Quick notes: High-speed rail, Shia slaughter...

• Made-in-China: First high-speed line in U.S built by Chinese -- from LA to Las Vegas.



• Suicide bomber kills 22 Shia marchers: A day after 10 people were killed at a mosque in Balochistan province by another suicide bomber..
  
  As Rajeev Malhotra says, there is no need for Hindus to take sides. The sub-continent's ungrateful Shias are always a threat to Hindus.
  
  Another issue: the Sunni shade of the Baloch movement presents a dilemma for India's support to the Baloch liberation movement.



• SP Jain School of Global Management: ranked among the world’s top 100 MBA institutions.



• BJP's foolishness:

In war you cut supply lines of enemy. Here BJP provides oxygen cylinders to enemy on retreat. #RavishankarPrasad

— iMac_too (@iMac_too) October 22, 2015




• Genuflecting before the Chinese:

  I like this image of Britain as a nautch girl desperately gyrating her skinny hips, hoping the great man will notice https://t.co/DRBmluwap9

  — राजीवः श्रीनिवासः (@RajeevSrinivasa) October 23, 2015