Kaalkut. Chapter 21

1 March 2020 23:40 Hours IST, Palam Airport, India The gray Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft had landed at Palam in the increasingly cold and foggy night. Some new crew got in and a few got out quickly as a refueling truck filled up the tanks and air force technicians did the customary checks.. Within an hour of landing, the plane was up once again on a northern bearing.... https://ift.tt/3ngJx9D
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Kaalkut. Chapter 20

Kaalkut. Chapter 20 Padam Giri took an appreciative bite of Tbetan Balep bread smothered with butter and chased it down with hot butter tea at his cousin’s small guesthouse in the hills. Normally, it’d be full of tourists but Corona virus related restric https://ift.tt/3n3YfAO
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Kaalkut. Chapter 19

Kaalkut. Chapter 19 They are trying to grab as many territories as possible in multiple sectors for numerous reasons including their concept of national pride and historical boundaries https://ift.tt/36hEqiT
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Sometimes even plain daal chawal kind of dishes can blow your mind and it happened with us twice last month in Himachal. First was a small shop in Banjaar which didn't even look like a food joint and didn't even have a formal name. Operated by a couple, it served multiple servings of rice and roti along with rajma, kadi and maash daal. Cost per plate, only INR 60. It was so good that we had lunch there once and stopped there again few days later while coming back the same way. 2nd was a dingy and barely lit dhaba on Bilaspur highway which wouldn't attract a second glance from the road. It served makki roti, daal, chawal, kadi along with dollops of hot desi ghee. It's name was Bahadur Dhaba and it has been in business for 100+ years. In Himachal where it's easier to find western junk food, these two places were a were welcome new discoveries. There were only a handful of other good culinary experiences in Himachal this time, like the Siddu with walnuts in Lockdown Cafe and excellent home cooked local food in @mysteriouskutla Sorry for bad picture quality, wasn't really planning to take pictures before starting to eat. #food #localfood #indianfood #foodexplorer #Himachal #HimachalPradeshTravel #fooddiscovery #HimachalFood #travel #mountains #himalayas

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Kaalkut. Chapter 19

Kaalkut. Chapter 19 Lieutenant General Chen Youxia walked in to the meeting room leading to everyone standing up and greeting him deferentially. As one of the senior ranked Political Commissars in China, Youxia had been recently promoted in to Political https://ift.tt/36hEqiT
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Kaalkut. Chapter 17

Kaalkut. Chapter 17 Over next few months, Gen Rizvi opened himself to Yasir as suffering person would do to a therapist. His crisis of faith after sickness and death of his wife, lack of faith in Pakistani armed forces and general public, https://ift.tt/3kXLmrm
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Pristine Parvati river not far from its source, few km away from nearest human habitation. Thankfully, not many people live nearby and most tourists are too lazy to walk up to this point to spoil it. #Himalayas #HimachalPradesh #mountains #HimachalPradeshTravel #river #wilderness #jungle #hiking #forest #nature

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Kaalkut. Chapter 16

Kaalkut. Chapter 16 A group of civil activists led by noted advocate Shahbaz Zaman have filed a petition in Pakistan Supreme court demanding immediate investigations into the finances of a multi-billion dollar thermal power project under https://ift.tt/2HN6thp
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1 July 2017 Office US Federal Communications Commission 15:00 Hours, Local Time Wilford Sawicki, US Defence Secretary was not in the best of moods when he entered the meeting room. There were a lot of fires raging all through the world and he mostly felt overwhelmed trying to deal with them all. He had read the news about Xijiang spyware in one of his many briefings, but had not paid much attention to it. [ 2,063 more words ] https://ift.tt/3cGiQav
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Kaalkut. Chapter 14

Kaalkut. Chapter 14 In case you didn’t know, a very large number of telecom exchanges which handle voice and data traffic have Xianji hardware these days. This is not just limited to 2-3 countries, but atleast 40 that I know of. https://ift.tt/32RjhLJ
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Kaalkut. Chapter 13

