Bharat Rakshak

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Okay, once again here is a problem to try - A well known famous problem which stumped a very famous Fields Medalist but later has appeared in a few contests.... and it looks extremely easy. I got part of the solution (I used Excel again and 1 sheet of paper). I can rattle off sets of numbers which ...

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The above might sound like rambling, but I have something definite in mind. I would like Indians to start questioning some of these assumptions which we take for granted. "Think outside the box" is a cliched expression, but it works. Why should the prime meridian continue being at Greenwic...

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The geography teacher at my son's school told me he makes a point to always emphasize that the most used Mercator world maps distort relative sizes and not to use it for drawing conclusions about relative sizes/strengths of various countries. It is easy to rectify the historical injustice of the Me...

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Thank you for the scholarly correction of my lazy short cut summary. You can't get away with much on BRF ain't it? :P Not with nerds like me on the prowl :). I got interested in map projections for a book project. Then there was another hobby, making historical (and other) maps of India. I also mad...

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In 1589, Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator invented this method of making a rectangular/cylindrical map of a spherical world. By making all longitudes parallel and equidistant north to south, it aided ocean navigation when European colonisers set out to discover new lands (and o...

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am not sure if that's totally true. once i too was of the same opinion (after reading articles & books like 'oonteshwari maata ka mahant'), until kalavai venkat pointed this out to me while responding to one of my comments on a post of his. he said he has explained this exact thing on how these...

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Please note: There were a slew of "reputed studies international studies" that occupied headlines in Indian MSM to coincide with the Vaccine milestone. they were spaced a few days apart to not be too obvious. 1) Average decline in height 2) 2 year lifespan reduction in covid years ( meani...

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... Ji, it was sarcasm onlee :). The real concern is that people don't check the source of the study - JNU of all places. And they are playing up the usual caste cards. Maybe the study itself is valid, but the best thing to do is to check the source data (NFHS) for oneself, not go blindly by the st...

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The decline in Indians' average height is truly concerning. It's unfortunate that we have so few studies on this, good that JNU has stepped up to the role. But we need more such credible organizations (DU, AMU, etc.) to chip in. The study has also suggested that social factors such as caste discrimi...

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... Have we ever struck at the root of those who think about destroying us? Ever thought about breaking Christianity's hold over US and making people hate Christianity there? Why are we being tolerant of people who devasted our lands and also their spiritual successors? ... Swami Vivekananda at the...

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15th October, meaning last day of Navaratri, or on Vijayadashami?

I remember interacting with him, until he stopped coming to BRF.

Om Shanti.

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X-post from cigetartS thread: Yahoo news is reporting (not going to give a link) that the violence against Hindus in BDesh is because the Hindus deliberately placed a copy of the K book at the feet of their idol. Basically blame the Hindus for the whole thing. I'm amazed at how ingenious these peopl...

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Yahoo news is reporting (not going to give a link) that the violence against Hindus in BDesh is because the Hindus deliberately placed a copy of the K book at the feet of their idol. Basically blame the Hindus for the whole thing. I'm amazed at how ingenious these people are, at justifying violence ...

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Sai Deepak exposed Tharoor for what he is: a sententious prattler passing overwrought magniloquent prose for intellectuality and oxbridge tainted glib pontification for incisive argument, and delivered a dyspneic, antwacky Tharoor his comeuppance. I pride myself on my own glib pontification (though...

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Thanks for the honesty, DavidD (I'm serious). Indians who are shocked by the above are just being naive. This is truly how China thinks, so don't be fooled by their music or art or air of culture and sophistication into thinking that one can expect fair-play in any dealings with China. Their society...

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Yes I got it. Could you edit out your posts above?

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*Poof*

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*Poof*

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Thanks. Looks like the blowback was harder than they expected (if at all they expected).

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^ Page doesn't exist. Is this about the protest against DGH?

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... Give me a day or two, I'll figure which is the best way forward and get back. I haven't forgotten this, it's just been a busy week. My observation is that Indian grandparents are a little overbearing. They don't give enough space to the parents. They start teaching "morals" through to...

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That said, we, at least on BRF, should be watchful of efforts to deepen the rift between Hindus and Sikhs. The gameplan is to slowly isolate Hindus and make it Hindus vs everyone else (as of now it is only limited to the political arena - BJP vs everyone else). Doing so would provide an easy cover ...

