Bharat Rakshak

Congrats to all the founders and people that are keeping the flame alive. been hooked on for three years now. The true worth of the forum was apparent to me when it went down for a couple of days. frantic emails to fellow BR members as to what happened. Those two days showed what withdrawal symptoms...

A very moving first person a/c of the SARAS take off ************** From: "Srinivas Bhogle" SARAS is a 14-seater civilian aircraft that my lab,NAL, has been working on for a long time now. SARAS is for a 'feeder' role; i.e. 'feed' traffic for the bigger planes that take off from bigger cit...

As an aside - for bay area folks - in tomorrow's forum program on KQED 88.5 FM, Michael Krasny is going to discuss pakistani 'rogue scientists' nuclear proliferation. In the second half of the prog, listeners can call in with their questions. dont yet know the expert panel he is going to assemble. t...

Originally posted by John Umrao: "You can go to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and they are very proud Pakistan has this capability," said Shireen Mazari, Indeed I met a double PhD from egypt here in the US , well read and aware of the world dynamics. was objective and persuasive in his argument...

ok, too much hindi/urdu .. now for some diversity in telugu :) "jananee janma bhoomischa, swargaadhapi gareeyasi .. e thalli ninu kannado, aa thalline kanna bhoomi goppadira .." roughly translated, ' mother and motherland are like heaven, the land that gave birth to your mother is a great ...

Back in the 50's, was the difference in the living standards of Bombay and the rest of India as disparate as it is today ?

To AnilJ,

hmmmmm..., ahem, ummmm..., cough cough .. WOKAY BOSS, as you say!!!

If you scroll down there's this line:

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and below that an image.

Why would a hardcore chankian like PVNR decide to rub the world's only super power the wrong way ? that too back then when India was no where close to where we are now ??!!

Someone has painstakingly put together Indian timeline from the start of the yuga. Click on the image in this link and it brings up an xl file.

http://www.newdharma.org/royal_chron.htm

AnilJoshi,

Perfect!! Now I remember. Such bad memory , I used to recount this tale to almost all my friends once upon a time.

Thanks.

Kaushal Garu, Abhijit (we both are the true DOOs, all others are fake): Thanks for the invite. I was the guy with the long hair. I did attend a couple of them last year and always eagerly look forward to them, mostly cuz Ramana Garu unwinds and lets out some gems. :) Haffun. some more about PV: - I ...

- he was/is proficient in 15 languages both Indian and foreign. There was a news item about how he surprised a spanish delegation by speaking in perfect spanish. - IIRC, he was considered by congress for PM giri as early as 1984 when IG died but was overrun for Rajiv to get the sympathy vote factor ...

Originally posted by GGanesh: Its one thing for a "hawa ka jhonka" lifting Marilyn Monroe's skirt to reveal pink underwear. But a Tamilian wearing a lungi and the same "hawa ka jhonka", ...... Well, some things are best left unsaid. ganesh, lungis are aerodynamically constructed...

Originally posted by John Umrao: we had a tamilian friend who went out in lungi in broad day light. Imagine that lungi in flower color prints , you have victoria's secret out on the street... :rotfl: JU kaka, that WAS in the 'checks' format (famous in apun ka hyd) made eternal by all those mallik c...

When I was in Grad school in Iowa City where it gets real hot in the summers, we had a tamilian friend who went out in lungi in broad day light. We had lotsa fun with 'gora log' ka expressions.

One of the many who went back !!!

http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99jun03/edit.htm#7

All: Is it possible that the GoI might be intending to send a strong message to TSP that India's answer to solving the Kashmir tangle is another Bangladesh like dismembering of TSP's Sindh region ? You push off Kashmir for good or else Sindh will be targetted by us. Now that we are making guesses of...