Bharat Rakshak

Originally posted by GGanesh: My whole point was that the Lib made affordable things that were difficult, if not impossible until then for ordinary folks. It is axiomatic that Lib. did not reach all folks equally. It is equally axiomatic that those such as myself, who I would classify pre-Lib as lo...

One question: Nobody yet commented on PVs role during anti-sikh riots in 1984. I am curious what did he do to stop them. I remember vaguely that he was accused of doing nothing.

Originally posted by GGanesh: Its hard to follow what GeorgeJ and GGanesh are fighting about. Go back to my first post and that of GeorgeJ's. Dude, looks to me that you take things too personally. I think most ppl come to this forum to enhance their understanding of current affairs abt india. We sh...

Its hard to follow what GeorgeJ and GGanesh are fighting about. All I understand is, if you are in a govt. job, liberization has no meaning for you but yeah 5th pay commission does. Privatization helped in booming of industries, so more ppl who were enterpreneur got rich and helped in generating mor...

Originally posted by Ponniyin Selvan:

I am more surprised that I am debating against a Kangresswala .. especially if my opponent is an knickerwala [/QB]

Strange are the ways of life! More surprising should be that a knickerwala is supporting a congresswala!!

I beg to differ, Mr Selvan. First thing abt Babri Masjid and wrong analogy you used. Right analogy is here. Say, someone used a country-made bomb on you. You survived but a piece of nail got embedded in your body. You tried to get it removed from time to time but you did nto had enough means to do i...

Originally posted by Abhijit_ST: Harish, have you attended a BR meet Harish has attended our Bay Area meets - look forward to see you again on 24th. Off-the-topic; I am going for camping to Lake Isabella near Bakersfield over long weekend. If anyone of you is interested, you are welcome to join.

I guess, you all can say he did a " Lal Bahadur Shastri"!!

Originally posted by Kaushal: Who was the home minister in 1984? was it PV IIRC it was PVNR. As for being a great PM, we will let History be the judge. As I said I give him credit for the economic recovery of India in the 90's. Well Sir, just imagine if that economic recovery has not happened at th...

Originally posted by Sridhar: Ghandhi ji I get really mad when I see his name misspelt like this. Oppose him if you want, even attack him following the fashion of the day, but at least get the spelling right. Having to see this in the BBC or Earth-e-shaster is bad enough. At least it should not be ...

Thanks for appreciating PVNR's contribution. On Babri Masjid case, ppl made jokes abt his indicisiveness, but I think it was a shrewd move as someone mentioned above, no decision is a decision too. And of course he was quite a scholar. I think he knew abt 14 or 16 languages. Though I think, he was t...

Sorry, I edited the post there.

The answer is Israel

and nikkerwala = RSS supporter

Everybody seems to have forgotten abt this man. Though I did not do profound research like otehr BRites, but I think this man does deserve a place in history for what he did in 5 years of his PMship. As per my thinking he is the catalyst for resurgent, progressive and proporous India. Just to name a...

Did anyone yet mentioned:

1. Bhai Parmanand (freedom fighter).
2. Swami Dayanand ( religious and social reformist; first one to propound 'swadeshi' and female literacy)
3. Pundit Nain Singh ( One of the greatest discoverer of 19th century; charted map of tibet as a spy).