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Biggest takeaway of Modi's US visit: India has finally risen above its region

Agree. India has some major problems but it can't stop us from dreaming big. The loftier you dream, the higher you get.
Open defecation problem is not due to inability of people to build toilets. It is more of a cultural thing where people considered it bad to poop inside house.

Still, there is a big change in people's attitude towards sanitary hygeine. UNICEF admitted that there has been a 31% decrease in open defecation in India.
India reduces open defecation by 31 per cent: UN report | The Indian Express

You can tell about Tikka Khan to any Bangladeshi. Do you think you know more than actual bangladeshis who suffered it first hand?

Ayub Khan/Bhutto were jointly responsible for the war of 1965 which cost lives of so many people. I do not need to teach you about Operation Gibraltar and Grand Slam one more time.

Jinnah and his zidd to make a seperate homeland were partially responsible for haphazard partition of subcontinent and subsequent butchering of millions on both sides of border.

Modi as an administrator was wrong in not playing active role in curbing communal violence in Gujarat. Do not show that it was only muslims who were killed there. The communal violence started when muslims burnt a whole bogey of train with all its 80 hindu passengers. They stood on both sides of bogey and burnt it with kerosene and petrol. Anybody who tried to get out was stoned. 80 people were brutually murdered by them.

You think a country with 80% Hindus would bear such an act of terrorism by muslim mobs? Communal violence started all over Godhra and many Muslims and Hindus got killed. Police was not taking any prompt action because everyone was shocked over the brutal killing of hindus in train.

Fact is... though India is a democracy which gives equal freedom to all religions, but it certainly does not gives certain Muslims the right to terrorize the whole nation with their barbarism.

Start celebrating when you get there. A country where majority defecate in the open, where human fetuses are thrown on garbage piles to be eaten by feral pigs and hundreds of bodies float down your rivers is a country which cannot take care of it unborn or its dead. These things don't even happen in sub-Sahara Africa and you want to be on the International high table?The only thing silicon valley wants from you is cheap labor. If you can spare a few thousand out of your billion, it doesn't say much.


Bullshit and Indian propaganda. Tikka Khan responded to Mukhti Bhani (encouraged by India in the first place) and the retaliation was no where close to indian propaganda. Which massacre by Ayub Khan in 65. Zia was representing a legitimate government and people die in wars. Your comments on Jinnah have not historical basis. Modi is on record for being responsible death of 3,000 Muslims in Gujarat. He directly encouraged his party and that is why all Hindus love him. You want him to do the same in rest of country.
 
Who is responsible for 60,000 deaths in your country since 2007 ?? Your Ex COAS or Ex PM or incumbent PM ??

Ain't they all terrorist by your definition since they couldn't prevent those 60,000 deaths ?RIP pakistani logic :lol:

Are you drunk or what. We have an insurgency which started in 2006 after our troops moved into FATA and Indians used its proxies in Afghanistan to support the insurgents. So all of you Indians are responsible for the deaths.
 
You think like bunyias, you don't have a historical perspective. IOC is nothing. I hope you live long enough to see what I am saying. Your problem is not Pakistan, but the Muslims in your own country. They will go to the extreme because of the likes of Modi and his polices.
:lol: Stop worrying about muslims of my country, they feel far safer than had they been in pakistan. That's why you don't see any Indian muslim queing up for pakistani citizenship. :cheesy: And don't even worry about them being problem for us. Gujrat like massacre is very strong reminder for them. :lol: And we know exactly how to rein them in. :lol:

Do you really take Ghani seriously? His power doesn't even go beyond his Palace. He will leave with last coalition plane leaving Kabul or even before. All lackeys.
Billi ke khawb mein chichrey. :rofl:


But again they were only your media's perspective.

But anyway.

That's why I said you are Toad in the well.

Don't take our English Media too seriously.

Sorry !! But I will prefer not to take anonymous toad of the well with any seriousness.

Are you drunk or what. We have an insurgency which started in 2006 after our troops moved into FATA and Indians used its proxies in Afghanistan to support the insurgents. So all of you Indians are responsible for the deaths.

