I don't agree with US arms sales to Pakistan (the Airlift of Evil and covert support for the Taliban has shown them to be more trouble than they're worth), but New Delhi really shouldn't be panicking over a small F-16 sale. The US has a lot to offer to India as a partner, and both sides see to...
Something which has been done with great success in many places of the world.
India is VERY lucky when it comes to solar. Germany is the world's largest producer of solar electricity, but only because it has by far the most capacity (China will probably exceed it within a year).
India has HUGE...
Sanskrit is far too gramatically complex to expect it to be learned as a national language in India. It's like making the EU's official language Latin.
Pretty sure. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. Going 30 knots an hour would mean doing 30 nautical miles an hour an hour, which is obviously wrong.
1. Now that I think of it, Singapore is another example of a competent semi-dictatorship, but in the main dictatorship pretty much invariably results in corruption, bad government and oppression, as those in power are not held acccountable by the populace.
2. Still better than sham "elections"...
I don't think I've heard of a single dictatorship that hasn't resorted to censorship, intimidation or repression. It's what's necessary to maintain a monopoly on power.
We have the liberty to choose our leaders, to speak freely through any medium without fear of inprisonment or execution...
If France and Germany went from bitter foes to close allies in 10 years I see no reason India and Pakistan can't do the same.
If nothing else, start with cultural matters. I'm sure both sides would agree that promoting their shared history would be beneficial.
Nuclear certainly has problems, but it's far better than the Indian alternative, coal, which has killed and continues to kill far more than nuclear plants ever have, and emits more radiation to boot (did you know coal has trace amounts of uranium? When you're burning millions of tons it adds...
...With an army that made a sport out of cruelly murdering Indian, Chinese and Singaporean civillians and prisoners of war.
If you believe any "Free India" would be any more like a Japanese exploitation colony in all but name like the rest of the "free countries" in the Co-Prosperity Sphere...