Bharat Rakshak

Dileep

Who decides the matter of Deities? (Note.. I am not saying 'gods'. Let us talk about 'Dieties' which is the subject matter here) Deity is installed by humans as a focal point for their worship. If you are enlightened in one of the 'sidhantas'you don't need this, but most of the people aren't, so a D...

Dileep

Well, I wouldn't say the temples were "made" money making. We aren't that smart. We aren't smart enough to think that "if you build it, they will come". That is a very massa concept. Here, first a lot of people show up. After the facilities and infra starts to crumble, we realize...

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UB Saar.. I never heard about the figurines. Maybe they were indeed remnants of old Buddist existence. But I am 400% sure there was no conflict. If there was any, at least some insinuation about it would have been there in the legends. Like 'asuras' were livingthere and Ayyappa chased them away etc....

Dileep

Kanson's post have several factual inaccuracies. Tantric worship is the generic name for the Temple centric worship system in Bharatham. It is distinct from the 'Vedic' system. A lot of philosophies and 'gods' are freely integrated into what we call 'hinduism' today. It was Bhagavan Sree Sankaran (t...

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Latest update is, that the 'spiritual authorities' of the temple threaten to shut the temple down if women of age visits there. The logic is, if there is any 'break in tradition' a corrective measure called 'punyaha' need to be done before any other ritual can be done. If women show up every day, th...

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I personally dont buy the beancounter argument because Indian Defence Account Service (an allied IAS service) are pretty competent folks. Sir.. this is FIRST HAND information. Yes, babus are competent. VERY competent, even OVER competent...... In counting BEANS, which unfortunately is their jobs. I...

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Let me unleash an Elephant into the room with one word. Obsolescence. Not sure if folk like IR is deliberately keeping quiet on this, but this is indeed a show stopper level problem. Some of this "concurrent engineering" is because of that. This is a generic issue (and good bijness opportu...

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There is a trail, on which specially equipped tractors ply the freight. Earlier it used to be donkeys, which is banned now. There is 'dolly' service available for anyone for a few thousand rupees. There is no mechanized option for people. The trail is being constantly modified to make it easier. It ...

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The place is a total mess. Very primitive facilities. Filth everywhere. Typical Indian pilgrimage centre, with the additional limitation of poor accessibility. The 'suffering' is part of the deal, just like the arduous trek. These feminazis who want to 'take a selfie' with 'Ayyappa Bro' will not las...

Dileep

Ramana, thanks. I greatly value your liking my writing. This twitter thing is just to put my (disturbed) mind out.

Dileep

Let me give some background of the Temple. This temple is situated in the western ghats. 9°26'04.5"N 77°04'52.7"E GPS. The nearest road head (used to be. it is washed out by the floods now) at Pamba 9°24'46.7"N 77°04'07.2"E from where we trek 4 km, first uphill by 1800ft elevatio...

Dileep

Habal, it is a total fabrication. There may be a few violations of the custom, but it was very much there. I know first hand that in my childhood in the early 70s the custom was very much there. It was well known to everyone, just like the custom that you need to bathe and wear clean clothes to go t...

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Shameless plugging here. I joined teetar and started a Blog.

Dileep

Reporting from Ayyappa's own country :) (Disclaimer: I place myself on the extreme here again) Flood relief is forgotten now. Literally lakhs of people are taking to the streets, protesting primarily the social justice war by the GoK. The Supreme court removed a law that a) Prevented women during th...

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Aadhar exists in the UIDAI server. The "card" is simply a 'certified copy'. All the person need to do is to put the finger on the scanner at the facilitation centre, and the details will pop-up. I did that myself, when I went to register my mobile number. If you 'register' your mobile numb...

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College Students volunteer to go from house to house to collect damage information and creds like Aadhar and Bank account details. The information is geo-tagged, so the GPS co-ordinate of the actual place where the photos are taken is available. My elder one does this. 10,000 distribution is almost ...

Dileep

There are a few 'build to spec' opportunities coming, which are contemporary for commercial aviation. Not sure if any projects are 'awarded' yet.

Dileep

My 2 NP I am pretty sure that there was a wink-wink nod-nod towards chota bhai to get the JV with Dassault. As a tax paying vote casting citizen, I see no problem with that. I am also pretty sure that no money went to any hidden accounts in this deal. I think what the govt to do is to formally call ...

Dileep

The French is frantically running around to dump offset work on desi companies. Mostly low tech/previous generation stuff onlee.

Dileep

My mom used to tell a 'kunnathunadan' story. There was this 'tharavad karanavar' (head of nair family) who had filariasis on his feet. (This parasitic disease used to be common here, where the victim will have massively swollen feet and calves). He used to threaten his farm workers that one kick wit...

