Bharat Rakshak

Rakesh wrote:Here are the 'Top 10' posters in BRF, since the 'total posts' count were reset;

1. Singha - 2106

Rudra, you have been unusually slow lately. 3106 would have been more appropriate.

Another fact: There is no dearth of unscrupulous businessmen from the Delhi/Haryana area selling crappy chinese equipment to farmers all over India. Their modus operandi is simple - the tech is so bad that it costs peanuts. They sell it at even lower then the said price. The remainder goes as bribe ...

http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/aug/26tractor.htm ... has developed a tractor This has to be a joke. Assembling is NOT the same as developing. What they have done is merely brought crappy parts from china and assembled them here to get some tax relief. I have a feeling SAS motors is an unscrupu...

Originally posted by abhishek: Some thoughts, Most of us know the contributions of Indians in ancient times and also about people like Bose, Khurana, Raman, Chandrashekar, etc, etc, etc. I think, in this thread we should talk more about the current Indian scientists who have been contributing a lot...

Har Gobind Khorana

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968
"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"

http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1968/khorana-bio.html

Originally posted by AJay:
Arun Netravali for MPEG

...and HDTV.

There are lot of significant contributions by Indians to Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Off the top of my head, some of them are, ============== Raj Reddy - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Turing Award, 1995 Dean of Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Dep...

My first visit to BR was in early 1999 when I was putting together a site named "Fighter Planes of the World". I wanted to email RK to help me with some information. I didnt do that but instead browsed the site to its bone. Interestingly, I found out that there exists a discussion forum a ...

So far, accusations that past or current Pakistani governments were involved with covert nuclear weapons exports remain unproven. A director general of Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, once told me Iran had offered to pay Pakistan's entire defence budget for 10 years in exchange for nuclear tec...

Hey Vicky, Thanks a lot for bringing "Mera Karma Tu" to our attention. I owe you one :) . I had forgotten about it for 10 years now...until today I saw your post and searched frantically for it - now I cant get it off my player. "dil diya hai jaan bhi denge ae watan tere liye" - ...

Originally posted by Deepak Tamang: Originally posted by Baruah: [QB]Now for some Assamese: ====================== Dr. Bhupen Hazarika has concieved many patriotic songs that are legendary in Assam. Most of you might not be able to understand his songs coz they are either in Assamese or Bengali; su...

Now for some Assamese: ====================== Dr. Bhupen Hazarika has concieved many patriotic songs that are legendary in Assam. Most of you might not be able to understand his songs coz they are either in Assamese or Bengali; suffice to say that his lyrics coupled with his ethereal baritone gives ...