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Dadi Ratan Mohini, the centenarian spiritual leader and Brahma Kumaris' chief administrator, passed away on April 8, 2025. Her 100th birthday was celebrated on March 25. Over her 88-year spiritual journey, she became one of the central pillars of the organisation, guiding it through key phases of expansion and social outreach. Under her stewardship, the Brahma Kumaris the Brahma Kumaris launched campaigns focusing on women’s empowerment, youth development, de-addiction, environmental conservation, and yogic farming. Her relentless efforts earned her several national and international accolades, including an honorary doctorate from Gulbarga University in 2014. Both the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and president Draupadi Murmu paid heart-felt tributes to Dadi Ratan Mohini. https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2025/04/09/dadi-ratan-mohini-passes-away-pm-president-tribute.html https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/brahma-kumaris-centenarian-chief-dadi-ratan-mohini-passes-away/ The Brahmakumaris is the world's only spiritual institution led, administered and taught by women with their own unique theological doctrine and seeks the empowerment of the feminine in all dimensions so as to bring about a more harmonious human society and world. They have centers in almost every country in the world where they teach their 7 day courses comprising their spiritual philosophy and meditation free of charge.

Sorry to read about this latest shooting in the US. My condolences to this young person's family. I am hoping the civilian society will create a mass movement again for non-violence and peace, and ensure proper regulation of the domestic gun industry so that guns will not get into the wrong hands. It is important to create a culture of non-violence in thought, word and deed so as to bring peace, harmony and mutual trust in western society.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/10/poland-pm-condemns-repeated-violation-of-airspace-amid-russian-attack-on-ukraine-follow-live The two world wars which originated in europe based on military alliances killed over a hundred million people back then. By some major coincidence this new european war, also based on military alliance of NATO, has the potential of becoming a world record third world war originating in europe. Hopefully the Guinness book of records will note this extraordinary feat. Wonder how many millions will die this time around !

India has a nuclear triad of ICBMS, aircraft and nuclear submarines which can launch nuclear weapons into any corner of the earth. How would such a country be insecure ! In terms of conventional strength as well, it is the fourth strongest military power in the world as per current rankings with the world's second largest army, fourth largest air force and fifth strongest navy. India has the world's second largest army of 2.1 million personnel and the paramilitary forces, which forms the second line of defence itself number around 2.5 million. The Indian territorial army which is the third line of defence and around 400000 strong, is itself ten times larger than the Canadian or Australian or most european regular armies. The NCC military training program at the college level trains around two million students each year with basic training in military skills. The NCC forms the fourth line of defence and creates a reservoir of a large pool of youth with basic military skills who can be deployed as military personnel. The Indian population is the largest in the world and is also highly youthful with the average age being in the twenties. This means that any number of young million-strong armies can be created for defensive purposes as well as offensive purposes, and is enough to invade any nation on earth or change the course of international wars on the basis of conventional strength. So Europe and US considering India's security is ridiculous. The defeat of US-NATO by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2021 after twenty years of fighting, heavy casualties and trillions of western taxpayer money down the drain, itself reflects their limitations in conventional warfare , echoing similar defeats in Korea and Vietnam. With an ageing population, low fertility rates, and a large pool of handicapped and mentally traumatised ex-military personnel ( due to excessive warmongering ) demanding expensive medical care means that they are in no position to wage long wars anymore. This is compounded by the heavy external debt of the US which has crossed 37 trillion dollars recently, and which is the largest in the world, and can be a potential white elephant for it in the future.

Imho, the US has a parallel government or deep state in powerful plutocrats and stratocrats who formulate the policies for the elected democratic leaders to follow. Disobedient ones will not be supported by them or even taken out. A notable example is JFK opposing the sending of troops to Vietnam, as the Korean experience had resulted in a heavy defeat as well as heavy casualties of american troops, around 36000. He however stood in the way of huge profits of the military-industrial complex by deciding against a war that could lead to similar disaster like the Korean war . After Kennedy's mysterious and untimely death, his cautious policy was reversed and American troops were sent to Vietnam. The war ended in American defeat again as well as loss of 54000 American troops. However the military industrial complex made huge profits due to the huge budget allocations to it for more than a decade. Kennedy's predecessor Eisenhower himself had warned in his speeches of the growing power of the military industrial complex cartels that can pose a danger to American democracy.

