India

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Saturday, September 5, 2026 19:01
VIEWED: 12535
PAGE 1 of 24

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NEXT PAGE

SIGNYM

Sunday, June 12, 2016 10:18 PM

Quote:
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi paid his second visit to the White House in two years on June 8. President Barak Obama was greatly pleased by Modi’s stated willingness to proceed with ratification of the Paris agreement to limit greenhouse gases, and this was the theme duly emphasized in the Western media coverage of their meeting.

To Modi, however, global warming was a peripheral issue. He is a foreign-policy realist who looks upon Obama’s climate-change obsession with quiet bemusement, while pretending to share his concern in order to obtain concessions on other issues. He is far more interested in the long-term geopolitical challenges facing India from the Islamic world to her west and from the Chinese colossus to her north.

Pakistan is perceived—quite rightly—as a threat and a source of chronic regional instability, and its deep state (as embodied in the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI) as irredeemably jihad-friendly.

China’s explosive economic growth over the past quarter-century, followed less spectacularly by India’s since the mid-1990’s, has not prompted the two Asian giants to resolve their border disputes and other feuds of long standing.

In order to meet various actual or potential threats, Modi wants to further develop and assert India’s status as a regional power; but to that end he needs closer relations with Washington on a number of fronts. His strategy vis-à-vis the United States is threefold. First of all, Modi wants to turn India into a major global manufacturing workshop—that is the theme of his Make in India campaign—and he sees the involvement of U.S.-based corporations as essential to its success.

Given the stagnating USA economy, I doubt that the USA will now provide the market that previously acted as China's springboard. Manufacturing growth in India will be much, much slower.

Quote:
His second goal is to encourage the United States to terminate its policy of tolerating Pakistan’s duplicity in the fight against Islamic terrorism—as manifested in its schizophrenic attitude to the Taliban in Afghanistan—and to encourage the U.S. to look upon India as the only reliable and rational partner in the Subcontinent.

There is more about Hillary's tolerance of Pakistani fanaticism later ...

Quote:
Finally, Modi wants to diversify India’s arms supplies—most of which still come from Russia—but does not want to become (or to be seen as becoming) too close to the United States in the grand-strategic scheme of things.

India just signed a multi-billion dollar deal with Russia to develop and manufacture the Indian version of the PAK-FA (fighter aircraft). Much of the tussle over the deal was how much would be manufactured in India.

Quote:
All of Modi’s strategic themes and objectives broadly correspond to America’s interests in Asia. India occupies pivotal position in the Indian Ocean, the second most critical maritime highway in the world. Under Modi the Hindu nationalist, the government in Delhi may be more inclined to base its long-term strategy on the development of a community of geopolitical interests with the leading thalassocratic [maritime] power in the world—the United States—than any of its predecessors since independence. America wants to contain China’s ambition to break through the bars of the First Island Chain in the Far East and Southeast Asia

a geostrategic concept well worth looking up http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/international/asia-pacific/20
16/02/01/powers-jockey-pacific-island-chain-influence-erickson-china-japan-philippines-taiwan-sea/79493736/

Quote:
while India would be loath to see Burma (“Myanmar”) provide China with direct access to the Indian Ocean by road, rail and pipeline.

As for Pakistan, it is a failed state devoid of any right to exist. It is successful in only one area of human endeavor: in producing literally millions of unemployable Muslim fanatics in its 35,000-plus madrassas. Generously financed by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf kleptocracies, they teac

NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME

1KIKI

Monday, June 13, 2016 12:45 AM

"Modi wants to turn India into a major global manufacturing workshop"

Why?

It's a failed strategy that brought prosperity to Japan, which was then followed by a reversal and subsequent stagnating economy

And China, which worked mightily to position itself as the premier global manufacturing/ export economy saw the problems of depending on a external market for economic health in 2008 and has since been working mightily to develop its internal markets:

India grows enough food to feed everyone, and yet, many people go hungry in India. Some even starve to death. 3000 children die every day of malnutrition. 42% are underweight. http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/02/16/10424930-indias-hunger-s
hame-3000-children-die-every-day-despite-economic-growth?lite There is certainly no shortage of work to be done in India, and yet "the poverty headcount ratio ... in India was last reported at 29.80 in 2010". If India can't organize its work and resources internally, why does it think yoking itself to an export economy in competition with China is going to improve its status?

Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:00 PM

Migration fears as Bangla zealots go after Hindus
Aarti Tikoo Singh

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Migration-fears-as
-Bangla-zealots-go-after-Hindus/articleshow/52772620.cms

NEW DELHI: After reciting all his morning shlokas and mantras, 70-year-old Ananda Gopal Ganguly , bowed before the multi-armed, lion-mounting Goddess Durga, walked out of the temple, climbed his bicycle and pedalled slowly through the paddy fields. The incense and the oil lamps might have been still burning in the sanctum sanctorum when three bikers blitz through, hit him with sharp-edged weapons and slit his throat, leaving his head barely hinged on the neck.

Ganguly was hacked to death in a small village in southwestern Bangladesh on June 7. Two days later, another Hindu religious worker Nityananda Panday (60) was killed in almost the same manner early morning in front of a mental hospital.

Bangladesh is caught in a spiral of violence targeted at religious minorities, following a spate of systemic attacks on atheist bloggers, secular activists and intellectuals that began last year. The priest's beheadings, however, has triggered fresh fear psychosis and whisper talk about the arrival of the Islamic State (ISIS) and migration plans among the already dwindling Hindu minority in Bangladesh.

"I don't know whether it is ISIS or some other group decapitating Hindus but it is quite clear that this persecution is not the same as earlier. It is a new phenomenon," Kajal Debnath who heads Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian Unity Council (HBCUC) told TOI from Dhaka. "Earlier, they would rape Hindu girls or torch our temples and houses, forcing Hindus to abandon their properties and migrate to India. It was mostly about grabbing Hindu land and property. But now they are slaughtering ordinary landless poor Hindus with no social or economic standing and the message is entirely different," he adds. A fresh wave of migration of Hindus out of Bangladesh, he fears, will start quietly.

This time, the journey to an Indian passport will be easier following the Modi government's decision to amend laws to grant citizenship to Hindu refugees fleeing persecution.

At the time of Indian Partition in 1947, Hindus constituted 31% of the total population of the region. By 2011 Bangladesh census, their numbers came down to mere 8.5%. In 2001, as per the Indian Census, there over 3 million migrants from Bangladesh, out of which over 65% migrated during and soon after the liberation war that led to its creation in 1971. The Census estimated that 50 Bangladeshis migrated to India every day, through the 4096 km long porous border the two countries share. Dhaka based journalist Saleem Samad believes that Hindu population in Bangladesh may have declined sharply in the last five years.

"Even though Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina elevated Hindus to prominent positions in her government, most Hindus remain marginalized and persecuted. There has been systemic discrimination and violence against them," says Samad. Islamization of the country "gathered momentum during the military regimes of General Ziaur Rahman (1975-1981) and General H.M. Ershad (1982-1990),"says Samad adding that the general perception in Bangladeshi society as of now is that Hindus are infidels.

Bangladeshi Hindus faced massive violence in 1992 after the Babri Masjid demolition in India. About 30,000 homes, offices and places of worship were destroyed. Hindus were attacked again under Khalida Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led coalition government with Islamist hardliners in 2001. The execution of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) 1971 war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayeedi by the Sheikh Hasina government in provoked attacks oddly against Hindus. During the elections of 2014 that brought Awami League back to power for a third term, BNP and JeI student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) workers committed large scale violence against them again.

Targeted violence against minorities intensified in 2014 after al-Qaeda in t

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, April 24, 2021 1:20 AM

'This Is Hell.' Prime Minister Modi's Failure to Lead Is Deepening India's COVID-19 Crisis

https://time.com/5957118/india-covid-19-modi/

One of the Hindu nutbags perhaps fed cow's urine to a patient on a ventilator for a photoshoot with some kind of alternative mytsic voodoo medical nonsense