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Yes, recorded rates confirm it.
Approximate reported rapes per 100k (recent UNODC/national data):
Sweden ~85
USA ~40
Germany ~16
Israel ~17
India ~2.1 (NCRB 2024: ~29.5k cases)
Note: definitions, reporting culture and laws differ sharply across countries, so direct comparisons have limits.
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Hip replacement surgery waiting times
🇸🇮 Slovenia – 667 days
🇵🇱 Poland – 343 days
🇭🇺 Hungary – 209 days
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – 174 days
🇮🇳 India – Discharge in 3–5 days
Data source: OECD Health at a Glance 2025
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Is "Indian nepotism" real? Maybe.
Immigrant-founded firms tend to employ a lot of coethnics—especially for groups that don't really know English. Chinese founders fill 45% of first hires with Chinese, Mexicans 31%, and Poles 27%.
Indians are at 21%, below the immigrant average.
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At least in the case of eMudhra, the numbers 4 and 155 were system generated. Do you know what happened with Crowdstrike? They sent a 20 digit input to a 21 digit array and when they did a non-wildcard search, it led to total collapse. If I remember correctly, no one said, a company which doesn't know the difference between 20 and 21 and doesn't know how to count numbers till 20 has no reason to exist.
You see, that is the impossible standards I was talking about. A bug is a bug. Even silly mistakes happen. No one needs to be drawn and quartered for a bug. It's a lesson to learn, not a stereotype on a company or a race. Mistakes happen and if there is a damage, there will be accountability and demands for compensation. You don't need to run a witch hunt to burn down a company for a production bug.
When people don't get similar treatment even for lethargy or for using trivial passwords which led to major issues, why are we applying absurd yardsticks in this case?
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The self loathing capability of Indians is greater than anyone else on the planet.
Because it's true. For once we can agree with our babus. Influencers have been untrustworthy and hysterical over the eMudhra issue.
Yesterday's biggest incident was PHP and not eMudhra. While the latter was incompetent the impact of the former was magnitudes more.
But you wouldn't know that from twitter.
You also wouldn't know of the Railway compromise or the dozen other AI led attacks.
You had people who need a calculator for 2^2 screaming in your ear that this was the most stupid thing since humans appeared on Earth
Many blatantly propagated that emudhra caused the PHP problem.
Reminder: just recently the Danes actually compromised 8.8 million users by using password 123456. You probably didn't even hear much about that.
Few years ago Knight capital sank 440 million USD by pushing code that bought stocks high and sold low!
NASA lost a 300 mil USD spacecraft Because of a schoolboy error (wrong units for impulse).
So no this is not the singular stupid event of world history. Or tech history.
Indian influencers in particular are guilty of exaggeration and raging too much, to the extent that information is muddied.
Foreign influencers took this as an opportunity to whip up fear about Indian IT and stir racism.
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India has given so much to the world.
徳島大学などの研究チームは、
カレー粉に含まれる「クルクミン」という成分に、
大腸がんの予防効果がある可能性を示す
研究結果が得られたと発表しました。
news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/nd-2…
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"UN experts are oxymoron", says Marco Rubio when asked about UN Special Rapporteur comments on India protests
Vdo ctsy: Fox Raw Live Now
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Muhammad Yunus presided over rampant rights abuses and extrajudicial killings as head of Bangladesh’s Islamist-leaning interim regime. Yet his deep ties to the Clintons have served him well throughout his career.
In the latest example, Yunus was presented with the Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) Award by Hillary Clinton herself at Georgetown University.
Yunus pioneered microcredit for which he and the Grameen Bank he headed jointly received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, after Bill Clinton lobbied for him. In presenting the prize, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee recalled Clinton’s 2002 statement: “Dr. Yunus is a man who long ago should have won the Nobel Prize and I’ll keep saying that until they finally give it to him.” The chairman then added, “Now Clinton will no longer need to remind us.”
The award also carried an unmistakable geopolitical message. The committee chairman expressed the hope that “this peace prize will represent a possible approach to the Muslim part of the world” amid the post-9/11 tendency to “demonize Islam.” He added, “It is an important task for the Nobel Committee to try to narrow the gap between the West and Islam.”
The Nobel Peace Prize has, to this day, remained largely a geopolitical instrument, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee often using it to advance a particular political worldview under the mantle of peace. Yunus’s prize, and the committee chairman’s own explanation of its purpose, offered a revealing example.
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Hot air.
What novel ideas have the Chinese younger scholars put on the table?
Name one.
They just regurgitate the party line like programmed robots.
In the several decades of India- China relations it can’t be that China has made no mistake in dealing with India- China issues, only India has.
Have you the intellectual capacity and political freedom to reflect and cite any instance of a Chinese mistake in handling India?
This precisely captures why I detest engaging with veteran Indian scholars.
Having accumulated a vast reserve of past ideas, perspectives, and assumptions during their formative years, they find their capacity to learn new things, comprehend a changing world, and embrace fresh concepts plummeting as they age. Consequently, they constantly try to interpret a brand-new reality through the lens of obsolete mindsets—only to run into a brick wall time and again. At the same time, because they have achieved social distinction and success, they subconsciously attribute their status and wealth to their old worldview and a bygone era. This makes them cling even more fanatically to that tried-and-true path and fiercely resist any departure from it.