So why do europeans like the germans, british, french and russians keep fighting again and again and destroying themselves in the process instead of having proper relations with each other. I came across a saying yesterday on relationships, "The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech." - Thich Nhat Hanh Where do you think the deficiencies lie in creating proper relationships between the europeans - inability to listen and empathise with other's conscerns perhaps !

So essentially this is a european war disturbing the peace of the world just like the earlier two world wars which originated in europe and killed a hundred million people. Russia was a friend in the past many times, though it is an enemy now, and might become a friend in the future especially due to its vast resources of oil and rare earth minerals. And then it can become an enemy again, and after wards a friend again. Germany, the villain in the past two world wars is a great friend and 'good guy' now. Why do europeans keep fighting and killing each other regressing themselves in the process instead of making friends and progress. Is it something genetic or something !

It was the western military alliances with Russia against Napoleon and Hitler that enabled their defeat. So it is not that delusional. If you admit that Russia is such a dwindling power, don't you think nato expansion to the borders of russia are indeed based on paranoia and baseless psychological insecurities. How can a weak power invade the rest of europe ?By hyping the russian boogeyman, as per intellectuals like Chomsky and Hedges, western military industrial complex wanted to breath new life into the irrevalent nato, make it relevant again and ensure optimal weapons sales and profits for the military industrial complex capitalists. This is all there is to it, and expendable military fodder belonging to the western middle/lower classes will be used to fuel the war for the necessary time required to ensure optimal pofits.

My condolences for the victims and their families. Imho, if the domestic gun industry cannot be regulated due to its influential political lobbies, it should be taxed heavily to fund a mental health ecosystem and associated culture in the country that can attend to hitherto unaddressed mental health needs of its citizenry. It appears that the government is more interested in the profits of the gun industry capitalists than the security concerns of the average american citizen.

The west has an ageing population marked with low fertility rates and a fast increasing immigrant population from Latin america, Asia and Africa to make up for manpower shortages. The US and european countries have huge debts in the trillions spectrum which the russians do not have. All that glitter and glamour of western civilization is only on the outside. It's all style without any substance. This is why the two world wars originated in europe killing over a hundred million people , and they are on the verge of the third world war as well. If they are sane, they would discard their military alliances, which is the root cause of all their troubles ,and live mindfully and consciously without being deluded by paranoia and baseless psychological insecurities.

India is aiding Myamnar's transition to a multiparty democracy in December this year through capacity building of its institutions and training in peacekeeping skills. https://therahnuma.com/india-to-equip-30-myanmar-security-officers-with-essential-peacekeeping-skills/

From a military point of view, Nato can only expand eastwards to the very borders of Russia if it has created technological assymetry enough to dodge russian nuclear weapon attacks through ICBMS, nuclear submarines and aircraft. If it has this sort of technological assymetry then nato can protect its european and american population in case of a worse case scenario of nuclear war and holocaust. If they have not attained this sort of technological assymetry, they should not have taken this dangerous gamble. Their first priority should be the protection of the western population who paid their taxes to protect them from annihilation, not subject themselves to the same.

So you have stated the obvious that US is a plutocracy/oligarchy rather than a democracy . Why do you think such a regression has happened , and why did American democracy not evolve to the necessary levels of maturity !

The US has a long history of threatening and topping democratic governments in latin america replacing them with brutal military dictatorships. It's present feud with the largest democracy in the world India, will also further damage its self-declared credentials as so-called champion of democratic values and human rights. The nato-us population represents only around 10 per cent of the world population and constant warmongering due to poor decisionmaking will only result in further loss of face in the world.

ISRO successfully launched NISAR, the world's most expensive earth imaging satellite. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/isros-nisar-earth-monitoring-satellite-built-in-collaboration-with-nasa-lifts-off-8983946

