I've done this before (at least 5 times now) and have always received a reply (on Twitter, email and even on LinkedIn). But the thing is, I don't send appreciation messages. I ask them doubts I have from their work. Irrespective of whether it's fiction or non-fiction, I've felt authors are very ready to reply to you if you ask them specific doubts from their work. More so if you offer them some good suggestion for inclusion in future revisions.

Still haven't done your research, you dodo? The caste definitions need to exist because only then the govt can provide "reservations" (or affirmative action, as you call it) for the historically underprivileged castes. That is one of the biggest reasons why India cannot get rid of castes. If I said "Obama is black", are you going to call me racist? You insufferable moron. I myself am from a lower caste. And I have benefited from the affirmative action policies due to my caste. Are you going to say we shouldn't have affirmative action? The ones that you saw protesting in WA state are high castes who have lost opportunities because of these affirmative action. Now you are siding with them? Actually I'd too, after seeing how it's unfair to them. But you otoh talking about something you know nothing about, and ending up looking like a clown is pathetic. And then you complain when Indians think you don't deserve our sympathy or support.

The reason why most of those Indians fled their homeland is because they were discriminated against by the govt. for belonging to the "high castes". The constitution of India was authored by a person belonging to the lowest caste. Modi is literally low caste.

What do you even know about India's caste system? And you say you work in data science as well. Yet you cannot even do your own research?

Can't say exactly why for Bangladesh, but I can tell why it's so for India.

India's paramilitary forces (multiple forces collectively termed as Central Armed Police Forces or CAPF) have been kept at equally high numbers to the armed forces to prevent coups. This has been the policy ever since first government post- independence. The CAPF come under the Ministry of Home Affairs and the recruitment is done similar to police recruitment. The higher-ups come exclusively from the elite Indian Police Service, which is a bureaucratic institute with no relation to the Army. So the command structure of the Army and the CAPF are kept separate.

This in turn means, if some day the Army decides to organize a coup, the CAPF will be called into action to respond. In the past, the CAPF had been provided gear subpar to the Army. But in the last decade, CAPF has been getting nearly as good gear as the Army and have also been assigned to roles which were hitherto assigned to the Army. Now you can see them fighting insurgency in Kashmir, which until a decade ago was the Army's job mainly. This is not to say, India's goverment views its Army with suspicion and the Indian Army has been notoriously apolitical. Yet, prevention is better than cure.

Coming to Bangladesh, this is just a guess. But Bangladesh models many of its policies based on India's. The founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with his whole family in an attempted Army coup. His daughter alone survived as she was in India at that time. Rn, she is the country's Prime Minister. I'd guess, the Bangladeshi government doesn't want a repeat of that incident and decided to have a strong paramilitary force separate from the Army as a possible counterweight.

Now, as a contrast, neighboring Pakistan has had like a dozen coups ever since it's inception. The Army holds a huge sway over the government and politics there. That's perhaps something they got very wrong.

You still haven't answered him. What the hell is a dugar? I too am Indian and I have never heard that word in my life. Also, what language is it from? Do you know India has many languages? There is no such thing as "their language".

Btw, seeing how stupid you are, I can understand how your folks fall for scamsters so easily. Don't hate the player. Hate the game kid.

You are right. No matter what others tell you here, YOU STAND BY YOUR PRINCIPLES. What you believe to be wrong is wrong and no amount of goading is going to make it alright. Your mom sounds like a narcissistic a**hole and your brother is spoilt by her. Don't go down to their level. If you are going to shut them out of your life two years later, you can at least know that you were always the good person and they deserve to be out of your life.

>I never gave my support to that.

Thanks. I am sure the Indian govt will love to have good relations with you, whoever you are. But the other guy was talking about the US govt's support for Pakistan in case you haven't noticed.

>Again, I never stated any of this

Nice. Still talking about the US govt though.

>Being an alleged terrorist organization support base hasn't stopped India from not sanctioning Saudi Arabia

Has the US govt termed Saudi a terror state and requested India to sanction it? Wait...Has the USA sanctioned Saudi yet?

>That includes economic aid as well - not just military aid.

Here: https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17818396/pakistan-aid-military-trump-pompeo-afghanistan

From the article:

But since 2002, the US has given Pakistan over $14 billion in aid to combat terrorism and insurgents in the region. That money is meant to reimburse Pakistan for its ongoing efforts to defeat militant groups, and it forms part of the $33 billion in total help that the US has given Pakistan over the same time period.

That $14 billion is military aid. Unless you want to play with semantics and call that an "anti-terrorism" package.

LMAO. Did you even read that article you linked you dodo?

>The Tamil Nadu and Gujarat Governments released prisoners facing similar cases. We demanded from the Narendra Modi government to release the Sikh prisoners on the same ground

What is this mofo even talking about? It's two separate state governments releasing prisoners from the state prisons. And he wants the PM to release prisoners from Punjab state prison? How would that even work? Do you know that Punjab is a state in India and Modi is not the chief minister of that state and Modi releasing prisoners from a state prison would mean interfering into the autonomy of the states?

Quick question. Do you even know that the chief minister of Punjab is a Sikh from a party that is opposite of Modi? Shouldn't he release the prisoners à la Gujarat and Tamil Nadu?

