Bharat Rakshak

Works of poetry, literature abound, but if there are any desi authors from 500 BC to 1800 A.D. who wrote about existing social conditions and history, please mention a few names/works. It seems like much of our pre-British historical record is from accounts of travellers from outside India. One imp...

EJ : Listen heathen, you are worshipping a false-god and are deeply lost in false-religion and you will go to hell. Become an EJ. FWIW. True conversations between me and a EJ: EJ : Do you want to live forever? Me: Why do I want to live forever? EJ: <silence> Me: Will I age? EJ: No. You will live fo...

Kumar, I am one your kind but we will always be a minority Aditya, Thank you. Be not a'frodo. the "Fellowship of the Few" grows. Soon it will be able to tackle the Dark (matter) Lord. Add me in if you like to, I am complete staunch vegetarian however I love good booze. Single malt anyone?

TSJones wrote:Is that cultural or religious?

It is religious. Just like March 31 is celebrated officially as Mahavir Jayanti.

A question for you? Is December 25, the christmas day - is that day ascribed because it coincided with certain "pagan" cultural festivals or is it a real day jesus was born?

TSJones wrote:Is Christmas day a national holiday in India? Seriously.

Yes.

And how pathetic that your knowledge about it is at that level. Shame on you.

BTW, talking about evengelist's message being a nuisance, how many here have heard about "Kodungalloor Bharani" in kerala? (it occurs around this time of the year) I thik that is a much bigger nuisance unless you enjoy listening to profanity. :eek: ... Apart from the obscene songs, what I...

...But they take time off from their work to go there and experience the fellowship that results from their philanthropy. And they *love* it. Each and everyone of them when they return says it rejuvenates their Christian spirit. ... Cannot help - young men, village people and YMCA - and they love i...

TSJones wrote: The fact that a few of the refugees(certainly not all) have a sense of entitlement is particularly grinding.

You are absolutely correct. Hey! Even Barbara Bush said that they are having the best time of their lives. Their lives cannot better than what they are currently going through!

Shiv, you'll be surprised to know I sat down in the marriage pandal in a Western suit. Nobody could give me a convincing reason as why I need to wear uncut/unsitched garments (Most Hindus of north India are not aware of this custom....though I found some folks from Himachal and Uttrakhand aware of ...

So can Jimmy Choo shoes laugh, cry, be sad, get angry just like Jimmy Choo? Come on, be realistic :) But £300 for a pair of shoes? That is extortion! I guess wealth is all relative. Oh common! $450 shoes is for the poor/down trodden. The real wealthy should have $2500 ones and no two same for the ...

Without meaning to hurt you - I would like to point out that I will not accept this as an answer because the probem is worse than you imagine. No hurt taken. What is the point in discussion if the discussion cannot be kept objective? By all means validate what I have said and gain your own experien...

The shoe did originate from the shoemaker, but the shoemaker does not live within the shoe With all due respects - you are absolutely wrong. Look at the choos [shoes] from Jimmy Choos. Because of the shoemaker which lives in every shoe that makes it priceless! Just like some people see divinity in ...

Continuing from above ... Have we Indians ever wondered why several animal species are not extinct in India? Why is that Elephant has survived? How come India is the only country on Earth with both Lions and Tigers? How come we have several populations and sub-species of monkeys? How come we have Pe...

If he, for example, asks someone - why is the food placed in this particular order and served in that order on the plantain leaf at a Hindu ceremonial meal and repeatedly gets a dismissable answer like "it is our tradition" he is likely to reject it as rubbish and relegate to history one ...

shiv wrote:does this make the Idol Worshipping Hindu

a) a violent reactionary?
b) a Hindu fundamentalist?
c) a Hindu revivalist?
d) an enemy of secularism?

And imagine the angst of a common idol worshipping Hindu when they are branded all of the above?

Most proselytizing is accomplished by good works and fellowship. Not by attacking belief systems and lying. My personal experience so far is otherwise and hence your views above is nothing but a simpler and a feel good point of view. In fact, the other day I had this "peddler of religion"...

The Vatican/Catholic missionaries are poles apart from the evanjihadi charlatans of virulent literalist Protestant strains like the Southern Baptists, who hate the Vatican a whole lot more than you do. I do not hate the Vatican and neither the various virulent protestant strains.:shock:. When did I...

one way to combat a particular religion is to put that religion on defensive. What I meant was what the evanjehadists do to "combat" Hindu religion. Please read the above along with the next part: Hence the deliberate confusion about the ills in the Indian society with the Hindu religion.

And building on the previous post, one way to combat a particular religion is to put that religion on defensive. Hence the deliberate confusion about the ills in the Indian society with the Hindu religion. Similarly, if the Vatican can be made to apologize on hard facts of past subjugation that will...

Bottomline is that, instead of always zeroing in on Portugese as bad boys of Christian onslaught on India, we also got to see other forms of subjugation. Portuguese represent a more physical and cruder form of subjugation. Not unlike the current subjugation by the mullahs in some countries. At the ...

It will be OT to discuss the history in this thread ... I don't see why it would be OT ... if you write informative posts about history, at least some of us will benefit ... I really don't know anything about Daman and Diu ... are thery still "special territories"? In my opinion, the disc...

HariC wrote: Have their been any bloodbaths instigated by Christians against Hindus? HariC, please go down to Diu, Daman or Goa. The last portuguese strongholds. While you are there, take a tour to the forts. You will find clear evidence of mass torture and forcible conversions through that. The po...

Acharya - try this: "how long should the R&D guys be given?" interpretation one: R&D is a waste of time, buy foreign interpretation two: how long should one invest in some technology before taking a realistic look at what has been achieved and what potential remains? Realistic and...

Ajai Shuklaji, I have been following this threads very long and mostly learning and rarely commenting. However, I had to comment on your following statement: Ajai Shukla response The real question is: how long should the R&D people be given? I guess you do not remember the history of HF-Marut. I...

SO, the question that comes up is which is the correct combination: 1. 4 missiles with individual success rate of 80%. 2. 6 missiles with individual success rate of 54%. To note, after PADE I was wondering what happens if multiple EXO-ABM's are used and was toying with the idea of 5. Later I came a...

I believe what it does is send the "arms race" into an entirely different orbit. The message it sends to Pakis is that they cannot compete with us in the missile arms race. Either they give up on that option or they can continue, but it will not necessarily be sane. Yes the race does take...

Alok_N wrote:probability of miss = (0.75)**5 = 24% => Prob of kill with 5 = 76%

Assuming that 6 PADE ABMs achieve 99% kill, then the probability of each comes to 50%. That is from the above eqn. probability of miss = (0.50)**6 = 1% => prob of kill with 6 = 99%.

Just found out from Yindoo - " .... Dwelling on interception by the liquid-fuelled Prithvi missile, Dr. Saraswat said the decision to destroy a missile at a distance of 50 km was undertaken in view of the likely threat perception from IRBMs. Defence scientists were looking at a pack of six miss...

Hi! Long time follower [5+ years], reposting again after a long time. Great posts and good discussion. Following the posts and thinking about the strategic implications of the ABM test for a long time and have to share those thoughts. First specific to DRDO and then to the implications of the ABM te...