Bharat Rakshak

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Hi my second post after years of lurking. Anyways i am feeling pretty depressed here in NCR with deaths all around. Lost 4 relatives and one as young as 35. Several office mates and friends testing positive. I don't know how to deal with this. Drid nischay. Listen to Shiv Tandava Damru version and ...

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What is happening with Remidisivir? There seems to be huge black market. My brother in law's wife is in the hospital Guntur, AP and they can not get it. Someone has quoted 25k per injection (1.25 lakhs for five) and we have to arrange a car to get it from Hyderabad (180 km away). Primus, DrRatnadip...

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It is absolutely vital that BJP wins WB as has already been said. The entire NE is at stake. Even if the BJP stops its campaign, the other side will not and the virus cannot therefore be contained. In any case, it is strange that so far not that much of a surge noted there. Lots of Liberandu media o...

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Yes, this is true. Friend's father reported negative 3 times with RT PCR, finally confirmed with CT Scan. Later on friend would also show symptoms but negative RT PCR test. There was a newspaper clipping which stated that up to a quarter of cases are now false negative. Quite contrary to this, I've...

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While the clot issues need to be taken seriously - statistically speaking it seems to be within the norm for what we are seeing with all other vaccines. Earlier today, I saw an article attributed to the Oxford study that suggested that Pfizer/Moderna recipients have reported blood clots (unclear if...

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Anybody has information on the current situation in different states? Getting a lot of WA forwards with doom and gloom stories about people dying and gross under reporting esp by BJP states? The MOHFW site is claimed to have incorrect data due to the above and the public site covid19.org info is co...

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Primusji, no data from ANY country will be 100% accurate. That said throughout 2020 i was closely comparing the MoHFW numbers and the numbers reported in local vernacular newspapers for 2 districts in my state and the numbers were within 10%, so government numbers are pretty close to the ground sit...

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My argument about the numbers is that if BJP states are under reporting (and therefore look good on paper), how come the same strategy is not being employed by the non-BJP states like MH. It is not as if they are run by 'honest' governments. What is happening is that some local paper or TV outlet is...

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I had an elderly couple come into my office yesterday, when I asked them if they have been vaccinated, they both said no and they will not take it either. The wife said 'people are dying from the vaccine and they are not telling you'. Husband said 'it does not work anyway'. No amount of logic can pe...

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Anybody has information on the current situation in different states? Getting a lot of WA forwards with doom and gloom stories about people dying and gross under reporting esp by BJP states? The MOHFW site is claimed to have incorrect data due to the above and the public site covid19.org info is cou...

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Yes, please accept my appreciation for your astute analysis Disha ji. Worthy of publishing somewhere, OpIndia or Swarajya for sure.

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A very apprehensive pappu, the janeu wearing, skull cap pasand, posing with padres, RSS bashing, PM in waiting charlatan, is terrified that the sky is about to fall on his head. This ameriki professor's advice of being all things to all people has sadly left him becoming almost nothing to anyone. h...

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parliament has the power to make and also unmake this law was demanded by the muslims and passed by the congis as a way out of the mess and this was also a credible via media to retain a lot of their minority vote banks. That may well have been the case when the law was passed (PVNR government), bu...

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And Primus et al: https://twitter.com/ramana_brf/status/1377680954223824897?s=19 Let's await 2 May 2021. Can't wait....... it will be stupendous. The most fertile land in the world, for which so many wars have been fought, so many millions of Hindu lives lost, will finally be under Dharma once agai...

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I think its true in all of our cases. Salary for a group B govt job in the early 2000s was around Rs 8000 which could buy 20 gms of gold every month, the same Rs 8000 today will buy < 2 gms of gold. You can replace gold with housing, land, healthcare, education or even food and you'll notice the sa...

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So in 3 phases BJP expecting 74/91. Can anyone estimate how it will fare in the other phases based on ground realities and last LS elections results or we need to wait for voter turnout % ?- I know total is 56 not sure about each phase Phases Dates Seats Expecting ----------------------------------...

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^^ I only understood a little of the video, but even then it is obvious that the TMC is desperate, putting high end color reproductions of a fake newspaper page in large numbers inside another newspaper indicates access to a lot of resources and seems that no expense is being spared, no idea is too ...

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In Indian politics, there are many personal things which are open secret, and pretty much local people know these. However, media keeps a studied silence on such matters. Isn't that true! Nobody for example really knows the true marital status of Barking Mutt. If you google, it turns up that she wa...

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I know very little about local state politics, esp WB, but I can see this is the big one to watch, as crucial as UP was in 2017. If the BJP comes to power here and a truly Yogi type CM is appointed, the state could once again become the intellectual, spiritual and cultural leader it used to be once ...

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Or the lady got a headache because she stepped out in the sun after a long time and was tense at seeing the crowd at the vaccination site.. These are very mild side effects. Compare this to a tetanus shot which can give you a high fever and muscle soreness for months! So far the govt. has been on t...