Similary, we had a riot in Gujrat. Apply same logic everywhere or just don't apply.
 
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The Biggest lesson is that India remains in self congratulatory and self-deception state of mind and nobody gives a shit about Modi. Modi rather get his picture with Zuckerberg and cry in front on the Goras (white men) to get their sympathies than worry about the farmers committing suicide in India.

Pessimistic people see the negativity everywhere, where as hard working men just do the work and move and in the process achieve the sky.
 
:lol: Stop worrying about muslims of my country, they feel far safer than had they been in pakistan. That's why you don't see any Indian muslim queing up for pakistani citizenship. :cheesy: And don't even worry about them being problem for us. Gujrat like massacre is very strong reminder for them. :lol: And we know exactly how to rein them in. :lol:.



Similary, we had a riot in Gujrat. Apply same logic everywhere or just don't apply.

India will be better off if Indian Muslims were applying for Pakistani visas. They had their chance in 47 and into the sixties. We don't want them. We have taken our share. Your issue will be ISIL type militancy. It will take a few years but it will happen thanks to RSS, Modi, BJP and other like them. You just don't understand how the Hindu Extremist humiliate Muslims day in and day out. A few Muslims will accept their domination and will find ways to appease them, others will rebel. It is just a matter of time. Early signs are already obvious. In fact, these type might even pose a threat to Pakistan similar to TTP and AL-Qaeda. As I said you guys think like bunyias. You make good coders but cannot think in the abstract. Its is a flaw in the Hindu psyche.

Riots in Gujrat were facilated and encouraged by Modi.
 
One thing is for sure. This trip saw direct notes on Asia Pacific and Japan and India US cooperation emerging more than 1nce. It was spontaneous that's the point we should note.

It's our way of answering both Russia and China.

To China. Our answer is very clear. It's a warning of severe consequences of any aggressive move in SCS countries especially Vietnam and Japan who are our ally.

To Russia. We have proved that US India cooperation are for containing China and India's stand with Russia other than Chinese issues. This should had been conveyed to our brothers in Moscow and now we have breached our line of soft diplomacy to strong and proactive statements. Which could be seen as a threat by Chinese in anyways.
 
The rockstar reception Prime Minister Narendra Modi received in San Jose, California, on Sunday evening may have stolen the headlines. But after six action-packed days in the United States, culminating in a bilateral with President Barack Obama in New York on Monday, the real takeaway from Modi's US visit is this: India has finally risen above its region.

The contours of the Modi government's strategy are now sharply etched. They rest on two key pillars: the economy and geopolitics.

The first clear priority is to focus singlemindedly on the economy. That includes attracting foreign and domestic investment in infrastructure, manufacturing, digital technology, education and healthcare. Former US President Bill Clinton, during his 1992 presidential campaign, immortalised the phrase: "It's the economy, stupid." Prime Minister Modi needs to place that principle at the heart of his government's geoeconomic policy.

The world respects hard power: economic, military and diplomatic. Soft power - culture, diaspora, innovation - is a necessary but not sufficient condition for converting the emerging US-China bipolar world order into a tripolar world order with India as the third angle of this triangle of power.

The PM's attention must now be unflinchingly on economic reforms. His meeting with 47 CEOs in New York and an elite group of technology entrepreneurs in California threw up one overwhelming message for the Indian economy: right direction, wrong speed. Unless the pace of economic reforms picks up, India's seven percent annual GDP growth rate will not be enough to raise 300 million people out of debilitating poverty quickly enough.

The key reforms?

Tax policy must be clear and consistent. Bureaucratic red tape must be cut. Project implementation must be speeded up. The ease of doing business must rapidly improve. Everyone recognises India is the world's second largest market. The only thing holding back a flood of foreign direct investment (FDI) is decrepit public infrastructure, a colonial-era bureaucracy, rampant corruption and opaque governance.

Modi fought the Lok Sabha election on the promise of rectifying precisely these problems. But they have proved harder to tackle than he imagined. The governance ecosystem he inherited from the Congress is broken. The prime minister has erred in not being more ruthless with the detritus of this old, fixer-and-crony driven system. Some in the BJP, especially the Delhi unit, are a silent part of this system.

