The SaaS -Pocalypse Has Begun: For most of the past two decades, enterprise software benefited from a remarkably stable economic story. Software was expensive to build. Switching costs were high. Data lived in proprietary systems.
Once a platform became the system of record, it stayed there. Recurring revenue was treated as a proxy for predictability. Contracts were assumed to be sticky. Cash flows were assumed to be resilient.
AI is now testing every part of that logic at once.
AI doesn't kill the software directly. It kills the headcount that uses the software. Which kills the per-seat revenue model. Which kills the business... "Software becomes a commodity; AI becomes the "brain" and the worker".
Satya Nadela is basically describing the death of the traditional SaaS model.
Explains the AI agentic future, and where the "value" lives.
Because business logic is moving from the software application to the AI agents.
Anthropic's new AI tools disrupts data analytics and software companies: AI developer Anthropic launched plug-ins for its Claude Cowork agent that would automate tasks across legal, sales, marketing and data analysis. That move has sparked worries of an impending AI-fueled disruption of the data and professional services industry, which were once seen as major beneficiaries of the AI era.
Goldman Sachs is rolling out Anthropic’s AI model to automate accounting and compliance roles completely.
Anthropic engineers have been embedded at Goldman for 6 months, co-developing systems that act like “digital co-workers” for high-volume, process-heavy tasks.
India's staffing-intensive IT sector shaken: "As Indian enterprises integrate Claude for critical coding workflows, dependency on large vendor teams may decline, squeezing billable hours and margins. Anthropic’s advanced AI systems also threaten entry‑level talent pool at Indian IT firms by replacing routine development and testing tasks".
Anything but Deep Tech: Indian corporate investment is characterised by low R&D intensity and concentration in real estate-linked, regulated, or quasi-monopolistic sectors with a relative lack of willingness and appetite to invest towards long-term risk absorption and become globally competitive.
A 'Greater Balochistan'?There is growing trepidation in Pakistan establishment circles that there could be a new great game underway in the region to create a Greater Balochistan comprising Sistan-Baluchistan and Balochistan. This is not just a mineral-rich area, but geographically, a very pivotal area.
A Greater Balochistan will alter the geopolitics of the region, straddling not only the entire Gulf region but also providing a base to access Central Asia and keep a watch over troublesome areas in Iran, Afghanistan and a rump Pakistan. In fact, the geographical relevance that Pakistan keeps talking about comes from its control over Balochistan.
The Pakistanis are losing sleep at the thought of powerful regional and global players waking up to the importance of Balochistan. Operation Herof 2 and the larger Baloch uprising are, therefore, no longer being seen as a local separatist movement but as part of a larger global conspiracy to cut not just Iran but also Pakistan to size.
The United States did not merely abandon the Kurds it handed them over to terror, to knives, to silence. Allies were turned into expendable bodies. Promises were buried alongside the dead. I am a Dutch journalist, and I refuse to look away. I feel the pain of the Kurdish people… pic.twitter.com/u5PYTJdbqD
Why Indian cities are hostile to pedestrians: Annual pedestrian deaths on Indian roads exceed fatalities reported in several active conflict zones globally, underscoring that Indian streets function as a daily warzone for walkers... “Attempts to redesign roads without prioritising pedestrians are a fundamental part of the problem. Footpaths are a default globally, not here.”
Win for American farmer: New US-India deal will export more American farm products to India's massive market, lifting prices, and pumping cash into rural America.
Thank you @POTUS for ONCE AGAIN delivering for our American farmers.
New US-India deal will export more American farm products to India's massive market, lifting prices, and pumping cash into rural America.
USA copying China? A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America’s. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China - 'State capitalism with American characteristics' - a sea change from the free market ethos the U.S. once embodied. . . . Trump reviving crony capitalism.
India pauses plans to buy U.S. arms after Trump's tariffs: Discussions on India's purchases of Stryker combat vehicles made by General Dynamics Land Systems and Javelin anti-tank missiles developed by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have been paused due to the tariffs.
Fistful Of Dollars: Rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for Trump Golf Club.
EnCharge AI: Princeton researcher Naveen Verma’s startup claims their chip tackles AI workloads with performance per watt up to 20 times better than competing chips.
