Bharat Rakshak

Gus

Just got around to reading Ghost Wars. Turns out that Mahmoud Ahmed was the general who launched the coup and arrested Nawaz and then stood aside and gave the reins to Musharraf when he finally landed. Ahmed was also with the same unit as Musharraf earlier. After taking power, Musharraf made Ahmad I...

Gus

When coming across such South Asians and it is very very important not to be on the backfoot where you are constantly defending yourself with "I am not a <fill up with words such as bigot, hindutva, fundoo etc" Make clear, firm arguments that include accusing the others work. For instance,...

Gus

[Semi-auto with paddle-shifters, now that is Louis XIV territory - kick the horse in the nuts remotely, while still being dressed (with accessories) ornately. Never liked those in-betweeners...it costs more..and you are not getting what you really want - a full blooded manual. Read somewhere that i...

Gus

someone was asking for the gold stockpile allegedly in fort knox and new york to be audited. I am guessing physical wealth is a lot less than is made out, hence the smoke and mirrors and veils. As soon as the govt figured they don't have gold reserves for the paper they are printing, and this knowl...

Gus

What can we tell Pakistan? The Tamil saying 'arasani nambi purusani kaividathe' { roughly it means 'do not abandon your husband for the favours of a king' } comes to my mind :) OT. That's not the actual meaning of that saying. There is a belief that childless women will bear child if they circumamb...

Gus

Many months ago, after the Sydney test, there was an excellent article by D.V.Sridharan (who runs goodnewsindia.com)

A very good read...

http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2008/jan/14guest.htm
Understanding the Australian.

Gus

what is this 100 day vacation thing? do H1s contractors come under this? Contractors cannot work continuously and have to take a 100 day break. This is to avoid claims for full benefits that full timers are entitled to. Or something like that :lol: don't remember what I was told many years ago on t...

Gus

rant alert Booked India ticket thru company. Usually I get the health alerts (don't do this don't do that..take precautions..India is a bad bad country with these these these diseases still prevailing......to the extend of "don't open your mouth while showering").. As if this is not enough...

Gus

Ramana, Potential misuse of POTA cannot be discounted. IIRC, JJ jailed Vaiko thru POTA for as many as 19 months. Vaiko was a sitting MP at that time. As much as I disagree with Vaiko on his LTTE sympathising, I am against the idea of our politicians having this power. If the police is free from poli...

Gus

Condolences Bhairav. May their souls RIP and their deaths avenged.

Gus

I have power cut where I am now. Any updates on the storming of Nariman house? and the Taj?

Gus

As emotionally distraught we all are, PLEASE..restrain and use the anger in collecting information on the snake oil salesmen on media (who is spreading what propoganda)...try and see who is picking up the same lines from where..who are the the good guys reporting the good stuff this is a good time t...

Gus

Condolences to the victims. And salute to the armed forces and the other responders who fought this war with sub-par equipment and muddled policy makers, indifferent public and anti-national press. does anybody have a latest update on killed, hurt and caught? We should also explore if 'hindu terrori...

Gus

VW has another 1.3L engine with super charger <->turbo charger that switches over when the engine rpm reaches certain level. novel way to produce fuel efficient but powerful cars; When all things are the same, the only difference between a turbo and a super charger is where it draws the power to dr...

Gus

^ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5741878159 (around 10 mins)

British Indian army invading Iraq was one of the earliest troop movements in WWI.

Gus

What about UK what does it mean? The full name is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is England, Wales and Scotland. So UK, as it is now, is a union of four constituent countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (Or as Gerard likes to call it - Occupie...

Gus

from bart's link "I was wrong," Gorin now admits, speaking by phone on Friday, June 27, from Jaguar's design center in Whitley, England. "Any concern I may have had has been completely dispelled. I couldn't be more impressed. The same guy who said the brand value of Jags will go down ...

Gus

All the teams captained by older Indian players (SRT, SG, RD and VVS) are out of semis.

Gus

Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look The idea is that if you're never quite sure when, why and how hard the boom might be lowered on you, you start controlling yourself, rather than being limited strictly by what the government is able to control directly. That is interesting and devious. In...

Gus

UK has a significant Paki population (relative to Indians), hence the official policies, behavior etc are all heavily equal-equal. Visas are just a PITA. Indians don't get business visitor visa on arrival unlike some other countries. This hampers business visits. Although they can easily relax this ...

