Comments by "agon noga" (@agonnoga6100) on "ThePrint" channel.

  1. Unfortunately, he has hardly spoken about the future dynamics. Russia is getting such a hammering in Ukraine because when it comes to full electro magnetic spectrum dominance and real time intelligence Russia is several generations behind USA and its allies. Joint Rivet intelligence gathering aircrafts and AWACS are perhaps far more deadly than F15 or F35. India is generations behind China in this area. With changing battlefield and technology the peg of 42 or 45 squadrons is redundant. India simply cannot match China in numbers. It has to outfox Chinese numerical superiority with technology which means partnership with foreign military powers to gain crucial technologies. Systems like S500 and their vastly improved variants with greater range negate the need for manned fighters to defend the skies. Manned fighters only act as a last fall back option and not the tip of the spear. Drones and loitering munitions are several times cheaper vis a vis manned fighters. Such systems are comparable to a David when it's facing a Goliath with 5th generation fighters. Drones can loiter for hours and days whereas fighters can stay in flight only for few hours and cost several thousands of dollars per flight. In the future, the shortfall in manned fighters will be filled by drones, UCAVs and very long range surface to air missile systems like improved and extended versions of S500.
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  2. Mr.Singh how can anyone reinvent himself at the age of 51 particularly when his heart mind and soul are permanently residing abroad and his body from time to time reluctantly in India? How can a half Italian part Parsi part Kashmiri connect with people in a state like UP?
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  3. No inner party democracy in any political party which also includes BJP, is the biggest threat to Indian democracy. How can one family monarchies claim to be political parties in a democracy?
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  4. Priyanka was living in New York, prior to 2019 election. Even in India, she lives in Shimla, HP, where Rahul Gandhi regularly goes for picnic if he is not abroad. How can people like these have any connect with the people of UP?? If Nehru Gandhi parivar claims to represent UP, why the people of UP don't elect them?
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  5. Now defense, like everything else, is being handed over to Adani Ambani.
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  6. Modi is now behaving like RaGa who is more comfortable abroad than in India. At least RaGa faces the press in India. But, in the last 9 years Modi has not held even one press conference. Modi refuses to talk to the press when US president is addressing the press along with Modi. No wonder under Modi sarkar India supposedly the world's largest democracy ranks 161 out of 180 in freedom of press index and falls in the flawed democracy category in democracy index. Why doesn't the Print talks about these things?
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  7. Crony capitalism leads to "Hindu rate of growth," where few business houses monopolize the economy. Narasimha Rao's reforms led to the opening up of India's economy, which ended the monopoly of some business houses, but it created today's India. Modi, due to return to crony capitalism, has brought back extreme protectionism, which is creating enormous wealth for few but stifling the Indian economy. His aatma Nirbhar Bharat is a step towards a closed economy monopolized by few business houses.
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  8. From the body language of Amit Shah it is clear he is not too pleased with Himanta Biswa Sarma.
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  9. Now even the constitution of India created by Dr.Ambedkar is "colonial" for Modani sarkar and it's acolytes!
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  10. It was Ayub Khan and not Bhutto or Yahya Khan who planted the seeds of Pakistan's breakup. Bhutto was trying to defend Sindh and had good reasons for opposing Mujibur as PM. East Bengal joined Pakistan on the condition that it'll remain an autonomous region in Pakistan. This like the promise to Balochistan was forgotten after formation of Pakistan state. East Bengal which became East Pakistan used to have a higher GDP than West Pakistan in 1947 till early 1960s. East Pakistan gradually became a colony to prop up West Pakistan and its military where Bengalis had negligible presence. Situation of Sindh then and today was very similar to East Pakistan with large economy and little presence in Pakistan Army. Mujibur's 6 points demand was basically two countries under one flag. After Mujibur's big victory in 1970 election the West Pakistanis particularly Bhutto got unnerved as they knew autonomy of East Pakistan would mean Sindh bearing the burden of funding Pakistan government and its humongous military. This is why maximum opposition to Mujibur came from Bhutto and not Yahya Khan who was open to the idea of autonomy to East Pakistan. Mujibur was also open to the idea of two PMs under one flag hence the accusation that Bhutto wanted to be PM doesn't holds good. The reason for breakup of Pakistan was economic. A Bengali economist from Harvard had predicted breakup of Pakistan in 1960 to Ayub Khan, the then military dictator of Pakistan. PS: Yahya Khan was a dimwit propped up by Ayub Khan to keep the president seat warm. He was a drunkard and no leader.
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  11. In short Congress, has been getting caught in its own web. A legacy still carried on by papoo and his parivar.
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  12. Congress was created by the British to carry the white man's burden. It is still doing so 75 years after the British have left the subcontinent. We can understand obsequious behavior on part of Congress party men, it is appalling to see similar behavior being displayed by the journalists who sound no different from the journalists of North Korea.
