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I understand. I also disagree. Rather than dragging you backwards through a hedge, I will leave it to you to decide if this warrants a rebuttal and resulting further discussion. We all know how their testimony was undercut, and quoting these as cases of lack of evidence only displays a...

This was abuse of power, and she should have been behind bars. She has got away due to two factors: one, the resounding vote in her favour, in the teeth of a vicious campaign by the BJP, two, the TINA factor, where nincompoops like Swapan DasGupta (a Trotskyite while he was in La Martiniere...

I regret to have to say that this was a premature conclusion to your suspicions of guilt. Those are frankly beyond suspicion, and on open and unbiased enquiry, become judicial fact. I can take you through the whole sorry mess. As for this, the evidence is increasingly clear that an ambitious...

That is a terribly wrong impression, and is perhaps based on the preponderance of news in what used to be neutral but very active media that is in favour of Modi and his government, and on your perception that all the hostility against him is confined to a steadily decreasing circle of...

There is then a great gulf between our positions. I have lived outside for a few years at a time, but always tethered to the country; it is the next generation that I fear will walk away, and I do not look forward to that. Within the country, at my age, I do have an extensive circle of...

You have imagined it. This one line is worth a negative rating.

We can wait, Modi and his gang of horrors notwithstanding. Can others? You are getting better and better! Huh. Ballistic, but never reaches escape velocity. This is an idiot putting together words in a sentence.

I am sure you didn't, and treated it as a betise by a young gentleman who was having a little fun at a doddering old man's expense, and perhaps chose his words with less discretion than desirable. Friends, I hope?

I can only point you to published research, knowing very well that your questions are rhetorical questions made in bad faith, with no intention of examining the premises to convince yourself either way. You don't want to know the answers, you only want to cloak yourself in outrage. Then look...

In effect you are saying that there will be something, but cannot say what that is. It is this kind of shallow attempt at reconciliation - shallow because based entirely on paying lip-service to a duty, and active and dogged resistance in daily life to that duty being executed - that makes it...

So this is the essential problem that the profession faces when attacked by Sanghis, or by those, such as yourself, that have accepted those Sanghi attacks as essentially true. There is nothing tangible that is put up. The accounts that we read, in print, in video form, or on the Internet...

So the argument, as of this post, stands like this. I have never, in the past 60+ years of study, at primary, secondary, tertiary and further levels, come across anything that was called nation-building or was intended to be nation-building that I was aware of. It is difficult for me to...

Hey, you did get a pass. What do you call this reaction to a gratuitous, undeserved insult => :enjoy: I don't feel insulted, btw, or offended in the least, but your post was insulting.

Somebody at the level of Bajwa would not - could not - have made an irresponsible comment. The Pakistan Army is tightly focussed on security of Pakistan, and I see all its utterly self-destructive interventions in the country's governance as over-optimistic and over-confident efforts to guard...

It was, but what's new? :enjoy:

My father met him in 1944, having got very late getting back to base, and finding this camp in the middle of nowhere. The next meeting was in 1971.

73. The picture was on 14th or 15th 24th or 25th December 1971, on the first floor landing of our apartment in Calcutta. For the id of those in the picture, please check your direct mail (assuming you allow conversations).

You need to explain that personally to the hundreds of thousands of Indian tourists who have spent hundreds of thousands on the services provided by ordinary Kashmiri men and women in the street. Their earnings are many times higher than in, shall we say? other parts of south Asia. Amazing.

This is beyond stupid. It is worth ridicule. Nothing more.

Yes, one of the damaged minds that are running around free now. If you look at yourself in the mirror, or do some introspection, you will learn a lot about why your country is where it is, and India is where she is.