India Provides US$ 12.5 Billion Loan to Sri Lanka

[letsbefriends]

i always say that a weak ally close to home ala a neighbor is equal than an a VERY STRONG ally far away... i think india just realised dat..we need good relations with all our neighbours..it will open good trade markets n less transportation costs..

 

[fallstuff]

You forgot all the military aid and equipment to Sri Lanka from India.

They were given on loan too.



Sri Lanka playing diplomacy with India?

Ever heard of Indian Oil Lanka?
...........................................................................................................................Ashok Leyland buses and TATA Sumo's. No one can provide cheaper subsidized public transport vehicles to the Lankans other than India.

Problem is with Indian diplomacy, which fails to show the neighbors like Lanka and Bangaldesh who is the boss.

May be foriegn ministry of India should take the lessons from BCCI who dictates and virtually owns Sri Lankan Cricket Board these days.


GB

The Maoists are probably not aware of " Who is the Boss", its time you unleash your furious toung to the Maoists, so they don't go around killing fellow "Bosses."

 

[garibnawaz]

The Maoists are probably not aware of " Who is the Boss", its time you unleash your furious toung to the Maoists, so they don't go around killing fellow "Bosses."

Off topic and reported.

Maoists are our own people and its an internal matter of India.

What are you some dinosaur from the cold war age ?
India is no Soviet Union and Srilanka is no Warsaw pact state to be bullied. So drop that condescending tone.

India is Russia and Sri Lanka is trying to be Georgia.

Only difference is while Georgia was backed by US Lankans are busy in bed with Pakistan and China.

The difference with India is instead of acting the way Russians acted against Georgians we are as usual being soft.

Now if that did not like business to you , i guess you don't know what your talking about.

Yeah yeah. You are the intellectual. Now Happy?

GB

 

[fallstuff]

Off topic and reported.

Maoists are our own people and its an internal matter of India.



India is Russia and Sri Lanka is trying to be Georgia.

Only difference is while Georgia was backed by US Lankans are busy in bed with Pakistan and China.

The difference with India is instead of acting the way Russians acted against Georgians we are as usual being soft.



Yeah yeah. You are the intellectual. Now Happy?

GB

Your PM has it right. Maoist are the #1 threat to India. He has his priorities straight. You seem like a student of Indira Gandi School of Dilplomacy. She lived by the sword and died by it.

Your India my friend is far away from like the Russians. Even Russia from 50 years ago. I understand you are a proud Indian, but frankly speaking "Delhi bahut door hai"

 

[garibnawaz]

Your PM has it right. Maoist are the #1 threat to India. He has his priorities straight.

Correction.

Maoists are number 1 internal threat of India which will be tackled by Home Ministry with internal forces.

Foes like Lanka and Bangladesh will be tackled by External Affairs Ministry and Defense ministry with the help of diplomacy and armed forces.

Continue with your off topic Maoists praises.

What you don't realise is that if they (Maoists) even come to Power they will be following the communists (or maoists for that matter) way of diplomacy which goes through a barrel of a gun.

So you should be rather happy that its UPA Government in India which functions democratically and have dropped their balls somewhere.

You seem like a student of Indira Gandi School of Dilplomacy. She lived by the sword and died by it.

# 1 I am not into Diplomacy. The only language the neighbors like BD and Lanka understand is that of a bullet.
# 2 Indira's assassination had nothing to do with her diplomatic skills but rather her dirty politics.

Your India my friend is far away from like the Russians. Even Russia from 50 years ago.

Precisely what I am saying. We are not like Russians but we should be like Russians.

but frankly speaking "Delhi bahut door hai"

Keep spreading this message to fellow Bangladeshi's and Pakistani's who are dreaming to reach there for decades.

GB

 

[garibnawaz]

If this news is true...then from my point of view ,there is no harm in making strong relationship with neighbours...Infact it will help India strategically . The more good relations , India will develop with neighbours, More it will sure for its own development..And Btw its a loan, so apart from Goodwill India will also gain something more of it..

The history I know, India always wanted and wants a good relationship with its neighbors.

But does the neighbors have the same feeling about India is the question.

Forget Pakistan for a moment.

Take an example of Bangladesh.