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  13. Biggest threat to countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh is climate change. Current massive floods in Pakistan is basically a black swan event. Bigger threat than floods is extreme heat and drought in Pakistan which will have severe economic, social and political fallout. Bangladesh on the other hand is going under water due to rising seas and oceans. India, because of its vast size is able to cope with climate change. But it is the biggest existential crisis in India as rising temperature will make large parts of India simply uninhabitable. Temperatures are predicted to touch 60 degrees in large parts of India in the not too distant future. It has already crossed 55 degrees in Jacobabad in Pakistan this year. If it followed with a China and Europe type drought that would have been far more disastrous than current floods of Biblical scale.
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  14. This is what happens when you get your history from foreigners. Fact is prior to 1200 CE, entire NE used to be populated by Bengalis. Which is why the most ancient culture, customs and languages of NE are similar to Bengali. 1200 CE, Tai Chinese Ahoms invaded and occupied these Bengali kingdoms. From 1400 CE, NE faced invasions from Burma and eventually went under Burmese occupation till 1832 CE. 1832 CE East India Company freed NE from Burma but with majority Chinese and Burmese origin people many of whom till this day don't accept themselves as Indians although many adopted the local culture and customs. This is the crux of the never ending insurgencies, ethnic and racial conflicts in NE. The Bodos, Khasis, Chutiyas are mongoloid or Austroasiatic people who settled in NE only during the Chinese and Burmese occupation of NE. The original inhabitants were Dravidian and Australoid aborigines. Later on came the Indo Aryan settlers who spread Sanskritized culture in this region before they too were replaced by various people and tribes from China and Burma. This is the reason why NE is so different from rest of India even in those parts where people are Hindus. Therefore, stop reading history written by foreigners and do your own research by visiting the place.
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  15. RaGa is not the face of Congress. Don't project him as the face of opposition as it'll weaken an already extremely weak and pathetic opposition.
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  16. The most retrogressive party is Congress as it was created by the British to help colonize the brown people. Even today, Congress is still carrying the colonial legacy and mindset. If Congress wants to get back on the track, it should start promoting strong regional leaders which Nehru Gandhis are afraid of. The idea of one individual leading a subcontinent like India is over.
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  17. There will be long wars only if strong and powerful forces are supporting both sides. If NATO didn't support Ukraine, the war would be over in less than a month and Ukraine would be a puppet if not part of Russia. In 2001 post parliament attack mobilization of troops cost both India and Pakistan around one billion dollars each i.e. 1 billion dollars to only bring troops and weapons to the border. Today same activity will cost 2 to 3 billion dollars. Pakistan cannot afford a war with India let alone a long drawn war. Long drawn hostility shouldn't be passed off as war.
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  18. You need to read retired intelligence official Maloy Krishna Dhar's book to know the real state of our intelligence service. This book caused a raucous in the parliament. This person's boss was more interested in law and homeopathy than gathering intelligence.
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  19. Thanks SG. Not only today's generation born after 1990s but even those who were around in 1984, these bits of information from the ground speak volumes about the situation on the ground often missing in conventional news reportage.
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  20. A highly militarized society does need a militarized police. In many places in USA, the civilians have better firepower than the police.
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  21. Let Bengal gain autonomy. Then we will see who is to blame. West Bengal, NE, South India, Maharashtra, Punjab and Kashmir have to be given autonomy if they so desire. Hindi India needs to be governed separately.
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  22.  @truelordg9sx  how will Bengal be rich if it is looted by Hindi government and Hindi political parties for last more than 77 years? Relation between New Delhi and West Bengal is exactly the same as Islamabad and East Bengal prior to 1971. West Pakistan also used to say similar things about East Bengal. Today look where is Pakistan and where is Bangladesh? Without autonomy from India things will only get from bad to worse not only for Bengal but entire eastern region. This is the reason why South India too wants to separate from the over populated Hindi India.
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  23. @Praveen India got independence not because of "Gandhian" non violence but because of INA bulk whose troops were British India Army soldiers who had surrendered to the Axis powers and several mutinies in the British India military immediately with the end of world war two. Most notable were the Bombay naval mutiny and mutinies in air force. This was compounded by the fact that 30 lakh Indian troops had returned to India after the 2nd world war. The British knew they could no longer hold on to India with the help of British India Army which is why they left India much earlier than they planned to.
