Quick notes: Bhutanese view, Reviving Chabahar...

• In Kaangress era: India never intervened or even raised its voice in the past, about numerous Chinese incursions into the Bhutanese side, including the more serious road-building activities. This is because they did not affect Indian security, unlike Doklam.



• Indian role in Afghanistan: An India-Japan-South Korea consortium (with the US as an absent partner) could revive the Chabahar route to Afghanistan and, perhaps, manage the crucial supply chain to support US operations in the region.



• Induced seismicity: A 2010 study by the China Earthquake Administration found that Three Gorges Dam had triggered about 3,400 earthquakes from mid-2003 to the end of 2009, as well as numerous landslides, representing a 30-fold increase in seismicity. Human induced earthquakes



• Nano EV: Nano not to be phased out; Tata Motors to re-position it as electric vehicle 



• David Shulman: The notion that there was a pure Tamil that had no Sanksrit in it is a complete fantasy. There are Prakrit and Sanskrit words in the earliest Tamil Brahmi inscriptions we have. The Tamil Brahmi script has some features peculiar to it, but it’s deeply interwoven with the Sanskrit system.”



• Padma Shri Aruna Sairam:  Darbar Music Festival




• Greece, China's colony in Europe: “While the Europeans are acting towards Greece like medieval leeches, the Chinese keep bringing money”
  
  “Unlike democratic nations that change politicians every few years, the Chinese have a long and steady strategic view. They know what they want”.
  
  Last summer, Greece helped stop the EU from issuing a unified statement against Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. This June, Athens prevented the bloc from condemning China’s human rights record. Days later it opposed tougher screening of Chinese investments in Europe
  
  As Greece struggles through record joblessness, Chinese companies use subcontractors on short-term contracts at wages far below what unionized Greek dockworkers are paid.



• Missionary schools will grab lakhs of poor students from Dera run schools:

Missionary schools will grab lakhs of poor students from Dera run schools. Anyone thinking of issues beyond one man's scandal?

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) August 28, 2017




• Jayanthi Sampathkumar, manager at Microsoft:.Ran a marathon in a saree to promote handloom.

Greece & Eurozone: Trapped Without An Exit?

Stratfor summarizes why Greece and its shaky creditors have no way out of their current crisis:



My suggestion: Greece should partner with Israel in exploring and exploiting hydrocarbon reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean. The EU should back them on this. If the Turks get in the way - well, there's nothing like a good war to get an economy out of the doldrums.

Greek Default Certain, Italy Begs China for Cash

Predictions of a default by Greece have gone to 98%. Meanwhile, cash-strapped Italy has been meeting with the Chinese in the hopes of conning money from them for a bailout.

Too bad greedy Indian politicians are so narrowly focused on protecting their own wealth, or our own Madame-ji might have prevailed upon them to bail out her relatives overseas.