Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 72,000 per annum as universal basic income if elected: | When the GDP per capita income of the country is ~113,000? What an epic doofus!
France reiterates support for India’s permanent seat in reformed UN Security Council: | Not sure how many Indians realise how pro-India France has generally been over the past seven decades in comparison to other OECD countries
India is making a big mistake in Kashmir: | Modi should have called up Bloomberg's editorial board before making his move; they are, after all, a veritable bunch of Kashmir experts
India and Burma carry out joint anti-terror operations against Arakan Army in along border: | To eliminate threat to India's northeastern Kaladan infrastructure project
Nasrin Sotoudeh faces 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for removing her hijab in public in Iran and defending others who did so: | Don't expect much relief from New Zealand these days, they're donning one in a show of..."solidarity"
India should be grateful to Alauddin Khilji for thwarting the Mongols | Tomorrow, these guys will run a piece on how Jews should be grateful to Hitler for catalysing the creation of Israel
How many troops has India actually deployed in Kashmir? | Excellent piece by
@KesariDhwaj
, exposing not just epic ignorance of journalists but also a criminal lack of due diligence
Israel ready to help India in dealing with water shortage: | Honestly, they just need to slap around some bureaucrats; that will fix most things. Then they can start with the real assistance
Every constituency (14) in which Rahul Gandhi campaigned, Congress is behind; every seat (11) Narendra Modi campaigned for, BJP is in the lead. There is still hope for Kannads 😀
Anil Ambani writes to Rahul Gandhi, explaining how Reliance won the Rafale contract: | Hope he used a sufficient diversity of coloured crayons and simple logograms...
Air India responds to terrorists who emailed with threat of bomb in luggage that they had left all the bags behind: | 🤣 Indian counter-terrorism has no answer!
Adoption of Christianity laid the foundation for Russia - Putin: | Not really, but still interesting. India is perhaps the only country that doesn't have the spine to embrace its heritage. Just a state of bright-faced, brown grammar school boys...
Kuwait supermarket pulls Indian products as row grows over Prophet remarks: | Pfft. Much better India just rounds Muslims up and put them in re-education camps - maybe that'll cement relations with the Gulf, I mean, look at China
Fake news story by Indian media on felling of a thousand trees for prime minister's visit undone by simple factcheck: | Retractions/apologies should be in same space and font
France rebuts Rahul Gandhi's allegations on Rafale deal: | So now, the presumptive prime ministerial nominee of the Opposition has been called a liar on the international stage. What, Mr. Modi, is this achhe din? 😂
the internet archive is not under attack. it's at war for the idea of libraries.
(a thread on the stakes of hachette v ia):
you probably know the ia for public domain content or the wayback machine. breathless posts aside, this suit isn't about those: it's about books. (1/n)
The Rafale dogfight: | Informative piece by
@SandeepUnnithan
. Glad some people like him and
@nitingokhale
are setting the record straight. Seems like everyone else is frothing at the mouth without substance
Indian millennials, fed on a post-Kargil diet, don’t want strategic restraint with Pakistan: | Because strategic restraint is a synonym for being incapable. Judiciousness, always, but by the gods, never again strategic restraint
Immigrant entrepreneurs are responsible for 55% of American unicorns, of which Indian-origin Americans have started the most (had to leave to become a success, I guess).
Indians tweet in support of Israel in latest round Gaza terror attacks, top hashtags are
#IsraelUnderFire
,
#IsraelUnderAttack
and
#IndiaWithIsrael
| After ~65 years of shameful behaviour from government, people aren't waiting to be "represented" officially
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam suffered drought because China limited flow of the Mekong: | Something India is used to in its own neck of the woods, as
@Chellaney
keeps warning
What the West needs from Modi: | Yes, because the West can't bear to be allies with leaders they find unsavoury. We're so lucky that Stalin, Mao (post 1972), etc were saints. And now Mohammad bin Salman, Al Khalifa, etc are such good men...
