How much they prayed to their gods for this day!! Anyways. When you have a population of 1.5 billion, cases will also be in proportion. I am surprised a scholar like @steve_hanke is implying Vatican is performing better than India on Wuhan Virus Front.
Look at per 1000 cases. Look at how long India took to bring the situation back to decent control. Look at how India scaled up vis-a-vis other countries. Look at how India vaccinated half the globe in spite of the recipients of India's largesse refused to reciprocate.
Had India's leadership been weaker, the reality would be far different - not just India but whole of the world will suffer starting with USA which braved the last wave solely because of India's vaccines and medicines. No vacillating or spiteful head of state will do such a thing.
And yes. Because Modi is asleep in the wheel, he is able to fight a war with China, a war with the Chinese virus and a war with the miserly west which wants everything from India but doesn't want to share anything in return like, say, raw materials for India.
Whom do you people hate more? The Indian Prime Minister or the pagan Indian civilization which refuses to toe your line? By the way, the oxygen woes are almost sorted. How many days? One week? Show me one country which is that resilient.
Arrogance - refusal to allow Pfizer into India on Pfizer's terms.
Incompetent - because he isn't able to compete with Vatican in absolute numbers?
Dangerous - Merkel said yesterday India's rise is dangerous to Western Pharma industry.
I guess this is religious and civilisational. Let me conclude this by quoting the relevant parts from the Bible.
Psalm 109:6-15
Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.
May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
*Finis*
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So, what's happening in Delhi in the last one week? Pitch in to sing paeans to the glorious Arvind Kejriwal. 1. Sudden Oxygen Crisis and Kejru whining, followed by hospitals 2. Supplies from outside Delhi facing delays due to dug-in by the Wailing Jattni Rakesh Tikait
3. Another long march on Delhi announced. 4. Haryana CM issued a public statement hinting Kejru is lying and that Delhi is getting more oxygen than its prescribed maximum.
5. Kejru caught pants down and had to beg for apology when Modi called him out for telecasting live a secure Government meeting 6. Centre released money for 8 oxygen plants in December but it is revealed that Delhi built only one.
Is it worth starting a thread with the title "Whiners of the World Unite"? @bopinion
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This image...is there a historic parallel? Sadly, there is. I may be fantasising but there is a parallel here. How many of you heard of Second World War's Bombing of Dresden - the bombing raid which destroyed Dresden and killed thoousands. Many questioned the need of it.
What did it achieve? Or is just a British ego massage as like what Arthur Bomber Harris puts it - I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier?
Look at another quote by him. There lies the answer. Operation Thunderclap. And Dresden was not a one off.
Just think realistically. China wasn't able to maintain its position in Ladakh for one winter and it is dreaming of challening India in its backyard? 90% of Nepal's trade passes through India. Do you have an alternate? amp.scmp.com/week-asia/poli…
CPEC units turned bankrupt even before the whole project is completed. The parasitic beggars's use was seen when they refused to mobilize towards Khaplu when the Chinese are stuck in Ladakh and importing Taliban into Xinjiang is the worst thing China can do.
To maintain a position in Himalayas really costs. And when you need to trudge thousands of kilometres of occupied lands to reach Indian border, you will really bleed money. Many empires collapsed trying to garrison Tibet and Tarim. The CCPoohs seem to be the next in line.
India never supported Sri Lankan Tamils wholeheartedly in the fear that they will fan separatist flames in India. But something worse is happening in Myanmar now. The Christian Mizo are daring the Central Govt to set up an independent Christian Chin state.
Will Centre stay silent or will it fix the mess before the flames spead everywhere for demands of Christian Fundamentalist Kuki-Chin and Nagalim Superstates? Manipur will be in the line of fire if we don't act in time and we don't want the Meitei to become the next Bru or Chakma.
India is lazy to implement Curzon Doctrine and South East Asia is soon becoming the new global theatre. When East Timor or South Sudan were created out of nowhere due to external pressure, do you suppose Myanmar can hold on without Indian support? Zomi and Naga state maps.
Gandhi's grandfather was the Diwan of Porbandar and his mother's family managed the main Pranami temple of Porbandar. Just think what sort of a family background Kasturba would have come from.
Gandhi forced her to do what he did - his Harijan Seva and all, he gave away all her jewel - the ones which she brought from her parents, forced her to wear that coarse khadi, she saw her son ruined before her eyes because of Gandhi's obstinacy(he died of syphillis later)
and ultimately died of depression. What sort of a life she envisioned before marriage and what sort of a life she got? I am sure she would have cursed her parents daily for sending him to England for his education.