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Keshav

Can someone tell me why everyone on this forum hates Dr. Binayak Sen so much? Is it simply because Arundhati Roy says something that people get their chuddies in a bunch?

What wrong has he done exactly?

Keshav

So what should be "Strategic leadership for the future of India"? It should to create an atmosphere of liberalism and nationalism around a particular cultural core in order to elect a leader who can use those qualities to create an artistic, materially wealthy, spiritual, safe place to li...

Keshav

Ramana -

What's that book you're always recommending to people?

The Political History of India? Or something like that?

Who's the author of it?

Thanks in advance.

Keshav

I still blame the BJP for not doing anything. Do you feel like blaming anybody for giving very poor media coverage for this incident, unlike the huge international coverage given to Rama Sene action in Mangalore? :wink: I thought that was a given to be honest. The police actually managed to reach p...

Keshav

Just an interjection, there was not much of a genocide during the formal reconquering of territories in Spain by the "Christians". In fact modern evidence suggests that many simply switched sides, and were accepted at "top" positions and retained their full privileges. There wer...

Keshav

Wasn't there a guy named Yusuf who used to post here? Was he Bangladeshi?

Keshav

Philip - Just because the US condemns North Korea, we should not stem our criticism of the latter. The US has millions of nuclear weapons that it does not use and at the least, we can say that Barack Obama is not the type of person to be trigger happy with the big red button. North Korea has a egom...

Keshav

If anyone needed clarification on the severe exploitation of Indian workers in Dubai, here it is. Some of you might not trust BBC but give it a shot: http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7981000/7981320.stm Having spent the last three months travelling there, I no longer think of the ...

Keshav

I posted this in the E-Book thread:

http://www.geocities.com/advaitavedant/

Its a compilation of all the Upanishads (Major and Minor) plus all the Gitas, works by Shankara and many others treatises.

Keshav

But there could also be another simultaneous basis for the interest in MKG. That of the widespread influence of Thoreau. It is possible that Thoreau himself got such wide publicity because he satsified a certain need in the mid 19th century USA where the industrial North was heading for a "civ...

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What do you expect the police to do when out of nowhere, a huge murderous mob assembles in a peaceful locality (which is a very normal area and not a "sensitive zone" meaning no special police arrangement there) with no apparent provocation (unless warning a couple of druggies to behave i...

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Viv I can understand your impatience.Geopolitical realities don't change so soon.The timeline for such change is in decades and sometimes even in centuries.If possible just read the history of Reconquista and note how much time it took the christians to overwhelm the muslims in spain. As far as I r...

Keshav

Congratulations on partnering with "Indipepal" for information on the Indian space program.

On further investigation, its much more. Its a defence website and a news source about politics, NGO's and military history.

Good stuff.

Keshav

This isn't an E-Book per se, but it is a compilation of pretty much all the Upanishads (major and minor) plus a few miscellaneous books like the several Gitas besides the Bhagavad Gita, works by Advaita saints like Ramana Maharishi, Nisargadutta Maharaj, and Shankara himself, as well the Bhakti and ...

Keshav

Can you imagine the hungama in the DDM/secular space which would have happened had the police opened fire on the murderous mob which descended on the streets for no apparent provocation? Yes, they probably would have gone ballistic but you have to work the system. You have to play the game until yo...

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Mainstream Hindus frown upon open-air pyre campaign - Hasan Suroor The irony of this is that despite accusing Ghai of inflating the number of his supporters, Mr. Suroors rebuttal quotes only two journalists whose popularity could have been similarly inflated. He then continues to equate sharia with...

Keshav

mind boggles even more thinking when this patience will break... :roll: also, what of retaliatory attacks against Muslims if there are any major attacks on Hindus? as i understand it, Ram Sena and a few others and even RSS, VHP are pretty strong in Mangalore and karnataka in general. they won't kee...

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Hamas couldn't fire smuggled Stingers against Israelis due to embedded ID system The source said Hamas smuggled four Stinger systems in 2008. The source said the Hamas military deployed the Stingers against Israel Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopters during strike missions in the northern Gaza...

Keshav

but IMHO, UG is the best amongst our contemporaries. but the irony is, to appreciate UG, you have to be traditionally trained. once you are primed on tradition, UG peels it all for you. UG is also one of the few people, who actually speaks of how he came about it. he knew the traditions and followe...

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The new fashion is Indian and its in. Don't know how many people were reading the "Civilization Security" thread, but it just goes to show how Indian culture will continue on in the new century.

Jai Ho!
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090322/j ... 700209.jsp

Keshav

Only a day or two back I read a headline which claimed IRAN to be a number one security threat to the US, and now they talk about common interests. US arm twisted MMS to push India-IRAN relations down the toilet and now their Army Gen talks about involving India-TSP and Iran for stabilizing Afganst...

