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As much as I want the perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre and their handlers in Rawalpindi to be brought to justice, I think India should be careful not to allow Pakistan using these low-lives as bargaining chips. Pakistanis have literally nothing to bring to the Negotiation table except for...

I am not convinced that sugarcane is the solution to any of our problems. In fact, in many of the regions of Vidarbha/Marathwada and some places in Karnataka where there was severe scarcity of water, overgrowing sugarcane was the main culprit. Growing sugarcane has political backing since many...

True. Recently I read about Earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA which is considered to be seismically stable in relative terms, directly attributed to "fracking" done there. Actually bio fuels are really overrated and cause many more problems than they solve. For one, they take away precious fertile...

No offense, but this is the kind of mentality that expects everything free of pain that keeps us all down. Isn't it the same mentality that prevented hiking Railways Fares perpetually for political mileage - ultimately pushing the state transporter to mediocrity in services and bankruptcy in...

If that was Musharraf's primary objective out of a Kargil adventure (which I doubt, it was), Nawaz was played for a sucker - big time. I always thought that Nawaz was in it all the time, waiting to take credit for the whole thing WHEN (NOT "if". There was never an "if" in their minds) "PA...

I have often seen Pakistanis making this absurd excuse, but pray tell me -- why did Pakistani Establishment even attempt a misadventure of this magnitude when it was "obviously" so much handicapped with sanctions, failing economy et al.? You guys make it sound as if the Kargil war was "imposed"...

It was "treachery" not just because of the violation of that unwritten "gentlemanly" agreement. It was a treachery of an even bigger order considering that the Pakistanis were essentially busy digging trenches in Kargil when Mr.Vajpayee was riding the bus to Lahore on a historic "picnic" day...

Yep! This line is always always FULL. Doesn't matter what season or day of the week or time of the day, the trains run. But I think that is the case for most of the trains running in Karnataka which has really been starved of Railway connectivity. If I am not wrong, until very recently - the...

Without getting into India's capabilities to choke a sea lane as narrow as that from so close to ANC, with or without alliances, did I say anything about India wanting to choke any other country? Or for that matter, did I even mention any "country" to be targeted specifically at all? But then...

Wouldn't that waterway also pass very close to India's territorial waters - just like the earlier route through Malacca Straits? https://www.quora.com/Does-India-have-any-off-shore-territories-Why-doesnt-India-have-a-right-over-the-Indian-Ocean With Choke points still well within India's reach...

There is a proposal (just a proposal so far, not even Land Acquisition has started yet) to connect Bangalore to Davangere directly through Chitradurga. As of now, the existing line from Bangalore bypasses Chitradurga and the DRDO range completely. Chitradurga is not connected to Bangalore...

Whoa! That was QUICK! Now connect Chitradurga, the district head quarters, directly with Bangalore with a Railway line!

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't that SCRAMJET all about? An air-breathing rocket engine? If I am not wrong, I think that is going to be tested in one of the several phases.

IMO, he is just the kind of guy to be at the RBI right now, with his conservative approach. I think it would be a bad move at this point in time when all major economies of the world are on the brink of recession and India's own growth affected to a large extent. Dr.Swamy should leave Rajan...

Agreed, but I think ABM also works in more intangible ways. That is - it puts the doubts in the minds of the aggressors! No matter how low the probability of interception is, Pakistani planners can never be sure if any one of their missile is going to successfully destroy its intended target or...

Point taken but in this country it seems probity matters only when the subject under question is Mr.Modi. I am only pissed at how normal it is for us to have 2 sets of standards - one for Modi and another for the 'rest of politicians'. I mean, I am yet to see any politician undergo as much...

Isn't it preposterous? That, despite all the available evidence so far suggesting otherwise, you talk about possibility of Modi lying on his affidavit and then you try to trivialize the alleged crime as a complete non-issue? If you are alleging that Modi could have lied on an affidavit, it is a...

Yup! In my view, one of the most disappointing ministries of the Modi Government, probably right after Ms. Uma Bharti's ministry! I really would have liked a technocrat such as Nilekani taking over a ministry as important as this. But I guess Modi has his own compulsions.

To be fair, the dude (Modi) himself has publicly admitted as much during an old interview with Rajeev Shukla 15-16 years ago when both Modi and Rajeev were political nobody's and had pretty much nothing to prove or to lose with or without the degree. He was actually humble enough to say that...

I actually wrote to Railway Minister of India a few months ago suggesting him to lease out the roof space of tens of thousands of Railway stations lying idly scattered across India to Rooftop Solar Power Generation companies! It would have meant additional revenues for Railways at no extra cost...