India is the world's largest democracy for a half century and more. However India and the west were at odds with each other due to India's leadership in the non-aligned movement, liberation of Goa from western colonialism in 1961, and the west's backing of the military dictatorship in Pakistan against India in previous wars. The non-aligned movement was created to develop a buffer space between the us and soviet blocs , and prevent conflict that could lead to a nuclear war and holocaust wiping out the western and Russian blocs. A neutral position could provide dispassionate analysis and narratives that could defuse the bad blood and hatred between the blocs, leading to reasonable and measured responses. After India liberalized its economy in 1991, opening the world's second largest market to investments, relations between the west and India rose up. Indian women started suddenly winning consistently beauty competitions of Miss World and Miss Universe sponsored by western cosmetic companies. With the rise of China to superpower status, the west suddenly discovered India as the world's largest democracy, praised and embraced it eagerly. 9/11 and the present religious wars between the west and Islamic terrorists also found common ground with India. India has the second largest army on earth and is ranked fourth in military rankings, so they wanted to create a military alliance with it to take on China and Islamic militancy. India is also the world's fourth largest economy in the world and have also provided around a half trillion dollars in credit to the US considering the US external debt which crossed 37 trillion dollars recently. Europe similarly has large debts which has been a cause of major concern. India's status as the fastest growing economy in the world, also obviously mean a larger market, better and stronger armies, navy and air force and better investment in military technology and in research and development at present and in the near future. However the equation became unstable when they wanted India to take on China, Islamic militancy and also Russia ignoring India's strategic realities as Russia is an important strategic partner of India as well, especially in military weaonry, technology and valuable source of economic resources. Politically it has supported India's position in various issues in the past when the west was detrimental to the same. Russia is in India's immediate neighborhood while the Europeans are far away and the Americans on the other side of the globe. So it does not make any strategic sense for India to offend and make an enemy of the Russians as well.

Then why is Putin threating nuclear weapon strikes on nato in the ukraine war. Here is what the upgraded military doctrine of russia says : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_doctrine_of_Russia . Then how would you rationalize American defeats in Korea, Vietnam as well as the recent NATO-US defeat in Afghanistan in 2021 after 20 years of fighting, heavy casualties and trillions of dollars down the drain. Nato also left behind billions of dollars of military equipment which the Taliban parades regularly as trophies of war, and which has probably ended in Chinese-Russian hands for reverse engineering. War mongering by the US against the world has also resulted in a large 36 trillion dollar debt for which the US has to pay hundreds of billions just for the interests each year. This is one of the reaons why Trump is not in favor of further war-mongering as he realizes that the gigantic debt can become a white elephant for the US in the long run if it is not managed properly, potentially leading to its economic downfall. Due to constant war-mongering , the US has a large ex-military population wracked with physical injuries and PTSD, depression and suicidability as per statistics and which demand expensive medical care. Constant warmongering has also created war fatigue in the American population who believes their tax dollars are enriching the miltiary-industrial complex capitalists, instead of tackling growing social issues like homelesness, mass shootings, expensive healthcare and education, higher costs of living and inflation disproportionate to any income hikes. You can see numerous videos on the same highlighting discontentment in the American middle and lower classes who owns just a negligible segment of the national wealth, which much of it concentrated in the hands of the upper classes. The two world wars which originated in europe killing over a hundred million people has similarly created low morale, war-weariness and fatigue in europe and consequently is one of the reasons why there is a lot of discontentment within nato ranks as they don't want to face an another traumatic and catastrophic war like the two world wars.

If not for Brics, Russia would have transitioned to nuclear warfare from conventional warfare if it had suffered heavy conventional reverses. A few tactical nukes would probably have been deployed by them, and considering russian nuclear submarines patrolling the american and european coast-lines, nato would have agreed to a cease-fire agreeing to Russian conditions of keeping away from its borders. Good luck targetting China and India by military means if that is what you suggest. Both have the two largest armies on earth and are ranked third and fourth in world rankings of military power, with many millions in reserves as well. Can the west with its ageing population and low fertility figures can match a Russia-India-China-Brics military combination ! Hundreds of western volunteers have already died fighting in Ukraine due to poor situational awareness and training as per military experts, and continue to die needlessly in Ukraine. They seem to have been conditioned by corporate owned western media narratives to go and fight for the western cause. Most of them stem from the middle and lower classes as usual and the upper classes maintain a safe distance encouraging those of the lower classes to go and fight risking life and traumatic injuries.

They are aware of the implications of nuclear war and want to take the US out of the equation so that if nuclear war occurs, it will be confined to Russia and Europe, and not the US. Also as intellectuals with brains and critical thinking skills, they can discern the situation better than the average western citizen glued to WWF , superficial social media content, drugs/alcohol and suffering from brain fog and low attention span. So I think they are trying to educate western masses and decondition them from the corporate owned western media narratives .

This misses the brahmin caste that is centered on priests, scholars, educators who were at the top of the caste hierarchy. Other than that , yeah, the size breakdown is similar.

