Bharat Rakshak

And to that I say; The road to indigenization must not wait. In a time where no real maritime threats are imminently visible, we need to be trying to consolidate our know-how in ship/sub building. If GRSE and MDL get familiar with designing these modern warships from scratch, our gain is a capabilit...

Did anyone come across a timeframe for rolling out the next several ATVs? With L&T involved, I don't see why the gov't cannot become more ambitious and establish two parallel assembly lines going simultaneously.

I've been pretty down on the whole mania behind Biofuels for a long time. The Biofuel revolution has a potential to hit the poor even harder than Global Warming alone ever could. Mass deforestation, increased CO2 emissions, and a surge in food prices around the world are just the tip of this disaste...

I have a better solution. Contact the big private sector defense companies in India, especially Tata, Mahindra and the like... They are currently trying to break into the defense industry, with the government giving overt support, and they would probably be willing to put up the capital for such a p...

As a practising (as an unapologetically and unashamedly allopathic) doctor I am exposed every day to "memes" of traditional folk medicine that has been bulldozed over by modern medicine. There is enough "openness" and humility in the medical scientific community to look at these...

If I may, I have an interesting point to add... Could it be that there is a false perception that Christian Missionaries are more active in doing work for underprivledge peoples in India because of an inherent tendency for the actions of Hindus to be percieved as actions of a Indian or just a good p...

you may recall the question asked of Vivekananda whether he believed that his god resided in a piece of rock, and the subsequent guffawing that followed when the answer was "yes" ... one has to be aware of the opposition which has its agenda of denigration ... there are several ways to mo...

Correct me if you think I am wrong - but isn't the Hindu concept of God very simple - and one that is followed by people everywhere? That is "God is everywhere, all around you and in all forms. That tree outside has God within, you have God wthin yourself and that rock there has God in it"...

I agree that I do not see our worthies as being able to protect our heritage ... especially, not the dudes who think that burning Valentine's Day cards is a heroic act ... this is a depressing reality ... I will carry on the family tradition and teach two california chicks into this tradition ... b...

After all, if you have no evidence to prove that God does NOT exist, it is a fundamental principle of rational and scientific thought that you cannot invalidate that it idea. It HAS to remain a possibility. Jaylal, very briefly, I posted this in a reply to Kumar also ... if a god can be defined via...

ok, I'll take a break ... but before I do that, I would like to point out why I believe that this discussion of countering religion is very relevant to this thread and to the threat of EJ etc ... someone said that "protecting Hinduism is equivalent to protecting India" ... several others ...

Sanjay, Now we can endlessly debate whether it is more important to have faith in God or in science, but either way, it is a matter of faith. You have the utmost faith in what you call science, though it continually proves itself wrong and rebuilds itself in the wake of that rubble. While I on the ...

Hindu gods are allegorical , i.e., they represent the translation of a concept into a story ... That our religion, which is hardly a religion, gives weight to the view that God is not Gods nor is it God, but rather, more of a concept... a unifying theory than it is something of shape and form. IOW,...

Arun_S wrote:What has NRI or not being an NRI has gotto do with merit of discussion or topic? We are all Indians no matter we live.

Let "Satya" (Truth) express itself.

It was more of an incidental mention. But we're Indians by blood or by soul.

Man, what is it with this forum and people that attack you like you've stepped on their foot or something? You're obviously older than 12, so lets keep the language from getting hot for absolutely no reason at all. You have your way of thinking about it and I have my own, but do you really think tha...

I'm going to X-post what I had put up earlier in the proto-religion thread. ----- When I was flying to my brother's wedding a month back, I sat next to an South Indian NRI from Oman who was returning from the States after having sat for his CPA exams. He was a good 20 years older than I, had two chi...

Jaylal, as a fellow NRI and as an atheist and rationalist, please spare me the rumour-mongering -- "some of these people" indeed! The caste system is not the result of any theology, and predates any organized religion on the subcontinent. Prove to me which scripture references any "P...

Jaylal, i am not necessarily disagreeing with you on the broad points, the quoted part below is unjustified: We have absorbed countless cultures throughout the ages, and they have become a part of the Hindu pantheon. Which is one of the main reasons why we have oodles of "Gods." I doubt t...

The bleat that "everyone else is doing it" and India is the land of Hindus and therefore Bharat-Rakshak should allow criticism of other faiths and protect Hinduism is a call for "reservation" that only protects the boring Hindu bleaters who in my opinion are doing nothing other ...