The prime minister must fix the talent gap in the government by co-opting technocrats from the private sector. If a KV Kamath can be appointed chairman of BRICS Bank in Shanghai, there is no reason why top talent from the corporate and academic world can't be attracted to positions in government. The recent decision to hire chairmen of select PSU banks from the private sector is a move in the right direction. The PM knows that the Aadhar scheme, which is central to his financial inclusion strategy, was created by the UPA government's one sensible private sector appointee with cabinet rank: Nandan Nilekani. The Modi government needs several Nilekanis in key positions - and there is no shortage of such individuals.

Let's look at some hard numbers. At an annual growth rate of seven per cent, India's nominal GDP will double to $5 trillion (Rs. 33 lakh crore) in ten years. By then China's GDP, assuming an average annual growth rate of six per cent, would have risen from $11 trillion to $19 trillion. America's GDP in ten years, at an average annual growth rate of three per cent, would have increased from $18 trillion to $25 trillion.

The picture changes dramatically, however, if through strong economic reforms India ups its annual GDP growth rate from seven to nine per cent. Within ten years, India's GDP would then rise from $2.50 trillion to $6 trillion, edging out a deflationary Japan to become the world's third largest economy after the US and China. If purchasing power parity (PPP) numbers - which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) routinely use - are taken, India's GDP in 2025 at an annual growth rate of nine per cent would be even higher - roughly $14 trillion to China's $34 trillion and America's $25 trillion.

The arc of containment

It is argued, both in government and outside it, that India must maintain good relations with Pakistan to ensure that our economic progress is not derailed by a country obsessed with parity with India. That parity of course is a myth: India's economy is currently nine times larger than Pakistan's. At current respective growth rates, within ten years it will be nearly twenty times as large.

How then should India control Pakistan's juvenile behavior across the border? The key is to neutralise Islamabad's geopolitical support structure. Pakistan's principal benefactors are China, the US, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The PM has shrewdly begun the neutralisation process with the UAE. A visit to Saudi Arabia is next in line. The rapidly developing India-US partnership will further cut American support to Pakistan.

That leaves China. Here India must build on its relationships with Vietnam and Japan, both victims of Chinese bullying. In 1979, Vietnam fought and won a short, sharp conflict with China. It remains an implacable opponent of Chinese expansion in the region. Japan has a long history of conflict with China. Beijing still smarts over Japanese occupation of parts of its territory during the Second World War. The dispute over islands in the East China Sea continues to poison relations between the two Asian economic powerhouses.

India must therefore build an "arc of containment" from Vietnam and Japan in the east to the US in the west. A self-absorbed country like China respects strength and strategic insight in its opponents. India through the decades has shown neither. Now it can and must display both.

Vice-president Joe Biden underlined the importance Washington attaches to New Delhi when he said that the US wants to be India's "best friend". For the US, China is the principal economic and geostrategic threat. India represents the only credible counterweight to China. For India too, the US represents an important component in its arc of containment directed at China.

By containing China with geopolitical locks, its support to Pakistan will be capped. Simultaneously, the strategy with Saudi Arabia and the UAE will remove some of the back-end support Pakistan currently receives. Afghanistan meanwhile is turning increasingly hostile towards Pakistan. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani began his tenure over a year ago as a Pakistani ally. He was far more sympathetic to Pakistan than his predecessor President Hamid Karzai. But in recent months a spate of terror attacks by Pakistan-based Taliban factions have turned him against Islamabad.

Pakistan in turn blames the Afghanistan government for not doing enough to curtail terrorists targeting Pakistan and operating from Afghan territory. The attack on a Pakistan military air base on September 18 killed 29 people. Within hours of the attack Islamabad said phone intercepts showed Taliban gunmen involved in the raid were being directed by handlers in Afghanistan. The Afghan people in survey after survey have blamed Pakistan for the insurgency in their country - and simultanelously praised India's role in building schools, hospitals and roads across Afghanistan.

