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Couldn't have put it better. The author is seeing beauty in garbage.

Dubai thing is easy enough to explain - India has around 6-7 times Pakistan's population. There would naturally be more Indians than Pakistanis'. Doubt its a case of favouritism.

How so @niaz ?

This is part of the LBA - in which Bangladesh gets an additional 10,000 acres of land overall. Our borders are now finally marked and settled. This is the execution of that Agreement happening now.

Why would we be surprised? India practically learnt the ropes from China who has been practicing for 1.5 decades longer than us. As mentioned above, its not an Indian embargo. Its not an embargo of an organization that India is part of - like UN. We have the geographical and market power to...

Because in this case, we suffer from the exact same problem as Pakistan. A drain on wealth because of no manufacturing in consumer electronics sector. This isn't India shining here. Its India failing here. Not even one phone is manufactured in India right now, its all assembled. And since...

India has been 'giving' not selling military equipment to Myanmar for some years now. We have given radars, surveillance aircraft(British Islander), military trucks(tata/tatra) among a whole host of other items. Its one of the reasons why India has been able to cultivate good relations with...

They are imported fully built from China and relabeled. Much like how almost all 'Indian' mobile companies import their products and relabel them as 'Indian'. Hair only assembles their products in Pakistan. As opposed to CBU(completely built unit), they import SKD and assemble them at a...

Ofcourse. My point however was quite simple - we have changed our approach and been working a certain way now for the last few years...and the results have been rather good for us.

Ofcourse. Why do you think that GoI supported Lanka in its final war against LTTE. Or why since the new Govt has come to power it has been clamping down on any pro-LTTE propaganda among numerous other things. That is not capiche. Sovereign nations also have a responsibility towards maintaining...

Some interventions are necessary, some are not. Even where India has to intervene, it has to be subtly. In any case, Sri Lanka supporting Pakistan? I assume you talk of 1971? That's just conjecture. In any case, talking about now, we did not interfere in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankans themselves...

Why high-speed rail is viable It has been reported that Japan has offered to finance the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail (HSR) corridor, estimated to cost about Rs 90,000 crore, at an interest rate of less than one per cent. Whenever any news item on HSR appears, questions revolving around...

That's just it. That's my point. Today we do things differently. Its one of the reasons why we have managed to reduce or remove Chinese influence from so many countries in our region. We have not interfered in Sri Lanka like we did before. We did not use the old tactics against Lanka after the...

Yes, but there are better means to achieve the same goal. The point here is that using military force or threat of military force has not yielded us the right results. It was a catastrophe. Its a lesson that GoI has learned well...and today other measures are used to get the same goal.

This I completely agree. It was a massive folly to force ourselves on Lanka. Fortunately, times have changed and GoI is now staffed by more competent and nuanced people. Now we use behind-the-doors wheeling dealing along with chequebook and coercive diplomacy instead of gunboat diplomacy of...

Incorrect. Nations that were tilting away from India have started coming back to India. Examples: 1. Bangladesh - under Zia BD was a mini-Pakistan, acting against India on every issue. Today they are firmly with us. 2. Myanmar - Was completely in China's camp with China supporting the Myanmar...

I see. My readings however have led me to understand that the genesis of this concept lies in the 60's with the Pakistan Army buying into it for the '65 war.

The answer is because you are wrong. Its only the Pakistanis who seem to be thinking that CPEC is some magical thing which defies laws of economics and transport. India gains nothing from connecting to CPEC. Because we export already quite a bit to China..and we have direct access to China's...

Its because the salary of everyone working in OFB is assured regardless of whether they work or not. And bad quality because of very low automation vis-a-vis other's ....thanks to unions. It is high time that Govt stops making OFB's expand their factories and instead give out open tenders for...

Piss on him.