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I continue to maintain that if Caste (for which there is no exact Indian word) is understood to be Jati, it is no different than what is practiced in different parts of the world. That does not excuse man's exploitation of man (or woman) but the causes that make people behave the way they do are no ...

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Endogamous tendencies exist in all societies in the world. Although there is some intermarriage, itis generally negligible and blacks and whites remain largely separate societies in America. Overt discrimination in America is no longer widespread, but the fact remains they are separate societies. In...

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This story does/will not resonate in america. here the saying goes 'do as I say and not as I do' (one of my bosses told me that once). PVNR must have recounted that story in the context of non-proliferation, But it is water of a ducks back. A majority of americans are convinced that they need nuclea...

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Does anybody in BR really condone untouchability ? I seriously doubt it Does anybody in BR practice it ? No,again Have most in BR preached aganst the practice ? I am sure most of us have done so countless times. Do most Indians that we know practice it ?I dont know hardly anybody who practices it or...

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Most American sports writers and commentators (with some notable exceptions) in the US have the cultural awareness of a tribesman from Borneo (I dont mean to insult Borneo tribesman). Best to let this whole thing blow over.

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Forget about Vijay Singh, there has not been a single high ranking male golfer say out loud 'that this is a wonderful thing' (that annike sorenstam is playing with the men). Most dont want to be politically incorrect but feel she wont rank in the top ten. They hem and haw when asked the question. Re...

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Does Vijay consider himself an Indian My roots are in India: Vijay Singh By QAISER MOHAMMAD ALI World No. 7 player wins Skins title, mesmerizes audiences on his 2-day visit to India NEW DELHI: Fijian golfer Vijay Singh, the world No. 7 who was here on a two-day visit in the second week of November,...

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This from a place where Amtrak trains, carrying all of a dozen passengers each, go off the rails with distressing frequency - and over 50,000 people die each year in accidents on the "large but antiquated system of roads, which are poorly maintained." I have ridden the Amtrak between Oakl...

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Harish, have you attended a BR meet (if you have forgive me for my loss of memory). Consider attending one coming up (if interested see the military thread and send Rajesh your email for location)

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I am not disagreeing with you Antim.

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Who was the home minister in 1984? was it PV IIRC it was PVNR. As for being a great PM, we will let History be the judge. As I said I give him credit for the economic recovery of India in the 90's. India has yet to achieve the same growth rate as she did in the mid 90's. It was a time of great dang...

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The 'you farted' game is a much simpler version of the'why did you fart ' or 'why do you beat your wife' or 'why dont you talk to your very reasonable nuclear rival Pakistan' or 'why do you have a Hindu nationalist party in power' game . Each of these questions is loaded , as they say in the courtro...

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Sandeep,unfortunately what you say is true. Which is why he will not be regarded as a great PM.

as for relations with Israel

http://www.geocities.com/siafdu/israela.html

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PVNR is underrated as a practitioner of Realist strategy. He deserves a lot of the credit for opening up the Indian economy,for elevating Indo-Israeli ties to Ambassadorial level, for setting the Indian economy on a higher growth trajectory and for recruiting Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister. But ...

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Paradox of Indian minority Prafull Goradia The goings on regarding the Ram Janmabhoomi illustrate the paradox of the Indian minority. The proponents of the Babri Masjid have consistently claimed that the land upon which the structure stood was a property dispute which only the law courts were quali...

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And i thought Caste was a Hindu phenomenon.

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One can identify references to Caste, Siddiqui, ansari, Khan, Syed (??), Qureshi
in addition to Sunni, Shia

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If the 8hour play is the one by peter brooks, I have seen a version of it performed live in San francisco several years ago. It did not leave a lasting impression on me.

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Not quite what you might expect. Exactly what i might expect from Barry Bearak and NYT. When it comes to deciding whether somebody is on the side of evil or not, look for signs where he implies 'I am not on either side'. Both Barry Bearak and Celia Dugger (husband and wife) are Professional India s...

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I feel if we start it at home to ourselves, we will go a long way treating others with more respect and appreciation. Very perceptive. Start treating other Indians with courtesy, grace, dignity and respect and as individuals regardless of status. Address everybody as 'aap'- of course there is no eq...

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Arindam banerji. I posted this in the India US thread also and asked the same question in one of the threads in the strategic forum. But the arindam in BR has not acknowledged he is/is not the one.

