Bharat Rakshak

KBC 6: 1st crorepati wants to rebuild destroyed houses in Kashmir On the state of affairs in Kashmir, he said, "in 1988, everything began going downhill. Everything was burnt down by militants and nothing was left." "During militancy, my house in Kashmir Valley was destroyed. We were...

Lalmohan wrote:no celebration of the silver medal win in paralympics long jump?

Won't get BMW either. People are more than happy with test team win.

OT Mode on... Saraswati ma also went OIT Benzaiten Benzaiten (弁才天, 弁財天) is the Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati. Worship of Benzaiten arrived in Japan during the 6th through 8th centuries, mainly via the Chinese translations of the Sutra of Golden Light, which has a section devoted to h...

Pakistani contested Assam elections in 1996: Court By Syed Zarir Hussain, IANS, Guwahati : Sounds shocking, but it is true: a person holding a Pakistani passport who entered India's northeastern state of Assam through Bangladesh unsuccessfully contested the assembly elections in 1996. This sensatio...

^^^ This is why we can't have nice things Long, but posting in full- 40 Years of "Innovation" in India By Harshwardhan Gupta Innovation is The Next Big Boom on India Inc.'s Horizon! declares a Management Guru. "Innovation Drives Us!" says a commercial from a truck-tyre manufactur...

According to the Mimamsa attempt to understand the Veda, the "operative" actions on the cosmic scale occur by means of the "verbs" present in the Vedic sounds. These verbs relate the "nouns" and have a number of other adjunct sounds. These sounds together comprise the ...

Rajan ji, given your faith in pir reviewed scientific jernails , I assume that they translated IVC script :lol: i see that deciphering is not yet done - and i also see the challange/bet by Farmer: http://www.safarmer.com/indus/prize.html i doubt if it can ever be fully deciphered - statistically &q...

dharmaraj ji, pranaam (interesting choice of handle, congrats) Dhanyavaad Ravi ji. Pranaam :) Do Earliest Relics == Earliest Usage . What if the earlier maal is simply reused and consumed due to normal depreciative wear and tear (Added later : even more plausible is recycled) and when the supply ex...

Archeology and Carbon Dating are art and not science is my stand. Especially so with Archeology. Isotope dating has certainly advanced but if I gathered it right there was a time when supplying dates to the labs before they had put out their data was practiced. Kind of like a Linguist passing up a ...

More on IVC and RV dating: Per wiki, IVC dates are 3300 BCE to 300 BCE, i.e, about 3000 years of civilization. Population over 5 million. And, the Indus area. The Wiki is good. (well, OIT calls it SSC - not the scientific types). Now, per Witzel, RV is dated 1500 BCE to 500 BCE, i.e., about 1000 ye...

Wiki says that brahmi script developed from aramaic

They have a table that derives brahmi (and devnagari) from greek. Maybe this is AMT in script. Can gurujans check?

Nilesh ji,

Thank you for the book Loved the bonus too

Not to derail the discussion but few pages earlier there was a discussion about possible sanskrit name for Darius. How about "DharYash" (one who holds yash)? Cyrus might be "Suyash"/"Suryash", Xerses is difficult.

Just my two cowries only.

From wiki-

North Korean athletes have won a total of 47 medals, two of which were won at the Winter Games

Indian athletes have won a total of 21 medals

After lurking for more than a year, I am thrilled to join BRF. And I finally know the whereabouts of GDF everyone seem to talk about.