In a recent oped in the Hindustan Times, Sameer Lalwani argued that the costs of "confronting" Pakistan would be very high. This is disingenous and simply wrong. It echoes the shrewd Pakistani strategy of threatening "economic derailment" to deter India from retaliating to its "hit-and-run" terror. It is a fradulent argument that needs to be buried.

These then are India's geostrategic cards: Vietnam, Japan and the US to pin China down; Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Afghanistan to reduce Pakistan's elbow room in the region; Iran, Israel and the littoral states of the Indian Ocean to strengthen India's hands. The Modi government inherited a scorched-earth economy and directionless diplomacy. The challenge is to fix the economy with robust reforms and reshape its geopolitical strategy by creating an arc of containment looping from Vietnam to the US.

Many in this government, including disappointingly home minister Rajnath Singh, repeat the old cliché that you cannot change your neighbours - suggesting India must somehow learn to live with Pakistan-promoted terrorism. It's true you can't change your neighbours. But by applying to them the right geopolitical medicine, you can change their behaviour.

Biggest takeaway of Modi's US visit: India has finally risen above its region

And while India will continue to do so, Pakistan and all the other countries specially China will remain idle and do nothing? What can i say about the state of delusion Indians tend to live in.
 
And while India will continue to do so, Pakistan and all the other countries specially China will remain idle and do nothing? What can i say about the state of delusion Indians tend to live in.
Don't know about China but seems like Paksitan is mostly just sitting idle or "raising the Kashmir issue on all forum".
 
India will be better off if Indian Muslims were applying for Pakistani visas. They had their chance in 47 and into the sixties. We don't want them.
No chummah for your Ummah brothers ?? :lol: But still you don't stop to shed your crocodile tears for Gujarat riots. What a doglapan. :cheesy:

Your issue will be ISIL type militancy. It will take a few years but it will happen thanks to RSS, Modi, BJP and other like them. You just don't understand how the Hindu Extremist humiliate Muslims day in and day out.
And then you woke up and found your pants are wett. :rofl: :rofl:
Riots in Gujrat were facilated and encouraged by Modi.

:lol: And today pigs were flying.And sorry we don't have Sharia courts either in Delhi or Gujarat.
 
One thing is for sure. This trip saw direct notes on Asia Pacific and Japan and India US cooperation emerging more than 1nce. It was spontaneous that's the point we should note.

It's our way of answering both Russia and China.

To China. Our answer is very clear. It's a warning of severe consequences of any aggressive move in SCS countries especially Vietnam and Japan who are our ally.

To Russia. We have proved that US India cooperation are for containing China and India's stand with Russia other than Chinese issues. This should had been conveyed to our brothers in Moscow and now we have breached our line of soft diplomacy to strong and proactive statements. Which could be seen as a threat by Chinese in anyways.

Even US don't dare to threat Russia and China and here is 3rd world country who is highly dependent on foreign countries for weapons threat Russia and China BIG LOL@ how Indians living in bollywood dreams :lol:
 
No chummah for your Ummah brothers ?? :lol: But still you don't stop to shed your crocodile tears for Gujarat riots. What a doglapan. :cheesy:

And then you woke up and found your pants are wett. :rofl: :rofl:


:lol: And today pigs were flying.And sorry we don't have Sharia courts either in Delhi or Gujarat.

You are not making any sense. Please don't embarrass yourself.
 
And while India will continue to do so, Pakistan and all the other countries specially China will remain idle and do nothing? What can i say about the state of delusion Indians tend to live in.

Trump is comming in US , you can expect only worse days ahead for Pakistan. :lol:

Well don't know about China but Pakistan always has nukes to nuke India . :rofl:
 
Don't know about China but seems like Paksitan is mostly just sitting idle or "raising the Kashmir issue on all forum".

It seems to be working.

Trump is comming in US , you can expect only worse days ahead for Pakistan. :lol:

Well don't know about China but Pakistan always has nukes to nuke India . :rofl:

If Trumps come to the US, I will worry more about the US and its new friend India than Pakistan. BTW why does India, which is six times size of Pakistan, needs US's help against Pakistan. Are you so afraid of Pakistan?
 

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