Bharat Rakshak

Lay off people. This thread was about inspiring personalities. No need for political lecture. In the last version, I had taken pains to post a long thread on personalities from the SOuth spread over several ages, religions and fields. I am sad that the thread is gone. Now the attempt to resurrect a ...

Nakul: Another movie with a WWII background "Andha naal" (That Day) a Sivaji Ganesan starrer. He is an anti-hero spy for the Japanese in it. No songs at all in this movie and it was one of his earliest ones. Quite a gripping story line and he IIRC he calls on the radio guiding japanese bom...

BR represents the optimism about India. An ancient civilization and a confident nation on the move. I have watched this vision grow and become a reality from its very infancy. In a sense, I have grown too in terms of my understanding of what it means to be an Indian. For that and an inspiring vision...

bikram: One reason could be that the gradient for flyovers have to be gentle as the underpowered autorickshaws and two wheelers cannot negotiate very steep gradients. The other reason is that usually the state owned buses are badly maintained and have problems negotiating steep gradients especially ...

Excuse me kind folks! Is there any details about the ACTUAL Parkram II exercise? I am attempting to put this series of exercise in a context. First Militarily and then as part of an overall appraoch of the GOI. So bear with me in this ramble. Me thinks that this exercise is basically a dummy run of ...

Harsh: Mr. B.G. Mahesh had one of the best personal websites on everything Indian. His was teh most user friendly, organised collection of URLs and had excellent articles written by him as well. The by now famous annonymous e-mail "Citical Analysis of Criticis of the Indian Nuclear tests" ...

Harsh: I first discovered BR from a website called mahesh.com which I think has metomorphised into Indian Online today. Back then there were three or four sites and the BR main page was only a coordinating point and a certain Harshvardan Vedak was maintaining sites :) . Never remembered when I first...

Speak of a coincidence!<P>Here is what has happened to Argentina which introduced a new peso with a one to one parity with the USD.<BR> <A HREF="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=1553061127" TARGET=_blank>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=155...

I think this was done in Argentina quite sometime back by the previous Menem regime. They recalibirated their currency to USD equivalent as a drastic step to quell hyperinflation. <P>I do not know how well it succedeed. I don't think Argentina is any better now. <P>If this is attempted in India thei...

jkarthik:<P>The Buckingham Canal through Chennai can be converted or should I say reverted to its old glory days of a waterway going right upto Rajahmundry.<P>My father says that he has known the Canal as beautiful waterway and he has gone to Mahabalipuram by Boat. I know of this as one large sewer ...

A special thanks to contributors of this thread especially Sridhar and others. This has been very educative to me. <P>Once R. Venkatraman, the former President was talking at a private gathering informally. He mentioned that when he was the Industries Minister in TN, Shri Kamaraj, the legendary CM o...

Shahid,<P>Thanks for a great thread. <P>BR members in Singapore - Could any of you please visit the INA Museum there and do a report and post a few pictures. I once saw a tourist marker pointing towards such a museum in the city centre area.<P>Incidentally is there a memorial for the fallen soldiers...

Agree with you shiv.<P>Please people, kindly read the work of ramana, calvin and sunder in the last issue of BRM. After that believe whatever you want. <P>What is the basis of the latest claim? How is it different from the previous ones? Are the press reporting the basis of these new claims? If this...

CTBT is dead. Good riddance to bad rubbish!<P>With regard to the need for the US to test. What are the compulsions? Why do they need to test? Do they not have enough data to simulate? Was it not one of the main reasons for the P5 to agree to CTBT?<P>I remember reading somewhere that the US is prepar...

Appropos Rahul Bedi<P>This particular gentleman has a distinguished record of maintaining journalistic standards of the likes of Pamela Constable and Eric Margolis. In fact his knowledge on defence issues is shall we say questionable.<P>I have seen him write as a reporter for the South China Morning...

Kaushal and Bharat and others,<P>Very Good posts and analysis. Captures all the nuances and falvours of the relationship both past and present. India should respond to every positive overture of the US (in other words when US speaks respond in speech with equal warmth). However, watch the actions as...