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UK lifts its quarantine rule for Indian flyers British high commissioner Alex Ellis tweeted there would be “no quarantine” for Indian travellers who were fully vaccinated with Covishield or any other UK-approved vaccine, and thanked the Indian government for its close cooperation on the issue over ...

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KL Dubey wrote: The bar girl and celestial dancer will likely both need to learn how to (t)werk together so their offsprings can stay in the game/stay out of prison.

Took me a few moments to figure out "celestial dancer" but then

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Why is gaddi nasheen pirji stating the obvious? If by "neighbors" (plural), which other neighboring country could it be (in addition to India)? Hainji? You do realize that they view India as 20 different inimical countries, which have unfairly banded together? It is a travesty of justice ...

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Material progress frees up time and the mind starts asking more and more existential questions. When popular culture offers no satisfying answers, religious institutions have no credibility, family structures are weakened and elders are no longer seen as respectable sources of wisdom - this is exac...

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So should I share my email on this thread? Or should I PM you? If your PM rights are disabled, then you also can't receive message? And how to send a PM here? I don't think members are allowed to receive or send PMs at all, it's not just me. I was kidding above, when I said it was only my rights wh...

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@AshishA - Admins have disabled my PM rights. Pretty sure they allow it for all other users. If I confront them, they will smilingly deny it :-?. And all these other chamcha members will chime in merrily, denying that they have PM rights :-?. And then they'll PM each other and giggle at me. We can t...

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Your post Sudarshan is a type of pandering to current breezes in the west. I think you're reading it wrong. When an Indian scholar puts in the effort to learn linguistics and then shows that even according to those rules, the indicated direction of language spread is still from India outwards, is t...

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Will respond to posts later, but two things for now. 1. When people mock SD for having "so many Gods," one can point out that SD is also perfectly comfortable with the idea of NO GOD. Nastika is very much present in SD tradition. So SD can handle any number of Gods, all the way from zero t...

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^ Well if one hasn't heard of Dharampal, one can only conjecture, right :). Thanks for the pointer, I'll look it up. No. I actually enjoyed reading the posts. Rather than being intimidated, I actually thought all those posts starting from the Ankit and Divya story made a lot of sense. It was very ea...

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If you are talking about the post on the previous page, I did see it. The connections are uncanny and I had noticed this many years ago- Ravi var (for Sun day, Ravi = Sun), Saturn-day for Shani vaar etc. But I am sure you discussed more details than this and my one-liner does not do justice. I did ...

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Wondering if you saw the bit about the weekdays and their (most likely) Indian origin. The astronomical aspect of this might be of interest to you. OTOH, you might have already followed the earlier discussion with Shri Oak and might know about this already.

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Thank you both Sudarshan ji and Cyrano ji for your posts. Quest for self realization of truth is a life long journey, and both of you and this thread in general has helped me immensely in that. Hope you weren't intimidated by the long and numerous posts. What I'm saying is very simple. The original...

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And if a formless entity loves us and our end result is reunion with God, then what's the point of all the rituals and worshipping idols? Even Christians and Muslims will say that they are closer to realizing God than us because we are focusing on pointless rituals while they focus on a formless en...

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Another thing I had doubt is that like Ankit, we are also playing the arcade game. And we can't abort the game in between. And we are also expected to realize that this is a Maya world and focus on attaining Moksha. But since we can't abort, how do we play the arcade game? even when we don't want t...

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Another thing I had doubt is that like Ankit, we are also playing the arcade game. And we can't abort the game in between. And we are also expected to realize that this is a Maya world and focus on attaining Moksha. But since we can't abort, how do we play the arcade game? even when we don't want t...

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After all, humans will also have a end date just like Dinosaurs. Moreover, on the basis of cosmic calendar, our history stretches back only to a few mintutes. And a human life lasts about 0.23 cosmic seconds. So we are really insignificant in comparison to the size and time scale. So why should we ...

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Ashish ji, first of all, the greeting "ji" is simply a general term of respect from one human to another, and moreover, I do believe that anybody who is on the track of the truth, even starting to think about it, deserves respect, so it has nothing to do with age. So please take it in that...

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I also want to note the following. Most people today would scoff at the notion of including the sun and the moon in the list of planets. The current definition of a "planet" is of a body of significant mass, which orbits the sun. Neither the sun, nor the moon, fits this definition of a &qu...

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