Power hungry toy: AI's soaring energy consumption is causing skyrocketing power bills for households across the US — States reporting spikes in energy costs of up to 36%
AI pervert: Meta AI chatbots gave false medical advice and flirted with minors — now the company is restructuring its AI division again - fourth restructuring in six months.
Open-source in AI: Huawei is making its Ascend AI GPU software toolkit open-source to better compete against CUDA. . . Chinese censorship bias in LLMs
Milk may not help the elderly: People who live in countries with the lowest rates of hip fractures also tend to drink the least milk. Drinking more milk was not associated with lower fracture risk
Reality check for India: Far from being supportive, the US under Trump has ended up re-hyphenating Pakistan with India. The two superpowers, the US and China, seem to have an unstated common interest inkeeping India down a notch.
NITI Aayog loaded with Sinophiles: India's top think tank recommends easing investment rules for Chinese firms... My enemy is my savior
Trump, the Sinophile: As Trump courts a more assertive Beijing, China hawks are losing out in a a dramatic reversal.
In recent years, one of China's biggest requests of US officials has been that the US relax its strict controls on advanced AI chips, measures that were put in place to slow Beijing's technological and military gains. Last week, the Trump administration did just that, as it allowed Nvidia to sell its H20 chip to China... China won by calling Trump’s ‘bluff’
Microsoft, the Sinophile: Microsoft using engineers in China to help maintain cloud computing systems for U.S. Department of Defense.
I want to add that Singapore, one of the most advanced economies in the world and one of the most livable cities, relies extensively on public transport. Singapore also limits the number of private cars through the mechanism of open market trading of Certificate of Entitlement… https://t.co/ob7WjOiybJ
Jane Street's cash machine came to an abrupt halt: Foreign funds and proprietary traders using algorithms made $7 billion in the 12 months to March 2024 alone. That bonanza may be coming to an end.
Indian casino is a train-wreck: Indian retail investor losses on derivative trades widened in 2024-25 by 41% to 1.06 trillion rupees. India is the world's largest derivatives market, accounting for nearly 60% of the equity derivatives traded globally in April.
Prada on backfoot: High Fashion's habit of 'borrowing' from India isn't new. Prada's Kolhapuri chappals are just the latest
Prada is at Centre of GI tag violations for its flat leather sandals that bear a striking resemblance to traditional Kolhapuri chappals.
Indian shops sell it for ₹1,000 and Prada is selling it for ₹1 lakh.
Blue superhighway: Could the Electric Hydrofoil Ferry change the way we commute? Fast, sustainable mode of transit
Unicorn: India's Rapido is outpacing global giants like Uber and Ola in user growth, while also achieving profitability . . . A ride-hailing unicorn is gaining users faster than Uber, disrupting the San Francisco titan’s effort to conquer a key growth market
AI's energy problem: Google’s carbon emissions went up again as its AI push continues
The ‘Trump Pump’: How crypto lobbying won over a President. For years, cryptocurrency companies had endured a sweeping crackdown in Washington — a cascade of lawsuits, regulatory attacks and prosecutions that threatened the industry’s survival.
Mr. Trump wasn’t an obvious sympathizer. He had once dismissed Bitcoin as a “scam.”
Can India create its own Ivy League? The country is home to around a fifth of the world’s university-age population. Why are they going abroad? India has been losing academic talent to America for decades.
China and Europe luring American scientists: Dr. Patapoutian’s federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to “any city, any university I want,” he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.
Saver of Pakistan: Trump to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Pakistan. . . . Trump is in awe of strongmen, alpha leaders, who stand up to him. Recall how Kim Jong-un of North Korea tamed him, and Putin has him on a leash.
Securing its world-domination: China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar. China has a near-monopoly over the processing of heavy rare earths into magnets that power critical goods like wind turbines, medical devices and electric vehicles. But Beijing is heavily reliant on Myanmar for the rare earth metals and oxides needed to produce them.
Morgan Stanley: China Is Maneuvering US “Into Weakness” When It Comes To Making Advanced Robots.
Urban Highways Suck: "Cars and highways are great. But neither of them belong in cities". . . From Atanu Dey's blog.
Car economy leaves India's middle class fuming: India has more than twice as many kilometers of roads per square kilometer of land as the US. China, which has built a lot of highways but chosen highspeed trains as the focal point of transport, has a much lower density.For intercity travel, India’s template ought to have been 21st-century China, not 20th-century America.
