Bharat Rakshak

JE Menon

>>The religious differences are exacerbating political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. (Like Orthodox Serbia and Catholic Croatia). And Germany is likely (attempting to) play a similar role to what it did leading to the Croatian-Serbian confrontation. Needless to say Ukraine itself was barely a...

JE Menon

KLD thanks boss.

What is your twitter handle? And if you are not there, why not? Your acid wit and knowledge are deeply required on that warfront!!!

Mine is @jai_menon

JE Menon

Rakesh, good to have you on this thread. >>The Christianity of Jesus and the Christianity of Paul are one and the same. It is the Roman Catholic Church (and other institutionalized churches) that has convoluted the message of Christianity. Indeed, that is what I meant to convey when I said Pauline C...

JE Menon

>>this Pope may be the last one. Highly unlikely Philip. The Roman Catholic Church has proven to be highly durable, and very "temporal" as you mentioned. They have managed to survive this long precisely because of a willingness to do whatever it takes, not just to survive, but to thrive - ...

JE Menon

>>What I had meant to say was that Deans, sorry if I had come across as objecting to your comments. I hadn't meant to. On the contrary, I'm broadly in agreement with your posts on this subject. I was merely elaborating a little. Not many people in India know of these intricate differences, and frank...

JE Menon

As I said, every new revelation is scarier than the last: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs This is in Vermont! "But for all these revelations — including this month’s Pennsylvania grand jury report on how the church hid the c...

JE Menon

>>The Orthodox church was more tightly controlled by the state and was less of a `business' than the Catholic church. During the USSR period, the church was badly compromised by the Communists, The Orthodox church is much less "in your face" than the Catholic version. I have lived in the O...

JE Menon

>>A common refrain I hear from friends who are Catholics is that, the rot started when the Catholic church moved from a religious body to a "business entity". This comment by people (a common one Sachin), in fact stems from ignorance rather than insight. The Roman Church was a commercially...

JE Menon

>>We need to question whether Indian religions are any less exploitative.

Avarachan has started this thread with a very clear subject. I recommend participants stick to that explicitly.

JE Menon

In my assessment, what is happening right now in the Catholic Church is a civil war of sorts, a vicious, quietly hidden and high stakes civil war - in which there are priests who are on different sides, taking up positions for and against the pope, and using everything from allegations of paedophila...

JE Menon

^^Yup, I have probably lost a "friend" who was doing this and sent one to me as well (related to aid contribution by states). I responded, with facts etc... and this was dismissed as verbal diarrhoea on the part of yours truly. Naturally, this did not stop the diarrhoea until said gent was...

JE Menon

Consider this, we have been only properly open 30 years or so, and you find stuff like this in the most unexpected of places: ZkpbQeQDScs Supposedly an ancient Indian warfare training school in Florence, Italy - although it looks to me like some sort of ancient eastern warfare exhibition event. Neve...

JE Menon

The US will only talk about this vaunted "special relationship" if the British plead with them to do so. That is the precise nature of the special relationship.

JE Menon

X-Posting from Internal Security Thread:

https://www.firstpost.com/india/narendr ... 32721.html

Modi's Development Offensive in Bastar Showing Results

JE Menon

Just an anecdote: I was in conversation yesterday in the Middle East with a couple of Syrians/Lebanese.... The Syrian guy as part of the conversation mentioned that in fact the Indians "were the teachers of the Arabs". He said it without embarrassment or any sense of resentment or negativi...

JE Menon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pehGk4obJ7w

Sergei Lavrov, Russian FM, on Channel 4. Forget the bullshit bait headline by Channel 4 - the interview is another study in how a country can be firm and flexible. Another great foreign minister out of Russia, this gent.

JE Menon

Swarajya's Interview with the PM. https://swarajyamag.com/economy/modi-to-gst-critics-can-we-have-milk-and-mercedes-at-the-same-rate Swarajya's interview with our PM - a media coup, and am proud to say that I write for them under my own name and one or two pseudonyms (don't recall)!!! Also, a couple...

JE Menon

Saw your response now... Thanks Nilesh. I'm getting a sense that it is going to be a new attack front. Nothing specific yet. So far my own (admittedly limited) research is suggesting it to be anywhere between 300 CE and 700 CE. But this is just stuff on the net. And somehow that seems incorrect to m...

JE Menon

Can someone here date the Markandeya Purana?

