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Regarding our arms exports, i agree we didn’t export much because other countries were able to supply better quality arms at a lesser price. But that happened because we thought private enterprise shouldn’t get into arms industry because that’s blood money after all and shouldn’t be “for profit”. I...

@ Prasen I agree with you that an individual can serve self interest by working hard, but there are not many external factors that apply to individuals as they do for foreign policy. I don’t think India acted immorally, by supporting Hasina as we only did the balancing act of supporting a person who...

Foreign policy should be pragmatic. I completely agree with this statement. We need to try to figure out how we can have some influence with whoever is in power to the extent we can without giving up our interests, without giving up our morality, and without mortgaging too much of our future intere...

But we have no choice. If we are going to do anything, I think it should be pro-Yunus and pro-BNP. It is the trap the governments sponsoring the Bangla unrest want neutral people like us to fall into. But if we are going to meddle, it should not be against BNP, because I think that will only worsen...

I feel the turmoil in Bangla can’t entirely be ignored. It’s no coincidence that Manipur violence happened after there was considerable migration from Myanmar triggered by military rule crisis. I came across articles about pre stuffed ballot boxes being used for Bangla elections and Hasina rejecting...

Seikh Hasina was an autocrat who, like autocrats, tortured and killed and put in jail tons of people. I am glad the students disposed of her. However, as the Arab Spring exercise in Egypt, American capture of Iraq, etc. showed downing an autocrat is perhaps easier than setting up a functioning demo...

^^^Yes, but a 50 kg wrestler would probably not win against a 53 kg wrestler, right? It was probably more difficult for her to drop to 50 kg anyway, and the 2 kg allowance probably allowed her to get away with it at the trials and Olympic qualifiers. Anyway, I get it. She did what she had to do. Kn...

There may another solution, do all weigh-ins just before bout and span the wrestling competition to 3 days instead of 2 and particularly keep all medal rounds only for day 3. Wrestlers are struggling to cut weight without losing strength for 2 days itself, so increasing to 3 days should reduce motiv...

Yes, of course there were a lot of others who do this, Aman for instance did cut 3-4 cut on the night before his bronze bout and stayed legit. And in this case, i dont think they can do out of competition weight check and all. The wrestlers even if they found overweight at testing say 25 days befor...

May be I am the only one who is against Vinesh getting the silver Jay. I think people are not getting the crux of the problem. People need to understand that as much as this might look like unfair for Vinesh, the real people who are actually struggling are the people whose real weight is 50Kg. When...

Quality performance against top seed…no shame as it so very close. Reetika should be good medal prospect for LA if properly groomed and trained. I think she needs develop more muscular strength and age is on her side

Saw the American kennedy blades taking down the Romanian at will. And just now checked the score line of Reetika’s win over this K Blades. It was a huge 9-2 so she must be quite good and maybe a medal prospect…how did she get ignored as prospect by us all this while?

Congrats to Aman for making us not return empty in wrestling medals. India gets 6 medals, 1 medal less than at Tokyo. 4 sports - Badminton, Boxing, Weightlifting and Wrestling all dropped 1 medal each and Shooting compensated by 3. We continue the tradition of getting the highest medals at one Olymp...

I wish they showed the distance for foul throws as well

It’s good that at least Neeraj came up with a decent throw of 89+ to move yo silver position but i fear that maybe it. Neeraj’s throws have consistently but don’t have that odd throw that goes beyond where as Nadeem throws are highly inconsistent but he has those odd 90+ throws in him and this huge ...