$100 million visa application fee

Keeping with the spirit of reciprocity, will the "Hindu nationalist" Government of India led by Prime minister Narendra Modi that supposedly represents "civilizational nationalism" impose a $100 million non-refundable application fee for all foreign nationals seeking to enter Bharat for the purpose of proselytization / missionary activity - without any guarantees of the visa application being approved? This should be accompanied by an open ended round of nuclear tests that continue until all parameters are satisfied to fully validate 1) thermonuclear weapons 2) tactical nukes - both things that Bharat supposedly lacks. The "declaration of no first use" should be declared null and void with an explicit statement that nukes can and will be used when the Hindu nation faces an existential crisis. The doctrine should explicitly address Jihadi Beggardesh's threats to sever the North East from the mainland at the "Chicken neck corridor" stating that any such move will be met with a nuclear deterrent mercilessly deployed against 300 million Beggardeshi Jihadis! These actions will indicate to the world that Bharat means business - and will defend both her civilizational identity and sovereignty at any cost.

death wish, Indonesia? buy some brahmos and Tejas instead! jeez!

 

Big Pharma always wins: snake oils, both allopathy drugs and generativeAI

 https://x.com/dr_alphalyrae/status/1983244962646110685

welcome to the next latest and greatest snake oil, courtesy generativeAI!

we said so years ago: allopathy is like generativeAI. 

https://openthemagazine.com/columns/artificial-intelligence-like-allopathy

voice of NATO/deepstate realizes it's game over. Europe is done for, US has no bargaining power

 

Realization slowly dawns on the economist magazine that it's the end of the European century. china has leverage.

where is india's leverage, o omniscient 180-IQ IAS/IFS mandarins in Delhi?

why is india always first here? ah, because India has no leverage

 

alphabetically, china comes before India. in terms of volume of imports, china imports 2.2 million barrels a day, India imports 1.5 million barrels a day, or china imports 50% more than India. (headline and data from the financial times).

but India is vulnerable to US pressure, whereas china retaliates. 

india has to somehow build leverage. 

Quick notes: GM corn | Whites-only...

• Arm-twisted: US trade talks may be cracking India’s opposition to GM crops. Concessions offered by the Indian trade team already included the possible easing of some restrictions on the import of GM corn. “GM is a life and death issue for Indian farmers.”... are we Trump's dumpyard?



• ‘It could feed the world’: Amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization.. The Spanish believed that amaranth was a satanic food of natives. 1521: Spanish conquistadors ban amaranth cultivation under penalty of having hands severed, destroying temples where 200,000 people annually consumed tzoalli (amaranth-honey statues) during ceremonies. . . Rajgira could be game-changer for Indian farmer.




• White Right-wingers Only: Trump considers overhaul of refugee system that would favor white people. Importing white South Africans and European Nazis.



• Trump immigration plan may wipe out 15M jobs by 2035: Fewer workers in the labor force could have dramatic effects on the U.S. economy, from lower economic growth to reductions in the nation's goods and services produced.



• Soft on Beijing: Trump has purged the National Security Council of many advisers who advocated a tougher line toward China and diminished the role of the council. China hawks grow queasy over Trump’s push for deals with Beijing.



• 'DOGE was all about collecting data for Musk's Grok': Tariffs are way up. Interest on debt tops $1 Trillion. And DOGE didn’t do much.



• Japanese Monster: Shohei Ohtani’s historic performance sends LA back to World Series.




• How China Built Tech Prowess: Chemistry Classes and Research Labs. Unlike India's history debate clubs



• GOP's true colors: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat. “Im going to create some of the greatest physiological torture methods known to man. We only want true believers”. ‘I love Hitler’



• Trump Organization Expands in India: Where Many of Its Partners Face Accusations

Ashley Tellis Arrested for Spying for China

After Trump complained Modi is now with Xi, soon Ashley Tellis is arrested for giving secrets to China. Is this a "kabuki theatre" to show the American public that Indians are in league with the Chinese?

And uncoincidentally, China's govt is now cracking down on Christian churches

so now little Britain is trying to steal bitcoin from Chinese crypto investors. nation of thieves.

this is good. let's see how xi jing ping responds to this: he'll likely screw the little brits. excerpt from this FT article. 

bloody thieving brits. first they stole $45 trillion from India, then a few $ billions from Russia by freezing their assets, now this from china. "nation of thieves", not shopkeepers.

AI Is Really Making Anything Visually Possible

EPSTEIN ISLAND - As a Toy Commercial

We should learn how to make our own meme-worthy parody videos

Ashley Tellis: US State Dept Employee Accused of Leaking Secrets to China

State Department employee allegedly removed classified docs, met with Chinese officials

https://www.foxnews.com/us/state-department-employee-allegedly-removed-classified-docs-met-chinese-officials

Death blow to Indian defence industry

• Prof Bharat Karnad: Modi’s atmnirbharta policies are cementing India’s reputation as a classic sucker.
  