JE Menon

Is there a link to the above article?

JE Menon

BBC is soon coming out with "Legend of the Golden Man - Secret Warrior of the Steppes" or something very similar in name. They are getting in on the act, which means the pressure is beginning to tell. The reference is to Scythians. We need to keep an eye.

JE Menon

Above NYT story is not conclusive even according to them. "...appears to show" "nearly hit its target" , etc... In fact, considering the number of attacks, the death toll of one due to debris is remarkable. This is not to say we should go and buy Patriots. I've made my position o...

JE Menon

>>Raytheon was claiming 100% success in SA/Yemen theater, not true for the March 2018 event. Could you elaborate? Why is it not true for the March 2018 event? If you are referring to the death of an Egyptian expatriate that was from debris crashing into a residential area. I think so far that has be...

JE Menon

>>Those have been standard claims made about these missiles for years but as yet zero evidence they've hit anything. I am speaking specifically about SA. There is plenty of evidence on that. I'm not speaking about the accuracy, or how many Patriots need to be fired to take out one ballistic incoming...

JE Menon

^^I know for a fact that Patriots have been downing ballistic missiles from Yemen (provenance uncertain) over the last 12 months or so in Saudi Arabia. Not one of those Yemeni missiles have in fact hit the ground (except as debris) so far in the capital. I think one got through a roof in Jizan recen...

JE Menon

CRamS, They may have come to be viewed by the paymasters of their killers as agents of the state. It is not surprising that the killer charged in the Lankesh case are identified as "Shri Ram Sene" follower Parshuram Waghmore... as the Wikpedia page on them says: "The organisation was ...

JE Menon

I see the death of Lankesh and Bukhari in the same light. But I may be wrong.

JE Menon

That sword, for 2000+ BC is something awesome. When it is cleaned up, it's going to be difficult for an untrained eye to say whether it was made in 2000 BC or 2000 AD... check out the handle. Wielded by a six-footer, as the skeleton apparently indicates, that chariot-borne warrior with his helmet, s...

JE Menon

Shelve the anti-missile purchase for now. Trump is impulsive and it won't be a good idea to cross him. More important issues like trade and access to markets are at stake so shelve the purchase for now. Buying the S-400 is part of trade and access to markets, as well as central to security. There i...

JE Menon

Shiv is here, but in other threads...

JE Menon

Russia is a friend. Old, tried and tested. Propaganda notwithstanding, the relationship remains solid. Both parties have to b cognizant of new realities on the ground, and it would appear that they are. Neither party will abandon each other. But the mechanics of the relationship are different now - ...

JE Menon

>>Sir Europe need people and Central and Eastern Europe is solving that problem. It happening right now. Muslims have done great favour by revealing the cards. Mango European is tired of that. Sure, that is happening. But that does not mean that labour mobility from India to the UK cannot be improve...

JE Menon

>>I don't understand some members wanting GoI to fight for Immigration rights for Indians who want to settle in outside India This is not about "immigration rights". I am not sure there is such a thing. I am only aware of the regulatory environment surrounding immigration, which starts at ...

JE Menon

There is a huge difference in perceptions on these things, depending on whether one lives in the UK with citizenship or other legal right to stay, or one lives in India. In other words, where one's bread is buttered. It is only natural. One should expect no different, and it would be very Paki were ...

JE Menon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEwOxdAAjYE

Paganism in Lithuania - key point relevant to this thread between 6:00-8:00

JE Menon

Is it possible that Sitar became Guitar? Through this path ...

Sitar-Cithara (pronounced chithara or kitara - which Nero probably played while Rome burned)-Kitara-Guitar?

JE Menon

>>Everyone should be made aware of how their bodies function, practicing safe, sane, consensual sex...

The bolded word is interesting, don't you think. Whatever do they mean, I wonder...

JE Menon

I see the colleague, where's the presenter?

JE Menon

3. The fissiparous tendencies in both areas LOL good word. Congratulations. You are the first person I've ever seen to use that word, either spoken word or in print, in the entire 45 years I have lived on this earth. :mrgreen: You might be surprised to know that it is exactly the word that the Paks...

JE Menon

This is a perfectly developing scenario. Keep in mind we are the buyers. The imposition of sanctions on Russia is a US choice. CAATSA is it's own law and the extent to which it will be adhered to is its choice. We are buyers of US kit. India will want to know whether products purchased before the sa...

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