Kaalkut. Chapter 13 The report written by a junior imagery analyst mentioned creation of new semi-permanent structures next to Belab airstrip. The airstrip was located in the middle of nowhere, 150 km west of LoraLai and Multan lay 120 km east. https://ift.tt/2ZO10Nu
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Kaalkut. Chapter 12

Kaalkut. Chapter 12 We’ve managed to activate a few more assets in Pakistan over the last 2 years. We have a few planned missions that were shared for approval. As far as their agents in Nepal, Bangladesh and middle-east https://ift.tt/3itq6IJ
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Kaalkut. Chapter 11

Kaalkut. Chapter 11 There was a notification on Safi’s phone and he got up to stretch his limbs. He walked to Butt and offered him a cigarette. Butt could barely read, but he recognised the expensive Davidoff https://ift.tt/3hwDqLn
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Kaalkut. Chapter 10

Kaalkut. Chapter 10 The artillery battery had just finished deploying it’s brand new Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) in the gun pits few kms behind the lines https://ift.tt/35sdluy
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Kaalkut. Chapter 9

Kaalkut. Chapter 9 “President of China for life ! Was it only because of my support ?” Lu spat angrily. “All three of us supported him for this. Both of you financed his “campaign” and the constitutional amendment. Do not put this on me.” https://ift.tt/2DOLFEE
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Kaalkut. Chapter 8

6 September 2016. New Delhi, India. Prime Minister Angad Bisht had just arrived back to New Delhi after a whirlwind tour of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh where he had inaugurated construction of a few new infrastructure projects and educational institutions. He considered stopping at his house for a quick shower, lunch and change of clothes but had no time as the meeting was scheduled to start soon. [ 2,920 more words ] https://ift.tt/3idW9fI
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Kaalkut. Chapter 7

1 September 2020 Ghani Village, Rajauri, Jammu Captain Sanjeev Pandey entered the Commanding Officer’s (CO) room and saluted smartly, “Good afternoon sir.” His CO returned the salute and instructed him to have a seat. “Sanjeev, how good are you with construction work?” CO was famous for his abrupt orders and strange ways of grilling people. Capt Sanjeev was expecting something like this when he got the message about CO wanting to see him asap. [ 4,108 more words ] https://ift.tt/2EZB5eI
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Kaalkut. Chapter 6

Kaalkut. Chapter 6 “And choose Kalsang as the official leader of Tibetan people ?” Namdol put his mug on the table and asked pointedly. He had been working with Indian agencies for most of his adult life and probably knew about their inner working more https://ift.tt/2Z7BLoY
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Kaalkut. Chapter 5

29 August 2016, New Delhi, India Monsoon of 2016 had been more humid than usual with more heat than rains. Indian National Security Advisor Ajay Dhumal started sweating as soon as he stepped out of his air conditioned car and started walking towards the office of Indian Defence Minister Maadhvan Kamat in the expansive South Block building. Ajay Dhumal had retired as a Deputy Director in Indian external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). [ 1,640 more word ] https://ift.tt/3hWGamc
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Kaalkut. Chapter 4

7 August 2016. Kathmandu, Nepal Nepalese national election results were declared 2 days back. Nepali Praja Sangh led Uttam Maharaj, had won 108 seats to emerge as the single largest party but was still short of majority by 30 seats in the 275 seat House of Representatives. Nepal Communist Party led by Srijan Mathi had won 69 seats and the rest by independents and some other smaller parties. [ 1,947 more word ] https://ift.tt/31S2t6R
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Kaalkut. Chapter 3

25 June 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam Lai Pa island chains were a small group of 5 uninhabited reef islands roughly 45-50 km east of Vietnamese mainland and slightly further from Chinese coast. Of the 5 islands, 3 got submerged under water during high tide. The biggest among them was 2 km in length and 1 km at its widest. All were too small to have any useful vegetation and fresh water and only fishermen used them every now and then for anchorage and shelter. [ 3,855 more words ] https://ift.tt/3gMlZ8U
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Kaalkut. Chapter 2

17 June 2016. Kupwara, Kashmir Window panes in the room shook violently as a grenade exploded just outside the adjoining house. There were sounds of more gunshots then silence. One of four Para soldiers of Delta team in the room peeked outside trying to make sense of the situation. There was some movement outside and it attracted some gunfire from window of the house where three terrorists were holed up. [ 3,717 more words ] https://ift.tt/3jij61l
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Kaalkut. Chapter 1

14 May 2016. Monyakshu, Near Nagaland-Myanmar Border. Vinayak Barua sat idly in his old Gypsy while he waited for his contact. Time for the meeting was 21:30, late enough for most of the village to start making preparations for a good night’s sleep and not late enough for people to think twice about a neighbour going out for an after dinner walk. [ 2,012 more words ] https://ift.tt/3je09gj
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Kaalkut, Military Thriller Story. Index post

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Video of Chinese PLA officers diplaying Wolf Warrior diplomacy against Indian soldiers at Indo-China border

India and China share a long, mountainous border with very difficult terrain which makes it difficult to manage and monitor. Chinese claims that huge parts of territory under Indian control including Laddakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan belong to them. They already occupy part of Laddakh after a war and illegal territory transfer by Pakistan.Apart from that, they've been sending their patrols deep inside Indian and Bhutanese territory to create border posts, roads and demolish Indian posts since decades. [ 245 more words ] https://ift.tt/3cwcfhH
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Book : The Myth Of Hindu Terror