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  24. India is a union of states and not a nation state. All this problem is happening because India is being run like a nation state where power is concentrated with the center ruled by a political party representing the largest ethnic, linguistic, religious group. India was never supposed to be governed centrally with the exit of the British from India. This is what the 1946 cabinet mission plan was which planned India as a union of autonomous states with few activities being governed centrally. This plan was accepted by both Congress and Muslim League but vehemently opposed by the business houses profiteering under centralized British rule. Since these business houses were chief patrons of Congress, Congress had to withdraw its consent to the cabinet mission plan. Congress withdrawal from the cabinet mission plan led to the partition of British India which was little more than half of today's India. Perennial struggle between the center and the states is due to this dichotomy in governance where our constitution claims India is a union of states whereas it is governed as a nation state. Way forward for a diverse subcontinent like India is decentralization of power to the states. This will also end various insurgencies and separatist movements across India.
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  25. TRS, TMC,DMK, NCP are purely regional parties which do not become national parties merely by changing their name. These regional parties need to stick to their region and work together as a team at pan India level. This is how the 3rd front is going to bloom. Congress is reduced to a family party and masses are disenchanted with BJP. If these regional parties work smart, together they can form the government in New Delhi.
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  26. Spoken like an IITian and exIRS officer. It is time Kejriwal spoke more about issues facing the masses as low caliber media has been reduced to godi media.
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  27. India is a union of states and not a nation state. This is how India is defined by the constitution of India. Not only NEET but even other issues like insurgencies in north east, Kashmir, Punjab and central India is due to overlooking this fact and trying to run India, a subcontinent of diverse people as one artificial nation state. Only defence, foreign affairs, currency should be handled centrally and the rest need to be devolved to the states. This is how India was supposed to be governed as per the 1946 cabinet mission plan, opposition to which by few business houses profiteering under the centralised rule of the British led to congress withdrawing its consent to the plan which in turn led to the partition of India. India was partitioned not because of religion but opposition to a plan which empowered the states.
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  28. @AemondTomahawk  stop talking rubbish. Bengali speaking parts of Bengal were given to Bihar during the creation of Bihar. Bengali speaking eastern Jharkhand was not remerged with Bengal due to request of JRD Tata. Many Bengali speaking parts of Bihar were merged with Bengal during state reorganization in 1950s but may remained in undivided Bihar purely due to pro Bihar sentiment of the central government. Places with mixed population like Dhanbad were retained in Bihar. And only purely Bengali dominated regions were merged with Bengal. Bengalis are a very different people from Biharis and Jharkhandis. Every state has domicile certificate. Having a domicile certificate doesn't means that one is native of that place.
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  29. This is a sign of paranoia in BJP's top leadership that they are feeling threatened by other top leaders of their own party. This mentality also reduced Congress from a national party to one family political party with no connect with India and Indians.
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  30. It was Raghuram Rajan who first exposed Adani, for which Modi sacked Raghuram Rajan. Months ago, Mahua raised the same questions about Adani, followed by Dr.Subramanian Swamy. Hindenburg report has repeated the same things raised by these people.
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  31. If you look at historical evidences, there was never any country called India or Bharat. The idea of nation states is a post world war 2 phenomenon. Prior to that much of the world used to be ruled by kings and queens. India, is basically a Greek name of the region around Indus aka Sindhu river which is known as Pakistan today. There are no historical evidence of a nation called Bharat ever existing. It's a mythical country like India. Today's India got its name from East India Company which itself was named after a mythical country called India.
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  32. Paresh Barua is not in Myanmar but in China the chief patron of ULFA.
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  33. Social impact of 500 to 700 years of Afghan and Turkic rule of the subcontinent is missing in our history books.
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  34. Majority of the opposition ruled states get less than half of what they contribute to the central government. This forces opposition ruled states to take loans to fund their administration. When it comes to disbursement of dues from central government again opposition ruled states are left high and dry.
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  35. No beggar can afford to travel all the way from India to Istanbul. Anyone who can afford the travel by land or ship to Istanbul is a rich man particularly in the days of the Sultan when travel to distant foreign countries was not only expensive but also a difficult feat.
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  36. If Thimayya indeed said Indian Army cannot protect India from China then he is not only the worst chief of Army but also the most incompetent. The British left behind a massive Army which was primarily used to subjugate the natives and fight colonial wars. In 2nd world war, British India Army was the largest all volunteer Army. The Chinese didn't have an effective airforce in 1962 and the infrastructure to supply troops over the vast inhospitable Tibetan plateau were rudimentary at best. China could never win any long drawn battle with India purely for geographical reason. This is true even today with massive Chinese infrastructure across LAC.
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  37. Fact is, India was not supposed to be governed centrally by one political party but as a union of autonomous states with only few activities being governed centrally. This plan was called the 1946 cabinet mission plan accepted by both Congress and Muslim League but vehemently opposed by business houses from the princely states profiteering in British India. As Congress was funded and guided by these business houses, Congress had to withdraw its consent to the cabinet mission plan. Withdrawal of Congress from the cabinet mission plan led to the demand for Pakistan and the partition of Bengal and Punjab. India and Pakistan are basically a union of nations and not one nation. This is the reason why people of one state differ significantly from people of other states. This is the reason why the 1946 cabinet mission plan was the perfect model for governing a subcontinent like India.
