool wants to ensure Congress does not win. Let's see, Adhir is no slouch but then again Congress is deeply unpopular and so is TMC.
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  1418. Pegasus doesn't worry me. What worries me is the lack of conversation around setting limits, accountability and oversight around surveillance. We all are well aware about how professional our law enforcement and Intelligence officers are 🙄. They would bend their backs to please their political masters even if it's not something they explicitly ask for. I think we really need to have an open conversation about how do put limits and make officers liable for unwarranted use of surveillance tool. It's sad no one is talking about empowering Parliamentary committees to review interceptions and investigate them further (who knows some IB bloke eyeing a potential promo path might have snooped on Ashwini Vaishnav). You know, a chairperson of an IT committee might be able bring this conversation back in Parliament. 🙄
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  1419. Very good point. This sounds like how they are organized in Gujarat and a scaled up version of what the DMK/ADMK member does. Over there the local member usually delivers some public service the govt is supposed to provide. In a lot of cases, the member facilitates expedited access to the Local Govt. apparatus. The party gives the member money to introduce various schemes. Read up Raheel Dhattiwala's 'The puzzle of the BJP's Muslim supporters in Gujarat'. If you watch some of the longer speeches of Modi or the party messaging, they always talk about "Tell the people about schemes etc. etc.". That is a reminder for members to delivery those scheme locally for money. It's very corporate. Read that policy paper, it's a very eye opening insight into the ground game.
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  1420. Also Indian school teachers are notoriously abusive. Thrashing students is very common, physical punishment is very intense. CCTV cameras records all the abuses. You can watch some of them on YouTube, just search for “school pitai”. The privacy and surveillance concerns are boutique issues. Only Rich people care about it, most folks don’t care and cctv doesn’t really change their behaviour or impact their actions (to an extent). A large gathering of people can really bring down the entire Govt system, so most of the time, The govt is more scared of people than the other way around.
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  1421. 30% of the party is OBC. There's very little confusion in the party with regards to Ambedkar. BJP also funds DICCI which enables Dalits to establish their own businesses. I think they put their money where their mouth is or in other words, they seem committed to Ambedkar's vision
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  1422. So far our Development model has been PPP. JAM is PPP, UPI is PPP, ONDC is PPP, most of our programs are PPP. So our model is quite unique.
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  1423. “Police have to corroborate every claim” This is not how a modern criminal Justice system should work. No wonder cases takes decades to investigate. We need serious reforms in CrPC.
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  1424.  @ramjidharmaraj  he's right. Our grain distribution is local. The impact of fuel prices is minimal. What's happening is there's supply side constraints particularly logistical bottlenecks. With all logistics preoccupied with delivering vaccines, healthcare supplies etc there aren't enough trucks to transport food. Even if there's trucks then they have to deal with State lockdown procedures. Also, this phase of inflation is also primarily driven by imported cooking oil, particularly palm oil. We import that from Malaysia. Guess what, Malaysia is going through a massive spike in Covid cases. So there's no workers to extract palm oil, package and export it.
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  1425. That's approximately increasing the defense budget by 40%.
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  1426.  @raghulrags  I'm saying there needs to be reforms before you recruit them into IPS
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  1427.  @urbaneindiana3089  Sessions courts don't follow precedent set by high courts. (Consider Gyanvapi petition as an example). High courts passes broad judgements that make things illegal overnight (2G allocation case made all telcoms illegal and subject to fines. Punjab high court made living in with two consenting adults illegal). Session and High courts sit on cases and adjourns them arbitrarily (Thus makes detentions without trial a norm rather than exception. This is antithetical to the Supreme courts judgement that says "Bail is the rule, jail is the exception") The incoherent and inconsistent rulings from lower courts have kept us behind for quite a while. They have also enforced outdated sections of Criminal Procedure Code which has vague British era laws that rather than squashing them as unconstitutional. The entire CrPC is antithetical to the fundamental rights and freedoms given it's extremely broad rule making and interpretation.
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  1428. Where was your morals when Kashmiri Pandits were ethnically cleansed from their homeland. A homeland they’ve lived in for at least 3000 years. Wasn’t that collective punishment? Where was your morals when karsevaks were burnt alive in Godhra?That was the most brutal of collective punishments. The partition was the most brutal collective punishments to have been placed on Hindus and Sikhs (they had it worse, lost Lahore, which once the center of Sikhism) Where was your ancestral morals then?
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  1429.  @vrindavanguj7361  at least in this case, her son was rioting. Kashmiri Pandits didn’t even engage in violence. Tell me, what did they do to deserve the violence and the denigration of liberal intellectuals?
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  1430.  @parvadhami980  why don’t you apply that principle to Kashmiri Pandits? Don’t just preach, practice what you preach.
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  1431. South Asia is still ignored ☹️
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  1432. They killed Aarey colony Depot now they want to leave us with incomplete expensive infrastructure that we can't use and we have to pay.
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  1433.  @navan1087  so are farmers from Maharashtra, Sikkim and Goa. They are very resourceful and use the technical assistance provided by GIZ (German aid agency) and funding by KfW (German development bank). Maharashtra (Vidarbha) has started exporting organic oranges, Goa is trying to market and package it's Todi (country liquor), Sikkim is exporting organic tea. Rajasthan is getting there too, it's now setting as example of how to generate non farm income through Solar agro farms (farm land that grows produce under solar panels).
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  1434.  @bonaku20  I don't think so. This will strengthen Indian democracy in the long run. Leaders can no longer take their cadres concerns for granted.
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  1435. Dilip Mandal should continue this series of highlighting artists (hopefully of all kinds). For a change the interview is refreshing.
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  1436. Aadil, you and I need to talk. ;) I have way more insight and info in this sphere, I think you might find it useful.
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  1437. Means food inflation is sitting at 6%. Even developing countries have lower inflation than us. But you know Liberals can pretend all they want thinking social issues are important than things like inflation and housing costs.
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  1438.  @rajx7120  they do in a way. They give us heavily discounted leases on bases and land to build bases. Indonesia have Sabang at dirt cheap rates and bore the cost of material. Singapore provides us with free access to their naval base.
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  1439. This should be honored. But nothing more
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  1440. Pappu we appreciate all the comedy you've blessed us so far.
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  1441. Good riddance Retrospective Tax. It was one of the many abuses by the UPA govt and it wouldn't be wrong to call it the Shah Bano of tax laws and policy. It is kind of disappointing the revenue secretary avoided the questions around Income tax, primarily the new regime. It is a good scheme on paper however, it needs a lot of tweaks to make it feasible to move folks into the new regime. Also, I am sure the the revenue secretary is thinking to expand the income tax base as the economy picks up, wish he gave some indication of this. It is very abysmal that our income tax collection is at a low single digit percent. Income tax is a very equitable form of taxation compared to indirect taxes.
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  1442.  @rishirajsharma7207  report and move on. Don't respond to the socialist free boating troll. Fact checking, accepting new ideas and questioning their own ideology are quality lacking in socialists. So sit back and enjoy the discussion.
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  1443. Maybe CBC Newsroom is annoyed at Tait for her bonuses and firings.
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  1444. Sure but then it’s quite wrong on the Congress to cry foul over it. Rahul should simply accept his judgment rather than use the Congress to cast doubts on the judiciary
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  1445. Great. Now get it approved by WHO and start saving the world. Otherwise this is nothing more than chest thumping.
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  1446. I think you mean, "Oppression under the family".
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  1447. Bharat sarkar, hamare Police ko bhi aur thoda improve karo.
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  1448. I found it rather interesting that the former German naval chief mentioning that Putin wants respect during a visit to Delhi to an audience of Indian strategic thinkers and diplomatic corp.
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  1449.  @vijaydawri646  lol no. Aryans were already there by the time the Vedic period started. Vedic Indians were essentially indus valley + aryans. Manu smriti was written around 200 to 300 bce or late Vedic or early Magadha period. I digress because Aryan discussion is irrelevant. The modern notion of caste comes from a British misinterpretation of Manu Smriti. The British started classifying communities under varnas. They later started classifying Jati as sub castes. Modern indologist like Ronald Inden, Andre Beteille have started to move away from the notion that varnas and caste are the same, especially in the modern context. Anyway, I'd encourage you to read up "Varna and Jati" by Andre Beteille (IIRC he wrote about this in the Hindu). The article does a much better job than my explanation. But the take away is, modern day caste discrimination has nothing to do with Varna but uses Jati as a characteristic. This is also why tying caste discrimination to religion creates a lot of contradictions because Jati cuts across religions.
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  1450. The punitive nature of the policy in personal decisions is extremely worrisome. I also feel this a round about way to solve high fertility rate. You improve social conditions of women and bring down child mortality, population would stabilize.
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  1451.  @meetankush  it's not arbitrary as you think. Personal laws don't apply for Criminal cases and this case is a criminal case.
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  1452. Here’s the “character certificate”, please sign and attest it, I’ll send it to Jaishankar 🤡🤡
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  1453. It's a double whammy, it might hit consumer consumption in the latter half of the year and the wheat ban makes India a less credible and reliable partner not only with our immediate neighbors but also with potential allies and partners.
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  1454.  @imakkar  that's why it's even more stupid to suggest States simply ape Kerala's lottery system.
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  1455. I’m surprised they haven’t tried getting employed at private schools. 🤔🤔
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  1456.  @karankapoor2701  I think you can't accept reality. If you can't accept that someone is capable of delivering good then I believe you're blinded by your hate.
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  1457.  @govindss27 1. That makes it easy for Kegriwal to extract taxpayer money for his own accounts. Charge the govt 300% for a job that costs less and pocket the difference 2. Sure. But the BJP uses their own money collected through electoral bonds. Taxpayers ko loot nahi kar rahe hai. AAP diverts Mohalla clinic money into ads.
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  1458.  @lukeseo9372  people don't appreciate the democracy we have and the broad freedoms we enjoy.
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  1459. I think we all need to read the judgment and understand our constitution better.
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  1460. Let's keep cheering for the British Hindu who we lovingly consider as Indian. This is Kamala Harris 2.0 again. Our media never learns. Can we have someone cover domestic issues please?
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  1461.  @mg.f.9023 which community uses their holy book to justify bad behaviour? It's not majority or even Shias. It's only that one community with a conquest mindset that does it. The choice to pick what is applies was always in their hands. They still insist on bad behaviour - that's their problem.
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  1462.  @anantmalik  no one outside India recognizes degrees issued by Punjab Univ
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  1463. Minorities are not even discussed in any House or Senate committee meetings.
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  1464.  @sankalp6872 holding Congress to task is another conversation.
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  1465.  @gabbar51ngh  that was implied. Read the word "conversion" again.
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  1466.  @johanneshll3845  Centre can't. Water is in the state list. So until BJP comes to power in AP, their hands are tied.
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  1467.  @dpsharma2852  here's another tidbit. Folks are underestimating AAP. AAP knows they won't make it in 2024 but they definitely have their eyes on the election after. Uttarakhand assembly elections are the one to watch. If they win there then they'll definitely become the next Congress. BJP is going to be in a good shock of they ignore AAP.
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  1468.  @vikramsaini5061  Infrastructure development has definitely picked up under Modi. Even the BBC acknowledges. Modi a major factor for his win in 2019 was two scheme Swacch Bharat - ODF toilets and rural electrification. He's definitely put in the groundwork for 2024 with Nal se Jal (which should address the gaps with ODF - why wasn't this done with Swacch Bharat is a PhD thesis on it's own but here is a hint - Jal Shakti and CPWD don't talk to each other) and Ujwala. These schemes don't cover the urban middle class but they bring in a massive quality of life improvement for a significant semi urban and rural crowd. Jan Dhan 2 is starting to make good inroads as well and has been pretty successfully bringing a lot of folks into the formal banking system.
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  1469. Hopefully Ontario govt also invests in new designs and help companies win contracts to build powerplants abroad. Spread and share the costs and reduce the impacts of climate change.
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  1470. Bad businessmen blame taxes as the cause for their suffering. Good businessmen realizes the cost and moves up the value chain. What we have is lazy businessmen who want to keep their status quo, they neither want to pay well nor do they want to grow their business. They made shoes for the Mughals, that carries a lot of hidden brand value, export potential and can demand a high mark up. But none of these guys want to do that. Just ceaselessly complain complain and complain. This is why progress in India is slow - terrible mindset.
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  1471. Sedition act should be the beginning. Sedition act is the easiest act to abuse to arrest people or harass them. Just look at Mumbai and how BMC mastered the art of bulldozer politics. They simply cite some obscure colonial land use act and demolish your house.
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  1472. CAG’s inability to recognize the difference between failure, cost escalation arising from design changes and wasteful spending shows their lack of capability to conduct techno-financial audits. Failures are not wasteful, neither is design changes.
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  1473. People in India are hoping Trudeau doesn't do another "brownface" and dresses more Indian than Indians.
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  1474. Please tell me the answer is no.
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  1475. Or if they convert themselves into proper schools. We have convent schools, they teach the modern syllabus and have prayers.
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  1476.  @ayaanmukherjee4701  hypocrisy so deep that it makes the problem look small and swallowable. Gandhi family just makes things absolutely unpalatable to the point that it gives the BJP free votes by merely contesting against them.
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  1477. Folks forget canvassing is a thing. Call to actions aren't a thing anymore. We live in a dictatorship where we'd get arrested for calling our MPP. /s
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  1478.  @UPSCCSE-s8j redouble the effort. Ensure that the couple gets protection. Most Hindus are against it because of the fear of STSJ. Remember that Maratha boy in Kashmir? We need to ensure that never happens.
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  1479.  @sankalp6872  ya I should have added Mullahs and Church pastors too. Since, Indira, political culture in India has devolved into a culture of bootlicking. Party workers bootlick dynasty that runs the party, dynasty bootlick religious leaders, religious leaders bootlick lawyers and lawyers bootlick the judges and judges bootlick the dynasty that runs the collegium. It's just bootlicking.
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  1480. It's not chest thumping more than laying the groundwork. It takes decades to build trust in a currency. So if you want rupee to be traded internationally, you start from today not when you think you're ready to take advantage of the value of your money.
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  1481.  Football-Pundit  it very much does. We learn how CCP uses NGOs to further it's agenda. For eg: CCP gave donations to Trudeau Foundation and then got their diaspora to vote for a candidate on the Liberal (incumbent's) ticket. The Opposition candidates were anti-CCP. We have similar issues here minus the diaspora. CCP has given donations to Rajiv Gandhi foundation.
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  1482. Ya we really need serious Judicial reforms. Most investors are looking at our court system and they are keeping away.
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  1483. I’ve always maintained she’s a pretty good finance minister, though I am disappointed that she hasn’t kept up her promise on DESH bill or pushed for labor liberalization.
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  1484. Canada is gives us $1 billion of trade. Our trade with South Africa is 8 time our trade with Canada. This relationship is more important for Canada than it is for India. For Canada, India is 10th largest trade partner and their rural economy depends on India.
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  1485. Why would you stay with a sinking ship called Congress? It's a failure of Congress leadership, not a personal failure of the candidate. Think about it this way, would you stick around in a company that is dying? No, right? You would look for better opportunities.
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  1486. If Vice News can get a gay Muslim to come on camera and talk about his aspirations, then why can't Indian Express do the same? This entire video was free advertisements for St Stephen's college alumni.
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  1487. Because it is pointless. Raghuram Rajan is off base here. His fundamental assumptions are flawed to begin with. I'll give you one example: He talks about women labor force participation in Saudi Arabia and India. It has been going up in SA but going down in India. He goes further and implies it's Govt policy that's the difference. If you ask economist and sociologists, they will point out the reason to be social and cultural rather than policy. Women just don't want to work after they get married. It has shown in surveys after surveys. They have different priorities - especially in lower middle class, where their priority is their kids education. On the flip side, females go into the job market to supplement their household income. In SA, it is a matter of empowerment, women's freedoms are repressed and essentially live a personally enforced license Raj. It is a classic correlation is causation fallacy and his talk to filled with similar policy examples.
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  1488. Madrassa educated Hyderabadi who moved to London and wrote one book endorsed by Lutyens.
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  1489. He will do great in Pakistan.
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  1490. He's still a patriot and a Canadian.
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  1491.  @guymontag2948  no question about it. But the East doesn't live under the delusion that it's representation of events is fair.
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  1492. Yes it is two to a table. The new parliament is designed to accommodate close to 1200 in the lower house.
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  1493. My family Doctor only entertains one issue every visit and I get 30 mins with him, this is after being persistent with the front desk for an appointment. My family doctor also has to do extra duty to take care of sick homeless folks who crowd ER and take up bed in hospitals recovering. We have a serious problems and they are converging to create a crisis.
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  1494. Tamil Nadu can build it own highways rather than beg NHAI to build them for you. If Maharashtra can use it's State agencies to pay for it's highway construction why can't TN do that? Also I'm from Maharashtra and my money is feeding your electricity subsidies.
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  1495.  @aloksen626  Trump contradicted all that. He was mostly self funded (rather his grifted money). Even the better funded Jeb Bush had to duck out early.
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  1496. The question is not if Canada wants to become a republic or not, the question is rather do we have the appetite to open up lingering questions that comes with the process of amending the constitution.
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  1497. Congress cannot think beyond the Gandhis. That's unfortunate and that will be their downfall.
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  1498.  @ExistentialDodo "Kanchi seer, 23 others acquitted in murder case" - Deccan Herald
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  1499. That Makeup and Costume is pretty bad. Overall Adipurush doesn't give me confidence.
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  1500. You can buy equipment with oil revenues but you can never buy training and experience. India has one of the best military training academies (especially her Naval, Mountain and Jungle warfare academies) in the world. India is also one of the few places in the world that can refine multiple types of crude at the lowest rates in the world. (Even American refineries are tailored to refine one type of crude). India has a LOT to offer at really good rates.
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  1501.  @Santoshkumar-lh2dh  it's not overvaluing it on purpose. It's an effect of deficit spending.
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  1502.  @masterchief416  you can't automate tax audits. Automation on the other hand will greatly improve their productivity. Careful what you ask for, the CRA might have more time inspecting your tax returns while auditing corporates.
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  1503.  @Rabindra_  my Dharma teaches me to have a thick skin and reflect. I get your point though.
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  1504. Nehru's grandfather (Motilals father) was the Kotwal of Delhi. They were handsomely rewarded for their service by the British. Motilal Nehru was one of the first Indian Barrister who had the opportunity to study in the UK. They handed over centuries of court records, Treasury maps, intelligence, treaty records, hereditary trees to the British. The British used them effectively.
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  1505. Hugo, you should consider doing a comparative analysis. Look up Hamid Dalwai and his seminal work called "Muslim Politics in India", 1968 edition. I also think you need to update your perspectives about India. What you are witnessing in Europe has been happening for way longer in India.
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  1506. CBC says it's Lawrence Bishnoi. That guy has a long long long rapsheet and he was involved in killing of Moosewala.
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  1507. This is probably the worst thing you could say to an electorate. Whatever happened to choosing to stay silent?
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  1508. We should get the Tibetan here! Tibetans are Indians!
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  1509.  @sauron2000000  I think you have too much time on your hands.
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  1510. BJP will hone their Hindutva. Hindutva doesn't need extra training, it's just breaking down mental barriers you have against Hinduism. Once you break that down, you naturally become a Hindutvavadi.
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  1511.  @sankalp6872  France got access to tech and didn't need to build thermonuclear devices that can blow away cities. They could get away with testing smaller yield devices. France actually got a good deal. Nuclear umbrella+ tech
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  1512. What the actual ..... This is straight up illegal and breaks every convention of a federal democracy. What kind of stupid precedent is Bhagvad Mann trying to set?
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  1513. 2023 won’t be any different or maybe worse. We still don’t have breach notification laws. RBI recently published guidelines which mandates breach notification for banks but forgot to include a deadline for such notifications. OECD countries have breach notification deadlines of somewhere between 48 to 72 hours. We have none. I guarantee most breaches are not even reported.
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  1514. When judgements are not favorable then Supreme court is the worst in the world. Wah kya passion hai tum log ka. Rather than advocate for change in your party, you curse everything that doesn't stand by it.
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  1515. Ya right? They painted his entry into politics as some kind of sacrifice. Dude became party president right out of whatever college he was in at the age of 40. That is not a sacrifice, that is a gift.
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  1516. He actually showed us that you can get better outcomes without being a member of one particular political dynasty.
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  1517.  @92sathish haha. Everyone can see through your crocodile tears. Manipur didn’t matter when there was violence last year but now all of a sudden is a huge concern. Poda.
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  1518.  @pranjalsoni7050 chamchas are making the point that UPA managed to keep inflation at 12% despite price controls. In short chamchas are making the case that UPA is seriously incompetent
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  1519.  @kukulkhaan  US veterans are more versatile than you think. Your Indian Army veteran is more talented than most Indians.
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  1520.  @anshul9462  nah it won't. Private contractors can build but Govt still has to fund it. The hate private companies won't have the capital or resources to build infrastructure at a scale that it is required. You'd get piecemeal Infrastructure like we did for the past 7 decades.
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  1521. This happened because of an Intel failure. Those officers were lured.
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  1522.  @manjulashanmugasundaram706  it has been a dynastic/family run party since Indira Gandhi. 1991 was a fluke because RaGa was pretty young and Sonia was in fragile emotional state after Rajiv's assassination.
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  1523.  @pranavkanwar7052  sure but they’ve been spineless for the past 40 years.
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  1524. Wait, mandatory deadlines for charge sheets is not a massive improvement? Mandatory chain of custody is not a massive improvement? Tightening the definition of sedition is not a massive improvement? These qualitative improvement are not something anti plagiarism software can assess nor can it understand the massive relief it provides to common citizenry. The common citizen don’t have the luxury of proximity to Lutyens to help them work through the system. But somehow, these things aren’t enough unless if it gives media full impunity to engage in it’s own circus and media trials. At some point in time, folks in the media should take off their horse blinders and get out of their group think mentality.
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  1525. The article was pretty messy. The graphs were good looking but quite confusing. It would be better if the analysis was done on 12 months instead of a 9 months (24 months is better, at least we can see where the shocks were, if it is cyclic, acyclic etc.). While 9 months makes sense for Govt Budget, it makes very little sense for economic data. It would be nice if you overlay the actual production volumes in Metric Tonnes for every graph to help understand the extent of growth.
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  1526. Typical. Whenever Tech companies disagree with any Govt's Policy they immediately threaten to block news feeds. FB did it in Australia and got smacked by the Aussie Govt. We need our Govt to show tech companies their place. This kind of harassment and threats is unacceptable.
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  1527.  @aniketpandey5991  I actually did when I was younger, then choose to pursue academics instead. I believe the youth are fooling themselves thinking they are entitled to an easy life and a lifetime of pensions.
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  1528. There's a difference between suicide and euthanasia. You are talking about euthanasia.
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  1529.  @SalmanKhan11590 Ayodha was always here. So you need to move buddy, you're squating on our land.
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  1530.  @Vizorfam  dream on. Fix Punjab first then we can talk about alternatives.
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  1531. Grandnephew ne zindagi mein kya okhada? Netaji sacrificed his life for the independence of this country. This Grandnephew is sacrificed his legacy for his personal gain. Ye "naam leke post"wale nepo babies ko politics se nikal na chahiye.
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  1532.  @arjavgarg5801  well, that didn't stop Delhi resident Bagga from getting arrested by Punjab police or Zee anchor in UP from getting arrested by Chattisgarh police. Or even Mamta from sending Kolkata police to arrest bloke in Goa.
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  1533. Well it affects him personally that's why it's a National issue. The dude gives zero F, if it's applied on the rest of the country like it was with CMS and NAT-GRID. Just like his Grandma he thinks, "Rahul is India and India is Rahul".
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  1534. Lemme know which Province you live in and I'll let the Police know about it.
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  1535. Snehesh, do you still need an inner line permit to go to Tawang?
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  1536.  @tapemaj  I prefer the term Grifter.
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  1537. It should have never been the burden of Hindus. Finally, इस अमृत काल में हिंदू को न्याय मील रहा है।
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  1538. Fake concern. Private schools in Delhi already have cameras in classrooms. At that time it is a matter of security. Besides School teachers are really physical and brutal with punishments. We need cameras to capture that.
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  1539. Dude, our tax revenues have been pretty strong. So we can forgo the Tax on fuel. Pakistani economy has been in doldrums, they can't afford a tax cut, so they are hiking it to raise revenues.
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  1540.  @jatinsharma1595  we can show some maturity and simply ignore it. There's already no difference between us Hindus and the Muslim community because we engage in the same kind of religious outrage. I think this ad is beautiful, it shows that our religious symbols have a place in the modern world. It shows that I don't need to choose between our religion and modern life, I don't need to sacrifice my religion for intimacy with my significant other. They can coexist and each maintains it's own dignity and beauty. It was our chance to evolve our sensibilities, instead we are engaging in whataboutism. Besides the choose is still yours, you can ask your significant other to take off her mangalsutra if you feel so strongly. Nobody is going to raid your bedroom if you do or don't do so.
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  1541. He's a tenacious lawyer.
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  1542.  @rei_2833  nope. I'm judging the amount of effort Oxford and Cambridge academia puts coverage of a political movement and projecting it as a phenomenon. I also know Kaur will force her students to buy the book and make it required reading. I feel sad for the students. That's the unfortunate reality.
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  1543. Correction, Singapore has been a close ally of India since Independence. Indian Armed forces and Singapore defense forces routinely cross train and use each other's facilities. It would be incorrect to say they aren't India's ally. Singapore's legal system often refers cases from the Indian legal system for it's judgements. There's a lot of cultural exchanges too. Lee Kuan Yee also helped then PM Narashima Rao when India was negotiating with the IMF for a bailout in '91. He pushed back on IMF's demands saying, "Rao has an extremely tough job managing India. I think he deserves some space".
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  1544. What we call the Western media is essentially Anglosphere media. The rest of western media like DW, Der Spiegel are more contextual. WaPo and NYT are not the press media of the yesteryears. NYT no longer maintains a full foreign press bureau. American press now employs contributors who fill the role of bureaus. Funding for international news has been cut drastically, contributions aren't as thorough or scrutinized as they used to be. This isn't an India specific issue with Anglosphere media. Look at WaPo/NYT coverage of Canada and the quality becomes evident.
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  1545. 9% fiscal deficit? I don't think we've run any budget beyond 6% fiscal deficit, at least since liberalization.
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  1546. Congress can learn the meaning of resignations from this.
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  1547. Modi and Biden are in good terms, they actually like each other. Biden fought Trump bitterly. Albanese and Modi are in pretty good terms too. Why would a change in govt in Israel dictate how her relations with us?
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  1548.  @mg.f.9023  when was your ghar wapsi done?
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  1549.  @plendafuture7451  IIRC the UPA-2 one had transfer payments in it. Even Congress states didn't like it. No state would accept transfer payments, it's a poison pill against their autonomy.
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  1550. @WideAwakeInDreamLand homophobia came with 90s Evangelicals. Up until that time Africans or rather Ugandan in particular were tolerant.
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  1551. ECI is overstepping it’s mandate. This is not their job to tell Govt what policies it should be. Fire the guy who came up with these recommendations.
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  1552. ⁠ @michealanderson2282 it's not their duty or mandate - it's a regulator and umpire of elections, it's not a public policy body. Also it violates separation of powers. Such violations by an unelected body must always be condemned.
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  1553. Please move to Pakistan.
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  1554. Russia started a war and drove up prices. The Govt is taking a lot of pressure trying to buy cheap oil from Russia.
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  1555. Congress is a monarchy in the form of a political party.
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  1556.  @gror7849  Now you see how hypocritical you sound. Mario is bad because he committed crimes on Canada. But for the French he was a painter and a left activist. But the govt still killed him. Nijjar did the same thing with India. He also planned the assassination of a Chief Minister. He escaped to Canada and called himself a plumber. Territorial integrity is not the exclusive to Canada, other countries have that right to. We ought to remember and respect that. If India killed him they did so because we did not respect their right and kept on violating it by not acting on Nijjar.
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  1557.  @manojv2438  Where's the support for them? Why aren't there schools helping Tamils learn Tamil language?
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  1558.  @elpsykongroo8308  and that would give you a huge boost to consumption. That will boost our GDP
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  1559. Radhika needs a more regular panel and more articles on the Print. I wish someone spoke more about the GST loophole and consensus on GST rates.
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  1560. @@rolipoli826precisely. Maharashtra is going to be the one to watch. The seat share between BJP, Ajit NCP and Shinde is going to something to look forward.
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  1561.  @yomamasohot6411  I disagree. Biharis in Maharashtra speak pretty darn good Marathi. Same with Biharis in TN. It is hard to find them, they are pretty well integrated.
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  1562. The Supreme court will sweep this under the rug like they did with their own diktat of "Jail is the exception". Folks are still in jail without a pre-trial, judges keep adjourning cases and the Supreme Court is quiet. Why isn't it doing it's job? These are the questions we should be asking about the most dysfunctional branch of the government.
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  1563. China has money, not the logistics. They can't sustain long operations in that region. Rather than China, I'd say Russia is the bigger power here.
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  1564. Before the internet became a thing, there used to be tape recorders. Occasionally the tape would skip backwards and repeat the same thing you heard a while ago. Well Rahul Gandhi is that tape recorder. I think he's 5 years too late to bring up Demonetization, most if not all folks have moved on from it. Modi calling him tubelight in Parliament was a very apt description of this fellow's politics.
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  1565. There was a time when Vir used to be in the middle of this culture. Those days at the DD must have been great.
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  1566.  @patmclaughlin107 rich farmers not investing, rather they are leeching from the state. The folks who invest in horticulture are the folks who apply for Agro grants from the Centre. They are not eligible for MSP and don't rely on it.
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  1567. In India we argue against everything. This luddite thinking has kept us poor. Deplatform luddites like this opinion maker.
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  1568. Yes. We should absolutely incorporate Maldives. Fulfill Maldivians dreams of uniting Lakshadweep and Maldives under one flag - the Tricolor
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  1569. So basically, we are reacting to Arab nations condemnation because we violated the tenants of Riyadh agreement. For folks who aren't aware Riyadh agreement, is a social contract between GCC leaders where they wouldn't do anything to embarrass or put each other's Royal Families under political pressure. Sauds and Emiratis blockaded Qatar because Qataris violated that agreement through Al Jazeera. That agreement is also why they really react to India's politics. Ya, Nupur crossed the line for any party. Her statement impacted our National interest and she was booted out. At least in some sense, it's reassuring that BJP does not compromise on National interests.
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  1570. Leela Jacinto made huge claims when Ukraine conflict started she was making fun of India's Multi-alignment foreign policy. 6 months later, French and German presidents quotes Indian FM's "Europe has to grow out of the mindset that Europe's problems are the world's problems, but the world's problems are not Europe's problems" statement. I don't understand why France24 keeps folks who clearly prefer to burnish their ego rather than present an objective analysis of a country/region/event. It does a huge disservice to everyone.
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  1571. Shekarji, you should cover the Maharashtra reservation Bill. A lot of interesting political posturing is happening in a very important state.
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  1572. The issue isn't that Govt. should not be entrepreneurial but Govt of India has proved that it's extremely bad at being entrepreneurial. Govt. with it's meagre resources wastes tons of money to keep loss making businesses running, that money could been put to better use like building roads, schools, training more teachers etc.
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  1573.  TrueAryans  Do you really think I'm RW? Heck no. I'm Liberal all the way. I just call a duck a duck. Stupidity is stupidity - I don't let my leanings colour my judgment. I am all for moving forward and not getting stuck in the past. Also we really need a viable opposition. Our democracy declines when we have a weak or non existent opposition like we have today.
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  1574. Updated Conflict of interest laws will go a long way
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  1575. Shivshankar Menon did publish a book earlier this year (May '21) called "India and Asian Geopolitics". This talk is a partially rehashed version of his book.
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  1576.  @dylanc9174  banning roads won't fix anything either this has also been known for years. So don't make talking points for the sake of partisan affiliation. Some Transit expert you are, you can't even think of bus lanes or congestion pricing or road usage tax or tolls - all good policy tools to ensure low car use. Instead you want to support a guy who wants to ban roads - that's extreme and pandering to extremists within the transit community.
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  1577.  @FreddieMurphy746  Absolutely, her Father got her the job. Subby is pretty well connected with N Ram and family.
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  1578.  @anonymouspm44  Hindi is the official language of tune constitution. It doesn’t say SC can only adjudicate in English. This is just collegium flexing its elitism.
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  1579.  @ady_k  tell me about it. I too went through hardship, I grew up sifting stone from rice and ended up having only 1/5 of the rice that was bought. Hardship is not an excuse to engage in violence.
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  1580.  @nishankbhati3188  It is wishful thinking to assume DMK will be finished anytime soon. DMK will only be finished the moment there's an alternative to DMK/ADMK duopoly. DMK members would love to defect but they will not defect to ADMK - it's a blood feud. Southern parties survive because of their intense welfarism and election giveaways. Who wouldn't vote for a party that gives you a free TV?
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  1581.  @RationalSapien  ya, y'all evicted Brahmins and Chettiyars and then called it serving all castes. If it weren't for Tamil diaspora sending money back to build those colleges y'all would have been a backwater like Bihar.
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  1582. If you are not from Kolkata, then you won't know about David Hare. He founded Presidency college - the same college that produced Subhash Chandra Bose, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Swami Vivekananda
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  1583. Shekharji, while you are in the US, if you can please meet up with Shruti Ragagopalan from Metcatur institute. They have a bunch of really nice reports and studies regarding public policy that would each be worth a cut the clutter episode. Her colleague recently conducted a pretty good study on issues with land acquisition in India. It highlights potential ways forward. We need to talk more about those kinds of studies as well.
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  1584. Ye dekh useless. Sirf bakte bait, na apply karega, na dusere ko.apply karne dega. Sirf bak, mein barbad hua. Sabless useless log tum ho. Na kuch motivation, no kuch mehnat, sirf chahiye aacha zindagi. Berozgat raho aur complain karte raho. Kuch sun math, kuch seelh math sirf naalayak raho
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  1585.  @raviinder6406  because Mahabharata is not about courage, it is not about bravery or machismo. The characters in Mahabharata have intellect which these protesting Punjabi farmers lack. If you still insist, then a stupider version of Duryodhana and Dussassana is more apt description of the behaviour of Punjabi farmers.
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  1586. How RSS recruitment coming along? That's the operative question. The strength of the relationship between the Sangh and the BJP dependas on how each entity restricts each other, compliments each other, supports each other and gives space for each other. Nadda might make a political statement saying it is free from the Sangh but only the Parivar knows the true intent behind it. BTW RSS recruitment has been growing pretty steadily. Anyone who says the BJP and Sangh are at odds is misreading the relationship. Also DK should get more columns the "Fine Print" instead of Yogendra Yadav. He adds more value to the subscription.
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  1587. I'd add that BJP is super sensitive to inflation. The BJP got voted out in 2004 because of high inflation. They have been buying loads of lentils, fertilizer materials and cheap cooking oil to bring inflation down. They will do anything to prevent prices from spiralling out. High food prices (oil have an outsized impact on food prices given India's terrible logistics) is a political suicide.
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  1588. or because the judiciary is absent
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  1589.  @KneelBeforeBlue  inefficiency means it's working but slowly. In our case, it is pretty much absent. An inefficient judiciary would not keep 73,000 criminal cases languishing for more than 30 years waiting for a trial date.
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  1590.  @secretscipio  you don't need to imagine, just read some of the other comments. They will tell you how terrible things were.
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  1591. Aviation sector is chalked full of Bureaucracy meddling and turfing. 2G scam ruling made Telcoms illegal overnight and liable criminally. It's an understatement to call them misadventures.
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  1592. It was already open for builders ever since it's conception. The Royal palms golf course in your feku nature reserve used to be part of Aarey colony. Your fancy Oberoi tower on JVLR is on aarey land. Woh jab approval hua tab tum log kya so rahe the? Bakwas ke alava tum log ko kuch nahi aata hai
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  1593. While this is a good topic to discuss. What's happening in Punjab assembly is more disturbing. AAP passes a resolution claiming Chandigarh as it's territory. How is this unilateral resolution acceptable in a federal democracy? That resolution sets a very bad precedent, we should be discussing that loudly. Our own politicians are pulling a Putin with internal territories.
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  1594.  @orkkojit  Lutyens will call Mustafa Kamal, a RSS member because his name has Kamal. I should write Lutyens comedy.
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  1595.  @abhijitpawar6692 EC is doing exactly what the law says. Just cause opposition is splitting because of genuine organizational issues doesn't mean EC needs to intervene to save the party. Political parties are not PSU Banks. They are at best private institutions, splits like this are private issues.
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  1596. Kukis should stop harassing and threatening the native Meiiteis and learn to live with them. Kuki tribal claims are not as olds as they think. Kukis should stop abusing Hindus, y'all went after Moreh Tamils because they were mostly Hindus.
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  1597. Anyone can become an artist when you have rich looteru parents like Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Robert Vadra.
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  1598.  @aravindc102  you’d be surprised to know that I know quite a lot. For eg: the Nagercoil churches often block infrastructure projects in Southern TN and Kerala. Even you didn’t know about it until I pointed it out to you
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  1599. So much talent was ignored because the entire education system insisted on one language.
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  1600. European Union needs better politicians. These guys are constantly delegitimizing their own positions. Why would anyone treat EU seriously?
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  1601.  @rutvikrs  yup this is the case. This is evident for locals however we have a lot of underreporting in India that these things don't surface.
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  1602. British guys at least have some self esteem. Kapil is a Madrassas educated Hyderabadi who moved to London. He gained a new accent on his way.
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  1603.  @bloodwargaming3662  Rastriya Muslim Manch .... They are recruiting in large numbers. We might see a Muslim RSS adyaksh sooner than a Non Gandhi Congress president.
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  1604.  @lalablah8493 nope. It'll become more opaque. Supreme Court judgement won't change anything on the other hand has made things worse.
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  1605.  @uditpatwardhan  the innocent people that were murdered/lynched were the poor Police officers sent there to rescue the Pilgrims. So tell me, how much more shame will Muslims bring upon itself before they really start introspecting for their violent behavior?
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  1606. Why aren't we getting someone from Shinde's camp? BBC Marathi interviewed Shirsat but none of our media is interested
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  1607. What’s wrong with our Sarkari babus? They always want to evade and avoid any performance evaluation. Even under a strong PMO of Modi, these guys perform miserably. They need more than 360 performance evaluation, they need evaluations that weeds out non-performers.
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  1608.  @srutisukumar8609  which is unfortunate. Tamils like me who lived outside of TN because of circumstances were ignored by TN. Don't we deserve to learn Tamil? Don't we deserve to learn about Tamil literature? We can't even read and appreciate the beauty of Tirukurral and we get dissed by native Tamils. If this the treatment given to Tamil diaspora, then what right do we have to demand that Hindi speakers should learn Tamil? What right entitles us to demand preservation of Tamil when we make zero effort to include the diaspora into Tamil culture?
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  1609. 😂😂😂
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  1610. Islamism and the Islamic fundamentalism it advocates is oppressive (it oppresses Muslims as well), violent, regressive and danger to anyone who loves freedom. Before someone equivocates saying "But but X religion are violent too" need to realize two things: - A Jain fundamentalist practices extreme non violent. Whereas the opposite is true for Islamism - Look at the stats of terrorism and check the ideology of the terrorist. It's good the West is slowly coming to its senses.
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  1611.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  It's great for Indian Farmers and Indian Economy. Middle East didn't collapse last year when things were more severe, it won't collapse this year when things are less severe (especially given that supply chains have adjusted to the realities of the Conflict).
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  1612. I only come to these videos for the comments 🤣🤣
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  1613.  @anshul9462  official recognition of indentured Indians is more recent. ABV only started the program, at that time it was simply just “Indians” with none of the acknowledgment that they went through suffering as well.
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  1614. Why don't you apply instead of whining?
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  1615. Absolutely. Our Judiciary acts as a parallel arm of the Govt. rather than a coequal branch that checks and balances the Govt. Our declining civil liberties has more to do with the unequal application of basic doctrine by the Judiciary.
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  1616.  @vishvpatel899  how do you know that? UCC Act has not be publicly published yet. I have only read legal report, none of them make the mention of definition of partner is limited to heterosexual couples.
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  1617. What point? Her own State CM uses it freely. Unless States mandates their cops to stop booking under UAPA all these eloquent speeches are useless.
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  1618. This show is a good addition to the roster. It would be nice if there's a program that shows us how to analyze state budgets and policies.
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  1619. No, it's good that they did. How else would voters know about what the Sainiks have become?
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  1620.  @jerry18741 that's a bad idea. Instead we should engage (not fund) with all players (Jagmeet's rival within the party) except Trudeau's party.
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  1621. There are so many things wrong with this report but I'll stick to one issue: Making conclusions based results of public Github repos does not equal to all repos are hacked. Also most of your Public Tech companies usually self host their code repos on Private cloud (with something like Github Enterprise). Most folks with an interest in cybersecurity, do not understand how to scope their findings and it scoping takes experience and deep understanding of tech stacks. Professionals are paid simply to assess and appropriately scope a vulnerability. (This is why we have CVSS scores). This is why you should report vulns rather than BROADCAST IT TO THE WORLD. Those Github engineers, must have wasted an entire day dealing with a friday evening Microservice job doing things more manually.
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  1622. Don’t carry beef. That’s the lesson. Don’t insult people’s sentiments.
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  1623. Our MiLord love to lecture us about the state of society but calls it excessive when we point out their basic incompetence. Germany and India are pretty same in terms of GDP. However, German courts have processed 700, 000 cases while our court system can barely process 30,000. Meanwhile, arbitration between Indian entities in Singapore grows by 20% year on year. To say Judiciary is incompetent is an understatement.
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  1624. He’s too late to run for public office for Lok Sabha. On the other hand, he might be an asset for Vidhan Sabha.
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  1625. 290+ if BJP keeps things the same as they were a month ago. The remaining 90 seats will depend on local factors. BJP still hasn’t finalized it’s candidates in a large number of seats. I’d be curious to see who they pick and where. Will BJP go with Aditi Singh for Raebareli? How is Amit Shah going to resolve the Konkan conundrum (Sena-BJP seat share)? What will be the BJP’s caste arithmetic in Bihar?
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  1626. She was woefully unprepared for this segment. The commenters aren’t stuck up elitists, they are middle class folks with genuine interests in India’s national interests. The comments highlights the how ill prepared Jyoti was.
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  1627.  @sleepingduty2987  the idiocy of that comment shows the shallowness of your perspective.
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  1628. The Director of Elephant Whisperer meets the Prince of Bollywood Masala - this will be something to watch for.
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  1629. So we should tolerate nasty comments from their Govts? No way. Just cause they are small doesn't mean they get to cross redlines. Time to show what it means to cross redlines.
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  1630. Both however more of the latter. Women's right is just a side effect.
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  1631.  @vishalsheth1888  you got my point. Tejas was heading the same route until Modo govt put it's foot down on procurements (Also Mk1 and Mk2 programs saved it.)
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  1632.  @_kartik_chauhan  Modi doesn't need to disprove it. Satyapal Malik's claims are pretty ridiculous. He says some 1 lakh troops can be transported by aircraft. That's pretty much impossible. He claims PM called him from a Dhaba outside Corbett. That's again ridiculous especially in this day and age of sat phones and wide mobile coverage. The thing is, Satyapal is a useful idiot. He gave interviews to the Congress supporters like Thapar and they were gullible enough to believe him. The gullible supporters are helping the BJP by keeping Pulwama alive. Now the BJP can easily bring back Balakot strikes and gain votes.
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  1633. Shekharji, the Sena in the suburbs have moved away from protection rackets to businesses. The Sena of the suburbs owns tolls, buildings, coaching institutes, colleges etc.
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  1634. Going on a tangent - The incoming CJI announced reforms for the Judiciary. It might be worth a CTC. Judiciary is finally announcing reforms!
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  1635.  @KaranSingh-xn8gy  and you get to decide who is a mob and who isn't? Whichever Govt is in power, gets to decide what can be amended. Nothing is sacrosanct, including the constitution.
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  1636.  @deshampravesh7108  we supported dynastic rule under Congress that ruled the country for 60 years. BJP with it's dominant position has delivered much more than a monarchy disguised as a political party in India.
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  1637.  @isuzu343  Compared to every other Govt, Modi Govt has delivered several factors mores. Sure, they can do more, but within 10 years, it is undeniable they have achieved quite a LOT. A lot more than any dynastic party.
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  1638. @Yash Dakhare nonsense. Delhi has all the resources that is available to the Central govt and it still under performs. It says a lot about failed policies in Delhi.
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  1639.  @rahulvishnu4426  that doesn’t mean you drop editorial standards. Internalized racism is racism. It should always be condemned.
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  1640.  @rutvikrs  1. We will kill our industries without adequate reforms. 2. Not true. We have a huge training ecosystem - they can produce workforce in short order, just like China. China invested heavily in that building that ecosystem and making it easy for businesses to hire from that ecosystem. To elaborate a little, the lead time to get assembly workers in China & India is about 3-6 months, however unlike India, China make it ridiculously easy to hire from that ecosystem - it is as easy as talking to a Bureaucrat, signing a piece of paper and you have your workforce bused in at the date specified on that contract. You can't do that in India because regulations makes it impossible to hire more than 300 people. Forget taking advantage of that training ecosystem.
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  1641. We need someone who understands geopolitics and strategic interests better
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  1642. It's still not done yet. We need Henry the dog to be returned before Shekarji covers that scandal. Mahua is holding him hostage 😢😢
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  1643.  @blackbrownyellowearth2615  I worry a lot more about ricebags cheating the state and then fighting against the same state that feeds you. Sooner or later the punishment for committing sins of deception is going to hit the Churchgoers hard - either while they live or in the afterlife. God and Jesus is not going to be happy with followers living life as Judas.
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  1644. His point is that his father Mulayum would have gone nonetheless and dared Yogi to arrest him. People are flocking to SP because there isn't an alternative not because Akhilesh is some fantastic leader. He's not even a fraction of his father.
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  1645.  @dhoomketu731  they underfunded the programs you mentioned for decades. Their incompetence only bought delays after delays to the point that we had to make even more expensive foreign purchases without offset agreements and local manufacturing. Instead of incorporating private industries, they kept propping up DPSUs monopolies and protected their bad quality from scrutiny. It says a lot.
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  1646.  @va8085 and it's typical Chanakya-niti
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  1647.  @urbaneindiana3089  you keep changing the goal post. You asked how the judiciary held back the country, I answered. Keeping Sedition Act means Police can still book you under a vague act with vague definitions of sedition. This means you and I can be booked under Section 124A for just complaining against an officer of the Govt of India. A simple complain against a Govt officials regarding their behavior towards you can be considered as "exciting dissatisfaction against Govt of India" (by definition also includes State govts). Consider the following examples: In real terms, today if you call Aditya Thackeray a faku penguin, you would satisfy the criteria of "exciting dissatisfaction against Govt. Of India." Similarly, if you say Yogi Adityanath's handling of the second wave was poor, you satisfy the criteria for Sedition act. Similarly, if you believe Udhav Thackeray was stupid to scuttle the depot at Aarey colony, then you satisfy the criteria for Sedition Act. As a side note, CrPC has more such vague badly defined laws. They were intentionally made vague by the British so that they can book anyone, anyway, any time and anywhere. So technically you are breaking the law by just existing. We inherited that piece of shit Criminal code. Scrap that and you would cut case loads significantly. The rest of the backlog is because Govt of India sues itself over violations of some outdated Act. So scraping laws is important but so is enforcing precedent and building a good court culture. That is the Supreme Court's job that they abdicated ever since they rejected reforms since 1994.
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  1648.  MISHANARANG-ln8xr  3 of the 5 perps are Congress supporters. One campaigned for Congress politicians as late as MP elections. Indira gave two tickets to former hijackers who called for dropping the CBI case against her and Sanjay Gandhi. Andhbhakt bolna hai to bolo but there’s precedent for these kinds of shenanigans.
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  1649.  @aosaeanor  a majority of that 6% is Punjabi, Haryanvi and UP farmers.
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  1650. Also speaker needs to open their perspective and include India as part of the free world. Western analyst often exclude real democracies like India because it doesn't follow their diktats. Also Koreans, Japanese and Taiwanese are not one people. They have their own indigenous cultures. Culture matters. You can't go to Poland and say Germans and Poles are one people, they'll laugh at you.
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  1651.  @surajs5913  or past several CJIs. They were all judges, current judges have built a new caste.
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  1652.  @yusufz1987 ya what you are saying is an opinion. What Praveen is saying is also an opinion.
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  1653. Yes, we will be surprised by the Congress candidate and their ability to loot. That’s guaranteed.
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  1654. Mani Shankar Aiyer, Modi’s Star Campaigner is back!!! 2024 BJP 400 seats guaranteed. He gave away 2014 and then did it again in 2019 with his “neech” comment. Now he’s emerged from hibernation for 2024.
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  1655.  @smd4051  LoL. Congress managed is finances by doing nothing. That's not fiscal prudence, that's just laziness and incompetence. Besides Capital projects are expensive, they will make a dent on public finances initially but in a Infrastructure deficit country like India, they will pay back 3-4x over the initial cost of financing.
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  1656. This is the Govt's official history of Savarkar
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  1657. Growth. Maha's fiscal policy isn't that great but it is padded by growth in economy and tax revenues. Also Maha's policies have always been helped it maintain an edge. I dunno how they do it but they manage to push out decent policies.
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  1658. When you legalize corruption through electoral bonds then how would you have a scandal?
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  1659. Defence deals are a great way to build relations with the US and get the US govt to disregard it’s own human rights reports. Nobody complains until the money stops flowing and buying American equipment is a great way to please US lawmakers. (That’s what China tried to do with creating jobs in the USA) P.S.: The U.S. will not stab us in the back. I can go more into details in the comments
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  1660. Thanks to Dakait. He forced the repeal that would have enabled direct sale by farmers. Now govt will pocket the profit and farmers will stay poor.
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  1661. You know, I'd agree that Vir has a point but we have such a Pappu for a opposition that it refute him automatically.
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  1662.  @rushabhchheda2582  They should be banned for a 1000 years. Nehru-Gandhi family have been benefiting from British patronage from when Nehru's grandfather who was the Kotwal of Delhi submitted all administrative records and family trees of local Rajas to the British. British used them effectively under their doctrine of lapse usurping every little kingdom from Himalayas to Indian Ocean. And, Motilal's grandpa (Nehru's greatgrandpa) was law clerk for EIC. Ya, Nehru-Gandhi family helped us get enslaved by the British.
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  1663. and you're a good judge of character?
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  1664. Meru became editor of Hind Pocket books when Penguin acquired it. They used to have reprints of KM Munshi's works. They stopped that under her. Vir, of course, was at the right place at the right time, born to the right family. His dad was a famous lawyer at Lutyens, got him in contact with Rajiv Gandhi and he became Doordarshan's youngest journalists at the age of 19. Must have been quite a privilege.
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  1665. She has no candidate in Gujarat that's the only reason why she can say that. If this was Bengal elections, she would send her cadre out to beat voters into voting for her even if there's a pandemic going on
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  1666. Mona Fortier was pretty incompetent as a Treasury board president - her policies started the strikes we saw earlier this year. As a CEO of the Public Servant, she should have been fired a long time ago. But since Mona left the Public Service in a really bad shape, moving Anita Anand there is effectively a demotion and if she's able to address serious labor and organizational issues within the Public Service then it is a potential promotion for Anita Anand.
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  1667. Shekharji, you keep highlighting Israel but the biggest surprise is Malaysia and Singapore. They view China way more favorably, that should be more concerning to us than Israel and it's opinions on China
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  1668. Nakkich!
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  1669. Looks like Shekharji has no clutter to cut with the Mood of the Nation survey.
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  1670. This is a misreading of the the political situation. It mixes a party's stated ideology for organizational issues and ambitions in these parties. Sena and NCP's internal feud under MVA was primarily driven by Pawar's ambition to one up the Thackerays. Ideologically both Sena and NCP are pretty much the same i.e. Marathi Nationalism (everything else is more like a topping on a ice cream). Besides the die has been cast for Shinde and Ajit Pawar, there's no going back for them, so they will stick together and likely merge. Besides the cadres from both parties are driven by caste but rather by mutual interests i.e. making money (most of them run businesses). Besides Baramati has a chance of becoming the next Amethi. So keep an eye on Baramati.
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  1671. Modi ne bahut punia kiya rahega pechle zindagi mein. Itna bewakoof Opposition sirf bahut punia se milta hai.
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  1672. MVA is proposing "Prophet Mohd insult prohibition act". Man that is going to work badly for them at all. Even if the law is secular, just the title will get them an anti Hindu label.
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  1673. @Theprint please keep posting video from Arunachal Pradesh every week.
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  1674.  @zion3335  nonsense. FCI used to store most essential commodities under essentiall commodities Act until it was diluted in 2020 before being scrapped. It made it impossible for anyone outside of APMC and FCI to keep stock of produce as that would be considered as hoarding. Onions, potatoes, pulses, mustard, rapeseed oil, unprocessed ghee, jaggery were all essential commodities. You couldn't even store anything beyond capacity to process them into other food products aka captive use.
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  1675.  @StarSprangledBanner  Humanities in IITs are a sorry excuse and cannot be considered as a full Humanities or Arts Department. I'm sorry, IITs are not a full university. Offering a single BS in Economics does qualify a Univerisity as one that has a humanities.
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  1676.  @aamaadmi5089  deserve? Really? Nobody is entitled to pensions especially Sarkari Babus. Lifetime job my ass, babus get a lifetime job guarantee - it means they can’t be fired. It would be a sacrifice if corruption wasn’t rampant especially amongst Middle level babus. What you call a lifetime of sacrifice in reality is nothing more than a lifelong ability to leech Public money and solicit bribes without consequence of losing your job.
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  1677. While Ukraine is the focus, our neighbor Nepal is becoming culturally closer to China. Nepali rudrashk traders are learning Mandarin because Chinese buyers are buying in the bulk loads. I think we do need to stress harder on repairing our relationship with Nepal. We don't talk about them enough.
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  1678. I love the fact that Leela Jacinto casually brushes over the fact that France and NATO bombed the "systems" out of Libya for no reason apart from getting rid of Qaddafi. Poor country, has been undergoing non stop trauma ever since NATO decided to intervene. It's going to be another Afghanistan.
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  1679. DKji, are you confusing case clearance rate with conviction rate? Conviction rate only take cases that are indicted to the point of prosecution in courts. Case clearance are all cases that are under investigation and/or charged but not prosecuted.
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  1680.  @kagemushatoyoda9505  it is not like Centre v. State card did not happen at all. How long can we just keep making excuses?
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  1681.  @independentnationalist1740  BJP is an improvement (basically it has become less shitty). They legalized corruption with electoral bonds and SPVs. Atleast this form of corruption is more palatable, at least we are getting infrastructure from it. The cake it's shared with the public though that share now is small. Unlike previous Govts. where projects never came to fruition and money was still allocated.
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  1682. This analysis misses two key points. The problem with the Congress is Rahul Gandhi and the parties legacy. Rahul Gandhi constantly reminds people about dynasty and Gandhi's toxic legacy of governance. The BJP messaging also amplifies this and the feeling that they will hold India back (look at their messaging with Indira's nationalization and socialism, Rajiv Gandhi legacy with Shah Bano when it wants to target Rahul Gandhi or UPA's non governance when it comes to the economy or defense). The second big issue with Congress is the sychopancy, I think people are just sick of the sychopancy. It really doesn't help that the current crop of Congress leaders don't cease trying to elevate Rahul Gandhi as a political mastermind and messiah. Salman Kurshid, the other day blamed the voter for not electing Rahul Gandhi, rather than be honest about leadership failures. The Congress desperately needs new faces with a new non Gandhi leader. A word about Mamta and Arvind Kejriwal. When the Centre is strong, voters always tend to elect their local state parties or parties with a strong state leader to assemblies rather than the National party that occupies the Lok Sabha. Arvind Kejriwal failed to capture seats in Haryana, Punjab, MP and Rajasthan but retains Delhi. The way I see is that AAP is now a State party of Delhi. BJPs mistake in Bengal was they didn't have a Bengali face in that election, it became the classic Centre v. State battle rather than a battle between BJP Bengal v. TMC
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  1683. We should scrap Anti-National from the Penal code. It's ridiculous and makes us looking really immature as a society.
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  1684.  @Harshal378  it rings extremely hollow when we fail to address basic needs of our own farmers. The working conditions there are way better it is in India. Let's at least be honest about that.
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  1685. Well because when Art 370 still existed the turnout used to be much worse and averaged around 15%
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  1686. He’s Modi’s best campaigner, of course he is relevant.
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  1687. Bihar should actually split into two States. Right now governance and development is only concentrated in Hindi speaking Patna while Maithili speaking North Bihar has been consistently ignored. Most of Bihar's (rather India's) worst indicators comes from North Bihar.
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  1688. @UCgt7mkWN607DPaQJm5sd3og ya, I’d argue that still is a good investment. Corporate tax collection have been way more than interest payments that’s been waived. In other words, you are being Penny wise Pounds foolish
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  1689.  @ayazahmed-ky4eg  this wouldn't be an issue if Muslim communities codified their personal laws in line with the constitution. No one is stopping you from filing a petition explaining that "Hijab" is an essential practice. No one is also stopping you from opening your minority institution and imposing the Hijab there. Everything is fair game as long as it not a violation of fundamental rights. You can't have it both ways, have a uncodified personal law and then demand protection based on personal feelings. A lines needs to be drawn somewhere.
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  1690. 6:15 RaGa thinks it is a bad fortune to be a MP in Lok Sabha. Every other politician would say, being an MP is a privilege, RaGa however think it is a unfortunate entitlement.
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  1691.  @abhishekjadhav2777  I am pretty familiar with Sena. I have had the chance to meet Balasaheb & Raj Thackeray, Dighe, Eknath Shinde, Pratap Sarnaik in person. Sena guys regularly make a visits to my neighbourhood to ask for votes and conducted registration drive. BTW, I am Tamil and I was a young lad when I met Balasaheb - despite his very public persona, Balasaheb was very approachable. He noticed my Mom in a typical South Indian saree and I, asked our names and asked us if we were Marathi. My mom replied back in Hindi saying no and he asked me if I spoke any? I replied back with broken Marathi and he said "Keep at it and your Marathi will improve". As bizarre as it might seem, he was quite inclusive despite his strong positions against "outsiders".
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  1692. Hopefully the inductions doubles or triples every years until we have a decently modernized force. Agniveer should start showing results in this years budget and open up space for capital procurement. Also we should open up dress uniforms and combat uniforms to the private sector. It’s still contracted out to OFB.
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  1693.  @dungavhai3319  debt to GDP varies based on your economic growth. GDP grows, debt decrease. Also it's extremely easy for a small economy to manage it's debt to gdp ratio compared to large ones.
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  1694.  @vikramsaini5061  sure UPA conceptualized it. But they didn't implement it or funded it or built good policies and procedures to ensure it's success. Giving the credit to UPA for it is like giving you credit for just dreaming up ideas. Perhaps in Congress, All talk, no work is how they define success but the real world sees success as execution not just mere ideation. I think you overestimate the impact of gas prices. Ujwala provides free/subsidized cylinder in exchange for signing for a bank account. It's either that or nothing.
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  1695.  @vikramsaini5061  yawn. Please entertain me with more ill informed perspectives. It's like in your world GMR doesn't exists. Neither does GVK. You care about privacy about a bunch of Princelings but forgot about how they keep intruding in your life through NAT-GRID and CMS - both had Shri Rahulji's blessings. Pegasus is legal because of the numerous vague British colonial laws like Telegraph act that Congress refused to strike down. Watch how generations of Congress leaders squirm to justify the existence of Sedition Act. The same laws that Congress CMs, regional CMs like Yogi, Uddhav 'Penguin' Thackeray use to squash criticism against them. (In case of Uddhav just calling him kombdi is enough to get arrested). Any other goal post you want to shift? At least put some effort to get a well rounded perspective. I can't keep spoon feeding you to keep you properly informed.
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  1696.  @vikramsaini5061  when you can't prove your point move the goal post. Nice job demonstrating that.
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  1697.  @thrillhouse7867  MPs calling out party leadership is termed as "disease" ( 2:50 ), "they'll figure out how to win with him" ( 3:04 ). Being away from Ottawa and away from the PMO is "cracking off strange" and it is a "bad thing" ( 0:40 ). It definitely quacks like an intimidation tactic used by a military dictatorship. Heck even the anchor caught on it and termed it as something you would do in the Military ( 0:50 ) The current PMO is definitely starting to quack like a military dictatorship.
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  1698. Iran was a steadfast ally even during the heights of the violence that followed Babri Masjid. The then Ayatollah told the Shias, "Trust the Hindus to handle their affairs"
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  1699. A Razakar's son talks about Genocide. Irony died a thousand deaths.
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  1700. Downvote this video. Let the editors know that we don't appreciate charlatans.
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  1701. We desperately a new govt. This Federal govt is a spent force. They spent their political capital on performative politics. Very little has been done in issues that really matter like - housing.
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  1702. I disagree. We should talk about Pakistan, however, we should talk about Pakistan through the lens of China - how will China take advantage of Pakistan.
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  1703. Please delete this post. It’s not the appropriate time to do these things right now
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  1704. DK Singhji, do you think BJP is going to test a new campaign strategy in Rampur bypoll?
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  1705.  @sankalp6872 your dogma needs to be relevant to the society to whom you preach to. Relevance would basically mean yuga-dharma.
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  1706. Yes they should. Evict the Congress and get real justice.
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  1707. The CDS's comment about clash of civilization is bizarre. I understand the context of the comment but it was very bizarre thing to say.
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  1708. Ya dialogue and diplomacy is not in our hands but theirs.
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  1709. Currency manipulation v. Free floating currency. Rupee's value is driven by markets whereas Yuan's rate is fixed to a band.
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  1710. In this case it’s a failure of decentralized politics. Everyone wants centre to intervene
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  1711.  @rishav2463  the contradictions exists because things aren't studied or researched as much they should be. Pew survey is starting to address that under researched aspects of India.
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  1712. You can't shut a whole runway for months to install the system. It will be done in phases. This upgrade started 3 years ago.
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  1713.  @solarhoney  that's an over exaggeration. Our corp commanders are pretty competent and are tactically pretty good and they know how to use the weapons and training provided to them properly (a la Galwan). Weapons don't matter as much as strategy. If weapons mattered then Taliban wouldn't have been able to conquer Afghanistan, so rapidly. Coming back to what I said, Wellington doesn't teach combined arms strategy and tactics. It goes beyond that as well, for good combined arms strategy, you need good protocols primarily radio protocols. The lack of air assets like Attack Helicopters or Chinooks (there could be a number of other reasons) shows that Corp level combined arms isn't a conscious strategy or part of the tactical toolbox.
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  1714.  @Lucifer-hb5vq  open jail? Seriously? You folks get all kinds of soaps outside the valley and even preferential treatment when it comes admissions in education institutes. You can openly criticize the govt and vote in elections. Heck former militants are running as independent candidates in DDC elections. And you call that an open jail? That's the perfect definition of exaggeration.
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  1715.  @bhuvanajagarapu7977  It is incumbent on us the Subscribers to highlight these issues with the Print. Often times journalists are too tunnel visioned in the own worldview that they lose objectivity. It is in that moment, we should call them out and remind that reporting is about maintaining objectivity and not about confirming biases.
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  1716.  @suparnamaity284 what’s stopping us from funding? You can’t just sit and whine all the time. Start the work that needs to be done.
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  1717.  @pp_01123  he’s comparing Chinese “harmony” to individual Liberty of the west. For a guy who claim Indian democracy and liberty is dead, the subtext is nothing more than praise.
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  1718. At 5% poverty rate you are still looking at at least a Million poor people in Mumbai.
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  1719.  @tyronevaldez-kruger5313  the perception of being treated as a colony only pertains to Indo UK relations. However UK drags the rest of the West along with it. I've summarized Indo US relations but that's more to do with decades of shakey relations coupled with deep disappointments with recent events in the region.
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  1720. It is incumbent on Govts to convince people that Climate action is necessary to ALL their residents. Unfortunately, we have some Govts that have written off convincing certain sections about the necessity of climate action - in other words building consensus. That's an outcome of a leadership crisis that we have long ignored. With that said, we should push harder on Infrastructure. More and better transit, more dense housing, better urban design and stop exporting our trash abroad.
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  1721. Also slowing Europe could be great for our economy. We might look at an outsourcing boom. MSME might receive more orders at cheaper rates. This analysis by TCA seems a bit alarmist.
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  1722. Mam needs to settle the issue with Devas first. They filed a Magnitsky act indictment with the State department. Govt of India shenanigans is coming to bite back.
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  1723. 700 million dollars. I bet that lease has given more than $700 million back in direct and indirect revenue. Province should discuss the ALR designation and resolve the complication
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  1724. He's right. Courtrooms are much much worse. Cases are indefinitely adjourned, precedent is ignored, bail is the exception and rule of law exists when money is presented.
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  1725.  @hrishikeshbandgar2162  please don’t insult Johnny Lever and please don’t stain Dulhe Raja. They don’t deserve the comparison.
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  1726.  @RahulKumar-ng2gh  TIL! We need to talk more about local ghotalas. We are too focused on National ghotalas that we forget that Politicians loves to keep their ghotalas local.
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  1727. He's grumpy that he wasn't "rewarded" for his role in Art 370. He thinks he did the party and country a favor and he needs to be rewarded for that.
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  1728.  @smitaaaiyer6598  my Tamil father, learnt to read and write Tamil from a Maharashtra State public school in Pune. His textbooks came from TN Education Board. He passed his exams for Tamil subject that Tamil education board prepared and sent to other states. His classroom was made of 10 students and they had once a week Tamil classes. This was the 60-70s. By the time, we were born, that program stopped. Our mother had to send my sister to TN to learn Tamil in the mid 80s-90s. She is barely Tamil literate. My parents could only find one Kendriya Vidyalaya school in all of Mumbai (Navy Nagar) which had Tamil as a subject and that was under CBSE. It was impractical and I was unable to learn Tamil. I was denied an opportunity to learn about my heritage. But I'm merely one in several million neglected Tamil diaspora both in India and abroad. In places like Canada, Tamil academia are financed by Sri Lanka but somehow it is above DMK to facilitate learning Tamil outside of Tamil Nadu.