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Court to husband: Pay dinner bill & Rs 6 lakhs or the Strange case of Salma Sheikh Author: Sriram Krishnan and Rohit Varier Publication: Asian Age Date: April 27, 2003 Salma Sheikh was thrown out of her house in Surat because she wanted a different menu for dinner on the night of July 15, 1994. ...

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There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the Iraqi invasion. For one thing the US has moved away from the overwhelming force concept with the use of airpower and precision munitions.With a 2 front border to defend and inability to field more than a 1.2:1 advantage over the Pakis, India has to m...

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Wealth by itself does not make for an inspirational personality but the processes by which wealth may be accumulated may be inspiring of simulation. Note also the gender invasion of the wealthy. Tendulkar, Bachchan join India's richest Infosys chief N R Narayan Murthy comes fourth with wealth of Rs ...

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Sita Ram Goel- 80 yrs completed Author: Navratna S. Rajaram Publication: Bhartiya Pragna Date: February 2002 ============== Sita Ram Goel: THE DOYEN OF HINU INTELLECTUAL IDEANATION ==================== The founder of voice of India, an 'intellectual' Kshatriya' par excellence, completes 80 years --...

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The imprisonment of Savarkar in the Andamans(for sedition) was a great blot on British honor and British justice and the British Raj in India. It is an even greater blot on those in India who defend his imprisonment.

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A somewhat fresh perspective on the social divisions in India as India embarks on the 21st century

India Ascendant

Romesh Diwan ~ Feb 28, 2003

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I never thought i would live to see the day this would happen. Bravo to President Kalaam for having the courage to take part in the celebration. He was entirely within his rights in refusing to do so. Bravo to Najma Heptullah too. Kaushal President unveils Savarkar portrait in Parliament PTI[ WEDNES...

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An interesting article on Caste in AP and the implications on the search for equality and social justice. EQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: RETHINKING EQUALITY IN THE GLOBAL SOCIETY Mr. Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy See also http://www.vepachedu.org/castemore.htm "Kakatiya Dynasty (1000-1323 AD) was an ...

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The first Engineer to become a Cabinet Minister in independent india. The current Chief Minister of Goa (IIT Graduate) is also an Engineer. Unlike the FSU and China Engineers are not conspicuous in indian political circles, kaushal Dr.K.L.Rao Pride of Andhra Pradesh is Padma Bhushan Dr. K.L.Rao. He ...

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The secularists never give up in their quest to paint the humanitarian work of organizations such as IDRF with the same brush as the terrorist murders of the Jihadists. "There were moments of embarrassment in the conference when Jairam Ramesh of the Congress, who attended sessions as a special ...

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The guy is a Lebanese christian. He forgets the carnage that the Xtians and Muslims inflicted on each other not too long ago in Lebanon and the role that the lebanese christians played in massacring Palestinians in their refugee camps in Beirut. It is easy to give advice to others, much harder to fo...

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All human being carry unpleasant biological matter, wherever they go, but some like Michael Krepon advertise its presence by its odor.

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There is an element of making a virtue out of necessity here. Of course India has nowhere near a 1st strike capability, esp. w.r.t. China. A ist strike capability entails a credible counterforce strike capability.

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If not, all we have to do is swear by NFU and then change our stand when we decide on FU (no pun intended NFU has to be seen from the point of view of deterrence. It is a question of credibility. How credible is wht the leaders of India say . This is usually judged by actions. If for example India ...

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This is very interesting because it shows that the Indian monsoon is related to the El Nino phenomenon.

Monsoon records show link with global climate

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Pakistani collusion with North Korea in the proliferation of WMD. One can legitimately ask, if the US looking for the lost coin in the wrong place (in Iraq) when it should be looking for it in Pakistan ... http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030127fa_fact THE COLD TEST by SEYMOUR M. HERSH What ...

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Joint families are planet-friendly: Scientists RASHMEE Z AHMED TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2003 06:24:38 PM ] LONDON: To some, the great Indian joint family is tiresomely traditional, hopelessly outdated and irretrievably on the decline, but Western scientists say it may actually be a ...

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jr^2, it is interesting that such praise for NFU is coming (the first that i have seen in a long time in the western media which is uniformly condemnatory of anybody other than themselves -grudgingly the P5 - having nukes) just as India is having second thoughts about the propriety of such a doctrin...

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Tony Blair "I sometimes think it is a good rule of thumb to ask of a country; are people trying to get into it or out of it? It's not a bad guide to what sort of country it is." By that token, India is ahead of most countries. The current estimate of people getting in is well over 15 milli...

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Realizing that BRF has an increasingly wider circle of sophisticated readers/lurkers/members, it makes sense to do this.

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