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The potential for war is real' – Prof Mearsheimer on India, this is a very dangerous situation. these are two nuclear armed countries that have a history of fighting wars And in the past the United States has intervened in crisis between these two countries to go to great lengths to shut them down .Mainly what we've tried to do is make sure that the Indians didn't launch a major attack against Pakistan which would then leave Pakistan maybe to use nuclear weapons. but you don't have the sense that the Trump administration is paying careful attention to this conflict or that President Trump will intervene in a major way to dampen down the tensions the way previous presidents have because he's so busy on so many other fronts .

so it could be the case let's hope this is not the case that this one could spin out of control and you could have a real war and nuclear weapons might even be used because you want to remember the conventional balance of power between Pakistan and India greatly favors the Indians And we've always feared that a conflict that started off at the conventional level would escalate to the nuclear level because the Pakistanis would feel compelled to turn to nuclear weapons if they were losing conventionally which we expected to happen.

None of this is to say that in the past or even now a war will happen and nuclear weapons will be used. But the fact is there is real potential for a real war and there is real potential for nuclear use And in that kind of situation you want President Trump you want the United States to be deeply involved in trying to settle this short of a shooting match
But I don't have the sense that that's what we're doing. Maybe we are and I'm just not reading about it Let's hope that's the case . But uh this is just another example of another ball in the air.

Well I wonder if this is an area where tariffs can give America a substantial negotiating leverage. I mean JD Vance visited India last week . yet last night uh Trump suggested that a free trade deal was on the horizon I don't know whether the situation in Kashmir has been part of those discussions. I don't think anybody has said so publicly but surely America could say you might want to hold off retaliating or you might want to do what we want in this conflict or this free trade deal that we are now in the process of agreeing will be out the window. I don't think we would do that. I think relations between the Trump administration and the Modi administration are very good and we're not likely to play hard ball uh with Modi in the way you just described. but uh maybe maybe that's the case. I do agree with your general point that although I think that tariffs uh the way they were implemented made no sense uh I I do think that uh the possibility of walking back the tariffs does give us leverage over allies uh and adversaries alike

Uh so I think that we do have some leverage there. h maybe Trump could tell the Indians that he'd give them a real sweetheart deal uh if he felt they were on the verge of going to war and Trump didn't want them to go to war. But just hard to say what's going on with regard to US Indian relations uh over the Kashmir at this point in time

@HindutvaWatchIn Location: Alibaug, Raigad, Maharashtra Date: April 25 https://x.com/i/status/1919052941635326125

At a protest, a far-right speaker incited violence, urging Hindus to beat secular people instead of “Abdul friends”; he blamed Muslims for communal violence in Nagpur and Nashik and demanded a social and economic boycott, claiming money given to Muslims is used against Hindus; he continued demonising Muslims and repeated the call for an economic boycott.

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World Press Freedom Day, Pahalgam attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M4fG-d8s2A | Hafta 535 FULL EPISODE feat Ramachandra Guha

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Jeffrey Sachs Warns Against U.S. Trade Trap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv17w9abq3s moneycontrol

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zoo_bear_ This is a slap to Right Wing hatemonger by Himanshi, wife of Indian Navy Lieutenant Vinay Narwal, who was killed in the Pahalgam terror attack. "We don't want people going against Muslims or Kashmiris. We want peace and only peace. Of course, we want justice," she says - https://www.threads.com/@zoo_bear_/post/DJG0cA3yCek?xmt=AQGzDVH4yZrWa-Puwqf17C-H8LizxrI69Pl59fY7WIel_g

Message from Lalita Ramdas
I am so proud of you as I watch the clip of your words to the press, over and over again. Your extraordinary strength, composure and conviction when you speak out against hate and targeting of Muslims and Kashmiris after the horrific killing of so many innocent men in Pahalgam on the 22nd is truly remarkable! And so badly needed in our times…

"We only want peace", you said, and ofcourse rightly, "we want justice too".
You are the perfect Fauji wife Himanshi, true to the spirit of the service, the constitution and to our secular values. You are clearly a woman who knows her mind, and there could not have been a more courageous partner of a Navy man like Vinay.

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Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) Post in Sukla Sen https://www.facebook.com/groups/109358664039/permalink/10162853114949040/?rdid=V3y1cmGw46as9TUp
This piece, rather shockingly, simply ignores the huge elephant in the room.
Not for once it discusses the implications of two nuclear neighbours engaging in an all-out military clash and its bone-chilling possibilities.
But from one who is virtually arguing for larger military expenditure by India, despite India being one of the two top importers of armaments https://www.business-standard.com/external-affairs-defence-security/news/ukraine-replaces-india-as-world-s-largest-arms-importer-shows-sipri-data-125031001154_1.html this is probably only to be expected.Ukraine replaces India as world's largest arms importer, shows Sipri data
Indian arms imports fell by 9.3 per cent between 2015-19 and 2020-24, driven at least in part by India's growing capability to design and manufacture its own weapons

Students, professors & civil society members have written to President of India, slamming Harisingh Gour University's decision to confer D.Litt degree on Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya.

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The protesters allege that Rambhadracharya is a polarising figure who has made “derogatory remarks against Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Buddhism and Dalit communities” in several public speeches.

by Iram Siddique

28/04/2025

https://www.businesstoday.in/personal-finance/tax/story/indias-direct-tax-collection-for-fy2025-fiscal-hits-target-with-17-growth-473701-2025-04-25 Direct tax collection for FY2025 fiscal hits target with 17% growth
India's provisional net direct tax collections for 2024-25 reached Rs 11,82,875 crore, marking a 17% growth over the previous year, and achieving 100.78% of the budget target.

'A 40% IPL tax could build 10 IITs': Bengaluru professor questions India’s vision priorities https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy/story/a-40-ipl-tax-could-build-10-iits-bengaluru-professor-questions-indias-vision-priorities-473764-2025-04-27 In IPL 2023 alone, BCCI reported a ₹5,120 crore surplus, with revenues touching ₹11,770 crore, mainly powered by media rights. With projected revenues for 2024 and 2025 reaching ₹12,000–₹13,500 crore annually, the scale is only growing. Professor Mayank Shrivastava from IISc Bengaluru points out that if a simple 40% tax were applied just on BCCI’s IPL profits, nearly ₹15,000 crores could have been raised over three years—enough to fund 10 new IITs or create a national deep-tech innovation corpus. "Add franchise profits (₹800–₹1,200 crore/year), and another ₹320–₹480 crores could be collected annually. In total, nearly ₹6,000 crores per year could be redirected into research, just from the IPL ecosystem," he writes.

And I must speak, not softly but starkly:
I am no confessor for a stranger’s sins.
No tribunal sits above my brow.
I owe no one the hippodrome of guilt.
The sun rises without my bidding,
and so too do the madmen fall—without my nod.

I am Indian. Not as an addendum.

https://www.farahdeen.com/2025/04/i-am-not-your-apology.html

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20th April 2025

Dharti Aaba Birsa Munda - a biographical documentary on Bhagwan Birsa Munda

Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal independence activist, and belonged to Munda tribe. He spearheaded a tribal religious millenarian movement that arose in the Bengal Presidency in the late 19th century, during the British Raj.

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Students, professors & civil society members have written to President of India, slamming Harisingh Gour University's decision to confer D.Litt degree on Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya.

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