The fastest train journey between Chennai and Bengaluru takes over four hours. In that time, one could go from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance nearly four times greater. Within cities, subways are coming up even in places where they aren’t a practical option.
What Musk Really Wants: India’s appeasement of Trump comes to nought.. All this touchy-feely diplomatic propaganda masked what Musk really wants from India — that his Starlink be allowed to enter the Indian market via an administrative allocation of spectrum (as opposed to the hefty sums paid by the existing Indian players through competitive bidding), a reduction in import duties on electric vehicles, especially Tesla and a possible collaboration between Space X and ISRO.
Forever indebted to our colonial masters: UK and India relaunch trade talks in Delhi. . . "Oxford seat for my daughter and you get to loot India again, deal?". . . . UK's richest 10% extracted $33.8 trillion from India during colonialism
My column: The world's deadliest dam failures have occurred in China. And if a powerful earthquake caused China's super-dam to collapse, millions downstream could die, largely in India's populous Brahmaputra Valley. Yet India has said little on the threat. https://t.co/5AKxJZPRsG
Raja Koduri on Intel's "cancel" culture: Intel’s ex-exec Raja Koduri says “You don’t learn without shipping”; gives a rundown into what’s wrong with Team Blue and how Intel is held back by bureaucratic snakes
Hand in the cookie jar: Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding
Trade colony India: China just posted a trade surplus with the rest of the world of almost $1 trillion for 2024. China today accounts for around 27% of global industrial production.
Why China needs India more than ever: China’s Export Boom Means Trump Tariffs Would Hit Beijing Where It Hurts. . India should sync up with Trump for max damage
Shakeout time: China makes more cars than it needs. Excess capacity among carmakers in China is driving the world’s largest auto market into a shakeout phase. . . . Chacha Modi to the rescue..?
US To Effectively Ban Chinese Vehicles: New rule would effectively ban all Chinese vehicles from the US under the auspices of blocking the "sale or import" of connected vehicle software from "countries of concern."
'Achievments abroad is not enough': Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu shares the #1 reason Indians have no respect globally. “To earn true respect in the world, Indians have to develop deep capabilities in India. Achievements abroad won't do it."
Bengaluru must shun car-centric planning: Instead of investing in projects that increase the vehicle footprint, the government should implement the vision outlined in the CMP— prioritising public transport, walking and cycling, and reducing dependence on private vehicles. It is time to shift focus towards building infrastructure that moves people, not just cars.
Tax payer funded PR stunt: Charter flights to facilitate return of Indian citizens stranded in Israel. Those who are returning will not be paying any fare and the tax-payer is bearing the cost of their return. Why? "Students were a little bit panicked". . . . . . . . 'Indians don't want to leave Israel'
Schools urge parents to delete Instagram, TikTok: Concern over Islamists' barbaric videos on social media. The warnings are circulating not just in Israel but also in the US, UK - with some singling out TikTok, Instagram.
Harvard cancelled over support for Hamas: Harvard silent after its students issue pro-Hamas declaration. A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack
I have been asked by a number of CEOs if @harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their… https://t.co/7kzGOAGwp9
Defund The BBC: Too woke to label Hamas as ‘terrorists’.
After Yezidis, Islamists target the Kalash: Pakistan's pagan Kalash tribe targeted by Taliban. The Kalash are Pakistan's last polytheistic community, who have avoided mass Islamisation.
Chinese EV Suppliers Plan Side Doors Into U.S. Market: Chinese battery companies critical to electric vehicles are pursuing deals with US free-trade partners South Korea and Morocco, seeking to tap growing demand in America and bypass rules aimed at shutting them out of the market.
Help from China? Russia aims to mass produce 28nm chips by 2027, 14nm by 2030... if China is helping, what are they getting in return? Wide-body aircraft?
Papaji: It's Here. Let it unfold and reveal itself.
NYT's Rare Praise For India's Space Program: The article titled 'The Surprising Striver in the World's Space Business' notes that India has become home to at least 140 registered space-tech start-ups, "comprising a local research field that stands to transform the planet's connection to the final frontier".
Freebie haven: At 23% spend, Andhra Pradesh last in state capex in FY23.. Capex of government has been considered to be the prime driver of capex in the economy in the last few years.
