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  • Problem with Modi is not his failures. Problem is with opposition parties that are willing to stick to inaction, refuse to abandon Gandhi Family elitism, keep face of opposition a person that gets basic facts wrong on a weekly level. If I was in India voting, I don't even know if I have an alternative.

    CPI, BSP, SP, AITC, TDP are all worse than INC. NCP still better but can't get to national politics and AAP that promised a different more new-age way of governing is now governing basis the same useless policies, leaves me hopeless.

    So if not BJP then who? Thank god i guess i don't have to vote.

  • !The fungus shapes the ice into fine hairs through an uncertain mechanism and likely stabilizes it by providing a recrystallization inhibitor similar to antifreeze proteins!<

    I always find these interesting that we still haven't figure out fungi fully.

  • I don't think it's prefer one over the other. For India world is not binary. There is a reason it's called third world country, Russian partnership doesn't meant distance from West and western partnership doesn't mean distance from Russia. India doesn't have the luxury to pick sides. It has to keep engaging all global partners.

  • India is not distancing itself from West, but geopolitics are different for India. West has not been a reliable trading partner in last 8 decades, last decade West has been reliable but that's mostly because now they want to counter China. USSR/Russia has been more reliable.

    But if you take a subset of defense trading partner, West has been very unreliable period. If you look at all the corruption scandals in Indian Defense history you'd realise almost all are with the west, France, Sweden, Italy.

    Now going back to broader business and economic development, your argument is probably valid, but from the point of view of India, it is in position of most relative strength in geopolitics than it has ever been, if India can play both sides, it will and it must.

    If any dealings with Russia were followed by sanction from the west, I think that's when you'd see who does India favor more. But west won't do it, because West needs India to be strong to counter China and if the cost is delayed fall of Putin, I think west is willing to take that risk, since Russia is no longer the threat it was to the west 3 decades ago.

    So, from Indian's point of view if it can both have a cake and eat it too, why would it not?

  • I have read rememberance of earth's past trilogy. Well continously here meant for 9 books, If a series wanted to stop at 3 books a lot easier to manage new sci-fi topics. But if you are looking for something that is going for a while, I don't think there are any good ones other than expanse.

    Happy to be proven wrong.