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I think it would be unwise to move Piyush Goyal to another ministry now since the job is only half done and a lot needs to be done. I am not sure if any new minister in his place can keep up with the rate of progress in a ministry as crucial as Power.

LOL! According to Pakistan's own admission, the enemies of US and Afghanistan are not necessary the enemies of Pakistan. Instead, Pakistanis consider them strategic assets in the great game, biding their time for US withdrawal! I think you need to sit with your congressman to figure that aspect...

Yeah? The weapons that US did provide to the Pakistanis, were used against India in the past wars. What makes you so sure this time that F16's won't be used against India? Because the F16's that come with BVR capability can only be used against Talibani Airforce and not against IAF? Or that the...

V. good first steps although these are not irrigation canals but swale-like structures to stop run off in order to recharge ground water while preventing soil erosion. Needs to replicated throughout the drought prone areas! Here is another very nice article that elucidates in very simple...

Usually, I am critical of our own media, but there is not a lot of wrong that they did in this particular case. And the Chinese, for all their attitude of sticking to the principled stand of NPT being the absolute requirement for entry into NSG, violated the very same principle of...

Not just that mate. Kejriwal did a lot of damage to India's fight against corruption. Not only did he hijack the fight against corruption for his own political ambitions, he literally and figuratively embraced the really corrupt (Read Lalu) just to stop Modi's rise letting the corrupt go...

Welcome back mate!! Long long time!

Freakish! Is that even real?

This! :tup: So what if India doesn't get into NSG, let us at least make China stand alone as the opposition - and not let China hide behind the nonstarters like Pakistan's own NSG membership! Yup! China could easily cockblock India's entry into NSG but India, on her part, should make clear to...

That is a serious allegation against his integrity and one that I don't entirely buy. However, if indeed his integrity was ever in question, that doesn't answer how and why Modi pursued with him for more than 2 years. Rajan might have been working with Indian government since 2008 but I am not...

Nope, I think it was an outright mistake to get rid of him - not just the way they did it. Don't try to fix what is not broken! Can't help but feel that Mr. Rajan was hounded out by a loose-cannon Swamy. He, by his own admission, had a lot of work yet to do as a Central Banker - like cleaning...

I think the thread was about Bullet trains and we were discussing how full all the trains between Blr and Chennai were any time of the day or any day of the year.

That is a very 'telling' map! From this map, it is very easy to identify where exactly Karnataka lies! Almost ZERO miles of Electrified Railway lines for the entire state. What's even more frightening is that it doesn't feature even in 2020 "VISION" map. This is what I was talking about at the...

This is one gripe that I have with Mr.Modi. When he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he fought tooth and nail against the plan to relocate "just a few prides" of the over-populated lions from Gir to adjoining sanctuary in MP which was prepared just for this exact purpose. He even cock-blocked...

This! :tup: What people fail to realize that this is NOT a race for us to the top! Thankfully so, fortunately. As long as our collective prosperity continues to increase and our living standards improve across the society, I don't care if we will beat China or not. After all, there is NOTHING...

You do realize that the baldy in the video (no disrespect intended to the baldies world over, of course) you are referring to as "self-appointed-analyst", is Mr @RiazHaq himself, right?

Yep, I think they arrived a week later than they usually do. @Topic I think Modi missed a trick this year to urge the farmers (especially those severely affected by droughts) to prepare for the monsoons with small check dams and other earthen structures to stop and store Monsoon run off...

Mate, I read that article. But it is still on paper yet and I am not sure how much water consumption you can actually reduce for sugarcane -- which is essentially a very water-thirsty crop. It also doesn't answer the question - how long can we afford to divert our already-scarce lands to grow...

Shouldn't the dollars start flowing from Indian drains too? Not so, because DFC is NO CPEC perhaps?

That was a perfectly timed and very apt humor! Just another attempt to tell them that we both are not very different in the way our functioning (read chaotic) democracies work.