Mujib was assassinated. The BD members of this forum hate AL for having good ties with India and always advocate BNP (Khaleda Zia's Party) who is an anti India Party.

How much India has done for Bangladesh since 1971 for better relations?

How many times India has taken 2 steps back to improve relationship with BD?

What all we get in return is nothing but hostility.
-2001 incident for example
-Helping and harboring Indian Militant groups like ULFA.
-Nexus with ISI for anti India activities

and list goes on and on

Same applies to Lanka with Mahinda Rajapaksa (Spelling).

He thinks himself of an Iron Man who can conquer India by alligning with China and Pakistan.

Lanka must be taken care before we have another Bangladesh like foe in our neighborhood.

GB

 

[psychedelic_renegade]

@garibnawaz : No offence but you seem to be paranoid with your ideas, expect as much respect from your neighbours as you give them. Your theory of showing might where it's unnecessary will only gain enemies for India, like we already don't have enough! Also you seem to be not updated with the recent development on Indo-Bangla and Indo-Sri relations. With Sheikh Hasina getting 3/4th of the seats and top ULFA bigwig's arrest the relation with BanglaDesh seem to be going on right direction. Sri Lanka just recovered decade long civil war and I fully support India giving aid to Lanka(which must be lot less of mentioned amount here!). It only will help to mend the relation. Show might only where it's necessary, otherwise India might as well be encircled by enemies at every directions. Remember Lanka and Bangladesh might not have strong army but some countries would be more than happy to provide them, given the chance!

 

[psychedelic_renegade]

BTW it was my first post here, hi all!

 

[fallstuff]

Correction.

Maoists are number 1 internal threat of India which will be tackled by Home Ministry with internal forces.

Foes like Lanka and Bangladesh will be tackled by External Affairs Ministry and Defense ministry with the help of diplomacy and armed forces.

Continue with your off topic Maoists praises.

What you don't realise is that if they (Maoists) even come to Power they will be following the communists (or maoists for that matter) way of diplomacy which goes through a barrel of a gun.

So you should be rather happy that its NDA Government in India which functions democratically and have dropped their balls somewhere.


# 1 I am not into Diplomacy. The only language the neighbors like BD and Lanka understand is that of a bullet.
# 2 Indira's assassination had nothing to do with her diplomatic skills but rather her dirty politics.


Precisely what I am saying. We are not like Russians but we should be like Russians.



Keep spreading this message to fellow Bangladeshi's and Pakistani's who are dreaming to reach there for decades.

GB

Hmmm lets see, Sri Lanka was way ahead of the pack ( it still has the highest per capita) . Had no quarrel with any one on the block. Then Indira unleashed the pet snake LTTE on Sri lanka. It devastated that country. Her son was trying to right the wrong, but the serpent by then had grown and would have none of it. The venom spilled over from Sri Lanka and got to her son.

If the Sri Lankans feelings were hurt , I think they got a decent reason.

Sheikh Mujib realized even belatedly the game Indira was playing. He also realized India was not in much of a position to help out BD. He reached out to Middle East.

Indira chose to slaughter Sikhs in the Temple on the most holiest day. A reminition of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. It was a cold blooded slaughter to terrorize the Sikh community. She got what she deserved.

Shouldn't you be busy fighting the likes of Maoists and ULFA ? Those dead 75 militia could use a little help from such a brave individual like you.

Nope, I do not want to be like "your" India, whatever that is, "Ever". Do not want a country where separatists and extremist crawling all over where the sun doesn't shine !!

Sincerely

 

[genetic_nomad]

@garibnawaz : No offence but you seem to be paranoid with your ideas, expect as much respect from your neighbours as you give them. Your theory of showing might where it's unnecessary will only gain enemies for India, like we already don't have enough! Also you seem to be not updated with the recent development on Indo-Bangla and Indo-Sri relations. With Sheikh Hasina getting 3/4th of the seats and top ULFA bigwig's arrest the relation with BanglaDesh seem to be going on right direction. Sri Lanka just recovered decade long civil war and I fully support India giving aid to Lanka(which must be lot less of mentioned amount here!). It only will help to mend the relation. Show might only where it's necessary, otherwise India might as well be encircled by enemies at every directions. Remember Lanka and Bangladesh might not have strong army but some countries would be more than happy to provide them, given the chance!

