Bharat Rakshak

"On a news segment on Agni-III on CNEB, Dr. Saraswat stated that propulsion power of Agni-III can take it up to 1000 kms into space which can used for launching satellite.." More than 11 years ago, Kalam spoke about the Agni missile being used to launch a satellite in the year 2000. That n...

"India is still in the old world where diplomats delivering well articulated speeches in impeccable english on the floor of UN is considered a credible 'response' to state sponsored terrorists.." Dilbu, well said. No disrespect meant to the intelligence of Indian diplomats, but one sometim...

"India has done v.little to show the US how serious we are about Paki terror and how enraged the Indian nation is.The only way in which the US will get the message is if we treat the US the same way in which the "Bad Taliban" are treating them-with utter contempt.WE should kick out th...

The Times of India has a "TimesNow" video site, running from its online newspaper. Is this a video service provided by the newspaper, or is it an actual channel available on TV? They have some good video clips/stories, including ones dealing with capturing terrorists using a burkha, and an...

"So the latest from Australian media is that Indians are doing it to themselves - this based on one murder of an Indian youth in rural NSW being attributed to 3 people of Indian origin, and the police allegation that the guy who got burnt in Melbourne inflicted the burns on himself to claim ins...

jaladipc, thanks for the info. Is that company a manufacturer of robotic systems, or a dealer/supplier.

"Lot of times these strategy guru types of India sound like the beaten-down elderly uncle of the family who berates the daughter of the house and her brothers for the crime of being assaulted by the local hoodlums. The entire message boils down to, "why did you unnecessarily provoke those ...

Bhadrakumar is totally, inexplicably non-judgemental about the Taliban, and their various programmes, including forcing Hindus to wear yellow badges and banning women from working outside the home.He finds no time to comment on their anti-pluralist, anti-secular, anti-liberal and anti-modern ideolog...

CRamS, you're right, but India should have the intestinal fortitude to distinguish its behaviour and ideology from that of Pakistan, and include Kashmir if need be. Stress the democratic, pluralistic character of Kashmir, with its Hindu, Buddhist and Moslem sections; point out that one can be an ath...

A simple statement by India( or anyone) such as, neither the Taliban nor their ISI/Pak backers are legitimate, would be worth a thousand more words. Only a regime that believes in democracy, pluralism and an independent(as far as possible) foreign policy have any legitimacy. India should state that ...

A Gupta, that's good, and there is no doubt the individual you are referring to is a high brow intellectual. But it would be nice to see some down-to-earth comment attributed to him as well. All the talk of cognitive this, and heuristic that, is wonderful. But has this writer actually been to a mode...

"Reasonably good article though I could not plough through the whole article.." Yes, but the writer makes a major omission. He refers to two types of critics of Hinduism, the old 'false Gods' Christian fanatics, and the new sociological commentators focusing on caste inequality. But in thi...

" in the regional context, India's refusal or inability to respond substantively to efforts to reboot its peace process with Pakistan is deeply troubling for western policymakers. " So what does the commentator expect will result from the this 'peace process'? If the idea is that India sho...

"Why couldn't GoI stop making Hindoos from wearing jewish style yellow star and be humiliated under the Talooban Islam rule?" I was in India at the time, and in a media programme that referred to the issue, there was a stupid and desultory remark made about caste inequality, to equate it w...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012502831.html Tone of article is generally ok, but check the comment about the recent so called IPL controversy. Again, empathy and recognition is totally lacking. India lives right next door to the biggest source of terrorists i...

"It is also an insult to India by the US to arrogate to itself India's legitimate role in the country.Our relations with Afghanistan goes back thousands of years,while the US has just entered into the region by force.The Bamiyan Buddhas were and are a lasting symb" Good one, Philip! The ve...

"The resentment doesn't stop. http://www.navy-net.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/t=25006.html Note the comment "an upstart Ind" Yes, there are many of these crude, bigoted, envious remarks by the British on various forums. But what explains some Indians doing it, particularly when India achie...

"A memorandum of conversations between Chinese Premiere Chou_En-Lai and Nixon in February 1972 in Beijing shows that Chou shared Nixon’s intense dislike of the Nehru family. It is interesting that our enemies view Nehru book Discovery of India as evidence of Nehru’s expansionist ambitions, whe...

''...know your army.." Long, long overdue for the Indian general public to know and acknowledge the sacrifices of soldiers( and policemen, paramilitary etc) in Kashmir and elsewhere. When Canada loses one soldier in Afghanistan, the media makes sure the public knows the soldier individually, an...

The ISRO website has an excellent write up about the s-200 and test, with a brochure giving lots of details.

putnanja, the booster has already been tested successfully today! Nice one, ISRO. The 3rd largest existing solid booster in the world.

ISRO has certainly achieved great things, but what is irritating is the way they set targets that are too over-ambitious. In a 2003 issue of "Frontline", an ISRO spokesman was pretty confidently predicting a 2007 launch of the GSLV Mark 3. It is now 2010, and the launch is at least a year(...

Whoa, does this mean that all problems with the cryogenic engine have been sorted out, and ISRO is going to launch the GSLV Mark 2 on Sunday?? Or does the media mean to say that the engine and satellite( GSAT-3) are going to be tested, not launched, on Sunday. If the former, very encouraging, becaus...

"Only in the context of Indian criticisms of British purchases of Jaguar/Land Rover and imports from Germany (BMW/Merc/Audi), raising the issue of whether the money spent on cars by those who can afford these cars could not be spent on other things such as helping the homeless, providing a fina...

One could respect British criticisms of Indian luxury imports from the UK( Rolls Royce etc) or Germany(BMW), raising the issue of whether the heavy foreign exchange involved in such purchases could be better spent by the well-to-do in India, on other things. But raising the question of wastage of mo...

Good stats on India. Just curious: for the '40 million internet users', does that mean there are 40 million people with access from home, with subscription to an ISP? Or does it simply indicate total number of people with e-mail, including those who use cyber cafes? Some rankings missed in that list...

"We provided them the opportunity to sell themselves to external powers to preserve and protect their murderous ideological agenda -" Definitely.In addition to the other pernicious effects of partition you mentioned, the creation of Pakistan was/is a Godsend to every unscrupulous arms deal...

"On a lot of fronts (finance, shipbuilding, nuclear energy, science etc), they have a "superior" industry that helps them keep their H&D in tact, with respect to India." True, but apart from space, there are probably several areas where India is ahead,or the potential to be a...

"However I think the Islamic fundamentalists were right when they though that a united independent India would wipe out the exclusivist, some Indians are different from other Indians thinking totally." Exactly Sanku. It's that fear of the 'wiping out' or absorption of the exclusivist, that...

"Quote: "The best thing that has happened for us is the Partition. It has given us breathing time, a little time to resurrect and save our pluralist culture and religions. Had it not happened, we would have been bullied and thrashed and swamped by Islamic fundamentalists," he says.&qu...

Once again, there is a glib, non-chalant mention of how Pakistan sees the developments in Afghanistan. As if such a 'perspective' is legitimate or acceptable. If the Taliban were believers in freedom, pluralism, democracy and secularism, that would almost certainly be. Stating that Pakistan sees the...

"a western analyst exposes our weakness to the rest. i see no other recourse than wait and watch to address this asymmetric threat.Wait till the threat destroys itself ?" These kind of analysts belong to a tribe of amoral jerks, who are holding their breath for some kind of devastating exc...