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The Sangh and sewa

On March 24, the Prime Minister announced the lockdown. There was no other option for a pandemic-stricken country. On March 25, giving a message to swayamsevaks, RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat adjourned all Sangh shakhas and sent out a call for each swayamsewak to engage in public service. The night before that, the mukhya shikshak (head of the local shakha) called to say that we must all think about what we could do in this difficult situation. The Sangh chief’s message the next morning convinced all of us, local volunteers, that we had been on the right track. We held a discussion among ourselves and decided to set up a system to fulfil the needs of the local community, especially the disadvantaged and the working class. Our settlement (an area consisting of 10,000 population is termed a settlement within the Sangh) is a prosperous one where our services would not be required much, but we decided to ensure there is no starvation in the neighbourhood around us. We initiated a small effort in this direction, which is going on till date. What caused this sentiment to come to the mind of all Sangh operatives — from the mukhya shikshak of a shakha to the Sarsanghchalak — that society, the nation should be served as required in this critical hour? Why is it that in the event of a disaster, natural and otherwise, the Sangh and its volunteers make an all-out effort for the wider community without worrying about themselves and their families? How do these seemingly ordinary volunteers do extraordinary things? How are they trained? Many such questions crowd the mind of the average citizen. If you too have been seeking answers to some of these questions, then let us cursorily glance at the history of the Sangh. The Sangh was founded in 1925 in Nagpur. The name Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh came afterwards. Before he instituted the Sangh, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar had worked with various social, political and revolutionary organisations of the day. From Maharishi Arvind or Trailokyanath Chatterjee of the Anushilan Samiti of Calcutta to the Indian National Congress’s Motilal Nehru or Haqeem Ajmal Khan — all of them had been Hedgewar’s comrades-in-arms at one time or another. Long before the establishment of the Sangh, in 1916, along with his comrades, Hedgewar had been engaged in social work during the outbreak of the plague in Nagpur. This streak of “service of the wider community to the fore” was to become an overarching principle of the Sangh. The second Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, M S “Guruji” Golwalkar held that office for nearly 33 years. During his tenure, a number of new organisations, including Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, started work in many different social fields within the country. The swayamsevaks today are continuing that tradition of service today. Be it the 1,57,000 service operations running across the country or the floods of Morvi, the earthquake of Gujarat or the tsunami or the recent disaster in Kedarnath, the swayamsevaks are at the frontline before anyone else. With unwavering faith in the motto “unprecedented undertaking in an unprecedented event”, the swayamsevaks stepped in to fulfil the need of the hour even during the current epidemic. A hallmark of their work is a well-planned blueprint of action. The lockdown was so sudden that most people were caught unawares and they had to stay wherever they were. A sizeable chunk of the urban population was facing worries about their next meal, contacting their families and friends, even finding a safe location to stay. RSS activists have addressed not only human problems they have also made arrangements for feeding animals. They manned and issued dedicated helplines aimed at the different needs and requirements of different sections of society, made arrangements for doctors and food for the needy, ensured compliance of the lockdown protocol. When a large number of labourers anxious to go to their hometowns gathered at Delhi’s interstate bus terminal, local swayamsevaks arrived to assist the police and administration in feeding and fulfilling their other needs. Not only that, when the sex workers of Delhi called the helpline and asked for help, swayamsevaks reached out immediately to help 925 such families. In Delhi alone, 126 kitchens are being run to supply ready meals for the needy. Care is also being taken of the section of society which might not wish to take prepared food. Dry ration kits consisting of 10 kg to 20 kg foodstuff have been delivered to 50,000 families. Today, due to the fast-changing mores and lifestyle, the number of single-member families is growing at an alarming rate. In your very own neighbourhoods, you might have noticed many elderly people who need but cannot access medicines due to the lockdown. Swayamsevaks have organised 167 points for the care of such people. The world cannot survive without trees and the multitude of animals. Be it the 28,000 kg of fodder for the 28 gaushalas in Delhi or providing for birds at various places, all needs are being taken care of by swayamsevaks. Sangh activists have done all this solely relying on their own money and sweat. Sangh activists, within the country and abroad, are extending their support. On the basis of my own experience, I can say that the sections of society that used to maintain ideological social distancing with the Sangh are now beginning to inch closer to it after witnessing all this. Despite all this, the Sangh is not out to claim that its swayamsevaks achieved all this. The core idea of the Sangh is that the swayamsevaks are part of society, so it is the society which has done what it did. And creating an empowered and committed society that is capable of facing all challenges on its own is also the basic objective of the Sangh. If India is able to deal with the Chinese-origin virus, it is because the irrepressible will of the society is entwined with political will. This feeling had always been present in Indian society but has been lying dormant due to 1,000 years of slavery and the tyranny of invaders. The Sangh has tirelessly worked to awaken it and the results are for all to see. The work is by no means over yet. It must, and shall, continue. And so it is that the swayamsevaks continue to follow the mantra given by Hedgewar, “sewa hai yagyakund, samidha ban ham jalen (sewa is the sacred sacrificial fire, may we be the tinder for it)”. https://ift.tt/2VmWW4T
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Actions taken by India to deal with Corona Virus

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Numbers released by China related to Corona Virus simply don’t make sense. I am doing some basic calculations using infection and mortality of a few other countries and official figures from China are not even remotely closed to actual.

I am taking data from arcgis.com and using this to calculate infection and mortality rates for some of more seriously infected countries, US UK, Italy, Iran and Spain. Then I am calculating infection and mortality rates in China based on rates of above countries. Of these, only Iran has poorer infrastructure and unreliable figures. All other countries including even much hated US has much better health system, free press, better data collection, less pollution, less population density and are better than China in every single factor like elderly population which can affect these figures. [ 129 more words ] https://ift.tt/2Jloq4b
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How a toy was turned in to a weapon of war

Few days ago, I came across one interesting incident about origin of UAVs and how they developed in to the amazing machines we see everywhere now. This post is about development early surveillance UAVs (or drones as they are called now) and how they branched off from expensive ungainly remote controlled aircraft/missiles/target practice drones in to cheap and rugged machines they are now. [ 921 more words ] https://ift.tt/39rDhFa
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