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  1729. Shekarji, Social Progress Initiative just released their Social Progress index report for 2024. The Print missed out on its release in India, 2 years ago. There’s a lot of interesting data in there, that needs to be understood in right context. (Eg: They measure access to judiciary a and speedy justice as an issue of rights which is a better metric v. Minorities). The Print should invite Michael Green and have a cut the clutter on the index.
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  1730. This is good and excellent detail. Good work.
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  1731. Well she's the Imran Khan of Kashmir. Someone needs to entertain them too.
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  1732. I wouldn't say that in this case. How do you audit a ship building project that takes several years to build? Think about it for a moment.
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  1733. For folks who don't understand Italian, here's a translation - "My political party is losing because parties and politicians are moving to another party. So shifting allaince away from my Political party should be banned"
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  1734. This one of things where we will see massive impact on funding and financing. I expect projects will have easier access to low interest rates funds. Infra sector will likely get the most benefits.
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  1735. They argue even before the project's construction begins
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  1736.  @jackhoward5822  it's not a sole monopoly of the Govt. The courts are a co equal responsibility to maintain law and order and keep Govt. excessive use of it's power in check. So what's the courts doing about CM of Maharashtra from using UAPA on a bunch of late teenagers for calling him penguin? Nothing but adjourn that case ad nauseum. What's the courts doing about the backlog? Nothing. What's the courts doing with laws passed by the Legislative Assemblies that enable arbitrary arrests for "anti national" activities? Nothing, apparently it's not their job to uphold fundamental rights.
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  1737. They are asking for a hundred year peace in a thousand year war against us.
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  1738.  @Purpleavacodo  to be fair to him, in the previous CTC (check the comments) Shekarji did say he is sending reporters to cover the situation there. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt. But nonetheless, keep pushing for better journalism.
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  1739. Man Delhi is behind the curve on everything. Places outside Delhi have had a great mature underground hip hop scene for longer than Delhi. Why doesn’t the print cover that?
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  1740. Publish nahi kiya toh how would you know Pappu is still Pappu?
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  1741. Well, it’s because that was his part time gig - brokering between Congress and others. Modi cut him out of all this livestock trading of MPs and MLAs he keeps talking about. He’s been annoyed since then.
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  1742. DK Singhji, you should look at Maharashtra. It looks like Thackeray govt might fall.
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  1743.  @rishabh8355 it's all each party for themselves. DMK doesn't care for others, they want to ensure they win in the upcoming election - even at the expense of their allaince partner.
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  1744.  @Valkyrie1941  appeasement in India goes both ways. We let organizations like AIMPLB sabotage secularism legally and then to placate a pissed Hindu community, we let them riot. In the end, rule of law and constitutional values have been trivialized and made it insignificant.
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  1745. Indira Gandhi was a saintly women. I see.
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  1746. 1000 crores for Jet is a steal. They have cheap aircraft leases and more importantly landing slots in Mumbai, Delhi and Heathrow.
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  1747. Interiors of India are much less educated than the rest of the Country. Gujarati merchants, Chettiyars etc. had access to modern education much earlier than those in the interiors or North. If you examine their family history, you will realize that their great grandfathers received education whereas poorer sections of India only have maybe 1, at max 2 generations of education. With education you get access to capital (until recently Banks only loaned to folks with basic education), it means you can start your own business. Also Gujaratis and Chettiyars come from more liberalized parts of India, the British Provinces were oriented towards trade rather than industrial destruction. To bust Thomas' theory a bit, other communities are equally capable of outperforming Gujaratis and Chettiyars - it just takes capital and education.
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  1748. Punjab used to be beakon of progress for the rest of the country. Now it's an example of everything wrong in India.
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  1749. She captured our institutions when she was the chairman of the National Advisory Council. She dictated terms to MMS. Talk about someone projecting the past.
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  1750.  @fabulousindian6582  arre wah. If you are for bringing social change in your own community you become a proxy for the BJP?! Ye kya logic hai. Thoda seekh logon se aur khudh mein sudhar lekar aa.
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  1751.  @SurajKumar-kr7ex  don't discredit the Govt. MP govt. encourage Indore's Smart Cities bid. Indore used Smart Cities to improve garbage collection, they bought a bunch of mini collection trucks, set up a bio waste collection facilities, compost facilities, conducted a massive education campaign etc.
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  1752. In 2019, Kanhaiya Kumar lost to Giriraj Singh by 400000 votes at Begusarai. Begusarai was/is called the Leningrad of India, it was that socialist. The most socialist seat strongly rejected the most Socialist dude coming out of JNU. BJP is probably laughing their way into making campaign material.
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  1753. Population of Mumbai and Delhi together is more than the population of Canada
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  1754. Rich Sikhs Canadians in Brampton voted for a referendum. These voters are in the 10% of the top income bracket in Toronto. That should
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  1755. The Print should stop butchering regional history. The editors need to do a better job at this.
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  1756. and obstruct. NGO's primary role is to obstruct
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  1757. Blaming society for the failure of governance will not solve the issue, on the other hand is inhumane. Lynching is a strong sign that society has no faith in the law and order apparatus and more importantly the Judiciary
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  1758.  @shahrukhkotwal7125  Modi is definitely taking advantage of it. He uses the Congress as an example to clamp down on dynastic politics in his own party. He is also using the Congress as a punching bag during elections. But then again, this is the Congress own fault and choice. He is merely taking advantage of it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that TBH. Why should Modi save the Congress? It's not his party.
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  1759. More Linus Tech Tips where Linus is funded by Netflix? Sure.
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  1760. It's easy to see NEET as elitist when you look at everything from one perspective and singular point of view. Yes there are issues with coaching classes, yes they do present an advantage to students with access to tutoring. But to call it elitist without looking at the amount of stress that students had to go through before NEET or common entrance examine is just insensitive and blatantly tone deaf. I also want to highlight that profiteering exists because our education policy especially reservations forcibly rations out people's futures. The rat race of getting out of school and college is one of the most insulting and nightmarish time an Indian has to experience in their lifetime. Suicides are high, depression is high and anxieties are high. Please think about all students than keep bashing them as elitists. Every child deserves a shot at a better future.
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  1761.  @ragas2845  Gandhi family needs it's own documentary series. Kalmadi brought disrepute to the family and the family still kept him around. That itself should show you how involved in corruption they are. The family also reappointed Tytler despite his direct involvement in the Anti Sikh riots. So that you tell you everything about how much the Gandhi family cares about human values. In case it's not clear, Gandhi family don't care unless it's about themselves.
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  1762. This is just insulting. We have a tragedy that emulates the tragedy of Direct action day and Eastern partition and the Print decides to engage in monkey balancing. As a subscriber, I am pretty disappointed.
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  1763. Unfortunately they have a cult following. Fortunately that cult is dying away.
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  1764.  @kukulkhaan  you are an embarrassment. Good luck with your "new" financial systems and "contracts". I hope you gain the maturity to improve your outlooks and perspectives.
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  1765.  @ThePrintIndia  PRS India's YouTube channel discusses bills passed by Parliament.
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  1766.  @kishorel.9411  I am excluding Pakistan and China. Both of them are our adversaries and would not be considered as not traditional neighbours.
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  1767. Only Non BJP Politicians feel entitled to free tolls.
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  1768. Shekharji, this is unrelated but something you might like to read. Stimson center released a new policy paper titled, "China's evolving strategic discourse on India". I think you and your staff would enjoy the read. :)
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  1769. You don't even need self reporting. Stat Canada tracks sales and consumption of charcoal. 🤦
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  1770.  @manjulashanmugasundaram706  aaah I missed that point. I doubt BJP will become dynastic, it goes against the ethos of the RSS. If the BJP becomes dynastic, the RSS itself will splinter it from within.
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  1771. Bengal is actually a great location and culture for a lot stories. Want to set a story about betrayal with war and multiple foreigners? Choose Bengal. Want to showcase a revolutionary drama? Choose bengalis - there’s plenty of examples. Kgfs style against the establishment? Yes Bengal fits that nicely too. Most stories set in Bengal are easily believable and easily grounded - they will make great stories.
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  1772.  @Vizorfam  I do know how hard they work and they don't cut it. They don't have the motivation to make it into permanent commission. They simply don't have discipline to take it to the next level. It doesn't take a genius to see that. Those corporates you dislike, they work longer hours than you. They pay for your free stuff.
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  1773. Our liberals keep digging deeper holes for themselves.
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  1774. On 29 Aug, 2023, mg.f.9023 accepted the Chinese position, internalized that Chinese are our colonizers. He also tried to advance Chinese position to Indians just like Mir Jafar.
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  1775. This broken clock tells the time right once in a while
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  1776. Hamas is a threat to the civilized world and Qatar enthusiastic supports them.
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  1777. India turned to US not out of a sense of gratitude or obligation to Washington but because it is prepared to work on China with the US and US recognizes that. Europeans can learn a little about agency and independence. US is still provides the largest amount of aid to Ukraine and EU combined aren't even close to match the US.
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  1778. Well it is entertaining.
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  1779. @Redwood-sz9tdThe print just deleted my thoughtful comment.
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  1780. AIADMK and ADMK have been at a Truce ever since Karunanidhi and Jayalathitha passed away. The bad blood between the two parties died away with them. That said, I think both parties should take a page from Canada's Quebec political parties. Unite into one party at the National level and compete at the State level. Right now only TN parties seems to keep Delhi in check. TN parties strength in TN keeps Delhi from doing too much to TN without long consultations with them. TN was largely spared from the excess of the emergency after all.
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  1781. Back in the day, there used to be this thing called Tehelka and they used this thing called a hidden camera. AAP can use some of that.
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  1782. Dear ThePrint, please invest in better audio. Better production values please.
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  1783.  @anujsethi7845  Yes I have. Have you read the Brahmasutras? You will find your answers.
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  1784. BMC "spends" money according to it's "budget" but vehemently opposes to get it's books audited. CAG hasn't audited BMC since time immemorial(?) and I am pretty sure they siphoned money from Covid spending (that's how Worli Penguin Uddhav Sena siphons off money). Thank Bhagvan DFad and Shinde stood their ground and invited CAG to initiate an audit of all accounts from 2019. Ek ek scam abhi bahar aayega.
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  1785. Shekharji, can we have a National interest article about COVID-19 and not to let our ground down as we head into festival season? Please 🥺🙏
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  1786.  @aaditya4556  That won't improve youth representation. It will only cement political dynasties' rule over India. If you are worried about youth representation then you would call for regulations of Political parties like "Party president is elected, there should be term limits. Open internal elections, open candidate selection" etc. Your criteria is absurd.
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  1787.  @ZaidKhan-su3ey  remember Operation Searchlight, that was real and it wiped Bengali Hindus from Bangladesh.
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  1788. BJP is out there with affidavits, tender docs, accounting books and cabinet briefings in their press briefings. They seem to have a solid case here. Opposition can learn from them.
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  1789. @Kaushal Batavia precisely. We don't know what the contents of the bills are until after they are passed. Debate is the only way to know what's in the draft bill. Intentions of Parliamentarians and lawmakers becomes clear (at least their stated goals), clarifications are issued. The opposition plays an important role even if it doesn't have power.
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  1790. 50% hike in Defense Budget!
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  1791. We need this kind of realist view. This article was a gem to read. It is a must read for every liberal.
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  1792. Delta wave came from mutations that arose from folks attending weddings. Congress’ Jodo Yatra will become a massive breeding and spreading ground for new Covid infections. Govt concern is valid given the new variant from China
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  1793. Banning Halala (The practice of forcibly remarrying a woman after 3 talaq) is Rubbish according to the Congress. Man, secularism really needs saving from the secularists.
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  1794. @shmooprint xo I was fortunate enough to meet him in person along with Anand Dighe. He would have been absolutely disgusted and livid. Saamna would have printed his editorial on the frontpage along with cartoons heavily criticizing this.
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  1795.  @eGurpreetKaur  sure. But AAP is making things worse. Given the current fiscal situation, don't you think it's reckless and irresponsible to announce a budget with Rs 1000/month for women and free electricity for farmers?
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  1796.  @ThePrintIndia  there's plenty of data and dashboard. But it's piecemeal and unconsolidated.
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  1797. I understand the frustration. It sucks to pay taxes after not paying them for decades. It sucks to be treated like a common tax evader when you are used to royalty.
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  1798. Do you still need an ILP to visit Arunachal Pradesh? Our troops could use some nice Sambhar to keep them warm and ready.
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  1799. Kaisa logic hai. As if anyone can make a determination if a person is going to abuse the privileges they were given or not before they can employ them. Find me machine that can do that and I will give the wealth of the world. Besides, Govt needs the power to remove them. Right now only the President can fire an IAS officer - Thank the Congress in the 50s for this ridiculous rule.
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  1800. Factories Act and PSU curse. Any Sector that becomes a PSU monopoly always ends up dragging progress and regresses into Luddite mentality.
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  1801.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  this is a perfect example of justifying PSU incompetence. Come up with made up reasons and excuses to shield basic failures of both PSUs and Govt policy.
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  1802.  @psychotormentor3278  it wasn't because of lack of Talent. Everyone wanted to invest in manufacturing components in India but we consistently drove them away to protect the unproductive outputs of our PSU monopoly and with absymal Factories act that enabled bribes at every step.
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  1803. While fraudulent or marriage under distress is a serious issue in India, this law rather than strengthen and establish what consent means regulates very personal decisions between two adults. This is not only, a backward ass way of dealing with a serious issue but it trivializes it. Glad Gujarat High court stopped it.
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  1804.  @StarSprangledBanner  you miss my point entirely. AAP won Punjab because there was enormous chaos within Punjab Congress. I'm saying Rajasthan Congress is heading in the same direction.
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  1805. Well, they kept Jagdish Tytler around. It says a lot about the party. 🙄
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  1806. Harper Govt worked with the Modi govt to tackle the issue. Trudeau pretty much stalled that program and rejected visas of several Sikh activists that worked on a deradicalization of the community.
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  1807.  @tomriddle4110  it says a lot when folks engage in name calling. Uneducated because he's a chaiwala. Ya we have a long way to go before there's some semblance of decency.
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  1808. Also counterpoint - CMs will do whatever will get them elected. Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign is a good example. Centre launches BBBP campaign, TMC launches their own counter campaigns like Kanyashree. In specific ways, it has made States more competitive with the Centre.
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  1809. I read through the MoHFW docs and like Naushad says, it is quite sensible. Somehow somewhere, these gets passed down the chain and each Bureaucrat adds their own authoritarian flavor to it. When you read the excruciating, badly scanned docs with hand written scriblings on the margins from District, State level (and I suspect mid level Centre Govt. officer. All their orders are not available online unlike those from State and District) does all of the nonsensical rules and regulations that Naushad talks comes into play. Basically we have a bureaucracy at the top that can be sensible a middle that creatively makes the worst decision of them all and a frontline that does things without questioning those orders. Reform the mid level and then rest of system will work much better. They are the folks who come up with nonsense control freak style regulations and micro manage everything. Our mid level bureaucracy is holds us back badly. They are the reason why sensible policy or laws do not get outcomes in India.
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  1810.  @sankalp6872  Fareed is right on this one. Our Intellectual Property Laws need serious reforms and updates. Our Judiciary is absent when it comes to IP and copyright enforcement. We don't need the same laws as the US but we need good laws and a responsive Judiciary none the less.
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  1811.  @deeprai8716  nonsense. If Andhra farmers can do it then your family can too. The difference between Punjabi +Haryanvi & Andhra farmers are their demands. Andhra farmers demand money to help sustain their transition meanwhile Punjabi+Haryanvi farmers demand no change. You ought to blame yourself and your farming community for keeping you stuck where you are.
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  1812. Modi has the political capital to dump Russia. Heck, his popularity is high and there's enormous trust in his National Security decisions, he can talk peace with Pakistan and it won't dent his popularity. That kind of political capital doesn't come easy and hasn't since Indira Gandhi
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  1813. How much did the CJI pay you? Was it paid per comment?
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  1814.  @j.chiari  Yes. Typically British rule is spilt into Company rule where India was treated as a company asset belonging to the East India Company and British Raj, when the British Parliament established Govt. of India and the colonial administration.
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  1815.  @samsmith4242  I believe I made that distinction. Imperial Civil services were run by English administrators with Indian subordinates. Parliament in London ignored correspondences from their own English administrators and worsened the situation.
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  1816. Marriage is registered, so why not live-in? Govt let's you do it online instead of doing it in front of a Govt official.
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  1817.  @Silence.580bc  please pick up a dictionary and look up the meaning of harassment. I don't think you understand what that word means.
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  1818.  @tsujimasen  we got stuck with the bankruptcy meanwhile the offshore unit went away with the profits.
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  1819.  @GauravDhandhukia  from reading books and listening to talk conducted in other colleges
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  1820. Taiwan fixed it's economy before it fixed it's politics. But Taiwan's politics went through it's own ED phase that our politics is experiencing at the moment. The current dispensation is cracking down on Taiwan's version of the Congress (KMT)'s corruption.
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  1821. That's how the rich live as well. The only difference between poor and the rich is assets. Rich people have higher quality assets and can use to that to acquire more assets. Poor aren't able to.
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  1822. Raga mentions that media is all Savarna types but there’s actually a Dalit run newspaper called Khabar Lahariya that focuses specifically on crime and law and order issues. Rahul Gandhi could have promoted that. It would have done the country a great service. Alas, such advice doesn’t get given at places like Cambridge or Oxford.
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  1823. Udaynidhi Stalin is not even Atheist. He's a practising Christian and he often goes to church. He motormouths about it in his social media account.
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  1824.  @sumitgopal4501  I strongly disagree with his constant bashing. I would love to debate him. There are better ways to serve and help OBC, SC, ST communities but bashing your way through it is counterproductive.
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  1825. Don't forget the 25,000 farmers whose suicide they forced through high interest loans doled out by NCP owned Co-operative banks.
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  1826. Ethical capitalism is a cop out to avoid govt regulations
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  1827. Rijiju is not wrong here. In 2013, Rahul Gandhi famously tore up an Ordinance that would have reduced the sentence from conviction for Parliamentarians and removed the clause of immediate suspension from Parliament. It could have come handy today.
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  1828. The criticism regarding penguin was not about the cost rather equating it with environmentalism. There’s nothing environmental about keeping penguins in a zoo. Penguins in a zoo is all entertainment not environmental.
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  1829. A Side note: The Print should consider sending an invite to Vir Sanghvi to read out his Opinion about the Congress party on the Youtube Channel. I would throw in another INR 3k just to hear him speak his mind out. He is spot on with his Gandhi Mukth Congress analysis and stole the words from my mind. Man I wish I could write as eloquently like he does.
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  1830.  @johnchan3014 but the govt is only focused on harm reduction and not prevention or law enforcement
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  1831. We still have people who deny this tragedy and compare it to "cow politics". There's a whole set of pathetic people that clap on that comparison.
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  1832. Can we get someone who is closer to the administration? And get their view?
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  1833. Nehru's Govt was not just weak when it comes to India's National security, it was a disaster. VP Singh was just weak but not a disaster.
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  1834.  @mg.f.9023  classic misdirection. Sharam karo kabhi toh.
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  1835. Rahul Gandhi has 50% attendance in Parliamentary committees and Parliament. He prefers to walk out of Defense committees rather than sit down and examine contracts and policies being passed. With this kind of attendance, he gives the BJP a free pass to do anything. He would have had access to Pegasus contracts, probably didn't contribute to rules of engagement for it and thought he could have access to the same jasoosy tools when he becomes PM. All bloody theaterics, if he really cared about spying and privacy, he would have called for oversight, rules of engagement and asked his party to pass a private member's bill, resolution, use his place in the Defense committee to review contracts. Unlike the common man, this person has resources and access to Govt. Machinery (given the sychopancy he has priority access), this non performing individual (NPI) squanders it away. He and the sychopancy around the Gandhi family makes our democracy less democratic.
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  1836. Dulat symbolizes rampant corruption within Security services. The dude lobbied Govt to "buy out" the terror groups and their handlers and then took a cut of that money. He loved his weekend shopping at Dubai. This guy invested in Yasin Malik's mall in Srinagar.
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  1837. Thank you for the coverage. There's a meme, That escalated quickly. That's what this is.
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  1838. Bhupesh Bhagal is also joining the infrastructure game. He’s buys ads showing all the schools he built, roads that connects villages etc. The most independent Congressi is getting into the infrastructure game. Congress High Command should learn from Bhupesh.
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  1839.  @pratik6342 you can have the world's best agricultural policy but all of that becomes meaningless without strong contract enforcement. India's Judiciary is it's weakest link. 22,000 cases lying pending for more than a year at NCLT and NCLAT (Commercial courts) is sign of a non functional Judiciary.
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  1840. TMC outside WB is seen as a party that will take India backwards. Voters would prefer to vote for their regional parties than vote for TMC (if BJP is not their option). Take BSP/SP as an example, they failed to consolidate the BC/OBC vote bank outside of UP despite their improving groundgame in Maharashtra and Bihar in 2009 and 2014. TMC has none of that groundgame. 2024 will likely go to BJP, the question will be how many seats will they get. TMC is a red herring, the real contender will likely be AAP. They are making inroads into Punjab and Uttarakhand. UK Assembly elections is the one to watch. AAP is also playing the long game, they are targeting 2029.
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  1841.  @endisnear306  Now? It was a qualification back when Rajiv Gandhi called for pogrom of Sikhs in Delhi. Modi wasn't even involved in Gujarat. Rajiv on the other hand encouraged it to a rabid crowd and received a hero's welcome for Anti Sikh riots.
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  1842. Ajay Makan has never paid taxes in his life - used to be proud about that fact just like his Uncle (who participated in '84 Anti Sikh pogrom). Of course IT Dept would freeze his bank account over non payment of dues. I guess, it sucks to be treated like a common citizen.
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  1843. Derailment tha. Kavach can't help with that.
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  1844. Sure BJP went overboard with the suspension, but thanks to mimickry - the opposition justified the suspension. The quality of our democracy is declining because we have a Pappu of an opposition. Inko presence of mind karke cheez hi nahi hai.
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  1845.  @meat3958  if it weren't for the Americans we would be much closer to that. Our jets are aging, we barely have 2 ice breakers, Trudeau then goes around telling our NATO allies that we will NEVER reach our 2% targets. So tell me, how great our shape is.
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  1846. Well well, we have to thank AQ Khan and the Pakistani establishment for their contributions to world peace. They gave the North Korean cult, critical technologies and know how to build their nuclear weapons.
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  1847. This is why dynastic parties don't work. These folks haven't earned their way into their political positions, so it becomes a game of favorites baccha, ya bade bhaiya. It's time for a professional political party.
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  1848. Our R&D and Procurement process is a quagmire. I don't even know where to begin.
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  1849. The population issue is overblown. Biharis are settling in TN and becoming more Tamil than Tamils while native Tamils emigrate to OECD countries.
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  1850. Doctor patient ratio will improve when you improve working conditions for doctors. Right now we have deep imbalance in doctor patient ratios. Major metros have pretty good ratio but the moment you step out it decline rapidly.
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  1851.  @tomriddle4110  Gujarat is interesting. Unlike Maharashtra and UP (currently), Gujarat built most of it's Infrastructure through it's own PWD. Maharashtra and UP are self financing and getting it done through State agencies. Both are worth highlighting and studying. In those states, agencies paid their contractors in time and got things done. Agencies like MSRDC are subject to external audits especially the SPV they spin up for their projects. This has essentially forced State to allocate money for the agencies, (PWDs gets money from General fund which isn't audited as much), somewhat deterred raiding the general fund for freebies (smaller pot to raid) and contractors are paid in time which is one of the main reason for shoddy work.
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  1852.  @pichumanisankar2617  Good point. Let’s see if Congress and JDS contest with or against. Only time will tell.
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  1853.  @vijaydinanathchavan7644  so you’re saying JDS might cut into Congress votes?
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  1854. DK is right but I believe he is being aspirational. The kind of respect for precedent or rules, genuine decision about issues are features we see in Political parties of Western Democracies hasn't been part of the Political culture in India. Politics in India has always been about Pomp and Circumstance in other words ceremony. You don't talk about bad things during a ceremony. But then again, this confidence projection from the BJP is only possible because the Opposition can't get it's house in order and is worse than the BJP. Imagine if the Congress criticized the National executive meeting of the BJP, the immediate response would be, "When was the last time the Congress conducted a AICC meeting? The Congress hasn't even bothered voting for a President" followed by interviews by Senior BJP leaders re-iterating that the BJP is all about discipline blah blah. The National Executive was never about BJP following aspirations of how a proper democractic party should run, it was all about projecting confidence and discipline. It's Pomp and Circumstance, a ceremony.
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  1855. Vir and his ilk are openly Anti-Hindu, Anti Indian and a self racist. I think we can all agree with that.
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  1856. Most of our Foreign Ministers were either Gandhi family members (because they were PMs), PMs or Gandhi family loyalists. JDU & BJP broke that trend.
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  1857. He is calling the Secularists out.
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  1858.  @georgecarlinn6288  in Mumbai it's called SoBo privilege. Everyone outside of SoBo gets relegated to Free Press Journal.
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  1859.  @lalithrockz  they do become housewives of Tamil actors bruh.
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  1860. Our Supreme Court is as opaque as it comes. It's kind of eye opening to see how they reinterpreted consensus as concurrence and ruled against NJAC because it goes against Basic Doctrine. It kind of feels like the Supreme Court acted in bad faith to retain it's collegium. (Not the mention the amount of pending cases and the lack of disciplinary actions against judges from the lower courts adds to that feeling)
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  1861.  @HK-od6fh  it's always been there. If you look beyond 2014, you will notice the politics of hate was on different set of criteria - namely caste. The previous Govt led by Congress, cynically thought they could malign the Hindu community to distract attention away from it's numerous scams, and ended up uniting the community divided by caste. (They always relied on Muslim + Caste + Urban Hindu combination to come to power). The Congress party invariably reminded people of their naked appeasement of the late 80s.
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  1862.  @tojojosephcherivuparambhil4758  that is an extremely one sided view of Gandhi. The guy is a flawed man, he was too tunnel visioned into his own philosophy that he couldn't accept reality. He made plenty of mistakes like the Khilafat movement. Several leader across the religious lines questioning his wisdom regarding that and he went with it. That movement, emboldened Muslim League and the elite Islamic conservatives and bought the ire of the more secular Congress members( and Hindu community).
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  1863. The only pressure is from Western media and not from Western diplomats. Western Govt. on the other hand are way more respectful than their journalists.
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  1864. That means to achieve your impossible standards the economy has to grow 50% every year. You are crying over 7% inflation, at 50% GDP growth, you are looking at at least 15-20% inflation.
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  1865.  @ImBabaan  democracies doesn't mean one suddenly stop following norms. Just take a look at Aaditya Thackeray and Tejaswi Yadav, they clearly stated they are there for India and not their political party. Even bitter rivals become Indians when they are abroad. This norm has been one of few positive tenets of our polity that has been in place since Independence.
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  1866. Nehru was a disaster. His blunders alone would need it's own dedicated weekly episode.
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  1867. The Print needs to pick better stories. This feel good aman ki asha story is downright condescending. Apart from Deep Halder, why is there so much silence from the Print regarding Bangladesh? Forget Bangladesh, Shekar Gupta made his career in North east and there’s no word on what’s happening in Burma and its impact on Manipur. The Print has done lot of disservice to journalism.
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  1868.  @Alpha-Cheeno I hope YoYa goes the Vir Sanghvi. Gets booted out the videos.
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  1869. I think we should show news about free and independent Taiwan too. Support our Taiwanese brothers and sisters.
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  1870. LMAO that’s comedic gold
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  1871. He's not taking chances.
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  1872.  @Censurba270  Asko himself moved away from teh Alamite position. He now thinks IVC is likely a Dravidian language like proto Proto Tamil.
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  1873. He knows his days are numbered. Woh British ki taraha hi All India vacation kar raha hai before he vacates.
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  1874. Wow, we have the duty to laugh at bad jokes, that's a new form of court mandates authoritarianism. Useless judgement, they should have dismissed the case or squashed the law that enabled the arrest based on a terrible interpretation of a sentence.
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  1875. 9:15 This section is deep that it will make for many deep fried bheja memes
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  1876. MEA can and should keep issuing statements refuting it. But we as a society and media should move on from Pakistan. We have bigger fish to deal with.
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  1877. Gandhi is appropriately looked at politically and we have the right context to evaluate him.
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  1878.  @akashbenny5397  not necessarily. Dasarajna war is historical in the same manner in which Troy is in relation to illiad. Both describe real events though with embellishments. Besides it’s estimated to have occurred around 1500 to 1300 BCE around Kurukshetra
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  1879. No. What do you get from destabilizing the Middle East again? More terrorism and a entire chain of failed States starting from Afghanistan to Syria. It is a bad idea to turn a domestic social movement into a Internationally supported movement. We can show solidarity and we should but that's doesn't mean we should intervene.
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  1880. They forgot the first rule of regional assembly elections, local is local. Modi lost Bengal, he made it a contest between a State and Centre. There wasn't a visible strong state leader. Outside of the Hindi heartland, voters always prefer to vote in the party with the candidate that speaks the local language and knows the local culture.
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  1881. High frequency Employment is only available for the formal economy and not the informal one (which is 50% of the economy). You would need to wait for the annual economic/half yearly jobs survey to get a more complete picture. Then again, CMIE data (which the Indian Govt also relies on) paints a very bullish picture. Bank Credit grew at 9% yoy for March and India added close to 9 million (formal) jobs in April with 2.3 million re-entering the Labor market.
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  1882. The Farmers, some Canadians enthusiastically supported during their protest are now burning stubble and blanketing Indian cities with intense pollution. There's no solution to this.
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  1883.  @LukSter18998  Common Vulnerability Scoring System. It's a scoring system used to score vulnerabilities. Tech companies with bug bounties usually score their reported vulns to help figure out how much resources you need to throw at a given vulnerability.
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  1884. Read my comment. I actually applaud the print giving him some time in the light. It helps us unite to finally rid of Congress and it’s bastardized ideology.
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  1885. Na tu kaam karta hai na tu dusere ko kaam deta hai na tu dusere ko kaam karne ko allow karta. Sirf complain. Dimag laga aur kaam kar. Nahi toh mih bandh karke business chalu kar. Internet pe baitke slogan bole na tu sudhar sakta hai, na desh.
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  1886. AB Vajpayee. RSS member, Pramukh, PM and Freedom fighter. RSS allowed it's members to participate.
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  1887. And Europe expects the rest of the world to toe the line.
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  1888. NCP's founding member was PA Sangma
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  1889. Dang we should have been taught this. Where did you read this?
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  1890. Once you convince Quebec everything is possible. Without Quebecois buy in, nothing will pass through Montreal.
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  1891.  @5thelementcannabisproduction  well, why should Europeans have it easy? They went around conquering the world. Besides it’s not cheap, they should pay.
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  1892.  @anirudhsharma9555  our politicians are not as dumb as Jyoti. Even Tejaswi Yadav knows the basics of Statecraft and necessity of dialogue.
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  1893.  @CaptainGeek5 sangam is as archaeological as it gets. And it makes references to Kapila. And that predates Buddha by about 100 years. Also Hinduism has its own atheist tradition. It’s called nirishvaravada.
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  1894.  @CaptainGeek5 change topics when you have refuted. How Typical.
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  1895. I think we should not let IAS officers become plyable for an officer. That's the job of the Staffer who is paid by the politician. Plyable IAS officers are a conflict of interest. Also we need stronger conflict of interest laws that applies to the IAS
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  1896. First they arrest Aryan Khan, then Gosavi comes into the picture takes selfie, speaks on the phone and disappears, immediately, NCP's Nawab Malik comes and maligns the officer in charge. Bombay HC, immediately started bail precedings. In all of this is quite evident, someone got hafta vasoli within the MVA. The moment hafta vasoli was encashed the back stabbing begins. Now it's all vasoli khichadi. This Maha Vasoli Agadhi Govt is shady as hell. Within a year they've stumbled from one celebrity blackmailing to another. They failed with Mukesh Ambani and it seems like they are trying to succeed with SRK. This raid wasn't about drugs or persecuting a drug offense. The drugs seized was peanuts compared to the real drug raid at Adani port. The case was weak right from the get go and they let middlemen walk in and out of the so called 'jail'.
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  1897.  @Whoknows-z5o She is Pro Hamas.
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  1898. Are we that thin skinned? We could simply just ignored them.
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  1899.  @sahil_a6584  your insistence on sharing poverty is criminal.
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  1900. This headline is misleading. Refugee numbers have been going up before the invasion. Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, climate change.
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  1901.  @sankalp6872 I'm not saying boot him off the Print. Don't make it a premium offering. More Snehesh Alex Phillips etc. less Lutyens insiders.
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  1902. Congress sent it’s MLA to meet with Meiteis and Kukis to parley for peace. They got driven away by both sides. Somehow Jairam Ramesh thinks they can do better.
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  1903.  @vishalkrish6425  that did not have much impact as much as donor money flowing in. By 2002 LTTE was already running it's own parallel govt. After 2006, they lost a lot of money, they had no money to buy ammo or bomb material.
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  1904.  @pichumanisankar2617  Police reforms is not a prerequisite. Judges can and should exercise their power to squash charge sheets without proper evidence, deem evidence collected without prior consent or warrant as inadmissible, set limits through their interpretation of the law and invalidate laws with vague definitions as unconstitutional. You don't need Police reforms to do any of that, our constitutional already provides for and guarantees the independence of the Judiciary.
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  1905.  @BharatThatIsIndia  it is offensive nonetheless. That terms needs to be retired - no matter what kind of point it makes, denigrating a religion is not acceptable. HOW HARD IS IT UNDERSTAND THAT?
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  1906.  @Popularmango10245  Yes indeed. RR could have matured up and used a more neutral term but instead choose to offend a religion.
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  1907. If you can't handle a probation period, then how do you expect to keep a job? Jeez you and you're entitlements
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  1908. Sorry, you can no longer impregnate a woman and abandon her.
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  1909.  @thrillhouse7867  Like I said, Pollievre's plan isn't great. But at least he has one - which BTW is encourage ToD. What is the Liberal Plan? Do Liberals even have a plan?
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  1910.  @bhai857  indeed. Thane Municipal elections (Sena stronghold) is going to be the real litmus for Konkan region. If they lose TMC, they are looking at trouble.
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  1911.  @prathameshbhalerao96  Vir and you are saying Indians lack etiquette because of a couple of incidents despite the fact that we had 118 million passengers in 2022 along. That is internalized racism.
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  1912.  @PK-tt5kk  He called Indian Passengers as the worst passengers in the world based on preconceived notions and conjectures. That is very much internalized racism. What's worse is you folks are normalizing such disgusting behaviour.
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  1913. Come on Sankalp. Calling Guptaji demented is quite a low ball for you. Shekherji is reporting and analyzing an event, that doesn't mean success or failure of impact of that event. That is yet to be written.
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  1914.  @abhinav5847 please learn to make coherent points. Stitching random words and conjectures together doesn't make for a pleasant read.
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  1915.  @cpatil-vh5bw  every govt including US, Canada, UK etc. has failed to control inflation. Govt is not God despite presenting themselves as such. They can't fix a massive disruption in supply chains. But things like waste is something they can tackle. Here's a food for thought: India losses about 40% of it's agricultural commodities to poor storage. So essentially, you're paying 40% of the price of the veggies to make up for those rotting vegetables. This is why I say, the contribution of fuel prices to the cost price of commodities is over exaggerated.
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  1916.  @rutvikrs  You are homogenizing issues where you need more focus and detail, not less. Take land reforms for eg: Land reforms requires State Govts' reforms - We still make companies renew stamp duty and industrial licenses annually rather than sign long term leases with them. No amount of land reforms at the CG level can fix that. Take labor laws as another example, despite all the investments in manufacturing, average job creation rates per unit is still around 300-500 because when you hire that 501st person, all the nasty regulations sets in. That's not great in a country that requires about 2-3 million jobs/month. Similarly, even if CG notifies it's laws today it's impact will be muted, why? Because there's still the tail end of State Govt's labor regulations that stymies job creation.
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  1917. In log, Dilli pe itna dyaan de rahe hai ki baki sab cheese bhup gaye. Kejru ne kuch Opposition ko Dilli mein freebie dene ka vaada kiya hai kya?
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  1918. @@neerajmukta6448 No. That would break parliamentary convention that allows PM and defacto "Leader of Opposition" to speak uninterruptedly.
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  1919. City Beautiful , I'd rather call it greedy specific development plan/zoning
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  1920. Good interview.
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  1921. Man, only PTI/ANI can manage to get the worst quality stream of this historic movement.
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  1922.  @dhoomketu731  almost every one of them. HAL couldn't pay for materials and often delayed payments for months. UPA did not let them consult or sell subsystems to pay for their development.
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  1923. 1957, Nehru nationalized half of the Economy. Farm output was tanking. He successfully passed Article 19(a) a couple of years ago. Patel was dead and this guy was flying around giving interviews. The comments are jaded and misinformed. Nehru had his good moments but he was quite a disaster for a PM. A lot of India's current problems can be directly or indirectly attributed to his poor choices. He started the povertarian shift of India's economy which unironically was completed by his Daughter Indira Gandhi, a decade later.
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  1924. There was no referendum in Surrey which is a Sikh dominated city.
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  1925. Ya, France is going down a very very dark adn toxic road. Islamists will betray everyone including the leftist. They did it with Indians during the Partition - once they became the majority, they eat up their allies like wolves after sheep.
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  1926. Jyotiji this was a disappointing interview. I understand that you sit in Delhi and Maharashtra politics is not your day to day topic to cover. But I think you could have done some due diligence and learnt more about the role of speaker and dy speaker in legislative assembly. Or the fact that Maharashtra hasn't had a speaker for more than a year. This is what Sandip Ghose points out as partiality of coverage. I hope you take this as constructive feedback.
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  1927.  @DrNitinSanghamitta  so you're describing yourself. Got it.
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  1928.  @raghulrags  I'm saying there needs to be reforms before you recruit them into IPS. Besides you need more capacity in training institutes to retrain them for the Police like Indian laws, police procedures, evidence collection procedures etc.
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  1929. Maha Govt has given 5x the market price of land for infrastructure projects. 5x Market price is not a chillar change money. In log ko aur paisa chahiye.
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  1930.  @Humanityinthe6 the story is misrepresenting the issue. So ya, it seems like CBC decided on judging rather than reporting on the occasion. I think that does everyone a big disservice. Either way, this is a very personal matter for Hindus and Indians. It's a matter of faith.
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  1931.  @pm6127  don’t Kashmiri Pandits don’t matter? Doesn’t their tragedy and the constant denigration matter to you?
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  1932.  @pm6127  What crime did Kashmiri Pandits commit to have their tragedy constantly called propaganda or élite privilege? Start with that first. Their tragedy matters more than one lady whose son was implicated in riots. The lady has the sympathy of the media. Meanwhile Kashmiri Pandits, we can’t even acknowledge their tragedy.
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  1933. General (S)“Election”
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  1934.  @momobhai3792  they don't need to. The Congress keeps imploding on itself and makes it easy for the current party in power to recruit disgruntled party cadre. Like I said, the Gandhi family paves the roads for the BJP to maintain power without a lot of effort.
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  1935. If owners implement BIS standards it will improve working conditions. Also expand the market for the owner.
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  1936. Madan Mohan Malvaiya made Poona Pact possible. He reached out to Ambedkar and understood his suffering. Gandhi wasn't even interested in what Ambedkar had to say. Without Madan Mohan Malvaiya, there would have been no Sanatana Dharm, only Jati Dharm.
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  1937. NITI should conduct a parallel district wise assessments.
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  1938.  @MathewJohn-gj5xn  sure, and no one was forced to sit, listen and clap to what Modi had to say. The opposition exercised their right to vacate the political space to Modi despite always having the "right of response". They could have used it in the end where time is allocated for them to speak (as per Parliamentary rules) - but guess what they did not do - stay and respond. They have specific rights and privileges accorded to them by the nature of being a MP but they adamantly give (gift) it away. That's just pure stupidity.
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  1939. He's right. We have a useless nominal leader of opposition who is in London complaining about India rather than build his own party. The sense of entitlement is why we don't have a credible national opposition. Almost every state politician is busy building the next Gandhi dynasty rather than govern. KCR in Telengana govt is same as Rajapaksha in Sri Lanka. Let's also not forget Thackerays.
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  1940. Judges would rather adjourn than decide on the outcome. Well, they earn bribes by setting dates. Not to mention there's a huge issue of pending cases (again most of them due to badly written laws).
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  1941.  @japanijoota6190  Govt doesn't sit at Courthouses providing instructions to judges to indefinitely adjourn cases. Judges decide to adjourn the cases ad nausem. Case pendency is beyond Govt.
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  1942. Lots of False equivalence here. Ruling party always had authority to pick EC. Supreme Court went beyond it's mandate and injected itself into the process. SC illegally injecting itself in executive powers goes against Democratic norms - violates separation of powers. It needed to be checked.
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  1943. LoL. When everything was conducted in black money where was your concern regarding transparency and accountability? For once stop being dramatic.
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  1944.  @DannycageGhostrider  man, I’ve never met anyone who is so obsessed with alcohol before you. I don’t join companies because they have alcohol parties. That’s the least of my priorities and priority applies to every sensible person.
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  1945. This speech is tone deaf. There are 3 million pending cases in courts, if you are not a politician or someone with political connections - jail is the norm not the exception, judges pass judgement in personal capacity rather than follow previous precedent and people rot in jail waiting for trail date. With all this The honorable Lord Justice says it's the citizen's duty, waaah.
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  1946. Sounds like a good use of funds and a comprehensive scheme. If they open the schemes up for auditing and it achieves even a fraction of what it plans, the impact will be tremendous. Now this is Govt of India, I'm talking about. So I have my hopes that it succeeds but I'm also equally skeptical.
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  1947. SC will reserve judgement and move on.
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  1948.  @jojosoni  Just make a trip to Ayodhya and talk to folks there. Most of them complain about demolitions and improper compensation. Some really complain about the hidden temples.
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  1949. I'll start believing when the Supreme Court starts enforcing it's own diktat of "Jail is the exception". Otherwise this is nothing more than pomp and circumstance.
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  1950. Also, if you ever want to do any vulnerability research or pentest - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a copy of what you touched, what was changed and have a playbook for cleaning up after yourself.
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  1951.  @eliotanderson6554  Jaishankar is Tamil and speaks pretty good Tamil. I want to listen to his Tamil. BTW, I am literate in both Hindi and Marathi.
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  1952. Disturbing the "crime scene" would involve getting a jail term. We still have colonial era laws that dissuades people from helping each other.
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  1953.  @SkpalTube  nope. It's legally a UT. Delhi calls itself a State just to make themselves feel important. Legally it's a glorified municipality.
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  1954. Delhi is and has always been the worst representation of India. Journalism will improve the moment you move outside the Delhi worldview.
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  1955.  @scienceisreligion5618  Mughals (except Aurangzeb) were quite tolerant of homosexuality. It was the British who banned homosexuality completely.
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  1956. While this kind of conflict of interest and violations of ethics is not uncommon and won't be uncommon, what should be common is prosecuting violators. We must watch closely how Modi govt prosecutes the former CEO of NSE, what changes they introduce and what kind of disclosures they will mandate going forward. That will determine their seriousness towards governance.
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  1957. Vipaksh bhi pagal log hai. They are going after their own donors.
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  1958. Glass half full, glass half empty. Some metrics are good, some are encouraging, some are things we need to tackle. Unemployment down - Good Unpaid employment Stagnant - not that great Labor Force Participation going up - Good, shows some confidence in opportunity. Increased competition in job market CMIE says there was 8 Million jobs created in May.
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  1959. Oh yes, that last sentence about candidates is true political wisdom right there.
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  1960.  @mrgyani  a reply to your comment requires a full cut the clutter episode. But then again your blind partisanship makes that a wasted effort. You mixed Centre-State relations, executive actions, religion, social dynamic and inaction by an independent body for a constitutionally mandated election in a binary issue. Wah. Maybe try and try to see the complexity and nuances next time.
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  1961. it used to be owned by the Indian govt. They ran it to the ground and kept getting bailed out by the govt. Modi govt came to power and put it up for sale.
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  1962. Panjab University degrees aren't accepted anywhere outside of Chandigarh. The entire State has failed the University. Why should a State that consistently fails to maintain its University still given s chance to do so? How many students should continue to suffer under Punjab Govt?
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  1963. I will make a visit soon without a Hukou pass or permission from a political commissar, take selfies with Winnie the Pooh doll because I have freedom of expression and freedom of movement unlike our folks living in our neighbour across the Himalayas. Isn't freedom a wonderful thing? Mad respect to the Armed Forces for protecting our freedoms.
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  1964.  蔡English  despite all the diversity, we are still united. Ever wonder why? Because we have freedoms, free elections, free movement, freedom of expression, diversity of thought.
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  1965. South of this area, there’s an oil refinery and a fertilizer plant. (And a nuclear research centre). They were built in the 60s. If the air smells like rotten eggs, there’s your reason why.
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  1966. I hope Modi gets inspired enough to revamp own Science programs. I remember working on my Science projects and managed to get it all the way to State level. Sadly I only got certificate and measly cash price. There's plenty of talent to be found at those Science competitions
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  1967.  @sankalp6872  That's not delusion. It is called sarcasm. ;)
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  1968. Revenge of the suburbs.
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  1969. This will end when Pk as a country doesn't exist
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  1970. Nehru was against to Hindu code bill. Ambedkar and Munshi pressured for it.
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  1971.  @pax4370  that doesn't hold scrutiny. First, it was impossible to criticize the 5 year plan, Congress would deem you as anti National. Second, even when things were going bad, targets in plans were never met, our leaders never thought to reform the system to improve performance of the plan. On the other hand, we institutionalized glorifying the Planning commission and double downed on socialism. Third, there was no need to squeeze and kill productivity in private industry.
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  1972.  @SubhamPalcyd  will have to pin the blame on the opposition here. They don't want to participate. They walk out and BJP passes bills. They try to adjourn parliament and focus on breakfasts with regional parties, BJP passes bills. They barely participate in standing committees proceedings and reading of the bills (last session it was inching up to 50% - almost all attendees were BJP). The Monsoon session, about 50% is already spent on non legislative functions that is just managing adjournment, question hour and zero hour. The opposition hasn't bothered passing a motion for debate or raised issues on incoming bills (every MP gets advance notice). The only debate motion that was passed was regarding "Covid-19 management". Unfortunately in our multi party democracy, one party is focused on legislation - that's the BJP. The opposition is only focused on Pegasus and don't seem to take their job seriously anymore.
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  1973.  @shahrukhkotwal7125  nah. Money can only get you posters but you need to resolve more than anything else to get votes.
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  1974. 1971 Bangladesh mein genocide (sab Hindu logo ko mar aur rape kar rahe the) hua aur Indira aur Khangress mafi de rahe the.
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  1975.  @suhailbhat1996  tu kaunsa Divijay university se pass hua be? Kashmiri pandits ke bare mein nahi sikha kya?
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  1976. Yes the future is bright for private sector and Central Govt tax collection. But does not mean States get a free ride. States also need to make the right choices and be fiscally prudent.
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  1977.  @TheDinendra  he acts like he owns the country.
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  1978. DFad running the State has been a good thing for Maharashtra. Instead of stalling projects and draining tax payer money, things are moving forward. That's a good thing. This loudmouth is going through a vinash kaale vipreet buddhi.
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  1979. Congress ignores its biggest community that voted them back, just like it ignores development for freebies.
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  1980. "Power is an Act of Imagination" - Rahul Gandhi Ok. I'll imagine I have infinite power. Now everyone bow down to me and call me your Pradhan Mantri. I'm your Modiji What deep fried thinking.
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  1981. There's a rebellion going on in Maharashtra. Eknath Shinde along with 11 MLAs are in Surat.
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  1982.  @aldrineabisheck5426  that is irrelevant because the opposition does nothing and come out looking useless. Everyone realizes change is necessary, no one knows how that change should manifest. So if opposition does not present an alternative version of change then 1. Nobody will believe them. 2. They can't build consensus. 3. No support on the ground. 4. BJP pushes things unopposed. What do you think the BJP has been doing all this while in the opposition? They went on the ground and presented an alternative. Gujarat model, Hindutva, corruption free etc.
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  1983. I must say, if you abandon the political tropes, antiquity Indian history is fascinating and intriguing. I've been reading a lot of books about that era, the writing is disappointing. There are constant references to "(not) concede space to Hindu nationalists" and that unfortunately taints how Indian history is taught and understood. Unfortunately, it has also led to the proliferation of a lot of bargain basement theories of history. Thanks for this video. Btw, have you read Sumit Guha's book 'Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present'?
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  1984. Well, high culture in Bengal focused on imitating Tarkovsky and Soviet realism then where will they find the energy to even think about Dalit theater. Jyoti Basu ensured Bengali culture died after Satyajit Ray.
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  1985. The Rupee was overvalued. Now it has reached an equilibrium in terms of it's value.
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  1986. ANI feed.
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  1987.  @rodtukker1904  they should do so independently and follow market norms. Unfortunately, Govts do not follow simple contract laws. The Govt borrowers but does not pay especially if it is rupee dominated. Or Govt forces a major write off to everyone involved in other words it defaults on it's own bills - as is the case with every State Electricity Distribution Companies.
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  1988.  @jayantjolly  the local 'goons' were actually pretty approachable and nice especially in the suburbs. But yes, there was plenty of Stockholm syndrome that came with living under the Sena. Up until the 90s Maharashtrian didn't realize South Indians were Hindus as well. They used to call our Ganesh puja as, "Woh toh, Anna log ka puja hai. Unka bhagvan". That realization along with the wealth and patronage (through temples, education institutes and businesses) that came from the South Indian community they eventually co-opted them. The lead up to '93 riots, they went after Muslims. After '93, BalaSaheb's regret was rather noticeable and nationalism become his stint. That transformed to UP Biharis bashing that continues on to this day. Now the South Indian community has become a strategic vote bank especially in the North Konkan region.
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  1989. We already have plenty of Govt monopolies.
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  1990. Anyone can be an artist with Looted money.
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  1991. The good thing about the ThePrint is that it provides younger journalists an opportunity to grow, to do better and more importantly exposure. It's not a bunch of old people spouting their opinions (no disrespect meant to the older folks). The team is reflective of the demographic of India. Keep it up
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  1992. Shekharji, what advice do you have for us not in the North East?
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  1993.  @sankalp6872  well kinda. Her hubbie is employed at IPAC and she's the Print Congress expert. But that has nothing to do with this Adda. The General Saheb was the wrong guy for the panel and the editor included her subtle reactions in the final cut of this video. I had a hard time containing my laughter.
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  1994. Kokani Marathis used to practice deliberately lighting fires around Jan time. Their practice is similar to controlled forest fires that US wildfire services conducts in their parks.
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  1995. If Gandhi was still alive then the caste system would have been way more regressive and way worse. He argued for preserving the caste system with Ambedkar! "The Mahatma seems to me to suggest in its broadest and simplest form is that Hindu society can be made tolerable and even happy without any fundamental change in its structure, if all the high-caste Hindus can be persuaded to follow a high standard of morality in their dealings with the low-caste Hindus." - B.R. Ambedkar
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  1996. Rahul Gandhi is sitting with Jairam Ramesh plotting a plans to cancel border road projects as deny development to Arunachalis and Ladakhis.
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  1997.  @Madame702  India will figure out what's best for itself. BTW EU and US used to provide arms to China up until Tiananmen Square massacre
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  1998. Tu sirf gore logo ka hi quote karta hai, tu kabhi Premchand nahi padha kya? Itna derascinated ho aap ki app apna desh ka unek intellectuals bhol gaye ho.
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  1999.  @minni1357  apparently the classiest fellow hates people who are vegetarian. What is wrong with these people?
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  2000. You are describing the pre 2004 era. You go to SBI to fight a babu to withdraw cash, then go to a BSNL booth to call someone and often scream on the phone so that they hear it and then walk miles to a Govt bus stop to take a back breaking bus ride over non existent roads. Welcome to our childhood.
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  2001. In Sydney, Toronto and London, Palestinians supporter were screaming "F the Jews." This isn't about "occupation", this is about Kafir hate. Today they are after the Jews, tomorrow it is the rest of us. It is vitally important we condemn this strongly.
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  2002.  @cerisejones8061  come and collect it.
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  2003. Don't forget Tytler. That dude was invited back into Delhi Congress.
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  2004.  @tenzinganag5348  Foreign Policy is a reflection of domestic policy. When Sonia threw unfounded allegations against Modi she gave space to Pakis to use that against us. She suffered for that remark, now look at the Congress party. Nash ho raha hai, yehi Karma hai.
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  2005.  @gurpindersingh1351  unlike Rahul, Modi campaigns everyday and ensures that his organization works for the party. The effort he puts pales in comparison compared to Rahul. The only few that's close is Jagan, Kegriwal, Biswa Sharma, Navin Patnaik.
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  2006. I love these series of interviews. I wish we could get an outline of how much that allocation was actually spent. Economic survey wasn't that clear on that for the previous year.
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  2007. Hahahaha. This is effective tactic by the BJP - the proposed names are quite reasonable and the BJP is targeting Mughal era personas for the name change. This is essentially a trap for AAP and Congress.
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  2008.  @hpremjit  DeMo was a great political move. It essentially laid the foundation for 2019.
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  2009. It definitely won't happen outside of India. Keep backsliding Bengal, keep becoming backwards. Great job Mamta
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  2010.  @ransom182  there's a very thin line between discipline and intimidation. What is happening is not discipline but it is certainly intimidation. "Calling for a leadership review" is not breaking party discipline especially considering how low Liberals are polling right now. Terming that as a "disease", "cracking off strange", "staying away from PMO handlers" is intimidation.
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  2011. After decades of Left dominance at JNU, JNU is still looking for Bijli Sadak Pani. Ladies and Gentleman, Leftist politics will never get you anywhere. You will be LEFT behind by the rest of the world.
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  2012.  @Abdullah-mn6sw  that doesn't hold true though. Just look at assembly elections. The issue is most parties go with the most popular candidate. The selection is usually based on caste demographics rather than religion. That fundamental hasn't changed at all since the 90s.
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  2013. Shekharji, you should consider doing a Off The Cuff with John Lee from Hudson institute
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  2014.  @kostubh that’s a decision between RSS and BJP cadres. Sangh has learned a harsh lesson in 2004 and 2009 that going against cadre comes with depressed turnout at the polls.
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  2015. This arrest wasn't about drugs. It was about hafta vasoli. MVA got their vasoli, judges got their vasoli and SRK was "put in his place" by the MVA govt. This is the oldest trick in the corruption book.
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  2016.  @sankalp6872  yup. There's serious panic with MVA as well. I saw them crowd out comment sections in several regional channels.
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  2017. 2019 was the first time Mumbai North Central had a turnout higher than 50% and BJP won more than 55% is the vote. This seat is currently occupied by Poonam Mahajan. Anyway, Congress has been absent in Mumbai, so it is likely BJP will sweep Mumbai.
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  2018. I don’t understand why AIIMS ransomware attack is a political issue. Hospitals gets attacked all the time and since they have specialized equipment they are the most vulnerable targets. Besides these things will become very common going forward. It would be wonderful if The Print pushed for better breach notification policies. I need to read up on what’s the most recent policy.
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  2019. This is from syndicated feed. But ideally Parliament should provide subtitles or audio in regional languages. But for that to happen, you need decorum in Parliament. You can't expect transistors to translate if all they hear it's MPs screaming.
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  2020.  @Bengalifirst  I spend a better part of my weekend reading through it. That's why I say, Orissa for is a better comparison for Gujarat than West Bengal. Orissa's indicators are have outperformed West Bengal. Besides, no State has made headway in it's poverty intensity indicators but I suspect it is still early days. MPDM is still a fairly new index. With such marginal secular decline across states, I doubt State Govts have anything to do with reduction in Poverty Intensity. Any reduction probably came from Centrally Sponsored Programs.
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  2021.  @ddavidson9642  ummm no. He advocated for converting to Islam to stick it up to the Congress. If at all anything, he weaponized religion just like Jinnah. He retracted after a lot of backlash. The thing about Periyar was not that his prognosis was incorrect but he was deeply exclusionary and racist. He took the British theories of martial race and took it to it's extreme. Periyar is rightly divisive. The current crop of politicians have rightfully moved away from him but softened his stances.
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  2022. Regulation aur permission ki baat kar raha hai, tax ka nahi.
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  2023.  @ayaanmukherjee4701  it's a free country. Besides it's extremely rich coming from a family that appoints a ethnic cleanser like Jagdish Tytler to manage Delhi Congress (in 2020!! Can you believe that?). People inherently understand the deep hypocrisy coming from the Gandhi family and are not buying what Rahul Gandhi has to say. The Gandhi family just makes things very unpalatable. If you believe in what the Congress is supposed to stand for then, start with asking for the Gandhi family to retire.
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  2024. Let's do some simple marketing math. You have 3 large demographic groups - A, B, C. Group A covers 80% of the market, Group B is 15 and Group C is 5%. If you could only spend 100 rupees on 1 marketting campaign, which group would you target that campaign towards? Group A because they are the largest group.
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  2025.  @Ashutoshkumar-ji7vh  at least Nehru's legacy is somewhat redeemable. The rest of the family held the country back. Indira empowered her unelected son to dictate urban planning, industrial policy and family planning. The disgusting thing is we still have a national park named after him - an unelected spoilt child. And they say Modi Stadium is height of andhbhaktgiri 🙄
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  2026.  @MithileshJha-tn3ks yes because promotion is based on seniority and not merit.
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  2027.  @redatticus7606  as a average layman, I can say, it was terrible. I learnt nothing and thought the opportunity to ask good questions, bring our points to debate on was wasted. Besides both Baru and Raja Mohan are columnists, they know how to present technicalities and details to the layman, they've been doing it for 30+ years.
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  2028. Namunes don't deserve to be in our Armed forces. Their laziness and sheer arrogance coming from a sense of entitlement will leave us wide open to a Chinese invasion. Demolish these namunes homes. Lathi charge them. This culture of entitlement must get the same treatment as Muslim rioters.
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  2029.  @kemalataturk1917  right now, the Judiciary is the most dysfunctional branch in India. At the rate at which it adjourns cases, it won't be long before it becomes toothless.
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  2030. State Govts manages the State Election Commission which conducts Local Body elections (Panchayat, Municipal corporation etc.) So if Bengal State Election Commission is unable to contain the violence during elections then the fault lies solely with the State Govt. If UP can conduct Panchayat elections without incidences of violence, then why is Bengal unable to contain election violence? Answer can be found with the Mamta Banarjee
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  2031.  @vivaanreddy8771 I’ve seen the end result of Ghazva and Evangelism. There’s no native culture left in the western hemisphere or in places like Iran. If you want conserve your culture, the choice is obvious - that is Hindutva. Don’t need Sham Sharma to spell it out.
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  2032. So they can't think for themselves and figure out a way forward? Isn't that basics of being an adult. You figure out the way forward, they are getting compensated with 12 lakhs. That's a lot of money.
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  2033. Shekharji should do an Off the Cuff with Manjari Chatterjee Miller. CFR fellow for South Asia.
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  2034.  @rutvikrs  you don’t need grapevine when the video is available to watch lol
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  2035. Very unlikely this is how it will pan out. If this survey is true then Shinde Sena and Ajit Pawar NCP will bag 3 seats. That’s impossible. Shinde has a strong grip in Konkan and Sambhajinagar. Ajit still has a strong hold on Maratwada. I don’t see them getting less than 5 seats each. BJP is still extremely popular in Maharashtra because of all the infra money pouring into the state by both CG and SG. Also last election BJP in Maharashtra had a 90% strike rate in both general and assembly elections.
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  2036.  @IronMan-nu3rb  Maharashtra Govt raised objections citing security issues in case of SCI
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  2037.  @RameshKumar-lp6op more like “Snakes of the Najafgarh Nullah”. They pollute the Yamuna.
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  2038.  @jonathanbowen3640  Thank you. Glad you liked it.
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  2039. Woh sab kuch nahi hai bhai. Is building ka construction aur engineering saste mein bana tha.
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  2040. This province used to build 1200-1600 sqft condos before 2015. Now all the condos are dogcrate condos. Reforms (while welcomed) are narrowly focused to creating more dogcrate condos, not actual living spaces.
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  2041. 😂😂😂😂😂 Anderson and Damle's book on RSS is a better source.
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  2042.  @saqlainmirza9644 that's why their lands need to be redistributed. Why should rich farmers in Punjab need a loan waiver, MSP gauranteed price that's 50% above cost price, Rs 10,000 per month pension starting immediately? Why should centre pay for it? What they need is a Nehruvian style land redistribution scheme. Dalits and Valmikis in Punjab are landless, they can use the land to make themselves rich.
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  2043. South won't accept this either. It's not the 80s anymore - you can't go around singing "Chaturnath" like Mehmood in Padosan and expect South Indians to keep quiet.
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  2044.  @orkkojit  Jayalalitha was disqualified. But she died before the disqualification was announced by TN legislature. I dunno what you are crying about, since 2013 we have been disqualifying MPs and MLAs for every conviction irrespective of which law they broke. Unless you have something to contribute in terms of how to reform our laws, your opinion is nothing more than useless noise.
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  2045.  @ujjwalgandhi951  these folks will nominate Uddhav for Nobel peace prize just to spite BJP without realizing the mockery of the peace prize
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  2046.  @ysjrty8769  the motivation for women to join the workforce is to supplement their household income. As household income rises, the need to supplement that diminishes. This is literally what's happening in a nutshell. Richer women are less likely to take up a job in India. Govt is not out there encouraging women to leave the labor force. The cause is a social and cultural issue. "However, we note as household income per capita increases, women start to leave the workforce. Since family status is linked to women staying inside the home, domestic work becomes more attractive as the family income increases." - ILO 2014 Review of Women's participation in Labor Force
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  2047.  @theargumentativeindian5056  sure. But he doesn't do that. When 3/4 examples you provide in a talk is present with Correlation is causation fallacies then your talk is not a policy talk, it's just a political commentary. Let me give you an example the difference between agenda setting and giving a policy talk: A good policy talk would be something like, "There are 16k laws that implicates business owners with jail term for archaic regulatory compliance. According to NCRB stats X businessmen have been given jail term, an estimate 50% have reported paying bribes to avoid jail term. A comparative analysis of business laws in Korea shows 10k laws have scope for decriminalization". Compare that to "India needs to be liberal. SA liberalized women's laws, India must take that as an example." The difference is night and day.
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  2048.  @ysjrty8769 if that's your evidence then you should realize there's more than 550 million women and you are looking at a very small and insignificant sample biased by age. you stick to your anecdotes. I'll stick with my evidence from surveys and ILO+UN analysis papers.
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  2049.  @theargumentativeindian5056  I don't think so. There are plenty of counter examples that refutes his central point even if you don't consider it to be a "policy" talk. His fundamental point itself is extremely flawed in the first place. You don't need liberalism, you need stability and rule of law.
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  2050.  @sandeepkumarkhuntia8839  he sacrificed our borders for BT Brinjal???!!!
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  2051.  @omkarchauhan7675  not every private bank discloses their NPAs (None on a quarterly basis). Co-op banks are some of the worst.
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  2052.  @shivadityasinghmachhan  learn to listen rather than dismiss what you disagree with.
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  2053. Capturing the heights of Siachen was already the 'Laal Ankh'. Good thing nobody listens to you.
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  2054. Socialism and the culture of entitlement has engrained that mentality in them.
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  2055.  @deepakp8746  go check our own culture when you consume that marijuana filled bhang. NDPS is not only cruel but it also suppresses our own culture.
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  2056. But Ketkar makes a lot of solid arguments.
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  2057.  @Avinashm7  his prognosis was based on a British misinterpretation of caste and race in India. He believed Tamil brahmins had no place in Tamil society and was rather violent against them. In today's world he would be called a racist.
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  2058.  @Avinashm7  true. However to say that someone who belongs to upper caste like brahmins are not Tamils is exclusionary. It was based on British martial theory of race. He was right that caste discrimination was a bane on society however he was deeply wrong that Tamil brahmins were not Dravid. He was deep into that he deemed Congress as an Aryan party and advocated for conversion to Islam to stick it up to them. He is flawed individuals, let's have the humility to admit that.
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  2059.  @pranganao7395  same here. Which is also why I want the Gandhi family to retire from politics. They legitimized and normalized dynasty rule in India. They moment they are decimated, will the moment when politics moves forward. Here's the thing, dynasties monopolize political discourse, they deny opportunities for others to succeed where they fail. They deny any progress and squash diversity of thought. It's all about worship not policy making. Also India made most progress when dynasties were relatively powerless. 1991 reforms only happened because the Gandhi family was effective out of politics.
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  2060.  @sahilkarir8404  he actually has. Shia mosques and Sufi Dargahs. Sunnis don't allow Hindus, so there's no question of entering one.
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  2061. I don't think the BJP underestimates the Congress. However the Congress underestimates Rahul Gandhi's and cotories ability to inflict damage on the Congress. BTW, in this press conference alone, RaGa pissed off the Army forces community by strongly implying they are weak.
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  2062. Yes but we need to verify the outcomes. Are the kids in these schools getting better education? Are the parents enrolling in public schools because they are distressed? What about the increase in teacher violence towards kids? We celebrate victories too soon.
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  2063. I like your commentary and would like to subscribe to you.