Global Rupee makes little headway: A lopsided trade relationship between Russia and India has forced it to accumulate up to $1 billion each month in rupee assets that remain stranded outside the country..
"The rupee's prospects of becoming a significant international currency are connected to India's economic and geopolitical strength".
Poll: Vivek Ramaswamy breaks into double digits in Republican primary
China restricts exports of gallium and germanium: China to restrict exports of gallium and germanium, two critical elements for making semiconductor chips. China controls minerals that run the world —and it just fired a warning shot at U.S.
It's a sin only if India commits it: Macron mulls social-media ban. “When things get out of hand, we may need to regulate them or cut them off.” Last week, Macron said social media companies had played a “considerable role” in the unrest across the country.
Atanu Dey - Professor and Lyft driver: “I conjecture why the Indian riders were relatively rude. High status Indians look down on people who serve them. They have never experienced serving others and therefore think that those who serve are not deserving of respect”.
The untold story of Indian IT industry: Dr Homi Bhabha was actually the creator of many things that are relevant to India today, including computers. Bhabha wrote a report at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1959 on the need for computer education and the need for India to embark on a computer industry.
“In 1962, TIFR released the first digital computer for scientific applications - ‘TIFRAC’. Joined MTech computer science in 1965 when IIT Kanpur started the first computer science school. We need to recognise all these events and people and as the starting points for this industry in India”.
Apple Suppliers Accelerate Buildup Outside China: A legion of skilled workers who'd received some education and training has been the backbone of China's rise as the world's factory. A direct replacement for China isn't immediately in the cards, however firms like Foxconn Pegatron are putting the foundations in place to handle more of the final assembly and packaging of products outside China.
- Apple looking to move production of Mac Pro to Vietnam. Vietnam has attracted 21 Apple suppliers to operate in the country.
- Foxconn building hostel to house 60,000 employees in Tamil Nadu
Cars? In this economy?Car-free streets are here to stay. Here’s how four cities took back miles of pavement from cars, making a popular pandemic solution into a permanent fixture.
A trash heap 62 meters high in India: Over decades, dangerous toxins have seeped into the ground, polluting the water supply for thousands of residents living nearby. “The methane leak from this landfill would have the same climate impact as emissions from 350,000 US cars”.
'Asking for a friend': Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff told employees in a Slack message that the company’s newest hires aren’t being productive enough, and he asked for feedback as to why that’s the case. “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture?” he asked in a message viewed by CNBC. He said he was “asking for a friend,” a phrase people often use on the internet to humorously reveal their curiosity about a topic.
Management lessons from Marc B:
1. CEO poses important directional issues as questions rather than commands.
2. CEO shows gratitude for feedback.
3. Trust as a primary company value.
Shahed-136 drones: Iran’s drones are cheap, plentiful and helping Russia in Ukraine. The Shahed can fly hundreds of kilometers (Iran claims in excess of 2,000 km) and loiter for hours before locking onto a target.. Israel has a near perfect record in shooting down even more sophisticated Iranian drones.
Fisker considering India production: U.S. startup Fisker Inc will begin selling its electric SUV in India and could begin manufacturing its cars locally within a few years... Fun-fact: Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker co-founded Fisker Inc with husband Henrik Fisker.
Tech Talk: Peter Rawlinson, Lucid CEO and CTO with Dr Emad Dlala - How Lucid leaps past Tesla with smaller motors.
Apple's Tech Supply Chain Shows Difficulty of Dumping China: It will take about eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s production capacity out of China. “The region has a well-developed supply chain that will be difficult to replicate”.
Benefits of eating on leaf plates and metal plates
JioMart morphs into e-marketplace to take on Amazon and Flipkart: “As part of our commitment to India’s rich culture and heritage, we will soon start marketing quality goods produced by tribals and other communities across India. This will help preserve the incredibly rich talent, skill sets, and knowledge base of our traditional Indian artisans, especially women.”
Downfall: Markets are now treating UK bonds like Greek and Italian debt
India feels the heat: Country reels from unusually early heatwave.... Heat wave scorches India’s wheat crop and hinders export plans
AI Colonialism: AI is impoverishing the communities and countries that don’t have a say in its development—the same communities and countries already impoverished by former colonial empires. The AI industry does not seek to capture land, but the same desire for profit drives it to expand its reach.
