Bharat Rakshak

Dan Mazer

So, for convenience I am reproducing the problem I asked above. It is a classic problem and one of my favorite fun problem which teaches some basic idea. (If you have not heard it before, the answer may surprise you) Problem: There are 100 seats assigned to 100 passengers, but each person randomly ...

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I'll describe from A's perspective. Just by looking around (1) A only knows only that: B knows that C has green eyes. (2) Since he doesn't know the colour of his own eyes, A does not know: whether B knows if C knows that there is at least one dragon with green eyes. Remember A is modeling B's model ...

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For the dragon puzzle... Before the speech Every dragon knew that at least 99 dragons have blue eyes Every dragon knew that 99 dragons knew that at least 98 dragons had blue eyes ..... Every dragon knew that 99 dragons knew that 98 dragons knew that ..... 2 dragons knew that there is at least one dr...

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Would someone please explain the math above? I don't get the missing steps. For instance: tan(l)=Asin(m-m0) What is l, m and m0? l is the latitude and m is the longitude. Sorry for not making it clear, I was using the notation from my earlier post. A and m0 are just constants of the equation. Solve...

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As I'd suspected, found out that it's trivial working in spherical coordinates: Equation of a great circle is: tan(l)=Asin(m-m0) Use the latitude, longitude values for A and V and solve to get A=-3.948 and m0=-36.71 deg. This is equation of the great circle connecting A and V. We need to find the lo...

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I used the north star longitude on the ecliptic system - 90 E and the plot now matches yours nicely. The times when the A and V longitudes match up are 13400 BC - 4500 BC.

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Nileshji, My plot looks the same as yours, only its left-right inverted because I've taken the opposite direction of rotation for the precession (magnetic pole in this problem). My plot is also shifted a bit because the starting longitude is 0 in this problem. I'd need to know Polaris' longitude in ...

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There's probably a simpler way to do it if you know spherical trig. which I don't. This is how I tried to do it: The longitudes of A and V need to obtained in the globe with the magnetic poles as the new North and South poles. In a cartesian system with its x-axis along the direction from the earth'...

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Added Later: I am just playing the devil's advocate here! To understand please see the next post addressed to A_Gupta ji. Sorry to interrupt your exchange. If OIT was the dominant theory instead of AIT, the 'devil's advocate' in your post would simply have to replace Central Asia by North India and...

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It seems to me that even if OIT replaced AIT tomorrow, the schisms that developed because of AIT would not be affected. The idea that created the divides is not that 'Aryans came from outside India'. It's the idea that there existed a group of people with their own separate culture, religion and lan...

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but it seems perfectly refutable. All one has to do is to take an example of such a word (or a set of words) and show that it can be ascribed a meaning such that all the statements using the word still remain sensible. Say there is a very simple sentence like this in Veda: "I am atman". w...

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I felt the same way. Having said that, anyone trying to defend against.... 'Rigveda can not be interpreted and no true meaning of its words can be understood'....position is fighting to refute something that is 'irrefutable' and thus fighting against unscientific proposal (by unscientific I don't m...

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If PIE originated and spread from outside India, the very first question becomes, when did it enter India and what was the causative event? There are two main answers - first, with the horse and chariot, around 1500 BC and second, with the advent of agriculture, some five thousand years earlier. As...

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Let's say that all the purely linguistic arguments are accepted i.e. the relations between Sanskrit and the other Indo-European languages and its descent from PIE. Let's say that we also accept the claim that PIE originated and spread from outside India. Now, what are the additional arguments and as...

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G. Parthasarathy on NDTV was completely in favour of removing the Visa restrictions and said they shouldn't have been imposed in the first place.

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http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_gavaskar-is-entitled-to-his-opinion-on-indo-pak-cricket-ties-rajeev-shukla_1715762 Asked about BJP, Shiv Sena's constant protests over resuming any sporting ties with Pakistan, Shukla said, "The leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley was a...

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We ignore that and hang on to all sorts of dubious characters because we have been taught to think " Indians didn't write. So they were bullshitting. The people who wrote always tell the truth " The West can conceive of only these two ways representing the past - representing it accuratel...

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what? did you read the thread, especially what venug has said about one of the major problem it can solve? btw, have you lived in India and experienced life in desh? The word 'problem' in my post wasn't used in a general sense (i.e. social, economic, etc...). It was used in the sense of 'a gap in o...

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All theories that are based on reading the Rig Veda as some sort of historical record, albeit with some fantasies, exaggerations and distortions thrown in, whether of the AIT or OIT variety are simply pseudo-science. In order to make their case the proponents of these theories first need to present ...

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You see one glaring reason why there is no urbanism in the Rig Veda is that it could have been composed before urbanism. Even if it was composed during a period after urbanism began, why should it necessarily reflect an urban lifestyle? Do we have any reason to presume that Rig Veda is some sort of...