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My mother used to make a 'kunnathunadan' quip, which roughly translates to "people who sell tears of a dead child (which is given to them for burial)". I get reminded of this everyday, seeing how low we people can sink. I never (while in my rational self) blame the netas/politicos. Hey, th...

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ramana wrote:Chetak, Are the piranha being raised for sinister purpose of disappearing people in fish ponds?

Traditionally, it was Crocodiles that were used for this purpose. A lot of "historical documents" available for activities of supervillains like Jose Prakash

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Hummer SUV inspired Light Specialist Vehicle (LSV) for the Indian Army spied testing

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^^Yes, they do. But are they on LEO?

Dileep

ELF systems work with the 'code book' method. As secure as the code book itself.

The simplest un-breakable coding is the XOR Cipher, with a random key equal or greater in length to the message. Works beautifully with the short text messages.

Dileep

I raised the question because we tend to get into science fiction about the communication capabilities, based on the 'possibilities', not realities. Here are the 'realities' Kattabomman is an ELF Transmitter. The ELF have very low bandwidth. Its primary role is to go underwater, where the higher fre...

Dileep

Got a question. Today,imagine a P8I on patrol finding a boatload of bakis who left from kratchi in our direction. How exactly do they communicate to the command? Do they a)Use a voice channel to give the co ordinates? b)Send a text message c)Send an image d)Send live video? Now, with a new US system...

Dileep

We will get "Technology"? Sure!! Like each of us freely get technologies like "Android" and "LTE". The agreement simply means we can now buy the equivalent of smart phones and satellite TV receivers for the aam aadmi currently using BSNL land line and Doordarshan terres...

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Isn't this the first time IAF releases a bragging news about Tejas? Now, THAT is a reason for lungi dance!

Dileep

nam wrote:They might be looking for production partners for the components including AESA modules. Given the number of AESA radars coming up, we need increased production numbers for the components.

Nope. That is what Tenders are for.

I for one, will not touch the ToT with a barge pole.

Dileep

Gaganchaari (Gaganachaari) is the name in malluspeak (which is actually samskrtham) for people who go to outer space. We malloos have a tendency to create samskrtham terms and pretend that it is Malayalam. My schooling was entirely in those. vaahanam: Vehicle,ie Rocket upagraham : Satellite pETakam:...

Dileep

ToT will work only if

- The design is fully qualified.
- There is an assurance of purchase.

I don't think either is true in this case.
We have enough experience with this ToT bijnejj with DRDO/govt entities.

Dileep

Heard an incident I heard from my colleague. His SHQ is a teacher, and a counselor. So, she works full time with the displaced people at Chengannur. There was this young couple with two kids. One is two months and the other two years. They came late evening to home, and was not aware of the flood. T...

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When the govt talks about losses, it only considers stuff for it is liable (and money could be siphoned off) A lot of things are left out from the (shanghai) statistics, probably because those are not the govt's liability. 1. So called luxury items (car, tv, air conditioner, leather sofa etc) 2. Non...

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If an Okhi like Cat 4 Tai-feng parks near good old Kochi, we can take that only as god's wrath onlee. There is nothing you can do about it, neither to prevent, nor to correct. Of course, we all could mend our ways and be more bious and 'upanayified,sunnathized,baptized,amritdhari' environmentians, b...

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The dam started discharging 500 cumecs on 9th, which is increased to 750 on 10th Aug.the level was brought down to 2397ft by this. Then the big rain came, mullaperiyar opened on the night of 14th, and all hell broke loose. Idukki was discharging 1500 Cumecs ever after. The area of Idukki lake is 60 ...

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Here is the history: Aug 11: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/water-level-comes-down-in-idukki-dam/article24667717.ece Aug 12: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/water-level-at-keralas-idukki-dam-further-decreases/articleshow/65373226.cms Aug 13: https://timesofindia.indiati...

Dileep

I am not sure if anyone here is familiar with the Sabarimala Temple. Here is some update. The Temple is completely isolated currently, with the only access is a 22km trek via a tiger infested forest area. The road head at Pamba is almost completely destroyed. Someone posted pics here The entire sand...

Dileep

Idukki can start releasing water from 2374 ft. That is the minimum height of the sluice gate opening. A quick madrassa math shows that if Idukki was restricted to 500 Cumecs, the dam level would have risen 5 feet in a day. So, if the level was made 2388ft, the dam could have taken the excess and avo...

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Ramana, that was an excellent take!! Here are some more lies, dam lies and statistics by Tamilistan: 1. KL doesn't share rain information: You know where this stems from? TN always try to put a toetip in the geography to define at least a square mm of catchment area of MP within TN, to claim that Pe...

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