Comments on: The Party

By: Mohitoz

Mohitoz — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:42:02 +0000

Hilarious!

The whole thing led to this law: http://mohitoz.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/law-of-salahis/

By: Sandhu

Sandhu — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:24:57 +0000

Oh amazing blog Arnab!! I am sharing it with people at work and everyone is loving it. It’s really well written and congratulations on being a nominee. BRAVO!!

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:46:21 +0000

Great…suberb….Eagerly waiting for ‘May I heb…..

By: Heejeebeejee

Heejeebeejee — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:16:26 +0000

@ G.B

daruun..

By: Heejeebeejee

Heejeebeejee — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:15:23 +0000

@ YourFan2

Seems like you wanted to gatecrash like that whatever celebrity couple. May Prabhuji-force be with you.

By: rishi khujur

rishi khujur — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:10:40 +0000

@ Vasabjit
Innovation….we seriously lack that in the Defence PSUs.
And to cap it all, India lacks the ability to reverse engineer stuff too, like China and Paksitan does.

So that leaves us with a defence industry that is happy to make helicopter doors, and guns and equipments that are already One generation behind when they arrive with all their pompous demeanor.

Thank Shiva for the tactical skills of our men of war.

By: Vasabjit Banerjee

Vasabjit Banerjee — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:43:25 +0000

Arnab,

Wonderful post, funny, but sums up the Indo-US relationship problems perfectly.

@Rishi: yes, we do need to develop our capabilities, but that takes years. This, given the condition of our PSU arms industries, which has failed to produce either a viable tank or an aircraft and yet manage to suck more money every year. Consequently, until we have a viable private sector based defense industry, we need external alliances.

General Comment: The Obama administration is either the most fantastic foreign policy makers in the last 30 years or the absolute worst. In this vein, either Obama is a bit like Karpov-Kasparov, keeping his mouth shut and quietly playing and thinking five moves ahead, or he is plain clueless. However, since he has Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, I am a bit assured that things are not as bad. Conversely, we all know the effect of Colin Powell (sic) on the Bush foreign policy trajectory. In short, I do not know where the ship is headed to and I am scared.

Whatever it is, Obama is on the look out for the US, not for India, Pakistan or China. That is the basis of international relations: self interest. We can complain that he is not giving us a good deal, but that is because we are not that important to them either in ‘nuisance’ or actual ‘value’.

Vasabjit

By: rishi khujur

rishi khujur — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:19:39 +0000

@ Pighooey
“On a more serious note, I am glad that the USA is not helping us against Pakistan or China. We need to develop our own capabilities instead of looking to the USA or the USSR for help”.

Sorry, but we are way behind on that front.
Self realization ethos in the defence industry has taken the route of the politician rather than the defence forces.

So for now stay happy with sub par technology and a lot of “military fatigue” textile exports.

By: Agnida

Agnida — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:39:00 +0000

This is political/pop culture satire at its best.
This material can be used for a sketch in a show like John Stewart’s.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:25:20 +0000

can’t help it .. what can we do really .. we can just lie back and suffer .. i doubt we will ever reach china’s might and our internal contradictions are too much to counter external threats like sunny deol ..