Bharat Rakshak

So I was driving along in a good mood, listening to BBC radio 4. An item on the caste based reservations and how it has lead to cutting off the water supplies of 10 million Indians came up. The anchor called upon two panelists. One was a Dr Chandrika Kaul from Oxford and the other a Professor Gupta ...

NDTV had an exact same exchange with Sri Sri Ravishankar in NY, down to the "but SIR there have been controversy about this in the minorities..." - the NDTV pyt could barely contain her condescending snarky attitude as heathens performed all the funny gyrations. It makes perfect sense, Ma...

So once again, driving to work in a relatively good mood, I was listening to BBC radio 4 news (the sucker that I am) The news presenter says.." Meanwhile in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the World's largest Yoga performance (How does one even measure that!) would be hel...

It's true that the reach of such projects is limited, but they do have an audience in India, an audience whose influence is disproportionate to it's size. This needs to be opposed actively by a counter narrative, one which is thoroughly researched and presented with production values of an internati...

Anyone listening to this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv ? Sunil Khilnani, Professor of Politics and Director of the King's College London India Institute presents it, and the objective is to document Indian history through short 20 minute biopics of fifty extraordinary lives. Started with...

My friends were visiting. Their 3 year old daughter strongly favours pink as her favourite colour. I asked them if they had indulged in gender stereotyping, and they said that they had been doing the exact opposite. I then sat down and watched some TV with her. The amount of subliminal messaging is ...

Jhujar, that's a very interesting and useful table. What is the source, please?- I do intend to use it for something if that's O.K.

Thanks

I mean, Ashoka Chakra is part of the Indian Flag, not to mention the three lions Tuvaluan ji, precisely my thoughts, along with the Ashoka Charkra awards, the chapters in Indian history books and numerous movies and TV serials (one currently on air) etc etc. It was Bangalore, Kerala level of ignora...

As long as they stay out of creating trouble in India, why not use their own hatred for each other against them? Tuvaluan saar, I agree that it's the most pragmatic solution. However, my worry is that the longer this conflict goes on, the greater is the incubation period for wannabe Jihadis to germ...

No but some of us have spent all our tears for Indian and Hindu victims of the Pure and Peaceful and do 't have any to spare. KLN ji, even as a jingo and a maxed out Hindu, that was a terrible way to die for any human being. It is a classic example of gross violation of Dharma. These psychopaths ne...

Rule no 24: Don't listen to anything the worthless brishits have to say about India -- just tell them what you think of brishiters. Don't hold back. Tuvaluan Saar, I usually give it as good as I get, but this made me specially angry. He touched a nerve that only the most rabid Brits can do. What ra...

So I was in a relatively good mood, driving towards the Indian visa centre in Manchester, listening to BBC radio 4. There was a program on, called "In our Time", moderated by one Melwyn Bragg, about Emperor Ashoka. There were two women historians specialising in Buddhist studies, and an as...

Living in the Queendom, my last two (and a bit) interactions with the Packees- 1. Going to Edgbaston for the India- England T-20 match. The Packee cab driver was trying his best to provoke us Yindoo banias. "You live in England, why do you support India?", "Why does India spend so muc...

^^^ Did joo sbat the RAA agent cunningly objerving the egjjbloding mangoes?

I wonder if anyone has come accross this article on the BBC website- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20500312 .. Some notable gems from the article: Hindi, the official language of central government, is an artificial and largely unspoken 20th Century construct. English remains the country's only...