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  2064. Baramati is in danger. Last LS election, NCP (Supriya Sule) barely won it with 1 lakh votes. This with Ajit Pawar holding hands with the BJP means that seat is definitely unsafe for Sule
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  2065.  @Grand-Rose besides farm laws, the rest of what you said would have limited impact on corruption or development. Any further reforms initiated by Centre would fail without State govts initiating similar reforms. Today delays in infrastructure projects are due to long permitting and approval process of States not centre. Permits are not issued unless the State govt Babu who handles the file gets his 20%. Centre can get rid of it’s permitting process but it still won’t improve state govt permitting
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  2066.  @Victor-y9g1w Navdeep Suri? No lol. He's old stock Punjabi - dreaming of Lahore types.
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  2067. Comparing Rahul to Saddam is hateful according to Rs 5 Congressi. Waah re waah. Sychopancy ki bhi haad hoti hai
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  2068. The peaceful pacifist Indian was a Nehruvian invention based on British Martial race and Aryan invasion theory.
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  2069.  @sarvottamsingh93  this is a sure fire way to kill current jobs. Here's what'll happen - UKand govt. gives out free bijli, they won't pay for it, instead they'll charge businesses more money for electricity (someone needs to pay for distribution and production). Business shuts down because high electricity bill cuts into their margins and they can't compete. Another side effect is, disscoms will start rolling blackouts, because they can't afford to bleed anymore money over this reckless freebies. Either way businesses will get hit, they become uncompetitive and shut down. There goes your job and your bijli and you have to pay for it with your taxes that you earn while living in a slum in Delhi.
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  2070.  @shuvadipsinha9513  I hope so too. For a PM that projects himself as focused on the economy, the farm laws will come back to the table. The Agricultural sector is too underproductive to be ignored for too long.
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  2071. The Fine Print keeps disappointing by offering Yogendra Yadav as it's opinion columnist when it has other way better choices. Why not invite Yashwant Deshmukh or other more credible psephologists an opportunity? I'm not against YoYa publishing on the Print but please don't ask subscibers to pay for his ChatGpt generated articles.
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  2072.  @Jonesranjith  keep up with the castiest behaviour and alienate the OBC and Dalit votes.
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  2073. Reclaiming Nehru Museum for PM Museum will soon become political lore. It's like a really good "poda" as well, this will be good political lore. LOL
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  2074. @ThePrint should consider building a merchandise store. 🤔
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  2075.  @ajeeshvijayan3869 lotteries sales cannot even cover an hours worth of freebie expenses. So what's your point?
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  2076. Delhi please don't impose this on other States.
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  2077. We are fighting back against the colonial pseudo intellectuals, dear Northern brother!
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  2078.  @rutvikrs  establishment media came after Rajiv. At that time there was only DD and News vetted by Censorship board. People had to rely on family networks and word of mouth to find out what was happening.
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  2079.  @tron8421  the point is business is business. No one will invest if the business environment is bad. Improve the business environment and watch everyone shift shop here.
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  2080. KYC and Court Uncourt needs it's own playlists.
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  2081. With the state of Punjab finances, those Anganwadi workers are likely going to treated like unpaid govt servants rather than employees. AAP will give away free money to rich farmers and their wives and then promptly delays the salary of Anganwadi workers for years. That's the AAP model.
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  2082. The 3 best performing States are ensuring freebies do not tank their state economy. They ensure their tax collection is robust and they are able to attract investments in the State.
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  2083. Banning = more organized crime
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  2084. Indian history textbooks are pretty terrible. We spent several years talking about Gandhi's satyagraha and the rest of Colonial India was relegated to footnotes. Maratha confederacy is not mentioned at all. Mangal Pandey and the entire pork cartridges are treated as fact rather than a singular event in a larger set of events. We never understood the resentment that was built up. This series along with Kings and Generals and other history channels are helping us Indians rediscover add understand history in it's wider context. P.S.: A lot of Indians don't know their post independence history either. We never learnt anything about it either
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  2085. Political parties get your phone numbers from the same set of resources that Private companies get from. Every time you click that "I Agree" for a EULA, you are essentially giving away your consent to distribute your phone number and it is legal.
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  2086. This will be a good addition to Venkat Dhulipalia's book. We need a Bengali writer to come out with the Eastern account. The violence in Bengal started way way earlier.
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  2087. Wrong country. You're talking about China. These are seasonal monsoons and they have been erratic and intense.
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  2088.  @anujthakkar9172  it'll balance itself out. Eventually as our market and trade grows, the FTA will have deficits some years and surpluses other years. If our policy makers are smart and given some political leverage then it'll pan out pretty well.
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  2089.  @fleurdewin7958  aaaaah yes, good point. Not sure how the sanction on insurers is going to impact the market. It could mean Europeans lose business to someone else like Asian insurers.
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  2090. 10:34 "It created an army of ideological sharp and competent people" That's why the anti Hindu vitriol and gaali galocha has gone up sharply after the yatra
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  2091. Couple of things: Holding Parliament hostage might backfire. It's giving the BJP a free pass. They passed 2 bills without debate or discussion about it. Though it's about IBC and deposit insurance. But this kind of "hostage taking" of Parliament is dangerous and reckless given the BJP's majority. Pegasus highlights that we really really really need for judicial reforms. We need our courts to step up and we need them to place limits the Government's "excesses". What's disturbing is there's been no limits on the definition to "specific interception". Our violations of fundamental rights is amplified by the tardiness of our courts. The same tardiness also lends legitimacy to Government's actions. Pegasus is merely a symptom not the disease.
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  2092. We need to open up the defense sector to more private players. One really easy and rapid win would be to allow private textiles companies to make combat uniforms to the armed forces. That contract is still under the hands of former OFB while the Govt is mulling opening it up to private players.
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  2093.  @Con_founded  that's called scoring political brownie points. That's not an oped worth reading.
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  2094. In Normal political parties, this would be the appropriate time to revamp party leadership. Congress thinks they can't exist without the Gandhis, yet it wants to not even work on rectifying it or letting others fix the myriads of issues. I can go on and on about the Congress party but it won't change anything about them. I just feel sad about their workers and supporters. They are being taken for a ride in the most naked way possible.
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  2095. It's a terrible idea. It ignores realities of nukes.
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  2096. AAP can play spoilers. Even if they get 5% of Congress votes, Congress is finished.
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  2097. India needs professional judges that follows precedents set by the higher courts and understands the basics of the constitution. Most of judges in the sessions court act like hyenas looking for hafta vasoli (bribes).
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  2098. In log kuch jyada hi analysis kar rahe hai I mean, Elon ko paisa banana hai aur woh blue check bej raha hai. Pechla quarter Twitter -$233 million loss post kiya. In log, woh nahi bol rahe hai aur kuch jyada hi soch rahe hai.
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  2099.  @sudhiharibhat  It is silly indeed. But just like the rest of the Country, this quarrel is for the men, the women at homes at waiting to spank their men. (roughly translated from Marathi)
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  2100. That introduction is very well thought out. 👏
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  2101.  @surojeetchatterji9966  safety is the least of my concerns. These labs test for harmful elements before the seeds are mass produced. The larger issue we should be worried about is license and copyright. Who should own the seeds? That's what we should be seeking answers for.
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  2102.  @hhcdghjjgsdrt235  Govt should govern and not run businesses. Govt. running a business not only depresses the business environment but it also makes the Govt. pay for it's losses. Those losses are lost opportunities of development. Consider the following: If Air India was privatized in the 2000s, then Govt the 40,000 crores of debt that it accumulated could have used to build several metro lines in the big Metros or several expressways in several states. (Air India debt could have paid for Purvanchal and Ganga expressway) Govt should come with reasonable regulations and must intervene less. Often times, regulations in India are vaguely and badly written and consequently used to blackmail businesses. This is also another area where opportunity is wasted away for zero outcome. Consider the following: Indian labor laws are notoriously hard to comply with and demands perfection. It is long and dense (around 5k pages for the basic edition) and you need to hire 5-6 people to write rules that makes sense for your business. A businessperson can use 5-6 worker to build better products, improve quality, improve pay but is instead forced to wade through labor code. The consequences of not following labor code is criminal prosecution. This is the opportunity wasted in the pursuit of complying with Indian labor code.
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  2103.  @anshuraj4277  oh the irony. It is your tax money that's freely going to Adani power. Delhi Govt is stupid enough to give Adani power money at full commercial rate rather than through a negotiated power purchase agreement. AAP is doing Adani power favor by saving them money they would spent on collecting payments for bills. It's like instead of giving the poor electricity, AAP is using gullible Delhites tax money as a handout to Adani.
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  2104. Hindu American Foundation + CoHNA is the only professional organization in North America. They got the US Congress to pass a resolution to recognize the Bengali Hindu genocide. Indian Muslims, primarily Sunnis don't have their own distinct congregation like say other ethnic Muslim groups. Indian Shias have their own lobby specific to their own denomination. Bohras have Dawoodi Bohra USA, Ismalis have Aga Khan. IAMC is a Pakistani front.
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  2105. It's all about money. NEET and chancellor appointment breaks the Mgmt/Private/Creamy Layer quota admissions. It's a huge chunk of money that Centre is disrupting.
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  2106. LOL. Foreign Press publishes a piece on Adani and these guys have gone back to Adani. Looks like Adani is going to be 2024 version of Rafale.
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  2107. Just an observation, the sexism in the comments is rampant. Whenever Jyoti or Ruhi have an perspective to share the comments just becomes nasty. Jyoti is a librandu and Ruhi is Congi fangirl. Shekharji is spared most of this nastiness. Besides he depends on the same folks the comments are nasty against. Have some respect, these folks put in work to gather reports, schedule interviews, debates, read up often very dry and technical publications to present to you the reader and consumers, news that's factual, without drama that you would typically see in TV media. All this is presented in a coherent, simple manner and their articles are available for free and fast. It might not be what you might agree with but if news was all about presenting perspectives you agree with, it's no longer news, it's propaganda. Constructive criticism is fine, sexism is not. Keep it clean.
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  2108.  @blackrockorange  someone got triggered. Thanks for the sexism.
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  2109.  @shreeramseetharaman  she had an extremely tough fight in 2019 and needed help from Prakash Ambedkar to cut into BJP votes. She came down from sweeping in the previous 2 elections to coming within 100,000 votes. Close margins. To me Baramati is a toss up and not as secure as it used to be. PRS, no one even know what that is.
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  2110.  @Vizorfam  aaahh yes, only an idiot would see this through communal eyes.
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  2111.  @devanshujoshi4372  well according to DB here, Rhea Charkraborty is a minority, so is Ananya Pandey and Aryan Khan is only Muslim because his last name is Khan. Like they say, there's no one more hypocritical than Socialists.
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  2112. There's no way HSR in the Pacific Northwest would cost $42 Billion dollars. The entire proposal was lowballing how much it would cost. 250 Mph HSR would require a near straight alignment through (geologically) young mountains and an earthquake zone. 250 mph HSR at that cost is impossible. It would probably be way cheaper, better and cost effective to aim for 150 mph quad tracking and electrifying the current corridor. I am definitely going to oppose this project when it come up for public comment here in BC. There's absolutely no way this will cost $42 billion ($53 billion today).
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  2113.  Bharat 🇮🇳 updates  anyone can be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. Heck, give me your biodata and I will file a nomination for you as well.
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  2114. Stricter FRBM for states
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  2115.  @AnimeAmvStar  they will fence sit like they did in '62 or supply more arms like they did in 2020. Russia will do what's beneficial to them.
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  2116. Well, while on the topic of caste politics, the Print should look into TR Baalu's - an OBC, new controversy over his rude implicitly casteist remarks against L Murugan - a Dalit This is the 4-5th Anti dalit statement, DMK politicians have made against Dalits in this year alone. This has greater implications compared to Bihar.
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  2117.  @amoghthorave3385  it's significant too. Aurangabad is an AIMIM stronghold. It is a one two punch.
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  2118. There was 7 rounds of consultations for Data Protection Bill. It was introduced 7 times and withdrawn 6 times for improvement - folks sitting in Bengaluru were submitting comments. Was this guy sleeping? BTW, The regulations have been notified about 6 months ago.
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  2119. Yes unfortunately, only the President can fire IAS officers. You can't force an IAS officers to resign either so transfers are the only way to punish them.
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  2120. Well criticism is valid. The Supreme court is a bit of an unreliable narrator. When it feels like, it intrudes on executive powers and/or ignores precedent. Then the CJs all go on a tour lecturing people about privilege and duties. If the Judiciary did it's job properly and enforced it's own dictats then it would command the respect that desires. Unfortunately that is not how courts works today, quite often the courts choose to intrude rather than intervene. Regarding Uddhav Thackeray, courts again choose not to intervene and squash it's abuse. They can declare it unconstitutional but yet they don't. The courts are as complicit as politicians.
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  2121. Waheguru, please teach the Congress a bitter lesson. Let them get decimated and make them ditch the Gandhi family.
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  2122. This is the kind of economy we need. People setting up businesses, employing people, freeing them from the shackles of Govt. handouts.
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  2123. Raga should sack Jairam Ramesh. He stalled Border Roads construction for an entire decade while the Chinese were building heavy infrastructure and preparing for land grabs. But he won't do it. He's the most useless politician ever.
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  2124. His colleague at Planning Commission Raj Krishna, coined the infamous phrase, "Hindu rate of growth". These guys had so much spite against us that they wanted to label everything bad to Hinduism.
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  2125. This flood would have occurred irrespective of the construction in the Himalayas. Those who blame the construction don't know a thing about geography or geology
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  2126. Btw Saudi Arabia is also a ideological theocratic regime. Does that mean we have the justification to interfere and intervene in their affairs? No. For more than a decade we've constantly bombed and invaded the Middle East. Look at the region today. It's become a cesspool of sectarian violence and extremism.
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  2127. He's worse than Robin hood. Robin hood took money from the rich and gave it to the poor. This guy takes money from the middle class and gives it to Adani power at premium commercial rates. That's exactly the opposite of Robin hood
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  2128. Congress: "Sir, Mask of Hanuman" RaGa: "Mask of Hannukah?" Congress: "Sir, Thailand also has Hanuman" RaGa: "Oh Thailand." puts on mask.
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  2129.  @kashinathmaharana7422  don't learn. But don't deny me an opportunity to learn Tamil and don't tell me to go back to Tamil Nadu.
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  2130. Smart Cities played a huge role. It helped with capacity building. Indore used the money provided to improve garbage collection, sort and processing.
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  2131. And they are scrubbing comments that highlights that.
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  2132.  @Aditya-vb8sm  they just want to shove Wahabbi Hinduism down our throats. It's not about protecting Hinduism, it's all about controlling will will women in the name of protecting some imaginary dignity.
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  2133.  @taurusied7447  you can choose to control your emotions and teach good values to kids. Our rich history allowed these kinds of 'obscenities'. It's carved in our temples, written in our ancient texts. You're more than welcome to go see various temples down south and stare at the 'obscenity' of scantily clad Goddesses and Gods embracing each other. Or you can go to any Shankara peetham (I recommend Sharadha peetham at Sringeri) and sit down read books that talks about how 'obscenity' does not rob one's dignity. Heck I'll arrange a sit down with Acharya at the peetham himself if you are they willing. He'll gladly educate you and ask you become a sanyasi if you think this is obscene. Heck the Acharya will call you a monkey mind too much time in your hands.
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  2134.  @smd4051  Jairam Ramesh was special in that regard. He stalled projects approved by PMO. It takes a lot of authoritarianism to go against your own PMO. He was the Krishna Menon without the defense portfolio. Try to spend more time to understand the significance of actions of person who is not a defense Minister but decides on their behalf. Past Defense Ministers posture was at a time when we had very little support. That wasn’t the case with UPA-2. Americans were eager to build a strong relationship with us just as much as they are eager to strengthen the current relationship. P.S.: Nope. I have not build my opinions in the past 2-3 years. My opinions got more stronger with better and newer evidence of gross negligence and incompetence especially during UPA years.
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  2135. We have this wonderful jurisprudence called "Essential practice". Courts have used it for reforms and protecting freedom of religion. If this Muslim community feels strongly about hijab then they should argue that it's an essential practice in their petition in the Karnataka High court. Dress codes can't go against essential practices. Every community has used this precedent for protecting their identity.
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  2136.  @DKSingh-wf8tn  well, DKji, perhaps you can look into RBI guidelines on how to distinguish between Welfare and Freebies. RBI looks at it is through the lens of Economics. Money or Line of Credits works better in case of improving Farmers income, compared to free despite at a high level both of them are technically giving away resources for free. However, in the first case, distribution of money, the farmer gets more choices to make economic decisions. for eg: with 6k, they can buy better seeds or pay for tuition for their kids. In second case, the farmer is tied with a resource (like electricity) that they cannot use efficiently or in many abuse excessively.
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  2137. He was weirdly presented in history textbooks. In Mumbai, Maharashtra State textbooks had maybe 3 paragraphs about him. We never got anything more than a sentence about his presidency.
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  2138.  @sibisabu5592  Delhi, a "state" which doesn't use it's own tax money for the services it doles out would obviously be debt free. I'm sorry but CG money funding Delhi doesn't count as debt free.
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  2139. IIRC Assam assembly election was focused more on infrastructure and inclusive schemes and less on polarization (unlike West Bengal). Owaisi is refreshing in the sense that he's publicly espousing Constitutional values. There's been a uptick in Muslims taking up IAS as a career (Mumbra is now full of UPSC exam centers). These unrelated things to me indicates there's been a change in what Muslims want and they are becoming more transactional towards more development and Congress seems to be misreading Muslim needs. Heck they want development and not just platitude.
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  2140. Senthil Balaji is a result of Nepotism and DMK's social justice. Balaji comes from Vanniyar community, OBC. He's a thug who oppresses everyone especially Dalits.
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  2141.  @yew391  Govt should drop ILP and let us just travel freely there. It would be a strong way to assert our sovereignty.
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  2142. Railway rolling stock company's productivity is still terrible.
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  2143. Kejriwal. 🤣
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  2144.  competitionplus798 not the ones in Upper Himalayas. JK assembly would make it inconvenient to vote or would excluded the entire community as a whole by denying them "permanent resident" status.
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  2145.  @spikespiangel  why can't we bring that down to 1 generation instead of waiting for 7 generation? And Sikhs have their own form of exclusionary caste system.
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  2146. Excellent! We need more shows like this that looks into our courts. Journalism like this is few and far between in India. And it's in Hindi. If you have shows in other Indian languages like Tamil and Marathi, you'll earn my YouTube membership. (I'm already subscribed on the website). Thank you Aproova.
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  2147. You should invite John Helmer (dances_with_bears) and get some fresh perspectives. What does peace settlement mean, what will Europe (and US) do with frozen Russian assets? Is the West going to go against IMF to pay reparations to Ukraine with Russian assets? Are the European really that emotional (and stupid) to do that?
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  2148. Uttarakhand UCC live in relationship is no different from common law marriage registration in places like France, United Kingdom or Canada. In Canada, a year in common law is recognized as a marriage. It's a good step despite the complaints. The Registration process is worth the inconvenience.
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  2149. Opposition needs to clean house.
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  2150. MOSPI needs to split trade, hotels, transportation communication and broadcasting services into subsectors. The sector too large to make sense of anything. Constructions sector is hitting it's limit, there's a severe material shortage (cement, steel etc.). We won't see a dramatic jump until new production units starting pumping out construction material in the later half of the year.
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  2151. Assam Rifles are not regular army - they are paramilitary, MHA troops. Neither is CRPF. Where is the claim of Army policing coming from?
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  2152. Actually the McD bill simplifies Delhi's administration. There's a talk by Pankaj Gupta about Yamuna rehabilitation and redevelopment, he has a slide which shows how insane the bureaucratic structure and approval structure for agencies is in Delhi. It's Corporations, States, Cantonment boards, Centre Govt. Departments stepping on each other. Delhi Jal board is managed in the same manner. It is genuinely the case of too many cooks spoils the Yamuna broth.
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  2153.  @shashankke250  he's not a politician though. Private individuals are entitled to their own opinions. You are more than welcome to cancel him.
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  2154. Rahul Gandhi ne syllabus padne ka permission diya.
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  2155.  @wingsoffreedom4292  t these guys don't have a sources. They will just scream their nonsense and assume the public is dumb enough to believe it's the truth
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  2156.  @yomamasohot6411  I reckon you don’t know much. That’s unfortunate.
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  2157. Yes it is bad for privacy however the benefits outweighs the privacy issues. However, that doesn't mean we need to sacrifice the convenience of digital wallets for the sake of privacy or vice versa. We need good regulations, policies for better user transparency and better consumer protection laws. EU is in a unique place where it can dictate the standards and push privacy forward.
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  2158.  @deeprai8716  yet their incomes are increasing, yields are increasing, exports are increasing. Suicides haven't increased rather stayed stable. The least you can do is learn to read and consume data.
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  2159. Sure, that's valid. But in this case, Gen. Panag has a solid point.
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  2160.  @shahrukhkotwal7125  well ... I think you might be extremely blind and very tone deaf to not notice the amount of red tape required and how that forces corruption. Take property rights for example: You want to build a warehouse on a fallow plot outside a city. You find the plot owner and transact with him. In the rest of the world, it is a private transaction between buyer and seller. In India, you need a DM to approve that transaction. The DM needs a certificate to prove that the man of sound mental health. You get that from a Civil Hospital from a clerk there. That is how you buy property (land) in India for a warehouse. Business transactions are time sensitive. The DM knows that, the clerk knows. They also know that they have the power to sink or let the transaction swim. And this power is what enables corruption. You can't blame businessman for this kind of regulatory environment. I'd admit it used to be a lot worse but the regulatory environment today needs more improvement and drastic changes. Blaming businessmen for corruption is akin to blaming the victim for being a victim in a crime.
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  2161. Kharge says big things but as Party President he can’t kick Jairam “Development Denier” Ramesh from the party. Useless person.
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  2162. The simple answer is Yes. UCC will also put an end to dowry - Mehr is dowry which is excluded thanks to appeasement.
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  2163. Me too. There should be a special subscriber only session by Praveen sir on how to write
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  2164. Sharp comment!
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  2165.  @arijitpalit2756  Balakot pointed out how little communication there was between the Various armed forces. Air Defence was sitting there wondering which aircraft is ours and IAF refused to share its area of operations and it's iff codes.
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  2166.  @pushpindersingh1819  Nagas, Manipuris and Assamese accept 'outsiders' as their own. Manipuris have long accepted Burmese Tamils as their own. Nagas and Assamese over the years have accepted various other groups like Chakmas, Burmese Chutia, Bangla Buddhists etc. At least learn more about the Northeast before spewing stereotypical nonsense.
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  2167.  @samsmith4242  and the same folks are still glorifying the greatness of the British Raj and empire. That's whitewashing.
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  2168. Basically, investors are vary of our Judiciary rather than the govt. Reform the judiciary attract more FDI. BTW NCLT and NCLAT have been back to their old habit of tareeq pe tareeq.
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  2169.  @matthewdo7947  if it can't THEN WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE FEDERAL GOVT? The buck has to stop somewhere and in this country, it stops with the Federal Govt. If they can't get municipalities to build then that Govt deserves to go.
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  2170. Can someone do the math? It would mean UP has to grow by 30% per annum for the next 5 years?
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  2171.  @arjun4xd Karnataka never followed it's own frbm recommendations. Spend spend spend, go broke and beg beg beg.
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  2172. @ThePrint, would it be possible to remove adverts on the thumbnails? It's too cluttered and I can barely read the guest's name.
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  2173. Til, MMS is still a member of Rajya Sabha. I thought he retired.
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  2174. The fact that the PM is meeting Sonia Gandhi and not the leader of opposition says a lot about the skewed power structure of the opposition. Rahul Gandhi doesn't even have control of his party. Yuck.
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  2175.  @vrindavanguj7361  what did the pandits do to be shot at, hacked in half by a mechanical saw?
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  2176. Please move to Pakistan
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  2177. He is right. Aspirants should treat Agnipath as a probation period and prove themselves. Everyone in the private sector goes through probation. Besides it will teach you lots of life and technical skills.
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  2178.  @yashnagar4042  272 only means they lose Iqbal or show of force. 300 is a minimum, 325 means they gain more iqbal.
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  2179.  @AmalTan  Ghar wapsi. GoI can't do it because Intl law but we should absolutely go out there doing mass ghar wapsi of ghettos. I say we start with Islampur in WB, Nuh in Haryana.
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  2180. These MPs here have been flaming tensions and encouraging the protest in retaliation to the community banning them entering from Temples and Gurudwaras. These MPs, instead of reminding us about Air India 182, have instead encouraged the folks responsible for it to become more bold and violent. Nobody trust the police or these sold out politicians. Liberals and especially NDP only pander pander and suck up to our places of worship when they want votes. CPC isn't too far off either. Pat Brown encourages this nonsense while begging for votes at temples and festivals. No more pandering, the ban will stay.
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  2181. Yes that's because none of the previous Govts. bothered with building Mohalla clinics outside of Delhi at all.
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  2182.  @roshanray8946  Jaankari ki zaroorzat nahi chahiye when it is obvious how it will end up. Revdis always comes at the expense of Capital expenditure. You don't need a Degree in Development Economics, just look at Karnataka. Within 6 months, Capital expenditure was cut by 20%. Bengaluru projects got stalled and are undergoing rebidding (means they don't have to pay for it). KN is looking at a subsidy bill of 52,000 Crores on top of the 17,000 subsidy under the previous regime. That's 3x. That is not good economics, that's just reckless. It is turning a surplus state into another Sri Lanka.
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  2183. Congress used ECI to do it instead. They forced ECI to raid Modi’s campaign office in Varanasi. They also tried to taint Gen. VK Singh with a CBI enquiry to stop him from joining the BJP. Congress can has done much worse. BJP only making IT dept go after tax defaulters - which Congress hasn’t paid.
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  2184.  @sauron2000000 Hindu dharm mein beadbi ka concept hi nahi hai. Sikhi mein bhi nahi hai. It's imported from Pakistan.
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  2185.  @lightyork8268  it's an acknowledgement of good work. It's my money why are you folks so concernedd by how I use it?
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  2186. How many software projects have had a perfect launch? Zero
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  2187.  @sreerag3354  Babri was the price Rajiv Gandhi gave away for squashing Shah Bano judgement. He killed secularism that day by showing us that Hindu and Muslim society will be treated differently by Govt of India and won't be on a level playing field. He tried to appease Muslims with Shah Bano and then gave Babri to appease the Hindus. Don't try to pin Babri on Hindu nationalism without context.
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  2188.  @sahi_bae  fundamental rights, basic doctrine always takes precedent over any law promulgated by Parliament, even those that goes against rights and basic doctrine. This has been established precedent since Keshavnanda v. Govt of Kerala. Sessions court doesn't follow Supreme Court precedent doesn't diminish the fact that there's been violations of rights and substandard investigation and admission of evidence
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  2189. Great analysis. Good work. Just a comment on the style, I think it would be much more approachable if Praveenji tries to go with Simple English and drops the Shakespearean metaphor. The average Indian doesn't read Shakespeare and wouldn't necessarily understand/appreciate the metaphors.
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  2190.  @elsoai  I can't post links. YouTube blocks them and The power Min report is 65 Mb. It's pretty extensive, I haven't finished going through it. There's a reason why I'm asking CtC to cover it
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  2191. India sends it's biggest delegation to Davos. Unfortunately, the States that could benefit from investments are missing. Mamta is busy trying to bust the Governor off the Chancellor's chair rather than Govern and bust red tape and regulation. Instead of sending delegations to Davos to attract investment and listen to genuine grievances with the bureaucracy, she's sending delegations of goons to beat up the BJP and force the bureaucracy to watch the violence. Perhaps the message that we have "a once in several generations opportunities that we can exploit to our benefit" should be directed more loudly at our State leaders and our politicians. It may seem like I'm picking on Mamta but I'm merely pointing out how bad politics can make no opportunity out of a miraculous bounty of opportunities.
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  2192. Not to mention, jobs! Contruction is probably the quickest way to employ people for several years.
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  2193. Wah re wah. So Maharashtra has become the Uddhav Thackeray's personal kingdom and he's the king. What a thin skinned king.
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  2194. His audience is the Lutyens elite. He is talking to them.
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  2195. You go home and cook!
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  2196. Please make yourself irrelevant. If they can't use this opportunity to dump the underperforming Gandhis then they don't deserve to exists as a political party anymore.
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  2197.  @MrCat-sl6zf  at least woh pension ke liye royega nahi.
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  2198.  @scienceisreligion5618  just like the rest of us. By building skills, passing interviews and working hard. Job is not a right, nor is it an entitlement. They are earned, not given.
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  2199.  @abhisheksaini1964 you can still get the benefit and come after Khalistanis. Force 5 eyes to accept that Khalistanis will not be tolerated. That's the long game.
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  2200.  @nameisbondjagatprakashbond4891 K M Munshi - member of Constituent Assembly, Chairman of Fundamental Rights and Minority rights committee, founder of VHP, the forgotten liberal. Today liberals call him an extremist because he was vehemently against appeasement.
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  2201. China mein anti monopoly law kaha hai wo bata. Bakwaas toh koi bhi kar sakta hai
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  2202. Nusrat Jahan’s lack of intellect defines her lack of governance in Sandeshkhali. She thinks India should never develop, she leaves her Lok Sabha seat backwards and under developed. No surprise at all.
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  2203.  @bullseye7541  the opposition has it's space, it's called Parliament. The problem is our opposition is really stupid - unlike the leaders of the Past like Gandhi, Savarkar, Ambedkar, Nehru, Sardar Patel etc does not offer an Idea of India, a vision. Through their dynastic control of their party apparatus they have created an inbred political culture that runs on sycophancy rather than policies and leadership. They do not understand Parliamentary process because they feel entitled to be a Parliamentarian. I doubt, there will be a civil war because the days of sycophancy are dying. Even smaller oppositions benchesh have done better work in Parliament than the current crop of opposition politicians.
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  2204. Russian natural gas prices are still twice the prewar price. That's where Russia is still making money from. Russia is like Saudi Arabia, unless gas prices tanks and hits below $20/barrel, Russia stands to make a profit. It will not be $100 profit margin like it did in the previous month, but nonetheless the margin is still significant big enough to cover freight costs + insurance costs even with the 30% discount that India and China gets. I don't think it as simplistic as oil prices drop, Russian economy collapses.
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  2205.  @mrameyaap  why should they? The disqualification is their own doing. Rahul tore the ordinance that would have saved him, he ignored the court case in Surat (the judge waited patiently for his lawyers to respond) and he refused to apologize. On top of that he insulted a journalist over asking him a genuine question.
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  2206.  @nilanperera4774  India has an average of 7 elections a year. Modi's party the BJP loses 60% of the time in average. Next year is General/Federal Elections - campaigning in India starts early, the bugle was already sounded in this year's Monsoon session. Canadians might think Modi is a "fascist" but he still has to fight free and fair elections. It would be nice if you spent some time to out of your bubble and learn about the world's largest democracy.
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  2207. Shekharji, caste becomes irrelevant once you become a minority in another state (eg: Shettys in Maharashtra). At that point, it's a matter of minority reservation and not caste reservation.
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  2208. Forget which State will accept a 3rd language. TN Govt. used to fund Tamil language learning institutes. They used to publish textbooks, syllabuses, work with State Education Boards and conduct Tamil exams in the 60s and 70s. My Tamil Father who was born in Pune and lives in Maharashtra, learnt Tamil from a Public school in Pune, I was born in Mumbai, my school had no facility to teach me Tamil. I had no support from TN govt to learn Tamil. I am functionally illiterate in Tamil. DMK & ADMK made the Tamil diaspora a pariah in our own country.
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  2209. I think he's reminding the cadre that regional languages are important.
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  2210. 🍿 I’m ready to watch the meltdown by overseas supporters of Congress 🍿
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  2211.  @tapemaj they are ”liberal“. Also great, they can feed Rahul Gandhi all kinds of nonsense ideas to make him even more irrelevant.
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  2212.  @thekingofoktimes  our judiciary is already half way there to becoming non-existent through it's sheer incompetence. That is my point.
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  2213.  @lookintoit4537  absolutely on target with regards to politicians! But the Judiciary itself is complicit. The current system benefits them the most. There's no accountability and they get to freely choose who they want. That's how we get a higher Judiciary where 50% of it's members have one blood relations in the Justice system or 80% when you include inlaws.
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  2214. Singapore believes in strong rule of law, why shouldn't India do the same? Graft is graft afterall.
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  2215.  @walktowardssunshine4246  it's free money and food. I'll take that and vote for anyone else except Congress.
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  2216.  @atyanthdutt6632  ya, it is a business however, it is a business with very low margins. That's why our press is filled with emotional rants and scouting matches called debates. If they don't get TRPs, they won't make money. Quality journalism needs steady source of money, unless that is fixed, press will always be a liability.
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  2217. High courts started the bleeding of the industry, they made the entire industry criminal overnight over the 2G scandal.
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  2218.  @hemantpanwar5502  GST Council wasn’t part of the UPA package either.
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  2219. Indians resolved it's internal conflicts especially it's North East insurgencies by rehabilitating insurgents as politicians. But it took years of negotiations and violence to get that outcome. It could have worked really well with the Taliban but the Americans stalled those negotiations until late last year.
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  2220.  @PawanDubeyK  Adarsh Gram Yojana just got a massive top up in money. But not all Gram panchayats can willy nilly spend that money, they need to put in competitive bids on how they will use it. It is smaller version of Smart Cities. Consultations have improved yo. Look no further than DPDP act - it went through 7 rounds of consultations and 3 re-drafts. Unlike in the Congress era, today Govt depts have to issue mandatory open comment periods, you can send comment via mail, email, website or through NGOs like Civis. I actively participate in the process, my recommendation were incorporated in acts like DPDP Act. Right now as we argue in the comments, Govt is soliciting comments for rule changes for LLP Act (5 days left to put in your comments) and restructuring rules under Companies Act (5 days left), Fitness of Colleges under UGC act (13 days left), comments on Draft Electricity Transmission plan (35 days left), End of Life (management of Vehicles) proposed bill and rules (39 days left) etc. If that's not consultation then you are wilfully blind. Just cause you don't participate in consultations, doesn't mean the Govt doesn't engage in consultations. On the other hand, this Govt has democratized incorporating comments. All you complain about is procedural issues. That is just politics. If Rajiv Gandhi can abuse 12th schedule for his legislative agenda then using money bills or omnibus bills is not a big deal. Do you get paid to spread misinformation with confidence? Here take you Rs. 2 and move on.
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  2221. @hj2711actually the Modi govt does consult. In any given month there at least 15-17 different public consultations (usually lasting 15-45 days). Just this month the govt is asking people to comment on New standards for rating colleges, new transmission lines policy, rule changes for LLP and Companies. It has improved dramatically compared to the previous govt.
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  2222.  @PawanDubeyK seriously you are unaware of what’s going on. I have contributed towards better policies and I have seen it materialize. You can stay blind and call people you disagree with names.
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  2223. That's what GIZ is helping with in the Indian State of Sikkim. GIZ also recommends using part of your farm land for organics, not all of it. This helps build resilience limits damage from monocropping. Sri Lanka's ban is for all fertilizer. This will have terrible consequences.
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  2224. Are you working on Yamuna rehabilitation?
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  2225.  @BlackPanther-lx9we  CRPF has published videos showing off their new QRF units in Kashmir. Please get your eyes checked.
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  2226.  @patmurray8265  I'm for expanding access to learning indigenous languages.
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  2227. Imagine how amount of entitlement Gandhi family has that all of Lutyens media is eagerly cheering them to contest from their "family" bastion. Folks from Amethi think Lutyens treats them like idiots.
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  2228.  @sauron2000000 Jan Sangh was a political party. They did not have a network of goon unlike the Congress.
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  2229.  @sauron2000000 aur tera toh, Khangressi ecosystem. Mein toh at least pustak aur commision reports padta hoon. Kabhi toh kuch pad liya karo.
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  2230.  @siddhantjaiswal9115  I need to learn how to use gimp and make that happen
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  2231. RaGa's father Rajiv Gandhi lit the fire of Babri and the communal riots they followed it by invalidating the judgement of Shah Bano. We suffered for decades because of his callousness. His political engineering and economic policies almost drove us into bankruptcy. His uncle Sanjay, an unelected psychopath forcefully evicted poor people overnight because he wanted a "untarnished" view of Jama masjid. He forced his population control measures on men and women. Both of them made our country a laughing stock, weakened institutions and tarnished India's image as the next Yugoslavia. That's the legacy they left us. And RaGa is combination of those two folks? It says a lot about how things will pan out.
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  2232. They should do what France does. In France, the pension budget is separate from the defense budget and managed by a pension fund like a mutual fund.
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  2233.  @sreedharreddyabbidi5374  it’s happening sooner than you think.
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  2234.  @arjunraj823  Marathi manoos moment has come to TN
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  2235.  @TheArb6  I want Kurla to get global recognition.
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  2236. I use copilot. It’s pretty powerful.
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  2237. They also work faster in movies. It's like judges in movies cannot indefinitely adjourn cases.
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  2238. I think you mean Neutered or emasculated.
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  2239.  @gurusastropalmistry2214  but in West Bengal, sarkari babus exploits everyone and you still have pollution and environmental degradation
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  2240.  @gurusastropalmistry2214  I disagree. WB can’t keep dumping poverty on the rest of country to take care. PLI has taken off. The rest of your comments is just conjecture and nonsense
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  2241.  @rutvikrs  "These communities would see this person not as a rapist but *someone who can deliver justice where the law can't. * " Man, someone really needs to highlight this. You can't fault Society for a systemic failure of Governance. And this failure is not limited to one person but it has been building up over decades of neglect, abuse and outright malfeasance. Ideally, it should have not gone to this extent and but it has. We can still deescalate the situation by improving law and order but more importantly the judiciary needs deep reforms. Our judiciary doesn't act on anything until there is some amount of crowd outrage. That needs to change.
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  2242. Religious tourism is a $64 billion market in India. Why shouldn't the Indian State cash in on it? Besides a portion of this money funds Hajj for Muslims.
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  2243. @M G when you listen, you tend to learn a lot. Stick around with some US Navy boys and they'll teach you a thing or two.
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  2244.  @varoonnone7159  our problems are not same as their problems. Their solutions won't work with our problems.
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  2245. What really worries me is the Congress can undo all this progress. Congress mouthpiece Deccan Herald, today wants, the Congress "to apply brakes on policies set in motion by Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh duo in 1991”. If RaGa gets it in his head, that we need to head back to pre-1991 phase, we are finished. We can say bye bye to prosperity forever.
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  2246. FINTRAC giving failing grades to banks is like getting a F in an audit course. It doesn't impact the banks, it doesn't change their policies, it definitely doesn't stop tghe money laundering.
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  2247.  @julm7744  Philippines business environment is way better. Less regulations and it's part of several trade blocs. India has few bilateral trade agreements and even fewer free trade agreements. So when folks invest in India, they do for the domestic market and not for exports. But the cost of starting up a physical business like factories and the cost of compliance is too unpalatable for anything beyond human capital investments. A tech company I worked with considered setting up a fab plant to support their staff in India but quickly shut that proposal down because of the regulatory environment. Their biggest challenges were land, port Infrastructure, labor laws and import duty. They didn't mind import duty but they were pretty annoyed by labor laws and lack of purchasable land with easy access to port infrastructure.
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  2248.  @julm7744  so, India right now is undergoing a huge transition accelerated by the pandemic. The regulatory environment has improved a lot in the past decade but it's not enough. There's still a lot of regulatory baggage that needs to be sorted out especially at the State level. So currently, there's a lot of regulatory imbalances between various levels of Govt. whereas previously all levels of Govt was painful. For eg: Environmental clearances and arbitration agreements which is under the purview of the Central govt. has been rationalized and streamlined however land acquisition which falls under the jurisdiction of State and municipal govt. is still painful. There are mechanism to circumvent this like invest in an industrial park but the process is slower than it ought to be. I believe India (hopefully) might be in a better place in a couple of years. There are really good initiatives that Govt is rolling out to bring good structural changes into the economy and regulatory environment. It'll take a couple of years to get there but it'll have a positive impact. Re: RCEP India needed more time to be competitive when RCEP was signed and in hindsight, it was the right decision to back out of it.
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  2249.  @adithyadanaj9768  the regulatory baggage makes the industry pretty uncompetitive. It also makes Investments in R&D or towards growing your business extremely risky. The regulator treats everyone as rule breakers without realizing how their rules makes it impossible to be in compliance. There's no nurturing only punitive punishment. The regulator in India is like a school teacher in Delhi Public school, only thinks in terms of punishment and forgets their job is to teach and nurture their students. Why would anyone invest if tomorrow the Govt. of the day or courts decides to declare your business as illegal? Why would you invest if tomorrow Govt. decides to retrospectively tax you? Or overnight pushes job quotas? And we have idiotic folks who keep screaming Tata-Birla Ambani-Adani corruption and crony capitalism. Or call then uncompetitive without context or attempt to understand the real issues that businesses face. We really should be admiring the businesses that haven't moved out.
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  2250. Ultimately Congress party betrays it's workers by making them defend the indefensible. You can sort of read that Jitu Patwari does not believe a word he's saying wrt EVMs.
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  2251.  @amardeep851  do you realize why they even booked their tickets and left? Our country mis treats them, send bombs at their places, our socialist politicians threatens them, when that's not enough, we torture them with regulations and keep them stuck in courts. Look around, try to improve your surroundings, quality of life rather than complain miserably about capitalists. Try to learn about the failures of our Govt and it's failures (not just this one but look at the ones before as well). Why would anyone live in India considering the shit quality of life and tough environment to do anything?
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  2252. It is taught to Hindus - it's called Advaitha. Nanak Devji teachings comes from Adi Shankara himself. Just like how Adi Shankara is our Guru, so is Nanak Devji.
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  2253.  @npd9758  just like Sanjay Raut, eating his own shoe.
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  2254. I look forward to Rahul Gandhi campaigning for Modi. I expect him to outdo his 2019 record and dug deeper hole for the Congress. Best of Luck to Rahul Gandhi for bringing us closer to a Congress Mukht Bharat. P.S.: We need a better opposition.
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  2255. Prevention of Corruption act doesn't work because corruption in India is a result of 'rent seeking behavior'. In other words, Indian Sarkar creates laws that criminalizes basic things with jail sentences or expensive time consuming bureaucratic processes and bureaucrats use that to ask for bribes - it's essentially a form of protection racket. Decriminalization of laws and process reforms greatly reduces these kinds of opportunities. Jan Vishwas Bill is a great step in that direction. Our public policy tackling corruption should work on preventing opportunities for it arising out of bad laws and abuse of process. Reforms is a great way to go about it.
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  2256. Shekarji, I want to say that the website has become pretty unreadable. Too many ads, too many survey popups. They are hard to dismiss. Please improve the UX - the current UX makes it hard to read.
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  2257. I don't think so. If the Govt. is smart, they would use MNREGA to employ the unemployed to farm the land owned by these protestors.
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  2258. The amount of whining regarding an ultra boutique issue of live-in relationship is hilarious. Even folks in Vir's neighborhood of Lutyens and Bandra East don't have spare apartments lying for live in relationships and folks are whining about regular Indian and perceived "loss of freedom". No wonder Govt doesn't hesitate to treat us like cattle something, we behave like one.
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  2259. Sure that will improve productivity of Federal workers. But I think the Minister could have focused on resolving labour disputes with Unions. CRA hasn't had a hike in years because of long drawn negotiations with Federal Govt. Mona, the previous treasury was stalling talks constantly. A tax system is only good as the taxman, you pay them poorly, you get poorer outcomes. I am sure Minister Anand understands this.
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  2260. This guy is all about taxing people rather than fix the loss making state PSUs. This guy will strip whatever money Punjabi earns through taxes on everything. No new taxes until this charlatan presents a plan on what he intends to do with Punjabi PSUs. PSPCL drains the state coffers trying to give electricity away for free. Punjab Finance corporation which was approved for disinvestment was stalled by this guy. This year it gave away 500 crores of Punjabi taxpayers. Punjab warehousing corporation, another PSU which manages to make losses and still lose about 30% of it's crop due to bad storage practices. That's another 800 crores. And this guy, wants to tax the people. Punjab has a huge spending problem.
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  2261.  @omkumar185  Oh yes. He didn't tear this but he did hold a press conference and killed the ordinance. UPA passed it, RaGa publicly complained about it and then Congress forced it to be revoked. NDTV has the video on their channel titled: 'Complete nonsense': Rahul Gandhi on ordinance to protect convicted netas
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  2262.  @theplutonimus actually it is because we allow retired and ex Armed forces members to participate to prevents coups from happening.
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  2263. What an anti climax. Please upload the first half.
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  2264. The only discriminatory organization that can't be bothered to recognize that India has the 2nd largest Muslim population out of ... Spite. Also Muslims in India have more freedoms and protections than Shias or other Non Sunni denomination in most of the OIC members. It is an Organization of Illiberal Countries.
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  2265. Shekarji, I would highly recommend the "War on the Rocks" podcasts. The latest episodes goes quite a bit into Ukrainian and Russian capabilities.
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  2266.  @SensitiveYouTubeCensorship I can see why. To clarify, This (woke) policy is (not just discriminatory but) also suicidal.
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  2267. I skimmed through the doc. It’s very light on the future roadmap (page 87 onwards), there’s no roadmap about its future requirements. Just bullet points about that they want to do R&D on PPP and shift to capabilities. Roadmap is supposed to at least talk about how you address issues mentioned in your doctrine.
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  2268. He isn't interested to be PM. Part of being PM is to shield your ministers from intense politics. If you're fighting political battles day in and day out, you get nothing done. IIRC he doesn't have the energy to deal with that.
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  2269.  @mchauhan4  again you miss my point. You can have a really good foreign policy but if you don't follow through with, it will become a failure. NAM was a product of it's time but it's failures were not because of structural factors rather it was disinterest - in other words lack of follow through. Each party became disinterested in common values proposed by NAM over time or followed their own policy. One of the most glaring examples of disinterest is the lack of condemnation with regards to Sukarno's overthrow by US and UK. That really cemented perception of India's lack of interest in SE Asia - which used to be the traditional domain of New Delhi.
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  2270.  @karthekeyanperiyasamy3093  Kamaraj was a forward thinking politician. He understood Tamil isn't limited to TN.
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  2271.  @ortee95  they stopped conducting exams, distributing textbooks, learning guides, allows communities to teach Tamil, conduct poetry competitions etc. TN govt used to pay Maha govt in kind (textbooks, exams, teaching guides, political support etc.) There's been 0 support from TN govt for Tamil outside of TN since the late 70s
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  2272. Prashant Bushan doesn't even believe in vaccines. Imagine, how much more worse the 2nd wave would have been if Prashant Bushan was PM. We would have been begging the world for vaccine while letting our pharma industry rot. Swamy, Shourie and Sinha would have been an equal disaster, they would sunk money in PSUs that doesn't have the capability nor the capacity and we would have got a vaccine 30 years later. The rest of what you have to say is just Nonsense.
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  2273. I believe the presenter mixes ethics, law, social changes and law enforcement. Our constitution directs the Govt. to bring in social changes and reform societies however our implementation of social changes can be haphazard and questionable. This leds to more problems than it solves. Over 70 years we have accumulated so much garbage in our laws that invariably, it makes us, the citizen; the criminal by merely existing. So the question that must be asked which is being discussed here in another context is, will this new law lead to social change or criminalize accepted social norms (without bringing social change)? The other question we must be asking, what kind of legal support is Govt (not excluding the Supreme Court) going to provide to assist with social changes? How are they going to improve the Judiciary, speed up the justice system? Is the Govt. going to loosen up funding for NGOs?
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  2274. The more said the better. Folks still think it's some magic era. We need to break that illusion
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  2275.  @mikehenningsen8796 money and hard working immigrants. Somebody needs to pay for those commodities and send workers to export them.
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  2276. DK Singhji, it sounds like DFad read your column and did exactly that. In Maharashtra, he gave a speech to the party workers talking about the decline of congress and how to become the congress.
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  2277.  @rickyghosh398  Devendra Fadnavis had a rally with BJP Maharashtra Party workers and in that rally he spoke about the Decline of the Congress in the same lines as DK
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  2278.  @garyish  I don't disagree with you. I only meant "helps particular section of society" in terms of tangible direct benefits which it does. Second order effect is, it makes the economy more healthier. Explaining that requires an more educated voters - maybe in 10 years when the income pyramid flips, the second order impact of IBC will become intuitive for the average voter.
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  2279.  @mdkumarz  their living quarters are taken care of too.
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  2280. Folks like Fali Nariman, Chandrachod, all they do is deflect issues in our country to others. The plain truth is our democracy and the freedoms that the constitution provides is not the sole function of the Govt of the day, Judiciary has a co-equal role in maintaining and progressing the values in the constitution. Our freedoms are being squashed by the incompetence and dysfunction of the courts that are supposed to protect our democractic values and freedoms. Unless if these guys admit there are severe issues with the court system, lectures like this are nothing more than "Pot calls the kettle black"
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  2281. State govt need to deliver on reforms
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  2282. Ya, I don't think reduction in Poverty Intensity in any State has anything do with the State Govt Policy. So any gains from reduction in intensity cannot be attributed as a success of Mamta Banarjee or any State Politician.
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  2283. Cops must have kept some and "seized" some more. Under the MVA, police has become the underworld.
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  2284. We have a lot of new traders entering the market. A lot of them don't have a strategy or understanding of the market.
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  2285.  @tapemaj  yup. He was one of the original signatories that proposed an amendment to restrict the PM to be a natural born citizen. He faced extreme amounts of abuse for that letter and then formed NCP. When Pawar started bootlicking the Gandhi family, he was furious and left the party
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  2286.  @surajs5913 under no grounds. But they are making the case in the courts. That's my point, there's multiple battles, you can't afford to monopolize effort on one specific issue.
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  2287.  @Avinashm7 wokes make up for their size with influence and perceived clout. That's the dangerous bit.
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  2288.  @atyanthdutt6632  that insults real historians. He's an economic grad with 0 scholarly work in history. He just happens to write books about it and we are gullible enough to treat it as authoritative. That's sad.
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  2289.  @BruceWayne-qe7bs  by being a competent opposition. Sadly they aren't competent.
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  2290. Maybe you should go to jail for such a hare brained idea. Do you want the return of Indira’s garib India?
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  2291. Well, at least Aryan can say he has faith in it. Well he got out quick after paying his hafta.
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  2292.  @Hero138abcd  you're right. But I'm saying he got out because of hafta and he got caught because of hafta. This case has nothing to do with ganja but everything to do with hafta/bribery. When the (daru) funds run dry, laws "get enforced". Mumbai is chalk full of such "raid" rackets.
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  2293. Media is being frank. What can this chintan achieve if Gandhis don't retire?
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  2294. But look at how the BJP is reacting to the result, they already know what the issues are. They will likely change their strategy for the next elections.
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  2295. What Bhaimance.
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  2296.  @Chintadharaa  that again is always in response to what Rahul Gandhi's rhetoric. Rahul Gandhi always insists that RSS killed Gandhi and drags BJP into it. Obviously BJP responds back. Rahul Gandhi can't defend his own party, he can't give credit to work his party members have put in. And to compensate for his own failings, he's going after Savarkar, RSS, Godse. Has he ever bothered talking about PVR, Sardar Patel or LBS? He could not even bring himself to praise MMS - pinned the blame of 2014 on that poor guy. And your response, is the standard - blah blah secularism. The very secularism Indira and Rajiv bastardized.
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  2297. He addresses it at 8:30
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  2298. Yes. Margaret Alva is his aunt or grandaunt, I believe.
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  2299. Decades of economic crisis, a military rule disguised as a democracy and a deeply hardline extremist society with access to nukes. We should advocate for denuclearization of that country. I don't think they have the capacity or responsibility to maintain them and prevent it's proliferation or misuse.
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  2300.  @kausthubh7541  and scuttle industry. Delhi is a bad example for governance. It's a pseudo city, pseudo state. Besides improving education while adding impediments towards job creation or the business environment is a waste of everyone's time. You end up with Zimbabwe, qualified professionals with no jobs that can apply for. Or an IIT/IIM who sells pens on Trains. Kejriwal will take us back by 3 decades, job quotas are backdoored license raj. It only emboldens district magistrate and worsens corruption.
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  2301.  @pandugeet  I’ve lost count. That’s a stupid question.
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  2302. It’s a private company. They can do pretty much whatever they want. The term and conditions clearly also states Twitter can change them anytime without prior notice. Besides Journalism went downhill globally ever since journalists decided to engage in activism, wokeism and blatant self promotion on social media.
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  2303.  @upskill8585  free electricity does not improve productivity unlike free rations. On the other hand, free electricity the way it's doled out in India not only depresses public finances (teacher's salaries aren't paid, roads aren't repaired, public services are poorly financed), it also discourages investment in power generation and distribution. Case in point: PSPCL (Punjab PSU discomm) has been running at a loss because the State does not pay it for electricity (in time), on the other hand, allocates it's future revenues towards more free electricity and paying for the previous years free electricity. They don't have money to maintain their power plants or distribution network. To compensate, PSPCL charges some of the highest industrial electricity tariff rates in the country (at 5/unit whereas in the average is around 3.5). Guess what, industrial units in Punjab are dying. The way it's setup is really penny wise pound foolish.
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  2304. All those Agricultural coops banks in Central Maharashtra and the farmer suicides driven by these banks are all NCP owned and operated.
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  2305.  @Minlunchongloiyt  Meiteis have the freedom to stay and they are exercising it. You have the freedom to leave if you don't like it.
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  2306. Brilliant like the previous diktat of "Jail is the exception". It's meaningless as long as the courts keep adjourning cases and keeps people in jail without finishing their bail proceedings. Our court system is the most dysfunctional branch of government right now. Even the bureaucracy these days gets more done than the courts.
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  2307. They also canceled or stalled projects due to “environmental” concerns. MMS approves a project, Jairam Ramesh kills it with his Nehruvian Socialism
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  2308. It took 18 months for the BJP to bring Modi into National consciousness. His successor might not take that long.
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  2309. I didn't realize but GotoPakistan is back. Bring hack Aadil to talk about China and Deep for Bangladesh. Cover the neighborhood with weekly segments.
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  2310.  @KaranSingh-jr2eu  you only hear that from the Sidhu faction.
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  2311.  @sreenathatirunarayanapura9296  lol no. That's like pouring petrol into a trash fire. Let's start with improving defense before going on offense.
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  2312. And that's how Sedition Act is interpreted by an Indian policeman. Expressing a grievance about bad laws is not the same as being spiteful and vengeful.
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  2313. There's nothing wrong with what she said. Maneka Gandhi said, "When donkey became useless, the washermen used the milk to make soap." Well, if you aren't aware, milk fat makes a good base for organic soaps. It's actually an excellent way to highlight that you can create new products and business with simply what you have. You don't need a fancy Masters or Univ degree to start a new business or become successful. Quite empowering message if you dwell on it. BTW Maneka is also right about Cleopatra. She did bathe herself with soups made out of sour donkey's milk.
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  2314. Anand Sharma does injustice to Indians by not ousting the Gandhi family. Sirf bhasan dete hai, 60 saal power mein rahe, kya ukhada in logo ne? Achievements? Let's talk about his achievements. This guy was the commerce minister under UPA between 2009 and 2014. between 2009 and 2011, textiles was growing an average of of roughly 10%. Magar, this guy's National Manufacturing Policy introduced in 2011, that policy couple of just non deliverance on promised infrastructure (this was Sagarmala before Sagarmala) killed whatever meagre investments manufacturers made in anticipation of expected growth. Instead of growing, it killed textiles industry's productivity, value added became stagnant till 2018 (when it finally breached the $35 billion mark), killed a lot of manufacturing jobs in an industry known for labor intensity. If the textiles industry was a country in itself, it would gone through 5 year long recession, 3.5 years under this guy. There were pretty good reasons why UPA (particularly the Congress) was voted out so badly in 2014. This is not sarcasm but whoever wrote his speech, did an injustice to the economy of India.
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  2315. We already have Visa free access for Nepalese and Bhutanese citizens. I think we can extend Visa on Arrival for Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka for folks who come by plane (maybe). No we don't need Visa free access for Pakistanis - not until they deliver on their peace promises.
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  2316. Please tell us about his political exploits.
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  2317.  @pulipakasrikiran9307 accha. The guy must be an underperformer.
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  2318. This is over exaggerated. Our commodity prices are driven more by waste and bad logistic Infrastructure than price of fuel. Waste itself contributes a way larger chunk to price rise. For fuel to have similar impact, prices needs to be around be Rs. 300/litre. Services depends on price of electricity rather than fuel. Manufacturing depends on prices of commodities + cost of logistics (think warehouses which we have few and far between).
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  2319. A suggestion for the next Off The Cuff. Judicial reforms is increasingly becoming the need of the hour. Can we have a Off the Cuff panel of folks who can talk about the Judiciary, it's problems and reforms? We've had plenty of policymakers, economists, politicians, actors and authors. But no legal scholars yet.
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  2320.  @anujsethi7845  and that's not available for Corporates. That's important because Corporates creates products out of R&D
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  2321.  @nomulahemanth3109  Yes, we've come a long way but more needs to be done.
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  2322.  @anujsethi7845  CONgress stopped paying? I guess you got CONned by CONgress.
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  2323. Indeed. Immigrating is a lot of effort. You need to work harder to stay.
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  2324. 😂
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  2325. Modiji just trolled everyone. Opposition, media and social media. There's literally no change coming.
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  2326.  @dudedecor9953 all of them of course. People of India need to know about the atrocities of the Nizam, Razakars, Mughuls and other Islamic kingdoms.
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  2327. Sule ran a Govt called Maha Vasoli Agadhi - extortion and bribery went through the roof. Remember Ambani's own house was a target of blackmail encouraged by Maha Vasoli Agadhi's Uddhav and Nawab Malik.
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  2328. If we improved our relationship with the Indians then we could put enormous pressure on the Taliban. The Taliban depend on Indian wheat for its food supply and India regularly engages with them. They will gladly work with us to push for better women's right. (India regularly delays wheat supplies to get the Taliban to not enforce their laws aggressively)
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  2329. It’s unsustainable. Windfall from high coal prices are temporary.
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  2330. Why is the Print deleting comments?
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  2331.  @rutvikrs  andhkbhakt wali. Na inhe padne aata hai, na likne, sirf bakwas bolene aata hai. If they heard the entire speech, then they would have heard the CJI blame PIL for a lot of delays.
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  2332. AIMIM doesn't give tickets to Hindus, women or LGBTQ community and their supporters love Aurangzeb. Technically this party should be debarred but BJP tolerates it and contests AIMIM thru elections. Look forward to this party becoming irrelevant.
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  2333.  @dhoomketu731  after decades of failures and then they had to go to safran and ge for licensing. The sheer waste of time and money was pretty evident. First they refuse to accept market prices, then force HAL to produce or conduct R&D at price then after all that we get a product that's outdated. That's the Congress way. The failures are pretty evident. Performance was worse than peers.
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  2334. Two years is the what the law prescribes as minimum sentence. It was passed in the 50s. In 2013, Gandhi's own Govt tried to amend it, but our boy Rahul Ghandi, called a press conference and tore that ordinance. Talk about self inflicted injuries.
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  2335. You are posting the same thing under 3 different account.
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  2336. These jibes are hilarious. Good burn.
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  2337.  @Humanityinthe6 it's still none of our business. How the diaspora treats domestic events in India is their personal matter. Anyway 500 year wait to re-consecrete that temple for Hindus has ended.
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  2338. ​ @indiandude993  I am already there. It's called India.
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  2339.  @anantkumar7805  that was perhaps true in the past. Currently though it's become a huge chicken and egg issue. The Judiciary often intervenes in cleared projects and stays them or it rules an executive decision as illegal. This is now used by the same executive as an excuse to stall things further. Calling the Oxygen shortage a executive failure ignores deep structural issues with governance in India and it ignores ground realities like abysmal state of logistics in India. The crisis also highlights how the Judiciary often adds to the procedural mess - for eg: rather than set a clear chain of command, appoint a nodal officer, set roles and responsibility, the Delhi high court acts as an arbiter and crisis manager in the middle of a crisis. This only happened with Delhi. Bombay High court affirmed Mumbai's commissioner as a nodal officer and Mumbai didn't have issues with oxygen (Maha failed because they waited all the way until after Gudi Padwa to do anything). Also the Madras high court acted very recklessly. It passed a resolution of criminal charges against an election official carrying out a constitutional duty BEFORE any trial. Whatever happened to proven innocent until proven guilty? Our judiciary is as bad as the executive.
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  2340. It's Maha Govt's fault. Mantralaya slept on several files that CG kept asking for. Gujarat jumped the gun and benefited, just like the Foxconn deal.
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  2341.  @sankalp6872 well, I care about faster procurement and induction. Scam mongering by RaGa did delay Rafales induction. Also bofors scandal made acquisition of artillery pieces political suicide until after Kargil. So ya, as much as I appreciate RaGa hardwork to ensure Congress stays out of power, I certainly am vary of RaGa's ability to damage things.
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  2342.  @nachiket9981  it's only important and a threat to our democracy now all because a bunch of powerful people got spied on. And that's after 9 years after Parliament shoved CMS, NAT-GRID on ordinary citizens. The Congress was arrogant when it passed that bill and didn't even bother scoping what "specific inception" means. Ya, your concerns comes off as very hollow.
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  2343.  @lensviewbykaushik  it's not the Print, it's the person
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  2344. AP State does not have the capacity to execute a project of this scale. This should have been handled by the Centre.
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  2345. Indian National Congress party hired social media influencers to help them win election in the desert state mentioned in this report. They lost that election pretty badly.
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  2346. Rajya Sabha seat dekh rahe hai.
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  2347. Lucknow Municipality kya kar raha hai?
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  2348.  @tejasanjarlekar5558  dump the Congress. You won't get governance, only family politics.
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  2349. Adam Tooze is worth the listen.
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  2350. Ya that leak happened because TN govt was too slow to react to the OIL Depot flooding.
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  2351. It would be nice if C-Voter and other polling orgs released their data but they don't.
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  2352.  @satoriR weed se bhi itna hallucinations nahi hota hai.
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  2353. Look at these vultures and their hunger for power. Rather than govern their States better and build a better alternative to Modi's development model, these guys are busy scheming for 2024. Case and point: Centre budget does very little beyond basic palliative measures like free food for the poor. The real relief for poor comes from education and healthcare. Centre also can't do much beyond sponsoring mid day meal programs and running Kendra Vidhalayas. The larger responsibility falls on the states. In Maharashtra, 90% of it's budget goes to teachers salaries. None of the outlays goes into improving schools, building a better syllabus or improving learning outcomes. Maharashtra's education budget has been flat as a percent of the State's GDP since MVA govt. came to power. Mr. Thackeray Jr.'s BMC budget says it all. While BMC spends 1.5 crores on Skill Development programs that would enable better jobs for the poor, the budget spends 300 times more for importing exotic animals. These guys instead of improving our lives contributes to our misery. Vultures.
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  2354.  @mg.f.9023 you're not asking for transparency rather you're using it as an excuse to be dramatic.
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  2355.  @mg.f.9023 Aaah and you are somehow better than them? Take a hike.
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  2356. Also we don't have workers to build the automation systems. So double whammy.
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  2357.  @hemikovsky  jatka or halal? I know a good one in Ahmedabad that does both and can give you a good chunk of well cut meat.
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  2358.  @pp_01123  Look at China's trajectory and our Trajectory from 2004 and you will see how much of a lead we gave them. In 2004, China was 1.5x our PCI, in 2014, China's PCI became 9x our PCI. We wasted our growth, ignored reforms, forgot about building infrastructure, defunded our armed forces, engaged in huge land grabs, pushed away investments, underfunded research etc. I can go on and on. We had growth, that's undeniable but we wasted it away, that is also undeniable.
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  2359. Of course. They have achieved a lot in their two terms why shouldn't they take credit?
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  2360.  @akshytube  they are not. But the PM always uses Congress as a proxy for the opposition. If the biggest kid on the block is down, then the rest of them looks way worse and become easier to take down. This PM is all about messaging and elections, there's no way he didn't think about UP elections when he wrote that speech.
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  2361.  @gururajnarer9469  kinda yes. But the point is to change the structure of incentives and gear them towards better outcomes/away from bad outcomes. The judgement skews it towards the older system of shell companies - so materially worse outcome. Electoral bonds is a half measure, it needs further improvement.
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  2362.  @LostinMango  do you have anything to say beyond calling people you disagree with a paid shill of the BJP?
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  2363.  @sangeeth49  Search for Pankaj Gupta UVA.
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  2364. Disgusting amount of sychopancy. This dynasty insults (and had insulted) and demeans democracy and makes a mockery of the Republic. Keep giving the BJP a free pass. Lose Punjab badly! How bloody insulting it is to pin the blame on the voter. Your leader failed not only to provide an alternative but also stunted the growth of it's ambitious leaders - BS Sharma, former Congress, Scindia former Congress, Jitin Prasanda former Congress. Rahul Gandhi was voted out of Amethi by huge margins, lost every State election since then and Mr. Kurshid has the balls to say, "The people are crazy". Just insulting. Punjabis, they see with disdain and look down on you. Vote them out, use NOTA if you have to.
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  2365. Ladies and gentlemen, Please learn from Jyoti on how to write an essay for IELTS exam for your Canadian visa.
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  2366. That’s always been the case. Even in Vajpayee’s time it was the same. Only difference is enforcement.
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  2367.  @Dhruv_Jain  you are not wrong in that stance. I agree with you but however to me it seems like the Centre is compensating for the State's dysfunction.
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  2368.  @MR-sf2nk  again this comes back to same argument. Our State governments are worse than the Centre. Let's consider curriculum, a average student who studied under the State syllabus is at a significant disadvantage compared to an average student who studied in a CBSE or ICSE board. In my opinion, the disadvantage shouldn't be this stark. Also when was the last time State education boards revised their syllabus? They introduced IT but the rest of the curriculum has pretty much been unchanged.
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  2369.  @nicpirate007  Air Force hasn't submitted an AoN for it's purchases nor has it made logn term plans They did not have a design and procurement bureau up until 2 years ago.
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  2370. LoL. Itna naive mat re, sehat ke liye accha nahi hai.
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  2371. Yes, Congress party was treating them like slaves and it’s very very bad that BJP freed them from slavery.
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  2372. Well they don't have to pray when they have already cashed in their 'punya' thanks to generosity of the opposition.
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  2373. Finally the CM has spoken. All the PFIs, Bagrang Dals please pack up your bags and move on.
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  2374.  @legostud  she called herself Bahujan or Dalit. Maybe she’s saying what she’s experienced.
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  2375.  @joshuacherian6718 ask one probing question and the topic immediately shifts to another event. This is how you spot misinformation.
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  2376. Harris will make the same mistakes as Biden did in her first year. Right now, she is concerned about showing her progressiveness and that will create problems with the way she is perceived by Non-NATO allies/partners. Using pronouns as part of your introduction will be seen as cringey and neocolonialism by Asian countries. Harris's Indian background is actually a liability for her, apart from a few proud moments in her Village, it won't help her improve ties in Chanakyapuri (Delhi's diplomatic enclave). Her sister and niece are perceived as harbouring neocolonialist agendas and they have lobbied against the Indian American community in the US. These things increasingly matter in New Delhi.
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  2377.  @WorldofAntiquity fair enough. But the urban civilization claim is used to dismiss plausible Rigvedic connections with IVC (That's rather dismissive). In other words since IVC is urban and Rigveda describes rural life hence, it's synthesis has no connection to IVC. That claim is equally incorrect and lacks evidence - to reiterate is also a confirmation bias. P.S.: I think your video and your scholarship is great.
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  2378.  @RahulKumar-ng2gh  I think you will appreciate the deal once you realize that VPCL, the company that facilitated the acquisition is a Tax Havala for currently Roys and previously for other business magnates like Naharas, Ambanis (under UPA 1 and 2) etc. Ironically Adani is doing a public good by turning the Havala on it's head.
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  2379.  @RahulKumar-ng2gh  not disputing that. However, I can't help but feel a little entertained with Adani turning a Havala on it's head.
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  2380.  @180190ful  ruthlessness is not crony capitalism. Capitalism is all about legality, not ethics.
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  2381.  @Tolstoi379 naaah Candidate selection was pretty bad. They picked candidate that did not even bother campaigning.
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  2382. People like Frawley are a result of the Indian academic system. India never invested much in tertiary education particularly when it comes to subjects like liberal arts and history - basic sciences was the priority. This left a huge vacuum in this space for Frawley to come and capture the discourse. Let us back up a bit. So in India, history is taught as one single truth of dates rather than as a science that evolves based on archeology, artefacts and analysis. The other issue is the entire academic foundation is built on rote learning rather than subjective analysis or critical thinking. So any interpretation outside of word to word reproduction of textbook would get you a failing grade. The entire teaching system is geared towards passing exams based on memorization. It is a criminal way to teach any subject especially history. So this system dictates one interpretation and doesn't let the student explore their subject and test out ideas. The system also hasn't updated itself in a long long time. The grade 8 history textbooks are still the same as they were 25 years ago when I was in grade 8. My university syllabus and it's textbooks hasn't changed much in the past 15 years. So that should you give an idea of what it's like to study in India. :-/ So when new evidence doesn't present itself in textbooks as one would expect, they blame the historians on top. And to add more fuel to the fire, some of these historians openly stated that they will interprete it in a Marxist manner. This is where the notion that Indian history is written by Marxists comes from. It is very unfortunate because a rich history which needs due attention gets mired in nonsense because the Indian State never bothered to invest in education. Good video.
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  2383.  @BK-3112  yes. I am an illiterate Tamil. I can speak, can't read or write.
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  2384.  @BK-3112  I know and I responded saying I’m an illiterate Tamil.
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  2385. Congress workers and supporters, the time is now to throw away your entitled leaders and return to your pluralistic roots. Get rid of the Gandhis, this sycophancy for them is a cancer to your party.
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  2386. Katchateevu is another feather in the faulty strategic thinking hat of the Nehru Gandhi family.
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  2387. He still thinks he lives under the British Raj with Victorian morals and sensibilities.
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  2388. Amana does raise women’s issues with Islam
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  2389. It will be implemented along with NRC
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  2390. Cleanest in the world is quite a stretch. Lutyens itself was pretty worn down. Central Vista canals had barely any water and soil gathering. Waste management was pretty much non-existent.
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  2391. I think your Maharashtra team, Neelamji and DKji are going to have a field day. Dang, someone bring me popcorn.
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  2392.  @StarSprangledBanner  smart Cities is actually getting things done. Indore, Mysore Coimbatore, Amritsar etc are good examples. Their implementations are driven towards local needs. In Amritsar and Mysore they used smart Cities for improved garbage collection, Indore used that to improve drainage and redevelop Chappan similar to Chandni Chowk and Coimbatore used it to revive their lakes and build waterfront. It's implementation is different for different cities.
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  2393.  @hewas_chewasky  yes, that's true. To add a bit more clarity, we don't need to produce rice in Punjab.
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  2394. In a way that's good. It will incentivize future govts to build assets to monetize on.
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  2395.  @rodgerbloor6680  it's unfortunately that first, second and third reading of the bills aren't public. But opposition can make their reservations known there. The vote tally of the readings can be made public by them.
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  2396.  @rajeevgangal542  So? You already pay your income tax in advance thru TDS. Besides GST also refunds any excess it collects back into your account. It's seemless. There's very little excuse not to comply with GST. WRT services, well haven't you noticed all the new Infrastructure? It's coming from GST. Keep complaining and keep digging your grave. Come up with made up excuses and keep digging deeper.
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  2397. Rajiv Gandhi Foundation can donate all the looted money and give warm clothes to those that don't have it. Oh wait, you are looting the foundation to run the Yatra. Right. Nevermind.
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  2398.  蔡English  Taiwan is an independent country. They have their own government and freedoms. They vote and can openly express themselves.
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  2399.  蔡English  ya so? We have our issues and we can openly talk about it without fear of getting arrested or run over by a tank or get my organs sold in the black market by lackeys of the CCP.
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  2400. Delhi liquor scam was nothing more than blatant crony capitalism. AAP will try to build a narrative by narrowing the public focus away from that case. But that narrative will fall like a pack of cards if Kejriwal resigns. If Kejriwal resigns, he is pretty much finished. It will be interesting to see if Bhagwat Mann takes advantage of this situation.
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  2401.  @aditya-ml6km  I'm just stating what CCP's strategic thinking is like. Obviously they are aware of the challenges of an invasion.
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  2402. Activists are equally if not more responsible. Aarey depot was unnecessarily delayed, every depot in the city is under litigation.
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  2403.  @veerthawkar3808  indeed. But it needs to be sped up. The new health minister is quite competent.
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  2404. It's simple, it is not in Bangladesh's national interest to provoke a larger neighbor. Besides they benefit favorably with trade with India and they depend on us for wheat and other food grains. India also helps with Bangladesh's stability - we give them generous grants. Bangladesh is one of the biggest recipient of Indian grants. The Islamic world has also did quiet downed. Iran particularly retracted their statement, Kuwait threatened to deport Anti India protestors. Most countries accepted the EAM statement and moved on. Also it doesn't help that certain Muslim communities engaged in rioting. None of this should be a surprise. Yet we act so surprised. Exactly a week later everyone moved on to the next issue - Inflation, new cold war, regionalization etc.
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  2405. Federal govt isn't doing enough. It should go ahead and suspend Facebook's operations. Just cause Facebook is a tech company doesn't entitle them to stomp over Canadian Sovereignty. But you know what? They won't. All political parties are in bed with Facebook. They need Facebook for all their voter data and campaigning. Our politicians don't have any dignity left in them. They will sell themselves to a corp rather than the voter.
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  2406. If Tejasvi Surya had his way then even the tomato in the rasam is an attempt to un-Indian the rasam. What a wimp.
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  2407.  @bonaku20 votes. Bank employees and beneficiaries of loan waivers are a huge vote bank for Assembly elections. The Central Govt had no good reason to bail PSUs out, recapitalization is destabilizing and encourages moral hazard. Normally I'd support recapitalization because financially stability is important however everytime a PSU is recapitalized, it creates an environment of more bad lending that's worse than the previous round of recapitalization.
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  2408.  @Apache1970  she also calls for the eradication and genocide of Brahmins.
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  2409.  @Badbadderbaddest  there is his theories and there is his practice. He was awarded for his theories not for his practice.
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  2410. Exactly.
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  2411.  @buny169  I believe you need to check yours. RK Murthy, Horticulture Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare has written about it, "India’s storage losses in onions are about 30 per cent." That's All India stats, broken down by region is even worse.
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  2412.  @ThePrintIndia much appreciated. Thank you.
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  2413. In the SP, Akhilesh is the only one who has worked hard. Unlike Ajit Pawar and NCP, everyone else in the SP simply rely on their caste + muslim identity to get votes. That says a lot about SP.
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  2414.  @ThePrintIndia  here is another whammy, India is the only market where the consumer pays high food prices, the farmers gets paid the lowest prices for their produce. It just shows how dysfunctional our food markets are. Price of production has very little correlation with the sale price of food products.
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  2415. Basically the critics of this bill are acting like former CAG Vinod Rai crying for special treatment for PSU DISCOMs. Poda, go get a life.
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  2416. Which nostalgic world are you stuck imagining about? India was always like this. Go back to earlier Independence days and you'll find a similar campaign conducted by then dispensations
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  2417. Keep opposing Aarey Depot. It's an excellent way to kill people and drive up emissions on the transport sector. "Environmentalist" in Mumbai seriously need to reexamine their priorities. Their penny wise pound obsession with trees is killing the city
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  2418.  @aamaadmi5089  you are right. Even if we try, we cannot reach your level of illiteracy when it comes to basic economics. I wish nobody becomes so stupid that they can distinguish between liability that comes with loans and obligations that comes with pensions.
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  2419.  @rocket5544  our opposition feeds him narratives and then cries foul. Modi isn't perfect but he is far better than the opposition any day. It is not bhakti to acknowledge that he can get things done. He is popular for a good reason, might as well open your eyes, see and understand how he does it rather than be dismissive.
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  2420. It depends, if the Liberals win a majority, then there might be a reset in relations. But everything with Canada hinges on trade agreements. There will be minimal participation from them in the Quad without the US pushing for further Canadian participation.
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  2421. I don't think they are running for office, are they?
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  2422. Hype. Guy won one assembly seat with heavy assistance from BJP cadre. Barmar is also very a safe BJP seat. It will be very unlikely this guy will make a dent with a Congress ticket.
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  2423.  @ed5928  precisely. If Shekarji says something, it will probably become false the next moment. Things are changing quite rapidly for good or bad.
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  2424. Though India has improved the business and regulatory environment, India's Judiciary holds it back quite significantly. It's slow, judges don't follow precedent set by higher courts, judges would rather adjournment than decide on any case. Simple cases such as contract enforcement takes too long to decide. Sadly the Judiciary has made itself independent from reforms and oversight. Despite it's rich, nuanced and detail history of jurisprudence, the Judiciary has become an institution that mattress things more miserable since the 2000s. Most multi national companies get around this through arbitration agreements and bilateral treaties (most popular route is to use Singapore's Judiciary to settle disputes).
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  2425. "Strengthen NATGRID and NCTC", it just means Hindus will be heavily oppressed. They will use the surveillance system to harass regular people, shaka meetings, lawyers fighting for Hindu temples etc. Gandhi family will not spare anyone who supported the BJP. Gandhi family has a history of dictatorship - Sanjay led forced population control and Rajiv led a pogrom. Congress only focuses on National Security to enact vengeance on it's rivals.
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  2426. Govt used it's majority and passed farm bills. Govt with a majority doesn't mean opposition just sits there doing nothing. Where is their proposal? Where is their ground work? If a BJP with 4 MPs in Rajiv Gandhi's 400+ majority Parliament could give him a lot of trouble over his brute majority, then the opposition with 100+ MPs can do way more. Stop making excuses for a useless opposition. They can neither oppose nor propose.
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  2427. Dharm Pravesh and Ghar Wapsi chalu karo. 1920 Arya Samaj karte the, wo wapis leke aana zaroori hai.
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  2428.  @ed8676  no, he lives in a different part of the country.
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  2429.  @deadpool8580  Which is why the CG has a program that allows the States to sell off their PSUs. CG would give States matching funds for their disinvestment of SPSUs
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  2430.  @glor5978  there is. Especially in assembly election. In general elections they don't amount to much.
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  2431.  @jayantjolly  Sena has lost it ever since they became dynastic.
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  2432. Is the UK willing to provide military aid and use its veto powers in India’s favor if we are to intervene? Starmer will likely not have the spine for such a move. Councillors should lobby Westminster even more intensely.
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  2433. Shepherds also help us assert our claims along LAC. Jai Jawan Jai Shepherds.
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  2434.  @Vizorfam  you are blind, narcissistic and fanatical. If the judgment doesn't suit your worldview it's stupid. That kind of attitude gets us no where.
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  2435. Kausa ancestors? Khilji was not our ancestors, neither are Mughuls. Heck the British ensured none of their descendants survived to this day. So who will approach and for remorse? Your dad? Stop apeing Western thinking.
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  2436. Blame environmental activism. That's where the process is stuck. AAI proposes a new airport and immediately there's a litigation trying to scuttle the project. BTW EIA for the airport is stuck in NGT.
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  2437.  @ruhitewari3401  I don't think so. The sychopancy has made it extremely unpalatable for anyone to accept the Congress as a someone who can unifying force with a powerful issue to carry. Just look back at April this year, Congress was driven back by farmers. It doesn't help that Congress keeps purging the legacy of their non Gandhi leaders. As someone else pointed out, more BJP members celebrated PV Narasimha Rao's birthday than Congress workers. That kind of messaging has only helped the BJP controls the narrative that is only non dynastic party that's not only open to ideas from the outside but also celebrates Indian leaders across party lines. In our nationalist society, this message resonates pretty well with the voter (young ambitious Indians) and has the side effect of recruiting ambitious leaders. Scindia, AB Sharma, Jitin Prasanda etc. The Congress has forced itself in a position, where the average voter has become ABC - Anything But Congress
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  2438. I think it's time we start getting a better picture by looking at attendance of MPs in committees and bill reading. PRS India does an pretty decent job tracking attendance. When it comes to law making procedure, a committee drafts a law, there's a first reading, second and third reading. After the third reading, the bill is introduced in Parliament's agenda (opposition MPs get advance notice). The readings are rather customary but the committee is where real work is done. Sadly our committees attendance is abysmal - they barely get 50% attendance and speakers from both houses have lowered the attendance bar, to lower the requirements for quorum and to move bills forward. When you split attendance by party line, BJP MPs have the most amount of attendance. For Parliamentary nerds like me, it indicates that the BJP takes Parliamentary procedures seriously and party discipline in the BJP is good.
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  2439.  @karrivenkatavanaja4641  wasn't that a while ago like earlier this year or something?
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  2440. Please vote them out. Until the Congress gets decimated, they won't learn. They need ditch the Gandhi family.
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  2441. Doon school Golden Boy thinks we are living in an Emergency because he can't say what he wants without much pushback and he doesn't have access to the corridors of power like he used too. This guy right from his school days, got the top job at DD as a video journalist (back then it was called as such). Now a days the Govt doesn't suck up to his demands, so it is an Emergency.
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  2442. Can you trust a guy who got 2019 so wrong that he ended up becoming the scapegoat of the Congress party's debacle? Praveen can't tell the difference between a statistical mean, median and mode - somehow we have to believe his analysis.
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  2443. Folks should watch this deal closely. Adani essentially bought a shell company used by the previous owners for tax evasion and ended up buying the company. Also the same shell company was used by Ambani of Reliance under the previous regime.
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  2444.  @jac9176  nepotism and maintaining caste boundaries are also very much part of southern culture. Scientific temper comes from the very Brahmins, the DMK keeps calling evil and vile people. The development also comes from upper caste IAS officers who are dedicated to their the wellbeing of everyone in their community.
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  2445. Chetan needs to read the Vishnu Puranas again. And nobody hijacked any traditions, ask historians and they will say it was a natural syncretism. Chetan deserves the lawsuits, he's spouting Marxist and Abrahamic nonsense.
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  2446.  @Harsh-rf9k  the liberal intellectuals have somehow convinced themselves that The guy who made the Europeans recognize there is the rest of the world needs a lesson from Pathaan. Jaishankar’s Europe’s problems was quoted by several western politics. That guy needs a lesson from Pathaan.
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  2447. The entrance are on a raised platform that's about a meter higher than ground level and there are pumps to pump water out of the stations. I follow the construction, they have accounted for flooding.
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  2448. What a terrible judgement. It took 7 years for the Supreme Court to make everyone a loser. Homeowners lost value and property, shopkeepers lost a place to expand their business, Banks will be forced to declare a portion of the value of the property as NPA and everyone around that place will now have to deal with the pollution from demolition. The real winner is the City Planner at NOIDA who approved this construction in the first place knowing that it was in violation of zoning code. That person is probably counting his money and living scot free
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  2449.  @maryloujorgensen-bacher2685  Come on. You are saying they can't afford one Tank Company and yet Ukraine which is poorer can hold an entire Russian invasion column. I don't buy that for one moment. They are freeloading off our tax money.
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  2450.  @RandomBazooka  Alright. I am petitioning my MP in Canada to stop funding foreign wars. Europe is foreign to me, so ya, no more donations. Also 1.3 million is a poor excuse, Estonia is quite rich and can afford a larger Army. Singapore, has a standing army of 70k for a similar pop size, why is Estonia so content with a force of 8k and no conscription? I don't buy it all. These nations are freeloading off our tax money. My troops are defending folks who are lazy to care about their own National Defence.
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  2451.  @dylanc9174 it is the Fed's fault as well. They pay close to 40-60% of Infrastructure funding. If they are unwilling to pay for transit, then it's pretty dead in the water.
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  2452.  @bethechange1945  there's value in maintaining the subscription. I expect Mr. Gupta to respond to my comment. He responded to my comment regarding the necessity of CAA. It broke some of his barriers, I will keep breaking some more.
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  2453.  @mg.f.9023 Gandhi ke alawa aur bahut log hai. It is a big country. Gandhi isn't the one intellectual.
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  2454. BMC is solely responsible for this. Contractors and Engineers only design as per specs provided by BMC. If BMC's own specs are wrong, then there's very little anybody can do.
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  2455.  @AmitKumarAlphaX  Direct tax collections (includes Corporate Tax) grow 24.26% to Rs 8.77 lakh cr in FY23: Finance Ministry - Financial Express. Corporate tax collection rises 34% in first 4 months of FY 2022-23 - LiveMint Maybe you are lying to yourself.
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  2456. Shekarji, things are becoming ridiculous with regard to comments. My previous 4-5 comments are getting deleted by your channel or YouTube. I mentioned basic income, that got deleted, I talk about American support for independence movement that gets deleted, I highlight issues with a guests’ analysis, that gets deleted. It is evident that someone dislikes comments that doesn’t suit their agenda.
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  2457. Gandhi never had the flair or decency of Vajpayee or dare I say, even Modi. Rajiv Gandhi unceremoniously dismissed Vireendra Patil while he was on his death bed. Sonia, never allowed PVNR to be properly respected for his funeral. If parents are this toxic, imagine how toxic the kids must be.
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  2458. Nirbhaya happened because the Govt of the Day was very indifferent to the plight of the people. People were dying from bombs and terrorist incidents, Govt was mute and instead was trying to pin the blame of imagined Saffron Terror. When Police took some action, the Govt tried to openly scuttle it. Everyday crime was ignored, corruption was ignored. The Govt's inability to govern was evident. Nirbhaya channelized all that frustration.
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  2459. Rahul Gandhi can still apologize at any magistrate and they will drop the conviction but there's no indication that he will. So ya RaGa is forcing the Congress to fight for him. RaGa fighting the conviction is another series of self goals that been going on for more than a decade. India really needs a better opposition. Congress is poison to India's democracy, they give away free votes to the BJP and don't have a competing vision besides crowning Rahul Gandhi. That's not a party in a democracy, that's a monarchy. It's time for Congress Mukt Bharat and it's time for a new party to replace it.
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  2460.  @ThePrintIndia  I think it's overdue. Last year during the lockdown, we had plenty of policymakers and economists. All of them mentioned judicial reforms but couldn't expand on it beyond the concept.
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  2461. Whenever a "secular" party captures the State Govt, they stop archaelogical project. They fear it will "legitimize" Hindutva.
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  2462. A game set in Medieval India will start riots on the street. A peaceful community would not appreciate the true portrayal of that era.
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  2463.  @tomriddle4110  I think Sena will lose a lot of urban semi-urban vote. They might retain rural Konkan, though it is a curveball. Rural Konkan has very poor polling. There's a lot of resentment brewing in suburban Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Raigad district.
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  2464.  @abhishekjadhav2777  it is like Israel.
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  2465.  @anupjacob394 despite MSP, middle class pays some of the highest grocery prices. Why? because current laws creates layers of monopolies. Families have captured the entire system.
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  2466.  @akashshetty2736  that loop actually hides the intricate caste negotiations that Dravidian parties engage in. People think UP is caste centric society, man, they will be really surprised by TN.
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  2467.  @sujithkvarghese5616  China is going through a deflationary cycle. China’s zero covid policy pretty much killed inflation.
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  2468. Annie Besant is a foreigner !?! That's why we have reservation for Anglo Indians right? Because they are foreigners? Right?
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  2469.  @atyanthdutt6632  I'm saying implying that she is a foreigner makes her an "Other" and diminishes her contribution.
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  2470.  @Suresh_Kamath  he didn't liberalize as much he didn't enforce or create regulation. H/W and S/W boomed because Govt was absent, it was not because of the presence of Govt. Industry Act didn't apply on H/W and S/W companies but they still had to deal with a lot of onerous land and labour regulations.
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  2471.  @Suresh_Kamath  There was no regulations in the sector to deregulate to begin. Times Editorial claims a lot of myths. He just announced it and did nothing. Then blamed it on Bofors for doing nothing.
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  2472.  @vikramsaini5061  again tunnel vision thinking blinds you from the real issue. You can't fix healthcare in a single term. It needs decades of investment. India has historically and chronically under invested in healthcare. Blaming BJP alone neither improves the situation nor does it bring any solutions forward. Let's talk the second wave, we can agree on the deaths, we can agree on oxygen shortage. But that only scratches the surface. Logistics in India is horrible, average freight speeds are abysmally low at around 25 kmph. Indian Railways chronically never invested in smoother freight operations until recently (and mostly through DFCCIL) which is why oxygen express could only transport 5-6 trucks rather than 12-15. Plants where oxygen is produced barely have a rail connection and until recently road connection was considered to a blessing rather than necessary infrastructure. These are deep structural issues that have been left to rot for decades. Unfortunately, the recent infrastructure investments weren't completed in time (bloody hell, DFCCIL was initiated by UPA-1 and land acquisition didn't begin until 2015, similarly NHDP and the highway sector collapsed under UPA-2 until HAM was introduced by Gadkari in 2016). There was a collective failure of society who didn't heed to public health warning again due to decades of pure incompetence by Governments. There's still massive administrative failures especially at the State level. District magistrate ignored playbooks and guidelines issued by both State and Central govt. The only fellows who even bothered reading about it was TN health secretary, BMC commissioner (who had to put his foot down with Uddhav Thackeray) and Jalna district magistrate. You clearly care about the dead, I think you should spend time to learn the structural deficits in our Governments.
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  2473.  @vikramsaini5061  LMAO. The same Gandhi that added fuel to the fire and got himself infected. Please. In July 2020, nobody had a clue which vaccine would work. Outside of OECD, the rest of the World was still dependent on technical advisory for any form of vaccine development and culture analysis. Under the hood, DGCI guidelines had to written from scratch for an accelerated timeline. If you went to MoHFW website and read through the publications you would have picked up on this. Govt. made a smart move back in late November by going after Active Pharma Ingredients through PLI (IIRC it is the current Health minister who came up with the PLI scheme and API imports have fallen). The failures also came from really bad projections and really bad advice from National Health authority of India (aka Ayushman Bharat) and relying too much on sero survey results. That also understates the lack of initial response in Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra. Maharashtra let Delta spread and didn't enforce any measures until after gudi padwa. Haryana waited until after holi. Please be better informed. It's one thing to say Govt. was catch sleeping, it's another thing to say they did nothing. It's pretty stupid and extremely lazy to be tunnel visioned especially in this day and age. Again read about my point about logistics. I'd also encourage you to spend time to read up court docs, tenders by Delhi govt, UP govt and Centre. They are all online along with their implementation status. If at all anything it says a lot about the rot in the Administrative system. I have done that for Maharashtra and I know exactly where the failures are in my State.
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  2474. Or even if you have money you still need to pay your vasoli
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  2475. 6 months ago he announced National Judicial Infrastructure Authority to help deal with terrible infrastructure within the Judiciary. What's the progress on that?
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  2476. DKji, you mentioned you would share the analysis in your segment.
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  2477.  @theMarhaenist nah, rather come and Police you while you sniff some opioids with all that fuerdai money.
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  2478.  @theMarhaenist  they know how to beat up a bunch of princelings and stand up to bullies. That's perfectly fine by me. Toilets, it gives me the money and independence to build them on my own.
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  2479. The person from CoHNA is a Lower caste person. Bahujan in Hindi means Dalits.
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  2480. Shekarji, I want to introduce you to a draft academic paper that talks about the approval process of real estate and infrastructure development in Mumbai. It makes a mention about how political parties make tons of money through "architectural liaison firms" (it's a $600 billion market). I believe it's the same in other cities as well. I think it will add more flavor to your cut the clutter.
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  2481. Congress spent whatever revenue it had on freebies, slept on GST deadlines and now it's begging. This party is a why India stayed poor.
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  2482. 12:00 There needs to be better retelling of Reservations. The reason why Ambedkar won the debate on reservations is because he won the debate before it even began. Ambedkar wasn't the first to propose it, neither was GoI the first entity to implement reservations. The first reservations were implemented in Kolhapur state under Shahu Maharaj. In fact Ambedkar was groomed by Shahu Maharaj. The Hindu Mahasabha, chasing after Hindu unity, proposed reservations to enlist Dalit help in the freedom movement. Moonje (Hindu Mahasabha) and Rajah (Dalit) signed the Rajah-Moonje pact which became the precursor to Poona Pact, signed months later. Reservations became a settled matter in 1932. Patel's objection (if he had any) was already moot in 1947. I think you are confusing the expansion of OBCs by Mandal with reservations for SCs. The 69% reservation you are talking about is OBC reservations. Reservations and until Mandal was implemented it never exceeded 50%.
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  2483.  @TheEmissaryCo yes but your description of reservation is inaccurate. It needs clarification.
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  2484.  @sankalp6872  they never were either way. British Myths persists till today.
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  2485. KYC should have it's own playlist
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  2486. The pictures from China looks horrific. They bagged pets in plastic bags and left them on the street to be executed. It is quite extreme.
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  2487. LOL Swamy got his “pressure valve” released. BJP high command would not have entertained the amendment if they did not have numbers. He got played. Also after Modi and Shah, the most powerful person in the BJP is actually Arjun Munda.
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  2488. It could be the other way around. MVA got the hafta vasoli it was looking for from SRK.
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  2489. Ye toh communal hai. Why should the exception be allowed only for Sikh Sarai?
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  2490.  @Bengalifirst  Bengal should have been like Maharashtra however, it is getting surpassed by Odisha. That's the take away. If it were not for Bengali institutions setup during the British and shortly after independence, Bengal would be more like Bihar.
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  2491.  @arjavgarg5801 well Germany has pretty strong institutions. It was the political instability and woeful incompetence that got Hitler to power. Remember under the previous govt, Germany was experiencing hyperinflation
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  2492.  @BrokenSoldier1515 yes Maharashtra can rule over all those Southern States through Delhi. Excellent idea.
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  2493.  @Adityatalks..W  well OIC hasn't entertained Pakistan's resolutions either. We are pretty close with the Saudis (They train with us and we export a lot of cheap food). We also have a port under construction in Iran and a Naval base in Muscat. We are also naval security guarantors of UAE and Oman. To call this a civilizational clash is just bizarre given our rather good diplomacy with Middle East players.
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  2494. Far right is only able to shape national identity only because mainstream parties have cede political space to them. Also it is disingenuous thing to say French society did not include people of color - Alexander Dumas is widely celebrated in France along with other people of color.
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  2495. We stupidly gave away our leverage. Now we are left begging. All for a plumber with a very sketchy background.
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  2496. Time to ask the British Museum for our artifacts.
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  2497. Chadha did lose his eyesight, he lost sight of his country. He's in UK trying to court Khalistanis to help AAP. AAP is dangerous, they recruited Naxals, Islamists and Khalistanis. They are vicious anarchists.
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  2498.  @learningislife212  Sure, you have a point about context but it wasn't the Govt Machinery that was engaged in propping up Sanjay Gandhi. It was party machinery and ecosystem that was propping up Sanjay Gandhi. Congress goons went around harassing journalists, making them "disappear", buying out editorials etc. So even in context, his statement was factually wrong.
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  2499.  @rophiamphu1669  weapons and weapon systems are force multipliers. They are not a replacement for tactics, protocols and strategy.
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  2500.  @phantomapprentice6749  well it means you perspective is not the same as the broader voting population. There’s nothing undemocratic about it. Maybe moderate your position and get more than 3%.
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  2501. He is the Pablo Escobar of North India. Ran a kidnapping & land grab ring in North India and successfully threatened 10 judges to recluse cases against him. Calling him a lawmaker is quite a stretch. His son who was killed by Police a week ago, ran wild and shot 2 witnesses who was supposed to testify against him. There was plenty of resentment building up against him. I condone the shooting but I am glad he is dead. It is counter intuitive but his death will restore public confidence in Law & Order system.
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  2502. PKMKB - Down with the Pakistani State
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  2503.  @Lucifer-hb5vq  exaggeration won't get you anywhere.
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  2504. That’s why Hindutva is the answer for their problems. 😌
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  2505. Look at India. They came, they saw, they conquered and demanded their own Homeland. After they got their homeland, they still engaged in 4 wars. It doesn't stop until the entire world is painted green.
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  2506.  @hmmmm6685  you should care to learn about those terms then. No NCB does not have the right to squash fundamental rights in it's pursuit of investigation. It still needs to respect natural rights of an individual. Evidence collected in jail is inadmissible unlike confessions. You still need to establish that there's ground for seizure before you can capture evidence from personal artifacts. These things a reasonable sessions judge would shove down a cop.
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  2507. There's resentment in Mumbai against MVA particularly over Metro delays. Let's see if it translates into votes.
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  2508. Initial reports says it is a point failure.
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  2509. Which interview are you talking about?
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  2510.  @ThePrintIndia  even my detailed response to this comment is getting scrubbed. It has gotten pretty bad.
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  2511.  @ThePrintIndia  if it's not you then it's Youtube. Sir, your channel is one of the Top Indian YT Channel, you should reach out to them and tell them to stop with their aggressive enforcement.
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  2512.  @ThePrintIndia  I will send you an email, later.
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  2513.  @anandms7537 even my response to your comments is getting scrubbed. I can’t even point out Y Ou Tube is doing something fishy
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  2514. Yes and No. There are some outright lying happening too especially with regards to Privacy.
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  2515. Well, Liberals want to balance the budget and fund their boutique social justice causes. And how do they do that? By selling off Canada Posts most lucrative departments.
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  2516. The Ukraine war has become a battle of who can tolerate the most pain. Inflation is hurting everyone, Europe is looking at a recession. Russia is also losing men and material at a rapid rate. Who would relent first?
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  2517.  @rimurutempest2130  finally someone gets my point. To elaborate, unless they move away from the previous generation of politics, they won't be able to hold the BJP accountable.
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  2518.  @pikachue602  Gurudwara for lower castes
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  2519.  @rahulvats95  read again. I said outside Punjab. Punjab has them because villages are segregated by caste since Mughals - naturally everything else is segregated by caste. Outside Punjab, Gurudwara are secular (i.e. does not discriminate based on caste)
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  2520. India's incentive is $10 billion. We are not even 10% of that.
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  2521. That's being optimistic. The treatment of uighurs is actually more similar to the treatment of native Americans. Deracinated from their culture and living with a lost identity reduced to thousands, the native Americans have high suicide rates and alcoholism.
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  2522.  @BestOfPodcast_45  ya of which it spends close to 20% on debt servicing. That's money state doesn't get to use. What's remaining is given away as freebies which what's left paid for salaries.
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  2523.  @pranavgandhar4604  probably. They still speak Marathi in the community.
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  2524.  @biswaroopmaiti2943 European businesses will pursue cost cutting measures to survive the downturn. That would mean a lot of low value work will be outsourced. That's how China grew it's manufacturing, it started offering tiny things like vehicle headlamp assemblies to German car companies during the 2008 financial crisis.
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  2525.  @sankalp6872  I waiting for the Court docket to be released publicly but it seems like the lawyer argued that case pretty badly - claiming that there's no "Modi" community. It is becoming evident that the Congress mishandled that case just like their Govts.
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  2526. Trudeau needs to go. He has ruined this country's reputation. Got us into a fight with every power and our allies - heck even Americans aren't happy with us.
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  2527. @Jay Strauss credit where credit is due. Lone did give up violence and he did not engage in fraud with the Indian or Pakistani state unlike say a Yasin Malik
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  2528.  @avirupmallik4562 BJP won't take ShahJahan in. So ya, ganga snahan is not an option for ShahJahan.
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  2529. Give it enough time and robot Baristas will become like Timmys. Soulless and standardized coffee.
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  2530. I pray that the Congress gets decimated completely and forces the Gandhi family into retirement.
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  2531.  @joyid  drinking and intoxication are not the same thing. The body is said to be intoxicated when you drink 7-8x the drinking limit. (1/2 a bottle of whiskey)
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  2532. To put thing in more tangible terms, cost of a standard metro tunnel per km comes to about $ 200 million/km. Pakistan is paying 1/2 km of tunneling costs in just interest payments to the Saudis. Let the cost of missed infrastructure development sink in.
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  2533. Highly responsible to engage in a fiscally irresponsible freebies when state is unable to meet basic obligations. Salary is a basic obligation of any State.
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  2534. TMX should not have occurred with significant Federal funding that would have compensated for it's damages. Yo, JT, where's my Housing, Infra and Transit money?
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  2535. Kejriwal and Mahiwal is the reason why Section 69 of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita was created.
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  2536.  @deflexion3677 why? Indians don't get to see their MPs. MPs barely get time to gather support for local issues (like infrastructure). Having more MPs will fix the system to a large extent. The competition will become less intense, less brutal and more pleasant.
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  2537. Not in this case. The only rich folks are the Govt employees who operate this sorry excuse for a mine.
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  2538.  @orunabho  not true. Read up Keshavnanda v. Govt of Kerala. There are limits to Parliamentary supremacy - The first limit is Parliament can't promulgate laws against the natural rights of a citizen The second limit is Parliament cannot promulgate laws that dissolves or alters the democratic nature of government The third limit is Parliament cannot promulgate laws that impinges on the Judiciary's independence.
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  2539. First rule of geopolitics - Nations do not ascribe to principles or ideology but they always ascribe to their self interest.
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  2540. Poor policy making is a result of decades of neglect in basic governance. At some point in time, it will come back to bite us, the pandemic did exactly that and pretty well.
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  2541. They came, traded, looted, divided, packed up and went away. The responsibility is on our hands.
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  2542. Aaaah yes, The Emergency was true liberation and Sedition Act amended by Indira and later Rajiv enabled freedoms.
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  2543.  @ambarishupadhyay921  you sir.
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  2544.  @sahilkarir8404  PM visits Bohra mosque, invokes Imam Hussain to emphasise on peace - The Hindu. PM Modi presents 'chadar' for offering at Ajmer Sharif Dargah - India Today He visits Shia mosques and Sufi Dargahs quite often. It is usually on Mosque admin's twitter pages. He has quite a fan following with Shias.
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  2545.  @garyish  they speak Hakka and Cantonese.
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  2546. We treat our women like shit, I hope these rankings makes us realize that.
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  2547. It is in transition. There's still a significant amount of folks who vote based on caste.
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  2548. BJP supporters ironically call Rahul Gandhi, Modi's star campaigner and wish they were lucky as Modi to have a competitor like Rahul Gandhi in their lives.
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  2549.  @madhusudan4118  That's not what I mean. Rahul Gandhi goes to vacation outside India while his party is imploding with defections. As if that's not enough, he comes back to India denigrates people's professions inadvertently makes the campaign into clash of upper and lower classes. BJP doesn't even need to try, the Congress just feeds them political messaging all day, every day. Modi and BJP could not have been blessed with a better defacto leader of Opposition. There are assembly elections in Gujarat in less than a month's time and Congress is busy trying to start a political rally 1000 kms away in the South. If 'feeding' is a valid political strategy then Congress's strategy is a good example of it.
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  2550. LoL ya, they are showing us the reasons why BJP is a much better party than Rahul Gandhi's Congress. I wish Gandhi family resigned from politics. They are a stain on our democracy.
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  2551.  @sahilnagpalx  nope, not necessarily. It could also mean parents can't afford private education. You need a surveys and you need to test the outcomes, test for basic literacy.
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  2552. Vancouver city council has too much time on their hands. Instead of tackling ridiculous housing prices and backlog in development permits, city council engages in another idiocy in greenwashing. First it was charging $ .25 for paper bags and letting the owner keep it to use for climate change, now it's this legal stunt. Idiots. Regards From Vancouver
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  2553.  @stevenfoulger6066 facts are why there was a press conference by a peaceful political group crying victimhood calling for her resignation.
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  2554. I want Modiji to be Romeo with me, the Janata and Stalin + Xi + Kim Jong Un with the Babudom.
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  2555. Snap Opinions provide more value for subscriber money compared to a ChatGpt generated trash authored by Yogendra Yadav. Please drop Yogendra Yadav from the "Fine Print" and improve the value proposition of the subscription.
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  2556. If the West pulls out, then it will be quite a pyrrhic victory for Putin. 200k soldiers, 2000 Heavily armed vehicles with marginal gains.
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  2557. Naturally. If I put Rs 100 into a project, I expect to at least earn back that Rs. 100 back. But here is the thing about profit, most successful businessmen will reinvest that profit into ventures - some risky, some not so risky.
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  2558. No. This bans companies like Tata from developing nuclear weapon or weapons of mass destruction. (Not that Tata will develop nuclear weapons).
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  2559. Look at the manner in which Supreme Court has passed it's order. SC orders Govt to create a panel, injects itself into that panel, bypasses Parliament's constitutionally mandated function to create and pass laws and then says, "SC will be in this panel until Parliament passes a law". This is not a judgment, this is a power grab and a judicial coup.
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  2560. My parents live in Maharashtra. This CM was sleeping while cases were slowly inching up. He was busy trying to blackmail local businesses trying to get them to pay him bribes. He played politics with the Central Government, engaged in fear mongering about vaccines, he closed vaccination centers on Sundays, ordered fewer vaccines, drugs to throw off procurement estimates. He closed down local testing centers, covid-19 wards and refused to cancel festivities (Holi, Easter). This guy is absolutely incompetent.
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  2561. It would violate right to Privacy. The bar to violate that is pretty high.
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  2562. SAIS Alumni! No wonder the quality of analysis is pretty darn good.
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  2563.  @nad1ax2  Jaitley said it wasn't the legislative priority and has been the BJP's official stance (This was prior to their 2019 bill). BJP will not recriminalize the trans community, they have enrolled them into the party Membership. When it comes to reservations, the BJP prefers to pass the buck to the States because reservations is too contentious for them to handle nationally - (can you imagine how ugly the General Elections campaign will be?) I think the best things they can do is reform Criminal Procedure Code. CrPC is just a book of vague laws that criminalizes one's mere existence.
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  2564. @ThePrint, Shekharji, excellent conclusion. Perhaps it helps to recognize that, politically we never defined minorites in terms of linguistics or ethnic lines (at least post 70s). The concept of minorities was reduced and defined along the lines of religion or linguistic puritanism and has been for several decades except in specific circumstances (cough cough Belgaum). What's worse is we allow the rest of the world to be reductionist towards the layered diversity of our society. Outside India, I'm a Indian Hindu or a Indian Muslim, inside India I'm Tamil and nothing more. But my identity is more layered and complex, I'm Tamil Maharashtrian, our society never allowed that identity to evolve and our politics killed/kills any notion that one's identity can be layered. That's unity in diversity.
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  2565. BJP is goading Sena in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. That will make for a really good CTC.
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  2566. It's no where to be found. (BC)
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  2567. Shekharji, if you are up for it, maybe witte about the wheat ban for this week's National interest but also make references to the SC committee report on farm laws. If we want our farmers to become prosperous then we should advocate for it.
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  2568. Last time someone from outside Bengaluru said Hindutva is helping consolidate the Hindu vote. Is that still the case? Kannadigas! Let us know what you think
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  2569. Digvijay Singh: 26/11 was a RSS planned terrorism. Rahul Gandhi still keeps him around. Also RaGa great grandfather Nehru, destroyed Ambedkar's legacy. He refused to allow UCC to be discussed in Lok Sabha. Nehru actively conspired against any legislative work that Ambedkar did in the Lok Sabha.
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  2570. Consultations are not done yet, so there's no draft and these guys are already stating positions of Tribals. This is classic misinformation.
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  2571. They are IAS Officers. They can't be fired, Congress enshrined that in the Constitution in the mid 50s and made their dismissal a Presidential power. Thanks Nehru. If Omar and Mahua knew that then they would have called for IAS reforms.
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  2572.  @SrinivasRao-vd4ki ya. I’m on a roll
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  2573. Seriously. All they want to do is dismantle everything.
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  2574.  @Alpha-Cheeno even worse. He's a Hyderabadi who learned that thick British accent. He's the epitome of derascination.
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  2575.  @nickblue11  AAP doesn't pay it's bill at all. 😆
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  2576. It should be a warning for Liberals as well. They are becoming complacent.
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  2577.  @eggmancorp  "trust me bro" is a great moral high ground. Our allies have pretty much abandoned us.
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  2578. Wahhabi Hindus intolerance ruins all good things in life.
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  2579. Ganga maiya pradushan aur kachara interest ke saath wapis de rahi hai. Bharat swacch rako.
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  2580.  @514YulJag  absolutely. Mumbai is half of the population of Ontario and it fits into the size of the City of Toronto. Imagine 12 million people living in Toronto. That's just Mumbai proper and there's another 12 million in the suburbs.
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  2581. We need a playlist. There's plenty of reform videos.
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  2582. Good, now cut the number of procedures required and make the babus work in a service oriented manner. Babus still treat the common citizenry as cattle, that mentality needs to change otherwise all announcements are nothing more than putting on new lipstick on a pig.
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  2583. Lmao. That 3rd Muslim guy straight up called out the journalists leading . 😂 “We are common people, we don’t have anything to do with politics” 😂😂
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  2584. Scrap the Railway board!
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  2585. The current BJP is a jugalbandi. Amit Shah is a baniya with a OBC boss (Modi). HBS, DFad, Yogi don't have anyone to engage in jugalbandi with yet.
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  2586.  @yuvraj1405  I hope so. He's a jester who is throwing gasoline into the fire
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  2587.  @KunalKMehta08  it is understandable. Lynching occurred because society has very little trust in law enforcement and the Judiciary. Lynching is a sign that the Government mechanisms (and particularly the Judiciary) has failed in it's most basic functions of law and order. It is not a result of increased so called "Talibanization". This loss of faith is remarkably relatable. Ask yourself honestly, do you expect the courts to handle any case in a time bound manner?
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  2588.  @AjitJoshi686  not even intelligence, you need basic understanding of events and empathy. I mean Cellular Jail was called Kalapani for a reason.
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  2589. Well Govt pays poorly, hires poorly and demands you work a job that requires 3x the personnel. As if that isn't enough then govt puts out job requisitions for Consultants and Analysts. And folks, this is how you get specialized cyber defense that doesn't get used or configured properly.
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  2590.  @sankalp6872  as long as they get 20% vote share there are not dusted but merely dormant. But even a long amount of dormancy leads to death.
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  2591.  @ppen8359  so far no one is trying to make it false.
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  2592. Congress is reviving 5 Year plans. LoL
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  2593. His positions are hawkish.
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  2594.  @souravpandey2682  it's also the PM's job to shield their cabinet from political battles and give them space to do their jobs. A lot of folks seems to not understand this very crucial aspect of leadership. Gadkari's performance is actually dependent on Modi's ability to shield him from the political battles of the day.
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  2595.  Xtreme Gaming   there's SSB and NDA route. There is also the option of lateral entry for specific specialist roles.
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  2596. Here comes the experts with their doom and gloom. Never trust anyone who says “Govt is destroying X” especially when they hide the issues with the previous system.
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  2597. That's actually a good way to look at it. I would prefer something that preserves privacy of donors and maintain transparency. Both can be achieved to a reasonable extent. Sadly, SC has opened up harassment of donors with it's judgement.
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  2598. Reforms are good but again we need serious follow through and nurturing. A significant sections of Bharat Sarkar's policymakers still think reforms are fire and forget and there's a significant amount of regulators who thinks they are the Satrap of the sectors they regulate. Right now, GoI and it's regulators act more like a bad parents that drops off their problem child to the babysitter (private sector). Economy, like a child needs to be nurtured, which means follow through and good regulations.
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  2599.  @shekhargupta3911  thank you for your response. It encourages me to write more neutral comments. One day soon I hope to write for "Your Turn"
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  2600.  @kukulkhaan  there's a huge difference between guest and working with them. I have worked with vets from across the world. Most of them are extremely motivated and competent folks, Indian Army veterans included.
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  2601.  @sankalp6872 He walked right into like Bhasmasur enchanted by Mohini’s dancing. I doubt he’ll get the reference.
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  2602. PK with DK?
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  2603.  @sohamroy6156  he is insincere. The best thing he can do is retire along with his family. That might at least improve his non existent credibility.
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  2604. The Print does it's journalists a huge disservice when it offers authors like Vir Sanghvi, Yogendra Yadav, Shruti Kapila etc. opinion columns as part of it's premium offering. "The Fine Print" could be used to help it's in house journalist to offer deeper analysis, more data, less "hawa ki disha" opinions and more ground reporting. More Bismee Taksin, Sanya Dhingra, DK etc. and no more garbage opinion columnists.
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  2605. It's tax funded free money given to Adani.
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  2606. Idiots will blame the public for is perceived apathy but reality is each state has It's own sets of problems. Voters will assess the incumbent govt and how each party can solve their problems (freebies are also a bad solution to a problems). Manipur theek hai, magar mera bijli rasta makaan kidhar hai? Moralizing over perceived apathy is counter productive.
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  2607. Turkey wants Sweden to be less woke and acknowledge the trouble they are creating. Interesting.
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  2608. A 50+ year old man child and Chairperson of the Congress youth wing.
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  2609. UN has become a talk shop. Decisions are slowly being taken outside of UN and it's associate agencies, security decisions are made in forums like Quad, economic discussions are conducted in G20, regional multilateral agencies are African Unions are making decisions for their own region. The world is relying less and less on the UN. The UN's function is slowly getting superceded by other agencies.
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  2610. He's also saying that they'll blame the Centre for everything and demand separation.
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  2611. Nitish will be BJP's star campaigner in the South lol.
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  2612. Don’t extrapolate local action as global truths. Despite popular perceptions, local units have quite a lot of autonomy especially at Municipalities level. This is true for most parties.
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  2613.  @blackrockorange  why don't try something constructive. Write a 500 word article and I'll convince the Print to publish it. I'd love to see you write a decent article. Don't worry, I'll give you credit and authorship too.
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  2614. Govt policies and the Babus enforcing them does more damage to our economy than religious divide and caste politics.
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  2615. North East. No opposition there too
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  2616. Has this guy ever paid for anything from his pocket?
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  2617.  @mika274  well it's not a multi national corporation. It's the Government itself that's doing this. I don't think it's right to blame just the current Govt. though, they can be blamed to not getting rid of it. This has been going on for decades. NMDC who owns the mine (along with Coal India) are Govt. entities. These inept Govt. owned and operated corporations were created to maintain monopolies under misguided notion of socialism. They were exempted from environmental reviews at the time of their creation and were given free licenses.
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  2618. Yup. Welcome to the quagmire of Indian laws. This has been a mess that's been decades in the making.
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  2619. When the North grows, the South grows faster and becomes richer and stronger. The North pulls India's growth potential down, you can't write that off and keep ignoring it. So investments and projects there are necessary. What the South should do is learn from Maharashtra and start financing it's own infrastructure. Maharashtra is building Mumbai Nagpur expressway with it's own state agency, why can't TN, KN, KR, AP and TL do something similar?
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  2620.  @dr.syedaliakbar9562  that's more than all other opposition parties.
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  2621. DMK Pappu strikes again.
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  2622.  @raghunathansrinivasaraghav6455  Congress leaders can't but those who read history can explain the origin of Gandhi. It came from Feroze Ghandy
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  2623. 😂😂 I'm going call the hospital and tell them to send all the ambulances they have. We have an inferno here, burnol is not enough. 😂😂
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  2624. They are still paid for it. In all global economies part time jobs are still considered as employed. So the Govt is not wrong in it's count.
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  2625. Easy to say that when you give away money on freebies
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  2626. Snehesh is a good host. The audio doesn't do him justice.
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  2627. There's no point blaming Corp orates for stepping up anti-theft measures. The real issue is petty crime (and crime overall) has increased since the Pandemic. However, rather than address the increase in crime, our leaders especially local leaders chose to engage in culture wars. We need back to basics governance.
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  2628. Late but this is definitely a good move. Hopefully, this restores authority and credibility of the court system. This retrospective tax law went against a Supreme Court judgement. It violated the principal of tax certainty. It was extremely arrogance of Pranab Mukherjee, it's unforgivable. He didn't listen to anyone, not even his peers in the Congress and the PM. He boosted about it in his book, "Look no one has repealed it". It's unforgivable.
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  2629.  @kaustubhshukla6462  we have an issue of deep imbalance. Delhi has pretty good doctor to patient ratio and probably an excess of doctors. The moment you step out of Delhi there's enormous shortages. The same can be said about several health facilities - barring the pandemic hospitals in major metro are under utilized however a district hospital 50 kms out are over utilized.
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  2630. Lol we had a referendum that did exactly that. It was voted out by a large margin in the same rural ridings.
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  2631.  @arjuniyer5047 I have zero empathy to folks who support barbaric acts because they happen to be "Non Muslim". Palestinians and Palestinians Authority have constantly said vile things against Indians and Hindus despite our goodwill. We still haven't suspended aid out of the goodness of our hearts but they haven't condemned the horrific acts. The difference is glaring and the intentions are clear.
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  2632.  @dseyy3285  India's future is bright without these dynastic leeches. Even leeches have their uses but these dynasts are beyond that.
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  2633.  @meetankush  2 level macauleyputra. Humne 1/2 kaam ki kiya hai, baak dhai kaam baki hai.
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  2634. Mary Ng basically says G20 debacle was Trudeau's own doing.
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  2635.  @aniketpandey5991  not that much effort. I can run 2km in about 7 mins and I am close to 40. My personal best 1 mile (~ 1.7 km) is around < 5 mins.
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  2636.  @sankalp6872  that's why it's once in a while and not twice in a day.
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  2637. Hey @ThePrint regarding subscription, is it possible to pay for in lumpsum for the entire year?
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  2638. You’re CA made the mistake and it’s the govt’s fault. Waah. Of course the Govt will ask you for your dues - because of your CA, you haven’t paid up. Govt is right if they freeze your account.
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  2639. We have but the scale is enormous and the problems decades of neglect adds layers of complications (10 feet of slit should give you an idea of the depths of neglect). The issues you pointed out won't be resolved any time soon. It will take at least a decade of work before we start seeing the results.
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  2640. Gehlot Govt's blame game is going to cost him dearly. It is extremely tone deaf for Gehlot to call it, "BJP ka shajid" rather than show some action against casteism.
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  2641. Just like your comments.
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  2642.  @LucarioBoricua  that's just phase 1. They haven't released project docs for phase 2
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  2643. It's a bad way to look at the problem. We need to make the business environment conducive for Corporates to spend money on R&D, forcing them to spend will be pretty unproductive.
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  2644. Sat Sri Akal - it’s like Punjabi Jai Sri Ram or Om Namoh Narayana.
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  2645. Micheal Koffman assessment on War on the Rocks is worth listening to. His assessment is very pessimistic.
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  2646. Congress is encouraging peacefuls to riot, in peace of course. Unless we unite, this nonsense appeasement will keep going on.
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  2647. Time to get rid of Zoning! It artificially constraints supply, contributes significantly to high land acquisition costs and has made a mockery of democracy.
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  2648. This guy sounds drunk. I couldn't make out what his points were. The only thing I got was retired police officers weren't employed in the writing of this law. Anyway, recalling a bill about the investigation procedure is useless. The real reform will come when the entire CrPC is thrown in the dustbin. The entire Penal code should be rewritten from scratch
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  2649. How do I join your team? How?
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  2650. Shekharji, one day I would like to share my mom's thayir sadam recipe.
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  2651. There's no beating the P-8. It beats the competition hands down when it comes to surveillance aircraft.
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  2652. MNS is always there to play spoilers. They usually swing votes towards or away.
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  2653. @Josefa Senguttuvan careful what you wish for. DMK is the party of A Raja - The 2G scsmsters
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  2654. Shekarji, Nguyen is pronounced like "When" with a half N sound in the beginning. Hopefully that is helpful
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  2655.  @Nishith8  you are fundamentally mistaken. there's a separate constitutional test for that and it was used right before Indira Gandhi declared get emergency. EC would be breaking the law if it was biased towards any party.
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  2656. Politicians in South Asia are lazy. Austerity requires making hard choices and campaigning hard to convince the electorate.
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  2657. India's productivity is pretty good but India's logistics is abysmal. We pay close to 50% of the price because of bad logistics - primarily terrible storage. We lose about 20-25% of produce during storage (we should be aiming for < 2%). Our transportation is pretty bad as well. We struggle extensively at last mile delivery and storage.
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  2658.  @bloodwargaming3662  sure but arrest across State lines is as undemocratic as it gets for a democratically elected CM. It violates basic norms. It's worse than any threat a person can make.
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  2659. You know Gujarat elections has registered in Rahul Gandhis head because his Morbi tubelight just lit up. “I won’t politicize” happened when his starter was flickering
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  2660.  @gurusastropalmistry2214  Revenue Secretary is the biggest hurdle to growth. They are still stuck in revenue grabbing mentality, instead they should be focused on job creation. Revenue Dept still believes inverted duty structure is good for the economic growth. When they get out of that mentality, these tax issues with disappear.
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  2661. NDA got 41 out of 48 seats in 2019. I doubt Sena will underperforms that dramatically that they’ll only end up giving 3 seats. Also Ajit Pawar still has a form grip on Maratwada, so it’s even less likely that NDA will get only 28 seats.
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  2662.  @argonauts3jaka63  Nonsense. 1955 accord soft nationalized almost all heavy industries. Nehru was very much a left socialist. Gandhian economic is very much socialism minus the vanguard and with Sanskrit rebranding. He wanted social trusteeship (essentially labor unions), land distribution and ensure a rural way of life. He also rejected money .... Hmmm Marx's final form of socialism wanted a cashless society. Combine that with his insistence to keep India rural with people wearing khadi clothes and farming just comes off as Pol Pot. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck in khadi, surprise it's a duck
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  2663.  @billubhai5644  yes and home minister can't fire an IAS officers. Only the President can fire IAS officers.
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  2664. Unfortunately, Home minister can't fire IAS officers only the President can. That's why transfers are treated as punishments.
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  2665.  @zacharysmama1996  it's a modification of Parliamental procedure. It does not negate federal law.
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  2666. They already do. Also Banks ask for 1.5x loan guarantee in the form of collateral.
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  2667. The Print should consider setting up bureaus in our immediate neighbors. :)
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  2668. Construction will be quick as long as Brightline doesn't give away contracts to one company like Tutor Perini to manage the entire corridor. Also, Brightline west will be able to tap into CAHSR workforce that finished portions of their projects - no additional training required.
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  2669.  @jujijiju6929  Search for "The Decriminalisation Bill is a bullet train to prosperity". There should be an ORF article with a link to PIB. Piyush Goyal himself says Govt intends to bring a Decriminalization bill.
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  2670. That's a bold claim. All countries (including China) with capabilities to produce bioweapons are signatories to Bioweapons Convention. It would be really bold and pretty damaging to violate that treaty. You really are inviting severe sanctions and trade blockades, not to mention inviting war if you want to break it.
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  2671. Govt is resettling them already but they haven’t finished the job. This will be their last election in this village. By the start of next election there won’t be this village.
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  2672. They already are. Their cheap tactics created the Khalistan movement. When they backfired and Indira Gandhi was assassinated then Congress went on a rampage and rewarded them with cushy positions.
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  2673.  @sankalp6872  Youtube and ThePrint are scrubbing comments. But "Hindu" should be understood in the cultural sense.
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  2674.  @grapeshott he's only restricted himself to textual sources. Stalupanishad and their carbon dating disprove him.
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  2675.  @kshitizsrivastava9161  Chandigarh lobby satisfied.
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  2676.  @importantsomeone153 ye sab govt ka problem nahi, tera local MLA ha ka hai problem. Local MLA phukat mein baitha hai. Local MLA initiative lena chalu karna chahiye.
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  2677. Yes that's the reality but it's significance is reducing as more people get out of the poverty line. I do believe it will take a couple more election cycles when it really starts becoming irrelevant.
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  2678. Prerogative, precedeny, what is this fancy English word? - Some judge in Varanasi sessions court on Gyanvapi petition. Supreme court can't even enforce the precedent it sets. And here we are worried about prerogatives.
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  2679. There's more to Huawei/Sky Bridge than just sanctions violations. Bank fraud is strongest case that will get most success with extradition proceedings. Meng (rather Huawei) is also indicted for stealing trade secrets and organized crime against it's competitors. The Indictment is worth quite the read.
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  2680.  @shaktimahalik4193  what you call obscenity is actually intimacy. If you think this is obscenity, then by your logic definitely we should definitely burn the Kamasutra and demolish Khajuraho.
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  2681.  @JitendraSingh-ut3vj  I know my past pretty well. It was tolerant to various interpretations. That's how we got intimate paintings of our Gods and goddesses. There's so many of them in temples in South. Come I'll take you to Kanchipuram and I'll show statues of a scantily clad Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva embracing each other. Beautifully craved expression of love in the eyes in the same pose.
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  2682.  @taurusied7447  the promotion happening here is your Wahabbi Hinduism.
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  2683.  @taurusied7447  nothing will happen. My family will grow and become well rounded human beings without being obsessed over 'obscenity', living a peaceful life and being proud about the open mindedness of Hinduism and rejecting this Wahabbi Hinduism.
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  2684. It's really unfortunate that the BJP is the only non dynastic party with an internal democracy, even if it is an illusion. It is also the party that rewards result.
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  2685.  @cloudname5447  you should care. Dynasties hold monopoly of political power. They hold us back, they prevent us from joining political office and bring changes for the country.
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  2686. We already pay more to build tunnels for metro per km than Pakistan pays in interest. The cost of missed Infrastructure development is huge.
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  2687.  @meetankush  listen to yourself and how crazy you sound. Courts have some common sense and have ruled against bad practices. SC ruled against female genital mutilation as non essential practices, the Bohra community accepted that judgement. Our courts despite their dysfunction do pass sound judgements when it comes to constitutional issues.
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  2688.  @sidkings  they did that same time last year and the year before that. It’ll do that until September and then stop importing.
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  2689. @shmooprint xo BalaSaheb knew when to play the long game. He would have made plays to match BJP in it's own home turf. He was a divisive person, but he knew when to drop the polarization and reach out to communities he hated and reconcile with them (he did so after 93 riots). These guys can't learn from their own founder. Mahagatbhan my bum, the opposition is short sighted and stupid.
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  2690. But centre (and states) hasn’t reduced their tax on petrol. 🤔🤔 It’s at the same level since the pandemic 🤔🤔 I understand Centre wants to double dip on taxation but kabhi toh tax kum kiya karo!
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  2691. But Germany has a left wing govt and they have been managing the economy and immigration. Sloppy reporting. Blaming it on populism is fait accompli. It will ruin and polarize politics further. It might end up empowering populists.
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  2692. Shekharji needs a mobile setup of a nice camera and mic.
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  2693. Yes. Canada has been complicit and facilitating terrorism in other countries. It is time for Canada to clean up it's act.
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  2694.  @Killbomb89jk  these guys are saying half truths using technicalities. You never record deaths occurring from "external" factors like oxygen supply disruption. Our politicians and journalists are dumb, they should be asking about excess deaths, not just deaths. That one word makes all the difference.
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  2695.  @shauryatripathi838  we are pretty tunnel visioned about coverage of India that we don't see the decline in quality of "foreign" press coverage
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  2696.  @karankapoor2701 I'll prefer to DW, The Print, Hindu, IndiaSpend and Down to Earth. Thanks for your shitty recommendation though.
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  2697. Despite everything, we should not have any deals with Pakistan. Best to prepare for the collapse of that excuse for a country.
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  2698. This is one fascinating book. I had a sneak preview of it. However, after you read it you realize, how subsequent generations just ruined and corrupted the system with pure neglect. What's even more eye opening; any criticism of the 5 year plan was considered as anti national activity. One more fascinating thing you realize is that GoI in her initial years was very effective at governance despite the intense lack of resources. All that went downhill by the time the 60s rolled around.
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  2699. Sychopancy is apparently not a religion. Gotcha.
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  2700. It's a bipartisan plea. That's a good sign that sanctions won't happen or it will be sanctions with minimal impact (For eg: They'll sanction a component that India doesn't use or didn't purchase at all)
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  2701. Don't take advice from anyone who says, you should tax unrealized gain or future incomes. That's Govt of India budgeting jugaad repackaged in a new bottle.
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  2702.  @divyanshverma2296  Boeing is not a monopoly, it is a dominant player in one segment of the aircraft manufacturing (and for good reason, the capital and R&D costs are huge. One 787 development program takes about 12-15 Billion dollars).
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  2703.  蔡English  shush. Citizens are talking and discussing important things.
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  2704. This is where I wish, Amitav goes beyond just mere criticism. When projects to improve the environment are ready to start construction, there's a stay order in the high court. Some environmentalist cries foul about the life of one tree while the entire Yamuna is dying because there is no Sewage treatment plant to treat the raw sewage. Meanwhile, people are dying, Yamuna is dead and doplhins have more rights than human. Yeah for environment, I guess.
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  2705.  @akshaykoul8738  voters vote for fixers. Even those with Criminal backgrounds have achieved more than a Govt of India Babu. I am not even kidding. There's a reason why Arun Gawli gets repeatedly voted back and he has long left behind his gundagiri days. In Mumbai especially, politicians have huge utility when it comes to getting anything done through Govt of India (for eg: Getting BMC babu to issue a permit to repair a broken pipe in your own house). If you care more about "economic and social development", you would invite Akalkot Maharaj into your home and advocate for further reforms of bureaucracy during the yagna. Only Akalkot Maharaj has the power to bring politicians to your home to listen to your issues. Again, I wish I was kidding, but that's how you get things done. In Political science, it's called "provision of public good theory"
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  2706. Is there a Good Question PEI equivalent for BC and other Provinces or is this simply a CBC PEI initiative?
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  2707. Ya, it reinforces the notion that Media doesn't care for Hindus and when it comes to Dalits chooses to whitewash it when it's politically inconvenient.
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  2708.  @svanimation8969 that's how the current system works. The issue is you can't sell across State lines. So if Punjab overproduces wheat, it can't sell it to other States directly. It has to sell it thru the Mandi system. If the Mandi is full, you're taking 100% of the loss even if MSP was increased by 300% This is exactly what happens every harvest season. While farmers from other States make money selling excess produce to other states, private player and food processing industries, farmers in Punjab are forced to let their produce rot because their Mandis are full.
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  2709.  @vikashsharma353 it's mandatory and in some cases automatic. If you don't register you're committing tax fraud in Canada and UK.
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  2710. Which drug is Nawab Malik high on? He seems happily delusional.
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  2711. Ah yes! Here comes the pontification.
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  2712. Clarity of sloganeering.
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  2713. RSS expert Walter K Andersen mentioned Gadkari as well.
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  2714. Rahul Gandhi is still politically stupid as he was when first tore up the ordinance in 2010. He throw his ally Uddhav under the bus with his comment about Savarkar in Maharashtra. Then he decided to walk with Medha Patkar during Gujarat election. HP was a lucky stroke but wait 6 months and let's see how infighting turns out. Also, Karnataka Congress are still fighting with each other. As if that wasn't enough, he decided question the Army's capabilities. Even his interview with Raghuram Rajan was a wasted opportunity. No vision only, no solutions, only whining. BJP would love to claim otherwise but RaGa is destroying his own party.
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  2715.  @shejwalkarhemant3110  kayamchuran ki takad hai.
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  2716.  @theace691  have you seen a balance sheet or a quarterly reports before? Clearly not. Adani gets it's more than half of it's money from the market and/or FIIs.
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  2717. BJP is here to stay until there's a competent opposition.
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  2718.  @xenon6947 I think it’s time to enact the final solution on you.
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  2719.  @mg.f.9023  so what is your opinion on "When big trees fall the Jungle shakes?"
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  2720. I think it's fine to expect a faster pace of modernization. This modernization should have been done way back in mid 2000s, so it just means we are late. A faster pace is necessary, hopeful OFB corporatization helps with improving modernization and defense procurement.
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  2721.  @meerasakshi9493  Modi sarkar is spending solid money for US extradition lawyers to extradite him back to India. So it is just a matter of time before he sees Jail. BTW, Cholski's knowns assets have been seized by GoI about 2 years ago.
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  2722. The trailer looks pretty bad, CG is bad, VFX isn't up to par. Dear god, the costume and make up looks horrible. I am afraid this movie might bomb and it will get blamed on Hindutva.
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  2723. Vice Asia should look into National Herald. There's a lot of juicy bits in there.
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  2724. Nah, farmers should find ways to repackage their harvest. Make sauces, masalas, pepper spray, red chili based riot control grenades etc.
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  2725. Can the UK be tough on China? 🤔 It's quite evident to the rest of the world that UK no longer has the capability to push it's diplomatic weight around. The Empire died in 1947, after all.
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  2726. Europe should start with returning stolen and fraudulently acquired artifacts. That's the beginning of atonement.
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  2727. He managed to unite India's polarized polity behind Modi. Inadvertently, he became Modi's best campaigner for the week.
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  2728. Yes, but the South can learn from Maharashtra and start financing it's own Infrastructure while getting the Centre to build infrastructure as well.
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  2729.  @MayankSingh-qg4zv  sure, I may not know much about farming however that still doesn't excuse Punjabi+Haryanvi farmers to advocate for change. They clearly demonstrated that they have the power and they used that to maintain their status quo. Nothing prevents them from making demands that Govt. help funds their transition. They still haven't demanded anything beyond scrapping farm laws, so it is still a kettle calling a pot black. They are still very much part of the problem and much worse since they don't bring solutions to the table.
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  2730. This is what you call Whataboutism. Just cause the BJP did it doesn't make this right. This very objectionable behavior and drags back to the 90s. Do you want to go back to the 90s? I don't.
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  2731. We need to demand better pay for our doctors and ASHA workers. These ASHA workers put in so much work and dedication into ensuring good health delivery. They get paid pittance. Instead our socialist politicians would waste money on freebies like free electricity.
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  2732.  @Daemonheims it just shows market confidence in the party. You perform and win elections you get money.
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  2733.  @TheDonMan97  I was going to talk about the debacle surrounding Asset Quality Reviews. RBI really came off as incompetent when RR initiated Asset Quality Reviews. His successor reworked the AQR process.
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  2734.  @arpit7626  well, a lot of their profits is tied in bad regulations. Adani Green for eg: their fortunes are tied to Electricity amendment bill.
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  2735.  @Palared92  and Indians helped fight two wars in Europe for no reason or fault of theirs. Still here we are.
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  2736. We should fulfill Ambedkar wishes and give these Hindus a right to return to India and deport Patarbaazis out of India.
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  2737.  @jamescaffrey7869  nepotism is a symptom of lack of accountability.
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  2738.  @anantkumar7805  Govt doesn't dictate how courts should function. It doesn't tell judges not to adjourn or limit adjournment or how cases should be handled. That's the role of the Supreme Court. Govt also doesn't instruct judges to uphold fundamental rights or follow diktats from the Supreme Court, that's the Supreme Court's job to ensure it's precedents are respected by the lower courts. Umar Khalid was jailed without trial for almost a year, if the Supreme Court cared about natural rights or haebus corpus, it would have called a suo moto and started bail proceedings immediately. You can't just blame the Govt for everything.
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  2739.  @anantkumar7805  well my issue is the current set of judges adds to the mess rather than try to clean it up. There's no necessity for a judge to adjourn a case and set the date months in advance. If the Supreme Court thinks political infighting over pegasus requires a suo moto, then something as basic as violation of Fundamental rights and haebus corpus should be treated with the same amount of urgency. Nothing is stopping the Supreme Court to suo moto Umar's detention.
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  2740. He’s a Gandhi, he doesn’t need to read books 😂
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  2741.  @John.F_Kennedy Judges didn't find that convincing. That's point is a moot.
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  2742. It took 70 years to liberate the Valmikis community from the slavery imposed by Abdullahs. Those poor refugees were made to scavenge sewage for Valley residents.
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  2743.  @sankalp6872  I think we should start calling him the LeLi Goebbels or Sasta Goebbels.
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  2744.  @arjun4xd Yes my taxes from Maharastra pays for subsidies in Karnataka. please pay that back and give back Belgaum, Kaveri and Bengaluru.
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  2745. Man she worked harder than her brother too
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  2746. God bless your Grandpa's soul 🙏🏾
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  2747. Sabse useless Congress Hai. Picks the most useless controversys to die on.
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  2748. It's 3% above from the previous year. It's still sitting around 7% yoy basis
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  2749.  @bilalbaig8586  lol. We were fragile five, our Debt was pretty sustainable, we underperformed massively during an era of good growth, ignored infrastructure, saddled banks with NPAs, decided to retrospectively tax companies all the way back to 1960s. That was MMS managing the economy. The rest of your comment is just BS. Rural vote is changing, aspirations are changing, people are not beholden to their satraps like they used to.
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  2750. Nice to see coverage of countries that doesn't usually get covered.
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  2751. The only biases they need to fight is the dynasty on top. The party needs to discipline to push the Gandhi family into retirement and strength to stand on their own record. It lost it ways when it started worshipping the Gandhi family again for the 4th time. As if bootlicking Indira, Rajiv and Sonia wasn't enough, now they want to bootlick Rahul and Priyanka and make the country bootlick them as well. Down with this backdoored colonialism and monarchy. Retire the Gandhi family.
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  2752.  @abhipandey2505  did you even read that order? SC ne bola ki CG can amend the act to clarify procedure for appointment. CG did exactly that. In case of Punjab, SC said you can't appoint DGPs like that and Punjab Govt just nullified that order. Talk about False equivalence that prys on the ignorant.
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  2753. Yes, he relies on Twitter data for his campaign positions.
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  2754. 40 years and counting. The original plan was announced in 1980s. Khangress kept dangling it for decades. Modi came, expedited and got it built. 10 years for 40 kms of tunneling is quite fast TBH.
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  2755.  @vrindavanguj7361  everything. They lost their home and any coverage of their tragedy is called hindutva propaganda.
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  2756.  @AA12434  or Kolkata riots. The ones impacted were primarily Dalits. Our castiest media won’t cover that.
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  2757. Kk, where were the opposition when deaths were at their peak? Raga was hiding abroad, Akhilesh retreated to grand farm house, Mahua she was practicing her English and hoarding oxygen in her Delhi home while Kolkata was suffocating. None of these useless vultures were helpful, infact they behaved worse than the BJP.
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  2758. SC wants to reopen the hafta economy that Modi shut.
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  2759. Vir writes something sensible once in a while but then he gets proven wrong by a Murkh Pappu who picks the wrong thing to say about the right event. Ye Wrong question wala Pappu kab retire hoyega?
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  2760. Udit Misra is an good example of a Globalized Confused Pardesi (GCP). He talks about neo-liberalized getting debunked in the west - sure he is entitled to that view, but the economic environment of the West is vastly different from that of India. Decades of deregulation in the West has lead to an environment of underregulation, that is not the case in India. We are not even remotely close to being a neo-liberal economy and definitely not at the levels of laissaz faire deregulated markets of the West. But Udit is worried that neoliberalism is upon our heads thus we need more regulation. This kind of thinking only comes from someone who thinks Mumbai is New York and thinks what happens in New York is also happening in Mumbai. Like I said, Globalized Confused Pardesi.
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  2761. SC's judgement would have been more palatable if the SC worked on removing structural barriers. Reservations is fine if Govt. Of India liberalizes education further and built more capacity in the education system. Instead Govt of India makes it a miserable rat race in an shrinking lake of opportunity. Number of seats hasn't kept up with the number of students because every Govt spends abysmal amounts of money on education. For all the flowery words of Justice Chandrachod, he fails to apply the same principles of structural criticism that inspired his speech in Harvard.
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  2762. Chavi and savi both mean key. Same thing with Tamil Nadu and Tamil naaad both mean TamilNadu.
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  2763.  @JB-mm5ff  well unlike the Congress, the BJP doesn’t shortchange its propagandists. I hope you ever able to get your Rs. 2
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  2764.  @pratiush1000  he already has it. He has yours too. Everytime you book a ticket, MHA gets your number. This is precisely why I’m advocating for strengthening processes instead of denying capabilities.
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  2765.  @AgroPrawn1802  no country gives you absolute right. Most activists believe their rights are absolute.
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  2766. It was in an container that just arrived at Mundra. Who will you arrest? Crane operator? Dimag laga kabhi toh.
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  2767.  @abinashpatra6791  not to the extent India does. We publish 2 advanced estimates then revised it 4-5 times. Ideally, we should not have any advanced estimates and revision should be limited to 2 maybe 3.
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  2768. So basically, we destroyed our Indo Pacific and trade strategy over an extremist plumber who became a citizen of Canada over suspicious circumstances. This country has become a joke thanks to Trudeau and his constant need to consult the ridings map over National Interest.
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  2769. 4:30 This point is debatable. India had unique advantages that the rest of region lacked. It had a strong aircraft, ship building industry pretty solid education institutes (Pune Univ used to called Oxford of the East), competent administrators, competent businessmen. British gave Nehru 1.1 billion in pound sterling ($40 billion today) but he wasted that buying business back from the formerly middle class Englishmen. India's economy grew in her initial years (between 4 to 6%). It all started going downhill since 1956 with the second Plan when under PC Mahanoblis & Nehru (as Finance Minister), shifted the focus of the Govt away from attracting investments to controlling investments - This was the genesis of License Raj. Though, the impact of his policies were not apparently initially, by the end of his term, India was already on the path towards stagnation. Today Mahanoblis is a dirty word in India.
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  2770.  @abhilashrao5350 Olivier (the presenter) himself has written papers on it.
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  2771. Play well, play hard. Support will come.
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  2772.  @ThePrintIndia  definitely. Please keep bringing up these tidbits.
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  2773. Shekarji, you should consider doing a series on the State's reorganization Act. The ethos of Unity in Diversity was forged during the Linguistic movements of that era (like Samyukta Maharashtra, Maha Gujarat Andolan, Karnataka Ekikarana Paksha etc). There's a decade's worth of content there.
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  2774. Small unnoticeable face of PVNR on a campaign truck is a sure sign of Congress moving past it's ill treatment of PVNR. Bakwas ke bhi hadd hoti hai.
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  2775. If you listen to Devinder Sharma, India will never manufacture anything, our water table will be gone forever, Punjab will never move out of paddy and wheat. He believes agriculture will make us rich - sorry, agriculture has a price ceiling, you can be extra productive but you will never become rich selling agro product. If that was even possible, then young punjabis wouldn't be leaving for Canada in the 10,000. This guy wants India to remain rural and poor.
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  2776. First time collapse, shame on the contractor. Second time collapse shame on the design? Last time it collapsed while it was making the second pier IIRC
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  2777. It is a concept just like the "West"
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  2778. Beke hua log. Desh bech rahe hai
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  2779.  @amit92saini  these protesters don't understand the basics of ambition. Ambitions are nurtured and work on, it is not something that is spoonfed. These protesters only want to be spoonfed their entire life.
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  2780.  @indianhistorybuff  normalize that per citizen and it becomes the cheapest. The bill is big because the scale is big.
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  2781.  @maniaphobia4719  I emailed them, I hope they make it into a CTC and attach it to the description.
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  2782. Shekharji, can you do a CTC on the winter session of Maharashtra? It seems like the speaker was selected by voice vote. NCP MLA uses Ram vanvas metaphor to explain Uddhav absence and there seems to be chaos in COVID response.
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  2783. Nilesh Oak is in the same bucket as David Frawley. He is too a victim of the Indian education system and occupies the vacuum created by the Indian education system. Sigh, my culture's history is getting tainted by grifters and charlatans like Frawley, Oak while folks like Vasant Shinde (from Deccan College) have to beg around for funding and Institutes like Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute barely get any recognition for the work they do (Critical edition of Mahabharata) for pennies. His target audience is Indians who want to know more about our own ancient history. The same Indians who grew up in an education system that forced a single perspective down their throats, a system that never let them explore, learn or test their hypothesis.
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  2784. This video takes some of the most broadest strokes and cliched takes about India. I don't even know where to start.
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  2785.  @vst132  tu tension math le. RSS will have a Dalit chief sooner than Rahul Gandhi’s retirement from politics. RSS will have a Muslim chief sooner than Gandhi family’s retirement from the Congress party. RSS will move on but Congress will stay the same.
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  2786. 2 things: 1. Middle class doesn't vote and they go on vacation during elections 2. Middle class is only 2% of the total population Middle class deserves this after their low turnout in the previous elections. The election was your own chance to show enthusiasm and make demands but vacations were way more important. If blue ticks on twitter can outrage for 2 days and get govt to change policy, then it is even more easier for Middle Class. But Middle class does not care enough to make demands.
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  2787. Thanks!
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  2788. Let's not forget, Canada shielded Tahawwur Hussain Rana (planner and financiers) from getting extradited to India to get prosecuted for Terrorism for 2008 Mumbai Terror attacks. The Americans had to get him extradited to the US and the extradited him to India in May last year. Canada has always been complicit with terror activities and funding coming from within Canada.
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  2789. I appreciate that you acknowledged us in the comments.
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  2790. Russia will not abandon India. It would go against Primkov doctrine which has been primary foreign policy doctrine of Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia is hedging it's bet by being bonhomie with China against US and hedging bets by being a primary arms supplier (just look at the Indo Russian JV) to India against China. Russia sees India as one of the poles of power. Russia is engaging in tactical posturing but strategically it still views China with healthy skepticism. This is exactly why there are CSTO (primarily Russian) were deployed in Kazakhstan, it was there to keep the Chinese out after China offered assistance. Sooner or later, China will stab Russia in the back. BTW, search for "Multipolar World - Russia's Primakov Doctrine in the Middle East" for a more detailed analysis on the doctrine.
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  2791.  @theindianliberal  but KCR still peddles razakar shit. He is a devout Hindu, no doubts about that however that doesn’t mean he gets a free pass when he throws the Hindu community for Muslim votes.
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  2792.  @dhanushvelrajan1565  A Class/Lecture on social justice by me is probably eons fairer than anything that comes out of a DMK politician. Prejudice is not social justice. Saying "many oppose the caste system" today is like saying "Sky is blue". DMK politicians always used Social justice as a platform to spew their communal rhetoric. DMK is lucky that the rest of world doesn't understand Tamil.
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  2793. This is a good series but it needs improvements. Please improve the audio, maybe get a mic. What's also missing is the scale of the relationship between China and Russia. Presenting trade data and quality of trade might help highlight that. Perhaps it might be helpful to use a tell and show approach. For eg: Russia and China are presenting a United front thru forums like BRICS and increased cooperation in SCO summits. That little omph will greatly enhance this series.
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  2794.  @pp_01123  yes. You are reading that right. Nehru sidelined him for rebuilding Somnath, he switched parties and joined Swatantra (not Jan Sangh). He was worried that Congress under Nehru was making the same mistake as Gandhi during Khilafat. With the decline of Swatantra Party and his frustration with Nehru's Govt, he founded the VHP with Tara Singh (from Akali Dal) and with the Sangh's blessing. He was a through and through liberal but unlike Liberals today (who ape the west), he wanted Liberalism to be grounded in Santani values.
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  2795. WW1 is a war of colonial power. BF:1 completely missed that subtext
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  2796. Corrected it. Allied side was full of colonial powers pulling troops from their colonies (particularly Brits and French). After effects of WW1, intensified colonialism.
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  2797. No worries. I could see why that was wrong. My criticism was more towards the British and French side.
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  2798. This is why we need serious legal reforms. Goondas act is just the tip of the iceberg. Entire CrPC should be scrapped.
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  2799.  @sam83santy  LOL, your kind homogenized the other communities. When we unite to pushback that's a bad thing. Don't worry, we will not let your kind thrive.
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  2800. Uddhav and Thackeray family had no future, however, the Sena did have a future. They could have become the JJP of Maharashtra. BJP was always a hinterland party.
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  2801. MVA, NCB and the sessions court judge hasn't received their hafta vasoli to n fulfill their bloated tummys. This isn't about drugs, this is about hafta vasoli.
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  2802.  @smartlearning6390  ruling party doesn't call ED and tell them to arrest someone. Besides the BJP has let their MPs get arrested. The North East MLA was recently arrested for human trafficking (serious charge)
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  2803. RSS runs the biggest school system in Kerala and has the largest number of shakas in Kerala. So Congress also wants to shut down some 1000 schools and deny people an avenue to lobby the State Govt? Also RSS is the one that's getting constantly attacked in Kerala. Workers and volunteers are burnt or butchered, shakas are petrobombed. It doesn't seem like they are the trouble maker.
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  2804. Are they reviving the Star Wars Program of the Reagan Era?
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  2805. Unpowered Rotor in windy Himalayas will make for a very entertaining ride. Can these things even fly above 10,000 feet?
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  2806. I think Microsoft should do a version where they ditch the camera and call it Duo lite
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  2807.  @mayank4977  one more generation and our MiLords will establish the new Neo-Savarna caste and they will lecture us about morality and ethics.
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  2808. The Void in our history exists because Indian Historians of the recent past only regurgitated Colonial and Marxist nonsense coming from the Bowels of JNU's History dept. So if an outside (western and soviet) historian wants to learn more about Indian history, the only way to do so is by visiting India and Govt of the day made it impossible to get Visas. There was never really any effort to do real historiography only narrative building. This mentality exists even today, up until recently Irfan Habib vehemently denied the exists of Ram Mandir, JNU scholars vehemently insisted on Aryan invasion theory, Romila Thapar vehemently insisted on the benevolence of Islamic conquest of India. Reading Western historiography (even Soviet historiography) of India from that time period hits you like a whiplash and makes you realize that they have moved on, never gave 2 cents to Indian scholars because Indian scholars were playing politics rather than advancing our understanding of history.
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  2809.  @rutvikrs  you could add a "/s"
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  2810. @Joey Joejoe federal govt has the tools to whip provincial governments into shape. Just cause it’s the Federal govt doesn’t mean it can sit down and simply stay idle.
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  2811. Thank you to you, your family and Marathi kisan for not demanding freebies and tanking Maharashtra's industries. It is very much appreciated.
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  2812. Talk starts at 7:30
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  2813.  @tanay2412  Congress. How else does Lutyens gets it's safe supply? The Sena's hafta vasoli comes blackmailing businesses. NCP is low class Congress, so unfortunately, they need to stick to local ganja, charas vasoli before they can touch the big stuff. Thank you for attending my monthly hafta vasoli award show, come back next month for next month's show. I'll be back after fighting Penguin's charges of Sedition Act against me.
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  2814.  @sachinelephantgod  everyone had a hand in this; both the NCB officer and NCP minister. There's no way someone like Gosavi got into the jail with a phone to take selfies without Wankhade approving it. And there's no way a raid like this would have been sanctioned without someone from MVA cabinet promising political support. There's no way that bail would have been given out without hafta vasoli being shared in between the Police, the courts and Mantralaya (Maharashtra cabinet) Meanwhile the public here has been made into a bunch of fools by feeding them a spectacle in name of drugs, justice and celebrity bashing.
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  2815.  @PeterParker-mk7vp    everyone had a hand in this; both the NCB officer and NCP minister. There's no way someone like Gosavi got into the jail with a phone to take selfies without Wankhade approving it. And there's no way a raid like this would have been sanctioned without someone from MVA cabinet promising political support. There's no way that bail would have been given out without hafta vasoli being shared in between the Police, the courts and Mantralaya (Maharashtra cabinet) Meanwhile the public here has been made into a bunch of fools by feeding them a spectacle in name of drugs, justice and celebrity bashing.
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  2816. Water transport worker federation is a CPIM aligned trade union. They hate India and everything India does. Govt should shut down this pro-china outfit
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  2817. Universal basic income is inflationary. It will kill our budget and govt will be forced into subsidizing the added inflation. It will end up becoming a fiscal doom loop. Also it will exacerbate corruption. A babu won’t have use from 5kg of grain, but he will have a lot of use from the cut he will extract from UBI payments.
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  2818. None of these folks have the discipline to be part of the Armed forces. Self centred folks who are joining the Armed forces for entitlement is the exact kind of folks that need to be weeded out. We can't afford another babudom in our Armed forces.
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  2819. @ThePrint I think an indepth article about law making process and committee attendance split along party lines would be awesome. I strongly believe we should keep an eye on committees, it's attendance, their precedings and any debate motions passed in Parliament.
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  2820. Can't argue, it's getting spicy. Makes for good popcorn.
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  2821. Fly them off to Delhi, India. Then these perps shall realize how stupid they are.
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  2822.  @brisingr12  that’s overblown. People don’t rear babies just because states says so. Otherwise China’s birth rate would stabilize instead of collapsing further.
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  2823.  @sankalp6872  That's only because migrant UPwalas and Biharis go back to their respective states to vote. If you add them to the local electoral role it will stabilize the situation.
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  2824. Our opposition is absolutely useless. They can't clean up their act, have a history of deep abuse of power and they are rapidly losing supporters because of the issues they pick and stand on. They are more useful idiots for the BJP than they are an opposition. Aise hi aur harkat karte raho.
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  2825. I doubt there'll be any political fallout. The opposition wasted an opportunity - Aam aadmi don't care about targeted hacking of few public personalities. They care about inflation - they could have upped the ante on fuel prices but they caused a ruckus. They could have upped the ante on the handling of the second wave but they caused a ruckus as well. Besides, Congress has lost a lot of credibility - folks look at the Gandhis and they see dynastic entitlement and the Gandhi family's excesses. Their presence literally poisons important discourse on Govt. surveillance.
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  2826. Hey @ThePrint, did you get my payment for this month? YouTube says I auto-renewed (?)
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  2827. Good to know. Someone's reading RBI notices.
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  2828. LOL. Pakistan is copying Trudeau and spouting nonsense. The country that hosted Osama Bin Laden is complaining about countries protecting their National Security. LOL. Good Job India. Terrorism is fundamentally incompatible with Democracy and does not deserve sovereign protection.
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  2829. The original nepokid before nepokid became a thing. Papa ka connection se career launch kiya tha DD mein. Nahi toh sab flop tha iska movies.
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  2830. ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠ @abhilashrao5350 he thrashed the opposition with demo in 2019. 😂 He corrected during corona with his vaccine rollout while opposition was trying to scuttle the program. Oxygen ke liye he rolled out ventilators and used the railways which actually reached their destinations unlike previous govt. Bullet train, he keeps advertising it as developing new talent and with monthly videos on social media. 15 lakhs toh UPI se mil raha hai, sabko ghar, nal aur toilet ban raha with close 70% coverage now (all three put together). 5 trillion hasn’t been abandoned like UPA’s numerous programs. BJP doesn’t bury anything, they play their cards well.
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  2831.  @abhilashrao5350 ​​⁠He thrashed the opposition with Demonetization in 2019. He came back with a bigger majority. Corona, vaccine rollout was better than the developed countries. While America was issuing poorly made paper records, Modi craftily used digitization to ensure it reached the entire population 4 times. Meanwhile, the opposition was wishing he failed - dug their own grave. Sabka vikas toh ho raha hai. A lower caste “Secular” samuday today gets a pakka house, toilet, gas cylinder for 3 months, Jal from the nal, two trips to Haj in their lifetime and soft loans and scholarship for education. Bullet train hasn’t been forgotten on the other hand, BJP has gone the extra step advertising it. Kabhi toh NHSRCL ka YouTube channel jaake dekh. 5 trillion goal is still there. BJP hasn’t abandoned its goals or shyed away from their failures. Where they fail, they adapt and come back with better programs. That’s their strength.
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  2832.  @abhilashrao5350 ​​⁠He thrashed the opposition with Demonetization in 2019. He came back with a bigger majority. Corona, vaccine rollout was better than the developed countries. While America was issuing poorly made paper records, Modi crafty used digitization to ensure it reached the entire population 4 times. Meanwhile, the opposition was wishing he failed - dug their own grave. Sabka vikas toh ho raha hai. A ignored section of lower caste today gets a pakka house, toilet, gas cylinder for 3 months, Jal from the nal, two trips to Haj in their lifetime and soft loans and scholarship for education. Bullet train hasn’t been forgotten on the other hand, BJP has gone the extra step advertising it. Kabhi toh NHSRCL ka YouTube channel jaake dekh. 5 trillion goal is still there. BJP hasn’t abandoned its goals or shyed away from their failures. Where they fail, they adapt and come back with better programs. That’s their strength.
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  2833.  @abhilashrao5350 ​​⁠He thrashed the opposition with Demonetization in 2019. He came back with a bigger majority. Corona, vaccine rollout was better than the developed countries. While America was issuing poorly made paper records, Modi crafty used digitization to ensure it reached the entire population 4 times. Meanwhile, the opposition was wishing he failed - dug their own grave. Sabka vikas toh ho raha hai. A ignored section of lower caste, today gets a pakka house, toilet, gas cylinder for 3 months, Jal from the nal, two trips to Hajj in their lifetime and soft loans and scholarship for education. Bullet train hasn’t been forgotten on the other hand, BJP has gone the extra step advertising it. Kabhi toh NHSRCL ka YouTube channel jaake dekh. 5 trillion goal is still there. BJP hasn’t abandoned its goals or shyed away from their failures. Where they fail, they adapt and come back with better programs. That’s their strength.
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  2834.  @abhilashrao5350 ​​⁠He thrashed the opposition with Demonetization in 2019. He came back with a bigger majority. Corona, vaccine rollout was better than the developed countries. While America was issuing poorly made paper records, Modi crafty used digitization to ensure it reached the entire population 4 times. Meanwhile, the opposition was wishing he failed - dug their own grave. Sabka vikas toh ho raha hai. A ignored section lower caste today gets a pakka house, toilet, gas cylinder for 3 months, Jal from the nal, two trips to Hajj in their lifetime and soft loans and scholarship for education. Bullet train hasn’t been forgotten on the other hand, BJP has gone the extra step advertising it. Kabhi toh NHSRCL ka YouTube channel jaake dekh. 5 trillion goal is still there. BJP hasn’t abandoned its goals or shyed away from their failures. Where they fail, they adapt and come back with better programs. That’s their strength.
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  2835.  @abhilashrao5350 ​​⁠He thrashed the opposition with Demonetization in 2019. He came back with a bigger majority. Rona,tika rollout was better than the developed countries. While America was issuing poorly made paper records, Modi crafty used digitization to ensure it reached the entire population 4 times. Meanwhile, the opposition was wishing he failed - dug their own grave. Sabka vikas toh ho raha hai. A ignored section lower caste from a particular samuday today gets a pakka house, toilet, gas cylinder for 3 months, Jal from the nal, two trips to Hajj in their lifetime and soft loans and scholarship for education. Bullet train hasn’t been forgotten on the other hand, BJP has gone the extra step advertising it. Kabhi toh NHSRCL ka YouTube channel jaake dekh. 5 trillion goal is still there. BJP hasn’t abandoned its goals or shyed away from their failures. Where they fail, they adapt and come back with better programs. That’s their strength.
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  2836.  @abhilashrao5350 ​​⁠​​⁠He thrashed the opposition with Demonetization in 2019. He came back with a bigger majority. Rona,tika rollout was better than the developed countries. While America was issuing poorly made paper records, Modi crafty used digitization to ensure it reached the entire population 4 times. Meanwhile, the opposition was wishing he failed - dug their own grave. Sabka vikas toh ho raha hai. A ignored section lower caste from a particular samuday today gets a pakka house, toilet, gas cylinder for 3 months, Jal from the nal, two trips to Hajj in their lifetime and soft loans and scholarship for education. Bullet train hasn’t been forgotten on the other hand, BJP has gone the extra step advertising it. Kabhi toh NHSRCL ka YouTube channel jaake dekh. 5 trillion goal is still there. BJP hasn’t abandoned its goals or shyed away from their failures. Where they fail, they adapt and come back with better programs. That’s their strength.
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  2837. Finally a comment that y Ou Tu Be has not scrubbed
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  2838. Latha ko lao Razakars ko bhagao. They are criminals we forgot about.
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  2839. Chandrachud is essentially telling the Govt to hire more agents to adequately staff the CBI. 👍🏼
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  2840. Is Biden in a mood to please Netanyahu?
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  2841.  @se6369 UK created a legal entity called BIOT claimed io domain. So if UK can do it why can't Mauritius?
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  2842. Dude, civilians don't have job security. They keep their jobs secure by working hard. No one gives lifetime job guarantees anymore.
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  2843. Since, 2021, Army has started devolving counter insurgency operations to CRPF. That has helped Rastriya Rifles to focus on Border Security and Corps to focus on conventional threats.
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  2844.  @Jon.Morimoto  Thanks for your concern. But I speak Tamil, I don't see any benefit from it in my business or work life. But it is a part of me. I read and listen to Tamil songs. It enriches my life. Everything is not about money. Indigenous folks deserve that level of dignity to enjoy wonders of their culture in their own language. So ya, I would totally support expanding access to indigenous languages.
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  2845.  @stewy4158  Nope. I will stay in BC and speak French, Tamil, Hindi, Cantonese, Japanese, Marathi, Mandarin and you have to live with it. It is a free country for a reason.
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  2846.  @tubedude4859  no one is forcing you to learn anything. On the other hand, everyone here is forcing everyone else to learn English.
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  2847.  @Jon.Morimoto  let's talk about facilitating Language learning first. What do I mean by that? Well, I don't want Teachers as much as a space for my kids to learn Tamil. It could be in the form of syllabus and/or after school classroom space. Our community centres do provide some of that but I think the Govt can provide a better platform. Another way to think about it is, I'd rather have BC Govt provide me a syllabus on Mandarin than the Confucius Institute with dictats from Beijing. Besides Language is powerful healing tool. I strongly believe it is unfortunate that it is easier to find tutors for Cantonese compared to tutors for any Coast Salish languages. That needs to be fixed.
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  2848.  @Jon.Morimoto  it's not about recruiting as much as facilitating that language learning environment. I find the availability unfortunate because it shows the lack of support we provide to indigenous issues. We facilitate preservation of Cantonese (there are signs in Canto, translators etc.) why can't we extend that to indigenous languages? Why can't those who want to learn Coast Salish find the facilities to learn it? I would love to learn a Verb Subject Object language like Squamish but I can't find any place to learn or practice. Heck who knows, maybe tomorrow the concepts in Squamish grammar might help me design a new programming language for future techies. If Irish Gaelic is able to undergo a revival then we can do the same with Coast Salish languages.
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  2849.  @Jon.Morimoto  it's just plain apathy. It's just plain lack of institutional support.
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  2850. @UCDOOezetGzlqkiezTOB0-xA from the outside yes. I'm talking about helping enlisted personnel (your Havildars) become non commissioned officers (your captains). The other kind of transition is moving them away from Frontline duties and into Frontline support duties especially specialist roles like signals officer (again reserved for Commissioned officers). Frontline support roles can be Short service commission role, so you can get rid of them after the tour of duty. These SSC roles can fill the skill shortfall in many of our sunshine sectors like electronics.
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  2851. Mamta promised governance and industrialization in West Bengal. Well we know how West Bengal is doing in terms of that. Besides women’s reservation Bill was introduced long long ago. Every govt has delayed it for good reason - frozen parliamentary seats. We need to improve MP to citizen ratio and bring that down from the current 1 MP for every 20 lakhs down to 1 MP per 7.5 lakhs.
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  2852. For a moment I thought the Staffer quit his job and joined Bloomberg to work for them. 🤦‍♂️ Headlines can be misinterpreted
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  2853. So this guy will let our education system rot while he sends his kids aboard to study with taxpayer money. NEP at least attempts to bring in quality education but this guy would have none of it.
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  2854.  @HarshitASrivastava6410  if freebies gave us prosperity then we would have been $10 trillion dollar economy in the 90s. Instead we have been eating into our road, railways development budget, our education budget, our healthcare budget etc. while trying to fulfill freebies promises. You choose. Do you want infrastructure that helps you succeed in life or freebies that keeps you poor in mind and malnourished in body? So choose wisely. Also, do think about the reputation of "the spiritual center of the world" that survives on freebies while neglecting even basic governance. I grew up listening to the Beatles vividly describing the how much poverty, misery from poverty and garbage they had to wade through to reach the Guru they were looking for. I do not look forward to listening to such descriptions and I want development.
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  2855.  @Rv2023CeO  huh, well that explains his 6 crore net worth for someone that earns less than the average salary in NCR and with an expensive 3 crore house in Delhi. Surely, he earned that while being CM, right? Him and corruption free? It's nonsense. The dude has his hands in contractors around NCR and earns nice dividends from contracts contracted out to them. I dunno, which world you live in, but that's structural corruption. Also, AAP got 37 crores of donations in 19-20 and their total income jumped from 193 cr to 400 cr - doubled and also exactly 400 cr in expenses? daal main kuch kala hai. I don't buy that they are corruption free, just like how I don't believe BJP is corruption free. But unlike the AAP, BJP at least delivers something.
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  2856. Outcomes, outcomes. Kitne bacche pass hua hai? Shall we test their proficiencies? Sab context free bakwas
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  2857. Indian Express loves their Abdul and Hamas lover. They won’t dare to cover the plight of Hindus because they are kafirs according to abdul.
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  2858. It is unfortunate and very shameful that we haven't figured out housing in Canada. Now because of housing issues we now need to compromise with co-housing
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  2859. If you look back at 2014, Narendra Modi had to convince and get buy in from old guard of the BJP. Anyone who comes after Modi needs to do the same thing, they need to convince Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Sitharaman and Goyal. Also Modi and the current cabinet cares a lot about their legacy, anyone that comes has to ensure that's preserved.
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  2860. That's a pretty good saying
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  2861. When was the last time mainstream media covered any State budget? How about we look into the Maharashtra budget? Was it even passed?
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  2862.  @dreamsofadaffodil650 naah it won't. The revision must come from India first.
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  2863. The current form of Khalistan is basically a mafia network with an activist front. They use the activism to shield themselves from extradition in Canada and provide a illusion of "dignity" to their criminal activity. BTW Extradition is a political process with a veneer of Judicial process. BTW, I think the Print should reach out to Canadian journalists (like Terry Glavin, Terry Milewski, Kim Bolan, Lorne Goldstein etc.) and work on a transnational series that gets published in both countries.
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  2864. Where there’s Congress, there’s always nepotism and corruption. It’s a family tradition.
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  2865.  @ss-fp7vz  despite that TMC as an Opposition is more credible than the Congress. It says a lot about the Congress.
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  2866.  @pichumanisankar2617  while TN media covers the few tens that decide to commit to ending their life, they ignore the several hundreds that commit suicide over board exams.
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  2867. Of course the loan amount would be greater than the value of the house. You don't have credit history that the bank assess your discipline to pay in time.
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  2868.  @sidrafatima1060  these idiots don't know anything about their own religion and think they are the authority when it comes to Islam. If they really knew anything about Hindu philosophy (let alone local customs), they would have in their heart to recognize moments of genuine respect and last farewells. Don't let them dictate terms to you. These idiots are insufferable, I pray for their souls and their next life.
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  2869.  @rameshwaghmare9432  it is not your place to judge if it was a spit or dua. You are not part of her family so you can learn to keep quiet and respect her legacy, instead of ruining her last rites.
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  2870. It's going to be incredibly hard. Unless there's direct evidence of Putin ordered the butchering he won't be implicated.
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  2871. Well, it was meant for the business community.
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  2872.  @ankitchauhan1792  dude they will get 12 lakhs in their hands with savings from their salary. Housing is already paid for those 4 years. Don't tell me at 24, you can't come up with ways to advance your career. Are these folks that unresourceful and unremarkably dumb that they can't figure what's the way forward?
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  2873.  @reach2prasanna  Congress was forced, they didn’t choose to liberalize the economy. If it wasn’t for the balance of payment crisis then we would still been poor and socialist. BJP under Vajpayee made that economic growth more sustainable and pushed it passed the point of no return. Heck when UPA came back they wasted billions on Air India and they were desperately trying to kill the industry.
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  2874.  @gurusastropalmistry2214  I’m quite well aware. On the other hand, you keep pushing a particular conspiracy theory, so please stay in your cave and keep up your imagination.
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  2875. So much sexism. Great way to cheer for your guy. What a loser
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  2876.  @nazeerpasha2075  of course. The beauty of North Temples were destroyed by the fanaticism and colonial mentality of Muslim Invaders. Shall we talk about the destructive nature of Islamic conquest and how much beauty, art and culture they destroyed out of sheer spite?
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  2877.  @Vizorfam  yes we have lakhs of undereducated folks who don't understand contract obligations. Let alone understand public health policies. For once, take the time to read and more importantly understand the issues.
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  2878. Congress Party is not a democracy however, there's a lot of politics within the Indian National Congress. China is a dictatorship but just like the Congress, also has a lot of internal politics. Back stabbing, sycophancy, political conspiracy, factionalism are part of Chinese Communist Party's political culture.
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  2879. It is too early to say what the impact is going to be. India with it's large population and diverse cultures tends to throw a fast spin ball if you focused on one issue without considering others That said if movement was successful, then it would have resulted in more protests outside of the Hindi heartland particularly in Maharashtra which has a lot of disgruntled farmers. (Basically, I'm trying to say the issues that BKU screams about are not the same as Maha farmers. Maharashtra farmers are disgruntled with the nexus between local Coop banks and the politicians). That said, UP 2022 is the one to watch. If UP stays BJP with a comfortable margin then the farmer's movement is going the way of YFE or India Against Corruption and the Anna Hazare movement.
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  2880.  @user-cv1jb9xv2p  I was rather disappointed by the turnout.
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  2881.  @varoonnone7159  yes it is. We have our democratic system that has survived into the modern era. You'll still find an ancient form of democracy that's practiced in the Pahad (HP). You are quite ill informed about our country.
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  2882.  @lalablah8493 LOL. Please share the drug that make you feel so euphoric and naive about the world. None of that will happen. Instead the same set of transactions will be processed thru Shell companies. The reality is The Supreme court decision is more like putting lipstick on a pig. It will open up harassment of doners by opposition and it will end making the system more opaque than it already is.
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  2883.  @lalablah8493 oh really?! That's really naive of you. SC decision is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig. What'll happen is all the transactions will be routed through shell companies. It'll become more opaque than what it is. This decision will also enable harassment of doners by opposition.
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  2884.  @lalablah8493 it won't. You're being naive. SC decision will only make things more opaque and enable harassment of doners by opposition. Thoe big companies who want to donate will use Shell companies and smaller players will be harassed by your local goon. Entrench big Corp hold on political donations.
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  2885.  @Valkyri3Z  there are avenues. Subpoena records through the courts. Also, don't underestimate the power of forensics - if they surrender their phones to even a third party firm, the evidence would be clear as day. Ya, there's plenty of evidence to pick up on the phone.
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  2886.  @0609Bhuwan  tu kause Duniya Mein Hai Bhai? GST Council was created by a Constitutional amendment. Also the last thing India wants is a deep State that controls distribution of Public Finances.
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  2887. If they want to throw their life away, that's their choice. Itne chutiye hai ki tum log 25 saal zindagi kaisi badana soch nahi sakte toh mar jaa.
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  2888. Shekharji, please consider an OTC with Walter K Anderson. A couple of days ago he released the second edition of RSS - The Inside View. The interesting thing he mentioned was that the Mandarin edition sold well.
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  2889.  @Valkyri3Z  Maybe you should say Jai Shree Ram. His murder was for the benefit to society. Jai Shree Ram!
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  2890.  @ayush885  yes, British built a lot of schools in the South and encouraged Southern Brahmins to get educated in the British system. When the Jesuits priests/British missionaries couldn't convert them (some of them used to claim Mariamman/Tamil Durga was Mother Mary), the British made them administrators. British missionaries thought they could convert all South India by converting the Brahmins first.
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  2891. Wait a min, Congress walks out of Parliament and squashes any decision on the matter. This is the wrong time to do that. They could have forced it during question hour, they could have used their committee power to review contracts. But no, they walk out?! Keep giving the BJP a free hand. While the Congress walked out, the BJP passed an amendment to IBC code without decision or debate on the amendment in Parliament. Think on this for a moment - bills passed in Lok Sabha without debate or input by the opposition because they staged a walk out.
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  2892.  @Katrina-rh5fq  you can leverage FOIA to get the govt to tell you how it uses its data. There’s also constant audits by privacy commissioners. Govt just cannot by law share private data to anyone. The standard to share data is pretty high bar to pass through courts. Can you ask Air Canada how your data is used? Nope. You would need to litigate and you will likely not even win. You also cannot mandate Air Canada disallow sharing data with unfriendly nations.
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  2893.  @Vizorfam  you don't think our fellow Indians deserve dignity, then why are you even in India? Please pack up and move to Pakistan.
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  2894.  @TerraIncognitaz  sure but that NRI's suggestion did not even make it to draft bill. Some kind of influence that NRI had.
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  2895. No. We are an infrastructure deficient country. We are not building extra infrastructure.
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  2896. They give the BJP a free pass to pass any resolution without debate or input.
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  2897.  @IndiaTides  please educate me about how Pathaan is something the EAM should learn from. The guy who got the Europeans to recognize there’s a rest of world somehow needs lessons from Pathaan is the epitome of rational thought.
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  2898.  @EoamerGaming97  so you're saying I should watch Pathaan rather than read Diplomatic readouts, Intelligence reports, National security doctrine to learn about National Interests and Geopolitics. Great insight there, Einstein. Meanwhile, Einstein sir, please tell me what Pathaan says about US-India Relations or how China views the Indo Pacific. I would love yours and Jyoti's insight on that. Clearly, I am the uneducated here.
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  2899. Basic structure came before “Secularism” was injected into the constitution.
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  2900.  @badaburner  the people are usually threaten to vote. When Atiq was MLA of Prayagraj, he would send his henchmen to harass people ot vote for him.
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  2901.  @jasonjamesbisson  subscribed to union newsletters.
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  2902. The speaker's fundamental basis for defending democracy is flawed. You can't ask a person who lives paycheck to paycheck to sacrifice more for the sake of democracy. The best defense for democracy is to ensure people have access to good food, shelter and employment. You fix those basics, people will listen, otherwise, they will not hesitate to burn the system. Weimar Republic didn't became Nazi because of lack of sacrifice by the German people, it was quite the opposite.
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  2903. Tatas will foldup their aerospace division and close shop. IAF does not order in bulk and keeps delaying beyond the point of no return where you have no other option except purchase foreign aircraft. You need consistent funding and TLC for your domestic industry. If you keep giving piecemeal orders, you get a piecemeal product.
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  2904.  @imkinglinmema  life doesn't end at 24. Your prime doesn't end at 24, it begins at 24. You can still earn a living, go back to college, earn a degree or start a business or use the skills you learn in the armed forces for a job. There's a lot of technical skills you pick up in the army, it's not just guns and marches. Who maintains those tanks? Jawans do. Those top quality skills are in demand in manufacturing. It's not all bad, it's about mindset and applying the skills you have to move forward.
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  2905. It’s because we have a lot of high ego elites who like to lecture us and they get brought down a notch in the comments and post election time. It’s actually fun to watch Vir before Radia tapes, after Radia and after 2014.
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  2906. Ya with an Ayatollah who told the Shias, "Trust the Hindus to handle their affairs". Nonsense, Iran's fight is with the Middle East and US foreign policy that hasn't moved beyond 1979. They have no fight against us.
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  2907.  @Picaulhas he always was.
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  2908. You need liberalization 2.0 We are at a juncture where NPAs occurs because of regulatory risk rather than business practices. Revenue expectations don’t materialize because regulatory headaches. Power sector is a prime example of this.
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  2909. Thank you for showing support. We need it .... desperately. - Hindu Canadian.
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  2910. Glass half full, Glass half empty. Arvind Subramanian isn't a Raghuram Rajan but he's still a half glass empty guy. For eg: He says India's FDI is "collapsing", doesn't provide numbers or specifics or even contextual the current geopolitical situation i.e High US Interest rates is sucking up a lot of money globally. Most of this responses to the question is Half by Smart and clueless folks in the comments are heaping useless praises.
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  2911.  @berserkhorimiya and what's the cause of that? US interest rates.
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  2912. It's a over simplified but ya they didn't bother reforming IPC CrPC.
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  2913. Europe and The G7 can go F itself over the price cap. They dragged their feet with energy transition, stalled climate negotiations, then doubled down on Russian O&G! Now they want to lecture the rest of world and dictate terms to them. Do they think the Rest of the World especially the Global South is still subservient to their foreign policy? No. EU and the G7 wants to force a price cap to the rest of the world, they better compensate or subsidize their purchases the Global South first. Europeans, please get some extra sweaters and turn down your heaters. Y'all live in luxury compared to the rest of the world. Y'all can afford sacrifice some of your comforts.
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  2914. ⁠ @sarthakshende9 I invest in Infra and adjacent sectors. I believe people don’t think the middle bike segment as aspirational anymore. It’s a similar story for cars, Alto sales have been flat but every other model is seeing double sometimes triple digit growth. I know every manufacturer is seeing massive growth in heavy equipment sales, with announcements for capacity expansions. Plus, stock market domestic investors investing has seen double digit growth. I just think there’s a churn going on. To me it says there’s a massive restructuring going on.
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  2915.  @sarthakshende9 EPFO numbers have actually been robust. An average of 1.2 million net additions and most of them from 18-25 and 26-40 is shows resilient growth. Assuming we need 18 million jobs/year EPFO data says our formal sector is close to creating jobs to cover that demand for jobs. I don’t buy the noise around unemployment - unemployment in India always means underemployment. Does not mean people are jobless but rather they are working in unproductive sectors.
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  2916.  @sarthakshende9 no India is an infra deficit country. We actually have a problem of capacity. If BJP comes back then you will see sustained growth in the sector. The issue with infrastructure has more to do with cash flow rather than profit. As long as infrastructure companies have solid order books it’s sustainable, I’d really start worrying when order books slows down. That means all that cash flow issues becomes serious crisis. Most infrastructure players work on a hand to mouth basis - the incoming order book helps their margins. Yes politics is an issue but even politicians are slowly starting to see the business value in infra - that change of mindset is helping the sector become more sustainable.
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  2917.  @sarthakshende9 to me, it means manufacturers need you improve on their offerings in the mid bike segment. Market does not want to pay for a cosmetic upgrade that costs 10-15% than the base model.
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  2918.  @Mandy12_12  Yes, atm private investment is delinked from private consumption, announced investments are towards adding more capacity. There was capacity under utilization until recently (In FY23 - utilization was around mid 70s, they need to hit above 80%) so profits were "reinvested" in reducing corporate debts, cleaning up their balance sheets (Good move IMO). However, Private companies won't invest until after the election and it will accelerate when US Fed interest rates start dropping.
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  2919.  @Mandy12_12 here take your Rs. 2 and scurry away to someone else’s comments.
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  2920.  @hemantachandra6962  I think the Print should ask her to improve her interview style.
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  2921. Wah Wah Wah, kya jhut bol raha hai. Rajan and cooperative Banks story is just plain made up. RBI did not have the mandate to manage co-operatives until recently. It could only regulate scheduled co-operative banks. Ye, imaginary regulator mandate kaha se like aaya? Either Chavan is lying or Raghuram Rajan was incompetent (which is also very much possible) Now regarding Chavan govt, things were stagnant. Chavan CMShip was a carbon copy of UPA-2. CMO approved a project only to have it stalled because Soniaji didn't bless it. The only achievement of the Chavan govt was that they managed to finish Line 1 construction just before the election. That project itself was delayed by 6 years. The other achievement was Adarsh housing scam (his predecessor's achievement)
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  2922.  @sankalp6872  the islands are strategically more valuable than the cost of M. M ke liye multi front Dharm pravesh.
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  2923.  @sankalp6872 you have it wrong. Maldives lies in the 8 degree channel. Huge shipping lane and choke point. It's essentially the entrance into Eastern IOR. If you want to monitor and deter Chinese submarine activity then you would want control Maldives. Also, it's midpoint between India and Diego Garcia. So you if want to put pressure on the US and UK, you'd want those islands. Plus control of Maldives expands our EEZs way into IOR. Means we get to dictate Freedom of navigation. We can get the Maldives and neither US or China can do anything beyond watch. Maldives exists because of our goodwill, not because of International law.
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  2924. Airport privatization was hailed a huge achievement of building infrastructure.
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  2925.  @azingo2313  It feels like it was a Post Grad thesis paper written by a National Defence University candidate. I hope the classified one isn't as barebones as the public document.
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  2926. Pehla sales tax kum karo. Otherwise we'll depress the auto industry.
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  2927. Our activists and bureaucracy live in this lalaland where the law exists to automatically fix problems. The reality is law is useless without a functioning judiciary. People would rather live with the forced indiginity of sexual assault than deal with the courts and it's endless adjournments. Sab Ram Bharose aur karma se chalta hai and that's how people cope with a dysfunctional legal system.
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  2928. Uddhav was involved in blackmailing Ambani, he reinstated Vaze. What makes the Son, Aaaaaaaaditya Thackeray who partied with establishment Bollywood stars any less innocent? Shinde might be allegedly scammy but he isn't criminal. Thackerays have had their hands in criminality.
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  2929.  @sankalp6872  I think we are talking past each other. So alliances break for 2 reasons - disinterest and structural factors. For eg: Our inability to sign a mutual defence treaty with the US is due structural issues with the relationship - i.e. China + our inability to commit to conflicts that the Americans might get involved in. Despite diplomatic bonhomie, we simply can't commit to a mutual defence treaty. I'm saying NAM died not because of structural issues but disinterest. In other words, our diplomat didn't not engage with their counterparts or build a grand strategy or coordinate diplomatic efforts. When I mean you are missing my point, I am basically saying we should be aware that our diplomatic efforts does not fall by the wayside. I used NAM as an example of how it can manifest. I hope that clear things up.
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  2930. We should convince the West that Pakistan's existence goes against their National Interest. A non existent Pakistan will help the region just like how Bangladesh is helping bring more stability to North East (sure there's illegal immigration but that's order of magnitude better than state sponsored terrorism).
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  2931. DEI has become joke. It has been abused to discriminate and more importantly to squash complaint against abuse of power. I live in the same province as Nick and local Head Librarian passed a rule that excluded White People from getting hired or promoted by the local libraries. In addition, she added an exception that excludes her from the rule. It's not just discrimination, it's also blatant abuse of power.
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  2932.  @sauron2000000 nahi hai. That's why they pontificate about how to change the world. New York elites are some of the most neocolonialist people on the planet.
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  2933.  @sauron2000000 nahi hai. New York elites are nothing more than bored neocolonialists.
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  2934.  @sauron2000000 nahi hai. New York elites are n30-c0l0nialists
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  2935.  @shadows2909  hahahaha ya. BJP is laying easy traps for AAP and Congress to fall for.
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  2936. Don't be lazy. Make that mandate stronger and aim higher. Modi says 400, our aim should be 450.
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  2937. Shahranpur, one of India’s worst districts. That district administration is so terrible that their district alone cost the state 20 billion rupees.
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  2938.  @BruceWayne-qe7bs  unlike Russia, we are a Democratic nation. Besides unlike Ukraine, Pakistan does not have a stable form of government or governance. The case for denuclearization is stronger if packaged in the right way.
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  2939.  @mg.f.9023 Adani doesn’t go about forcibly converting and killing people. Still prefer working for him rather than live under Muslim rule.
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  2940. It's Canadians that's dragging us into foreign issues. Trudeau and Jagmeet have been pandering to extremists here, giving them space and letting them set tge agenda, news cycle and policy. One can make an (hypothetical) argument to deport Jagmeet but can you deport Trudeau? They are the source of the problems.
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  2941. Environmentalists stalled the development of 5 STPs for the sake of trees. They filled several petitions to stall the construction of treatment plants. Now they stalled it again citing infectious diseases. Sewage treatment plants would have treated all these effluents and made the Yamuna way less polluted than what it is right now. https://m.timesofindia.com/city/delhi/hc-seeks-aiims-reply-on-plea-against-stp/articleshow/80775376.cms https://m.timesofindia.com/city/delhi/delay-in-nod-to-axe-2900-trees-holds-up-five-stps/articleshow/80932672.cms
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  2942.  @theglobalgambit  your beautiful chest hair adds to the immersion of content. ;)
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  2943. I hope Aditi Singh is able to get voters to boot this Shehzada out of UP.
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  2944. Great stuff! Loved the metaphors
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  2945. Is the US-led Order Really Over? No. The West still has a LOT of leverage in their hands. Is the West willing to burn bridges to use that leverage? I strongly doubt it. The asymmetric leverage the West used to enjoy is now becoming more and more symmetric each passing day. Case in points: - You can't have a G7 without India or one of the large G20 economies but you can have a discussion in G7 without Canada. - Europe's problems are the world's problem but rest of the world can't be coerced to sacrifice for Europe's problems. That decline can be felt in the West's "Liberal International Order". P.S.: Before 2019, the US led Order used to be called "Liberal International Order", today that's become "Rules based International Order". Liberal values as defined by the West are no longer unidirectionally global.
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  2946.  @theglobalgambit  yes and you know "Liberal" has become a dirty word in International Diplomacy when someone like Ikenberry redefines Liberal Internationalism in terms of interests rather than values. He redefines it as "(Democracies) committed to openness as well as the belief that they are better off through cooperation, exchange, and trade". Human right is missing *cough *cough. The last time ECPR wrote about "Liberal International Order" was back in 2023 and they defined it in terms of interests rather than values so that Brussels can find the justification to bend over backwards to bring Turkey into the EU. Thank God for the internet, we can make fun of mental gymnastics of Western IR scholars and share it Globally.
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  2947.  @theglobalgambit  and Youtube deletes my follow up comments. Anyway, Ikenberry redefines Liberal Internationalism in terms of interests instead of values. ECPR calls for a revamp of Liberal Internationalism in terms of interest rather than values (all of that for including Turkey into the EU). Ikenberry calls Liberal democracies as "countries are committed to openness as well as the belief that they are better off through cooperation, exchange, and trade." Notice there's no talk of values. Ya, Liberal has become a dirty word in International Diplomacy.
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  2948.  @robk5865 yes precisely. We have a defunct drug enforcement and organized crime units. 15 years ago, RCMP organized crime unit was 200 strong. Today that number is close to 70 and they are bringing back retired officers. So we don't have enough officers to track criminal drug syndicates - the folks behind the fentanyl crisis. Safe supply has made this even worse. We let the govt provide drugs and let crime syndicates double dip on the druggies while taking the heat off them.
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  2949.  @jamalov6026  yup. He killed several MPP/MLAs, kidnapped judges family members, killed several witnesses (while being in Jail in the other end of the country), beat up professors, tortured businessmen to surrender land, kidnapped women for forced marriages etc. The rap sheet that goes into hundered of pages. But Global News thinks he's a worthy lawmaker. Ya, no Indian is going to believe that.
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  2950.  @reel_man  wait, don't Keralites keep harping about how the "North is underdeveloped and backwards"? So why can't the rest of India have opinions about Kerala? A once forward looking state has been turned into a backward state that has ruined it's culture and become an ISIS den.
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  2951. Congress will build a samadhi for him like they did for Sanjay Gandhi. I can't wait for the day Sanjay Gandhi's samadhi is removed from Rajghat.
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  2952.  @Vizorfam  Bhagwan DB ko buddhi de. There prayer done.
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  2953.  @Shopkeeper99900  yes but when you keep reopening old wounds and try to oppress reconciliation efforts it harms Canada's multiculturalism. This is Trudeau's fault, he could not see beyond his votes and pandering to diaspora politics. And now we are suffering.
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  2954. For me it is double whammy of disrespect. I'm Indo Canadian, I can tell you Khalistan is not a thing in India. But this movement is alive here and get soft support from Liberals and NDP. Jagmeet Singh is a Khalistani, it's an open secret.
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  2955.  @RYANG-qd1mv  our city councils adds fuel to the trash fire with their long winded process and demands for community contributions. If I need to hire a permitting consultant on top of an architect for a renovation, you know something is wrong with the process.
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  2956. We should get Tibetan Govt in Exile to redraw Tibet's administrative boundaries.
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  2957.  @bigfigher  I think you need some serious education. You can't contribute, you keep calling everyone Bhakt and you call yourself some fighter. Maybe quit the comment section and read some economics book.
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  2958. This will work as long as all you do is complain and vote parivarvadi parties. Our esteemed opposition parties and their dynasties maintain a monopoly of power.
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  2959. A guy can dream. He's looking for an Oxford Bharat Ratna.
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  2960.  @tapemaj  He is looking for validation from his neighbours at Oxford & Cambridge.
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  2961.  @ThePrintIndia  I disagree. None of the folks who implemented those policies exists today unlike in Europe. This is gross false equivalence bordering on aping the Western issues on to our problems. Throughout our history, our society was ruled under the helm of invaders - they dictated rules, we followed them (out of fear, sense of law, etc.). Slavery did not exists in India prior to Sultanates.
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  2962. I believe we might be looking at an Outsourcing boom followed by an immigration boom. Job cuts will not come but it will stay stable but the "excess" wanted jobs will be outsourced if it's not filled up.
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  2963. The Congress party spokesperson Jairam Ramesh, when he was Environment Minister under UPA-2 arbitrarily cancelled Border Road Projects approved by PM Manmohan Singh. Gaddari ki bhi haad Hoti Hai. These guys for decades compromised our national security. We need a Congress Mukht Bharat.
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  2964.  @asadabedi9215  my Pappu? I only know of one Pappu and that's Rahul Gandhi. If he goes to jail, I'll come to escort them.
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  2965.  @SAM-yj5io  no army has their own corp of engineers. They have their own certification and graduation. They are generally more competent than your civil engineers. They usually work with BRO as well. In the US, they use their Army Corp of engineers to build dams, canals etc. Those engineers are also hired by civil engineering firms. It's not just that, your construction machinery needs technical skills. Drivers and operators who understand the dynamics of those machines. Army has technical training institutes that are open to non officers/Jawans. Also we need to other at sports. Almost 50% of Olympic medals winners and our contingent comes from the Armed forces. They might want to serve after 4 years but they will trained pretty well to compete in sports.
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  2966. Climate change along with uncontrolled tapping of groundwater would have caused this.
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  2967. I am late to comment and I hope Shekarji gets to read this. Don't fall into the trap of Shruti Kapila's lazy analysis. It is convenient to dismiss AAP as an ideologically free party however, they do have an ideology and that's welfarism. Idealogy need not be only defined in a singular axis of how to tackle religlion - keeping religion in the private domain is also an idealogy. Arvind Kegriwal might wear his Hindu card on his sleeve however, he doesn't force it on others. His messaging is consistent to both Hindus and Muslims - "I am Hindu, a devout one but I am all about Governance".
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  2968. Govt is not sleeping, IAF babus are sleeping. They did not spent their allocation for years, then dithered and delayed AoN for MRCA and are still bickering about which aircraft they want. They don't even have their requirements set straight.
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  2969. Hi, excellent stuff. Can you check out Mountain Strike Corp of the Indian army. It looks like they are doing some interesting stuff - especially the one in Eastern command.
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  2970.  @sowmitriswamy6718  Arguing counterfactual is fool's paradise. However, CAA in it's current form would not have applied to Tamils (Sri Lanka is excluded). If the situation in Sri Lanka were same as it was in the 80s and 90s, the legislation would have panned out differently. They would have negotiated citizenship for SL Tamils had CAA been a thing back then.
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  2971.  @abelwarringer  free press != free speech. What did free press get in the western world? It did not prevent antivaxxers from dominating the headlines and streets. Some openly allied with them and amplified their messaging. Blindly apeing “values” for the sake of those values is meaningless. Indian media is not perfect on the other hand every news agency was grossly underestimating the Govt’s ability to deliver. They beat all those expectations and over delivered.
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  2972.  @technicalist101  you millenials don't know what pre liberalization society was like. All the stuff that's normative now, was not normal 15-30 years ago.
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  2973.  @garyhaggquist740 Re: Jagmeet it's not malice but extreme frustration. He's the MP of my riding and I am on the market for a house. I accidentally bumped into his listing and noticed he declared another house in parl[dot]gc. That got my annoyed. So I met him at a NDP event and asked him about his housing plan. I asked him how he will support province and speed up permitting in the cities (See more below). I got the same spiel about corporates and rich people. I was left disappointed with his dishonesty. I also met my provincial MPP and spoke with her for close to an hour. She asked for patience and asked me to wait until Provincial fall session. I've been chasing my local city council to get traction with their missing middle plan. I know my city intimately, I'm fairly civic and I make it a point to participate in consultations. When I'm given a dishonest non answer by a politician, I feel like I'm being taken for a fool. So when I say Jagmeet is part of the problem, I mean he is the problem in multiple ways. Dishonesty is one of them.
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  2974.  @Narkvaneni  that's true. The Anti Modi folks are pretty ill informed and live in their own bubble.
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  2975.  @reach2prasanna  State Govts need to enact reforms for that. Judiciary needs to get over it's wokeism and moral grandstanding and pave the way for parliament to reform it. Without those two forget about getting anywhere close to 8-9%. Judicial reforms that improves the Judiciary's throughput will add 1-1.25% of GDP growth. Every reform States enact in will add 0.2 to 0.5% of GDP Growth.
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  2976.  @atyanthdutt6632  Publishing book is not the same as publishing scholarly works and doing a thesis defense in front of a panel. I'm sorry, I have high standards for who is called a scholar and not. It's not delusional to ask for better.
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  2977. I doubt it. The opposition is harassing their own donors. Killing their own chances to organize. Congress is going after BRS’s donors (Megha) and SP is alleging Pakistani company bought out the BJP. These allegations are self inflicted wounds and doesn’t stick the landing. BJP stoic silence says everything (The Govt knows who donated money to who after all). My 2 cents is Electoral bonds was the cover for CAA.
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  2978. Arvind Virmani knows his stuff. Folks should check out his paper on Nehruvian Socialism he published back in 2005. He straight up says it kept us poor.
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  2979. If journalism is all about reporting things for the mood of the people, then it's not journalism, it's storytelling.
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  2980.  @CR-bi9ug Socialism is cancer.
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  2981. What Shuvaloy won't say is that his party ishand in hand with Neo Nazis, anti vaxxers and conspiracy theorists.
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  2982.  @fromthetop1270  everything for you is a conspiracy. Tomorrow if Adani has an apple, it is because he arm twisted Modi to get an apple. Very sorry to say you are blind.
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  2983.  @guruprasa  we need people like him. After all money can get around the inability to write eloquently and I believe Vir is building a portfolio for potential clients.
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  2984.  @sankalp6872  well I prefer moderates or independents rather than fence sitters. But you hit the nail, we really don't have a good choice outside of Modi and the BJP.
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  2985. If any CM wants to become PM, then the path to that is going to go through Maharashtra. You can conquer the Hindi heartland but that won't get you enough dominance to become a PM. None of the CMs have the clout of popularity to capture Maharashtra.
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  2986.  @CaptainGeek5 Sangam is stone cravings. It is as archaeological as it gets. You don’t know history, you just know propaganda. Also Hinduism also has it’s atheist tradition. It’s called nirishwaravada. And just cause your atheist doesn’t mean you can’t be wrong or dense.
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  2987.  @doncorleone9297 that’s Shaka. The area he was born was called Kapilavastu.
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  2988. Sexiest insaan. Khud se khana bana nalayak insaan
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  2989. With that mindset you aspirants will sell our nation to the Chinese
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  2990.  @tothemoon1406  haan be, mein hoon chamcha. Humare constitution ka hoon chamcha, nyah ka hoon meon chamcha. Magar yahaan anyah hua hai, ek officer ko fasaya bhungar raid mein, aur woh raid ke naam pe vasoli commission agent ko gusa diya.
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  2991.  @ghamindia isiliye itna ghatiya hai. Good riddance to that stinking building. The smell of the toilet permeates that building. It's been extremely poorly maintained just like our Sarkari Bhavans.
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  2992.  @magiccann4945 why isn’t opposition cleaning up their act? Itna open corruption bhi math karo, ED ko thoda challenge de sakte hai.
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  2993.  @StarSprangledBanner  are you that dumb that you can't learn skills at such a young age? Who the hell are you kidding man. Ask every urban salary man person, they have to keep themselves updated all the time.
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  2994.  @thisoverpcworld  kuch bhi. You get 12 lakhs on your hands. Hands on training (it could be from tinkering around with vehicles, building bridges, planning, logistics etc.) from the army, are you that dumb that you can't think of a path forward? If you can't then 1. You are a disappointment 2. You are useless anyway 3. You deserve poor jobs You can't be this unmotivated and expect people to just give you things.
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  2995. How is your pet care business going in Malad? Teek hai na? Customers aa rahe hai na?
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  2996. It’s an insult to call whatever thing they are pushing secularism. Call it what it is, Muslim upper caste vote buying
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  2997.  @rijzone yes dark days comes with Congress.
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  2998. Finally the opposition has started using Parliamentary procedures and committee powers. Side note: Btw Shekharji, it will be nice if you have timestamps that links to the topics you cover on CTC episodes.
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  2999. @ThePrint maybe expand into Spotify podcasts for some of your shows (like for Headline ke pichay kya hai). It'll be make your journalism accessible to the NRI community. It's hard for us to get neutral journalism especially a within/from India perspective.
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  3000. Well that does nothing to prevent data collection or shipping data to China. Security in this context has nothing do with personal security.
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  3001.  @pulkitgupta2434 they are enrolled in degree mills anyway.
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  3002. This article was Jyoti's IELTS exam essay.
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  3003. Nobody deserves better working conditions than ASHA workers.
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  3004. Congress can learn from AAP. Good work AAP, they are going to start putting pressure on BJP.
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  3005. Look at the circular logic of this guy, “The opposition to Shah Bano bought the liberals and left along with the Hindu extremist bought majoritarianism”. That’s a terrible cop out that prey on the ignorance of people. Folks should read the heart breaking interview of Shah Bano’s son. Search for “My mother was wronged, gravely wronged” by Saaed Khan and see for yourself the extreme cruelty she faced because of Rajiv’s appeasement and his decisions.
