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by abhik
Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:23 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 3 (Oct 2018 - )
Replies: 3128
Views: 4081068

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 3 (Oct 2018 - )

Congress to launch Harvest TV through its proxies. https://swarajyamag.com/insta/with-barkha-on-board-and-supported-by-congress-leaders-a-new-channel-starts-this-republic-day-to-fight-arnabs-republic-tv "Harvest TV" - that's wierd name for a news channel, are they only going to to be broadcasting "...
by abhik
Tue Jan 08, 2019 12:05 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 3 (Oct 2018 - )
Replies: 3128
Views: 4081068

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 3 (Oct 2018 - )

Supratik wrote:
Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:53 pm
Next step should be to make the OBC reservations only for H/S/B/J as neither Islam nor Christianity has caste system. You can avail reservation if you re-convert.
AFAIK the "C" in OBC stands for "Class", Including mainorities was always part of the plan from the beginning (unlike SC/ST).
by abhik
Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:34 am
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: POLL THREAD: Has NaMo's BJP Govt Done Enough for Hindu Causes?
Replies: 74
Views: 117805

Re: POLL THREAD: Has NaMo's BJP Govt Done Enough for Hindu Causes?

+1, option 2 always sounded like an excuse to me.
by abhik
Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:08 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 3 (Oct 2018 - )
Replies: 3128
Views: 4081068

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 3 (Oct 2018 - )

Folks should stop blaming the people. Our ideal politician should follow the principal's of sama, dana, danda and bheda. In a democracy that means explaining one's policies to those who will listen, bribing the ones who are willing to be bought, ripping open chasms when advantageous and hounding the...
by abhik
Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:04 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - Oct 2018)
Replies: 3268
Views: 2651402

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

^
Giving asylum might be a better solution, else we are in a lose-lose situation.
by abhik
Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:43 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - Oct 2018)
Replies: 3268
Views: 2651402

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Election id cards are extremely easy to get, there is hardly any sort of verification at all. Names are removed from the rolls in (seemingly) random fashion and almost anybody applying gets new cards. Without aadhar linking it just cannot be fixed.
by abhik
Tue Jul 31, 2018 2:46 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - Oct 2018)
Replies: 3268
Views: 2651402

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

The 40l illegals biometrics need to be recorded, so that they can never get govt ID cards, or if they already have it they can be removed (via aadhar). That will be a first step, deportation is a long way away.
by abhik
Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:46 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - Oct 2018)
Replies: 3268
Views: 2651402

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - 2 (Mar 2018 - )

Is Jetli still around? I thought he handed over the finance ministry to Piyush Goyal? Sorry I don't follow the news closely so much aaj kal.
by abhik
Tue Jun 12, 2018 12:27 pm
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion
Replies: 130
Views: 188808

Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion

Let me guess, the pakies lost 420 billion $ out to violence. :facepalm:
by abhik
Thu May 17, 2018 5:36 pm
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Election Discussions - National, State etc
Replies: 627
Views: 562307

Re: Election Discussions - National, State etc

Its time to break the jds once and for all IMO its better to break the congress than jds (at least in theory). It will be advantageous to deal with multiple regional (mostly cast based hereditary) parties rather a single national opposition, with lutyens at the top. Congress mukt bharat will only h...
by abhik
Thu May 17, 2018 3:03 am
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Election Discussions - National, State etc
Replies: 627
Views: 562307

Re: Election Discussions - National, State etc

if you look at this prediction posted on reddit a while back and compare results it went mostly as expected - the middle class and itvity areas of blr all went with bjp. peaceful and low income (cash based voting) went with INC. INC did have a few good candidates. https://i.redd.it/ylwieishyvu01.pn...
by abhik
Tue May 15, 2018 8:38 am
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Election Discussions - National, State etc
Replies: 627
Views: 562307

Re: Election Discussions - National, State etc

so far 222 seats declared BJP 108 [48.2% INC 73 [32.%6 JD(S) 38 [17% Other parties 3 1[.3% at nearly 50% vote share BJP is like a beast impossible to defeat, I am 100% sure this margin has not translated into big win cos of Guj reasons (first past the post). BJP needs to woo some MLAs from independ...
by abhik
Tue May 15, 2018 4:21 am
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Election Discussions - National, State etc
Replies: 627
Views: 562307