US aided by several of its nato allies engaged in a shock and awe strategy leading to heavy civilian casualties during their invasion of Iraq. Noam Chomsky highlighted this fact and stated that Russia was fighting more humanely than the US and its allies. https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/04/noam-chomsky-interview-ukraine-free-actor-united-states-determines

I am from the lower castes myself. Empowerment of the lower castes in India started with reformatory Hindu sects, as well as Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism which was critical of the caste system and taught the fraternity and equality of all human beings. The caste system is not part of the Vedas which are the main religious scriptures in Hinduism. This is the reason why the Arya Samaj, a reformatory Hindu sect which follows only the vedas ( and not the other later texts or scriptures) from the nineteenth century criticizes the caste system as a non-vedic practice and does not follow it. The caste system is essentially a feudal or social system to serve socio-economic needs of society back then but is obsolete now. Political methodologies related to democracy, socialism and communism also aided the empowerment of the lower castes in India. Democracy, because the lower castes are the majority in India and the governments that come has to formulate policies that benefit them or they will be out of power. In the west, blacks are a minority compared to the majority whites. Their empowerment came up due to their leaders who build civil rights movements organizing the black population, as well as due to international condemnation of the US. Socialism and communism also provided political philosophies and methodologies for the lower castes to organize and empower themselves and demand their rights. In the west, especially in the USA where the minority capitalists control the government, socialism and communism were branded as sedition and socialists/communists were labelled as traitors by capitalist controlled media outlets. Consequently, the western middle and lower classes were not able to organize themselves and demand their rights and privileges, or design the democratic system to suit their needs. Federal Reserve data indicates that as of Q4 2021, the top 1% of households in the United States held 30.9% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% held just 2.6%. Hence the increasing wealth gap between the wealthy upper classes who own much of the wealth and those of the middle/lower classes who are struggling with rising inflation, expenses and risk of homelesness. Even the Chinese and Russians have provisions for free or subsidized housing, medical care and educational expenses for the common man. The russians have pensions for widows, elderly and handicapped. Such provisions are denied to the American middle and lower classes, which ironically form the majority in so-called democratic America. I am stating this because democracy is considered to value and empower the masses or majority, and it is actually a plutocracy which empowers the rich and wealthy at the expense of the masses. I have seen videos of Americans who have travelled to other countries and felt that the middle and lower classes were treated much better there than in the US. Imo, since it is quite hard for the poor politicians and leaders emerging from the lower classes to hold expensive campaigns during elections, the rich ones easily end up winners and then craft policies that further empower the rich minority and ignoring the poor majority.

Only the wealthy upper classes in the west are perceived as winners, the rest are losers as per social perception. Many of the homeless in the west belonged to the middle or lower classes but rising inflation, higher costs of living and inability to pay mortgages or rent meant they soon became chucked to the streets. Many westerners come to India and other countries for medical tourism and cheaper medical options as their expensive healthcare at home would bankrupt them out of their life savings. This has resulted in a multi-billion dollar tourism benefits for India. https://www.vax-before-travel.com/2025/05/28/indias-medical-tourism-industry-could-reach-13-billion Also Russia is sensitive to its borders considering how the Nazis violated their diplomatic agreements and invaded them . Putin has also stated that wmd targetting Moscow and other important cities can be placed in Ukraine . No country on earth is comfortable with a military alliance at its very borders. If you have any doubts, ask the Americans who forced russian wmd out of cuba with threats of nuclear war in the Cuban crisis in 1962.

Captain Shukla has returned back to earth after a successful mission and gaining valuable operational experience for India's human spaceflight mission in 2027. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/eye-on-gaganyaan-mission-how-shubhanshu-shuklas-experiments-on-iss-will-help-isros-manned-mission-explained/articleshow/122061708.cms

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said that the Axiom-4 (Ax-04) mission which Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is part of will provide valuable inputs for India’s upcoming Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission. Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is the second Indian astronaut in space after Commander Rakesh Sharma who went to space successfuly in 1984. https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/axiom-4-will-provide-valuable-inputs-for-gaganyaan-mission-isro/article69764597.ece India is set to launch its first crewed mission in 2027 in the Gaganyaan human flight Mission, and Captain Shukla has been selected to pilot it. His present assignment as a pilot in the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission is to gain operational experience which will be useful in the Gaganyaan Mission. ISRO has paid a lot of money for his training and operational expenses. India has ambitious plans to set its own space stations as well as habitats and bases on the moon , mars and other planets and satellites. Habitats outside the earth can enhance the survival potential of the human species in the event of a asteroid strike or a global nuclear holocaust due to foolish and dumb-witted international leadership. So establishing living and sustainable habitats outside the earth is a strategic objective of ISRO.