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  3006. Well they are calling for demolitions and recruitment bans. Bhakts aren't blind.
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  3007. That's called a stage name. And it's pretty common in the film industry irrespective of religion. According to your logic Shivaji Gaikwad changed his name under duress, our Rajnikant would call bullshit on you.
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  3008.  @hemanthraj.t  are we really that thin skinned that we can't simply ignore a bunch of provocateurs?
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  3009.  @narutohenaruto  surpluses can't be attributed to AAP alone. The surplus was a result of the new excise policy which LG announced last year.
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  3010.  @CantHandleThisCanYa you do realize that they employ a lot of Canadian workers
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  3011. Sedition act is one the catch laws that makes it super easy for politicians to harass citizens. However, even if Sedition act doesn't exist, there are plenty of egregious laws with disproportionate punishments in IPC that are being abused by politicians. IPC needs to be scrapped completely. In fact our laws treat imprisonment like candy (or freebies) and it punishes normal activities. For eg: CEO can be jailed for more than 10 years for not filing a Form. Also this is why labor laws need to be notified. It will decriminalize a lot of laws that are being abused to jail people.
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  3012. @@Rutwik473 because Sena and NCP goes after the same set of Voters - Marathas. Please Maharashtra has a lot of smaller parties that cut into a lot of votes. MNS cut into Sena vote and gave Congress a lead in 2009.
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  3013. The fishy thing was how much Hafta MVA and Uddhav Sena and his ilk were asking to get off their deep governance slumber.
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  3014. Congress got caught looting again. They want to deflect, so they are trying to drum up Parliament breach.
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  3015. NIA does a fantastic job and this guy wants to kill it. You kill NIA you are left at the small graces of State Govts and their approvals of CBI. That's way worse than what we have.
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  3016.  @arjuniyer5047 so you're fine with Pogroms against our own people. Get out of India you sh--head, go live with the Jihadis you love.
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  3017. Ye tha CBI for corruption
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  3018. Muslims themselves exploit Dalits particularly Valmiki Samaj. Love Jihad also affects Dalits the most.
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  3019. What about DK?
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  3020. In Canada, the Chinese straight up bought out foundations whose trustees belong to Trudeau’s party. They also indirectly support Khotestanis.
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  3021.  @niyatishah8541  also he made a castiest remark. If Modi was SC, that would have been a violation of sc/st act
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  3022.  @tushar3378 feel free to share it, screenshot it. Etc. Black out my name though.
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  3023.  @praveenkumarg22 Congress took our temples, took our lands and redistributed them, put laws on us, made us depend on them and Congress did nothing.
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  3024. Despite this, Pakistani journalists will still ensure Pakistan gets the best rating in Press Freedom Index and ensure still rate Pakistan higher than India. Our journalists only whine about illusionary lack of freedoms.
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  3025. 1,800 crores is an underestimating the scale of fraud Gandhi family have engaged in. IT Dept is being extremely lenient.
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  3026. That worries me a lot. Pentagon leaks already says our NATO allies think of us as an "non serious partner". We got booted out of AUKUS, despite having the expertise in nuclear engineering and soon we might find out that FVEY (5 eyes) is no longer providing us with Intel because our allies think we don't treat their intel with seriousness.
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  3027. Only Dharm Pravesh can fix this.
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  3028. Well, environmentalists have abused the courts and stalled even basic development. They have essentially cried wolf. Why would people support them? I support the arrest, the dude must have gone overboard. Also note: the sanction to cut that tree is still valid. They exhausted all legal avenues. Also Govt is supposed to plant 3 trees for every 1 tree that was cut. Nobody bothers to hold the Govt. accountable on that front but just create drama in the name of environmentalism. I spit on such charlatans.
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  3029.  @vedchavan  Ye le Rs. 2 and nikal ja comment section mein se.
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  3030.  @VikrantChaudhary-r3d yes I did watch it and he made some decent points. But Western countries are only exploiting people who want to be exploited. In India, you only invite interference, no Western country is really interested in interfering in our domestic politics - it's too complex for career bureaucrats.
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  3031.  @Vizorfam  then free the temples. Don't raid our temple hundis for your freebies.
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  3032. DDC is already in place
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  3033. In the 90s and 2000s interfaith marriage used to be like SRK, Gauri Khan. Pooja paat with Quran. Today interfaith marriages is a forced conversion of Hindus that deracinates them from their native culture.
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  3034. The fund which was given to Delhi Govt was 100% utilized to build Sheesh Mahal. That's how they built it. Now that all that money got used, they want to demand more to build an Annex to Sheesh Mahal
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  3035. Please tell the DMK to dump this guy.
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  3036. Ryan, I have a interesting proposition for you. Internet penetration in India has reached about 50% now and Indians can speak decent amount of English. I have a theory that Russians are leveraging that to trounce Western narratives on Social media and on Youtube. How would you go about validating that?
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  3037.  @pichumanisankar2617  That's because the judges themselves keeps adjourning rather than decide on cases. Judges have the power to dispense justice. You don't need Police reform for that.
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  3038.  @BharatThatIsIndia  Of course it is derogatory. How is it acceptable to denigrate any religion in 2023?? This is the problem with people like you. You justify anything if it means you score political points and then turn around to call folks who call you out, "illiterate", "stupid", "emotional". This is just neo colonialism in it's finest form. You should realize many folks here are pretty well informed and extremely well educated.
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  3039.  @BharatThatIsIndia  I guess it is very hard for you to understand.
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  3040.  @ప్రపంచం-ఱ6ఫ  It's only because UC had access to education earlier than LCs and SCs. Many UCs are 3th or 4th gen literate. Many LCs are still about 1-2 generations behind. Education is the big equalizer. Many second gen educated Dalits are running 100 - 200 cr businesses, many of them are manufacturing.
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  3041.  @ప్రపంచం-ఱ6ఫ  There is no Brahmin eco system. Dalits own businesses, they employ anyone who works for them. There are many OBCs businesses as well, look them up.
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  3042. At least you can hide your racism. Don't stereotype people for the fault of terrible socialist policies.
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  3043. 'Honest trying hard to revive the Congress' is an overstatement. It is more like Rahul is trying to save his own tattered legacy. Rahul Gandhi is the reason for the Congress's decline.
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  3044.  @runajain5773  Maratha empire stopped at Sambhaji according to NCERT textbooks. There's no mention of Peshwa rules or the dynasties.
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  3045. "Ummah is a theoretical concept." Ya, that's why Palestinians supporters in India are cretinous. Fighting against India's national interest and defending a bunch of terrorists in the name of Ummah will never get you anywhere - not even a job at a mosque in the Middle East.
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  3046. RSS is blinded by their one dimensional Hindutva mentality that they don't recognize that our culture thrived when it was engaged in trade. Rather than learn about economics and trade policy, infuse current policies and evolve their thinking, they prefer to cower in fear and write half assed ill thought out editorials criticizing the golden geese of our economy. They should stick to their gaumutra snake oil cures rather than drag back the ones who got out that dung pit. Cower in fear and stay irrelevant RSS, stay irrelevant.
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  3047.  @vloplob  I don't think Germany has any influence. But they do have money and investments and they use that freely to fund the Chinese regime just like how they did fund Putin after 2014.
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  3048.  @tempo5366  India isn't giving China the latest machining tools or tech unlike Germany.
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  3049.  @vloplob  I am afraid you don't understand you geopolitics. You don't feed a bear and expect loyalty from it.
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  3050.  @tempo5366  How did the trade relationship work with Russia? They gave zero f to Germany.
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  3051.  @KaranSingh-xn8gy  , please move to Pakistan. If you see regular Indians and their legitimate concerns through the eyes of "Us v. them" then you are already a closet Pakistani. So Move there instead of wasting our time spouting nonsense.
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  3052. You need to be better at managing your money lol
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  3053. Sansad TV Operator is jugaad streaming. He is streaming by screensharing, background mein Whatsapp ke saath.
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  3054.  @ramachandrannarayanan2402  except for SAD, the rest of treated their alliances as use and throw item. So no ill will there. ADMK, at the moment is going through a breakup phase, PDP made itself irrelevant by engaging in an unholy alliance with NC. Actually PDP swing towards PAGD abandoned their party members who are now independents and gave space to Apni Party to become king makers. Again, these guys are laying the tracks for BJP to run over them.
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  3055. Demolish their homes.
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  3056. There used to be a huge machining plant owned by Kalyani group in my neighborhood. That unit had run into bankruptcy issued in the late 80s thanks to labor issues. Court order sealed the premises and the plot lied vacant for more than a decade. The PSU Bank that lent Kalyani that loan had to force a write off thanks to the constantly adjourned court case. The Bank could not touch the property and restructure the business. Kalyani managed to sell the plot to a developer and demolished the structure and scrapped the machinery. PSU Bank couldn't get the money from the sale since it was not part of the collateral deal. Kalyani used the money to setup a new maching plant in some other state. That was the state of affairs before IBC. BTW the court case is still unresolved, most of the counter party is dead.
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  3057. Guess Putin needs his war money. (Dev are based in Russia, incorporated in UK)
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  3058. The comments here misses the point. The point isn't that the BJP keeps up old UPA scams but that the Congress keeps feeding the BJP, easy wins in a silver plate. If the Congress ignored Rafale and stuck with Farmer's protest then the BJP would have been on the backfoot.
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  3059. ANI syndicated feeds
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  3060.  @chinmayghule8272  Vir Sanghvi wrote an article that called Indian passengers as the worst in the world and said Indian in general lack morals and ethics. That’s blatantly racist.
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  3061. Pot calls the kettle black. TMC’s thuggery doesn’t make it any more democratic. On the other hand, TMC is more despotic, nepotistic and authoritarian than anything than Govt. You can’t criticize TMC in India without Kolkata police harassing you. Modi ko roj dahai kilo gaali de sakte hoo, aur aadmi santoosh re sakta hai. Magar Mamta, Stalin ya RaGa ko gaali diya toh, ghar jalega.
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  3062.  @pulipakasrikiran9307 it does not seem that way the further you move away from Delhi. PSUs still offer solid perks and easy promo.
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  3063.  @pulipakasrikiran9307 Sunday ko bank ja raha hai? Something fishy is happening.
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  3064.  @dukhi_aatma372 it worked well for so many other reforms like Power Sector and OFB corporatization. A stronger mandate might let BJP bring back farm reforms.
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  3065.  @dukhi_aatma372  your problem is you let good be ruined by perfect. You can never get anything in one stroke. BJP used their mandate pretty effectively, got a lot of reforms through. That's good for now.
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  3066.  @rishavkumar1250 disinvestment only job is to help clean up Govt's balance sheet and not to ensure the viability of sold assets after the sale.
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  3067.  @cpatil-vh5bw  padne likna seekh phir duniya tere ko samag aayega. Aapni akal badha. Gaali de ke aage nahi bad sakta hai, na tu na desh.
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  3068. Welfare schemes. DMK had better election giveaway compared to ADMK.
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  3069. Pakistani cricketers don't share your worldview. When they were in India, they insisted on abusing every sentiment - from asking players to convert to Islam to posting pics of consuming beef. Indians are not the problem here.
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  3070. For the common person, capturing institutions is meaningless. Even after 75 years, the #1 demand of the voter is "Development" i.e. Bijli, Sadak, Makan. For the voter, who rules the institution is irrelevant because those institutions in the voters eyes haven't delivered. Who cares about who runs the CBI when the ordinary citizen has to struggle through back breaking commutes to get to work? Who cares about if the RSS sympathetic person now becomes a judge when the ordinary citizen has to wait 30 years for a judgement? The opposition could talk about all the cracks in the system, like case pendencies, how people don't get access to welfare programs, how electricity supply is choppy. These are things that have real impact in their lives. Or they could stick with Rahul who simply helicopters in, spends an hour in a hut and helicopters out to whatever "intellectual" beach conference he loves ranting at.
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  3071. CrPC needs to be scrapped. If it's not sedition, then there's a plenty of other vague laws in Criminal Procedure code that law enforcement can use to imprison people. While the Supreme courts judicial activism is good and appreciated, unless the underlying High courts and Sessions courts dismiss cases filed under sedition and holds the Magistrate accountable, the Supreme Courts judgement will only remain as mere words and not judicial precedent that will protect constitutionals rights. I believe we need to seriously reform the judiciary because they don't seem to understand precedent or interpret laws in a way that's consistent with previous judgements (Consider Gyanvapi petition as an example).
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  3072. China is a good reason why you should not vote in INDI alliance. Don’t vote for RaGa - he is a CCP shill
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  3073.  @ayushmishra687  such people are a cancer to society. There's a place and manner to discuss politics. Classroom is not the place and discussing it in the middle of the class is not the manner. It shows that one cannot disconnect themselves from Politics.
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  3074. Shekarji, it's not fair you just skipped over Tamil Nadu. You can admit, you don't know much but don't be dismissive please.
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  3075.  @uhwake  clearly you haven't been to the backstage of the concerts. It starts there and ends next at the location of the Afterparty
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  3076. YouTube is going to get a lot of calls from North Block after 2024 elections. The wokes at California will not hesitate to intervene. I say this as someone who worked there.
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  3077. Ya, folks in California will have a wake up call after 2024 elections. Youtube is becoming extra aggressive with comment scrubbing.
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  3078.  @nitinhebbar  they could have. They didn’t want to reform capital markets. Common sense corporate governance reforms were rejected. Besides the Border roads are budgeted and had their allocations set before Jairam Ramesh cancelled it.
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  3079.  @nitinhebbar  10% votes is enough to bring instability. Congress must be abolished. They do more harm with it’s existence everyday than good.
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  3080. I wouldn't call India a fledgling democracy. It is stable democracy constrained by scarcity of resources and political conversation settled on different set of values - i.e. equality.
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  3081.  @AnkitMishra-ch6yp  in politics you tend to learn from others and apply it to your situation.
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  3082.  @positivekumar3546  No but I'm a subscriber and a donor.
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  3083.  @AdamSmith-nm8gh  schooling is just one such example. We also pay an enormous cost to lose opportunities because of bad policing and judiciary. A Govt entity can order the police to arrest an entrepreneur for merely providing better services (IITian was arrested for building a better booking service). It could have been that entrepreneur's path out of poverty and uplifted several along with them. India is a country with enormous potential that's squandered away by bad governance. I wish everyone understood and demanded better basic services rather than call the Govt. fascist etc. It's a waste of everyone's time.
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  3084. He’s right. Our journalists play judge and jury rather than journalists. The ludicrous thing is that something on social media dictates elections. Our journalists push conspiracy theories and then feed the same shit abroad.
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  3085.  @ramjidharmaraj  dude, our cities are surrounded by reserve agricultural land. Just look up any land use map on Bhoomirashi or DP. Our States still don't allow for interstate trade of agricultural produce unless if it comes through FCI. Outside of specific produce listed Essential Commodities Act, no other produce crosses state lines (as yet). We also don't have enough cold storage to store goods for kind of long distance transport. My onions comes from Vashi APMC whose procurement zone doesn't extend beyond Raigad, Thane and Palghar district. Same goes to literally every fresh produce you buy from a sabziwala (not your fancy grocery store). Dude seriously, be better informed. All the information is available online, go check your local APMC portal, file RTIs, check your State's ministry of agriculture.
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  3086.  @gigachad_6862  what SGPC does in India is quite different from what they do abroad. SGPC abroad don't recognize Ramdasias Gurudhwaras and have reduced themselves to a Jat only congregation. SGPC abroad also platforms the worst elements of Khalistanis - Nijjar was quite buddy-buddy with SGPC.
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  3087.  @gigachad_6862  that's where you are mistaken. SGPC is the sole arbiter of Gurudwara affairs. They provide legitimacy to the Granth that is placed within the Temple. Caste segregated places of worship is banned in India and they only exists for historical reasons. Ravidasias Gurudhwara's don't exist in India because it would violate anti-caste legislation not because they are unpopular.
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  3088.  @gigachad_6862  SGPC is responsible for it's own mess - Badals are merely a symptom. It's obsessions with controlling all of Sikhi led them to this mess. Govt is not responsible for the affairs of SGPC, SGPC always maintained it's autonomy and often relied on militants like Bhindrawale. If Govt wanted it's way, then SGPC would not get away with restricting SGPC elections to just Amritdhari Sikhs. Sikhs have no idea how much autonomy SGPC gets and demands, Sikhs don't have something as terrible as Hindu Religious Charitable Endowments Act managing their ecclesiastical affairs.
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  3089. Bihar toppers don’t know the basics of the subjects they topped in.
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  3090.  @theplutonimus peaceful community.
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  3091. Why do we care about UK committing to rebuilding schools?
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  3092. Come to think of it, Vir just wants the caste system back. Jisko jo kaam mila wohi karna chahiye, they cannot change their job.
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  3093. Huh interesting. Hockey equipment usually made for Canada is repurposed by the protestors
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  3094. The more idiots he employs the easier he makes it for the BJP to steamroll him
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  3095. Earlier this year, Rahul Gandhi performed his Bharatmutra (pissed on our country) at Cambridge and insulted our National identity. This week Rahul Gandhi performed his Jawanmutra (pissed on our soldiers) and insulted their capacity to push Chinese aggression, their capabilities to handle a crisis and questioned their sacrifice. Make sure Rahul Gandhi gets his pitai when elections come around. Congress ki sapta mein vinash karo. Make sure this Macaulayputra and his party never recovers from the pitai at the polls.
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  3096.  @susmithast  a stupid politician takes a stand on every issue. A good politician takes a stand on relevant issues. It takes character to take a stand on relevant issues. Character helps you distinguish which issue is relevant. So ya, Raga did take a stand but it doesn't reflect well on his character.
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  3097. To an Indian Liberal, anyone who does not follow their command is "illiberal". Since 2014, (Indian) Nationalism which was seen as a good, now it is labeled as bad, standing up for your country is seen as evil, protecting women from 10th century morality is intruding on "minority rights", providing equal status to citizens and resettling ethnically cleansed populace is seen diabolical, delivery of poll promises is seen as buying votes. No wonder nobody listens to these folks.
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  3098.  @anurag78670  Services maane tujhe paisa chahiye, paise ke bina tu qualify nahi ho sakta hai Services job ke liye. IT industry 135 crore log ko thodhi absorb kar sakta hai. 10 saal aur 25% per year growth ke bawajut IT industry barely 20 lakh ko kaam de sakha. Baki logon rozgar dena hai toh tujhe manufacturing, textiles, value added agriculture (packaged masala, paneer tikka masala etc.) chahiye. Ek manufacturing rozgar ke liye tujhe jyada qualification nahi chahiye. Dhung ka timely salary milta aur us rozgar mein tera upskill hona chance hai, usse 'gainful employment' kehte hai. Manufacturing nahi hai toh, baki jo bina rozgar baithe hai, unne permanently freebies dekhe rakna padega. Dosri baat, jinko rozgar nahi hai, un log chindi degree karid ke pardesi mein safai karmachari bante hai. In short, Manufacturing ke bina Bharat ke garib hamesha garib rahegi aur jin log ke pass pardes jaane ki paisa hai un log kush rahege. Isiliye jo Raghuram Rajan kah raha hai, woh bahut haanikarak hai.
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  3099.  @mrgyani  well he's addressing investors with ESG goals (aka CSR). He's telling them not to invest because of climate change.
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  3100.  @gmanlee575  much better than UPA but could be better. Got to give to Modi-2. Getting rid of OFB and opening up the sector to private sector are solid structural reforms. They can speed things up on the procurement side.
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  3101.  @dhoomketu731  UPA's defense policy was pathetic. It was all about protecting DPSUs monopolies. I'll give you a more scoped example. There's a company in Kanpur called MKU. They have been making body armor and armor plates since the 80s (IIRC). By the 2000s they became one of the largest body armor suppliers in the world. Guess who didn't contract them? Indian armed forces. Why? UPA had an inane amount of trust in DPSUs monopolies. They left the best body armor supplier in the world for garbage produced by OFB. OFB body armor provided 0 side protection, it was steel plated instead of kevlar. MKU was producing better and cheaper armor than OFB. Scores of Indian soldiers died from simple stabbings in Kashmir and UPA could neither get the OFB to fix their armor, nor could it procure armor from MKU. That was the level of stupidity. Instead we imported them from Israel. They couldn't even procure MKU armor for police, so we ended up importing them for Mumbai police.
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  3102.  @perambu3441  there's nothing wrong with her request. But IAS is not the Govt. That officer can't dictate what's welfare and what's not, that decision is made by the Govt. IAS works for the Govt, they are not supposed to decide for the Govt.
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  3103. I can't tell if the Russians are Trolling or just making excuses. Well, US did invade Iraq under the pretext of Chemical weapons.
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  3104. Isn't that the case with NATO already? They do represent European values
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  3105. I think people are missing the significance of Gen Naravane, "(the job of) The Indian Army is to defends the constitution of India". I think that's a change in the attitude of the Indian armed forces. Previously the Armed forces used to state that their job was to enforce the defense policies of Govt of India (IIRC, it was Manekshaw who said that). In a way, this change of flame symbolizes that shift.
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  3106. Pakistan is delusional to think that Afghanistan or the Taliban owes them for "independence". That's like saying the Subcontinent should thank the UK for giving us democracy.
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  3107. "Is it worth the risk?", it depends on your objective. Let's take Modi at his word and assume he is building a party for the future. Then the risk of upstaging regional "legacy" satrap for more a professional cadre or dynamic younger leadership is worth the effort. Let's assume, BJP wins RJ (likely), MP (tough), CG (toss up), what would that mean for these State party organization? Does it mean, the party will become more professionalized? You are no longer depending on someone's Kaka, Mama, Nani (or stardom) for enter into politics?
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  3108.  @HominisLupis it is not as long as it's clear to them. It's good hygiene as well, we'll get the real info instead of the nonsense clickbait statements that gets published
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  3109.  @patmclaughlin107 yes and those sources should be minimal. But that's not the case here, rumor mills gets published and the source is attributed as an unnamed source. There's no affiliation or anything. That level of obscurity is not good reporting. For eg: Unnamed sources says GST rates are expected to rise by 5% Govt official from Finance Dept says GST rates are expected to rise by 5% Which one do you prefer? I prefer the second one. Source is adequately protected and there's adequate information is provided along with good source attribution.
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  3110. Please move to Pakistan
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  3111.  @indiandude993  Please move to Pakistan. This land is called Bharat, Jambodweep, Aryavarta, India, HIndustan. You clearly don't accept it, so please move to Pakistan.
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  3112.  @vickybadwal9703 That's blackmailing. That's why people call you anti National. You behave like one.
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  3113. Sellout Singh sold out climate activists for votes. What is he going to sell next?
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  3114.  @pm6127  yes. Until they get justice for all suffering given to them not only by those terrorists but also by our intellectuals who denigrated their tragedy.
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  3115.  @WorldofAntiquity It was a rhetorical statement.
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  3116. We should use the instability in Pakistan and advocate for Pakistan's denuclearization.
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  3117. Ya, only if Gurugram Municipal Corporation did it's job, then no Muslim would need to use streets to do their namaz. Gurugram doesn't let you expand temples or mosques unless you beg and bribe them. Even after you bribe them there's no guarantee the title they issue is even legal. HUDA comes in later and invalidates all titles haphazardly makes them invalid and then harasses plot owners with demolitions (especially for expansions) till they pay HUDA their bribes. A common man stuck in between GMC and HUDA's harassment and incompetence gets nothing done. Basically, Gurugram Municipal Corporation is hiding it's incompetence and corruption by distracting us with communal tensions.
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  3118.  @mg.f.9023  just like how the Khangress protects Tytler and rewards him with wealth and glory?
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  3119. Sab ko suspend karo.
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  3120.  @Venmash-kx9zf two examples of failures. One is an example of failing down and the other is an example of failing up. Both bootlickers just like their Patrons who licked British boots.
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  3121. So tetrapaks which is essentially a niche product is a essential good? Waah, so it's socialism for Lutyens elite that the Congress is protesting for. 👏
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  3122. There's no peace without. surrendering weapons. No one will listen to you until you start doing the basic things towards peace.
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  3123. How can you provide basic governance when States spend most of their revenues fulfilling election freebies? Jab log freebies mangna bandh nahi karte tab tak rajniti mein sudhar nahi aayega.
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  3124.  @yusufz1987  kahaan tax breaks? unko collection aur bad gaya hai. Compliance bhi bad gaya hai. Previously corporations were stuffing closets with cash, are now declaring their incomes and paying taxes. That's a huge win for tax collections. Data dekho, andh math raho.
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  3125.  @Nani_pavan95 that’s because centre can’t do the state’s work for them unless states cede power. Water is a state list. No govt can do much without state’s involvement.
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  3126. YouTube is scrubbing legitimate comments supporting the bill. The Print should check it's censorship filters.
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  3127. A wise person knows when to speak and pick their battle. A foolish person runs their mouth and fights every battle. They could have let it slide but .... Nope.
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  3128.  @unknown.m.e and BJP shut it down. Congress gave PFIs handlers a free hand instead.
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  3129. Y oo uuu tube is deleting comments again.
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  3130.  @ChandranPrema123 precisely and they are using it as an ammo against their own allaince partners. 🤣🤣
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  3131. The biggest hurdle facing women judges is nepotism. Everyone in the higher Judiciary has reserved seats for their sons and/or son in laws. The lower Judiciary is a Games of thrones for these guys to entertain themselves.
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  3132. This is one of the incisive critique of the State of the Judiciary (and Law Enforcement). I remember Shekarji's talk at CPR around Jan 2020, where you argued with a bunch of Political Scientist (Gil Vernier was really annoyed with you) regarding why you shouldn't simply treat data as reality. This article reminds me of the points you made there. Next time you argue with them, you can point to the stories covered in this article. Very well written. We need more articles that bring out the complexities of our democracy.
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  3133. We need a public enquiry - a taskforce. This smells like serious corruption.
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  3134.  @RajanRaj-po9xr it'll be much worse. Your inheritance will be used to fund their Anti Hindu programs.
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  3135. Cabinet immunity. Typically.
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  3136. Why would she? She's a South Indian. Caste doesn't cross state boundaries. An upper/lower caste Jati in UP is not the same as an upper/lower caste Jati in Tamil Nadu. For eg: There is no mudaliyar equivalent in UP. That isn't to say caste discrimination doesn't exist but it doesn't work the way you think it does.
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  3137. Absolutely spot on. Our Media houses still haven't learned a thing.
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  3138. This came in response to PMC scenario. RBI could not regulate co-op banks until last years amendment to Banking Regulations act. PMC scenario would have been avoided if that loophole was closed earlier. Co-ops in Maharashtra is run and owned by NCP and Congress politicians, so this couldn't have without a strong Centre.
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  3139. Pegasus does not give access to private data of every citizen, that would be incredibly expensive. It's designed for targeted surveillance however this is a scandal only because it tapped one person - Rahul Gandhi. Otherwise this would have been pushed under the rug like every other surveillance. However, like Praveen mentions here this has to do more with unaccountable bureaucrats and their lackeys trying to make an impression. Also whoever wasted that $2 million in taxpayer money to intercept Ashwini Vaishnav must be fired. That's just a colossal waste of money.
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  3140.  @simona4315  he sells "human rights" to the rest of the folks and gaslights Khalstan as a human rights issue. All the dumb lefties who haven't been outside their basement believe him and vote for him.
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  3141.  @MathewJohn-gj5xn  150 km of Border fencing to begin (Meitei demand), implementation of NRC in Manipur (Kuki demand), crackdown on drug smuggling and cultivation (Naga demand) ..... this list is long. I think you could start listening, paying attention to what happens in Parliamentary sessions. Anything is better than evading.
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  3142.  @mg.f.9023  he will. I'm confident he will when the time is right - heck even Barkha Dutt is confident that Modi will visit Manipur when the time is right. Hope is not lost for the people of Manipur, it never was.
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  3143. I think Jyoti did a good job hosting the debate. It's much better than the TV panel. I have been enjoying her recent interviews, the interviewees are really refreshing and thoughtful. Ignore the nasty comment. Keep going and do what you like. (I think she already is)
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  3144. LOL Assange recently switched side and became a Putin propagandists. He even got wikileaks to scrub leaks of Russian Govt documents. And just like Tit for Tat, his wife is crying foul just like Navalny's wife earlier in the week.
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  3145. I find it odd that an auditor judges if a project is necessary or not. It seems very counter intuitive. Oddly dictatorial.
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  3146.  @GreenBeanGreenBean  Go ahead adn sue me. She's entitled to her opinion. But I still find it strange that an auditor dictates what's necessary and what isn't. That doesn't sound right to me. It's like asking an external consultant to write your requirement documents for your projects.
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  3147. Ding ding ding. Someone finally understands vote splitting and elections basics. These idiots don't seem to see that.
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  3148. Ok, let's ban construction then. Me and 25 others will come and squat in your house and share space with you.
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  3149.  @Minlunchongloiyt  Kuki need to be taught a serious lesson from the mainland about respecting other groups.
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  3150. The only thing govt needs to do is redistribute the land of these protestors. Give it to the Dalits and EBCs of Punjabs. They till the soil for poor pay while these guys protest with their luxury cars.
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  3151.  @MostLucid  according to your logic, Schindlers List would qualify as Jewish Propaganda. It is unfortunate that you lack the basic empathy to understand the real pain a community goes through. Every time they bring up the ethnic cleansing, it’s called propaganda, they are labelled as the oppressor. Do you realize who else used the same tactics that dismissed and diminished the existence of hateful vitriol? The Nazis.
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  3152.  @MostLucid  propaganda is the construct you and the jury attached. Both you and the jury refuse to see the techinicality or the truth of the events behind it. Inside y'all suppressed the memory, insulted the victims and called a movie that finally bring forth their suffering as propaganda. How cruel can you be?
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  3153.  @grapeshott  the only who didn't support it was the Indian who understood the pain of the event. It wasn't even unanimous. History will judge them harshly.
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  3154. It is cultural. Judges would rather adjourn than decide on a case. In addition to that, they are overworked (we are starting to find out the scale of it - since the current Govt and the CJI have been pushing for it; a side effect of their push to improve productivity of Commercial courts). There's roughly about 20 judges per million. The US with 1/3rd has 5 times more judges.
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  3155.  @Snowneutrino652  this is partially true. Cases are made to collapse and judges are bought to adjourn cases ad nauseam.
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  3156. And then British Raj and it's Victorian morals and sensitivities tomorrow. After that it will Aurangzeb and his brutality a week after. This guy hasn't grown out of the British Raj or Aurangzeb's rule. (Mughals tolerated homosexuality). Politicians like this idiot have too much time on their hands, the BJP should whip em and get them back to work.
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  3157. Pakistani journalists are more disgusting than some Lutyens journalists. They are deliberately trying to race bait the Arabs and make it seem like Modi is racist. They don’t want Modi back in power because Modi’s presence brings them immense pain.
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  3158. Tiktokers are unwittingly helping the Chinese govt improve its facial recognition algorithms and models. TikTok doesn’t need to share data across countries but there’s nothing disallowing them from sharing facial models with its entity in China. To give you a simple analogy, Tiktokers are crude oil, Tiktok is the refinery and Tiktok China is the consumer in buying Refined crude.
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  3159.  @rajx7120 that'll happen after election. Most companies have publicly stated that in their previous quarter investor calls.
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  3160.  @rajx7120 you should listen to quarterly investor calls. Most companies are pausing their investments until after the election. The drop in domestic investment is expected.
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  3161.  @rajx7120 youtube censors the word in vest ment. Companies are waiting until after the election to start that process.
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  3162.  @rajx7120 domestic will happen after elections. They have said so in their quarterly calls.
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  3163.  @rajx7120 it will come after elections.
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  3164. At this rate, he alone will ensure BJP gets 400 baar and NDA 415 baar. He is a very hard working BJP Karyakarta.
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  3165. Sean Fraser became Immigration Minister last Oct to fix it. He has done a good job cleaning up after his predecessor. But I think you are thinking about Housing Minister, he's a useless minister.
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  3166.  @apuravvanand9423  When Jagan and KCR can accept CG's requirement, what's stopping Mamta? And YES, you read that right, KCR is fine with Centre's auditing requirements. Yes, I am a bhakt for good governance.
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  3167.  @independentopinion6162  Congress opened up that chapter and did not resolve ongoing issues with Khalistanis. After all it was Sanjay Gandhi who encouraged Bhindrewala to cut into SGPC's power. He provided Bhindrewala protection from Punjab Polic e and protection by sending Congress goons. It's not hypocrisy to point out the damage the Congress has done.
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  3168.  @independentopinion6162  you too. I don't drink or do drugs. But if it helps you cope, you do you. When you need help, I'll be there to guide you.
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  3169.  @Kingzombiemyanmar  Vajpayee Govt had the momentum and the money. Previous govts were cash strapped, so can't fault them for not building infrastructure. UPA had everything right going for them, sanctions were removed, economy booming, bouyant tax collection but they squandered that away.
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  3170. He is walking a tight line. He could get beat up or sued for saying the wrong thing.
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  3171. This is what socialism makes out of society. Folks who think they are entitled to easy life.
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  3172. Sab assan zindagi chaiye tum log ko. Pehle tum log ko sakt reject karna chahiye. Nah motivation, nah passion, sirf naalayak bakwas
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  3173.  @manjulashanmugasundaram706  CPIM (the petitioner) is interested in Chinese subsidiaries for the sake of the country - sounds very believable. This case was all about ensuring an avenue to blackmail donors.
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  3174.  @ThePrintIndia essentially you’re saying the Supreme Court is just cosmetic and a regression.
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  3175.  @ThePrintIndia it actually makes things harder for Tax dept. Yesterday companies directly bought bonds, today, the same company is now routing them through Maritius - that’s months of extra paperwork that nobody asked for. Also harassment of businesses has already started. Today Congress in Karnataka has started harassment Infosys for land they legitimately bought claiming they did not create enough jobs. SC judgement has already started reenabling the old harassment based campaign funding.
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  3176. कायमचुर खाके आया है
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  3177. Public Sector is filled with rent seeking culture. Paperwork is made for the babu to micromanage and elicit favors and bribes
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  3178.  @Dhruv_Jain  read my other comments in the same thread.
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  3179.  @badbad-cat  it is but we need more checks and balances before we expand on federalism. Right now your state politician has enormous amount of unchecked policing resources under their thumb to squash any form dissent. That's one aspect. The other aspect is State governments haven't really proved that they have the capacity to govern or capacity for reforms (TN is a little promising but again it's not enough). So let's say we give States more authority today, what do you think would happen? I can definitely gaurantee, in Maharashtra I'd be arrested for calling Uddhav Thackeray a penguin. I would likely have BMC sent to demo my house for asking for development. Etc. They have done this without additional powers. Like I said, it's a nice word but reality says otherwise and hold your horses. We know the answer is federalism but the real question is how do get there and that's what we should be talking about. Most of the folks who advocate for federalism don't realize that they giving a one word answer to a question that needs pages deriving at an answer.
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  3180. Electoral Bonds scheme is becoming a joke and just like we predicted earlier, it’s becoming a tool for donor harassment. Shekarji might be rejoicing too early. The opposition is making a fool of itself trying to paint Pakistani company as BJP electoral bonds paymaster. 🤦‍♂️. American “concerns” are nothing more than mere statements and won’t have much impact. If they couldn’t sanction us for relations with Russia, then this is nothing. Constant harassment of donors will backfire badly on the opposition (and the press too). Besides Shekarji should remember the abrogation of Art 370 was done in secrecy, the implementation of CAA along with NRC has also been done silently. (Look at notifications to DMs)
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  3181. These freebies aren't just expensive, they also hide the genuine structural issues with electricity production and distribution. Distribution is expensive because rather than put in money to fix the grid, we defer it's maintainance and let it rot. Discomms are bleeding money because Govt. forces them to give away free electricity with no compensation, they can't bill people for their usage and then they shut down plants because it's cheaper to not run them at all than give away free electricity. How about they promise to bring down electricity bills by 25% or something? Or regularize electricity distribution? But no, let's promise free stuff. Vote this idiot out, they bleed tax payer money and make us rot with their freebies and perpetuate the problem rather solving them.
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  3182.  @akashravi2774  I will smack sense into both of them like I did back during the '93 riots. Don't lecture me about communal violence - lived through that several times.
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  3183. Great work! You have added a lot of context to the topic.
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  3184. Harappan civilization definitely had a rural life. We just haven't discovered it. At it's peak, Harappa was 6 million, there's no way you can sustain that population without a countryside. We know they were great traders and agriculturalists. It's not too far from the truth to imagine there were pastoralists as well. Insisting that Harappan civilization is an urban civilization is form of confirmation bias.
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  3185. Supreme Court is engaging in power grabs. In Adanis case, they are interfering with the regulator. In ECI petition, Supreme Court has decided to make laws and enact it (until Parliament passes a similar law). This is just a power grab, our courts make laws and interprets them freely. At this point I wonder why even hold elections.
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  3186.  @freesoul4626  Professor General Saheb.
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  3187. The blind nationalist idiots in the comment section blames the US and doesn't see our own bureaucrats fault. Our Govt. says all vaccines from approved by FDA and WHO (and Sputnik) would be allowed to be administered in India without seeking approval. But our Customs officers takes 3 days to clear a batch of Sputnik, it took months to consider Moderna's application for emergency use. Drug Controller took weeks to conduct their extra tests to approve vaccines, slaps indemnity clauses (rather than ask them to setup a fund for folks who get adverse effects - which is what every other country does). Where's the fire in our Govt. Officials bum? Why aren't they treating these things with urgency? Our Govt. officials are so scared and incompetent that they can't even follow decisions made by a senior Govt officials like Dr. Paul. Why aren't we calling for punishments for officials that just delay delay and delay and not act on anything?
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  3188. Macro economics 101 All these freebies are just raiding our savings. Our savings, our parents savings and your kids savings. Our socialist govts. already raided our grandparents savings.
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  3189.  @reach2prasanna  I disagree. India will become 2nd or 3rd largest economy in the world way before 2047. The question is, if India will have a PPP of USD 5k or PPP of USD 10k. Double digit growth means we'll be a economy of 10k while becoming the 3rd largest economy, that's the goal we should really aim for.
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  3190.  @WorldofAntiquity  no problem. I think you are doing a good job. Just thought I'd share, why do many Indians believe in a lot of basement theories. It might help you understand some of the comments too.
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  3191.  @WorldofAntiquity  check out the article titled, "Babri, Saraswati, Aryans – There are rival Indian histories now and campuses are the warzone" published on the Print.
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  3192. I think Pakistan is the real wildcard here. They are out there minting money selling small arms and ATGMs to Ukraine.
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  3193. YouTube and the Print are scrubbing legitimate comments. Please revisit your filters or both companies will face dire consequences for election manipulation post 2024 elections.
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  3194. I don't think Modi fears discussing about Pegasus. He probably doesn't know who used it. Our Intelligence agencies have 0 oversight, 0 accountability. The ridiculously complex red tape in our Bureaucracy makes it impossible to track simple things like status of an infrastructure project (A union minister needs to wait 4 days for a status of land acquisition). Now extend that same culture of opaqueness to National security. Everyone wants to scape goat Modi, but no one cares about the real issue of lack of accountability. Congress MP Manish Tiwari introduced a private member's bill to bring some level of oversight and accountability in Parliament (The Intelligence Services (Powers and Regulation) Bill), Rahul Gandhi didn't bother bringing it to the floor. None of the other opposition MPs bothered. Now that bill is probably dead, like it was back in 2011 and again in 2019. Our opposition is only angry over the violation of their Princely privilege of privacy afforded to them and not the fundamental right to privacy given to us by the Constitution.
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  3195. It’s fun watching RLD spokesperson Zainab Sikandar defend Modi and BJP.
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  3196. Congress humiliated CPI and still allied with them in Bengal, Kerala and Tripura.
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  3197.  @MrCat-sl6zf  well, through inaction and bad governance.
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  3198. Your discord invite has expired.
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  3199.  @smartlearning6390  they don't deserve to be. Just look at them, they can't go beyond the Gandhis. We are a democratic republic, not some monarchial Sultanate.
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  3200. 3 years later, the Congress hasn't taken any of the suggestions recommended here. Oh wait, we got a Chintan Shivir.
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  3201.  @sleepingduty2987 yes but just like Shekarji said facts are not subjective, the faults in strategic thinking are evident. Indira was wooed by Sri Lankan PM and she eered.
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  3202.  @sleepingduty2987 I'm doing quite fine. 😂 Retired and loving it. I am definitely making the most of the strategic environment and making good investments with sound returns. 😂
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  3203. Why would any politician want to sit with the stone throwers from Kheda and suffer the wrath of the average voters? Also, whitewashing Kheda stone throwers as angels forces Hindu voters to support canings.
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  3204. So what’s missing? BJP Supporters going on the offensive with the protesters. It probably means party is not supporting Brij Bushan. He’s on his own with the protesters.
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  3205.  @ThePrintIndia  then wouldn’t it be appropriate to say that these ministers are scuttling efforts of women’s empowerment? I mean if they are sinecure then it’s the person’s fault not the party who provided them with the portfolio.
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  3206.  @navneet8269  woh toh evident aur obvious hai. Magar it is the characterization of tokenism that I disagree with. Women are very important and upcoming votebank and SC/ST Dalit etc have this portfolio to mean indicates some amount of trust/faith.
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  3207.  @veryflow1156  interests intersect. US sees India as a counter weight to China. When Galwan happened, we rattled the Chinese. Got them to spend money raising mountain divisions rather than marine division. India unlike the USA also has a reputation of being sensitive to the concerns of the global south, if the USA is able to prop us up, we’d be able to strike deals and compete with the Chinese where they can’t.
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  3208. Trudeau should learn from Biden on how to do diplomacy better. He can learn about how to use leverage to further your interests. Instead, we killed ours.
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  3209. RBI just recently issued a warning regarding over dispersal of Rs. 50,000. Isn’t this report coming a little late?
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  3210. We will renegotiate it's return from a position of power. British will return it. You are right without self respect, we can't demand anything.
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  3211. Navalny was exactly an angel. He himself was a Na zi. The west betting on him actually helped Putin retain power. It feed into his propaganda.
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  3212.  @manthanmodi7712  I think Smart Cities is a pretty darn good program. The best thing about it is, everything detail of that program is available online including the budget allocations, bids, project status, implementation details and operation metrics. It is refreshing to see that level of transparency from any entity of Govt of India.
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  3213. Where can I find the intro song? Please!
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  3214.  @justanotherview3243  kaash app ko padne aata toh phir aap ko samaj mein aate hai ki mein Malik ka asatya theraraha hoon.
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  3215. Supreme Court legislates “reforms” bypasses parliament and enacts its own laws. Why do we even hold elections? Supreme Court can simply legislate everything it wants. It’s not reform, it’s violation of basic constitutional principles.
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  3216.  @duskyrisky1218  Please give up on your freebies.
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  3217.  @lohitroy5938  safety is not a priority, it’s core competency. You need to get it right despite other things.
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  3218. You really can't talking about fiscal mismanagement without talking about the Pakistani Army. They control the Govt and select the Prime Minister.
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  3219. According to SC's own data, we have 70,000 criminal cases pending for more than 30 years. The depth of pending cases has made the courts into a den of corruption and political favoritism. (Teesta gets midnight bail but common man stays in jail). The collegium is a massive failure, the judiciary is a massive failure. Collegium should be scrapped.
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  3220. Shekarji, when are you starting Off the Cuff? You should invite Deepak Parekh again.
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  3221. News isn't about feeding you the news and opinions you want to hear. News is there to provide good reportage and diversity of opinions. Some opinions can go contrary to your perceptions, that's fine - it's there to question them and get you thinking. I this case, I heard the opinion and I reject it, that's it.
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  3222.  @MohdNisar-zm6bo  they are scared. The CCP can't imagine a world where people can express diverse thoughts or a world where diverse cultures and people can live together in a democratic society.
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  3223.  @fullaranag the CCP is scared. They are scared that diversity of thought and speech will break their society sooner. That's why they waste so much money trying to convince us that we can't be one society. They are scared that their global status in the world is numbered which is why they are saber rattling. They are scared that India will get ahead of them and continue rising which is why they are so desperate to show our difference. They don't realize that we celebrate our difference and are accepting of it. That one can express different opinions and still stay united. It scares them to the bone since it will definitely give their citizens ideas to openly question the CCP like they tried to do at tiananamen square in 1989
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  3224. There’s no clutter to cut with regards to Raga’s rant about the inability to win elections. Though I do think DK Singh might cover it.
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  3225.  @abhaypatel4292  they are stifled by socialism, regulations and bad State govts.
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  3226. Unlike MCD, BBMP and BMC can't be audited unless State Govts invites them.
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  3227.  @gaganbhattacharya9890  I've lived there and I know what it's like (I was there during the 2015-2016 election season). This again this is CCP strategic thinking.
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  3228. Good Modi reminded people of the stupid policy of minority appeasement enacted by the previous Govt's. After the Secularists naively partitioned the country in 1947, signed an agreement that damned lower caste Non Muslims to constant persecutions in Pakistan, the Secularist think "Muslims have the first right to resources" - ridiculous. Muslims in India should be treated like everyone else - stand in the same line like the rest of us.
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  3229.  @bhai857  You can't have judges appoint judges. The Judiciary is too disconnected with the other two wings and works in cross purposes. You can't hold judges accountable for inordinate delays in the justice system. For eg: NCLAT, NCLT are back to their pre IBC clearing rates of 600 days (They are supposed to clear cases within 180 days). This is despite NCLT being a new Tribunal with fresh cases.
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  3230.  @bhai857  The Govt did bring in a law and several executive orders did and SC has squashed it (or simply ignored it) under the name of "Interference with independence of the Judiciary hence against basic doctrine." Law Minister is naming and shaming only because it is last resort.
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  3231. Sheep eating wolf cries foul when caught. Chidambaram family is known for his history of scams. Scamming it since they first good power in 1997 under United Front govt.
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  3232.  @ravindrachavan8513  it is not. It sends a message and opens up a PIL.
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  3233. Trump was a fool but the fool had a very competent executive. India's executive is foolish and incompetent. It doesn't matter even if we have a competent leader if the chain of command to that leader is just nonchalant and just plain incompetent.
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  3234.  @akalikoscape  Line of Credits, discounts on food grains, refined petroleum products and the grants we provide by letting Bangladesh railways purchase shitty rolling stock from ICF. I am probably missing a lot more but on average India gives about a $1 billions of grants to Bangladesh per year.
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  3235. Just a nitpick. Govt. and Parliamentary committees are not the same entity. Parliamentary committees have members from the opposition and chairpersons are often from oppositions like this member from the Congress - Anand Sharma.
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  3236. What is going on? Harassment. We have a bunch of vague laws, police boldly interprets them, harasses citizenry and jails. Where's the respect for fundamental rights? Where is the process in all this? Under a suspicion for drugs without warrant, a policeman can forcibly read your texts. Where's the right of privacy that was promised in the constitution? NDPS is Garbage law, along with Sedition Act.
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  3237. Hmm not sure if that’s the case. Common electoral roll is essentially NRC implemented. Deportations is a matter of diplomacy.
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  3238.  @ThePrintIndia  that was a tongue in cheek comment and I agree with you.
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  3239.  @JohnSmith-vn8dm  Land is impossible. Electricity and other regulatory reforms especially wrt paperwork is the need of the hour. Our idiot politicians still think they can attract industries with high electricity prices
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  3240.  @z2zugzwang  this is why we need to spend more time academically documenting this and learn about our Post independence History
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  3241. It's a bizarre ruling. The raid in civilian clothing is technically a recon activity. That's permitted under rules of war. They just need dog tags.
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  3242. Jab solution provide kiya toh protest kiya. Now go suffer like a duffer.
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  3243. I’m not sure it will lead to higher consumption in FMCG which is what TCA and Radhika are concerned about the most. I think we are looking at a transition away from FMCG as indicator of consumption to some other sector.
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  3244.  @mallianumula  non sense. Japan and Korea negotiated favorable trade deals and had a Govt. that nurtured rather than nationalize it's industries.
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  3245.  @berserkhorimiya but he's not giving sound advice. He's just making sound bites.
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  3246.  @Vizorfam  you don't like it, then go to Pakistan. You can drink all the enhanced cocktail of the garbage you spew.
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  3247.  @nosamsemaj9150  I am not exactly sure about the why. It's not like Indian strategic planners need advice on relations with Russia. I watched the entire talk, so he was talking more about pivoting towards China. The entire respect for Putin definitely felt out of place and more a signal for Berlin to mend relations with Russia and continue the pivot towards China.
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  3248. @Ruben Schilling I seriously doubt that allegation. The Navy chief definitely knew he was being taped. He even had a presser with local media.
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  3249.  @praveenswami0510  it is your subtext. Sir, this article was really uncalled for. We expect solidarity with the community that suffered through intense brutality. Instead what we are getting is lazy journalism, extremely hurtful opinions and slanted comparisons. You choose the words 'propaganda' to dismiss a movie that bought the brutality committed in the valley to public consciousness.
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  3250. Length of CTC episodes don't matter as long as audio quality is top notch.
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  3251. Posh residents of Delhi. They keep blocking construction of Sewerage treatment plants and then dump their poop and laundry detergent into the Yamuna. This foam is agitated mix of that.
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  3252. I knew there was increasing pressure on the UK to return the Islands. India was becoming increasingly vocal about it and was providing more public support to Mauritius' claim. So it was a matter of time. I thought, the handover was 5-6 years away, did not expect it to happen this soon though.
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  3253. Usual suspects are here. Give the institute autonomy, the Management at the institutes abuse the powers to set up a Collegium. Address that and these guys complain about "erode autonomy" and publish long Op-Eds in NYT and WaPo saying "Mudi fasccheest". These Unscrupulous leeches of taxpayer money are a cancer.
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  3254. Some. Most kashmiri are like us, just want to go on with their lives.
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  3255. ⁠ @sumedhsingh731 except the reality is anything but whataboutism. You've clearly never been to the Kohli villages downstream from the refinery. It is one of few places in India where children are born with deformed limbs, oversized heads (classic sign of heavy metal poisoning) and cancers rates are 2x above global average.
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  3256.  @KejriwalBhakt  I am saying, the content of the bill is irrelevant. Just the name of the Bill is will not bode well.
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  3257.  @rumiebalsara6496  it was reported by BBC Marathi.
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  3258.  @Dividerinchief  you fascist, where is the daily loot you are supposed to give to the Gandhis? Vir's sharp edge demands it.
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  3259.  @kartiekagarwal7259  I believe you need a wider perspective. This comes from another fellow North American. The way it's projected in the US makes India seem like a bad place but it's pretty decent. There are structural issues that need attention and that tends to exacerbate things from time to time. Don't just buy into American media and University chatter, they are pretty context free. Things are way more complex than they are presented.
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  3260.  @TUAREGZEPHYR and unsustainable to developing human capital.
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  3261. Senile white man judges the world as he sees it. Nothing new about it, same old racism disguised as liberalism.
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  3262. We should have direct flights to Taipei from India.
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  3263.  @mohamedali2858  your community engages in violence and you demand answers for the violence. Waah re waah. Liar toh tum ho. Besharam.
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  3264. I don't care if women support or not. They play well, I'll watch it.
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  3265. Why would the Indian Navy take nukes to Seychelles? We don't have a nuclear agreement with them.
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  3266. Not necessarily optics. But is a game of vote cutting. All the smaller parties will cut the opponents votes. Even 3% swing is enough to win a seat.
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  3267. He can learn from Aditya Thackeray who is Davis right now. Even he understands that it is unwise to talk about domestic politics abroad.
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  3268. Mazel tov
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  3269. Pelosi got bipartisan support in the US for this move. Her opposition the Republicans supported the visit. Our opposition especially Congress can learn from that.
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  3270.  @SubhamPalcyd  They tried that and then rescinded when that was ineffective. The only thing that seems to work is party discipline and more transparency in committee attendance.
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  3271.  @rn6798  I lay the blame at the opposition because they abuse rather than use the privilege and access provided to them. Why can't they call a privilege motion or pass a debate motion? Why can't they ask questions about Pegasus during question hour and zero hour rather than disrupt legislative proceedings? Our opposition can't even be bothered to learn about Parliamentary procedures and use it to it's advantage. Heck they don't even have the discipline to attend Parliament regularly.
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  3272. Our Courts dictating judgements before trials with no arguments over evidence show shallow the institution is. The same court washes itself off by saying, "We don't have precedings, so we can't prove we said that" Wah re wah.
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  3273. Police resources are wasted on these guys. Because of the Congress, Police is taken away from places where they should be.
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  3274. I think, cut the clutter should be replaced with decluttering the 50 word edit as a once a week regular. I also miss off the cuff
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  3275.  @shenanigans4177  I've lived long enough to see those same militants give up their arms and join the political process. Heck, violence was not unique to NE, we tend to forget, the biggest threat to India was not NE insurgency or even Islamic (Khalistani) insurgency - it was Naxals. We soundly pushed them away into oblivion, NE is less complicated than that.
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  3276. Collegium is responsible for this. They ensure only Lutyens lackey get promoted and thus ensures luteynism persists.
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  3277. So back in the 80s textile trade unions would protest quite a lot. Demanding 100% hikes in salaroes, free housing, pensions etc. 10 years later, the textiles industry collapse, unions lost their job and clout and textiles exports moved to Bangladesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. Farm Unions are adamant about heading in that direction.
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  3278.  @themeta_human  dude aspires to be a freeloader save leech public finances. Isiliye with sab ko chutiya banana Dekh Raha Hai.
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  3279.  @lanaandden first by dropping your demands.
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  3280.  @garyish  significant portions of Dharmashastra were already made irrelevant and reinterpreted. If they stayed in their original form , everyone today would be complaining about how many cows they slaughter to feed a Brahmin for Shraddha and other rituals.
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  3281. Congress is a monarchy posing as a political party in a democracy. Priyanka Gandhi does not even hold an official post in the party. Vote these suckers out otherwise we are looking at more scam, economic toxicification and humiliation through poverty.
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  3282.  @Vizorfam  that's what the British told us as they looted our country. I can't believe you are behaving like them. Move to Pakistan, colonize that country.
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  3283.  @AmanSharma-sb2sg  unfortunately you can't praise the good work or ask for better in this country without being called librandu or andhbhakt. Everyone covers their ears and screams lalalala at the top of their voice. What is wrong with asking for a better opposition? Am I wrong asking for a Congress that's better than the BJP?
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  3284. Or make chips
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  3285. Sychopancy. Gandhi family are public figures and politicians. Sab ka haaq hota hai prashna puch ne ka. Royal family nahi aur ye Thailand nahi hai.
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  3286. Clearly you need to go back to school to learn how to read.
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  3287. How do you become an accredited investor?
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  3288. Rahul Gandhi needs a scapegoat to justify his Christmas vacation in Thailand. Modi is that convenient scapegoat.
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  3289.  @yohaneschristianp  this is a very condescending and terrible take. People's attitude have little to do with structural issues within India's government and Judiciary. Often they are held hostage by the Judiciary even if the government has the right intention of improving governance.
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  3290. The rains have been intensifying as well.
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  3291. Lawmaking only works if the Judiciary is functional. And we have the best Judiciary in the world, so our law making process is the greatest.
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  3292. Just days ago, Speaker of the US House was found +ve with covid. Speaker Pelosi incidentally also met Biden around the same time. So, in the US it is assumed Biden was exposed to Covid. US protocol probably wants to keep the PM and President isolated from each other since Biden was exposed to Pelosi. That why it is virtual instead of in person.
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  3293. Why would you expect TR Baalu to treat L Murugun with any respect? It is not in DMK Thevar thug's nature to respect Dalits.
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  3294. If a slow moving car crash had legs, then that thing would be called Lis Truss. That's how remarkable she is.
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  3295. Come on man. Dude lived a life of luxury and had access to various resources. He has the red carpet laid for him since the beginning. How many kids get that kind of privilege? There are plenty of folks who had their father's killed in front of their eyes thanks to RaGa father's statement during anti Sikh riots. Where's the empathy for them? A lot of them have successfully moved on in their life.
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  3296. Businessmen are not optimistic when it comes to declining anything. This is just fake optimism.
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  3297. We should still have a intelligence network that works without 5 eyes. Btw, Canada is the weakest link in the entire intelligence sharing network.
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  3298.  @codekeeper5828  ya I think he is fulfilling the role of the Govt spokesperson here
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  3299. They can do both - the nature of crimes are different. But yes you have a point, they should speed up prosecution of the older cases.
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  3300.  @johanbee8757  they rely on Delhi based English speaking elites for journalism. Those elites can’t read local language newspapers and writes articles based on whatever conjecture they encounter in their neighbourhood. Obviously DW’s coverage regarding India is going to be subpar and suffer.
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  3301. The letter to EC is nothing more than palace intrigue and overreaction. Folks are reading too much into the word, "expects to attend" on a meeting regarding electoral reforms.
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  3302. He thinks he owns the place. Guys like him are a cancer to society. If you don’t have the maturity to know when and where politics is discussed then you deserve to be fired from any place of work.
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  3303. Trudeau can learn from Biden. Biden protected his assets, got a deal with India to treat American companies favorable, an arms coproduction deal and gave them a climb down and like a cherry on top, published an indictment. Now the Americans are probably using all their leverage to negotiate better terms with Modi. Trudeau on the other hand, less said the better. This guy is a disaster.
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  3304. Trudeau really messed up our relationship with India. UK, US, Australia got their bilaterals with India. Middle East got their Natural gas and infrastructure deal with India. Tiny Comoros got a bilateral meeting as well. We got snubbed, lost a trade deal and no deal on Natural gas that would have helped India transition away from dirtier fossil fuel. Trudeau made us look like fools with a growing power.
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  3305. Classic UPA - start a tax dispute, kill an industry and leave the mess for BJP to foot the bill.
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  3306. Hahahaha, I like your jingle.
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  3307. Malik is salty that he didn't get credit for Aborgation of Art 370. The dude was the lameduck Governor that dissolved the assembly and approved President's rule. Also he's an electoral dead weight, hasn't won an election since the 2000s. Ye toh mahauli negotiations kar raha hai. He knows he can't win an election.
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  3308. What are the chances that we might find a Rosetta stone of IVC script?
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  3309.  @sumedhsingh731 Glanrock Estate v State of Tamil Nadu; Property rights, a fundamental rights is not part of basic doctrine.
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  3310. You can’t even survive one hour in the valley. Talk is cheap, action is not. I’ll see you on the front.
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  3311. @Greenie they are already in place. The problem is enforcement and judiciary. Nobody wants to engage with either of them.
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  3312. Khalistanis are not the Sikh Community. Khalistanis are like the mafia. Stopping associating the Sikh community with them.
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  3313. That would be an interesting idea. I wouldn't call it flawed as much as saying their data has blindspots or things that can't be explained by data alone. Similarly every analysis has blindspots that tries to account for issues with data collection (some massage the data through assumptions, for eg CMIE doesn't consider part time employment as employment, but govt surveys do - both are valid assumptions). We shouldn't really rely on one indicator or one analysis.
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  3314.  @mridulagrawal6687  it's the collection method that creates blindspots rather than anything else. That's why you always look at methodology first.
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  3315. Congress might profess progressive, secular and liberal values but they don't practice it and are far away from it. Instead they engaged in corruption, sycophancy and still refuse to reform itself.
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  3316.  @AbuAaishahTufayl  so you're saying, "Constitution for thee not for me." I'm sorry, you can't pick and choose what constitutional values applies to you or not. Screaming suppression of minority rights is hogwash given that you also have the choice to start your own institution and impose the hijab there.
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  3317.  @babinmartin3913  Akbar released his slaves. That meant his Hindu mentors had a moderating effect on him. That's what it means.
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  3318. Calling RAND Corp a conservative think tank is a mis-charecterization. Many folks in the US consider RAND to be mildly left leaning and RAND Corp studies are usually cited by both Democrats and Republicans - that screams bipartisan to me. Also, regarding the article titled: ‘We are not robots’: A call for ‘basic wages & rights’ How does the Print decide when specify political affiliations and when to drop them? To me it is obvious that protest was organized by CPIM Unions but the article doesn't mention that. I also noticed The Print inconsistently highlights political affiliations of protest movements.
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  3319. You should consider other International Sports competitions like Universaide or IAAF or Commonwealth games. There are more competitions that these stadium can utilize but THEY DON'T since City Govt are so tunnel visioned toward Olympics
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  3320.  @ruhitewari3401  btw good job at the article. Appreciate the work you put in it. Folks don't realize how much work it takes to write good analytical pieces especially on subjective topics like Indian politics.
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  3321.  @HimanshuSingh-rg9qw  that's what I thought as well. I thought this was a result of a more recent court order. (Like a month ago)
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  3322. If it was UP dozers would be out.
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  3323. Amarinder did meet Sajjan with Trudeau and gave him a cold shoulder. It was hilarious to watch. Sajjan got booted out of Defence for incompetence and Trudeau is caught in multiple scandals right now (poll numbers are also sagging).
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  3324.  @offred6013  when you do something good, praise comes from everyone goras included.
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  3325.  @offred6013  it's an outreach nonetheless. You choose what you want to see and choose what you want to understand instead of seeing the broader picture. That's on you not me or anyone else.
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  3326. ​ @GundaDhur-h6p  The dropouts were correlated with percentile scores at entrance exams. Lowering the bar sets them up for failures. Language training, information, access to resources were equal to students, yet dropouts persisted with folks with lower Entrance exam scores. Those same Dalits who scored higher have had higher success rates - that only happened because of early education and not because of lowering the bar at such a late stage. Coincidentally you are proving my point that lower the bar leads to worse outcomes. Free coaching would provided better outcomes than lowering the cutoff rates.
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  3327. Feedback for ICS - Please improve your audio. It is hard to hear the speaker and it is hard to read the slides.
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  3328. Hindol Sengupta rips through Kapil's argument. Search for it.
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  3329.  @mg.f.9023 and Congress ignored science when it seeded doubts about the efficacy of vaccines. Folks used the Kitab to justify throwing stones at doctors trying to bring vaccines to their community.
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  3330.  @mg.f.9023 Sure. But who uses Kitab to justify bad behaviour? It's not Hindus, it's not Jains, it's not Shias, it's not Buddhists. It's one community and their pseudo secularists that justifies using Kitab as a cover for bad behaviour.
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  3331. Ya, it's not a good sign. More science denialism, more inbreeding, more regressive practices, more oppression of women, more child marriages etc. I don't want more of that, it is the opposite of the Liberalism that was enshrined in our constitution.
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  3332. That's why a tiny island nation of Comoros got a full Bilateral meeting and Canada didn't. Trudeau motor mouthing about internal affairs of India while staying mum about China doesn't help. India and Indians hate inconsistencies, they see it as hypocrisy.
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  3333. You're not going to get those answers from Sanjay Raut
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  3334. Pappu of TN. May he get completely destroyed and end up like a pauper.
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  3335. Balakrishnan is also an IDSA scholar. His talks at IDSA arthashastra is worth watching.
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  3336. Congress used to be even more ruthless. This is nothing compared what happened with Telangana Bill or even during Rajiv era. They was no opposition.
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  3337.  @RAVI89RULZ it's a repeat of fodder scam and not political persecution.
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  3338.  @sankalp6872 no it won't change fortunes but that doesn't make the ruling any less regressive. It sends wrong message with regards to corruption.
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  3339.  @tsrini68 all. Those Statements are evidences in every country and they are called testimonies.
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  3340.  @sankalp6872 nah, never give any party a pass on it. Corruption is important to ignore for party politics. BJP is a party you can pressure to clean up their act and that pressure must always be there. But that's half the battle. The other half of this battle is courts. If courts are this lenient with corruption, toh hum Ram Bharose pe chalega. It's a terrible situation and regressive.
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  3341.  @mg.f.9023 you miss the forrest for the trees. What's the point of charging Ajit Pawar when courts themselves are disinterested in pursuing corruption?
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  3342.  @RAVI89RULZ it's not just double standards that's the problem but it's also leniency. When courts are this lenient, then how can any pressure on parties to be less corrupt work?
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  3343.  @chandankumargantayat8926  yes.
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  3344. And here comes the propaganda. Russia is not going to nuke anyone however they are going to maintain MAD parity. Nuclear Taboo is a thing.
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  3345.  @jaiminbajaj  if you watch the video, those 5 companies don't command the market price like PSUs do. I disagree, the notion that 5 companies are dominant enough in our market at this juncture is absolutely nuts. The rise in Steel prices is very cyclic and companies can do little about it, it takes several years and quite a lot of capital to expand steel production. Besides Govt has it's PSU options to buy cheap steel from and the govt does it all the time. Govt actually cuts private players out of it's procurement quite often - MAHSR steel doesn't come from a private player - it comes from SAIL through an MoU (There was no bid). Cement I concede but that is a one sector where CCI is already investigating and taking action on.
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  3346. If you do then stop terrorizing us. Tell your elites to stop the cross border nonsense.
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  3347. Pegasus surveillance is only creates a climate of fear for the elites. Breaking that does nothing for the common man. (Besides if Parliament did it's job then you wouldn't need a SC committee - IT committee was sleeping) The key to breaking the climate of fear is when the courts stop being dysfunctional and start protecting fundamental rights, reprimanding bad cops and stop adjourning cases months in advance. I would love to see the courts rap State govts to enact police reform. It's all talk no substance.
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  3348. Mehnat kar. Rona bandh kar nahi toh tera chance nikal jayega. Aa ke din mein kuch bhi fukat mein nahi milta hai.
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  3349.  @k.ragavrajvikas6257  if opinion is just simply complaining without a counter proposal then I think we need a better opposition and a better definition of opinion.
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  3350. We should push for denuclearization of Pakistan - that's how you advocate for peace.
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  3351. China is a good reason why you should not vote in INDI alliance. Don’t vote for RaGa - he is a CCP shill
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  3352.  @fuzer4047  Manpads
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  3353.  @BharatThatIsIndia  Hindutva is the answer for that. Conversions of Hindus to Christianity happens because of lack of Hindutva.
