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    Winds of political change in West Bengal 

    by
    kallol
    Published on 21-07-2010 08:10 PM

    This is an article I had written sometimes back. I am neither in favour of Left or in favour of Right or Centre. I am for Bengal and development. I am for a modern Bengal. Who ever can work towards that, I am for them.

    WINDS OF CHANGE

    Will a wind do ? I doubt. We need more than Aila. The deep roots of the tentacles of the Left Front machineries have gone into all the cells of Sonar Bangla. Name the areas - schools, colleges, police, government services, industries, so on and so forth and these are apart from the political machinery. Try to get into any one of these - most probably you will have to be a party cadre or pay heftily to the party or join the party.
    What it has done ? The governance, teaching, productivity, attitude, business - all of these have taken the toll. The monolith it has created does not see any fault in itself just like in China or communist Russia. Their survival is based on conspiracy theory and creating an artificial divide ...
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    shouldn't we modernize our overall defence system in much fatsre way? 

    by
    jumba_4u
    Published on 28-07-2010 03:57 PM

    whatever situation we r in, whatever period is it, we can't efford to loose a war against any enemy. of course we r not war monger, but we have 2 very much jealous neighbours, n obviously powerful they r. we don't need 2 wait for the moment when some1'll declare war against us, this is our motherland n we all love it. i love this land as much i love my mother. @ ant cost we must defend our country, our people. this is the last piece of land where still humanity exists n most blessed land. what i suppose, we need an ICBM dat can carry atleast 1.5 tonnes of nuclear warhead, also a nuclear capable cruise missile that ranges upto 4000 kms with a faster speed than bhramos cruise. we should b prepared for any situation n we need to be self sufficient in defence system. we always beg others for technology transfer n sell us weapons, why cant we invest that much amount in research n development of our own weaponery systems, that 'll meet our requirments better? why don't we establish new research n development centres in other parts of india? we have best brains no dowbt. we have few good international frnds as well, why don't we b prudent n see our future needs? why doesn't our army 've most sophesticated rifles in hand, why doesn't IAF 've atleats ...
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    Seven blunders that will haunt India for posterity 

    by
    JBH22
    Published on 29-07-2010 09:49 PM

    History is most unforgiving. As historical mistakes cannot be undone, they have complex cascading effect on a nation’s future. Here is a saga of seven historical blunders that have changed the course of independent India’s history and cast a dark shadow over its future. These costly mistakes will continue to haunt India for generations. They have been recounted here in a chronological order with a view to highlight inadequacies of India’s decision making apparatus and leadership’s incompetence to act with vision.
    1. The Kashmir Mess
    There can be no better example of shooting in one’s own foot than India’s clumsy handling of the Kashmir issue. It is a saga of naivety, blinkered vision and inept leadership. Hari Singh was the reigning monarch of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. He was vacillating when tribal marauders invaded Kashmir in October 1947, duly backed by the Pakistan army. Unable to counter them, Hari Singh appealed to India for assistance and agreed to accede to India. Indian forces blunted ...
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    Obsolete and ineffective equipment in the army 

    by
    ashis
    Published on 16-07-2010 02:07 PM

    Throughout my ~ 12 yrs as an army doc, the one thing that always made me sad was the obsolete and ineffective equipment with our infantry and other arms.
    the infantryman does not have a lightweight, durable, reliable body armor and helmet even in this day and age! Bulletproof patka? Bullshit! And the less said about the bulletproof jacket the better. I'm sure we have enough money to buy these things, they are even made and exported from india!!!
    Our jawans the bravehearts they are, are putting their life on the line everyday in counter insurgency ops just because our dhoti-topi wallahs and babus ...
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    'Rape in war is deliberate military strategy' 

    by
    samarsingh
    Published on 27-06-2010 11:07 AM

    unfortunately this has been going for centuries...mongols under Genghis Khan gained quite a reputation(or should I say disrepute)...but then again it could be a propoganda by western intellectuals to term the eastern mongols as "savage barbarians"......but in more recent times it was widespreas during second world war....also noteworthy that up untill second world war there were actually not many prosecutions...
    it is also important to note that false or exagerrated stories can me made up to justify military excesses....eg: during 1857 ( first war of independence) war rape was used as propoganda by british colonialists to justify colonialism "white man's burden" ...
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    Fulcrum - 1 | Chinese Copies - 0 

    by
    fulcrum
    Published on 30-06-2010 09:02 PM
    Categories:
    1. Indian Navy
    2. Tactical warfare
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    original article by dfi member fulcrum

    On 23rd December a significant event took place which sadly went under reported. When inane drivel was making to the news, the event which established the superiority of a fighter over another went largely unnoticed. It was on that very day the Myanmar Air force(Tatmadaw Lei) chose the Mig-29M/M2 Fulcrum over the much hyped China's J-10, and it's smaller cousin which was rejected by China itself- the JF-17.This competition was like no other.
    On one hand the fulcrum was facing setbacks everywhere. First it was in Malaysia where due to endemic corruption and the interference of Middle men, the spares for the Mig-29s were ridiculously over priced by the time it reached the end user. This prompted Malaysia to retire it's Mig-29s prematurely ...
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    Is Pakistan's JF-17 a Thunder or Blunder ? 

    by
    fulcrum
    Published on 30-06-2010 05:06 PM
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    Original article by Fulcrum

    Is Pakistan's JF-17 a Thunder or Blunder ?


    Pakistan has witnessed new defense acquisitions in this decade than any other, and ...
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    Foreigners doing business in China feel boxed out 

    by
    thakur_ritesh
    Published on 02-07-2010 11:52 AM

    it was never wrong to look inwards, be a protectionist and project your own people, we in india have done it for long and still do it, and seriously had it not been for the constant backing from our government our private sector would not have been where it is today, its just that chinese have learnt the lesson of believing in their own people a little too late in the day something they are trying to correct now.
    these overseas MNCs will complain each time they see their interests slightly being harmed but none of the sort happens when they dole out millions if not billions in form of profits from the same market and if they have so much of a ...
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    Solution of Afganistan quagmire!!! 

    by
    Jeypore
    Published on 27-06-2010 11:03 AM
    Categories:
    1. International relations

    Let me begin with a theory, as this war prolonges and Generals are fired to a such complex problems of solving future terrorist attacks, as well as diluting current terrorist issue in the country of Afganistan. It is an enormous proposition for NATO forces as well as for India's Future..
    So Here is my Radical Plan, The School system is being built by the NATO forces as well as by Indians, if I am not mistaken. Why not teach the next generation of other religous benefits.
    Since, Afganistan made a law from 1970's and onward of not accepting any new relgion in there country, this would certainly bring changes...And the change would change the whole ...
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