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"India's national airline has

artappraiser — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:50:53 +0000

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"India's national airline has told its crew to end every in-flight announcement with the patriotic phrase, "Jai Hind" (Hail the motherland) ... Air India's company advisory instructs crew to say the phrase after a "slight pause and with much fervour".' https://t.co/03OC16M9Q1
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) March 5, 2019

After India Loses Dogfight,

artappraiser — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:21:45 +0000

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After India Loses Dogfight, Questions Arise About Its ‘Vintage’ Military

By Maria Abi-Habib from New Delhi @ NYTimes.com, 4 hrs. ago
An aerial clash last week with Pakistan was a rare test for the Indian military — and it left observers a bit dumbfounded.
As America strengthens ties with India to help counter China, critics say its military faces challenges, including aging hardware and low funding.

Sixty-eight percent of the army’s equipment is so old that it is officially considered “vintage.”

Yeah, this is the ethnic

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 20:23:26 +0000

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Yeah, this is the ethnic cleansing/solidifying of Modi that Tulsi's so fond of. Is it a coincidence that those up-and-coming BRIC countries esteemed just a few years ago have turned to heavy-handed dogmatic leaders? (along with the US)

oh look, I had left the NYT

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 18:20:01 +0000

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oh look, I had left the NYT comments window open and when I went back to close it, here's the first one I see, geez, you think Israel/Palestine is bad...the species is so doomed:

Sujeev

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The only solution to the Kashmir issue is elimination of Islam from South Asia. Every other suggestion is a red herring, intended to mask the increasing pace of Islamization of South Asia. As the Pakistani experience indicates, complete Islamization of South Asia will NOT bring peace to Kashmir. Only Hinduization of all of South Asia has the ability to bring lasting peace, not only in Kashmir, but all across South Asia.

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That's the nature of our

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 18:10:54 +0000

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That's the nature of our species in general, not that women can't be a piece of work as well.

Shocking doesn't describe

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:27:10 +0000

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Shocking doesn't describe some of the comments I saw on Twitter around the time the pilot was downed when I did a search by keyword. The amount of vitriolic hatred and anger was incredible. Way way worse than, say, the "raghead" kind of thing after 9/11. And it was all patriotic team A vs. patriotic team B kind of stuff, nothing I noticed coming from someone angry about years of injustice. It was all about hurt pride. Like they all have a fucking inferiority complex and are going to kill the other side until they give some respect, gonna show them what's what.

As far as the politeness and kindness topic goes, I was just talking with someone the other day on that, it came to me, with the cavaet of judging from immigrants, that inherent in the whole culture, both sides, is a tendency that the women are trained to be kind and loving and the men to be assholes.

Interesting to me that the

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 16:30:00 +0000

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Interesting to me that the last staredown I was passing troops heading up one side of the Kargil Pass and watching troops head north on the other. That was back when they'd play their game of occupying remote uninhabitable glaciers and mountain peaks for a few weeks or months to pretend ownership.2 decades later, little's changed, though at least no nuclear war.

The comments are rather shocking. I know this is anecdotal, but in Pakistan people were very polite and kind, didn't have anything ad to say about htethe Indians, while on crossing the border at Amritsar (where you see the 2 lines of people attack each other in Gandhi) I got an earful of how bad and corrupt the Pakistanis are, even as the Indian customs official was wiggling his finger in my palm to signal he needed a bribe. That doesn't mean I blame all on the Indians or even know all the facts, but the dialogue feels a lot like the Palestinian situation - the Indians seem under no pressure, moral or practical, to actually fix the situation, instead milking the status quo as befits.

BTW, is it still correct to say "Indians" and not e.g. Native Subcontinent Asians? Asking for a friend.