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Dipanker wrote:Madina was once ruled by Jews, Israelis should demand Madina back. If Palestinian should have right to return then Israelies should have the right to demand Madina back.

Asking for Medina (or Hagia Sophia, for the matter) back is like asking for The Temple Mount, Kashi, Mathura, or the Ram Mandir.

Keshav

Rudradev - I respect your scholarship but in America almost no one differentiates between Caucasians. There are only a few ethnicities that continue with any sort of pride or tradition and that also depends on whether they grew up in an area where those people are concentrated (Jews in New York, Iri...

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What do you mean by moderate muslims?Both Fatah and Hamas envisage the destruction of israel.Hamas does it openly while fatah is little bit more disreet.Also by the way there is hardly any saudi or afghan participation in palestinian terror groups. Isn't Fatah's official stance that it does recogni...

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rama, chinmayanada has very good and accessible material on all the significant upanishads. i heartily suggest those. I second that. Technically, Chinmayananda belongs to the Advaita sampradhya but having attended Chinmaya Mission Balavihar for 8 years, I found his Bhagavad Gita to be most practica...

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Assuming that a full Hindu consolidation would be against Congress interest, the Congress can actually raise a whole lot of spectres before the "Hindu" - any Hindu consolidation will alarm the TSP or the IM or both and may push them together in a cross border Islamic bloc. Similarly any a...

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None of its preferred leaders like Gandhi, JLN etc. are lathi-charged like Lala Lajpat Rai, or shot like those in Jallianwal Bagh, or shot like Azad. None of them are sent to 10 years rigorous imprisonments like Savarkar and countless others. These led by Gandhi propose a strategy to fight freedom ...

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People have made it clear that Pakistan is the major threat to any rise in Indian power, but I remembe Vadivelu commenting that this thinking was outdated and that it represented vain fantasies (on both sides) to see the other country implode and disintegrate. Essentially, he made the point that ter...

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China can’t chain Tibet forever Sunanda K Datta-Ray http://www.dailypioneer.com/165309/China-can%E2%80%99t-chain-Tibet-forever.html The article seems more like idle threat than any commentary on Tibetan freedom. The author does a great job of exposing the hypocrisy in CCP policy towards the Tibetan...

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Rudradev - The geopolitical analysis you offered was great, but your odd hatred for the British ridiculously skews their efforts in light of 19th century/early 20th century values and tactics. This whole idea that Britain is the enemy of India makes you sound as old as Advani. As an Indian, you shou...

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Big news out of Japan - its the first military execution of the Japanese security forces in years: Japan to destroy North Korea rocket http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967202.stm Excerpt: Japan's Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada issued the orders to mobilise Japan's missile defence shield af...

Keshav

All this discussion about the Mahabharata just goes to show how much more important the epics are to Indian culture than the Vedas. They don't really mean anything to the average person.

Keshav

nkumar -
I don't see what's so important about that article.

Some parts, such as US intervention of India are ridiculous while EJ intervention and a Talibanised Pakistan are well known.

What parts should I have read more carefully?

Keshav

Thanks Abhi_G. Wow it was based on a true person! Always wondered about it! And to think he was related to Sarjojni Naidu and to Nizam's College in Hyderabad. It seems he knew quite a few other people as well - Madama Cama, Savarkar, Lala Rai, and Bipin Chandra Pal (in addition to several others). ...

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Neela - You didn't post the most important comments! Clive Hickman didn't contribute to the design of the Nano. He was signed up onto the team about a year ago, when the Nano manufacturing plant was having problems in Bengal . He previously worked as the Managing Director of Tata Motors' European T...

Keshav

It's funny how the original post said discussing religion was out of bounds, but how do you talk about Indian culture without it? How do you talk about the Mahabharata without taking up these issues? It brings in the whole idea about what secularism really means to India. Jwala Mukhi - Sudarshan con...

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Dalai Lama denied visa for South Africa peace conference Secular, equal rights? :D Africa has seen increased development by China so denying the Dalai Lama entrance is to possibly invite Chinese investment. If I were the South African Prime Minister, the infrastructure of my country would be more i...

Keshav

At that time, My mom gave me more info on the text and the scholar's commentary where this explanation was given. I will ask her for it again when I talk to her this week. The Bhagavatam is available online. http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org Part 4, Canto 10 He does not multiply himself per se but it...

Keshav

Heh, and leftist-led India for some reason has remained staunchly aloof from the US for all these years, on the grounds that having closer relations with the US would automatically compromise its latitude on foreign policy. Go figure. :roll: After looking at politics from around the world, you get ...

Keshav

Growing up second-generation, you don't get to hear all of these great stories, especially since the 'rents have opposite affinities for religion and what not. If not for ACK, though... I probably wouldn't know anything. All my extensive knowledge of the Mahabharat and Ramayana comes from ACK and Ra...

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