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  38. If India needs to progress, economic power needs to rest with the states. Only defense, communication, currency and foreign affairs needs to be administerd centrally through a nodal agency representing every state of the union and not by one political party representing certain religious, linguistic, ethnic groups belonging to a part of the country.
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  39. People of India will not choose CM of the worst state as PM of India. Modi had to prove himself in Gujarat before he became acceptable as PM to the population of India. KCR, Mamata, Kejriwal, Akhilesh have better chances of being PM than Nitish who cannot become even CM of Bihar on his own.
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  40. Ironically two foreign languages i.e. Hindi and English are official languages aka Raj bhashas. Whereas Indian languages receive 3rd class treatment from the government.
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  41. There's nothing wrong with her dress. It's you who needs to change his outlook.
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  42. India was not supposed to be governed centrally as per the 1946 cabinet mission plan. In a diverse subcontinent like India, power should rest with the states and only few activities need to be governed centrally.
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  43. Meitei are not Indians or natives of Manipur but Tai Chinese from Yunnan. The natives of Manipur like Kamrupa aka undivided Assam were Bengalis. We know Kamrupa was invaded by Tai Chinese Ahoms in circa 1200 CE. Our history books are completely silent when the Tai Chinese invaded and occupied Manipur. Manipur and other parts of NE faced invasions from Burma from circa 1400 CE and subsequently went under Burmese occupation. It is in 1832 East India Company liberated North East from Burma but with majority Chinese and Burmese origin people who have never considered themselves as Indians to this day. This is the crux of never ending insurgencies in NE supported by both China and Burma. All governments which have ruled New Delhi have suppressed the history of north east and illegally have been passing off Chinese and Burmese origin people as ST, SC, OBC which has led to the current mess in Manipur. The Meitei and Ahoms are Sinic people with no connection with Tibet. So don't call them Sino Tibetan people as Tibetans are very different from Sinic people.
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  44. Entire South East Asia used to be Indic and Hindu prior to large scale Chinese migration from 1000 CE fleeing Mongol invasion of China. Irrawady is a Hindu name just like Mekong which used to be known as Ma Ganga.
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  45. Khalistan is going to come back in a big way. Modi has succeeded in what Pakistan and China couldn't do in more than 70 years. He has opened the faultlines in India which were somewhat hidden since 1947.
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  46. As per 1946 cabinet mission plan, India was not supposed to be governed centrally by one political party. As per this plan only defense, communication, currency and foreign affairs would be governed centrally and rest would be governed by the states. This plan was accepted by both Congress and Muslim League but vehemently opposed by business houses profiteering under the centralized British rule. Since Congress was aided, funded and guided by these business houses it had to withdraw its consent to the 1946 cabinet mission plan. Withdrawal of Congress from the cabinet mission plan led to the demand for Pakistan by Muslim League. Therefore India was not partitioned for religion but to save the monopoly of few business houses over the Indian economy. This part of Indian history is completely missing from our history books. Both India and Pakistan are not one nation state but a union of nation states. This is why the constitution of India defines India as a union of states and not a nation state. Centralized rule will lead to some states capturing power in the central government to the detriment of states who don't have the numbers to gain political power. Political marginalization leads to economic, social, cultural and nearly every other forms of marginalization. Centralized rule is basically continuation of colonial rule. In a diverse disparate subcontinent like India, at least economic power needs to rest with the states. The central government needs to be formed with representatives from every state in the union of India and not one political party representing only certain ethnic, religious, linguistic groups in the subcontinent.
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  47. Era of manned fighters, tanks, battleships and submarines is coming to a close. Future belongs to unmanned military systems which have long endurance and cost less in comparison to conventional military systems. The role of superior situational awareness coupled with AI, will prove a game changer.
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  48. India is no longer a democracy but a monarchy pretending to be a democracy. Political parties have become fiefdoms of one family who retain control over the party through undemocratic means and those who are more competent and popular than them, are dropped unceremoniously. To quit CM post was Captain's own decision as he doesn't wants to go to election on a congress party ticket.
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  49. The very fact that the Print like other media is no longer independent but beholden to the government and those who back this government is the best proof that India is moving from elected autocracy to full dictatorship. How can India be a democracy where press and all institutions which are supposed to uphold democracy are no longer independent but hijacked by the ruling political party?
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  50. Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Kishore floated their own political parties but they turned out to be bigger flops than papoo. They can be taken seriously only if they succeed as politicians.
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