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“... [As] we look at the global order, and when we look at the evolving security environment within Asia, India’s rise and role [is] evolving, [and] we see the United States and India increasingly viewing the region in the same way, and our interests are very much aligned,” said Cara...

Nothing exceptional. Everyone needs friends. China has Pakistan, North Korea, and South Sudan. US has NATO, EU, Anglosphere, Japan, Korea and now India. Russia and Philippines are undecided.

Cancer is a scourge that must be eradicated. How many lives cut short due to it? She was just 40! How much more she could have contributed to the world of knowledge! Tragic indeed.

Yes. Isn't that everyone's story? Either moved out for work or studies. I used to like it a lot but it has also changed a lot. Too much traffic now. Driving to Sakchi Market or Bistupur next to impossible. On a positive note, the Jubilee Park Road has been barred for cars.

I have a few friends from Loyola as well. I have retained a couple of apartments right outside the Circuit House main gate, on Kaveri Road, opp some school. Beyond that everything else is sold as no plans of living there for any stretch of time. I have relatives there though.

I was born in Jamshedpur and studied in Xavier's Ranchi till Class VII. Have been all over the world ever since. Which place are you from?

Add to that compulsive fake news and social media disinformation, erosion of institutions by foisting sub-standard political appointees, total callousness about the consequences of military belligerence (even nuclear war) and undermining of democracy by belief in strongman rule. It is difficult...

True. Secularism itself wouldn't have gained a hold in this country if not for nominally Hindu visionaries. The Constituent Assembly debates contain testimony to that. BTW even I am what would be considered a Hindu for the purposes of ethnic cleansing. I realized a long while back that my...

About the Bangladeshi episode in NCR, I have already commented on the relevant thread. As for the Bengal riots, I have already commented on the relevant thread about the vote-bank politics of Mamata and have included that in my list of atrocities for which there has been no justice. The third...

You are a psychopath who thinks that mass orgies of violence in which people get hacked, butchered and disemboweled is something to try and obfuscate because of your sense of politics and fake nationalism. You are worse than al-Baghdadi or for that matter anyone else held out as the standard for...

I don't live in Pakistan. I live in India. What happens here is of much greater concern to me. Deluding oneself about reality here by citing Pakistan is no different than the converse.

Here in lies the problem. As I mentioned earlier, die had been cast at the time of Partition. India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are three countries where riots, lynchings and mob violence are looked at as victimless crimes. Not even 1% of the perpetrators of such acts since independence have been...

There has to be a mistake somewhere. The farthest reaches of the universe that we know of is less than 14 billion light years. 400 billion would dramatically alter our knowledge about the universe and would be the biggest scientific discovery of the decade.

Obfuscation runs both ways. Just as doctrine cannot possibly the cause of terrorism, apparently.

Precisely. The point is this culture of impunity. Where does this arise from? This is more than an issue of the identity of the victims. It is an issue of law and order breakdown. It stands to reason that in such an environment, minorities and other vulnerable communities will be more...

There are two types of such occurrences. The first type are like the organized riots where local leaders/troublemakers (aren't they the same in South Asia?) covertly or openly organize these events. Then there are those episodes where a large number of people get "emotional" over something, like...

But seriously, I think it is also a matter of how bad law and order in India really is. Yes these were Muslims being attacked. But the larger problem is of mobs of dozens/hundreds/thousands gathering to inflict this violence. If we go back in time, the Genesis of this in independent India...

Sounds much worse than Palestine to me. Of course, not nearly enough to earn China eternal enmity as is the case with Israel.

Free speech is not respected in India. Right to free speech contained in Article 19 of the Constitution is subject to too many caveats and exceptions, which are basically to uphold the sentiments of the Judges, Netas and the Mob. Media is busy highlighting the rankings for media freedom...

Pakistani members are welcome to comment. Since the fate of Muslims from Burma to Bosnia is apparently their concern...