Comments by "Bill Webb" (@billwebb9643) on "Hindustan Times" channel.

  1. There are a LOT of statues of Gandhi in North America. We can't post a guard around every one of them.
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  2. Well, people in other countries OFTEN have parades in which US Presidents get burned in effigy. We don't get too excited about it - it's all part of being a world power. You'll get used to it.
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  3. As an American, I am very curious. What percentage of Sikhs actually support this Khalistan business? Would I be correct in guessing it's <1%? I only know one or two Sikhs, and they are quite pro-India and pro-Modiji.
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  4. not that they have a choice....
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  5.  @aekta888  Whenever Stalin gave a speech, the audience would applaud for hours, because whoever was the first to stop clapping went to the gulag. Same BS happens now in North Korea. It's not love - it's terror.
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  6. Well, look at it this way. These particular Sikhs are in Canada, and NOT causing trouble in India. So, India should be grateful, not spiteful.
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  7. No, the US exports more rice than it imports.
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  8. Good thing she wasn't Indian, particularly a Sikh - she probably would have shoved the umbrella up his .......
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  9. Modi is just trying to hold down food prices in India - shutting down certain exports, and also opening the door for more imports. If this creates a shortage of a particular strain of rice on the global market, the big producers like Thailand and China will grow more.
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  10. What action(s) specifically?
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  11. Putin is so short, you have to stoop down to salute him.
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  12. I have never been to India - is this typical for Indian parades? 😮
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  13. Well, in the thumbnail for this vid, I did look like jaishankar gi was holding a Khalistani flag. Is is possible this is all modi's doing?
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  14. a couple of problems there -The vast majority of Sikhs are quite happy in India -A balkanized India would leave a selection of small states ripe for Chinese takeover -Oh and btw, WHEN did India promise a free Khalistan? Or perhaps they intend to designate part of Pakistan as the new Khalistan
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  15. One hundredth of a crore. A centi-crore.
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  16. No, it looks like any US grocery store right before a hurricane or snow storm.
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  17. Hey look Putin - this 5hit happened in-house. The 'West' had nothing to do with it. It's nice living rent-free in your head, but we have homes of our own.
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  18. Question from an American to India. Is the objection to this documentary based on the fact that you found it biased or even downright false? Or is it more that Indian internal affairs are simply none of the West's collective business? (Which I would certainly understand.)
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  19.  @akashshrivastava6193  Oh, no, no, no! It is a sincere hope! If we got involved it would make things worse for everyone, especially the US.
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  20. Really no, there are quite a few other foods on the shelves.
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  21. Most likely sabotage by a disgruntled worker. Russians are being required to work long hours, of the without pay, to support Putin's bid to reconstitute the Russian Empire. There will be much more of this. Russia must consent to allow international observers to come and and inspect so as to determine the true cause of this.
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  22. India should reunite with Pakistan too
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  23. No, we don't. Canadians make terrible slaves - they expect free health care and half of them only speak French.
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  24. Good grief! All this time I just thought Indian immigrants were reckless drivers, but in fact what I have been seeing is the RAW bumping off Khalistanis on the road? I'm all for dispatching terrorists, but please find a safer way to do it!
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  25. Wouldn't an independent Khalistan just be gobbled up by Pakistan?
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  26. And yet - the Indian Air Force's latest fighter jet is from.........................France?
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  27. They're bumping up food imports and reducing exports, to keep food prices under control.
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  28.  @sumitchowdhury152  Well friend, I guess you've got me there. I could rebut with the fact that there are in fact quite a variety of food options here, and many opt for the healthy choices. But last night I had dinner with an Indian neighbor, and what was he serving? Steak! So, I guess what you say does apply to me!
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  29.  @aleenaprasannan2146  The import restrictions in question were apparently in retaliation for some sort of import restriction the US placed on Indian goods a few years ago. I guess Modiji and Biden worked things out.
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  30.  @aleenaprasannan2146  The rational behind Thailand thinking they could raise global prices was that surprisingly very little rice is grown for export (as opposed to say wheat - which major producers often grow expressly for export .) Most rice is consumed in the country of origin and thus very little goes on the international market, meaning that a single exporting country might indeed have a big impact on global prices if it increases or decreases how much gets released. As indeed Indian may be doing now with non-Basmati rice.
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  31.  @pennywise69  Indian food is indeed tasty, but Italian food is the best. That's where wheat comes in, to make the pasta.
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  32.  @sumitchowdhury152  ​ @sumitchowdhury152 India grows a LOT of wheat - twice as much as the US - what are they doing with it exactly?
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  33.  @sumitchowdhury152  LOL! AFAICT our fast food consists primarily of fat. You need flour to make naan and chapatis. Don't worry - nobody is going to starve. But getting back to the subject, contrary to the customary jingoistic yappings of the HT this export restriction was not intended as an FU to the US but more represents an effort to hold down food prices in India. Modiji was in the US a few weeks ago and slashed a bunch of restrictions on food imports from the US - this was presented as a goodwill gesture to us, but apparently his main agenda was in fact to feed his people. It does carry for Modi an ancillary foreign policy benefit - if India buys food from the US, any US politician who irritates India and screws up that arrangement risks losing the coveted farm vote, which can be, shall we say, politically decisive. He skillfully killed a couple of birds with one stone.
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  34. India should offer China Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana. Then when they take over they will discover the Khalistanis have already claimed it! LOL!
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  35. The Indians in the US can adapt to eating another variety of rice a lot more easily than a lot of people in India can adapt to higher rice prices. There is an election coming up and Modi wants to shore up support. As to any Indians in the US who still vote in Indian elections, they all support the BJP anyhow and this won't change anything.
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  36. Just be happy they don't decide to DRAW it on the map for you.😄
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  37. Buy soybeans - we have tons in the US.
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  38. Singapore?
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  39. Perhaps this should be adjudicated by a neutral third party, such as Pakistan or the United Kingdom.
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  40. It would sure be an interesting development if Canada were to step in and secure their release.
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  41. No, that is Russian propaganda. We do NOT want 20 or 30 kadyrovite fiefdoms to deal with.
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  42. He was doing great until he decided to resurrect Russia's 19-th century empire.
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  43. They understand the consequences of Putin trying to reabsorb them into Russian Empire ver 2.
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  44. Why is modiji dressed up as a soldier?
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  45. Indians ruined Canada's parade! Modiji and Jaishankarji must apologize to Canada for this outrage! Depicting an assassination on a parade float is SICK! Now, apologize!
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  46. If the Indian government indeed killed this Hardeep Singh Nijjar character on Canadian soil as JT claims, then Canada should furnish proof of this.
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  47. No, if India exports less food to US, and imports more food FROM the US, that will make most Americans quite happy.
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  48.  @swapnilrb7370  Well, Russia seems to think Ukraine IS Russia. So, what side to choose. Hilariously, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance was tossing Soviet-supported communists out of helicopters during the same period, so I'd say there was no love lost one way or the other.
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  49. The US exports a lot of food.
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