Re: Election Discussions - National, State etc

Mort Walker wrote:
Tue May 15, 2018 4:14 am
BJP
70
31.3%

INC
52
23.2%

JD(S)
38
17%

Source: ECI via Nielsen.
Is this different source from the official ECI site (which is showing lower numbers)?
by abhik
Tue May 15, 2018 3:08 am
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Election Discussions - National, State etc
Replies: 627
Views: 562307

Re: Election Discussions - National, State etc

Request people posting leads to also add the source of information.
by abhik
Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:59 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Nukkad
Replies: 1356
Views: 1148986

Re: Nukkad

Paki actors are banned? Since when?
by abhik
Tue Jan 16, 2018 4:13 pm
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 32
Views: 24759

Re: Indian IT Industry

Don't see what is wrong in IT unions (Ok may be that's not the right term). Over the last 2 decades the real pay for IT munnas has eroded to below (or at best on par) blue collar labor, yet they have no real safeguards. And IT companies behavior has been no better than cronies, gobbling up huge tax ...
by abhik
Sat Jan 13, 2018 8:04 am
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 32
Views: 24759

Re: Indian IT Industry

Job squeeze lowers attrition, improves productivity at India's IT firms https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/job-squeeze-lowers-attrition-improves-productivity-at-indias-it-firms/articleshow/62474839.cms On Thursday, industry leader TCS reported just 3,657 employee addition in th...
by abhik
Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:08 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 1 (Oct 2017 - Mar 2018)
Replies: 4973
Views: 3617605

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - Oct 2017

Any update on the Assam NRC first draft release? From the news reports it seems that they have released 1.9 crore names of the 3.29 crore as 'legal'. I was hoping that there was also a list of confirmed 'illegals' (apart from 'legal' and 'yet to be determined').
by abhik
Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:41 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Nukkad
Replies: 1356
Views: 1148986

Re: Nukkad

To people who use ORR for your daily commute in BLR, any help in identifying which sections of ORR are being closed/jammed for white topping would help immensely. Thx... Although Sarjapur to KR Puram is not being white topped (at least as of last week), the KR Puram area has become absolute hell - ...
by abhik
Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:52 pm
Forum: Archive
Topic: The Great Indian Political Drama - 1 (Oct 2017 - Mar 2018)
Replies: 4973
Views: 3617605

Re: The Great Indian Political Drama - Oct 2017

Congress mukt Bharat will not happen with them being removed from power, they will have to be removed from the opposition space too. Once they are reduced to the state they are in UP, Bihar etc in rest of the country only then they will become irrelevant. So winning elections is not enough, BJP will...
by abhik
Sun Dec 10, 2017 3:23 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Nukkad
Replies: 1356
Views: 1148986

Re: Nukkad

You guys are complaining about pillars, have you been on the Nagavara - KR Puram ORR stretch recently?
by abhik
Wed Nov 29, 2017 8:01 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Non-Indian Films discussion thread...
Replies: 177
Views: 431346

Re: Non-Indian Films discussion thread...

JL was complete bokwas, all these comic book movies have started to look like each other, with predictable plot, same aesthetics for characters and CGI effects etc. And what's the deal with cubes? Transformers and Thor/Avengers had the same cube thing.
by abhik
Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:56 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Nukkad
Replies: 1356
Views: 1148986

Re: Nukkad

Was watching videos on youtube, and I get this ad by apparently by the australian government in tamil along the lines of "Dont try to illegally immigrate to Aus by boat, its dangerous etc.". :?
by abhik
Thu Nov 02, 2017 5:23 am
Forum: Politics, News & Current Affairs
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 32
Views: 24759

Re: Indian IT Industry

As per today's ToI the top Indian IT companies have seen employee head count remain flat over the last quarter, with only TCS and one other company seeing a slight growth. This is the time of the year that most of the passouts from engineering colleges should be joining the companies.
by abhik
Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:50 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Phone, Tablet & Gizmo Thread
Replies: 252
Views: 298693

Re: Phone, Tablet & Gizmo Thread

Thanks will check out DP Review. Price difference between amazon .com and .in is huge, but expected I guess :evil: . Never heard of Pentax before, will have to do some more R&D.