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by Misra
16 Nov 2018 00:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala
Replies: 2419
Views: 445466

Re: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala

i suggest moving the third paragraph to the top—provide the critical ‘what’ upfront before the lengthier ‘why’
by Misra
14 Nov 2018 03:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7441
Views: 1625473

Re: Understanding the US - Again

check out the definition of yoga on page 5 of the latest CDC report on the prevalence of yoga/meditation in the US. wiki: “CDC is the leading national public health institute of the US”
by Misra
12 Nov 2018 00:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala
Replies: 2419
Views: 445466

Re: Kerala Floods - Aftermath and Save Sabarimala

The biggest mistake which has been happening is that trying to define Hinduism as an organised religion like X'ianity or Islam. This is a fundamental mistake. And the british introduced governance & judicial systems are unable to comprehend that. So we should not try to bring comparison stories...
by Misra
17 Oct 2018 01:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8678
Views: 2230693

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

I would like to get back to the conversation I began here: https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=2300324#p2300324 ... like i mentioned before on this forum, yoga/spirituality is the best way to ensure a certain kind of indianization closer to us here in the US. the approach of the rajne...
by Misra
16 Oct 2018 09:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8678
Views: 2230693

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

having binge watched it myself i also recommend wild wild country on netflix. rajneesh’s era and methods were very different and he serves as a great foil to what, for example, someone like sadhguru is attempting today here in the US. sadhguru has indeed set up an institute of inner sciences in mcmi...
by Misra
13 Aug 2018 00:39
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
Replies: 4447
Views: 1482937

Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7248&p=2174502#p2174502
Misra wrote: indeed, ISRO should think of establishing a 24-hr channel of its own now, ISROTV or whatever
ISRO set to launch its TV channel

^ good to see
by Misra
11 Jun 2018 08:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indian Interests_2
Replies: 633
Views: 238850

Re: Indian Interests_2

The last line needs some reflection to bring about. 1) What were the factors that allowed India to be the center of world commerce, industry, and thought over the millennium from 200 AD to 1200 AD? 2) What made the factors null and void? 3) What do we need to bring them back? 1) stretches of time, ...
by Misra
28 May 2018 19:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Replies: 6071
Views: 1219560

Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis

^ he should continue with the hugging, esp if his counterparts don’t like it. he pulls it off well—putin and trump come across as stiff. should reinforce vasudhaiva kutumbakam every opportunity he gets...it’s one of his USP’s
by Misra
27 May 2018 19:42
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces
Replies: 3324
Views: 727401

Re: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces

not sure if this has been posted before here:

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by Misra
23 May 2018 11:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8678
Views: 2230693

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

lengthy but interesting CSIS conference on US-India relationship: U.S. & India: From Estranged Democracies to Natural Allies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvXyFGcSaQ opening panel: navtej sarna and frank wisner economic panel: susan esserman, sadanand dhume, arun kumar strategic panel: raymon...
by Misra
23 May 2018 00:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737741

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

^ yes, they can be in big doo-doo in the next several decades if they mismanage their affairs—domestic and international. by 2100 both the chinese and indian population pyramids are expected to have similar shape, but the planet may have many many more indians than chinese (of all age levels). indee...
by Misra
16 May 2018 23:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5560
Views: 1509955

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

every time the GDP of the UK crosses the 3 trillion mark that of india crosses the next trillion mark...

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by Misra
22 Apr 2018 23:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7441
Views: 1625473

Re: Understanding the US- Again

^ from the article:

“My point is not to promote Trump; it is the colossal failure of the press, and the widespread extent of this phenomenon.”
by Misra
22 Apr 2018 15:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7441
Views: 1625473

Re: Understanding the US- Again

shri conrad black’s take: America is being mocked by the shallow bias of its free press “We are living through an era when the Western democracies are generally reassessing a great deal of assumed conventional liberal wisdom...The larger issue in the United States and the leading western European co...
by Misra
01 Apr 2018 18:57
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Latest Chinese boast: should we shiver or die laughing?
Replies: 1451
Views: 336159

Re: Latest Chinese boast: should we shiver or die laughing?

Mukesh.Kumar wrote:Well the Chinese and their photo-ops. Capshun Time plizzz

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top dog sheru (known as xi-roo in tibet)
by Misra
17 Mar 2018 18:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8678
Views: 2230693

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

in the end no country can accomodate or help the number of talented and hard working people we have. ... ultimately people will have to find their future in india ... india develop and become rich and successful ... right now we are in middle... sounds about right. the urgency of the desire to incr...
by Misra
17 Mar 2018 05:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8678
Views: 2230693

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

^^Cosmo: that is precisely my point. Hinduism isn't dogmatically prescribed (from a book). It isn't ministered (by a Church). It is experienced, as a set of living traditions and narratives. That experience comes from constant, abundant, lifelong interaction with other Hindus, period. Take away the...
by Misra
19 Feb 2018 22:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737741

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

NR, every Chinaman or woman has to be treated as an agent.A few years ag Germany said that it had lost several billions due to Chin industrial espionage.One firm said that they had a young Chin computer "trainee" working with them for 2 weeks.When he left they found he had stolen their en...
by Misra
15 Feb 2018 23:04
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Biotech News & Discussion
Replies: 396
Views: 132229