Combination of racket and paddle sports: Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America with nearly 5 million Americans already playing the game. “The greatest thing I have found about pickleball is the socialization. Pickleball players seem to be... just really nice people. You meet the nicest people playing pickleball.”
Muddling history, language: Sheldon Pollock, a scholar of Sanskrit, noted that India was “well on its way to losing its memory”, thanks to perverted language politics and an education system that fails to value scholars. “If classical scholars in India or elsewhere cede control of memory, it will be left to the delusions and ravings of the anti-historians.”
"The problem is that unlike in Tamil Nadu, many politicians in Karnataka do not recognise the links between language, culture and identity. As a result, we do not see much work beyond sloganeering. At present, we don’t have much to show as achievement".
Funding the war: Germany paid Russia €9 Billion for energy since invasion. The largest importers in order were Germany (€9.1 billion), Italy (€6.9 billion), China (€6.7 billion), Netherlands (€5.6 billion), Turkey (€4.1 billion) and France (€3.8 billion).
Danish Kaneria: Pakistan team was unfair to this cricketer because he was a Hindu. . . who knew!!
"Tibet has never been part of China": "India's position is that India has to abide by the one China policy, then China also has to abide by one India policy regarding Kashmir" -- Penpa Tsering, president of the Tibetan govt in exile.
Micromobility: Over the past decade, the number of multinational research and development centers in Tel Aviv has tripled. With this growth has come a flood of highly educated, environmentally conscious young people who are increasingly opting for e-scooters and bicycles over cars. Tel Aviv intends to more than double its bike paths to cover 350 km by 2025.
TSMC: “Twenty years ago there were 20 foundries, and now the most cutting-edge stuff is sitting on a single campus in Taiwan.” How a Taiwanese chipmaker became a linchpin of the global economy.
Since every new node of process technology requires more challenging development and bigger investment in new production capacity, other chipmakers have over the years started focusing on design and left production to dedicated foundries such as TSMC. The Pentagon has been quietly pressing for the US to invest more in advanced chipmaking so that its weapons are not dependent on foreign manufacturers.
Making honey without bees and milk without cows: Tailoring the micro-organism carefully and choosing the right feed stocks for fermentation, it's possible to create anything from honey, to egg whites, to milk. "It is molecularly identical, so it should be the same".
Heat wave: Deadly heat waves will be common in South Asia, even at 1.5 degrees of warming. A wet bulb temperature of 32 degrees Celsius (89.6F) is considered to be the point when labor becomes unsafe, and 35C is the limit to human survivability—when the body can no longer cool itself.
Jaguar I-Pace launches in India: Costs twice as much as a Tesla Model-3.. Indian govt would need to address the country's dirty power grid, which would increase the carbon footprint of EVs plugged into it.
Getting stale already: Y Combinator's new batch features its largest group of Indian startups
VikAss ain't working: India’s manufacturing exports are declining big time, while raw material exports are going up. In contrast rivals like Vietnam and Bangladesh managed to post positive figures for their export of manufactures ranging from garments to light engineering.
The next China? India first needs to beat Bangladesh: Even without the pandemic, India might have eventually lost the race to Bangladesh which is taking a leaf out of China’s playbook.. China held on to high GDP growth for decades by carving out for itself a far bigger dominance of low-skilled goods manufacturing than warranted by the size of its labor pool. However, India has gone the other way, choosing not to produce the things that could have absorbed its working-age population of 1 billion into factory jobs.
Anika Chebrolu: 14-year-old girl wins $25K prize for a discovery that could lead to a cure for Covid-19
Why Govt R&D Spending Does Matter: A 10% increase in govt-financed R&D generates a 5% to 6% additional increase in privately funded R&D resulting in productivity gains.
yes. IIT/eng/medical education has been generous 'foreign aid' give by india to the US. at the cost of universal primary education. i once wrote that the middle class hijacked indian edu budgets for the benefit of their kids. IITs are "finishing school for the middle class" 1/2
— Prof ΰ€°ाΰ€ीΰ€΅ः ΰ€Ά्ΰ€°ीΰ€¨िΰ€΅ाΰ€Έः (@RajeevSrinivasa) October 17, 2020
Anti-submarine warfare: DRDO’s SMART missile could be trump card against China’s submarines
De-paving the streets: 800km of lesser-used roads in Sydney to be replaced with pedestrian networks, community spaces and market gardens.
Royal Enfield: An Indian-made motorcycle with a retro look is coming after Harley... In its last financial year, the company sold about 824,000 bikes globally. Harley, by contrast, shipped about 218,000.
Larry Summers: America would have saved trillions had it handled the pandemic as well as Pakistan
#Tanishq episode should now be used to benefit small time hindu goldsmiths , the traditional sunyaras who sit in small shops... Let's make their #Diwali beautiful from now onwards Pls encourage all your family & freinds to do so!
— Ritu (ΰ€Έΰ€€्ΰ€―ΰ€Έाΰ€§ΰ€) #EqualRightsForHindus (@RituRathaur) October 14, 2020
The competitor should be a drone fighter plane that’s remote controlled by a human, but with its maneuvers augmented by autonomy. The F-35 would have no chance against it.
Barely-literate Raksha Mantri:
The Indian army is finally paying attention and doing the elementary thing of securing the heights on the Galwan to prevent the PLA from dominating the Depsang-DBO-Karakorum Pass Highway. The failure to take so basic a precaution of controlling the heights to protect this highway — a national strategic asset, suggests a lapse in professionalism and a laid back attitude of the army and the govt that the country can ill-afford. It permitted the PLA to get not just a toehold but a foothold.
Zoom claims it offers end-to-end encryption. But a probe finds that Zoom meetings are potentially compromised when keys for encrypting and decrypting are transmitted to servers in China: https://t.co/HiJyr0Q9fG. The last thing the Indian defense minister should be doing is this! pic.twitter.com/zQ9VErzxxy
Semiconductors, which is a critical component of phones besides ICs, diodes and transistors, is something that China holds an edge over India. . . . . . . Does anyone in Modi sarkar understand what this means?
Can Indian smartphones make a comeback? Due to immense competition from Chinese smartphone makers, companies like Micromax, Lava and Karbonn which were immensely popular a few years ago, are virtually non-existent now. . . . . . . Maybe, Indians should buy HTC?
Tibet's independence key to our national security: India’s support to Tibet can be more viable only when India can muster
enough international support to stifle China, socially and more
important, economically.
The Speech that got Richard Gere banned from the Oscars:
The cause Hollywood forgot: “Any Hollywood blockbuster that wants to really bring in the money will need to appear in China. That requires compromises in the films but also careful consideration by the actors – do they really want to put their career at risk by talking about Tibet and China? Richard Gere continues to be a high-profile supporter of Tibet, but he has stated that his stance on Tibet has cost him work.
“China has closed it off from the world, making it impossible to visit without a guide, and closely monitors Tibetans’s phone and internet activity so that as little information as possible gets out. Getting information out of Tibet is as tough as getting information out of North Korea these days, and if people don’t hear the stories, they won’t be engaged or keen to help.”
Ratan Tata:
Stop online hatred, support each other in 'year of challenges'. "I
believe this year specially calls for all of us to be unified and
helpful and is not the time to pull each other down".
Saw some army veterans hurling abuses at each other on Twitter.
During training at the NPA our Ustad would sometimes give example of the IMA- discipline, camaraderie and the bond it creates even beyond the service period. Ustad had no idea about poisons called TV & Social Media.
Buying The Wrong Warplanes: The Mirage 2000 has been a more effective fighter in Indian service than the Su-30 has been. The Su-30 not only lacks the latest precision air-to-ground ordnance, it doesn’t perform well from the high-altitude air bases that support Indian operations along the LAC. The Rafale, the French-made successor to the Mirage, likewise is among India’s better fighters. But the country has ordered just 36 Rafales.
What happened in 1962 in Galwan?
By nightfall of July 10, more than 300 Chinese soldiers encircled the
Gorkhas who held their ground under Naik Subedar Jung Bahadur Gurung. On
July 13, orders were issued to the Gorkha regiment to fire if the
Chinese crept ahead. Starting October 4, “The Gorkhas, having lived
cheek by jowl with the Chinese for more than two months, were ferried
out by returning Mi-4 helicopters over the next few days.”
Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars. . . . . . . Why Car-Free Streets may be here to stay