When younger generations introduce novel ideas and fresh insights, these scholars invariably adopt an air of condescension: "My life experience far surpasses yours," or even a rigid "I am right and you are wrong." This fully exposes the arrogance and conceit typical of older minds. Because their cognitive architecture can no longer offer a coherent explanation for the modern world, they resort to posturing—relying on seniority and a dogmatic "I'm right, you're wrong" stance in a desperate bid to preserve their fading authority.
They remain utterly perplexed by the new world, just as they are baffled by the youth's skepticism toward them, yet they still presume to lecture young people on how to "avoid detours." While the younger generation may lack experience, they are firmly convinced that these elders are hopelessly set in their ways, and that blindly replicating their methods is a surefire ticket to being discarded by the future.
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You are misinformed.
UNMOGP has no role on the Indian side. They can’t enter J&K. They have a small liaison office in Delhi which we ignore. We have not expelled them because they are irrelevant.
China attacked us in 1962. Russian veto ended that mischievous move in the UNSC.
Even so, by your date line, for 64 years the UN ignored the Kashmir issue., till 2019 when a mischievous attempt by China fizzled out.
The UNGA hasn’t passed any resolution on J&K.
As for the OIC, which is an Islamic club no one now bothers about, ask yourself why Turkey plays such an active anti- Indian role in it. You took the chairmanship of the OIC contact group on Kashmir.
Beyond all this, in the Simla Agreement of 1972, Pakistan agreed that the Kashmir issue will be addressed bilaterally by the two countries.
The irrelevance of the OIC is exposed on the Palestine issue, recalling it was set up after the Al Aqsa incident. Gaza has been destroyed and the West Bank is under more and more duress.
Key OIC countries have now diplomatic ties with Israel.
As ambassador to Turkey I knew Kandemir,,Ozceri and Sanberk very well. Gentlemen. Constructive. Very friendly towards India.
You seem to be influenced by the dilution of secularism in Turkey and have imbibed Islamism under Erdogan.
Incidentally, I was the equivalent of the Undersecretary in your system.
BM’nin Hindistan-Pakistan Askeri Gözlemci Grubu 1949'dan beri hâlâ sahada. Gündemden düştüğü söylenen bir mesele için epey uzun bir mesai.
Bir meselenin ciddiye alınması için 193 ülkenin rahatsız olması mı gerekiyor? Keşmir 1957'den çok sonra da Güvenlik Konseyi’nin gündemindeydi. 22 Haziran 1962'de Konsey’in 11 üyesinden 7'si Keşmir’e ilişkin bir karar tasarısına evet oyu verdi. Tasarıyı yalnızca Sovyet vetosu durdurdu.
193 üye arasında “kimse rahatsız değil” diye yazdıktan hemen sonra, Bağdat toplantısındaki “tekrarlanan acımasız İİT saldırılarından” şikayet ettiniz. 57 üyeli bir teşkilatın her yıl aynı meseleyi gündeme getirmesi “kimse rahatsız değil” tanımına pek uymuyor.
Eski bir diplomatın daha iyi bilgilenmiş olması gerektiği konusunda haklısınız. Hele ki sizin gibi Dışişleri Müsteşarlığı yapmışsa. @KanwalSibal
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Whats wrong with AAP?completely changed. Double standards. U too are like congress. modiji is far better.. the best one. @ArvindKejriwal
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One-time payments to families of soldiers killed in service as measured in years of average wage:
Ukraine 46x
India 15.5x
Estonia 12.5x
Russia 11.6x
USA 1.1x
Source: buff.ly/RHMBmvz
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The Pakistani government has made a grave mistake; the people of Pakistan know exactly what we are talking about!
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This report by Economist on French riots is written with so much nuance and empathy.
The pantomime and the caricature is saved for India.
economist.com/europe/2026/10…
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Must read thread
25 years ago I innocently told a French guy that India has many languages, not only Hindi. His response: “Why does the government allow that?”
I wasn’t sure if he was serious. He absolutely was! I gently told him it isn’t up to the government. Indian people decide that.
Total disbelief.
I had to let it slide.
France is a linguistic chauvinist state whose liberty-equality-fraternity ideals have always been selective, not worthy of such adulation, certainly not by someone from the global south.
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This. French revolution romanticism is stupidest sh!t ever. A lil history reading will tell ya it was one of darkest time for any civilians of France. Rise of napoleon stabilized the country or it would have not existed anymore
The French Revolution’s record undercuts the romantic version further. The Reign of Terror produced roughly 16,000–17,000 official guillotine executions, with another 10,000 or more dying in prison or without trial, and far higher numbers once the Vendée massacres and other summary killings are included. Estimates for the Terror alone commonly run 30,000–50,000 dead. The same authorities that proclaimed liberty and fraternity used the guillotine, the Law of Suspects, and mass repression against priests, peasants, political rivals, and ordinary people.
Most of the dead were commoners. The ideals mattered, but they coexisted with state violence and later with an aggressive colonial project that imposed French language and administration across Africa, Indochina, and elsewhere.
Selective application is the historical record, not an allegation.
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