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  3354.  @Victor-y9g1w yes and he did follow orders like he should. For that he should be commended.
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  3355.  @johnmcguire678  Please educate me how about 55k in Vancouver is "paid too much". BTW that 55k doesn't include pension deductions which takes a huge chunk of cash away from you.
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  3356.  @paulburton8264  then who will process your OAS checks? I don't think a bot can do it.
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  3357. Yes. They are renovating schools and building new ones. But 6 decades of neglect can't be fixed in a two terms. It needs sustained efforts. So if you're disappointed, I understand the disappointment.
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  3358. Why do we care about the UK? It is a declining power which gave us the mess that is the Partition and Kashmir, offers refuge to intellectuals who become as such through nepotism and still sit on Permanent Seat on the UNSC (Which they should surrender to India). Why are we trying to ape for attention from British Sahibs?
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  3359. The Farmer's lobby is really strong and change averse. There are credit incentives for machinery but the reception has been poor in these Northern states (BTW, Countrywide Tractor sales are going very strong thanks to the incentive, so it seems to be a regional issue). There are somethings the Govt can do and that is provide better incentives for non paddy winter cropping. This should give them enough time to use something like a decomposer between farming seasons.
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  3360.  @MrPicklu123 Hindu code bill would be unconstitutional according to you. Get a reality check. Registry is legal and constitutional. Just deal with it 😎
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  3361. Mehul Cholski unfortunately has been jumping from one Caribbean country to another and thus complicates the extradition. Mallya is just a matter of executive decision to be taken by the UK.
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  3362. It doesn't matter if Swedish or Danish folks burn the Quran, Pakistan will still allege blasphemy and persecute Minorities - Hindus, Sikhs, Shias and Christians, no one is spared.
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  3363. Shame on the Print for the one sided coverage. Where’s the tough questions about the community preparing to riot? Where’s the questions about the community going berserk and burning down property of specifically Hindus? Shekarji, this is not dehypenated journalism that I pay for.
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  3364. His wife Usha Ramanathan is the Dalal. She's deep in the Lutyens echo chamber
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  3365.  @smd4051  I have nothing to reply since you agree with me and follow up with an absurd analogy that neither makes sense nor does it help your position.
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  3366.  @suchender801  he competed and won the tender fair and square. Just cause Adani is not your favorite person doesn't negate the fairness of the tendering process. If you believe it was doled out then please point out systemic issues with the tendering process.
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  3367.  @suchender801  who else would they invest in? Some crypto stock? You really need to wake up and realize that there's only 4-5 companies worth investing in India for pension funds and Adani is one of them. (CPPIB, Canadian Pension board also holds equity in Adani).
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  3368.  @suchender801  growth potential and hard assets. Go read up on CCPIB reports on India investments.
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  3369.  @prajakt0789  the tax collected exceeds the waiver amount by quite a bit. The lack of waiver could have led to job losses and loss in taxation. The waiver provided some breathing space and that breathing space helped the businesses restructure themselves, retain jobs and reduced NPAs. Company balance sheets improved, tax collection naturally improved as well. That’s a win win
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  3370.  @berserkhorimiya you guys need a reality check. Casually fking around in a bachelorpad is not a live in relationship.
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  3371.  @Vizorfam  AAP can't win without Lingayat vote - reciting Hanuman Chalisa alone won't win them. Freebies don't work as a strategy in Karnataka. AAP also has a bad reputation in Dakshin Kannada thanks to its campaign in Goa.
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  3372.  @studytime2570  it's been falling since FY 2011
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  3373.  @MukeshVarma9198  yes, it's called the Sangh Parivar.
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  3374. Ya, State CMs and opposition members are now worried about snooping because they are at the receiving end. These power hungry maniacs have been snooping on us since 2010 with CMS and NAT-GRID. They excluded themselves from mass surveillance. Throw chappals at their hypocrisy.
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  3375. LOL These guys oppose UCC, refuse to participate in committees, tried to circumvent Parliament by going thru courts, lost badly and now they are complaining about "People in power" Please suffer more.
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  3376.  @g.akash19  Charan is a caretaker. So he doesn't technically count.
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  3377.  @g.akash19  it's not. Caretakers aren't elected, they didn't gain PM-ship by fighting an election. Caretaker govt can't pass budgets, barely have any executive powers, Caretaker Parliament can't pass legislation.
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  3378. Have some respect. The guy earned his post and got shot at. If you think you are entitled to be in the armed forces then join and become the top 25%
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  3379.  @abhishekjadhav2777  yes that's limited to BMC area. Outside the suburbs, they have very little control.
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  3380. This is why Same Sex Marriage petition feels nothing more something adjudicated to satisfy urbanist elite's and the courts way of monkey balancing for it's basic incompetence.
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  3381.  @momtur4875 when you run your mouth like a motormouth, the fumes from it become cancerous over time.
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  3382. I did not understand a word he was saying.
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  3383. Thanks!
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  3384. Boo, I thought I'd get to write my thank you comment.
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  3385.  @ThePrintIndia  there's a dearth of good journalism with wide coverage in India. The press is after all the fourth estate of any democratic society and it needs to be strong and well funded.
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  3386. LoL😂 Electoral bonds story became a dud precisely because you couldn't prove a "quid pro quo". Nobody came out with proof proving tenders were faulty or unfairly awarding contracts. Nobody bothered to regurgitate anything beyond an excel sheet thinking they could fool people. All electoral bonds achieved was harassing donors for 3 weeks.
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  3387.  @patmclaughlin107  yes an RS selected PM. He hasn't won an election in over a decade now.
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  3388. Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Canada's PBS gave an hour of podcast time to talk about the US Election. Wonderful.
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  3389. One way to achieve peace with Pakistan is by denuclearizing Pakistan.
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  3390. Afghanistan is a bitter lesson in nation building. You can't force institutions on to a country and it's people without involving those same adversaries in the process of building those same institutions. Americans in their hubris and blind ideology (we do not negotiate with terrorists) refused to engage in talks with the Taliban several years ago and integrated them into the political process. They failed to recognize Afghans and members of the Taliban are family members.
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  3391. ​ @bloodwargaming3662  thanks for bringing shame to the community. You'd be the first modern Mir Jafar Brahmin.
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  3392. We should write to the editor about shoddy reporting. Shaila Bhajpai, she's the one to write to. Can I use your blurb as a template?
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  3393. Deobandis will never accept an Arabic Khilafat.
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  3394.  @DKSingh-wf8tn  likewise. It's nice listening to your perspective.
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  3395. This guy is an embarrassment. What is he high on?
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  3396. Mr. Gupta Sir, there's a lot of wind blowing into your Mic. Maybe consider doing your episodes indoors.
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  3397.  @Zebra_3  it is also uncommon for any PM or PMO to intimidate backbenchers through proxies.
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  3398. And he lost badly. Begusarai, the Leningrad of India voted him out by 4 lakh votes.
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  3399. I don’t think it’s as a reliable indicator compared to MNREGA. MNREGA jobs dropped from 8 crores in 2021 to 6.3 crores in 2022. It peaked at 8.8 crores in 2020
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  3400. First reality changes then reputation.
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  3401.  @DKSingh-wf8tn  ji, please post it as a pinned comment in this video. Always good to look back at the past, it helps with getting context for the present.
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  3402.  @prasvasu4217  to move away from vigilantism you need strong institutions that deliver on it's mandates. We don't see that here. Only the naive in India (or the well resources like corporates and political parties), would pursue justice through the courts. Folks would rather resort to street justice rather than face decades of humiliations dealt to them by adjournments.
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  3403. According to Jairam Ramesh, First rate politics is selling our strategic interests to China and a bunch of George Soros NGOs
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  3404. They have. You can get an eILP and just walk into Arunachal Pradesh.
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  3405.  @rutvikrs  search for "The Field of Fixing" by Sangeeta Banerji. She recently presented her work and it's on YouTube. The paper itself is undergoing review.
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  3406. Justin Trudeau can learn from this press conference on how to press charges. Could have come handy in some diplomacy.
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  3407.  @ThePrintIndia  I think Autocorrect ruined your response 😂😂
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  3408. 2024 is a going for BJP. The three questions are going to be 1. By what margins will BJP maintain their lead? 2. Is Congress going to be relevant after 2024? 3. Will AAP replace Congress as the second or 3rd National party? AAP is the only one that's giving the BJP a fight in assembly elections, they are clearly playing the long game.
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  3409. If you work in the Tech industry, it is not hard to believe that Christians are getting persecuted. Tech industry is quite harsh (at times very excessive) with Christians (even with Liberal but religious Christians). Curtis Yarvin is definitely a reaction to Tech industry's corporate policies. While, I admit, it is scary, but if you don't look at how Christians in the near past were treated, I think we are making a mistake.
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  3410. Shekharji, which idiotic FM introduced ECNR?
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  3411. Sycophancy condemn kar kar ke badlav leker aayenge
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  3412. Forget 1962, let him exercise h the powers of the Party President and kick Jairam Ramesh out of the party. That gaddar cancelled border road projects.
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  3413.  @DS-oo9nc  NCERT teaches political economy. So I would also read other sources - IMF has back to basics of economics which has periodic updates.
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  3414. Free Bijli = bad schools and unpaid teachers. Freebies just keeps you very poor in the long run. If freebies worked then India would have been a 5 Trillion economy in the 70s.
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  3415. CPIM protesting is not the same as farmers protesting
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  3416. Indeed. How rich of them, first they scuttle Punjab police and now they demand the CM's head.
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  3417. MK Stalin: Let's create controversy by changing State formation day. Nawab Malik: Hold my beer 🍺
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  3418. We really have a absolutely stupid and incompetent opposition. Rahul Gandhi has no sense of strategy and political acumen (sense). Rahul Gandhi's opposition strategy is basically using a hammer for everything, it doesn't matter if it is the right tool or even if a hammer needs to be used. Has this guy never heard of, "Pick your battles carefully"? And just as expected, every new generation of the Gandhi family is more delusional and stupid than the previous one. Also how can Congress still tolerate such incompetence?
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  3419. No. We don't ban fertilizer use, we let the farmers decide if they want to become organic. We also provide them with resources (like technical assistance through NGOs) and help them with certification. The certification helps a lot because it mandates quality and yield standards
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  3420. If we didn't have a mobile manufacturing supply chain this wouldn't have been possible.
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  3421. They look like white colonial administrators.
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  3422. DK bol raha hai ki Azad contest kita toh NC ka vote split hoyega, maane BJP will get the largest amount of votes. That way, 40+ is a strong possibility.
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  3423.  @rohitravi8750  yes he did. But he passed abolishment of Estate Tax retrospectively - in other words, he passed the law in 1985, saying this law will apply from 1984.
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  3424.  @kostubh the guy who holds the file on reservations. He is the Tribal affairs minister and he has the power to accept or reject recognition of “backward status” and derecognition of “backward” status of various Jatis. He also has the power to draft regulations recommended by Rohini commission report should it come to that. You should watch when he is on the floor of parliament during question period. He does not do favors for his own BJP party members.
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  3425. Facebook is cancer for society. They keep feeding you hate, alter your world view and feed you a fake reality that's contrary to the facts on the ground.
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  3426. 😂 lol Rahul Gandhi tore up the ordinance that would have given him immunity. At that time all discussions were closed because of him. Now that he's getting his jail term, you think we should open up defamation .... lol lol lol The world does not and should not revolve around that loser
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  3427.  @drneelamdalal1382  not necessarily. Defense does get a lot of discretionary spending. Corp Commanders can place orders for equipment like helmets, guns etc. MRCA is reaching its conclusion and part of the money can go towards the initial acquisition.
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  3428.  @sam83santy  you believe in a lie that savarnas control everything. That's the barrier. Clean yourself up, break down your own barriers.
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  3429. Assembly is always a toss up. Vote cutting/splitting tactics through smaller parties are pretty common in Maharashtra. 1% in Lok Sabha translates to 5-10% in assembly, enough for smaller parties to wreck havoc into electoral calculations.
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  3430. This isn't the Govt. There's a difference between Govt. and Parliamentary committees. Committees have members from oppositions and often the committee chairperson is from the opposition. They advice the Govt on policy matters and are supposed to scrutinize the Govt's policies. In this case, the chairperson of this committee is from Congress Rajya Sabha member - Anand Sharma.
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  3431.  @akhil999in  kaunse univ mein ye bakwaas padha be?
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  3432.  @suhridguha2560  it is irrelevant as a National issue and stupid outcome of JNU's culture. JNU is an outlier, no other University in India gets itself involved so deep in politics as JNU does. JNU's academic output is absolutely pathetic especially recently - the excessively politics is only ruining that institution. For the rest of the country JNU is the drama queen of Universities. Nobody gives a damn about your student politics.
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  3433. Ltcg helps reduce speculation and makes retail investors think about their investment. Retail investors in India are like gamblers, we need them to invest and not gamble.
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  3434.  @yogeshbabu9942  kuch bhi. I don't think you understand market fundamentals. Trading of stocks is considered as a sale globally - every country has a tax on it. However, unlike other countries, India doesn't let you file returns on depreciation or losses. That's what's missing. Dividend tax only penalises shareholders, we have a lot of pension funds who are shareholders.
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  3435. CJI has done nothing to make the process more transparent beyond lecturing us about being ill informed about the process or the ills in our society. Neither Parliament nor the people have an input in it. Beyond the name and a basic resume we don't hear anything about the judges. We don't know what their jurisprudence is, we don't know how they are assesses beyond their family lineage, especially for Chief justices, we don't know what their plan is to reduce case loads.
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  3436. Nonsense. Please learn some basic topology rather than cry with exaggerated crocodile tears.
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  3437.  @AmalTan he won’t. It doesn’t cost them much. Lazy blokes just want to live off welfare.
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  3438.  @sreyanshuchaterjee3962  along with what you said, the Govt also provides them with vouchers that is used to pay tuition fees to the school. So the school is adequately compensated. This program has been going on since Vajpayee days.
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  3439. Start with yourself. Reform your mindset, then learn to research, discuss the opportunity with you family, test yourself against the requirements of the service and apply yourself in the service. Become the best of your batch, don't be lazy, don't be entitled to anything.
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  3440.  @priyanshutiwari9000  so a Governor somehow has more info than MHA and J&K MHA? I find that very hard to believe. Governors are some of the least informed politicians in the country. His "revelations" should simply be treated with a pinch of salt.
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  3441. It's an ANI feed.
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  3442. Jab tak peace ke naam pe patar fekna chalu rahega, tab tak peace ke naam pe bulldozer chalegi. Bulldozer lao, peacefuls ko peace dikhao.
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  3443. At least we know that the Thugs of Hindustan won't sell the country like the Scamsters of India. If there's something to be looted there's always Indian National Congress there to capitalize on that loot.
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  3444. We send weapons to Armenia and Azeribaijan immediately deports perpetrator back. I wonder what other concession can we extract from the Azeris.
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  3445. Let's say, Rahul gives up PMship, Kharge is PM candidate. There's only one problem with that, Kharge hasn't won an election in the past decade.
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  3446. We actually need more people nurturing those replanted trees. There aren’t enough folks to monitor their growth
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  3447. I wonder how much funding NIOT got from the Govt of India by making these spurious claims. 80 and 90s India was exceptionally poor, Govt basically stopped paying for services domestically (look up Budget Jugaad).
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  3448.  @sankalp6872 56k is reasonable but they always talk about total capacity.
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  3449. Our Gods do not have time for stupid people. Our Gods will be happy to have some respite from people pestering them to fulfill their wishes through Karwar yatra and similar festivities.
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  3450. You mean fraudulently own multi crore companies
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  3451. Please move to Pakistan.
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  3452.  @greenroad343  I think this Govt has removed a whole class of restrictions unlike previous Govts. that worked either in a piecemeal manner or not work at all. My issue is the momentum has slowed down. Big ticket reforms are passed but they stall after 99% of the work has been accomplished. Labor laws are an example of that. With that said, GST is always going to be ongoing improvements - it will never be the perfect something you're looking for. But that's the nature of regulations. To call this Govt not serious about the economy is very disingenuous and dishonest given the situation all around. If they didn't take it seriously, then they would not have bothered with Labor laws at all.
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  3453. Tldr; it is in line with historical trends.
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  3454. Well, activists will poison the well and there will be no breakthrough. Steven Guibeault will return from Dubai and say we contributed "gendered language". Meanwhile, Canada's emissions will go up along with the rest of the world. We will fight against LNG while countries with no option will rely on coal. Thanks to activists, this will be the likely outcome.
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  3455. They already pay double that
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  3456. Link?
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  3457. Pakistan, a country run by Generals who own Pizza Hut and Papa Johns franchises in Canada and US, Elites that are obsessed with a war with India rather than political and economic stability and a 'saviour' whose sole claim to a public mandate is radical Islam. And this country with a history of proliferation has nuclear weapons (North Korea got it's centrifuges from Pakistan).
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  3458. What a shame to have an anti national like you.
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  3459.  @zakirhussain-hw2xp  in 2012, Jairam Ramesh cancelled road projects connecting border villages despite approval by MMS. Guess what, that project would have been completed by now.
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  3460. Econometrics hasn't reached that level of statistical maturity you are talking about. Not yet.
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  3461.  @rayrikr  you hit the nail. Drawing meaningful conclusions is still an art and that's why econometrics still lacks maturity. This is a difficult problem to solve but that area of study is getting a lot of focus. At the moment, econometrics treats data as evidence, it need to treat data as hypothesis and then transition into hypothesis testing. Abhijeet Banarjee et al provides a framework for hypothesis testing. It is still relatively new, but I think it will make economics more a science and less social science.
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  3462.  @thifmaster1466  they don't because it's not part of American military doctrine and not because of US military loves human rights. US Military doctrine considers civilian targets as low tactical value.
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  3463.  @mohdazam2798  when someone captures a system to an extent that makes him immune from basic justice, such brutal murders becames very justifiable. Judges family members were kidnapped, parliamentarians were murdered, an entire riding was whipped into voting for him ... I can go on and on. No amount of 'by the book' procedure would have worked against him.
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  3464.  @mohdazam2798  Jail became his own court and domain. He's dead and died suffering for all the terror he enacted. His gruesome death was for the greater good. No amount of whataboutery can change that.
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  3465.  @harishgoud3628  you are talking about how it should work. I'm talking about how it works.
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  3466.  @alien_from_somewhere  so you are saying you will forever stay barbaric and uncivilized. Kk be my guest. #pkmkb
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  3467.  @pankajsharma-fn8cf  ok, what's the best way to deal with ideology? Jobs. Provide the opportunities to get a jobs and keep them in that job. You need to create the perception that only losers and lazy people become militants.
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  3468.  @pankajsharma-fn8cf  it ain't, just look at every pluralist society and you'll notice it's jobs that keeps those societies cohesive.
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  3469.  @anandnaa  there's a fair amount of restructuring happening in the larger economy. It's not happening fast enough and most of it is targeted - eg: Saffron traders and rose water traders are getting quite a lot of funding to improve their quality and production, craftsmen's are getting better market access. However there's a significant shortfall in good service sector jobs where a lot of young Kashmiris invested their careers towards. Like I said, it's a mixed bag.
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  3470. Great! Congrats on the wedding! Break down more barriers Bundi administration.
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  3471. Contrast this with the West. The Ummah has been mildly successful. You would think that Jew hate would you get you a lot of condemnation but media is instead tacitly supporting it. There's a lot of provocation and intimidation happening in Jewish Neighborhoods.
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  3472.  @Superman-os7dy  it's a tactic. Modi is essentially calling him out. "Look at Raga, so entitled and spoon fed. I'm self made and I'm getting things done. I've done more than what Raga and his family achieved in the past 60 years" and the crowd eats it up. Modi isn't wrong about all the missed opportunities in the past 60 years but it's also rather partly disingenuous. With that said, RaGa is a liability but despite all the defeats, the dude is incredibly thick headed to not realize that he's very much part of the problem.
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  3473.  @vratislavgoldie7386  this guy gets it
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  3474. India under Modi is decolonization itself from its Mughul past and reforming colonized structures that led to the partition. That’s what’s happening in India socially.
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  3475.  @islandsunset  we need serious judicial and police reforms. Our police force are poorly trained and don't have discipline. Not to forget, they are extremely heavy handed. Giving them guns is just a disaster. You can't have police reform without judicial reforms.
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  3476.  @vg6548 exactly. We have to wait until after the election to see any disinvestment or reforms.
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  3477. Please ask CPI if “ye azadi jhutha hai” (This independence is a lie). Unlike the RSS, CPI(M) Kerala still thinks our independence is a lie and hasn’t sweared allegiance to Indian Constitution. These guys talking about hate politics is like a Donkey dreaming about a horse. Come back when you are truly Indian, Chinese Communist bootlickers.
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  3478.  @dranonymousnotafraid2893  you're reading too much and arriving to delusional conclusions. Again, he calls himself British Hindu rather than British Indian. To elaborate, he doesn't think he's Indian.
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  3479.  @WaveRider1989  you get it, I get it but the idiot who commented on my comment doesn't.
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  3480. Socialists in Portugal became woke. Same thing happened in Netherlands and Scandinavia. Here in India, our battle against these bad woke ideas is still on going.
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  3481.  @scienceaweek  oh no, keep em there and they'll sell the village to the Chinese in exchange for bribes. Keep our opposition especially Congress as far away from the borders.
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  3482. By the end of 2029, we should aim to be free from Congress and leftist politics - the real cancers of India.
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  3483.  @p.srihariraju  I picked up the glacial flooding from the Gen. Shankar. The rest was evident from the topological map. Shaksgam valley is not the sector of our vulnerability - we have other more higher priority ones that need real attention. What's the state of DBO road? What's the state of Nyoma airfield? What's the status on Frontier Highway on Arunachal Pradesh? What is the status of our weapons' stockpile? Good journalism should address these things instead of picking a topic that the Chinese wants us to see. Also Shekarji missed out on Pakistani plans to build a road from the south to meet the Chinese road from the north (It is still several decades away).
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  3484.  @gauravpatil9805  You can fry them and sell them as fried onions. Cook them into canned curries and export abroad. Cut them and store them in jars of Vinegar or make pickles and sell them. There are so many things you can do with Onions. It is not just about storage, it is about being entrepreneurial.
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  3485.  @anandms7537 pile on your complains under here.
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  3486.  @anandms7537 I’m pretty sure YouTube is being extra aggressive with scrubbing comments. I have a hunch a pro Congi person wrote a script to censor our opinions. The folks at Cali HQ are uber liberal.
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  3487.  @ThePrintIndia I'll be vigilant the next time YT become aggressive. I sent an email, I'll add more to it.
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  3488.  @ThePrintIndia just a while ago YouTube deleted my comment regarding American support for our independence movement. Please push back on YouTube. Shekarji, this is getting non sensi cal
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  3489. There are a LOT of bad hot takes in the comments here. "ONOE is unconstitutional" - Oi, we used to have ONOE in the 60s. It worked pretty effectively, until Congress Govts abused President's rule and made it unworkable. "ONOE is autocratic" - Oi, voters have their own agency. Learn to respect that. In every election, Orissa/Odissa proves you wrong. Split voting is a thing in India. "Elections are safety valve" - No they are not. They are quite inconvenient when especially when it this frequently. I can't see my road fixed while Model Code of Conduct is enforced. "BJP treats Local Elections as National ones" - Oi, if you are against that they you would want less of that. ONOE puts limits on that. Some idiot quotes Western thinkers. - Oi, Westerns thinkers are not going to solve any of India's problem. They have been creating more problems for India than solving them. Man, ONOE becomes a potential catch phrase and everyone goes crazy. We don't know how ONOE is going to be structured, we are not even sure if ONOE would become the talking point in Special session of Parliament. But Hot takes need to come out hot and unbaked. So here we are. Comment on a policy before it even takes shape.
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  3490. And State Govts down south should help teach southern languages outside their states. It’s not just about teaching Hindi folks regionals languages, diaspora (within and outside India) never gets support to learn their own languages. Glad MEA is starting to recognize it.
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  3491. We need to acknowledge that our historians have effectively captured the narration of our history. They have consistently suppressed any historiography that goes against their Marxist Leninist methodology. Archaeological evidence is rejected, textual evidence is suppressed and they've ensured Western scholars don't see those evidence either. Forget Chavda (he's a quack), even Western scholars are refuting historiography of JNU historians. Andre Wink from the Dutch school openly says Mughal history is too skewed to show them in a positive light. Antionio Maino constantly cloobers the point that caste system was not a thing in Vedic times. C Smith from Harward says Vedic culture itself was a composite culture (He doesn't refute Aryan Migration but says it's not the complete picture). Kenoyer has done extensive work trying to fill the gap between Indus Valley and Vedic culture. But we don't get to hear that out of JNU. They still push the same Aryan invasion theory (not taught in Western schools), Ganga Jamuna Theseeb, Hindu Kings were violent castiest Kings theory. History for our historians is not about learning or discovering the past, it's all about social control. Dissolve JNU, give freedom to Indian historiography.
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  3492. Germans Climate activists are the worst. First they killed Nuclear, then superglued their mouths when Coal plants got restarted, now they are ruining arts and roads demanding actions. Talk about stupidity in activism. I hope this is the Last Generation of this stupidity. The rest of the World is paying for European stupidity.
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  3493. Don't forget, Raga people management skills are top notch according party workers and "impartial" journalists. That's why he "sacrificed" his "potential" to become Congress party President. While you're on point about consistency, his management of the party has only insulted people's hard work. Just look at how Scindia left the party.
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  3494. Take away from today's CTC: Beware of Brown wumaos (paid pro CCP shills).
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  3495. Khud ke paas qualifications nahi hai aur phir jobs ke baare mein rohte raho. Will work for L&T? They are hiring 55,000 labourers, 500 Project Managers.
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  3496. A side note: Have you considered publishing your style guide on the website? Associated Press has a style guide that you can get access to if you're a reporter. They also have a supplementary blog that explains how to explain events. We don't need that level of detail but perhaps a public style guide might help, especially with Your Turn contributors.
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  3497. Waste water on protestors, waste taxpayer money on freebies but when it comes to healthcare workers especially ASHA workers it's just silence and "Humare pass paisa nahi hai". Third class socialism.
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  3498.  @varun2250  Seema Sirohis latest book - Friends with Benefits
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  3499.  @varun2250  well she has corroborated and quoted public sources.
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  3500. Erdogan's Neo Ottoman dreams are crumbling thanks to his own manufactured inflation crisis
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  3501. After Rahul Gandhi, this guy is BJP's star campaigner.
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  3502. That Indian lady needs to be called out.
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  3503.  @thenoobdashow7428  health.
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  3504. Dude, he went there to get the Chinese to agree to some form of arms control and hotline. You don't want either the Chinese or Americans mistaking each other's deployments as launching a nuclear war.
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  3505.  @tanmay_basak  we all do. And we all prepare for it. Competition is there for everyone.
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  3506. Are you saying after 4 years and 12 lakhs you can't figure out what to do? Are you that dumb that you can't learn a new skill? It's such an insult to hard working people who learn new things, try new jobs, compete, pay taxes etc
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  3507. You have to appreciate Samrat's commitment and discipline. He hasn't taken that turban off every since he vowed he'd wear one till Nitish is out of power:
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  3508. Dear Indians, also listen carefully to the beginning of this Video. The American scholars are studying India for themselves, for the benefit of Americans. Our courts strongly discourages (*cough contempt of *cough nyayalay) such introspection, this is why it is difficult to bring any improvements.
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  3509.  @mg.f.9023 Adani has hired more people and provided more gainful employment than a Congress govt has in the past 6 decades. And without developing UP, you can’t develop India.
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  3510. We don't even give our State Govt employees timely salaries. States like Punjab give away free electricity and can't even pay salaries for more than 50% of their teachers. Without CG pouring money, those 50% wouldn't even get salaries
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  3511. China was freely encroaching our land when UPA was in power. Now when they encroach, they encounter heavy resistance from our Jawans! Kharge should exercise his Presidential powers and boot Jairam Ramesh from the Congress party. Jairam Ramesh gave the Chinese free pass to build border villages and put our forces in heavy disadvantage (denied development) by canceling Border Road Projects. If Kharge is a real party President then he will exercise his powers. But the guy is a puppet like Bahadur Shah Zafar, so why should we believe in his powers? Congress Mukth Bharat is the one way forward. Get rid of these useless politicians
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  3512. Been waiting on this KYC episode. Thank you, it looks like you took the time to understand the bill. Good work
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  3513. Disclaimer: I haven't read the article yet. So I'm going by the byline. We shouldn't ignore Pakistan for the seas. Our neighbor is fragile and their contribution to the mess on their western border makes them even more vulnerable to spiralling down to collapse of it's State. The last thing anyone in New Delhi wants is splinter group of the ISI or renegade Islamist group previously supported by the ISI to take advantage of the chaos to get their hands on nukes. We need to improve our own capabilities to monitor and respond (militarily if required) and absolutely put the pressure to force a disarmament of their nuclear weapons stockpile. Happy birthday.
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  3514.  @jimmywest8684  Corruption and sycophancy. The Congress Party is a monarchy disguised as a democratic party, their current leader is a 5 gen dynast from the same Family. With them around, the BJP simply becomes the default choice for lots of voters.
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  3515. The readouts are not out yet. Without that CTC wouldn't make sense.
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  3516. Constitution is Indian. Punishements are colonial.
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  3517.  @fretted4life  I'm saying you have a narrow view of the craziness of the Congress. In almost every category, Senior Congress members have quite a LOT of damage to the country and it's social fabric. (Remember how they tried to push Communal Violence Bill). Congress senior members also allowed the NAC to function as a deep state.
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  3518.  @sankalp6872  I can forgive our ancestors, for they did not know any better. Most of them were illiterate and got taken for a ride. However, I cannot forget today's socialists/communists/left liberals etc. They should know better (probably they do) but yet they yearn for the old days. Those who support are fools to think it is about socialism. It isn't about socialism, it's about dominating people's lives and rebuilding the darbari culture.
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  3519.  @bloodwargaming3662  I think your delusional to think you can read. Besides we all want to know who the PM is and how cabinet is going to be formed. That clarity exists with the NDA. With this excuse of alliance, all I see spineless politicans who will sell their kid to please their respective dynasties.
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  3520. It's standard global practice.
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  3521. Session hasn't even started and the opposition is intent to make itself irrelevant. Invariably allows the Govt to ram through bills without deliberations.
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  3522. Good initiative however I don't expect Penguin to expand this program to prepare outside of Matoshree area.
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  3523.  @smd4051  of course every investor cared about NPAs. But Investors also wrote off any chance of recovering money from the NPA before IBC.
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  3524.  @haroon420  are you a free member? Why don't subscribe to the print rather than leech off free content and make useless comments.
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  3525. European need to wake up. The pioneers tackling climate change is not coming from Europe neither is any European country (except Denmark) leading. The real innovations are happening in developing countries with material help from China and using financing models developed in India, Bangladesh etc The only thing European are offering is empty rhetoric. They don’t even have the dignity to finance projects in the developing world.
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  3526. What goes around comes around. What makes Pakistan particularly vulnerable is the collapse of civil services. Eg: Textbooks teach Islam, Punjabi supremacy mixed with an imagined turkic heritage. It’s all downhill from here. We should lobby for denuclearization of Pakistan.
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  3527.  @alfredbernard9227  also are you saying Tamils who live outside of TN don't deserve to learn their mother tongue? What kind of exclusionary nonsense are you spouting. You don't deserve to be called Indian, let alone Tamil with that attitude.
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  3528. Kejriwal is trying to pull a Rahul Gandhi. Man, there is no way you can get into the North East by them pissing off.
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  3529. Libya has a Govt? Didn't NATO bomb and it create a quagmire of civil war?
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  3530.  @aemssw2387 Lord Shiva himself consumed marijuana. Just look it up.
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  3531. It’s so obvious that you can’t deny it anymore.
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  3532. We should send him to Gaza and keep him there.
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  3533.  @crazydrifter13  ya because you don't look at power generation and consumption data. Coal power in India trails consumption and then runs at a generation surplus for months until a State bureaucrats says so. Indian power plants wastes away 50% of the coal it consumes this way.
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  3534.  @abhilash9918  🤦‍♂ Mumbai mein bolte hai, kaunsa gutter se tu aaya re?
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  3535.  @A.T1996  I don't think so. We are not ready for that yet. A lot of welfare programs are gendered, gender neutrality would scuttle them.
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  3536.  @ithinkthat So? You're not convincing me that English is in danger. Anglos should promote French.
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  3537.  @ur-inannak9565 except your example is politically unworkable. BC is 30% Chinese and 30% Punjabi. I'd honestly prefer everyone should become multilingual. Monolingualism is for the lazy. 3 language formula for all - English, French and mother tongue (including Cree, Coast Salish etc)
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  3538.  @jkardez4794  before Modi sarkar, every Govt would announce a policy with no detail, policy white paper or consultation period. This Govt made the consultation period mandatory, established NITI to publish policy white papers and finally you can read up Govt policies with all it's boring details WITHOUT AN RTI. Though the implementation is a bit patchy (eg: comment periods are inconsistently applied and can range from 2 weeks to 3 months depending on the department) but it's be a solid first step towards transparency. You clearly don't know how the Govt used to function and the Govt currently functions. So pretty much what you say is nonsense.
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  3539.  @guymontag2948  LOL no. It's mostly seen as retributive response to nonsense the West spews about the rest of the world.
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  3540. It would be an endearing one.
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  3541. @Rolipoli We earn enough to buy out WaPo and NYT. That's how you apply pressure.
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  3542. Shekarji, can you post a link to the report as a posted comment?
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  3543. They are all treaty allies of the US. Japan and Philippines have basing and mutual defence treaty.
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  3544. Sangh's expenses/donations are not counted.
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  3545.  @orkkojit  accusation != conviction. I can accuse you to be an idiot but that doesn't make you one yet. Once you are convicted an idiot you become an idiot. That's how the law works.
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  3546. EU can set whatever price they want, it won’t matter. Ultimately the rest of the World is no longer subservient to Europeans. India and China will buy at rate that’s gives them the most value for money and the Global South will join them. Btw this price cap is cheap talk for European, they nicely excluded Russian oil delivered by pipelines. That’s essentially a big “FU” for the Global south. So much for morals, ethics and whatever BS virtue signaling that comes out of Brussels.
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  3547. @ahs pm so if I settled in Mizoram, would I be considered as exclusively Mizo, or would I be considered as exclusively Tamil? Or would I be accepted as Tamil Mizo? That's something I can't answer but experience. In Maharashtra, I was exclusively Tamil, my Maharashtrian identity was othered despite my efforts to integrate myself (I speak fluent Marathi).
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  3548.  @hiruzenmonofuke7344 It has changed significantly. It's incremental changes that becomes more evident as time passes. Compare Foreign policy pre and post 2014
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  3549.  @ThePrintIndia It is not about CTC. Sir, it is not a simple politician making a statement, it's a Minister with significant influence in the State's policy that made that statement. I think you should reconsider your silence and issue a stronger statement. Why is there silence when Hindus are on the line?
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  3550. Behind every good policy is a line of indecisive feckless babus (especially mid level Babus) whose job is to foil any momentum that comes with the policy. Unless if the Govt in power reins in the Administrative services and gets them to follow through, this will end up in a pile of dead horses of good policies. I mentioned this in another comment, I'm less worried about the Govt(s) in power, I'm way more worried about the Babus in power. This still has to deal with the serious threat of decision paralysis followed with the tyranny of the 3 Cs - CBI, CAG, CVC
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  3551. Is this part of one district, one product scheme?
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  3552. China is not a democracy, which means Xi has zero obligation towards his subjects. If China’s economy falters, Xi wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice the wealth and health of Chinese people to meet his goals. If you’re pinning your hopes on faltering Chinese economy holding Xi back, you will be disappointed.
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  3553. Trump's tarriff, if it stay for more than a couple of years will drive investment in the US. It will. deindustrialize US's traditional allies. US will become stronger but at the expense of allies.
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  3554.  @thegreatdane3627 US capacity to attract, retain and work around workforce issues. But first, money will move then workforce will come.
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  3555. That’s not economy, that’s business class. Wider seats gives it away
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  3556.  @KieranDevine you missed the sarcasm.
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  3557. The anglophile elite and their civil society is getting punished for their arrogance. There’s no doubt about that. The screaming we see about declining civil liberties is coming from them. Honestly, it’s very entertaining - it’s like watching laurentian elite squirming over losing relevance with Canadians. India’s civil society is getting replaced by a more native, grassroots, local language speaking one. They are helping the govt drive its agenda. So ya, if you want to learn more about India, stop listening to “experts” in Canada and maybe learn some Hindi.
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  3558.  @perspective500  no Chinese has heard of it because according to the propaganda fed to then by the CCP is that a Chinese community cannot integrate themselves into a community to a point where they can invent and own a cuisine parallel to Mainland China.
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  3559. Banks are in strategic sector list. But there are PSUs which we do need to get rid of like HMT. HMT is only profitable because Govt gives it contracts - it's essentially एक जेब से दूसरा जेब
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  3560.  @Schnarr007 dogcrate “affordable” housing is nothing more than ghettotification of condo market.
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  3561. I don't think Rahul listens when he is repeatedly called to resign after every electoral loss. This guy has no shame and the party workers aren't any different.
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  3562.  @JamilAhmed-md8mf  it won't happen. Creating new forums with specific focuses that achieves results is a better allocation of diplomatic resources. Booting Pakistan out of SAARC would likely give their diplomatic corp ammo against us. Remember, they are playing the zero sum game, we need to get out of it and keep them dangling in that game.
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  3563. DIPAM Secretary’s (Disinvestment Secretary) statement regarding PSUs losing value because of govt disinvestment plans would have been more credible if he had managed to sell even one PSU last year. Rs. 0 was amount achieved through disinvestment last year. This year’s target is unchanged, same as last year. He like the rest of the babudom is back to their socialist mentality. He is proposing Govt maintain 51% stake in PSUs that’s divested … in 2023. These guys have learnt nothing. The Jeryll-Hyde syndrome is because of the babudom, they don’t want to achieve their targets, however low it might be. To compensate for their laziness, the whip the people. Educated public ko ullu bana rahe hai apne babu log.
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  3564. Mandir jaana bhi aaj kal "bhadkne" ho gaya hai. Peaceful sacchi mein peace lekar aa rahe hai.
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  3565. I think folks underestimate, the significance of scraping Planning commission in favor of NITI AAYOG. These SDG analysis (rather MDP) were conducted by UN or public policy interns with the blessings of Planning commission. NITI changed that by allowing lateral entries, the same interns are now direct hires. That's how you get such good reports.
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  3566.  @IndianArma bakwas. Kaunse duniya mein urban planning authority ko trash collection ka kaam milta hai? Pannun ne kitna paisa diya tereko?
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  3567.  @raisevoiceagainstcyber-sta8688  low interest rate means you can borrow at a lower rate. That's good for the medium and long run, it means you don't have to high interest pay for college, pay less interest for a home, businesses pay less in interest, govt can borrow for less interest to pay for infrastructure. It means everyone has more disposable income. You can use that to invest in things like mutual funds, it makes major decisions like education more in reach.
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  3568. They'll give up on values if it compromises on National interest.
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  3569.  @Grand-Rose I’m not saying reforms are the Centre won’t help. I’m saying they impact would be limited. Electricity Ammendment Bill can deliver better outcomes if States also went along with their reforms especially on the permitting and clearance processes. Without States, reforms would be at best deliver uneven outcomes.
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  3570.  @dukhi_aatma372 Corruption enabled the British to conquer us. Mir Jafir was bribed after all.
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  3571.  @sagarvijayendra8683 Adult education schools are available to help you with your reading comprehension.
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  3572. For folks who are wondering why the virtual meeting. Biden got exposed to COVID-19 in a meeting with Obama and the Speaker of the US House (US Lok Sabha). The speaker tested positive the next day.
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  3573. ⁠ @rajx7120 naaah. Bihar needs flood protection and irrigation projects, especially in North Bihar. Introducing MSP in Bihar will be a disaster, it will entrench Bihar’s caste politics. It’ll be much worse than Punjab. But Bihar first needs to fix it’s fiscal harakiri. 30% of state revenues have been made black thanks to abolition. And the State spends 10% of its budget cracking down on that black money. Jungle raj also has returned thanks to it.
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  3574.  @ianupamdey  Sure. I can't provide links, because Youtube scrubs the comment away. However, look up Govt of India v. Ajeet Bharthi and Govt of India v. Prashant Bushan (2009 and 2020) for examples of abuse of contempt of court. Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Director Argyha Sengupta, has admitted multiple times on multiple podcasts including the Wire's podcast that he was threaten by the Courts with contempt about publishing his research on nepotism. Also it doesn't help the SC has a very broad interpretation of Section 2 of Contempt of Courts Act that makes it legal for courts to engage in contempt proceedings over what it considers to be "scandalizing the courts". Supreme Courts in all it's genius has interpreted to squash every form of legitimate criticism towards it - this was flagged in multiple Law Commission reports but in more detail in the 2018 law commission report.
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  3575.  @homosapien6414  Media free from political influence is a fool's errand. A SC with complete independence without any form of accountability is an undeclared dictatorship. SC has no respect for separation of powers.
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  3576. This is just bad diplomacy. Western diplomats walked out during negotiation and it achieves nothing beyond making the war more miserable than it already is. What's worse is, we in the West aren't prepared to fork money to defeat Russia either. Zero outcomes but all drama is the worst kind of diplomacy.
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  3577.  @karankapoor2701  that’s my point.
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  3578. I think this will be vaccine 2.0 Things will happen quietly and then Modi will come claiming victory.
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  3579. Shekarji, you definitely need a boom mic with a better pickup patterns. Your current mic catches everything else and makes it difficult to listen to what you have to say.
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  3580.  @khalsasikhpunjabda  his plan will only strip punjabis of their money. None of it addresses the huge losses PSUs make.
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  3581. CG deployed CRPF. FYI.
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  3582. That's the only coherent thing he said in all his drunken mumbling. They just want to eat Govt. Money for no output.
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  3583. Just like how Shekarji publishes new episodes of Cut The Clutter by copying older episodes, Congress and INDI allaince has published their manifestos by copying the CPIM Manifesto.
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  3584. Nehru wasted away meagre resources trying to toxicify the Indian economy into a socialist economy. His sheer incompetence left us a mess of a Northern border.
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  3585. Our opposition is wastes it's talent and political infrastructure. This guy knows how to fight an election - this is from Kashi Ram/Mayawati's playbook. Go big and bold. Our opposition can learn from him but for that they need to ditch their dynasties.
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  3586. Did he trick Uddhav Thackeray into obeying Supreme Court order?
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  3587. Too lazy to file a RTI? You lazy Taliberules shoot from the hip and expect to get spoonfed talking points. You folks are the most useless votebank ever.
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  3588. Cachar should be made into a Union territory just like Chandigarh or my compatriots at Mizo should take a page from MES in Belgaum or it should be made into an autonomous district.
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  3589. Audio is terrible. I think I need to make a visit to newsroom with audio equipment.
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  3590.  @DeccanPS  only on symbol. EC does not mandate which names gets assigned.
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  3591. Forget the statue, keep the Hologram. India has more heroes than just Subhas Chandra Bose. We can keep rotating them and honor every hero.
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  3592.  @surendarvijay2520  public consultations was absent. Govt of India, usually conducts a consultation exercise when it comes to projects and reforms. The result is usually a smoother process for projects and commission reports for legislature. It involves DMs along with some junior researchers meeting local leaders, Panchayat heads, tribal groups etc. Due to COVID-19, consultations have stopped.
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  3593.  @vidit1809  they way it was passed scuttled it. Financial reforms wouldn't be passed with such carelessness. Agriculture could take similar amount of care. Again, let me reiterate, there's nothing wrong with substance of the laws.
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  3594.  @thirdperson2161  Agriculture's 1991 moment will come back again. The sector is too unproductive and an intense drain on Govt. resources for it to be ignored for a decade. Several years maybe, decades I don't think so.
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  3595.  @armstrong2450 yes but it is obligated to work with law. In this case they did not. It broke it's own diktats on corruption and national security cases. Definitely kisine paisa khaya hai.
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  3596. It's a disappointment. While this will tackle the gap in enlisted soldiers, this does nothing to address issues with shortage of NCOs (your Officers). There are also no plans to improve our expand defense education - NDA's batch sizes have remained stagnant for the past two decades. Agnipath also is very light on education. All these recruits are at the prime age for technical education. We're taking them away from that and we aren't giving them an opportunity to learn skills. Where's the Indian equivalent of the GI bill?
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  3597.  @friendlyperson9691  people in Tamil Nadu need to get off their high horse. Pretty darn sure North Indians would love to learn Tamil if Tamil education was accessible. So TN govt. accepts NEP, strongly lobby CG enforce Southern language education in the North and supplement that with adult education. This kind of status quo thing is just pure nonsense. It also does the huge Tamil diaspora a disservice. TN never bothered making Tamil accessible only exclusive.
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  3598. Hey The Print, I don't pay for subscription for the premium section to be filled with articles written by characters like Yogendra Yadav, Vir Sanghvi etcs. I don't pay to read articles that insults basic intelligence of an average Indian. At least drop these opinion columnists from the premium offering. Their articles don't meet the bar for a premium offering. Please improve your value proposition. I'm seriously considering withdrawing my subscription.
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  3599.  @theglobalgambit it’s Hopkins, folks are usually pretty surprised when you tell them there are things apart from the Medical School.
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  3600.  @parvadhami980  no. Think about it this way, if they start becoming poor, they will become disgruntled, eventually they turn to Khalistani. We bring wealth to them they will condemn it 10x over.
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  3601.  @manteshsharma9351  basic doctrine has been abused. It needs to be rebalanced
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  3602.  @disorganizedorg  Aaah you're right! I had 1988 convention in mind.
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  3603.  @BRIJESHKUMAR-pm4hh  not necessarily. Bonmai and Fadnavis have their own strong local following (co-incidentally also the non hindi heartland states with significant BJP following). Gujarat is more an exception to the rule, given that Modi himself is from Gujarat.
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  3604. Sig is for mountain warfare. The valleys in Kashmir are deep and you need a round that can cut that distance. With regards to AK 203, India has a huge paramilitary force that they use for internal security (and the Army rotates it's bootcamp troops with the paramilitary), the 203 is supposed to be used by them as well. Also there's a lot of confusion between Indian paramilitary and regular army amongst American defense experts. Often times American analysts mix up the two but they function very differently. India deploys it's paramilitary on the Pakistani border (except for specific sectors like Siachen & Kargil), the Chinese border is manned by the military. Patka helmet was invented for Sikh soldiers but became popular among paramilitary forces because it was light and more comfortable. Regular army is not supposed to use patka helmet. I'm pretty sure Battle Management System is already deployed in the Eastern sector, not sure about the Northern one. DRDO is fine, it's OFB (Ordinance Factory Board - another govt owned Enterprise) that blocks or complains against any private company participation. India's defense is stymied by socialist thinking but things are changing rapidly. The second term of this govt has helped with maintaining that momentum.
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  3605. Congress is not liberalism. There's a huge difference between liberalism and whatever the heck ideology Congress tried to shove down our throats until they tanked the economy.
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  3606.  @c.i.a.932  Yes it does but on their own terms. Mamta's terms were she doesn't want to share seats with Congress in West Bengal.
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  3607.  @shalivahana1300  I haven't these kinds of arrests though. That's new.
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  3608. Please be safe
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  3609. Foreign Policy experts often have to make forward looking statements, that's why whatever they say will always be premature. They are advising and ideating future actions Govt should consider - in other words they are influencers. Sushant is a hawk. His positions are hawkish, in other words he advocates for more aggressive actions.
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  3610.  @sankalp6872 you can't implement every PLAN. FP positions often help with reducing the number of plans that need to be implemented. Also FP involves some amount of Game theory, i.e. predictions based on each party's maximalist positions.
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  3611. Why don't you apply instead of whine?
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  3612. Message might be true but the vessel rings hollow
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  3613. Our PM decided to sink our relationship with India for a plumber who used a fraudulent marriage, abused refugee application process to become a citizen. That was a month ago. This week, he decided to throw all the Jews into the sea over a fake bombing that happened in Gaza.
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  3614. It's like as if Urdu wasn't part of Indian culture or history. Would love for these idiots to sing one song without Urdu's influence. Besides it's stupid, because language intolerance is more vicious and destructive than religious intolerance. Insolent idiots.
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  3615. Is there a video or an article that talks about Rajiv Gandhi and chappals?
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  3616. That's not the case in Canada. It gets smuggled in from the States.
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  3617. We need to get rid of Catherine Tate. She single-handed destroyed CBC and she is rewarded for it. Trudeau Govt has been rewarded destroyer, chaos actors and corrupt cronies. High time we get rid of them.
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  3618.  @harikrishnans8897 Naah. He’s been on it since 2014. Just look at his schemes.
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  3619.  @vaibhavgupta20  I understand Tooze better than PBM.
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  3620. Kapil Sibal wrote some really egregious sections in IT act.
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  3621.  @AseemKumar9  the world won't know simply because you believe so. We need to let the world know that folks like Mandal and Yengde are nothing more than charlatans.
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  3622. Good point.
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  3623. Lesson #1: Do not to be thirsty.
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  3624. Being a student in India is a punishment. Our education system is built to mentally torture students and ensure they fail.
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  3625. The only Ideology that the BJP follows is the one you personally associate the BJP with. Indian parties are invariably big tent and cannot survive by ignoring the massive problems in the country by following ideology - that is the realities of governance. The 'idealogy' is actually an electoral formula.
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  3626. Camcoder Mode. With a good case it might be much better.
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  3627. Basically the world markets has factored in Ukraine war and Hamas pogrom.
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  3628. Sasta Yogendra Yadav is now a regular at NDTV?!?
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  3629.  @MrAlen6e they just did a week ago. They started consultations about 18 months ago. I participated in bylaw reforms consultations for 3 rounds.
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  3630.  @camelliapeng5954 Sure. Federal government wants a price cut and push social housing programs on to the city. The Fed doesn't want to compensate for long term losses in revenue. Do you think any BC city would agree to those terms? There's no thought put into the way housing accelerator program, it's hastily conjured up. I'd love to see it succeed but whatever is getting done is not sufficient.
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  3631. The hilarious thing is Islamists claiming that they are the colonized 😂😂😂😂 Islamists are the colonizers.
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  3632. Pakistani Govt is scrapping the bottom of the piggy bank to fund it's aspirational military goals. Let them strip themselves of everything for a delusional goal. In the meanwhile, we should ensure we elect stront Govts with vision and a harder stance against Pakistan. PK will not hesitate to be a annoyance when Chinese come knocking on our borders. We need a strong capabilities to PK won't even dare to think about troop deployments.
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  3633.  @eggmancorp  there were way better alternatives, Trudeau choose the worse and threw a whole community under the bus for a bloody plumber. You might not be aware, ever since Trudeau went public with that "credible allegation", the Indo Canadian community has been facing near daily threats to leave the country. Our temples are increasingly getting vandalized (inside and out), our community events are increasing getting violently disrupted, people are getting harassed by the goons from the said Plumber's place of worship and we've been banned from entering India. All this is happening and Trudeau hasn't said a word about it. Even Pierre condemned it (and condemns regularly). This is entirely Trudeau's fault.
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  3634. We should seriously push for denuclearization of Pakistan. They are in economic shambles and a political crisis combined with a population that increasingly questions it's Govt legitimacy. It's a deadly combination of a state heading into collapse or failure. A more stronger Pakistani state was already dealing with rampant nuclear proliferation, a weaker one will only accelerate that trend.
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  3635. I think our politics is now getting increasing dominated by the problems of the Hindi heartland. First, break the Hindi heartland down back to it's individual cultures, recognize Brijbasa, Maithili as languages. Second, economics, we need to liberalize, provide more opportunities. The quotas we need are for women. Bring down child mortality, it is still too high. Third, we need more integrated societies. Today we have a lot more gated Non Muslim communities. This is regressive and goes against our history and culture.
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  3636. Rathee has a following prior to CTC. He is already preaching to the converted and he is the only guy popular in the Left circles. Essentially Rathee commands a monopoly in leftist circles.
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  3637.  @Garuddd  sure. But we shoulduld show some maturity and not bother with it at all. We could show that Hindu society is inclusive and tolerant. That homosexual Hindus have a place, instead tear a book from Wahabbis and scream sacrilege, blasphemous etc. Our conduct is no different from the Wahabbis we keep dissing on. Besides homosexuality is tolerated in Hinduism. This intolerance was imprinted by Aurangazeb and enforced by the British with their protestant mortality. If you care to sit down and listen I'll provide you passages from Puranas that describe homosexuality between Gods and Goddesses. Vedanta never cared about one's sexual orientation as long as the love was pure and genuine.
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  3638.  @any7334  Since Modi speaks in Hindi, now Hindi has become a Sanghi language. This is level of randu thinking librandus have devolved into.
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  3639.  @tony-pc4kd  you can learn from it. Besides Mahabharata is a legend - it is not mythology. There is a lot of historical basis in it, though events can be exaggerated to explain a point - it's like the illad and exodus. Btw historians consider Krishna to be a historical character, though he might not be like the one described in Hindu texts. The one in the Puranas and Mahabharata are considered to be two Krishnas. The one in Puranas is a composite character. You can learn from it but what you learn, that's your prerogative.
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  3640. @Aditya Kumar Pandey , so it is in your dharma to get offended by a tongue and cheek reference to Krishna. Maybe you should read the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata Critical Edition.
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  3641. Urban classes treat politicians as agents to derive benefits from. Want to secure an Engineering/Medical seat for your child, meet Pawar/Shinde/Adik/Sule/Sarnaikbhau. They know exactly how much accolades they deserve.
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  3642. What's he going to say? Scream Panic and create panic? Watch Oxygen tank pieces go up? PPEs stolen? He's a Chief Minister, they have a responsibility to maintain order and not let things go wild. Almost every Chief Minister will talk in the same manner.
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  3643. The left ruined our country btw. Nehru and Iqbal both wanted Socialism with Ram-Rahim. So ya you're idea of a strong Liberal party would not solve any issues. What you need is a party that follows constitutional principles.
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  3644.  @Vizorfam  they are picking the battles they know they will win and you are falling for it.
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  3645.  @mindful_swim  so even The Economist which recently called for the Gandhi to retire is a Modi Bhakt now?
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  3646. Sounds like a very Eurocentric book. The experience of pandemics in colonial India was quite different. Reading through Justice Ranade’s writings about the plague indicates the experience in India was much worse. Whenever there was a plague epidemic the British were pretty brutal, invaded peoples homes, demolished their places, confiscated their land especially those close to their cantonments. Would be nice to include that.
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  3647.  @VineethJose  PM represents the Govt and not his party.
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  3648.  @aatadedo  did not hear the press conference?
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  3649. Manekshaw would have called you pathetic and dishonorably discharged you from the service for your pathetic mindset. He would told you are unfit if you don't make it to the top 25%.
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  3650.  @spasarma  don't forget Maharashtra.
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  3651. FSSAI is too busy trying to protect "secularism" that they dropped the ball when it comes to our exports.
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  3652.  @Crysizz  it's not support. Lynching is a sign that the Justice system has failed in it's basic function.
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  3653.  @Punjab_Punjabi_Punjabiat  so that idiots like you can bring up that same talking point 100 years later.
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  3654. The Pk Army is known for false flag operations.
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  3655. Price cap makes sense. Russia has the lowest cost of production in the world and all this heightened oil prices are just increasing Russian profits. Because the cost of production is relatively unchanged, the Russians are able to give us 30-40% discounts on Oil barrels. Price cap would mean Russians can't engage in price gouging/reduces their profit margin.
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  3656.  @saurabhchaudhary6630  well, it depends on the terms but I'm guessing it will be something like, "India can only $500 million dollars of oil per month" or "India cannot buy Russian oil for more than $60/barrel". I'm thinking it will be more like the first one.
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  3657. But unlike us, they are investing heavily in green energy production and manufacturing. In another 10 years, they will leapfrog us while we virtue signal and greenwash.
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  3658.  @jotendrakumar2852  loss of an opposition is bad for democracy. Any democracy.
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  3659.  @Agnosticcc-x3m you misread me. MMS had to face enormous amounts of humiliation from the Congress. Remember, the guy offered to resign after Sharm El Sheikh agreement and after RaGa tore up his ordinance - Sonia kept him and humiliation from the Congress intensified. We forgot how distasteful Yuvaraj Gandhi and his cotorie were but they were really nasty.
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  3660. They are consolidating the right wing. Not a bad strategy
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  3661. Shekarji, when it comes to reforms, economy and pointing our the idiocy of India's Political, please do not cut short Cut the Clutter to fit a time limit.
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  3662. You are not wrong but we should still wait until Trump is in power to become President before we act. He could be Tailwind we could use to fix Bangladesh.
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  3663. State govt need to step up.
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  3664.  @ankitsharan1881  that has nothing to do with breaking every convention of federalism. States do not get to decide which territory belongs to their State. It is the Centre that does that and for good reason.
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  3665.  @varinderwalia7840  it is very much illegal. It's a Union territory. Reorganisation of States is a Center list. This sets a very bad precedent. Tomorrow if Himachal passes a law saying Pathankot is Himachal territory, would you call that legal? Mann is essentially opening up a can of worms, he's allowing other States to start making similar claims.
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  3666. DK Singhji, what are the chances of Modi dumping Adani? Has that happened in our political history? Nehru attacked Birlas back in the day?
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  3667.  @nenasiek  India bought Russian oil defying West's sanction of Russia. Since then Western Media apparatus has been relentless in it's media campaign against India. They initially thought "feeding the Russian war machine" campaign would coerce India but Indian Govt gave them a middle finger, then the Global South started giving them the middle finger.
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  3668. Would love for them to say the same thing about Yemen. Annoyingly according to the Western world, The brutal war the Saudis are conducting in Yemen can be conveniently ignored.
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  3669.  @uditraj8290  OFB kuch dhang ka banaya kya? Tu taxpayer ka paise jala raha hai. Socialism ke naam desh ko bahut baat bika diya.
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  3670. Aaaaaah, so we finally know who is Rahul Gandhi's therapist.
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  3671.  @chandrikasaha6301  Vir has no right to engage in hectoring then. Either he offers solutions or he simply shuts up. Comparing Manipur and something as horrific as Nirbhaya for political brownie points is insulting and humiliating to everyone who suffered.
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  3672. I'm Mamta Banarjee, please give me the Aryan Khan treatment MiLord. Speedy justice for me MiLord.
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  3673.  @helcurt2509  CCP has deposited $2 in your account through WeChat.
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  3674.  @ppen8359  The West does not listen at all. You keep imposing your constructs on us without care. And you think we are the problem? Heck no. Europe is the problem. It is the source of all problem in the modern world. Who funded Russia to prepare for the Ukraine war? Europe. Who is fuelling climate change? Europe. Who sanctioned countries and exasperated the energy crisis? Europe. Who is fuelling China's rise and the inevitable Taiwanese invasion? Europe. Who is making the case for AUKUS to Austrialians? Europe.
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  3675.  @hemangshrivastava9561  that would make the electoral math interesting 🤔
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  3676. They came freely, they conquered freely, they left freely; and left a mess behind to be cleaned up. With Ukraine, the West only bothered harassing the rest of the world that Europe's problems are World's problems but it conveniently forgot about the tragedies it left behind in the name of "freedom" and "human rights"
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  3677. When France was invaded by Germany in WW2, France according to her constitution surrendered itself to Germany. But De Gaulle started a Govt in Exile in London despite the constitution surrendering itself to Germany. De Gaulle was not defending or fighting for the constitution, he was fighting for the survival of the French Civilization. Constitution and Constitutional values are only temporal in nature, but civilizational values are eternal, transcends time and generations. Constitution itself is a product of our civilization, it sits below the civilization and it is defined by our civilization.
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  3678.  @ashwinsingh199  up until mid 90s (IIRC) BSES was limited to Bandra. After that it came under BSES. MahaVitran was reorganized in 2005. So in some sense I can tell you are younger than I am.
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  3679. Our Judiciary keeps encroaching on legislative and executive powers. Our woke judges who inherited their positions don’t care for separation of powers or constitutional values. Just look at their wreckless judgement of ECI composition.
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  3680.  @truthmaker700 they lost one state.
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  3681. The issue is with the spe. Cell was so unique you can't map certain architecture features on to new processor architecture.
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  3682.  @mickygamerislive6512  why don't we talk about crony socialism and crony politicians? Pappu lost elections since 2014, 50% attendance in Parliament, 40% attendance in Defense committee (where they would have approved Pegasus contracts), any Private company he would have been fired for poor performance but we keep supporting this entitled princeling. Our democracy is less democratic because of this kind of sychopancy and opposition.
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  3683. Yes it is - it is the job of the MEA to react everything Pakistan/any country has to say about our national interests (that's every Foreign Min's job). However, is it necessary to cover everything MEA has to say about Pakistan? I don't think so.
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  3684.  @WandaVision19 Sakshi was underprepared. This is a good lesson. When she stood for election, she should have secured her vote. She did not do that and lost.
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  3685. Talking about NPAs, NCLAT and NCLT are not in good health right now. Govt ammended IBC code but to fix some of the issues but the ultimate solution lies in fixing the tribunal procedures. Maybe consider doing an episode on the health of NCLT and NCLAT.
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  3686.  @grapeshott because unlike Khilji, the German Govt was a continuation of the Nazis and employed ex Nazis
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  3687. I declare one day that your home is a nature reserve. Can you explain how you got your home on a nature reserve?
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  3688.  @joexavier2287  it’s paid back with interest. Your pensions are made in India
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  3689.  @unknowinglyanonymous2748 but who they donate to is private. In their public records, the bond purchase is just a line item. It doesn't say who they bought the bond for.
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  3690.  @Agnosticcc-x3m it's not limited to the Congress. You have CPIM, their numerous "Intellectuals" and trade unions. They are actually more dangerous than the Congress.
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  3691.  @unknowinglyanonymous2748  companies don't list who they donate money to.
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  3692.  @xyz-jv9df BJP, Sena, AIADMK and Jagan's party doesn't harass businesses for money. Congress definitely does but they look benevolent compared to CPIM.
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  3693.  @xyz-jv9df  LOL .... rules bana bana ke hi hum ye halat mein poche hai. Rules se kuch nahi hota hai, you need enforcement. ED, IT Dept, CBI on everyone, force them to change. They need to get more convictions. Nehru actually started the entire harassment racket - his License Raj enabled corruption and harassment of businessmen. Nehru was actually pretty vicious - ek side mein Bollywood propaganda against business, dusara side mein License raj.
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  3694.  @saitama6563  mallu, marathi, tamil, hindi and we have cousins everywhere including in Manipur.
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  3695.  @thirdperson4705  Jairam Ramesh was solely responsible for canceling long awaited projects. He did it because some NGO cried green.
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  3696. Look up Primkov doctrine. Russian don't want to be a junior partner to China. They want a multipolar world.
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  3697. Our post independence political masters deified Gandhi and extolled the outsized contributions while diminishing the contribution of others in our history textbooks. Gandhi wasn't a god, he was a very shrewd politician. Bhagat Singh's political contributions in satyagrahas was dropped and his contribution to our freedom struggle was reduced to a mere few sentences of him and his 'accomplices' dropping bombs in Parliament. We need better history textbooks
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  3698.  @user-wh9sn  nice. Are you from Thane?
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  3699. Shekarji, you should consider covering Chinese interference in Canadian elections.
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  3700.  @sarvottamsingh7557  ya, so? It just means they are competent. They stopped drugs from coming into the country.
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  3701. India's inequality is exasperated by it's onerous and byzantine bureaucracy. You need to be really well endowed and resourced to be able to establish a firm foundation in India. Even basic requirements like education needs extra resources in the form of after school tutoring. (If 8/10 students needs tutoring, then it is a symptom of Dysfunctional bureaucracy and the education policy it produces) So there are two things Govt. Of India should do, it should continue liberalization, enable people to establish and expand their business and greatly improve Govt services especially education.
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  3702. @Satyam Pandey I usually have some work at Bombay high court once or twice a year to get my disputes with Babudom settled. Also my network of friends always keep me updated with tatkal rates. I’m afraid, one day, a judge or babu will smack me hard to keep quiet.
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  3703. We do have deposit insurance. This basically closed a huge loophole. Co-operative banks avoided a lot of RBI regulations by being cooperatives. RBI until 2020 Banking Regulations amendments couldn't regulate Co-operative banks.
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  3704. Prakash Ambedkar’s politics solely relies on cutting votes away from larger parties. After every election he disappears.
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  3705.  @sohamroy6156  LOL no. It's Rahul Gandhi's arrogance that will give BJP free votes. Why are you blaming me a single voter, when the real power is in the hands of one family - Gandhi family. He can't lead his party and blocks every other person from leading. He can't take criticism and won't take a hint that we don't want another incompetent Gandhi running the country. I really don't understand this attitude, Congress losses elections after elections and you blame the voter for not voting them in? Do you really think Indian wants to live in a feudal society where we have to ignore blatant incompetence and be loyal to a dynasty? Please stop insulting the aspirations and intelligence of the voter. I hope you realize this and gain some humility.
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  3706. I don't think so. A lot of politicians like Off The Cuff. Modi launched his foray into 2014 campaign from a Walk the Talk with Shekharji.
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  3707. Print is engaging in censorship again.
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  3708. Shekarji, Lately the Print website is getting inundated with too many adverts. It ruins the reading experience, instead of reading the article, I'm dismissing ads after ads after ads. I understand the Print needs to make money, but can you design the site to make the ads less intrusive?
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  3709.  @rajanikantmohan840 I am a subscriber
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  3710. So she's going to go against the Lt Gen and the Chiefs of Defenses Staffs recommendations. These idiots are desperate.
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  3711. Well that will make popular among .... checks notes .... British Indian voters
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  3712.  @shekhargupta3911  thank you for your reporting
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  3713. This is a warning to those who think trafficking is safe.