Reading the article further, it gets even better. Here:

>He urged the Sikhs to beware of the Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal on their misleading campaign on Sikh prisoners.

>“The Badals labeled Sikhs as terrorists and lodged them in jails during their regime.

ROFL. These Sikhs were put in prison by a very Sikh party. And you are blaming it on India and Modi? What a clown 🤡? What is it with you guys not even reading the articles you link? The other Pakistani guy too did the same thing earlier. Wait a minute? You are the same guy with an alt, aren't you? This level of incompetence is frightening.

>Guru Gobind Singh Ji fought against Hindu conversion to Islam

Ha ha ha 😂. Seriously now. Sikhs never had a reach anywhere beyond Punjab. The only places Sikhs ruled were Pakistani Punjab and Indian Punjab. And look at their Hindu population % now. Hindus exist today because of Marathas, Ahoms, Vijayanagara and many , many Hindu rulers who fought back. A guy who couldn't protect his own sons from being bricked alive, saved Hinduism? Any more jokes like this?

>Go to Andaman Nicobar jail and you can see 95% of the names are Sikh names.

Again. Give me a source. Because every time you try to back up your argument with evidence it simply falls apart since you are too dumb to even read the stuff you link. I am waiting to insult you further for being a complete moron. Entertain me with a source 🤪

I certainly owe you something for making me laugh you clown.

>Sikh prisoners who have completed their sentences have been kept in jail for decades after their sentence periods ended.

A source would be nice.

>Even though Hindus only exist today because of Sikhs

LMAO. A community that lost most of it's land to Muslims and had to run away to the Indian side of Punjab is the reason why Hindus exist? You sure are smoking some strong stuff. Either way, didn't Bhindranwale go on a killing spree of Hindus in Punjab before he was put down?

https://twitter.com/AhmadYasir711/status/1609755114327212037

Of course I am talking about Pakistan. And of course you have the fullest idea what I am talking about. Not only that, you care deeply about Pakistan. After all every second post from your account is about Pakistan.

The point is that, you were completely wrong about the anti-Sikh rhetoric. You dug a deeper hole when you mentioned Khalistan without even knowing it's a movement from the '80s and BJP has little do with it. Your concern is neither Modi nor BJP. You simply hate India, which I totally understand given how your country's entire existence is based on that. But when you try to criticise India/BJP at least do some research instead of making inane statements about "anti-Sikh" rhetoric. You do not even have enough prudence to at least read the article that you posted. Why do you think you'd have enough knowledge to talk about anything?

As for the very capitalistic age, I hate to break it to you, but we are relevant while you are not. That's what matters. I don't care if we have a monkey in power or if Modi is literal satan himself. We will keep marching forward and that is why I mentioned in my earlier comment that Modi is an intl. star inspite of what he did in 2002. Don't you understand what I am trying to say here? I dgaf if Modi was behind 2002 riots. For me those riots actually showed that jihadist elements cannot burn Hindus in a train and not expect retaliation. At the end of the day, it's been done and dusted and we keep marching forward while you keep imploding because you pander to those same Islamist fundamentalists that caused the Godhra train burning.

Naive if you thought I care about Modi. I care about India. And I care about getting the facts right. And that is why I haven't commented elsewhere on this thread. I only chose to comment when you ignorantly mentioned "anti-Sikh rhetoric"

Anyway keep crying more.

So, you've got no response to how I've shown you posted a wrong link and you were ignorant about the farmer's protests? What else can we expect from the citizen of a country that harbored bin Laden?

Dude...The Khalistan movement is from the '80s and it started during the Congress govt. How is the BJP related to that? You won't go down that rabbithole because it will simply expose the fact that it was your country that tried and spectacularly failed at propping up that movement.

And I am a shill now? Rich coming from the citizen of a country that is run by the ISI. Don't you have some begging to do? At the end of the day, Modi is treated like a star at any intl. forum, while your current PM actually said that "his investors are his masters". Not to mention that your former PM called Osama a martyr. Even the Talibans are trolling your sorry ass. You guys are a laughing stock. Stop trying too hard.

Cry more like your username says. Still ain't gonna change the fact that you are going bankrupt in a few weeks. Perhaps you can cry harder after you run out of wheat next week.

>recent Farmer Protests

Weren't the farm laws against which those protests were affecting all farmers of India? Were those laws applicable only to Sikhs? Weren't farmers from Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh protesting as well? Are farmer leaders like Rakesh Tikait Sikh too?

>and Anti-Sikh rhetoric

Did you read that article? It says:

"The wounds inflicted by the Congress have been opened by the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Whatever happened in 1984 was not just anti-Sikh riots but massacre of innocent people," Punjab BJP Chief Ashwani Sharma said.

The article says BJP is calling out Congress on its anti-Sikh rhetoric. In case you didn't know, Congress is the main opposition party that is against Modi/BJP.

You just googled "anti-Sikh" and posted the first link you came up with, didn't you?

Are you being sarcastic or did you not know seriously? In case you were being serious, she died in her mid-30s due to heart issues. She was said to be very unhappy in her late 20s due to an unrequited love and the guy who she was in love with married someone else. She did marry another guy, but immediately after that she faced health issues and her husband pretty much abandoned her emotionally. She passed away soon after.