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Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
It was interesting to read the front page article ‘Modi’s decision to buy 36 Rafales shot the price of each jet up by 41%’ by N. Ram, illustrious journalist, in The Hindu dated Jan 18, 2019. The length of the article appeared proportional to the number of years Ram has been a journalist, repetitive and not so finely edited.
It was really ingenious of N Ram to divide the India specific enhancement cost by 36 and compare with Anthony’s 8 years’ procrastination & claim 41% increase in banner headline. To arrive at this magical figure he compares the 2007 price with that of 2016. Curiously he further states that if you compare with the 2011 escalation price factored in, the increase is 14.20% and not 41.42%! He somehow refrains from comparing with the escalation cost as applicable in 2016, 5 years after his previous comparison when the contract was concluded.
To match Ram’s number either you buy 126 or none. It doesn’t matter if our airforce, in the meanwhile, is handicapped.
Ram objects to majority decision of 4-3. It is of no consequence to him that the Deputy Chief of Airstaff of the Indian Airforce is part of that majority. Similar objections arev raused even when the Supreme Court of India gives a majority judgement, that is not convenient to Ram’s cause. After all he has built his reputation by repudiating majority community in preference to courting one or two minority communities.
His lament about not considering the ‘attractive if not mouthwatering’ offer by Eurofighter Typhoon consortium confirms what is widely known as lobbying for those who lost in the tender process. He doesn’t mention whose mouths were watering at the prospect of Eurofighter getting the coveted contract.
He concedes that no money trail has been discovered so far in this case. Does it matter that there is no kick back? If Ram, Rahul, Yashwanth Sinha, Arun Shourie and Prashanth Bhushan say that Modi is corrupt, that is enough, let us hurry and hang him.
It is said that before you read history know the historian. It should also be said that before you read an article know the scion journalist.
It was interesting to read the front page article ‘Modi’s decision to buy 36 Rafales shot the price of each jet up by 41%’ by N. Ram, illustrious journalist, in The Hindu dated Jan 18, 2019. The length of the article appeared proportional to the number of years Ram has been a journalist, repetitive and not so finely edited.
It was really ingenious of N Ram to divide the India specific enhancement cost by 36 and compare with Anthony’s 8 years’ procrastination & claim 41% increase in banner headline. To arrive at this magical figure he compares the 2007 price with that of 2016. Curiously he further states that if you compare with the 2011 escalation price factored in, the increase is 14.20% and not 41.42%! He somehow refrains from comparing with the escalation cost as applicable in 2016, 5 years after his previous comparison when the contract was concluded.
To match Ram’s number either you buy 126 or none. It doesn’t matter if our airforce, in the meanwhile, is handicapped.
Ram objects to majority decision of 4-3. It is of no consequence to him that the Deputy Chief of Airstaff of the Indian Airforce is part of that majority. Similar objections arev raused even when the Supreme Court of India gives a majority judgement, that is not convenient to Ram’s cause. After all he has built his reputation by repudiating majority community in preference to courting one or two minority communities.
His lament about not considering the ‘attractive if not mouthwatering’ offer by Eurofighter Typhoon consortium confirms what is widely known as lobbying for those who lost in the tender process. He doesn’t mention whose mouths were watering at the prospect of Eurofighter getting the coveted contract.
He concedes that no money trail has been discovered so far in this case. Does it matter that there is no kick back? If Ram, Rahul, Yashwanth Sinha, Arun Shourie and Prashanth Bhushan say that Modi is corrupt, that is enough, let us hurry and hang him.
It is said that before you read history know the historian. It should also be said that before you read an article know the scion journalist.