EvilBuddha comments

Maoist rebellion in someplace I have never heard of. Continued ethnic violence in Manipur. Also Kashmir.

Chinese should be happy that there are more Maoists in India than in China today.

Maoist rebels are not Muslims.

Nowhere did I say they were.

Lal Salaam is a communist greeting in India, a bit like 'greetings comrade'.

https://dbpedia.org/page/Lal_Salam

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal_Salam

'Salaam' word origin is Arabic but it's also used in Urdu and by extension, Hindi.

Maybe a bit of learning before jumping to conclusions will be helpful.

Proteas won without 7 of their top players, and even Bavuma had to retire hurt.

Looks like their bench strength is quite solid.

The red corridor is shrinking, and will shrink further.

Laal Salaam.

28 year old but playing his 3rd ODI.

South Africa's decline from being a top team in the late nineties to an also-ran today has coincided with the quota policy being pushed on its players, leading to many of the most talented ones opting to become T20 mercenaries or Kolpak cricketers in England.

More than 2 decades ago there was a Sting concert where something similar happened. Genuine fans of Sting/The Police in India (and there were many) had to pay through the nose to get tickets, and many gave up trying.

I was able to attend because of a friend whose dad worked for one of the sponsor companies, but suffice to say that many of those who were attending did not know who Sting was and how privileged they were to see him performing.

This is the reason why the Duckworth Lewis System is also known by another name which rhymes with Duckworth.

I want to know for how long Punjabis will be targeted in Balochistan

Why is Pakistan's military, government, politics and culture dominated by Punjabis?

Pakistan's Punjabis already lost East Pakistan because they wanted to impose their culture on proud Bengalis. If you have the answer to my question you will have the answer to yours.

Its not just the illegal immigration system, even the legal immigration system is broken.

But you will never see these liberals focusing on fixing it so that the best and the brightest from other countries who can actually contribute to the US are incentivized as opposed to someone who just walks across the border and claims asylum.

The US immigration system is a ponzi scheme, and with respect to the illegals neither side really wants to do anything about it because the Democrats get to act virtuous and compassionate and Republicans get to act tough.

I'd rather have a poor migrant with no to lousy English for a neighbor than some no good native born bigot

I would take your virtue signaling seriously if I did not know that you too dislike immigrants from one particular country who speak good English.

The liberals pretend to care about unskilled illegal immigrants who walk across the border because they will get low wage labor for babysitting their kids, gardening their front yards, delivering their Uber eats and driving the cabs. Fruit pickers, landscapers, construction workers, nannies are no problem.

But educated liberals are far less keen to admit that they don't want foreign born doctors, professors, researchers who would compete with their kids and drive down their own wages.

Nice to see Australia getting thrashed for a change.

This is the same England side which was pathetic during last years World Cup which Australia won, so that shows that the tables can turn quickly in limited overs cricket.

Brook lost his grandmother earlier this year so it's good to see that he has got over it and is well on his way to becoming the next big thing for England in limited overs cricket.

Jayasuriya is proving destructive for teams visiting Sri Lanka just like his namesake yesteryear great who was also a handful with the ball.

Or maybe he has idolized Rangana Herath, another destructive left arm orthodox spinner who was a nightmare for visiting teams.

According to the IEA, the International Energy Association, the leading emitters of methane, in order, are China, then India, followed by the USA

A simple search proves you wrong.

US emissions are still higher than India inspite of the huge difference in population.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/methane-tracker-data-explorer

In 2024, when solar and wind are cheaper than new coal burning power plants, this sort of thing demonstrates ignorance at the highest levels of government.

Solar is cheaper than oil too so maybe you can explain why US is still the top oil producer.

My question is with "India's rise" why do all the surrounding countries struggle with economic development and political stability

Sri Lankans don't particularly like India, and that's why they allowed China to come in and invest with their fake promises of BRI. That was just loans which Sri Lanka has no hope of paying off.

Today Sri Lanka is stuck in a vicious circle of attempting to get out of debt while further getting entrenched.

I wonder if this was brought up in the quad meeting which was recently held at Biden's home in Delaware? Probably not.

The US methane emissions are higher than India so the US can not lecture India on this issue (like it's fond of doing on anything else in general) without sounding like a complete hypocrite.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1281764/global-methane-emissions-by-leading-country/

This article only talks about methane emissions from coal mining, not methane emissions from oil and gas operations where US is the worst culprit by far.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/amp/story/energy/methane-emissions-from-fossil-fuels-remain-high-despite-progress-us-tops-list-of-emitters-iea-94991

Scoring a century in the first innings and then taking 6 wickets in front of the home crowd is something special.

With this victory India has more test wins than losses for the first time in its 92 year test history. It took 580 test matches to achieve this feat.

JVP can rant against India all that they want, but once in power they will have to work with India only in the interests of stability. Good that Anura Kumara Dissanayake realized this and visited India earlier this year to mend fences.

Sri Lanka's only strategic value to China is its location, other than that when they are in trouble they will find themselves abandoned by China and running towards India for help.

Headingley lives up to its reputation of being tough to bat on.

The thrashing that Australia are giving England reminds me of 20 years ago when Australia beating any side comprehensively was the norm.

England lost their way, they should have ended with at least 50 more.

But looking at the final scorecard it might not have made much difference anyways.

Afghanistan are giant killers, and Proteas had enough experience with Markram, Reeza Hendricks and Phehlukwayo in the side.

This can't be blamed on lack of experience, instead Afghanistan raised their game to come out on top.

The next innovation in cricket would be indoor stadiums with a roof high enough to allow sixes.

This is what can be referred to as 'Bothamesque' or 'Flintoffish'.

Australia bring out their best when facing England but the same can't be said for the England cricket team.

Nissanka and Kamindu Mendis have come of age on this tour. Should expect them to be regulars in the squad going forward.

Well played both and well bowled Lankan bowlers.

Vegetarians are every where in every country. One solution. Eat vegetarians. Pa da!

Your favourite species from China will love doing that. Allow more immigration from China and they will eat all vegetarians once they are done with everything else. Pa da!

Among the top 20 countries and regions where visitors to Japan come from, India has the highest rate of vegetarians, accounting for 20.2 percent

39 percent of Indians are vegetarians.

The vegetarian tourists to Japan from India who are fussy about their diet will generally carry their ready-to-eat curry packets which can be prepared into meals very easily.

But the issue here is that if you are a tourist and you are only eating self-prepared meals that is income which the local restaurants are not earning from tourists.

So no one is forcing the restaurants to make more vegetarian options available and no one is forcing vegetarian tourists to forego their dietary restrictions.

It's simple Economics.

Sri Lankans can be competitive if they put their act together. They have an experienced batting lineup with Kusal Mendis, Dhananjay DeSilva and Dinesh Chandimal who are proven matchwinners.

It's their bowling which fails to click outside the subcontinent but this time it looks like the bowlers have done their job quite well.

My 2 cents here.

A figurehead was needed to straighten out the liberals, and Trump came around at the right time.

Remember watching WWF as a 14 year old teenager in 1995 and they ran a gimmick 'Bob Backlund for President'.

Bob Backlund had just turned heel and going through some of his over the top rants today, he would have struck a chord among the right wingers as well.

If the left gives in to political correctness there will be a natural backlash from the right.

Recollect that Scotland faced Australia in the first match of the 1999 World Cup.

Scotland have been playing international cricket for much longer than Ireland but Ireland has become far more competitive. Would be interesting to analyze why.