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"supremacist" - do we have any organization that is "subordinatist" or "inferiorist"...please allow all sorts of derogatory appellations on those somehow remotely or approximately connected with the word "Hindu" B-ji, You're mistaken if you thought that I was...

Instead of using words that are names, for example, RSS, can we use generic terms, such as supremacist organizations? This way, Somnath can make a point and those who believe that RSS is a supremacist organization will know whom to think of and those who don't, will think of some other organization....

RayC: Therefore, neither the majority of Indians understand the Kashmiris nor do the Kashmiris understand those from mainland India. My comment may sound OT, but it isn't. RayC, your statement could be generalized to many states of India. How much does an average(*) Punjabi know about Assamese cultu...

Can India settle Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan in the Kashmir Valley, under Army protection? What's the point then? They'll have to live in constant fear. I don't think there's any Indian law that allows foreigners to settle in any part of India without due process. And if due process takes...

Advani's statement: I conceive that there would be a time when decades hence, both the countries would feel that partition has not solved matters. I disagree with this. (a) He seems to be implying that both sides wanted partition. In reality, only one did. Those who remained or resettled in India di...

I wish someone would provide a catchy translation in Sanskrit of 'Speak softly, but carry a very big stick'.

Something like
Mridu vachan vada
bahu dandika har

Edit:
vishaal dandika har

Someone please suggest the correct form of vah (to carry), as in vaahan

Indian diplomacy has fallen for the usual Pakistani bait of Taqiyya by not only taking Zardari's statement I find it very difficult to believe that Indian diplomacy could "fall" for the usual Pakistani bait. Firstly, the Indian diplomats aren't fools. Secondly, the information upon which ...

Shahid Javed Burki

then the term cannot be applied to South Asia. It can only be used for India.

I am not quite sure about this assertion.
I think the term can be applied to India, Sri Lanka and BD. Out of these, India is perhaps the fastest growing.

I am not being insensitive here nor minimizing the sacrifices of the soldiers but the preference for the use of man-power over air-power may have something to do with the labour-intensive nature of Indian work-practices in general. Perhaps someone who has access to training costs versus equipment co...

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In case there's another disruption, please go there and post away.

In effect India has given its sovereignty to UN. ... It shocked me that the Indian navy and the govt had to seek permission from the UN to pursue pirates. An uninformed statement designed to incite jingoist sentiments. What the BBC article really says is: Delhi has formally been given permission to...

Ramana

I dont understand the angst at N^3

Angst - : a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity (www.m-w.com)
I don't think there's any angst. It was good old ribbing. N seems to be enjoying it too.

Narayanan, How could you? I am aghast. You've moved over to the other side! Anyway congratulations to you and the other new moderators. Thanks Shiv for all that you have taught me. And other children, Did you notice how you're peppering this Indian forum with Arabic or Arabic-derived words? Adminull...

Arun_S It is wonderful to note that after PM MM Singh signed the nuclear deal with massaland, even the barren Mother India is now bursting open with Uranium. :rotfl: Increase in Uranium reserve from 65,000 tonnes till before signing the Nuclear Deal, to now 115,000 tonne. Quote from the article: We ...

Quote: What is stopping India from completely blocking waters of river Ravi to TSP. Isn't that assigned to India as part of the treaty. As Bajwa explained here some time ago, the infrastructure for harnessing the blocked waters does not yet exist. It is being built. If you block the waters now, wha...

Harbans ji, My point is not the fear of ridicule but trying to understand that a follower of the book will react violently and the approach will only backfire because he believes that the book was written on god's orders. Anytime you do that to any religion, its followers take up arms to protect the...

What I see going wrong in attacking someone's holy book is that the followers of the book see the book as a revelation from god him/it/herself. If you attack them this way you give them the right to ridicule your religion. "You think going round and round a temple 108 times will free you of sin...

Re: Article 370.
If memory serves right, we once had a long discussion on Article 370 here at BR and the final consensus was that its revocation was not a good idea. Did any one save that discussion?

RG just got some landslide sympathy vote, and that's all. Sympathy vote alone wasn't it. There was a palpable feeling those days that India was taken over by terrorists and something had to be done to fix it. He was never strong on national security, and didn't have the background for it. J&K w...

Rajaram said: Has any election in India, been fought on national security, anti terror plank? Can any party win on that plank mainly. NEVER. The elections of Dec 1984 were fought on this plank and RG won an unprecedented majority. However, the circumstances preceding that election were extraordinary...

I have a tiny question. Don't all these waivers and treaties hold good only for Earth? I am thinking that despite being aware of China's nuke capabilities, it took India ("if not today then tomorrow") more than 10 years to conduct her first test and then more than twenty for the second rou...

Not sure if this is the right thread, but is it possible that chinese belligerence on the border is to scare us enough to sign the 123 deal and yet at the same time use its agents in india to drum up opposition so that the GOI believes firmly that 123 deal is indeed good. No offence, but this assum...

I see this as an extremely petty behaviour, not a recognition of puppet and king. They claim to have a great civilization, but all that I know of them is piracy, bullying and racist behaviour. If copying and piracy were their major traits in the past then one has to ask whether all their so-called i...

Originally posted by RaviBg in another thread. Alert ITBP guards prevented bomber from storming Embassy building New Delhi, July 8: Had the two ITBP guards not hesitated in lifting the anti-bomb hexa-barrier at the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, there is evidence to suggest that the suicide bomb...

One thing I do not understand, in a place like Afghanistan you have so many targets. Basically the whole pantheon of infidels is available along with some muslims who are conspiring against real muslims along with kaffirs. So why only target Indian. It seems like we are the softest target out there...

Amitayus has said exactly what I wanted to. "Bharat" Rakshak is not a reflection of India, either in its members viewpoints or in tolerance. Members are generally hawkish in the opinions and tend to take extreme positions. There is little support from moderators for moderation of those opi...

Thanks Rohit. And I thought it was some new Devnagari convention that has been invented that I wasn't aware of.

Re: Rohit K's post containing Gurgaon-Delhi highway images. In the second signboard why is there a bindu on the Devnagari letter that denotes 'uh' in Hindi translation of the abbreviation of Indira Gandhi Airport? The Hindi equivalent of port is "uDDaa." There's no scope for a bindu here w...

It could be education, basic ethics, our society that nurtures such thoughts, something in born we see things around can't be stoped by one person. We spit around walls, post walls ugly pictures that is seen by our kids, let the nuisance happen around us, .. its in our culture. yeah~ it hurts. our ...

Accidents happen where the traffic is very disciplined just as they happens where there is no discipline. (a) Fewer accidents happen when the traffic is disciplined versus when it is not. Delhi is frequently cited as a city with the highest number of accidents in the world for the number of vehicle...

I believe a discussion on road discipline should be a part of a roads thread. If past experience is anything to go by then the shiny new wide highways would quite likely end up like roads of any other town of India (barring perhaps Mumbai) - with all sorts of vehicles trying to elbow their way ahead...

Ati vinyam dhoortha lakshnam

I need to read up on all these. Someone already seems to have enumerated that which I discover through bumbling and making mistakes.

One of the things that must have struck Gen. Arora deeply must have been the spectacle of the 1984 riots.

Recalling from memory:
He said that 1984 riots were a "contingency plan." At this the people laughed at him and mockingly asked him if he knew of other contingency plans.