Prince William and Duchess Kate will travel for a week to Islamabad, Lahore, Quetta, Karachi and Peshawar, but will not be accompanied by their 3 young children.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
The Asian Development Outlook 2024 report suggests that policymakers in the region should monitor a number of risks. These include escalating conflicts and geopolitical tensions.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Like any other article from Jyoti, this article does not have any substantial points to make. Such Royal visits are part of the routine cultural exchanges and we cannot have much political significance attached to it, beyond some interest in glittering photographs. That UK ( and in particular its Labour Party) is partial to Pakistan is not a news for India but extent to which it went against India recently on Kashmir is definitely a sore point and are bound to affect our relation with UK unless UK does something special to make amends. That UK hardly matter in international politics is also given and as rightly said above by Rajan in his comments, it attracts disproportionately high number of unskilled people from Africa and South Asia than the skilled ones. Main attraction of UK is its valuable real estate and a place where everyone in the world likes to come together for holidays. Due to its demographic structure, in next 20 to 40 years, its population will be more of South Asian origin (within that, muslim majority) and therefore, its politics may change drastically. Original Brits, who have been anyway pushed out of main cities due to high real estate prices, will get further marginalized. Over the years, it being a member of UN Security Council will be questioned as it will be seen more like a (bad version) Singapore of West or ( a very good version of North Korea or Pakistan- two most dangerous nuclear powers of the world). Nevertheless, London has its own charm ( as a good version of Bombay for us Indians) and despite its overtly anti India stand, many Indians are going to be there as students, workers, doctors, apartment owners and tourists. Anyway, Modi is not going to be bothered about this visit but she has used this occasion to pen one more article.
Britain is a third rate power, makes nothing of value, no innovation, is of no value to India at all . It’s populated with unskilled Islamic immigrants and Nigerians and its major cities are now complete ghettoes. Britain was a fourth rate power in 1970, when Harold Wilson begged to be admitted into the EEC. Now, fattened on European money and innovation, out of the ICU, it triggered Brexit and is now on its road to perdition. Britain’s feudal culture and poor skills reflect in the rubbish it makes , from Jaguar to Rover, terrible quality issues. Britain can never out farm the French or out Engineer the Germans. In fact, today, there is no core competency that Britain brings to the table. Israelis makes great Radars and weapons, French avionics and digital signal processing is superb, Russian airframes and low cost is well known, American cutting edge technology is widely admired. There will never be a British Apple or a Google or Alphabet or for that matter even a Samsung. Britain attracts the worst immigrants from India, uneducated and unskilled Punjabis and Gujaratis. A fitting match for the UK. As India’s digital economy grows and Maharashtra and a South India grow further( all together, five Dravidian states pay 85 percent of India’s direct tax), the UK will be marginalised further…..Narendra Modi knows this, and he knows India has no future with the UK, it can provide nothing of value for India, just play a little mischief now and then with their Islamic friends
“the magnificent reach of the Commonwealth”. Seriously? United Kingdom is a country that can hardly reach it’s own constituents viz. England, Scotland, Wales & N. Ireland leave alone the rest of it’s erstwhile colonies. The Commonwealth is nothing more than a creation for Raj apologists to revel in Empire trivia. As for the royal visits, give them a break, they too need to get out of their country to more exotic places.
The writer of this article is missing one important dimension: Royal Family’s internal family politics. There are reports of two boys not getting along very well. The younger one has just been to South Africa with his celebrity wife to ‘retrace the footsteps’ of his late mother. The older one is doing the same; Diana was Imran’s friend and had strong Pakistani connections, having been to the country on multiple charity trips.
There are two important points here, the second one being assumption: (1) the royals have NO influence on the politics, but this tour clearly indicates that the British wariness with radical Islam has reached its peak. They just want to make peace now. The British, unlike mainland Europeans are historically more flexible in their diplomacy and tactics; (2) Modi perceives Britain as a minor player on International stage.
The coverage is Western press subtly hints the motivation for this “most complex royal tour” is to improve relations with a Muslim country having security issues, and whose diaspora is more integrated with their country of origin, less with their new home. A mild examples: “Earlier this month a senior royal aide said: “What happens in Pakistan matters on the streets of the UK. It’s one of the most important relationships that the UK has.” (Tom Davidson reporting in Mirror, 14 Oct. 2019). The word that requires highlighting is “the streets”. Remember London Bridge terrorist incident.
One can only hope that those 117 associations are not acting at the behest of the High Commission. The relationship between the diaspora and the Indian state needs to be managed with care and sensitivity, not losing sight of the fact that they are foreign citizens who have sworn an oath of allegiance to their new country. Even Akshay Kumar would now have to curtsy to the Queen. Events like the one at Houston are at the Outer edges of that sense of propriety.