@renegade: good to read some sensible posts, keep it up. @garibnawaz stop being a laughing stock for all of us here.

 

[psychedelic_renegade]

@fallstuff : While I don't agree with garibnawaz, but that doesn't help me not to find your post offensive. I won't retort your view on Sri Lanka and LTTE as you're not Sri Lankan and don't know sh!t about their civil war and LTTE, let me post rebuttal of rest of your ranting.

Sheikh Mujib realized even belatedly the game Indira was playing. He also realized India was not in much of a position to help out BD. He reached out to Middle East.

Oh really what game was India playing? Helping Bangladesh to liberalize? Providing shelter to millions of Bangladeshis regardless of their religion in West Bengal or putting a stop to Operation Searchlight! And really what's with your fetish for middle-east, I'm a Bengali myself and fail to understand how middle-east can be influential to BD which is culturally, linguistically and in every other aspect completely in a different league from Arab countries!

Shouldn't you be busy fighting the likes of Maoists and ULFA ? Those dead 75 militia could use a little help from such a brave individual like you.

We are fighting and we will fight it out like we have done till now.

Nope, I do not want to be like "your" India, whatever that is, "Ever". Do not want a country where separatists and extremist crawling all over where the sun doesn't shine !!

Who's asking you to be like us! Try to be yourself and try to show respect where it's due. As for myself, I would rather be in India for another thousand years but other South Asian nations where military coup becomes habitual!

 

[arya]

$12.5 billion is massive nearly the size of most countires Forex reserves

 

[imran iqbal]

@garibnawaz : No offence but you seem to be paranoid with your ideas, expect as much respect from your neighbours as you give them. Your theory of showing might where it's unnecessary will only gain enemies for India, like we already don't have enough! Also you seem to be not updated with the recent development on Indo-Bangla and Indo-Sri relations. With Sheikh Hasina getting 3/4th of the seats and top ULFA bigwig's arrest the relation with BanglaDesh seem to be going on right direction. Sri Lanka just recovered decade long civil war and I fully support India giving aid to Lanka(which must be lot less of mentioned amount here!). It only will help to mend the relation. Show might only where it's necessary, otherwise India might as well be encircled by enemies at every directions. Remember Lanka and Bangladesh might not have strong army but some countries would be more than happy to provide them, given the chance!

You are Wrong. What India is surrounded by are bunch of Failed states. India has 80% of south Asian economy covered, it is a gaint, a mammoth, a phenom, a next superpower.

In my view, diplomating relationship with that barefooted, malnourished bananadesh should be terminated. If you want to find out the reason why, visit Bananadesh defence section for once. They are even 10 steps ahead of Ziad Hamid in conspiracy theories.

On the contrary, i hope that Pakistan and Bananadesh should become one country again. Their population density is reaching at 1100 people/Km^2 due to uncontrolled humping. If Pakistan is to be combined with Bananadesh, the whole sh1t would blow by itself as Pakistan consider them to be of superior race and bananadeshis as black inferior muslims.

Relations with Nepal and Sri-Lanka needs to be improved provided Sri-Lanka dismiss chinese and Nepal discards maoist ideology.

India seriously needs to grow some balls, don't need to fight but just let them drag into cold war arm race until they go bankrupt.

Remember, We control the natural resources, Ocean and economy of our neighbourhood. A little arm twisting and tweaking is necessary so that no one takes us for granted.

 

[imran iqbal]

Nope, I do not want to be like "your" India, whatever that is, "Ever". Do not want a country where separatists and extremist crawling all over where the sun doesn't shine !!

Sincerely

I would have given you such befitting reply that your limbering bananadesh would be flushed down the gutter. But i figured, it will cost me a ban so..... nah... you and your bananadesh aint worth it!!

 

[jbond197]

Saam Daam Dand Bhed - Chanakya neeti.
We need to use one of these as per the times we are in and the way we want to achieve our results. Please note Saam and Daam comes well before Dand, Bhed. I am happy the way India is helping Srilanka as we need quiet and friendly neibhour down south so we don't need to worry too much about Dragon sitting in the sea eyeing our resources.