Interesting tidbit: Pnina Tamano-Shata, the new Minister of Immigration and Absorption, is Israel's first minister of Ethiopian descent. She was rescued to Israel at three during Operation Moses, of which Benny Gantz was one of the deputy commanders and whose party nominated her
Wuhan death toll may be closer to 40,000 than official Chinese figure of 2,500: | If anyone still trusts anything the Chinese say, they need to have their head examined
@katiejanegraham
@KS1729
And my grandmother always emphasised tone:
*I* won't call you a thief
I won't call *you* a thief
I won't *call* you a thief
I won't call you a *thief*
🙂
Why does the Israeli left always insist on badmouthing their country in the American press? If they want to persuade their fellow Israelis, they have plenty of Israeli platforms, both Hebrew and English. What do they hope to gain by this?
Is the BJP inspired by Israel’s citizenship policy? | If so, they are yet to create the judicial infrastructure for it; short of that, there will be many hurdles and potholes
The Hindu gets its facts wrong (again) in its latest article on the Rafale deal: | Between this by
@KesariDhwaj
and
@Iyervval
's rebuttal of Arun Shourie, I don't think there is anything else left to say. Not that there ever really was...
Today, in 1971, the Third Indo-Pakistan War began. Within 14 days, India took over 90,000 soldiers captive, liberated Bengalis from Punjabi atrocities, and secured its eastern flank. Then Delhi gave it all away seven months later at Simla.
Asked about the Kashmir crisis, President Trump says that “Kashmir is a very complicated place. You have the Hindus, and you have the Muslims, and I wouldn’t say they get along so great. And that’s what you have right now.”
Thomas Piketty is working with Congress on a Universal Basic Income scheme: | I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life, including that night in 1990 when Iraqi soldiers paid me a visit
Deterrence didn’t fail during stand-off with India, says Pakistan: | Agreed, I don't know which idiot claimed that. India just found space for conventional manoeuvring beneath the nuclear threshold
Madras journalists walk out when politician targets one press outlet for exclusion: | Glad to see some spine and ethics. A little more of this wouldn't hurt the political circus
Nice thread on the significance of the Battle of Panipat to Indian history 👇 As Israeli soldiers are made to visit Masada and Yad Vashem after their boot camp, the Indian Army should conduct a similar remembrance tour to Taraori, Panipat, and Hampi
Today, we honor the sacrifices made by Sadashivrao Bhau and over hundred thousand other Marathas, on the plains of
#Panipat
, 257 years ago on this day (Jan 14, 1761).
They died while defending India against a foreign invasion.
#MarathaHistory
#IndiaHistory
#Panipat1761
This only makes me want to show off a swastik even more to tell folks who pretend to get offended to stuff it. I can think of a couple of symbols that have caused more deaths than the swastik, by actual believers than random strangers. Will Reuters censor them too?
Reuters has removed an earlier photo of U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley with a swastika seen behind her at a Hindu temple in Delhi. The swastika is an ancient religious symbol for Hindus and Buddhists. It was also used as a symbol by Nazi Germany
Sermon by imam of Grand Mosque in Mecca seen as prelude to Saudi normalising of relations with Israel: | Will there be a 'Palestinian cause' left in a couple of years?
12% of Indian pilots are women, among the highest percentages in the world, and with barely any gender pay gap: | I couldn't care less who you are, just land me safely
41% of Americans don't know what Auschwitz was: | I'd love to pick on the Yanks but I suspect we're more aware of their ignorance only because of oversampling. Ignorance is more universal a disease than we appreciate
It's unthinkable for India to give up on strongman leaders as the US and UK have just done: | India needs such a leader to plug in its gaps in statehood; what are the others' excuses?
Four criminals enter classroom in Bihar to abduct girl, three beaten to death: | If judiciary and police don't want to do their job, there are other avenues...
India's looted past and terrorism funding: | Over $79 million of Indian antiquities entered the US in just 2016. Piece also has inputs from my buddy
@anuraag_saxena
☺️
The dangerous populist science of Yuval Noah Harari: | People just want to outsource their thinking and be fed opinions they can repeat to make themselves appear sophisticated. That's the secret behind so many of these 'gurus'
India makes Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman return to Riyadh from Pakistan before flying to India on dehyphenated, standalone trip: | The only person satisfied by this is some jackass babu...
India takes back Jammu & Kashmir's special status within the union, moves to create Ladakh as new union territory: | This is the most momentous news in the Indian republic's history since the pig's breakfast of 1948! 👏🏻🍾🥂
India used Israeli-made munitions to strike terrorist camps in Pakistan: | A fact Delhi will surely forget the next time a vote on Israel comes up in the UN or any other international forum