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India delays big exports of AstraZeneca shot as infections surge Thats a good news. As they say charity begins at home. Guys, need some clarification: Dad is due for second shot of covidshield in couple of weeks. However this news of blood clotting is unnerving as he is stroke survivor of 3 yrs. Wi...

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Manish Ji, thank you for that detailed and heart-warming story. Human beings do rise to the occasion when demanded, it is good to know courtesy and kindness is still a part of our culture.

Wish to add my thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread, this is my daily morning 'must-read'.

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Meanwhile, locally some patients are refusing the J&J vaccine on the grounds that it is developed from a cell line that can be traced back to an aborted fetus in the 1970s. Some Archdioceses in the US have advised their parishioners not to take it while others have said it is OK. Cannot believe ...

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^ We've all seen an overall general improvement in the usual infectious illnesses that surge at this time of the year. This includes the common cold, flu, food-borne illnesses and so on. This flu season has had among the lowest number of patients. So far as per estimates, only 453 people have died o...

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On the larger issue of morals, guilt, vegetarian vs meat eating diets, I don't debate that with people generally because we all have a certain moral compass we follow. Yes, meat eaters will often say plants have feelings too, but plant produce is meant to be distributed and eaten so that the plant c...

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Sudershan Ji, being vegetarian does not mean you cannot be big and strong. Elephants, buffalos (a cape buffalo can toss a fully grown male lion into the air with its head), giraffes, horses, elands are all big animals that are totally vegetarian. You also do not need to eat meat to get all the amino...

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If you really want to understand the meat industry, Timothy Pachirat's 'Every Twelve Seconds' is a scathing indictment of the slaughterhouses and the general treatment of meat cattle. As aptly subtitled, it is an 'industrial slaughter' and all about 'politics of sight'. he is Professor at Yale who w...

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Bajwa Ji, just check out Haagen Daz's, Ben and Jerry's and other premium ice creams. They typically contain 300 plus calories per serving (a pint - two cups - contains anywhere from 1100-1500 calories) and are loaded with fat and sugar. Our own sweets are nothing in comparison. Raman Ji, yes, whey p...

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Fats have 9 cal per gram, carbs and proteins 4 Cal each. However, other than pure fat in the form of say a teaspoon of ghee or palm oil or lard, you don't usually ingest it as such but as part of a food. Similarly we rarely eat just one tsp of sugar or protein, we use it in things we make. Hard to g...

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All good points above. Fasting is certainly beneficial, lots of data to show that. However, like many such things, there is no consensus on how much. Thus, while it is good medicine, no idea what the right dose is. Same with exercise in general. Yes, usual numbers suggest three times a week for one ...

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Cyrano Ji, excellent points all. I remember most of these were followed strictly in my grandma's kitchen in the ancestral village years ago. Food was simple and yet, wholesome.

Sadly, very little of this is done in the modern household in India and certainly not in the West.

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Dosa is no austere food. It was always dunked in oil or ghee even in olden days. None of the food items hit the macros in south India. All the fried snacks - murukku at al. Sweets - jaangri, gulag jamun et al. They are all carb heavy. Be it idli, pongal, dosai, poori and the worst offender of all -...

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I never understood the angst about 'bad Indian pitches'. The pitch is the same for both sides, no? Just like Indians are not supposed to complain about the super bouncy, pace-friendly tracks of Gabba and such. If Indian spinners can work their magic, why can't others? If Indian batsmen can score cen...

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I see your point about trolling, but whether that was the intent or not is not clear. Let's see. But what sticks with the nationalist crowd is a facility named after the Sardar is now named after Modi for no good reason. I think the stadium was never named after SP, it was simply called Motera. It ...

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So Motera is now Narendra Modi stadium and the two ends are Adani end and Reliance end lol Gotta admire the guts to consider that stick with that naming scheme considering the opposition all 3 are currently facing. And the intense randi-rona has started, by the usual liberandus and their acolytes :...

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Was watching the 3rd test online here, can't believe the huge crowds without any distancing or masking. Shudder to think of the cases that are bound to go up in a couple of weeks or less.

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Cyrano, R C Majumdar is essential reading on Indian history. A scholar of enormous renown who was systematically excluded by the post-Indira Gandhi academic establishment when it turned out his commitment to the truth far exceeded his willingness to toe their ideological line. https://archive.org/d...

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...All of the above folks regarded Hindus as inferior folks. They all indulged in extensive anti-Brahmin tirades, and subjected Hindus to much contempt and insulting talk. You just have to pick up their books, practically, you can open any of these books at any page, within a few paragraphs or page...

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Even in Momina's WB it is not easy to get the vaccine simply by bribing, or so I am told. My cousin is a physician in Kolkata and I asked him if it was possible to get it for the elderly mother of a friend who lives there. He said quite categorically that it was not possible to 'jump your turn' by b...

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If you thought this young menace was an innocent bystander or unwitting participant, see this expose by AKTK. Watch the video of the woman spouting total nonsense about Modi in a short video at the end - 'all who oppose Modi are silenced in the most horrific ways which the media will not show' - she...

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