  “In a move that could severely undercut India’s domestic defence industry, the Modi govt is considering allowing wholly owned local subsidiaries of foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to qualify as ‘Indian vendors’ in defence procurement. This long-pending demand of multinational arms makers threatens to hand the lucrative defence market to global giants while sidelining homegrown firms.”
  
  That Modi cannot distinguish between “Made in India” — where the entire weapon system is designed, developed, and produced in the country, and “Make in India” where any foreign goods can be imported in disaggregated kit-form and screw-drivered, was pointed out by me when the PM first started talking about atmnirbharta. 11 years later we know what that means.
  
  Modi publicly disclosed what he meant by atm nirbhar — his “Make in India” policy, he said, involves “Indian toil”. So, for the PM it is enough that Indians employed in these Indian factories of foreign arms companies, being set up here in the hope of getting the exact bonanza they are getting now, will be screwdrivering vintage second rate military hardware. But, this policy wrinkle will simplify procurement by bypassing the “jhanjat” of tech transfer. Welcome to India — the dumping ground for antique Western weaponry!
  
  But this development seems in the mainstream of the Modi government’s recent initiatives that see nothing wrong in signing Free Trade Agreements left and right drawn up by that shortsighted commerce minister, Piyush Goel, and his bunch of babus, with provisions in them to permit British and European companies to bid for all Indian govt procurement contracts at the central, state and local levels worth $750 billion annually, which will void the Indian industry.
  
  There are other provisions in them that will bar Indian entities from demanding the transfer of source codes as part of sales deals to enable the re-engineering, say, of weapons and other systems for retrofitment on imported hardware and weapons platforms, to fit India’s needs and requirements.
  
  Hence, Dassault Avions’ refusal to part with source codes for the Rafale aircraft means that DRDO cannot integrate Indian designed and produced missiles and ordnance into the IAF Rafales. And even for the most minor modifications the IAF will have to go to the French company — an endless revenue stream for Dassult! Apparently Paris had alerted the French defence industry to New Delhi’s agreeing to such provisions in the soon to be formalised FTA with EU (and also with the UK and the US).
  
  



• India and China, a study in contrast: MNCs forced to do JV with locals in return for market access is at the heart of China model. In India, not only do we surrender our markets to MNCs, we also put up with their transfer pricing/royalty shenanigans

MNCs forced to do JV with locals in return for market access is at the heart of China model. It allows domestic firms to "absorb" tech and move up value chain
In India, not only do we surrender our markets to MNCs, we also put up with their transfer pricing/royalty shenanigans pic.twitter.com/49Uqi7bjul

— Diva Jain (@DivaJain2) September 5, 2025




• IAF and the French Defence industry: Recently, we learnt from defence minister Rajnath Singh that the French jet engine maker, Safran would help India design and develop its own jet engine — no, not by building on the Kaveri 35VS engine that produced 81 kiloNewtons (kN) of thrust in a dry test — which, incidentally, is some 9kN more than the 73kN thrust developed by the engines on the Rafales flying with the IAF currently. And, notwithstanding some Rupees 20 BILLION the country has sunk into the Kaveri project, including setting up the impressive jet engine facility at the GTRE, Bengaluru. But rather by forking over $10 BILLION to Safran for passing off the Snecma M88-4 engine with some tinkering, as some new fangled power plant for the Tejas 1A and Mk2.
  
  Except, the M88 is a design product of the 1970s, that is, it is an over 50 year OLD jet engine!
  
  The defence minister very proudly declared that the indigenous twin-engined advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA) would be powered by this engine. Sure its power is going to be increased to 120kN but on the same old design. In other words, by the time the AMCA — a supposedly 5th generation aircraft is airborne realistically no earlier than 2040, the engine it will be outfitted with will already be 70+ years old!!!
  
  The Free Trade Agreement the Piyush Goel-led commerce ministry negotiated with the UK and is negotiating with the EU and the US, permits Western supplier firms to deny transfer of source codes for their wares!



• Blundering again: It takes a special talent in our politicians to make Leh’s Tibetan Buddhists so belligerent





• Forever dependent on phorenware: Do unto America what America does to China

Shouldn’t India do the same with Google and FB, not to mention X? pic.twitter.com/325v6OTAoI

— Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ (@sankrant) September 17, 2025

the end of the EV boom? ok, china you can have them all. hybrids make more sense in India.

 

now this is called leverage. xi has trump cornered

 

so that's why trump's folks are pressing India: "buy our GMO corn, or else!"

 

see this too: https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-176-farm-distress-the-real-reason

genAI capex boom screams 'bubble'. but post the bubble apocalypse, maybe genAI will go mainstream

from FT 

Peak social media? except in america

Prof Rajasree: Sep 2025 IIT Madras Alumni Association Trivandrum Chapter Fireside Chat on India's massive thrust into the semiconductor sector