Bharat Rakshak

shyam thanks for the images.
four lanes have plenty capacity.

i am not asking for some fancy luxury. i am asking for a basic safe design. you don't design roads for roads sake. you design it for user safety. provide tolerances for common, natural mishaps is all I am asking. with a moat type median the impact is softer, provides time & space to recoupe from...

they prolly have the geometry & pavement pat. now on to safety. medians & shoulders. medians & shoulders. sharp grade 10-12 feet(min) wide moat type medians separating the two streams. softer impact barrier, minimizing glare. crossover accidents on highways are pretty common. as RMji wou...

this is not some great or unique episode but it provides some reaffirmation of the indian context. Muslim leaders seek Bharat Ratna for Centenerian seer DH News Service Tumkur: The office bearers of the Tumkur National Educational Movement have urged that the centenarian Siddaganga mutt seer Dr Shiv...

shiv, please do post those excerpts. if you are unable to post those because of copyright issues, how does one go about acquiring a legal copy of the book? that type of 'history' i have only glimpsed in a few novels. but something like the samaskara, the history had not changed much in late 80s in r...

beautiful post sri kumar. some other notes.... in many of the temples across various states in US, i have noticed that the there is an attempt to rationalize geography in sankalpa (which forms an important step in various poojas). Even though the geography might not be pat, this attempt to rationali...

shiv...

after reading your other post, a lot of things about what you are talking for me personally. but i am not clear about what sort of data is needed to make this meaningful.

what should the data be? what should be measured? i cannot come up with measures for health of hinduism.

it does not mean anything. but what i understand is that there are atleast 2 different threats. #1. Hindu count. #2. Indic worldview. Why 1 matters is because without 1 there is no hope for 2. 1 is relatively easily fixed/addressed. 2 is difficult. but if count were stabilized then mebbe we can begi...

one really upsetting dat point i can contribute is the rapid rise in number of evangelistic churches in the country side. the gall to even think of taking tirupathi. the attempts at 'counselling' and moralizng BPO workers by a bangalore father so on. what happens in orrissa god only knows.

shiv, are you pinning the wrong solution to the right question? hinduism is not at loss because we are not able to state our belief systems in less than 100 words. at somelevel, that we are unable or even refuse to state our belief systems in less than 100 words itself makes us hindu. but 'hinduism'...

valkan. i think my analogy is better. i think i am the greatest. i will now issue fatwaas and write smritis. (kidding) but you should also ask. what is the point of this thread? are we trying here to spawn the bruhadraskshakaa, sorry, rakshakasmruti? are we trying to spawn rakshakaananda? keyboard v...

Alokji, I wrote a post earlier in the morning. And just when I was typing the words ‘twilight zo’ the processor crashed. restart only shutdown my enthu. Anywho, here is a summarized retry… While (verily ;)) there might be some similarities to science, and while (verily ;)) it might even be sci...

the problem is that if my search leads to 'books' then i have to demolish these freedoms and become unhindu.

aside
freedom to not seek also should be added. (why seek at all? why do you believe there is something to be sought at all?)

N3, I understand your point that there might be economic, political and military reasons for doing it. But I got a sense of disregard for env concerns from your post. (i dont care where they dump it) Typically, once the damage is done in water bodies, it is hardly ever possible to reverse it. It is ...

this underestimation of the evangelical christian arm is dangerous. one has to only visit villages in their fav states and see the alarming number of 'churches' that have come up to gauge the impact. this type reach and impact even islam does not have. it is significant that Tirupathi has been targe...

is there somevalue in understanding the contrast between sankara's impact vidyaaranya's impact? is there somevalue in understanding nanak and basavanna. - egalitarian movements that had a lot of impact during a period but once they a attained a critical mass they have become ossified. why does this ...

then basically, you are saying that it should never be done.

well, this is a religion thread but still this man presents one line thinking on religion and spirituality in general. specifically, i want to bring to attention the video 'Spiritual Con' in this page http://ugkrishnamurti.org/ug/ug_video/index.html in beginning of this video there is an interesting...

amit kumar karna and krishnanand demonstrate roll moment control...

anywho..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBxKs8t2j8

congratulations.

while public health has it's share of problems, lack of regulatory strictures on private health seems to have created a whole another monster - increased number c-section births is but one indicator of this. i have other personal horror stories, half there, middle class, folks with a pretention of i...

Besides smaller subcities, each ought to have its own independently elected (and yes, as RM says, recallable) representatives - mayor, majistrates and chief of police for example. that also makes local pockets of citizens count. but there is a definite case to be made for having integrated authorit...

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sabich geek babes nikle.

Regarding water, it will be helpful if any gurus here can give inputs regarding the best practices in waste water treatment hopefully leading to recycling. many small and medium towns in india with populations around 10 lakhs, have no extensive UGD and sewage systems. Sumps are a norm. Wastewater tr...

Suraj wrote: drifting mud on the right corner of the fast lane

how does this come about?
also what are sustainable ways of preventing this?
on city roads and on highways?

Missing the wood for the trees By K P Prabhakaran Nair If farmers have nothing great to show on yields, it might be better to trim them substantially. All of a sudden, there is a great debate and agitation going on in the country on the question of setting up industry by private enterprise acquirin...

Tell us something we don't know type of article, but the comment of PB Mahishi, now the current chief secretary is a surprise. Bangalore's Autobahn FORTUNE Magazine (Fortune Magazine) -- Far from his 18th-century colonial mansion in Philadelphia, Ashok Kheny has been waging a ten-year battle to buil...

saar as much as i agree with your diagnosis, and would be more than happy if your prescriptions work out, honestly, as a card holding member of the SDRE, I can only nod at your persuasive rhetoric and hope that the inconsequential and routine happens to those responsible. in the meanwhile, there is ...

according many reports today, some neta is going about calling these killings inconsequential and routine. *shudder*

ayyoo joke onlee saar. telusu.

please to be checking the digital coverage tabs for exact dates of images onlee. GE buys ~ 18km x 18km image blocks and typically updates parts of a globe at regular intervals. However the update rates are not uniform for all cities. Some places images are older and in some you can keep an eye on yo...

comedians here were talking about bhagwathi being the big kahuna for economics..