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  3714.  @PrashantBhardwaj13  if BBC Marathi managed to get an interview from the Rebel MLAs then why can't the Print do the same?
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  3715.  @pardeeptandon  the great thing about electoral bonds is there no receipt no return. So Chinese will be giving free money unless if it's Scamgress
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  3716.  @arindamkumar7725  SSNs are smaller than SSBN. If you want a fleet of SSNs you need smaller reactors that would fit in a SSN that's roughly half the size of an SSBN.
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  3717. I strongly disagree. We have a quagmire of personal laws that need to be resolved first. Just cause you want SSM doesn't mean it can simply happen with a court judgment. The State provided multiple justification regarding how untangling needs to be done and SC agreed with it. Let me give you a simple case: Alimony in India is defined in a gendered manner (Blame Shariat Act, 1937). So if we recognize SSM, how would alimony work in that case? Court simply can't adjudicate and come up with a new law to recognize Alimony specifically for them. That would be gross violation of their powers. Besides our leaders (atleast BJP) have the right idea. UCC and then add SSM in it. That's the right way to do it.
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  3718. Ultimately, the battle between China and India is going to be a battle between tactics and strategy. Indian commanders are darn good tacticians but they lack strategy thanks to the Bureaucracy. Chinese commanders on the other hand seem to lack tactical freedom but have a solid strategy.
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  3719. Jairam Ramesh deliberately stalled any development in the North East as a form of Chinese appeasement.
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  3720. Since Modi speaks in Hindi, now Hindi has become a Sanghi language. This is level of randu thinking some of us have devolved into. There is absolutely nothing wrong with an Indian PM exclusively speaking in Hindi. If every other Head of Government/State can speak the official language of the Govt they represent, then why is it a sin if an Indian PM chooses to do so?
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  3721.  @oyehoyemon2286  that was not a great debate. There was circular questioning, logical leaps - the host was very ill prepared.
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  3722.  @egg-h4b Yes.
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  3723.  @egg-h4b yes
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  3724.  @egg-h4b yes it is. We have an agreement with them to settle them in India.
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  3725.  @sanjaychauhan1116 anti India is same as being anti Hindu. Without Hindus there's no India.
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  3726.  @sanjaychauhan1116 anti India is anti Hindu. Without Hindus there's no India.
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  3727. They say, you are born a Hindu, you don't become one. The same principle applies to the Indian identity. You live an Indian, you don't acquire it. RaGa thinks some experts can make him one but still doesn't understand the basics of what is an Indian.
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  3728. Shekarji, Yusof Ishak Institute release their SouthEast Asia Survey. I think you would love to read it and analyze it. I recommend Section 5 of the survey, very interesting stuff.
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  3729.  @chrisbernard5153  they are subtle. "ever had". He is not the best anymore. (you can dispute he never was but that's a different issue).
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  3730. The Patel (and Indian) community disowned her for this stunt. She got no help from the global Indian community. On the other hand, they were demanding US attorneys to throw the book and kitchen sink on her.
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  3731. 41:30 LOL Congress Party Worker. Imagine Democrats illegally crossing into Canada because Republicans beat them too many times in elections. That's how hilarious this is.
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  3732.  @NoneOfTheAbove123  closed the mine and sell NMDC. Jiska Raja vyapari, uska prajha bikhari - A Govt who engages in trade keeps it's citizens poor. Get the IAS out of business and into administration, hire dedicated inspectors, speed up judicial process. India needs a lot of reforms and comprehensive ones.
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  3733. I encourage Modiji to become Mahishasura with the babudom. We need a real dictatorship with the bureaucracy. Whip the babudom into compliance with State and Janata.
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  3734. Temper your expectations. 5 years is impossible for any Govt including a Communist dictatorship.
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  3735. Why do we care about "politician" wearing something creating a controversy in a country with a fake democracy?
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  3736.  @arnabkundu114  exactly. We have a problem of civil administration not doing is job. If it did do it's job, then namaz would take place in mosques with sound systems that doesn't leak into the neighborhood. They skirt responsibility by creating tension. When people fight they forget the reason for the fight and the culprit runs away without getting caught.
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  3737. For context, Indian Judiciary and Police enforces an internet blackout for every riot and incidents of violence. It's part of their SOP.
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  3738.  @vinay9837  fact is also that RR left a mess to be cleaned up by following Central Bankers. Credit where credit is due, Urjit did a fine job cleaning up AQR process.
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  3739. The SC Order on Adani only confirms SC is overstepping it's bounds especially considering SEBI's recent crack down on pump and dump schemes against Youtube Finance Influencers. That crackdown came after 2 years of intense investigations.
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  3740. Cold War is here
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  3741.  @pradhyudh  RSS goes with whatever the Hindu Middle class supports. I don't think the Hindu middle class has the appetite dynastic parties. On the other hand, they want to actively participate in politics. They are the patrons of the Sangh Parivar - BTW the Sangh offers services that the Govt should have offered like Legal Aid, Education, Dispute resolution etc. and helps organize temple projects like expanding and rebuilding temples in slums etc. So before you conclude, Hindu Middle class is 'bigoted' think about the failures of Govts to provide services where it should have.
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  3742.  @manjulashanmugasundaram706  the INC became dynastic because party positions were appointed based on elite consensus rather than based on popular consensus. Once the significant brokers of the consensus either quit or passed away, consensus got consolidated to one family.
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  3743. Well, let's not dismiss his contributions towards religion. He has put in a lot of work to maintain the cult of the Gandhi family.
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  3744. 😂 Just admit the story became a dud.
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  3745. Come back down to earth. Look around, those who work in private industry, work hard and earn their living. It is part of being an adult. Stop being so pathetic, whining about job security is the most ridiculous thing ever
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  3746.  @rutvikrs  and that still didn’t gain them any voter loyalty. Freebies don’t get you voter loyalty. Farmers income is a failure, it did not build trust or get farmers loyalty. A successful program would have prevented or got my pro farm reform supporters on the street. Nal se Jal though, is getting the loyalty of women. The lesson is freebies might buy votes but it can’t buy you loyalty. To gain voter’s loyalty you need transformation projects.
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  3747. Given away by our preya Nehruji. ☹️
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  3748.  Bharat 🇮🇳 updates  why stop with one when you get a free nomination for another?
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  3749. Public sector employees harass paying customers with random retrospective price hikes and threats to cutting electricity. They have very little accountability and give away free electricity to their friends and family. As if State govt using state DISCOM as a kitty to give away free electricity to farmers isn’t enough, state DISCOM employees harassment has ailed the industry sector in Maharashtra. Nehruvian socialism has made every state employee extremely entitled to everything from the state including immunity from harassment.
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  3750. Peacefuls should give up on their idealogy. They suffer for their delusional fantasties. Give up on dessert fantasies, even Arabs understand this very well these days. Learn from them, learn real peace.
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  3751. It is Proto-DEI
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  3752. This was her essay for IELTS exam. It's a requirement for a Canadian visa.
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  3753.  @mg.f.9023 those friends are patriots unlike Rahul Gandhi’s friends. He signed a MoU with the Chinese to sell our country to them.
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  3754. More intense rains, melting arctics ice, more frequent floods and hurricanes - what we are seeing is the beginning of the impact climate change. If you still don't believe in climate change or think it's a hoax, you're a blind fool and a deliberately blind fool.
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  3755. Quad v. China, Russia please.
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  3756. @Redwood-sz9tdit's not about I don't like him politically. Trashy articles with made up data is still trash. Swasti Rao, Amana Begun, Ibn Bin Bharathi are good writers. Heck just give Sanya Dhingra more opportunity to write more analytical articles. She writes politically inconvenient articles but her writing does not offend but tests your political positions and assumptions. Why should her writing and reporting excellence go to a Foreign magazine? Why can't "Fine Print" be the place to showcase her writing and reporting talent? Find and platform more talented folks like her. Invite Akhilesh Pillalamarri to write for the Print. Use the "Fine Print" to showcase fresh perspectives, new insights. Don't waste it on Trashy Chatgpt generated political propaganda. I want the Print, especially Shekarji to think outside their Lutyens echo chambers. Dehypenation also means expanding your perspectives. Aur kitna saal wohi gissi pithi kahani kichega?
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  3757.  @fly17  Jayalalitha and Karunanidhi hated each other extremely personally. When they passed away, the new generation decided not to hold b grudges anymore. That's the truce I'm talking about. Besides both parties have entrenched themselves in the economy, that's structural corruption.
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  3758. Only Dharm Pravesh can fix this.
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  3759. It's a tragedy. I personally, stopped looking at All India numbers and started looking at regionals. Regional numbers are starting bend heavily. Mumbai peaked at 10k cases on Apr 7 and today it's at 3k new cases. It's a good sign. Delhi has started bend it's curve. Kolkata is seeing close to 50% positivity and their new cases are going up quite dramatically. Bengal is going to be way worse than Delhi and it's going to be severely underreported. A bigger tragedy is going to unfold there because of Election rallies.
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  3760.  @IrfanKhan1  you can try. But you folks will fail big time. Want to be permanently driven out of India?
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  3761.  @binitakaphle6092  do you think then the Centre should stop paying for roads in TN because TN didn't vote for them? What kind of stupid logic is this? Pretty darn sure Tamils in Tamil Nadu would be supportive of naturalizing those refugees.
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  3762. Email
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  3763. Time to reclaim every temple destroyed by the Mughuls and rebuild them.
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  3764.  @snoopytintin4878  student still failed because Student didn't answer the question. Moral of the story, don't be stupid. At least spend some time coming up with decent analogy.
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  3765. Trudeau needs to go. LPC and their woke politics needs to be put into a dustbin. We need to rebuild this country.
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  3766.  @theplutonimus watch Shekarji monologue on 2019 elections and you'll figure it out.
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  3767. I realize we signed a peace deal with Yasin in the late 90s but this guy has been violating it since then. He's a cheat and a scamster who scammed 3 Govts, (India, J&K and Pakistan) he continued with his insurgencies, kidnapping and murders. Why are we still tolerating him? Why isn't he getting stricter capital punishment?
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  3768. @susamskruths2021 repeating as well. Remember the vaccine session?
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  3769.  @RanjanKNaik  rule of law (even party rules) is enforced is refreshing indeed.
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  3770. Well then Germany should recognize the Bengal Famine as a genocide then. Most famines worsened by colonial powers should classify as genocide. European have essentially politicized genocide. They have cheapened it’s significance with this implied two tier definition of genocide. One that applies to white people and that one implicates non white people.
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  3771.  @MikeLiteraus  Bengal famine was a copy paste of Holodomor. Happened right after it. It too was a result of forced colonial collectivization and export of farm products. British administration in London disallowed ships to offload grain in Calcutta. It definitely meets the German definition of genocide. So what’s preventing Germany from declaring it as one genocide?
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  3772. The irony of religious folks demonizing each other is oddly funny.
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  3773.  @VEDPRAKASH-ml4il  that's like stating the obvious. Why India failed in education is missing in his analysis. This is nothing more than a rant.
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  3774. Jyoti with her final hurrah (before she goes full Aman ki Asha with Awaas) invites the very person responsible for increasing kowtowing to Chinese Communist party viewpoints from within the Hindu Newsroom.
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  3775. They did that in the '78. It was called Congress (I) where I stood for Indira.
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  3776.  @shubhamsharma8867  Granth does accept the authority of the vedas - without that, sikhism has no investigative framework to understand it's own philosophy. Authority here doesn't mean Granth is subservient to the Vedas but rather it accepts the concepts such as atman, brahman, maya etc are canonical in it's texts. Sikhi philosophers still read Adi Shankara's Brahmsutras to interpret and understand Granth better. Almost every Advaitan center of learning there's a significant Sikhi congregation.
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  3777. They were. You should watch the entire rally. Each politician gets their turn to speak for 15-20 each
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  3778.  @ILikeGoodMusic313  writing vague laws is not a stroke of genius. Writing laws that accounts that prevents abuse of it either through definitions with procedure or rule making is a stroke of genius. I'm sorry for a law student, you still seem stuck in that colonial mentality.
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  3779.  @akshay4992  BTW, he's been missing since mid last December. Did they send away so that he can keep his mouth shut for campaign season?
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  3780. @@Rutwik473Ajits presence in BJP doesn't deter Pawar from engaging in street level shenanigans. Everything is a negotiation, he's trying to put pressure on BJP in his own way.
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  3781. We must appreciate his willpower and tenacity. He has earned respect for that.
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  3782.  @mg.f.9023 Kerala story is public service announcement and not propaganda. Real women were lured, enslaved and abused. Your dismissal of that tragedy is also a form of Anti-Hinduism and Hinduphobia.
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  3783. TBM work with either hard rock or soft soil. Himalayas is a composite mix of both hard rock and soft soil with some amount of permafrost. There’s no TBM that can handle that.
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  3784. This is great reform. Hopefully this will bring in better quality and productivity. The impact of this reform will be limited as long as the new OFB PSUs have a a guaranteed captive customer with the Indian Armed forces. PSUs need to compete with likes of L&T, Kalyani etc.
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  3785.  @sankalp6872 phase 4. Voting yet to happen.
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  3786.  @manomano2524  you are 24 and if you can't figure the path forward by yourself, you are destroying your own career. No one is going to give you handouts at that age. Please grow up.
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  3787. Good. They should not roll it back. The aspirants are whining over a little competition. If you don't have the motivation to prove that you are the best then the Armed forces are not for you.
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  3788. Congress has been ruining the reputation of the court and eroded their authority. Let's not forget Shah Bano or the more recent Vodafone case
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  3789.  @KneelBeforeBlue Roosevelt kept on pressuring British to offer self governance. 1935 Govt of India wouldn’t have happened without American pressure. West coast Americans shielded Ghadar party revolutionaries from British agents. American journalists covered a lot of atrocities under the British Raj which the British actively censored.
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  3790.  @DKSingh-wf8tn  maybe a collab with someone? 😌
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  3791.  @DKSingh-wf8tn  I'm honored (and nervous)
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  3792.  @offred6013 kuch bhi. If you can't sort out issues with your own parents then don't go about blaming society. Mein bhi ek live-in me tha, we took the time to get our parents approval.
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  3793.  @diyar8161 Malaysia practices racial apartheid and you can't marry a Malay without becoming a Muslim.
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  3794.  @Kingzombiemyanmar  it is a good bill. Let me explain with an example: Factories Act makes it mandatory to maintain records of whitewashing of toilets. Remember, use of bleach has made whitewashing of toilets for public health, irrelevant. However, you still need to maintain a register with fake entries or get an annual affidavit from the court saying whitewashing is no longer required. Failure to do that would result in jail term of 10 years or more. Now, your regulator (typically IAS officer) knows about these quirks in Factories act and use the perceived non-compliance of Factories Act as blackmail to solicit bribes. And given how slow our court system is, businesses pays the bribes rather than contest the charge in courts. Now the proposed decriminalization bill is supposed to do 2 things: 1. Get rid of irrelevant laws and clauses like the whitewashing clause 2. Converts minimum 10 year imprisonment to fines. It puts a dent on bureaucratic blackmailing by babus. The side effect will be improved compliance, reduced corruption and less workload on courts.
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  3795.  @karthikeyannataraj3786  Search for "Jailed for Doing Business" to get an idea. I suspect the final bill will be massive and scrap a LOT of laws. Irrelevant garbage like Section 11 of Factories act will be scrapped.
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  3796. Unlikely. He might retire after Modi retires. He also has health problems.
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  3797. Sealed envelope started with Gogoi I believe. That guy corrupted the Court for his only political machinations. Bodge reduced it's use but it occurred none the less. That said collegium is an unconstitutional invention of the Supreme Court and has introduced palace intrigue in an institution that shouldn't be infested by palace intrigue. The entire appointment process is bigger threat to our democracy than the abuse of UAPA. That said, the courts contributes to declining democratic values than any aggressive policing of 'anti-nationals', excessive pressures on media institutions or abuse of vague national security laws. You might disagree with Umar Khalid, but his arrest shouldn't have taken 6 months to trial (especially given the seriousness of the charges) and a year to process his bail application. The court should have either challenged the charged or heard his case immediately but rather the system kept in jail without trial against it's own principles of detention without trial. If you don't agree with my Umar Khalid example, take Narayan Rane. Under which law was his arrest conducted against? Why didn't the court just throw it away? Wasn't that a violation of one's fundamental right of freedom expression and speech? Our courts are really incapable of exercising good judgement, let alone understand and protect our freedoms. That's the real shambolic truth of our Court system and it's (checks notes) Mi Lord Honorable judges.
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  3798. What about it?
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  3799. Mainly, they will buy Russian oil to keep global oil prices down. It is a win win for everyone, cheap oil for the developing world and decoupling of Russian O&G for the West.
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  3800. Yashwant is right, our opposition is useless and stupid. He also implied these leaders who inherited their positions can't get off their lazy ass and try to match up to even a fraction of their parents acumen.
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  3801. Whatever happened Kangaiya Lal’s murder? Where is the probe for that?
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  3802.  @sankalp6872 Justice for all is justice for Hindus as well. Muslims were/are being cheated out of their Hindu mindset to believe in the fakery that is Pakistan.
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  3803. Congress’ harassment of businesses has begun. They are looking for bribes to help fund their campaigns. You don’t need electoral bonds when you can harass businesses to pay in cash.
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  3804.  @shadows2909  dumb? Schooling for you was a waste of financial resources.
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  3805.  @amanr7315  you need the State to facilitate that. Take a look at how foreign language institutes are structured. They publish textbooks, teaching guides, syllabus and conduct exams. You can't buy TN state textbooks outside of TN, you can't give Tamil language exam if you aren't enrolled in a TNSBE school and there's no teaching guide.
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  3806.  @Abhishekkumar-yx7je  teri bad reading comprehension ki bhi seema hoti hai.
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  3807. You know, Delhites have free money stashed around to waste on free electricity. Well they can use that to you know, accommodate Rohingya. Let's be real, who is going to be the first person to convince a slum dweller that Rohingya gets housing before them? Every politician knows this is a political bomb. No one is sadly going to touch it.
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  3808. Earlier this year, Rahul Gandhi performed his Bharatmutra (pissed on our country) at Cambridge and insulted our National identity. This week Rahul Gandhi performed his Jawanmutra (pissed on our soldiers) and insulted their capacity to push Chinese aggression, their capabilities to handle a crisis and questioned their sacrifice. Make sure Rahul Gandhi gets his pitai when elections come around. Congress ki sapta mein vinash karo. Make sure this Macaulayputra and his party never recovers from the pitai at the polls.
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  3809.  @ZaidKhan-su3ey  I'm pointing you to a real Dharm sansad. Read up on Operation Searchlight when you have the time. You are in safe hands. We won't stoop down to Operation Searchlight.
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  3810.  @kshitizsrivastava9161  It is not just GSQRs, Railway tenders are designed in a similar manner. All they want to do is keep players who won't bribe out of the tender process through technically impossible requirements. Armed forces chief keep talking about a 2.5 front war, well that .5 front comes from the bureaucracy itself. We have deeply embedded snakes in our own Bureaucracy (and opposition).
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  3811. This was one of the worst opeds. Lacks substance and filled with vapid lecturing.
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  3812. Ultimately, all of this boils down to elections. You can't elect a Party that employs goons and expect safety or justice. The Civic Volunteer Program introduced by TMC essentially embedded these goons in the law enforcement system. Also, India needs deep deep reforms of it's judiciary - this is an aspect that's consistently ignored. It takes 30 years to prosecute some of these cases. There is about 30,000 criminal cases waiting for a trial in India's Supreme Court - you can imagine how bad it must be in lower levels of the Judiciary. The Chief Justice squashes reforms of the Judiciary as unconstitutional. Calling out their nepotism gets you arrested for contempt of court. Unless there is focus in India regarding these issues, things will remain the same.
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  3813. Shekharji, next time you want to say something in Chinese, please also present the pinyin transliteration. The tones are how you distinguish between a Mom 媽 (Ma) and a Horse 馬 (Ma).
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  3814. You can easily order a batch of chocolate with sweepstakes inside. You don't need to open it, put the sweepstakes in and close it back up.
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  3815.  @fusion7837  I'd recommend Prof Rick Weiss Rethinking Modern Hinduism.
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  3816. Govt should not back down. They compromised on farm laws and now they got this. All well intended reforms are scuttled because a bunch of folks protests. Govt must enforce law and order.
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  3817. Makan family has never paid their taxes, his uncle Santosh used to extremely proud of not paying taxes (and that he was proud of killing Sikhs in 1984). Must be a great shock for royalty like Makan to pay taxes. I guess it must suck a lot to get treated like a common tax evading citizen.
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  3818.  @japneetsingh5015  nobody is stopping you from setting up your Khalistani Raj in Brampton. No one in Punjab wants your twisted idea of self determination.
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  3819.  @JitendraSingh-ut3vj  you don't get such beautiful philosophy like Advaita, Dvaita philosophy by staying close minded like we are right now
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  3820.  @gauttamnayak7958  woke? Or are you blind to our own past?
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  3821. Only the Gandhi family can engage or enable scams like this. The Congress must get decimated in all future elections and the Gandhi family should retire from politics.
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  3822.  @dr.vijayanraju3656  please try and prove me wrong rather than outright dismiss me. Can you give me examples of a National party (other than BJP) that's not dynastic and regularly follows tenures of it's party positions?
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  3823. Shekharji check out Subramanian Bharati and Bharatidasan. You can't talk about Periyar without Bharatidasan and you can't talk about Bharatidasan without talking about Subramanian Bharati
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  3824. Bus jala rahe hai,Porky-stan ka naam leke logo pe patar nahi phek rahe hai.
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  3825. "They (The West) is creating conflicts in the 3rd world so that they can sell their own arms to us". The world has moved on from those simplistic notions and evolved. In today's world, simple reasoning like that would hit a huge wall of contradictions and thus is even more necessary to see nuances in the world.
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  3826. India should strike deals with Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka lay the foundations of a trade and security alliance. We should have a security alliance similar to NATO for the sub continent. Abandon SAARC
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  3827.  @devendragautam8476  A security guarantee hasn't diminished the independence of Japan. I think there's a case for a Security alliance, I'm sure both Nepal and Bhutan would welcome us, the latter more so. Bangladesh needs trade and border security. Similarly with Sri Lanka. So what's missing is Indian Armed forces' capability. Let's say we have an alliance with Nepal today, you're opening a new front with China. Now you have 6 sectors instead of the current 3 to deal with.
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  3828.  @mg.f.9023  "There could be so many english speaking idiots.", I think he is talking about you.
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  3829. I think the August 2020 survey can be considered as an outlier. Every world leader had similar huge bumps because of the call to action effect of the pandemic response. Economy is the focus is a good thing. Hopefully this is treated as a wake up call. They really need to follow through on reforms and regulations. Adityanath at 11% means his rating for UP might be higher. I wonder what age demographics are for Congress voters are. This poll is a much needed wake up and tempers the hubris within the BJP.
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  3830.  @meetankush  I don't think you read the judgment at all. I'd encourage you read the docket.
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  3831.  @meetankush  You need to read the docket. I don't think you have read a court docket.
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  3832. "These being my views I am opposed to all those who are out to destroy the caste system." - Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Nava Jivan. A man who could not see the truth of own his own privileged position does not deserve to be called Mahatma. Gandhi, like other Upper caste leaders like Nehru betrayed not only the castes they came from but also attempted to perpetuate it the discrimination into the next generation. It was unfortunate Dr. Ambedkar passed away with regret without seeing the end of the caste system.
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  3833. Yes! The rest of the world can learn a lot from Bharat as well especially with regard to how to scale a democracy.
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  3834. How ironic that the ones crying about oppression are full-throated supporting blatant abuse of power. You can't consistently say bad is bad and then call everyone else hypocrites. Poor mindset
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  3835. Useless Congress inflaming tensions rather than offer solutions. Their decades of incompetence got us here. They haven’t managed to settle one ethnic conflict, otoh created new ones and they think they can do better.
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  3836.  @sweetblueman  they tried and are still trying. That counts more than being opportunistic.
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  3837. It shows how terrible Rahul Gandhi's leadership of that Congress that even a loyalist and opportunist like Kapil Sibal switched to SP.
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  3838. Free electricity will be given away at the expense of hike in electricity rates for businesses (small, big, retailers). Kejriwal will kill the economy and keep us all poor. His policies distributes poverty, not wealth. We lived through these stupid policies for 40 years until 1991.
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  3839. So much desperation in the comments to find a smoking gun. Electoral bonds is starting to be a dud. Most of the findings are highlighting that “Is hamam mein sab nange hai” and “you are more nanga than I”. Ultimately, except for Congress and CPIM every other party is trying not to harass their donors.
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  3840. I support bulldozing your houses. Such laziness and pathetic attitudes need to be bulldozed. You are unfit for the service. Terrible discipline has no space in the Armed forces
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  3841. CrPC should be scrapped and Police should be implicated for blatant abuse of power. Targeting individuals are distractions. It is irrelevant to ask if Sameer is Muslim or Dalit or Aryan had ganja or not. The real more pressing issue is blatant abuse of laws, violation of due process and disregard of values that the judiciary is supposed to uphold. This entire case was nothing more than an attempt to refill the Pandu Judge daru fund.
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  3842. Kuch bhi. He earned his post, fought wars, commanded troops, got shot at. Have some bloody respect. He isn't some pathetic entitled idiot.
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  3843. So Trudeau managed to only get a "pull aside" while tiny island nations like Comoros got a full protocol Bi-Lateral meeting with the PM of India. US, UK and Australia got full bilateral meetings as well. Just shows how low relations between India and Canada have come. This is despite increasing people to people contacts. That is unfortunate.
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  3844.  @tathagatamukherjee507 the issue with China is political and not cultural. With Pakistan it's cultural and ethnic. They just want to replace us. China has very little interest in replacing us.
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  3845.  @joshua_ch  if that was the case then it should be higher. States don't follow FRBM. They don't even count their off budget expenses as part of their deficit.
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  3846. Well of course. They pay for their information and analysis. It would be stupid if they did not act on their own analysis.
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  3847. Common Electoral Roll 😙
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  3848. Nehru left these Hindus in Pakistan because he cared more about Liquat and his desire Hindu “toilet cleaners”. Nehru’s secularism was all about “Love thy neighbour so much that you see love in your people’s enslavement and subjugation”.
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  3849. Funny that we think extrajudicial killings is bad when we have a history of it with the FLQ. Heck we sent an RCMP officer to France to assassinate one. Anyway, with advisors like Juneau who conflates things, it's no wonder our National Security and Diplomacy has gone down the drain.
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  3850. @ThePrint Imran Khan is likely getting spied on by Pakistani GHQ. Pegasus hosts their C2 (Command and Control) servers in countries where they have contracts with.
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  3851.  @sauravsuresh  you're missing the point.
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  3852. BKU and Rakesh Tikait socialized farmers losses and gave the Govt free profits. The farm laws would have enabled wheat farmers to sell to the Global market. Thanks Dakait.
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  3853.  @yew391  it's pretty hard to get domicile outside of the State you are an resident off. Your property rights and demographics will be maintained. Most states places such restrictions based on domicile status. Besides RAP is there to protect the more sensitive places works much better.
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  3854.  @yew391  of course not. Why would we want you all or your culture go extinct?!?
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  3855. Common Personal Laws is basically appeasement. Why should a specific Minority have language rights? Why is Congress inventing new clauses in Personal Laws? Does Congress want to dictate the clothes we wear will be decided by birth? This is even more regressive than the current Framework. Congress' obsession over appeasement is basically a form of enslavement and birth based castiesm. It makes the mutable attributes i.e. Language, Dress, Food as immutable, unchanging in the eyes of the law. If this is implemented, then every aspect of our life will be dictated by which family we are born into.
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  3856. Farm laws repeal nahi kiya toh direct export kar salte hai. Magar tum log ne repeal karvaya, ab uske effect bhogtoh.
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  3857.  @akshaykoul8738  Gundas haven't monopolized politics. There was that danger in the 90s but it died out quickly. I am least worried about netas with criminal background as long as they don't go back to criminality. Reformists are unhelpful as well, Modi is quite a reformist TBH. Digital India is a huge improvement and improved throughput of the babudom. However, that's insufficient and 9 years after it launched, babudom has found ways to game the digital systems (like for eg: Babus managed to inject themselves into the approval process for Digital Export Clearance system - 20% margins eaten up by them on top of the 5% costs associated with compliance with the system). We need someone who can micromanage the babudom out of these kinds of opportunistic rent seeking.
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  3858. The dude walked out of Defense committee where this would have been discussed. With 50% attendance, he gives the Govt. a free pass.
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  3859. Israeli political parties don't follow the same ideology. They have consensus on common things. No Israeli party would condemn action against Hamas and those who attack Israel. On the other hand, in India CONgress, stabs our own country while it is being attacked.
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  3860. You should be deported.
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  3861.  @jokester3076  Urban centre became Christian with colonialism. Rural evangelism went on and still going on till today.
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  3862.  @omicrondelta249  not in this case. He used to intimidate judges to recluse or grant him bail. Even in cases where he was given Jail term, he would blackmail Jail officials (by kidnapping their family members) to co-operate with him. No amount of formal justice would have remediated the situation. Unfortunately divine justice was the only solution.
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  3863. Pakistan should give up their nuclear weapons, it will help with their fiscal and security situation.
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  3864. That makes this even more hilarious. Even the BJP is asking Congress why aren't you fighting?
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  3865. It's not all just talk. IAF is still transporting oxygen containers from Frankfurt to Delhi. The latest plane landed yesterday.
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  3866. Congress abusing police to stop what’s regular politics.
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  3867. Best way to stay happy is to stop believing Mainstream media provides news. Reporting and Journalism has gone down the gutter. Reporting has become nothing like monkey balancing between viewpoints rather than real on the ground reporting.
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  3868. A party that got 10% of the total vote is trying to build support a 4 generation dynast. The leader is a great grandson of the 1st PM, grandson of the 3rd PM and son of the 6th PM. This guy was rejected multiple times by voters.
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  3869.  @damadum7720 the older generation was not only ill informed but also arrogant.
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  3870. NCOs can't enroll in this anyway. You need to be older and a Graduate to enroll in NDA and other Defence Institutes
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  3871.  @Avinashm7  India that is similar Canada without the wokeness with a mix of US National security mentality. Completely liberalized economy, well funded public services, respect for regional diversity, UCC, strong and efficient judiciary, effective bureaucracy, multilingual parliament and politicians. We are progressing towards that in many ways but there is still a lot of work to be done. RaGa could have leveraged his US Education and learnt something but he instead choose "love". There's no vision in "love"
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  3872.  @The_Great_Game_Begins  he's what we Indians call a Brown Sepoy. He probably thinks British colonialism is the best thing to happen to India
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  3873. India's ethos succumbed to Faith the moment Shah Bano verdict was overturned. Faith got cemented the moment Satanic Verses was released. The 80s was when we killed the ideals of liberalism for the sake of "communal harmony" and "respecting sensitivities". Since then it's been rotating circus of appeasement.
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  3874. Mani Shankar Aiyer already has. He’s walking from his hibernation
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  3875.  @X_Marks-u7r count yourself too
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  3876.  @nikhilrampal2431  what’s the title of the article? I might have missed it
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  3877. Update: This criticism came too soon. France and US released their callouts from their calls. US is letting Europe become more independent in exchange for better participation in the Indo Pacific. I think Shekharji needs to rethink this episode. I think this CTC is a bit too critical of Biden. Biden is dealing with a hollowed out State department and NATO mixed in with lack of patience (partly because things are moving fast). Previously, US would used NATO as a way to communicate intentions and push for outcomes with allies. AUKUS is a result of American impatience and whatever policies they have been pushing through NATO hasn't worked. One interesting side conversation that has been going on is in the Anglosphere world is about Canada and NZ. They are wondering why they left out. Stephanie Carvin, Canadian National security expert, had an very interesting take on it - neither Canada and NZ have offered anything beyond vague commitments or requests for help but Australia and UK have (especially at mid level meetings). That's a lesson Modi Sarkar should learn and push for more ministries to ministries interactions (Beyond 2+2). To rephrase, US is gearing up to battle China. US is offering help, US wants tangible commitments and requests. To capitalize on this, India really needs to rapidly expand its Diplomatic, intelligence and Military engagements (beyond Malabar) with the US and Quad.
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  3878.  @manojnani1785  I disagree. There's been a lot more faster progress under Biden especially at the mid level bureaucracy. It's still early days. NATO took about 4 years to become a organization and about 10 years to come up with credible strategy (Post Korean war). 2020 is when Quad became a real thing, there's many more years to go before it becomes a credible alliance. Besides it's two way street, you can't expect US to keep doing thing without India contributing something back.
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  3879.  @shubhampatil8556  I think our diplomats can temper them. However our foreign policy is an incomplete mess. We deal with regimes that don't respect human rights. So I don't think we have principles based diplomacy. There's still a NAM based thinking because we don't hire laterally or have Subject Matter Experts in advisory role. Even our most prestigious Embassies are not adequately staffed with trade, military attaches.
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  3880. Nope but IAEA board has plenty of non western countries. Those countries pay close attention to what China has to say.
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  3881.  @rodtukker1904  PNB scam was done by a PSU Bank which was flagged for systemic issues with it's Governance and due diligence. The Bank Manager and the loan officer did their Hawala while approving loans after loans to Nirav Modi. The Bank's internal auditor was sleeping, the Bank approved loans without collateral and PNB was unaware until Axis Bank, a private bank hinted at a possible fraud while dealing with the LoU in HK. That's just one recent example of PSU Banks failing at basic banking. There are plenty more material to write several documentaries that would give OTT family dramas a run for their money in terms of episode counts. PSU Banks can't even enforce their own Loan policies or even audit their own balance sheets. What makes you think they are any good with dealing with Taxpayer money?
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  3882. This is a Great move though late. Finally, good riddance to this upfront of retrospective taxes. This law not only embarrassed our reputation but it also damaged the authority and credibility of the Supreme Court. I could not forgive ManMohan Singh who let this law pass through the Lok Sabha. Also RFC for Labor code is about to reach it's end date. That means it's at the final stages of gazette notifications.
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  3883. Good riddance. We never knew when these bridges would collapse on our heads or under us. Mumbai needs serious Infrastructure overhaul.
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  3884. Good content marred by bad audio. Sadly, I could barely hear what was being discussed.
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  3885.  @bijoyendrasharma2781  only first year. He did not complete his BCom. To quote the Print: "He (Bhagwant Mann) ended up dropping out of college after his first year but saw success quickly."
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  3886. Yes, let the unions rot. They got free everything when it run by the Govt.
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  3887.  @ajayrawat-bf9pc  they are building their military irrespective of our position. Like I said unfortunately we don't have the luxury. Besides we have a lot of wasteful spending problem not an economy problem. The best way to get the economy back on track is by reforms. No more freebies, no more ridiculous socialist regulations and get rid of those DPSU unions.
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  3888. Not until Gandhis are at the helm of the party. He might most likely defect to the BJP.
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  3889. @Peter Lang no. It's fixing deep backlogs. It's not just about ajudicating those cases, it's about the Chief Justices sitting down and rewriting court procedures and enforcing them. It requires the Chief Justices to fill up 49% vacancies in lower courts. It requires Chief Justices to approve budgets to expand and rebuild courts physical infrastructure. You need a CJIs that understands the basics of a judiciary, not a bunch that's there too chase legacy and lecture the population about merit. Unfortunately since Judiciary essentially split these functions away from the executive, the Govt of the day can't do these things for them.
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  3890.  @_-KK-_  no politician in the world would talk about domestics politics when they are abroad. To do so is straight up political suicide. US opposition politicians don't shit on the current administration when they are abroad. All Indian politicians (except RaGa - special insaan hai wo) also don't entertain questions about domestic politics - just look at our opposition politicians at Davos.
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  3891. State govt agencies are terrible everywhere.
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  3892. The son of Chandrachud is not CJI why does his opinion matter?
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  3893. The dude was reading the News for us when he was at DD. Rajiv gave him his first job at DD
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  3894. Shekarji got the agencies all wrong. MMRDA is Mumbai Metro Regions urban planning agency. They develop land parcels with other agencies like BMC, Maharashtra State and local Municipalities. They also build and maintain inter agency critical infrastructure (including water and sewage) MSRDC is a road building corporation. They build roads and flyovers. When MMRDA sanctions a project, they employ agencies like MSRDC to do it for them - they maintain the pursestrings. MMRDA also is the go to agency to transfer land. BKC used to be State Govt land - partly owned by University of Mumbai and State Tree authority and State PWD. If there agency infighting, it usually means the fight is at Mantralay or State executive.
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  3895. Time to put more pressure through FATF. These guys won't learn until sanctions fall on their heads.
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  3896. PK is quite wrong, he knows it as well. But he needs to put a show of “moral authority”. Rajiv Gandhi won despite his active participation in 1984 sikh riots.
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  3897.  @NarendraKumar-hq5bv there’s no evil in politics. Only merit and demerit. Actually Tajore was quite a hindutvadi. You should go read his poems sometimes not just stop at the anthem.
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  3898. Modi will simply continue with his project to replace India’s anglophile elites and their vocabulary. No more “secularism” as defined by India’s English speaking elite will be great for India. India will be way more inclusive in Modi’s third term. The monopoly of power concentrated in the hands of India’s English speaking elites will be distributed to the masses.
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  3899. ​ @franceleeparis37  I strongly disagree. The ontology of Hinduism is nothing like Judaisim and in completely opposite to Abhramic faiths.
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  3900.  @infinite5795  more like 1500 years. Some Hindu traditions do go back even further - Yoga is considered to be Harappan origin.
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  3901. Shekharji, you should consider a OTC with Mark Kahn. I think you will enjoy his views of Indian Agriculture.
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  3902. Please consider releasing this as a song
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  3903. Indian Air Force didn't conduct SEAD operations in the first day. IAF was told not to target military targets which excludes EADs. I don't think they used counter measures. Either way, I'd wait 2-3 weeks after Operations have been done. IAF will provide their assessments and watch for Committee reports in Monsoon.
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  3904.  @sankalp6872  Laws are the problem. IPRs doesn't give provide protection from frivolous claims, doesn't allow for "counts" of violations (i.e. each violation is a separate case), the definitions of what is IP and what is enforceable are too broad etc. IPR laws and the claims process makes everyone a loser except the Lawyers and Judges.
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  3905.  @sankalp6872  I disagree. Enforcing laws in its current form will make everyone a prisoner. Reforms need to be done before enforcement.
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  3906. Yup, there are plenty of Brown wumaos whose sole job is to bring India down and make them subservient to Chinese interests.
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  3907.  @mg.f.9023  he is talking about Brown wumaos like yourself.
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  3908. Indo US relations on Track 1 or the conversations and the relationship between Govt Officials are pretty sound, strong and solid. Track 2 or conversations between Intellectuals and Think tanks are just bizarre and has reached a level of ridiculousness on both sides especially amongst Progressives.
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  3909.  @Hokumai444  Jyotiji is an internationalist, Shekharji is not. Their perspective deviate quite a bit but both aren't inaccurate.
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  3910. It's just sexism. If Jyotiji was a man, the comments would be less hostile.
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  3911. Finally someone is calling out his shit. When Congress was in power, they "captured" all the institutions. This is just pure entitlement oozing out of this guy.
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  3912. I wish SMEs participated more in the comment process. MCA has been consistent with soliciting commetns for their proposals but turnout is abysmal. I submitted feedback to them and was surprised when I got a response from the Govt. Goes to show how little attention is paid to these things.
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  3913. It will be performative - she's going to use those pronouns for the first couple of months before she realizes it is ridiculous and drop it entirely. A Eurocentric NSA would likely make Asian powers question US ability to commit to Indo Pacific. Biden went thru similar problems - Harris would likely encounter similar problems.
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  3914. Yes, there are rough edges, they need to be sorted out. Give feedback and improve the program.
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  3915. I disagree with Jet engines. We have the volumes for strategic partnership to work. That's not the case with subs. 6 subs with no possibility of a follow up order, ya, no one is going to give it to you cheap.
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  3916. I'm pretty sure Pegasus contracts went through the Parliamentary Panel for Defense and Internal security. I wonder, were the opposition sleeping there? The panel also establishes rules of engagement and write policies that security apparatus follows. It's clear whoever sat in that panel wrote rules that sanctioned this kind of spying. This is also an lesson in why walk outs as theatrics especially for Defense related panels is foolish. Second, NSO (along with Hacking Team and Finspy both are defunct/gone underground) have been active in India since late 2013 - 2014. So everyone on the defense panel knows they're active. There's also a local player called Wolf Intelligence. I have more questions than answers.
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  3917. Marxist historians wanted to project the Buddhism as peaceful religion rather than teach you genuine historiography.
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  3918. Then register your live in like you register your marriage and move on with your life. Simple.
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  3919. Former Cabinet Secretary, currently the Dean of Shastri School of Governance.
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  3920.  @andycockrum1212  only muslims need to apologize. They demanded a nation because they couldn't tolerate living next to non Muslims. Why should non muslims apologize for islamic intolerance?
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  3921. These doctors should support the government's privatization efforts. Our government wastes enormous amounts of money paying up for losses in PSUs - money that could be used to build more medical colleges, salaries and basic governance. State governments are even more notorious when it comes to spending. Waste enormous amounts of money giving away free electricity without any verification or oversight and then forces their own PSUs to eat up the costs of doling out freebies. Unless we change this nonsense things will not improve.
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  3922. "SC will pull it out". Extremely laughable. We did have ONOE back in the 60s. Subsequent Govt abused President's rule and killed ONOE.
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  3923.  @surojeetchatterjee  I don't agree with dissolving the IAF though. They have a function but they need to play ball with the rest of the Armed Forces. The kind of turfing they engage in is really unhelpful.
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  3924.  @hargunsingh6920  even those Brits who lived here were given voting rights. They had to pick up Indian Citizenship.
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  3925. Timestamp please!
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  3926. Anti Modi crowd pagalo ki teraha toh purse bhar paisa dete hai. Ye toh unki scam kar raha hai.
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  3927.  @prasanthregeti Centre can’t give black cheques to States - especially States where agencies don’t perform up to the mark. Centre is probably justified in freezing money until State agencies capacity to implement improves.
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  3928.  @shalivahana1300  they work for the party and aren't subservient to a family. There's a key difference.
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  3929. Sexism and she isn’t Mata Sonia or Beti Priyanka. But sexism exists amongst us as well. Look at the dismissive nature of the most positive comment in this video
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  3930.  @AdityaSingh-mh3cb  Kya joot bol raha hai. We do most of our deals and talking in Hindi. Even in a place like Rameshwaram, the commerce is done in Hindi. You elite IT crowd ape about English and think the entire country should be in English.
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  3931. Strong Nations behave like the UK did with Chagos/Diego Garcia. Steal land, subjugate people, move them around and build a base. Kapil sitting in London would definitely approve that approach.
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  3932. Lol. If he wants to join this is perfect time. ED raid would probably boost his popularity rather than dent it.
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  3933.  @siddharth6505  Jagan is popular, unlike some of the other folks who got the ED hammer. Mamta had to resort to violence to win her Panchyat Election. Jagan needs to be none of that.
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  3934.  @siddharth6505  yes. That should have been history but it is still happening in the present and you are justifying it because Mamta is in your team. You are a stain on our democractic culture - the gutkha pan. Disgusitng attitude like yours is why we haven't seen development prior to 2014.
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  3935.  @ravi-it3vj  so, your point is that we should stay small and treating Live-in relationships equivalent to marriage is beyond our comprehension? People are incapable of thinking? At least make the effort to counter what I have to say.
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  3936.  @ravi-it3vj it is in the Govt's business. Yo taxation, regulating marriage are statutory powers of the State. You need a reality check, there's no country out there that doesn't regulate marriage. You can deny it all you want but Govt can and has regulated relationships (Hindu code bill would be violation of privacy according to you), it's a Constitutional power that the courts recognize. So deal with it. You don't like the registry, then whine about it all you want because nobody will listen to you whining about boutique issue.
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  3937.  @AmitKumarAlphaX well, you didn't let the govt know that you cared about live in relationships. So that's your fault, not the Govts. The Dhami govt went village to village, opened up a portal asking for feedback but none of you guy bothered to even check what comment were being sent. Now sit and cry over an ultra boutique issue.
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  3938.  @sankalp6872  New fresh recordings of Radia tapes were uploaded a couple of weeks ago. She is shielding herself by being "neutral" - she is the collateral in the fight between Annamalai and Stalin.
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  3939. He has better chances starting his own party.
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  3940. NConcord feels like Destiny Crucible 🤔
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  3941. Deal with it. Board exams are way worse.
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  3942.  @dukhi_aatma372  Ahuh, so there should cancel JEE then. You guy need to start thinking a little, how many exams are you going to pile on the poor student? 10 is not enough, so make it 30, naah, that's too little, let's have our students give 100 entrance exams.
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  3943. There's a lot we haven't learnt about our history, there's a lot we should learn and there's a lot that our generations need to learn.
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  3944. Wah wah, what propaganda. Dayanidhi makes racists comment and here we have a fluff piece.
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  3945. I disagree, its good they give a voice to them. People need to know how barbaric they are. This brings awareness about Kafir hate that Left Liberals enable.
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  3946.  @arjavgarg5801 we can give him a free one way ticket to Pakistan. He can be buddy buddy with Mani Shankar Aiyer and they can rant together.
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  3947. Yes we need an infrastructure and trade deal with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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  3948.  @arjun4xd  Maharashtra for generations has paid for Karnataka's development. Every strategic industry you can think of that was established in Bengaluru used Maharashtra money and talent. BEML was nothing more than a assembler of equipment manufactured by Kirloskar. Bharat Electronics came at the expense of Pune's Radio manufacturing units around Khadki. HAL came at the expense of rivals established in Nashik and Kanpur. Mangalore Refinery was built with the profits and expertise of Bombay High and HPCL Trombay. Bengaluru owes it's existence to Maharashtra talent and money.
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  3949. One religious group had taken this country for a ride with it's parochial view of personal laws and opportunities to loot the country. And you're crying about the Govt supported by a group that wants actual improvement in their lives.
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  3950. I think he chooses his panels. As in he doesn't participate if the panel is filled with theateratic clowns.
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  3951. Punjabi farmers killed Punjabi industry. The farmer's demand for free electricity killed the State's fiscal capacity. So while India was booming in the 2000s, Punjab was adding cess after cess on residential and industrial electricity tariffs to cover the shortfall. While China was selling boxing gloves at Rs. 30/unit (Punjab used to own that market), Punjabi manufacturers were charging around Rs. 50/unit which includes about Rs. 15 in cess owe to Punjab Govt. Today Punjab is completely de-industrialized - local industries have shifted from Punjab to Lower Himachal Pradesh. Today Himachal Pradesh manufactures more goods in a year than Punjab in the past 5 years. Lesson here is if you listen to Punjabi farmers, say goodbye to any industry and start saving for a ticket to Canada. Fun fact: 1. Punjab was charging a Gaurashak cess before BJP even came up with the concept of Gaurashak tax. 2. Jalandar used to be the Shenzen of Sports equipment manufacturing until the late 2000s.
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  3952.  @shauryaparihar8364  suuuuuurrrreeee ? Please point me to data and statistics. This issue, did not even make it Al Jazeera's front page (I'm not even making that up - and I was quite surprised). I'm still waiting and self likes are not likes.
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  3953.  @Alpha-Cheeno I live, earn, invest and make business in India. I also pay taxes.
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  3954.  @berserkhorimiya  you are not convincing anyone by calling the courts compromised. Judges appoint themselves without govt input. The courts have given out been plenty of 2 years + sentences for criminal defamations. And the courts have been doing it since the mid 70s when Indira Gandhi upped the punishments to 2 years.
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  3955. On the bright side unlike last year, they haven't dismantled the large field hospitals.
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  3956. Because if they vote BJP, CPIM and their peaceful goons will go around doing STSJ and recreating the events of Moplah in the 1920s. They are silently terrified.
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  3957.  @venkataraghotham7586  we used to the spiritual centre of South and South East Asian Islam. Distinct from Arabic Islam, disconnected from Caliphate. They used to push the boundaries of liberalism in their own way.
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  3958.  @u.2b215  shame??? Where was your when a Lapid questioned the events of the exodus and called it propaganda. As if ethnic cleansing wasn’t enough collective punishment, you have to add insults and call their tragedy a hindutva propaganda. Where’s your bloody shame?
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  3959.  @mg.f.9023  you are pathetic. As if the tragedy of the pandits weren’t enough. Your snouty liberalism had to shout, denigrate their tragedy and call it propaganda
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  3960. Republican (The opposition) controls the House (Lok Sabha). To put it in the Indian context, President is Modi, Rajya Sabha is Control by BJP but Lok Sabha is controlled by the opposition. In that system, Republicans can freely introduce any resolution on the floor against Biden.
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  3961. Yes that can happen when you dismantle the entire MSP system. It's just layers of monopolies. I say we should redistribute the land as well. Give it Dalits of Punjab.
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  3962. Ask a Kashmiri Pandit the same question and they’ll answer with a yes. Our liberals treated them worse than North Korean treatment of their citizen. North Korea at least had the dignity to allow for moment of catharsis. We successfully shut that down for 3 decades.
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  3963. I think the BJP wants to drag out same sex marriage in court till they have an idea on how to pass UCC
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  3964. @The Indian Socialist well, it is always easier to say, "Court ne order diya".
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  3965. Man, we should really make the case for denuclearization of Pakistan. It is an unstable state with a history of proliferation. Today's chaos is all but evidence for that.
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  3966. Assembly pe pitai de.
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  3967. This survey is pure fakery and bogus. Essentially, the surveyors created an Eventbrite event (no I am not making this up), got their neighbourhood to attend and they polled folks who attended it. How scientific is that? If I conducted a survey like that for UK or US and made claims with it, I'd be thrown out of every political analyst job.
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  3968.  @quality1789  it won't work in politics. You need more than 4 MLAs to flip Delhi. BJP in Maharashtra got 41 MLAs to flip even though they had about 15 in the bag when they lost power in 2019.
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  3969. Rahul Gandhi has 50% attendance in Parliamentary committees and Parliament. He prefers to walk out of Defense committees rather than sit down and examine contracts and policies being passed. With this kind of attendance, he gives the BJP a free pass to do anything. He would have had access to Pegasus contracts, probably didn't contribute to rules of engagement for it and thought he could have access to the same jasoosy tools when he becomes PM. All bloody theaterics, if he really cared about spying and privacy, he would have called for oversight, rules of engagement and asked his party to pass a private member's bill, resolution, use his place in the Defense committee to review contracts. Unlike the common man, this person has resources and access to Govt. Machinery (given the sychopancy he has priority access), this non performing individual (NPI) squanders it away. He and the sychopancy around the Gandhi family makes our democracy less democratic.
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  3970. We don't divert industrial effluents in Sewage treatment plants. The ones are operating at full capacity and 5 more were supposed to be constructed. The construction is stayed by Delhi high court because environmentalists didn't want to sacrifice trees and let the river live a little. Our environmentalists are pretty penny wise pound foolish.
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  3971. Reform your mindset first before asking reforms in other things.
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  3972. We do record our history but the modern Indian state is terrible at historiography. Pax Gupta game would be squash under the excuse that it promotes Hindutva. Any other era would annoy a peaceful community. There's reasons why we don't have good history content.
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  3973.  @mohitanand1844 Indian oral traditions have been proven to be reliable. Historian have started to recognize it's importance.
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  3974.  @sureshgvs3953  Afghanistan mein jake arrest kar phir. Thoda dimag laga.
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  3975.  @marclemieux8269  They are trying to achieve the same with DMUs. That's the problem with value engineering.
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  3976. Warrants.
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  3977. Yup. I think the US has picked up a lot of stuff from us. Naked praise of politicians wasn't a feature of US news networks until recently but it was present in Indian news network.
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  3978.  @pramod_p5  I said naked praise. Softball questioning was always there. Naked praise of politicians wasn't a thing until after Trump came to power.
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  3979.  @gauthampai896  I said naked praise of politicians. It's a very recent phenomenon.
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  3980.  @pramod_p5  foreign desk at every journalistic instruction is garbage and articles published by them serves the domestic audience with shallow stories that makes them feel good about their society. This is not just limited to the US press media and happens everywhere. It's rather naive to think they're neutral or are able to present stories with nuance or detail. Now with that said, when it comes to US domestic coverage, NYT's reportage and coverage is pretty good quality. I don't think pointing out their biased coverage by their Foreign desk makes any sense. We're talking about domestic coverage.
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  3981. Our taxes never make sense. Babus come with some of the most bizarre ways to collect tax
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  3982. RBI has a mandate and it works on that accordingly. RBI would intervene even if it was more independent than it is right now. No Central bank would freely allow it's currency to drop why? Volatility is bad for any economy. RBI will seek to smooth out the appreciation/depreciation.
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  3983. Congrats Shekharji. Talking about technology, have you considered using technology to help the Print publish articles in regional languages?
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  3984.  @user-uh9bl6lg8w  nobody ever argued that Hinduism is exempt from the constitution. Neither did any Sikh, Jains, Christians, Jews, Parsis and Shias
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  3985.  @caristo-12  also there's always an exit clause.
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  3986. Talking about exit visa, we still have this garbage called ECNR (Emigration Check Not Required). Granted they have lowered the requirement for it to a point of irrelevance but it still exists.
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  3987. The opposition is treating it like the vaccine just before the second wave (BJP Vaccine). This is going to fall flat on their face.
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  3988. Incompetent judges are acting so high and mighty. The collegium must be scrapped and the nepotism must end.
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  3989. Shekarji, your 50 word edit is perpetuating racism against Indians. Aussie and UK intel chiefs have sidestepped those reports that alleges Indian spies were evicted. WaPo took their vague assessment about Chinese, racialized it make it sound like Indians did it. You are pushing that racist narrative in India. Please stop with the racism.
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  3990. Wait LK Advani is still alive?
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  3991.  @sankalp6872 That's not what I am talking about. It's the blatant unfairness in coverage. Sandeshkhali didn't receive this kind of treatment. There was weeks of denialism from esteemed journalists themselves. That should not happen. Did the Print Journalists hold back in Manipur? No Did they hold back in Sandeshkhali? Yes Did they hold back in Revanna scandal? No Did they hold back when Stalin Jr called for extinction of Hinduism? Yes You either cover fairly or go bust. We shouldn't need to spam the comment section for weeks and days to get Journalists to acknowledge things.
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  3992.  @sankalp6872  the Print is scrubbing my responses
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  3993.  @mg.f.9023 sadly he did not. KN govt gave him VIP treatment to leave the country.
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  3994.  @ssd7853  Well, States control several regulations and policies that kills any job creation. Just look at Punjab, they gave away free electricity to farmers and raise rates for residential and industrial to compensate for the giveaway. As if that wasn't enough, Punjab is looking at at least 3-4 hours of power cuts for farmer and longer power cuts for Residential and Industrial units. The State has zero money to build capacity, zero money to build infrastructure, zero money to pay it's own employees. Forget trade policy, states like Punjab can't even get their budgets right. Why would anyone invest anything in Punjab when your electricity rates are 2x your neighbors with load shedding? This is just fiscal harakiri Unlike Bihar and UP, Punjab is regressing into bad economics - Bihar and UP are coming up rapidly from lowest levels of poverty.
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  3995. Congress insists on sowing doubts about the integrity of our elections after decades of abusing it. We should diligently ensure Bharat becomes Mukht from Congress in the next couple of years. Make Congress Zero. Congress Mukht Bharat Zindabad.
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  3996.  @PK-tt5kk  I’ve read a lot of garbage comments and this comment is probably beats them all. Much incongruous statements, how fact free.
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  3997.  @rodtukker1904  yes but I’m not talking about OMCs
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  3998.  @rodtukker1904  my primary topic is regarding the historicity of food grains programs. Why should I talk about OMCs?
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  3999. TN is as castiest as Bihar. TN experiences a LOT of caste violence and most of it goes unreported. TN is just very smart about how they use caste. They will only speak about caste in Tamil and in English they will claim there's no caste. The only place where Caste is no longer an issue is Maharashtra and Gujarat. 20% of the population marry across caste lines.
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  4000. Brits scammed Trillions from India. This is just Indians collecting those Trillions back.
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  4001.  @PK-tt5kk  So do we. We all worked hard and put in long hours. I worked at a BPO for 9 hours 3 days a week while studying for another 8 hours for brutal exams. I have come a long way from those days.
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  4002. There's a lesson to be learnt here. You can't keep drumming up the extreme elements in your power base and expect they will follow your every word. They will bring you down hard and eventually assert their own way. We aren't that far away from dealing with our own version of TLP. They wear orange, carry a trishul and insult Lord Rama with their thuggery and hooliganism. Yes I'm taking about Bajrang Dal and their Shenanigans with Ashramm.
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  4003. Only applies to Hindu marriages act.
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  4004. Nehru sold our country for a white lady named Edwina Mountbatten. When she moved on he tried his luck with Jackie Kennedy (JFK’s wife). Nothing can beat his level of shamelessness.
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  4005.  @PseudoProphet I know we are not sitting idle but Naravane Sir can’t talk about our covert action but he can definitely reveal something about Chinese covert action.
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  4006. This video will trigger Chinese bots and will flood the comments with prayers to Winnie the Pooh, the great ethnic cleansing emperor of China.
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  4007.  @prateek2645 more like typical socialist conspiratorial nonsense
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  4008. Deccan Herald, Congress' newspaper said, "We need to stop PVNR reforms in it's tracks and return back to 1991". Congress is planning to take back to the corrupt socialist era as a punishment for voting them out.
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  4009. One things that gets more votes than Khalistan is National Security. So Canada adding India to it’s National Security strategy nullifies Khalistanis
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  4010. Our elite still believe in Pindi-Delhi Tehzeeb even if the rest of the country is against it. \
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  4011. Timeline makes things clearer 2012 to 2017 - Fraud took place. Probably goes back to 2008 2018 - E&Y submits forensics report. 2019 - EXIM bank files first complaint to CBI 2020 - 2021 - CBI begins investigation It sounds like things did move at a healthy pace. White collar crime like this usually takes about a year for the investigation to kick off - I'm guessing E&Ys forensics report shared with CBI would take a lot of time to process. The key thing to watch here, how long will it take to prosecute and initiate bankruptcy proceedings against ABG shipyard. That will show Modi Govt. seriousness towards good governance. Besides, I think India lacks strong laws around conflict of interest. That's the one of the ways to prevent these kinds of frauds. Their transaction between Ruias and ABG would have triggered a conflict of interest violation
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  4012. We already did that partially under Indira Gandhi and it was quite miserable.
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  4013. This CTC or editorial is well deserved.
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  4014.  @techbasics6142  Either you need to read more about Nazi Germany or learn how to use hyperboles appropriately.
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  4015.  @techbasics6142  you really don't know anything about the Nazis. Please stop using them as a way to push your argument. You are only making a fool of yourself.
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  4016. Thank you Shekharji for bringing up constitutional values. The lynching are a sign that people are losing faith in the Judiciary.
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  4017.  @92sathish  He's too late to be a competitor to Modi. It took about a decade for Modi to get where he is. Biren still has his days ahead of him.
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  4018.  @jatinguchiya3209  when hell breaks lose, there's no such thing as consent of Govt. I've lived long enough and witnessed way too many riots in my own eyes to tell you "consent of Govt" is nothing more than an illusion. Besides, Army "let go" of miscreants because 1000 women surrounded their base and threatened to burn it down. They also released the perps without the consent of same the Govt.
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  4019.  @DrakeTheDragonDude  Did Modi go out there and rile up crowds? No he did not. Rajiv on the other hand went out to the crowds with a mike, gave a 45 mins speech about Sikhs are shit and then ended it with "Jungle shakes when big tree falls". Next thing you know 1000 sikhs are killed. That's direct involvement. If you want apply standards, apply them fairly.
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  4020. It was designed in Canada. It says a lot about Canadian engineering
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  4021.  @MandeepSingh-ng9sx  well, Makan didn't pay his taxes and IT dept promptly froze his account for non payment. I understand that's hard concept to internalize.
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  4022.  @sanj33v  toh? Tax nahi pay kiya toh IT dept account freeze nahi karega toh kya karega? The fact that Congress' was defaulting on taxes shows the terrible state of their party's culture. And the party's culture is defined by serial tax evaders like Makan.
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  4023. Man, these folks are telling half truth using a technicality. So essentially, when someone dies, the cause of death on the certificate is will always lean more on the disease rather than external factors (like oxygen supply). So if your loved ones passed away because of oxygen supply arising from complications of Covid-19, the cause of death would be Covid-19. The doctors won't say it's oxygen supply because it would be technically incorrect. As frustrating and offensive it is, it's also the right way to record deaths. 😔 The right question to ask how many excess deaths occurred due to supply disruption. (The emphasis on excess) No one seems to be bothered to ask about excess deaths.
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  4024. Shekharji, I think it would a better use of resources to syndicate Afghan journalists than send an Indian there for on the ground reporting. As a subscriber, I would prefer you increase coverage within India. We don't have enough reporters or journalists that cover our States and especially State Assemblies.
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  4025.  @shekhargupta3911  I respect your decision.
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  4026. So GoI Beta tested the system with ~75,000 requests. Yo folks in IT is that sufficient? I definitely don’t think so. At least Bharat Sarkar finally kuch testing kar raha hai.
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  4027. Operation Polo - Maldives edition.
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  4028. Besides it will fulfill Maldivian vision of uniting Lakshadweep and Maldives. We should help them achieve that. Make Maldives a UT of Lakshadweep.
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  4029.  @theindianliberal  still doesn’t give him a free pass. Razakar shit is worse than Kejriwal’s jokes about Hindu symbolism. Razakars are genocidal maniacs under the nawab.
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  4030. Stop simping.
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  4031.  @pardeeptandon  what has RaGa's Cambridge degree in Intl Relations taught him? I'd say nothing. Serious Intl Relations have already dismissed his stance on China as "ludicrous".
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  4032.  @Anp562  it's a cruel joke. DMK would hunt down where Brahmins lived and then drag women out to strip, forcibly cut priest's kudumi/choti, pull their janeus, desecrate temples, haul and deliberately pee on brahmins - all in the name of social justice.
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  4033. So the Opposition in our country is stupid. Let's break down Narendra Modi here for a bit (and BJP). Modi's power comes from 4 legs - Hindutva - Nationalism - Infrastructure - Delivery of Services Let's start with Nationalism. Modi's Nationalism is India first policy, which encompasses asserting India as a global power and strategic partner. You can see that with his clear foreign policy and national security priorities. When it comes to each State, he makes it a point to speak in their local language and embrace their local culture and fit in. The opposition can either align with it or present a better alternative, what does the opposition do instead? Kejriwal instead goes into DeshBhakt mode rather than project Delhi has a world class city or host something like Invest Delhi. Rahul Gandhi, well he invites British MP David Milliband for poverty tourism and says, "This is real India" or bring back Article 370. Mamta Banarjee is busy being Bengali rather than Indian, she does not make space for other States in her own campaign speeches. The only one here who comes close to the energy of Modi's Nationalism is Shiv Sena and DMK (AIADMK as well) with their regional variations. Infrastructure, this is an easy one for any opposition ruled state to take advantage of. But unless if it's a BJP run state, Infra projects are barely talked about. This is even more evident when you look at status for projects in the National Infrastructure pipeline portal. AMRUT, PM-AWAS-U, Smart Cities grants allocated for non BJP states have lied unspent (it's in their dashboards). Only opposition parties that's doing well here are YSR Congress and TRS. Delivery of Services, with the exception of Odissa and BJP ruled states, no other state bothered with attaching their name to scheme or improving delivery. There's very visible progress from the Centres when it comes to it's schemes - Jan Dhan, Nal se Jal, PMUY all have received praise for it's reach and delivery. Again, the only folks here who seems to be working on it are YSR Congress and TRS. (Too early to judge DMK) And then you have the final leg that's Hindutva. The opposition, of all things caught on this and are trying to out Hindutva Modi this like a bunch of Bollywood music producers following KPop trends. This is a fool's errand. The opposition can't even present a coherent alternative to Hindutva or their own interpretation of Hindutva. You might disagree with Owasi, but at least here, he presents an alternative grounded on constitutional values for some parts of the day. This is why I think they are stupid. They are so full of themselves and stuck up that they don't realize that they can easily outmanoeuvre Modi on 3 legs of his politics.
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  4034. I doubt he'd be a good PM. He'd protest his own decision just like the numerous times he went against his own Governments decision while being the same party's vice president, general secretary and youth president. He will decide something, protest against it even if his life was on stake. Also why is a 51 year old still a youth president and president of national students union of India? These are questions he should ask himself.
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  4035.  @Democrat09  Shruti IIRC, works in DC. Her Colleague is a upcoming Stanford PhD. So what's your point?
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  4036.  @Alpha-Cheeno  show & tell works best for movies/TV series. When it comes to news, the second approach is more effective.
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  4037. Man, Omar Abdullah is so much better than so many other nepokids political leaders. He's probably a class apart.
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  4038.  @harshithgowda202  Babudom killed Lateral entry. TBH, I don't think Analysis of Bureaucracies in the West is a good idea. Why? 1. Well, the British did not transplant their bureaucracy in India when they ruled over us, they simply tweaked and changed the old bureaucracies that was present in India. UK doesn't (did not) have a Zamindari or Ryotwari system, we do (we did). 2. Bureaucracy are most functional when you build them according to native needs and complements local culture. When you emulate bureaucracies and ideologies of a foreign land, you end up colonizing your own citizenry rather than serving them. 3. You don't need comparisons with Western bureaucracies to figure out the failures within our own system. The failures of babudom are quite evident and obvious to see. Addressing those failures alone would be hugely transformational. 4. We have some metrics but we need to build better metrics to keep the bureaucracy accountable. We also need a PM who is nothing short of a dictator with the Bureaucracy.
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  4039.  @ayush885  if you are a Congress worker then he is eternally young.
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