Resident Bollywood Nerd
Too much trolling...
Crossposted in, of all places, the football thread:
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu is the first Indian footballer since 1936 to play for a team in the top division in Europe, after starting for the first time for Stabæk in the Norwegian League top division. The 22-year-old performed reasonably well on his debut in a 4-1 win for his team.
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About damn time...![[awesome]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minis/award_star_gold_3.png "[awesome]"){kind=small}
Resident Bollywood Nerd
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation in his 'Mann Ki Baat' (rough translation - 'Straight from the Heart') programme along with US President Barack Obama on January 27.
The Supreme Court has ruled that two IPL teams, the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals, will no longer be allowed to participate in the Twenty20 tournament after finding cases of severe conflicts of interest, as well as cases of betting and match fixing. Former BCCI chief N. Srinivasan will now no longer be allowed to stand for the post of president of India's cricket board.
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HGW XX/7
Heavy symbolism of Obama's Indian visit.
Resident Bollywood Nerd
Cross posted in the RIP thread.
Cartoonist RK Laxman, creator of the iconic 'Common Man' character and commenting on India today for almost seventy years on the front page of the Times of India, has passed away today. He was 94.
Ever read his comics, Shinra?
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I probably have, I just never recalled the name. Got any examples?
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Collector Of Fine Oddities
A question for tropers more familiar with Indian history and politics than I: What are the current views/assessments of Krishna Menon? From reading US diplomatic accounts of the chap, to say that the USA didn't particularly care for him would be the understatement of the century. . .
As in VK Krishna Menon? He was a diplomat and close friend of Nehru. That alone would account for it, considering how irritated the West became with Nehru for his neutral policies during the Cold War.
Resident Bollywood Nerd
The Aam Aadmi (Commom Man) Party has, in the Delhi Assembly Elections, got 63 seats of a total of 70. The BJP, even after the involvement of Modi, got four. The Congress got zero.
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Nice rout. I hope Kejriwal has matured some since last time.
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That is more suited for to the South East Asia Politics Thread.
Collector Of Fine Oddities
Reposted there. Didn't notice that thread before.
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
Cross-posted and edited from the Asian Maritime Disputes thread as to suite this one's subject matter:
All of what Taira Mai mentioned [China's new ambitious military capabilities] being why it's absolutely critical for the United States to find and armed up militarily capable allies in Asia (besides Japan, whose history of empire makes diplomacy with former subjects extremely difficult) and indirectly bind them together into a de facto defense coalition of sorts.
And that may already be happening, as a New York Times article on a Sino-Indian border dispute may indicate. The article's short enough for me to post it entirely here:
On Friday, Mr. Modi visited Arunachal Pradesh, a state in eastern India that borders Tibet to the north, where he opened a new railroad line. A large portion of the Austria-size state is claimed by China, and the two sides fought a border war over the area in 1962.
China viewed Mr. Modi’s visit as an unnecessary provocation, lodging a diplomatic complaint on Friday. On Saturday, the Chinese deputy foreign minister, Liu Zhenmin, called in Ambassador Ashok Kantha, telling the ambassador that the visit “harmed China’s territorial integrity and rights” and “went against the consensus both sides had of properly handling the border issue,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The dispute has its origins a century ago, when British colonial administrators, negotiating with Tibetan officials, set the border between British India and a then-autonomous Tibet at the so-called Mc Mahon Line in the Himalayan mountains. China, which regained control of Tibet in 1950, claims its border lies well to the south of that line.
The diplomatic row over Mr. Modi’s visit comes a month after President Obama visited India. He and Mr. Modi found common ground in their unease at China’s increasing assertiveness in territorial issues that has come with its rise as an economic power.
Mr. Modi wanted to get relations off to a good start with China when he became prime minister last year. But he was infuriated that even as President Xi Jinping of China was visiting India last September, Chinese troops confronted Indian forces in another disputed border area on the other side of the Himalayan range.
Despite the territorial disputes, China has put great effort into developing its ties with India, whose economy offers a huge market for Chinese companies, from telecommunications equipment makers to builders of coal-fired power stations. Mr. Liu, in his remarks to Mr. Kantha, said China “hopes India cherishes the good momentum of the development of bilateral relations.”
Mr. Modi, leader of a right-of-center party that has long advocated a forceful defense of India’s territorial claims, is scheduled to visit Beijing in May. - Michael Forsycthe
India is an absolute monster militarily compared to its neighbors, even China for the matter - with manpower reserves rivaling the PLA's, an air force and navy equipped with modern Russian equipment, and let alone nuclear weapons for the matter, India is perhaps the only non-US Pacific power asides from Japan and Australia capable of effective power projection that can tackle down the Chinese military and its dreams.
HGW XX/7
A full-scale Sino-Indian War would be a horrific sight to see. It would make the German-Soviet War look like a football riot.
edited 24th Feb '15 6:25:03 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
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Mind you, India doesn't seem to want to become part of any alliance — especially in the military sphere, where they seem to want a supplier of good equipment that will support them, no strings attached, whatever they donote .
Keep Rolling On
Are we assuming just a really brutally conventional war or are nuclear weapons assumed to be in use in this scenario?
edited 24th Feb '15 6:31:14 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
HGW XX/7
Either would suck. Most likely won't happen, but then they said that in 1914.
Schild und Schwert der Partei
I shudder at the thought. Had a grandfather who fought the one in 1962. And though it was brief, it was intense. With the toys both sides have these days, I can't imagine how a conventional war would go this time, if it came to it.
Both sides give the other a lot of leeway on the border though for all that, thanks to economic ties but still...gotta be vigilant...
Things are getting worse in Bangladesh. Or will soon if not yet. An arrest warrant has been served to Khaleda Zia, leader of the opposition.
Radical Moderate
At times like this, I wonder if things would have been better if the army had kicked both the battling begums out of the country back in 2007. Truly one of the most annoying examples of competitive politics worldwide.
HGW XX/7
Begums gon' begum.
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Because Khaleda Zia can't be trusted to keep it peaceful....and because the begums hate each others guts enough that they will always troll the other.