Since a Print reader accurately placed you as a foot soldier of the troll factory, I no longer take your interventions seriously. The language could do with improvement, lekin ten bucks per tweet mein Shakespeare toh mil nahin Saket.
Any time British no brains nowadays.
Like any other article from Jyoti, this article does not have any substantial points to make. Such Royal visits are part of the routine cultural exchanges and we cannot have much political significance attached to it, beyond some interest in glittering photographs. That UK ( and in particular its Labour Party) is partial to Pakistan is not a news for India but extent to which it went against India recently on Kashmir is definitely a sore point and are bound to affect our relation with UK unless UK does something special to make amends. That UK hardly matter in international politics is also given and as rightly said above by Rajan in his comments, it attracts disproportionately high number of unskilled people from Africa and South Asia than the skilled ones. Main attraction of UK is its valuable real estate and a place where everyone in the world likes to come together for holidays. Due to its demographic structure, in next 20 to 40 years, its population will be more of South Asian origin (within that, muslim majority) and therefore, its politics may change drastically. Original Brits, who have been anyway pushed out of main cities due to high real estate prices, will get further marginalized. Over the years, it being a member of UN Security Council will be questioned as it will be seen more like a (bad version) Singapore of West or ( a very good version of North Korea or Pakistan- two most dangerous nuclear powers of the world). Nevertheless, London has its own charm ( as a good version of Bombay for us Indians) and despite its overtly anti India stand, many Indians are going to be there as students, workers, doctors, apartment owners and tourists. Anyway, Modi is not going to be bothered about this visit but she has used this occasion to pen one more article.
Britain is a third rate power, makes nothing of value, no innovation, is of no value to India at all . It’s populated with unskilled Islamic immigrants and Nigerians and its major cities are now complete ghettoes. Britain was a fourth rate power in 1970, when Harold Wilson begged to be admitted into the EEC. Now, fattened on European money and innovation, out of the ICU, it triggered Brexit and is now on its road to perdition. Britain’s feudal culture and poor skills reflect in the rubbish it makes , from Jaguar to Rover, terrible quality issues. Britain can never out farm the French or out Engineer the Germans. In fact, today, there is no core competency that Britain brings to the table. Israelis makes great Radars and weapons, French avionics and digital signal processing is superb, Russian airframes and low cost is well known, American cutting edge technology is widely admired. There will never be a British Apple or a Google or Alphabet or for that matter even a Samsung. Britain attracts the worst immigrants from India, uneducated and unskilled Punjabis and Gujaratis. A fitting match for the UK. As India’s digital economy grows and Maharashtra and a South India grow further( all together, five Dravidian states pay 85 percent of India’s direct tax), the UK will be marginalised further…..Narendra Modi knows this, and he knows India has no future with the UK, it can provide nothing of value for India, just play a little mischief now and then with their Islamic friends
“the magnificent reach of the Commonwealth”. Seriously? United Kingdom is a country that can hardly reach it’s own constituents viz. England, Scotland, Wales & N. Ireland leave alone the rest of it’s erstwhile colonies. The Commonwealth is nothing more than a creation for Raj apologists to revel in Empire trivia. As for the royal visits, give them a break, they too need to get out of their country to more exotic places.
The writer of this article is missing one important dimension: Royal Family’s internal family politics. There are reports of two boys not getting along very well. The younger one has just been to South Africa with his celebrity wife to ‘retrace the footsteps’ of his late mother. The older one is doing the same; Diana was Imran’s friend and had strong Pakistani connections, having been to the country on multiple charity trips.
There are two important points here, the second one being assumption: (1) the royals have NO influence on the politics, but this tour clearly indicates that the British wariness with radical Islam has reached its peak. They just want to make peace now. The British, unlike mainland Europeans are historically more flexible in their diplomacy and tactics; (2) Modi perceives Britain as a minor player on International stage.
The coverage is Western press subtly hints the motivation for this “most complex royal tour” is to improve relations with a Muslim country having security issues, and whose diaspora is more integrated with their country of origin, less with their new home. A mild examples: “Earlier this month a senior royal aide said: “What happens in Pakistan matters on the streets of the UK. It’s one of the most important relationships that the UK has.” (Tom Davidson reporting in Mirror, 14 Oct. 2019). The word that requires highlighting is “the streets”. Remember London Bridge terrorist incident.
One can only hope that those 117 associations are not acting at the behest of the High Commission. The relationship between the diaspora and the Indian state needs to be managed with care and sensitivity, not losing sight of the fact that they are foreign citizens who have sworn an oath of allegiance to their new country. Even Akshay Kumar would now have to curtsy to the Queen. Events like the one at Houston are at the Outer edges of that sense of propriety.
Why you pessimist you dumb
Since a Print reader accurately placed you as a foot soldier of the troll factory, I no longer take your interventions seriously. The language could do with improvement, lekin ten bucks per tweet mein Shakespeare toh mil nahin Saket.