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God in Sanskrit (as per a dictionary in front of me right now in case someone mistakenly believes that I am not consulting a dictionary) has many synonyms including deva, which is connected with the origin of the word "deity", But God actually sounds like the word "Kadaval" in T...

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Parts of AIT I agree with : At the turn of 2nd millenium BC, the first speakers of a language which is a branch of indo-european family entered Indian subcontinent. The language now called 'Vedic Sanskrit' is developed in India, the first snapshot we see of a their language is the ṛgveda. Parts of ...

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Surely electrons weren't 'proto-electrons' before someone first named them? Weird analogy. Languages are created by humans. Electrons are natural. My point was that an entity doesn't begin to exist only when someone names it i.e. Sanskrit would have existed before Panini called it as such. Leaving ...

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ManishH wrote:Actually no one called the language 'Sanskrit' until pāṇini. Maybe proto-Sanskrit is a better word.

Surely electrons weren't 'proto-electrons' before someone first named them?

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There is something very very sinister in the offing. Today, Mr. Vikram Sood expressed his disappointment on twitter over NDTV cutting short his air time during the panel discussion to a very very short duration because he took the position that India shouldn't withdraw unilaterally from Siachen. Ti...

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I voted NO because I've also lived next to a nuclear plant all my life and with all three hands on my heart I can say that I'm perfectly normal and healthy.

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/333739/cricket-india-trying-to-bankrupt-pakistan-bangladesh-sri-lanka-boards-says-ashraf/ The PCB chief also spoke about his discussions with BCCI President S Sri Nawason on restoration of Pak-India cricketing ties and how the latter had declined the offer, saying that hi...

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sum wrote:Very happy to read that someone in MEA atleast disagrees with what MSA keeps peddling:

Relations with Pak should be India's top priority: Aiyar

Audio recording of the whole panel discussion is here: http://www.gwu.edu/~sigur/news/audio.cfm

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^ Criticism of the 'stunting' statistic and the response http://www.financialexpress.com/news/just-about-how-much-hungama/899861/0 Another issue, which has been written about earlier in this newspaper, has been the proposition that there might be a problem with the reference sample that is used by t...

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Thanks both! Having two sides whose ratio is known and an included angle doesn't fix the triangle. But all the triangle solutions are obviously similiar, so the other two angles are the same in all the solutions.

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Here is one just using law of sines and some trigonometry. ... Now from 3 and 4 BP/BR = Sin(60+a)/Sin(60+c) Hence Angle BRP = 60+c and angle BPR = 60+a in Triangle BPR. ... I didn't follow this step. Just because the ratio of the sides is expressible as the ratio of two sines, are they necessarily ...

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Yogi_G wrote:
Dan Mazer wrote:Again, what exactly was offensive about the show?
depends on whether u r a proud bharatiya or a macualite p-sec or a gora aping accent touting DIE.

I didn't realize that being a proud bhratiya involved getting offended over nothing.

shiv wrote:It's just a stupid show.

I agree.

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Again, what exactly was offensive about the show?

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In case you haven't seen this show: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnbdaw_top-gear-india-christmas-special-1-2_shortfilms http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnbdgl_top-gear-india-christmas-special-2-2_shortfilms I saw this when it was aired and struggle to understand what exactly I'm supposed to get...

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When did the bolded part stop being the case in India? This is a diversion from the topic of Pakistan, but Arun seems to be asking how defeudalization (as was done in India by grabbing land from large landowners and handing that same land to those who lived on the land, causing landholdings to be s...

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A_Gupta wrote:I wonder, if India hand not defeudalized during the period when socialism was intellectually respectable, what mechanism would have arisen?

When did the bolded part stop being the case in India?

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KJoishy wrote:Afridi hates Gambhir after this incident. GG didn't cover in his dhoti as expected. ya allah kya zamaa aaya hai

Actually, weirdly, after that match he admitted that he was at fault and apologized to Gambhir.

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Actually a good key. Why are not there similar "interfaith" efforts going on between Hindus and Buddhists on an Asian scale? For Abrahamic religions, the goal is to accurately intercept and understand the one true God's revelation. So the existence of multiple faiths with differing truth ...

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Kushwant Singh in Deccan Chronicle There is no need to dispute that. However, there are over a dozen versions of the Ramayana which differ in essential details. But how much do we know of Shri Rama? We celebrate his birth anniversaries with great fervour but no one knows the year he was born, nor, ...

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Qureshi might be laughing out loud hearing these talk. Why is it that, we always have to consider, it is we who engineered the talk breakdown ? Becoz as it was described as the whole atmosphere changed after Kiyani's intervention. It was clarified by the Indians that, the DH & LeT matter was al...

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