Re: Indian Biotech News & Discussion

Hi Neshant, I am trying to develop microfluidic chambers to isolate different categories of cells from blood plasma. If you are interested in the science, please post or message me. Thank you! this is very interesting science. several years ago i was part of a multi-disciplinary lab-on-a-chip type ...
by Misra
14 Feb 2018 18:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1737741

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

indian priority for the next few decades needs to be: nutrition, education, and profession. if that’s taken care of then, as the population pyramids for india and china show below, in 40-70 years the chinese tone toward india (actually vice versa) is likely to be different from what it is now. chine...
by Misra
10 Jan 2018 23:07
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Two and Half Front War Scenario
Replies: 209
Views: 46432

Re: Two and Half Front War Scenario

any exhaustion from war, total or not, is likely to be short lived—perhaps on the order of a few generations, e.g. mahabharata or kalinga. this is because conquest is a very human desire (usually expressed in a myriad routine ways) and until this desire is understood universally—esp by non indics—to...
by Misra
29 Dec 2017 22:55
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Whine Thread-2
Replies: 40
Views: 9742

Re: Kaveri & aero-engine discussion

Kaveri is under development for 30 odd years. How can any organization can exist in the world with out a credible product ? Had it been the aviation major , howling for its closure is rest assured !!! G o T ake R um and E njoy!!!! LIGO took 40 years of funding for it to make the groundbreaking disc...
by Misra
13 Dec 2017 08:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Regarding the "meanings" of words such as sarasvati, sindhu etc. There seems a lot of confusion. 1) The Indians found that the words in the Veda could be derived using a system of roots, stems, and modifications that employ a set of rules ("grammar"). Using these, the Indians ha...
by Misra
01 Oct 2017 19:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

^ it could be argued that indians of the past strove to shun identification (ahamkara) or at least to expand it to be as large/inclusive as possible (hence the many sublime mantras such as ‘all the universe is one’). the systems developed to do so emphasized a) recognizing the enormous role that mem...
by Misra
01 Sep 2017 05:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

... Question about how Shiva/Parvati tradition came to be so strong in the south (but not Indonesia/East Asia, hain?) is a different one. That clearly seems to be a Himalayan origin, and how did that become so strong so far south? agastya probably had a large hand in that--said to have carried yoga...
by Misra
28 Jul 2017 09:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

One can treat their senile grandparents with utmost care and duty and still keep in mind they are senile and their ramblings have no contributions towards our awareness of existence. Similar concept applies. One can respect the accomplishments of one's ancestors and also realize that they were far,...
by Misra
22 Jul 2017 03:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

the fundamental paradigm of scientific training is to not consider anything true without corroborative evidence. ... half-baked claims written by half-literate men thousands of years ago... your summary dismissal of the human mind of the past as 'half-literate' is really a self-goal, i.e., a goal a...
by Misra
18 Jul 2017 15:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

^ the whole thing comes down to realizing (or rather being comfortable with the idea) that there are non physical dimensions of the universe that cannot be studied by physical methods--that the 'intellect' depends on physical information/data gathered through physical senses that become unreliable f...
by Misra
18 Jul 2017 13:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Couldn't care less if he is a juggler or a priest. He is a PhD in Physics, talking about physics. Automatically out-ranks a guy with zero physics education talking about physics. Would i prefer an atheist physicist ?ofcourse i would. but a christian priest who is a phD in Physics decisively outrank...
by Misra
07 Jul 2017 10:36
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

"ganges" is another term that is begging to go the "aryan" way--there is no reason for any indian to not refer to "ganga" as "ganga"
by Misra
29 Jun 2017 23:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1083556

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Let's say you are correct and that the aryan invasion did not happen and we are all one. But then how do we explain the blatant hatred of the dark that is evident across the length and breadth of our society from entertainment to jobs to marriage? this light and dark business is most misunderstood ...
by Misra
24 Jun 2017 00:57
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
Replies: 4447
Views: 1482937

Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016

Gagan wrote: ISRO doesn't really need Doordarshan for the broadcast.
indeed, ISRO should think of establishing a 24-hr channel of its own now, ISROTV or whatever
by Misra
06 Jun 2017 05:03
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: GSLV-Mk III launch program/post-launch analysis
Replies: 424
Views: 115728

Re: GSLV-Mk III launch program/post-launch analysis

better video from ISRO, with booster and satellite separation
by Misra
05 May 2017 17:34
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
Replies: 4447
Views: 1482937

Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016

notwithstanding your understandable disappointment i'm somewhat delighted that the first official word on the SAARC satellite launch has come from the Indian PM himself--seems to me that it was his suggestion/vision to set this kind of space diplomacy into motion in the first place
by Misra
05 May 2017 17:20
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
Replies: 4447
Views: 1482937

Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIElIDrreo

another video of launch

edit: same as ANI's posted just before
by Misra
05 May 2017 17:12
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
Replies: 4447
Views: 1482937

Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3rolabKU9w

pallava bagla whining about why ISRO/PMO/Foreign affairs officials have been opaque about the launch this time...
by Misra
05 May 2017 17:05
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
Replies: 4447
Views: 1482937

Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016

doubt it was the real Press Trust of India--take a look at their other videos :mrgreen: