pavithranrajan.substack.com/…? For centuries, many of India’s major inland powers treated the #sea less as a #strategic threat than as a commercial highway. Few anticipated that a trading coy would come to rule much of the subcontinent. The consequences remain with India today.

You are being too clever by half, dear @elonmusk, and you know it. Saying "11,256" villages sounds a lot. But it is a way of lying with numbers. What if the handle had said, "1.7% of India's villages have no 4G coverage"? That wouldn't fit the narrative, right? And it only gets worse. The post deliberately chooses "4G". Why? Do those villages not have access to 2G and 3G internet? Perhaps you know. The world's richest man who wants so desperately to enter the Indian market with satellite internet coverage should know, right? You, who have talked about the 'Deep State' would know the perils that satellite can pose to national security. The terrorist attacks on Mumbai, better known as the "26/11 attacks", were facilitated, in part, by the use of satellite phones. The terrorists' handlers, sitting in Karachi, communicated with the terrorists using satellite phones and ordered them to kill as many people as they could, including Jews. As for "oligarchs", well, you mean Mukesh Ambani (his mobile and internet company, Jio), yet hesitate to even taking his name. You, who didn't think twice before posting Trump's alleged links with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein! I think that will go down well with most Indians, to see the world's richest man in fear of an Indian🙂 Which brings us to the elephant in the room - racism. It would take a blind man on Pluto to not have seen the explosion of racist screeds and shitposting and ragebait content against Indians over the last year-and-a half on your platform, X. Perhaps it got your platform more engagement. Perhaps this is what the MAGA gang wanted and you obliged to get back in Trump's good books. Perhaps you didn't care about racism against Indians. Perhaps you saw it as a bargaining chip in your negotiations with the Indian govt. In either case, you don't have a lot of sympathy in India because of racism on your platform, Elon. Please stop pretending that there isn't racism on X against Indians, or that you don't know about it. Coming back to broadband coverage. The areas that do not have adequate 4G and 5G coverage are Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, parts of Rajasthan that border Pakistan and which are sparsely populated, the Kutch region (also sparsely populated, what with the world's largest salt pans), Arunachal Pradesh, tracts that are either heavily forested or till recently had suffered from Naxal terrorism. So, what exactly is your target market? Offer satellite coverage in Arunachal Pradesh and China will cut off your businesses at the scrotum before you can say Tesla. Or did you plan to make a killing selling satellite coverage at $50/month in Bihar and Jharkhand, where 4G and 5G plans cost $3/month? Get honest. Get real. xitter.cf/AbhinavAgarwal/status/… myvi.in/vicoverage/ ookla.com/articles/india-mob…

expresscomputer.in/news/the-… Cyberspace not a commons but a strat domain whose physical infra determine geopolitical power. Drawing on Mahan's maritime chokepoints, the article explored how control of digital infra becomes a source of state power & coercion. c 2016-17 #Strategy

I had a traumatic train ride today. It is very sad to see how people do not respect public spaces enough. When we are in the public, we should not shout or even talk loudly and disrespect every individual’s personal space in Public. As artists, we have a 100 thoughts running. And we thrive in silence. Everyone can understand the initial excitement when travelling in a big group in a train. But imagine a group of 40 middle aged adults occupying a 56 seater coach and talking so loudly to everyone for 5 hours. Non stop. Problem in India is nobody can question them. It is an unsaid rule that the other 16 of us which aren’t part of the group should simply endure them. So I requested the TTE if I could get another seat in a different coach. He tried but unfortunately since the train was full, I had to simply stay in the same coach but a different seat. Suddenly a group of 8, that was already yapping and laughing non stop, started playing UNO. And then I requested the TTE if anything could be done. He requested them to stop and they immediately stopped. But after a couple of minutes TTE came back and mockingly asked them ‘yaake sir galaatte maadtaideera?’ (Why are you creating nuisance?) and they had a good laugh with him and said, ‘sir Neevu banni, adona’(Sir you also join, let’s play). So the concern here is not about who won. Myself, along with them, as Indians, lost the Civic sense game. When will we as a nation improve our public behaviour?