Yes, it is true that Indian Navy/Coast Guard protects and also helpfully escorts maritime around that area [1].
It also protects the original untouched Sentinalese[2] tribes off the Andaman & Nicobar islands on the other side. Historically, our country has NEVER gone and attacked anyone in the past 3000 years. Sometimes because of our own resilience and other times because of our stupid prime minister.
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7736885.stm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island
> licence Raj, the paperwork kingdom, that ruins business opportunities all across India.
You're bang on this one. It's those 50-60 odd corrupt assholes on the top which make life hell for the rest of the population. Pretty similar to how things are here in the US, albeit the corruption part(?). Only magnified.
Would like to know more about this. Are there same kind of bureaucratic hassles in US too?
I thought in some states like Delaware the taxes are too low and therefore makes sense to start up there. I've also heard similar things about Singapore.
I've never traveled outside India, and would love to know more about things in the US.
There is certainly bureaucracy in the US, but it would appear that it's worse in India:
During that period in the history, the whole world was going through the same.
>more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers
Pakistani army does it more often.
>Also, he acknowledged the Pakistani side.
He said that India does it as much as Pakistan, which is false, and can be found by a simple google research. Pakistan is more guilty of violating ceasefires and attacking.
relevant links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_bor...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/01/india-and-paki...
If you're referring to historical ages, then this pretty much applies to all other continents including Asia, Europe, America etc. Wasn't it pretty common for kingdoms to wage wars against each other?
>>>> and more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers (sure, Pakistan does it at least as much if not more)
It doesn't take much to Google to get your facts right. It's actually Pakistan that often violates cease-fire.
The original poster said "3000 years", so I don't know why you'd get upset that someone started talking about history.
It doesn't take much to Google to get your facts right. It's actually Pakistan that often violates cease-fire.
We've always been at war with Eastasia
(Pre-colonial Indian history is currently a passion of mine.)
EDIT: and here come more downvotes.
Well, our country didn't exist pre-1947, but we're arguing semantics now. Still, it's kindof bonkers to define the border of a fairly young "nation" over a period of 3000years. If you do that, then you need to consider the Mughal campaigns in Central Asia as they attacked Samarkhamd (Persia) as well as Kandahar (also persian held at the time). Or do you not consider them Indian?
OK then, consider that the Chola empire conquered sections of South East Asia. But perhaps you dismiss these conquests as exaggerations? (note that there is overwhelming evidence that atleast ports were raided even if there was no lasting presence -- it's still an "attack")
But if we are going to be pedantic, even post-Independence India declared war on Portugal and is considered the aggressor state when it "invaded" Goa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Goa
To get pedantic on this subject, even the Mughals aren't originally from India. Mughal campaigns in Central Asia was also about plundering and ruling India, it's not the other way round. In fact original Indians are not even Aryans (I am an Aryan) of European descendence for that matter. So my estimate of 3000 years stands corrected, it goes way further back than that.
Sentinals, for example in my prior comment, are aboriginal of the Indian peninsula. The other term used to represent aboriginal Hindus is the Dravidians. This land has chosen entropy over order, I can assure you.
Are you saying that corruption exists only among this limited group of individuals?
I find it sad that most OSS conferences are held in Europe or USA, where you will find everyone toting Macbooks. Do note that I dont begrudge this and I do understand that it is the birthplace of most software.
However, I do wish that the chief developers reach out to the Indian community and help establish a vibrant ecosystem before we achieve Apple affordability.
>>I find it sad that most OSS conferences are held in Europe or USA
Bangalore has its own version. Its called FOSS.in, there is also a Pycon. We also have regular conferences, meetups and hack nights. Checkout this Bangalore based company called HasGeek(https://hasgeek.com/)
The ecosystem is no where as mature as silicon valley, there is no where the kind of VC ecosystem like silicon valley. And YC like initiatives are non-existent.
And yet despite all this, nearly every one good I know has a namesake large company job while they are starting up on the side. There is massive start up interest and we are well past the days where people used to aspire for large company jobs. Though Ivy league degrees, and strong alumni connection gets you fat pay checks at big companies. People are beginning to match that with their own start ups.
Long way to go for us. But the opportunities are immense.
For example I wish that the top level decision making conferences (like UDS,etc) happen in India which is on track for being their largest consumers. This can only happen through the current decision making body.
And how I weep, every time I see it.
For a long time the laptop makers ceded the high-quality market to Apple and kept making cheap plastic crap. Even their high-end products were still plastic crap, just plastic crap containing better electronics.
After years and years, we're seeing makers like Asus and Dell take quality design seriously in their top end. But it's very late for that and Apple has a very strong hold on that market, and plus these companies sabotage their brand by making low-quality crap as well.
I mean, look at something like an HP Elitebook - a solidly built piece of hardware, but ugly as sin and plus every time HP tries to sell something high-end they're having to overcome the customer's bad memories of some horrible Pavilion.