Gus

from vanity fair..a good read. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/china200804?currentPage=3 [quote]....Much is made of Beijingâ€™s rising arts scene and the existence of an unofficial counterculture hereâ€”as if such departures from uniformity amount to significant openings for perso...

Gus

Kiran Bedi refuses to carry the torch after agreeing to it a few days back.

Gus

True story. Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, frustrated with the conditions that prohibited Indian entrepreneurship in colonial India (British ploy to prevent Indian industrialisation), set sail to USA to invest in businesses there. In the ship he met a monk and they were talking and the monk advised Jam...

Gus

State terrorism - says Taslima. url [quote]Before leaving India on Tuesday, exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin said the treatment meted out to her by the Government of India was nothing less than â€œcold-blooded state terrorism to drive her out of the country. Taslima said she is planning a le...

Gus

Gus thanks for the examples but do you agree they were the exceptions than the rule? Of course. That's why I said "Not all wars were fought dharmically"...implying that only a few weren't. If there had been more 'total wars' (populations Vs populations, razing of vanquished cities, erasin...

Gus

Not all wars were fought 'dharmic'. The Chalukyas were nasty to the Pallava outlying settlements when they retreated from their unsuccessful campaign on Pallavas. Mahendra Pallava's son Narasimha later took a huge army to Chalukya kingdom and razed the entire huge city of Vatapi to the ground.

Gus

Maybe this is relevant...reposting. Ramana, Myanmar had a lot of South Indians living and working there before World War I --- they were forced to return (though some stayed back) after the world war. Movies like "Rangoon Radha" and even Sivaji Ganesan's debut "Parasakthi" touch...

Gus

x-posted... You too Thambi! Well at least we are able to enjoy it in English. I will buy the five vol set from Macmillan. My favorite part till now is end of part Two when Aditya Karrikal says lets sail and win Lanka, Sumatra, Java, Egypt and Arab lands. This is so expansive none of that soft power...

Gus

vina wrote:Yawn.. Sharia law "inevitable" in the Islamic Emirate of England

Where is that quote from churchill about how england has the moral duty to protect muslims from oppression of caste-hindus ?

Gus

Sarkozy is to send French troops to assist Canadian troops in the south following the Canadians threatening to withdraw if they don't get any help.

How realistic is the "west will withdraw from Afg" thinking?

Gus

Rye: The thing is I am overwhelmed but I'm trying to do the best that I can. And yes, I do feel there are many problems in Muslim society in India, but the true picture is not being presented on this forum. And because of your tone, I feel there is no point answering you. Guys, I'm tired, I tried t...

Gus

Prem wrote:Did not Sita asked Lord Ram to hunt the deer? Meat must be rajasvic food.

Come on now...

She wanted to play...not eat the deer.

Gus

Are there any organisations/trusts that specifically helps folks like these (and that brave bus driver who threw the bomb out in the Diwali Delhi bomb blasts incident) ? If not can we start something like Martyr's foundation which can help families that have lost lives or limbs of bread-winners to t...

Gus

Found this from the same author. The spin will leave you dizzy. http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/oct/25/conviction_basha_coimbatore_bomb_blasts.html Conviction of Basha in Coimbatore Bomb Blasts By Irfan Engineer S.A. Basha and 34 persons have been convicted for the conspiracy of bomb blasts ...

Gus

In 1998 there was communal violence in Coimbatore, something unprecedented in Tamil Nadu, in which 27 Muslims were killed when the police fired on an unarmed crowd that had collected to protest an attack by the Hindu Munani. The unilateral attack on Muslims was followed by bomb blasts in the same y...

Gus

[quote="SSridhar"]Bomber's end: Flash of terror, Humble graveBut now hindsight, as well as capture, had made Farmanullah realize he was being used as a political plaything, he said. â€œWe were told that everyone in Afghanistan was an infidel,â€

Gus

this fact seems very important to me that no subsequent big Indian kingdom gave that much importance to navy. by big, of course I mean that which could dominate at least 60% of India's current landmass. Bay of Bengal was known as the "the Chola pond". Map of Chola empire during Rajendra C...

Gus

I was on a long drive today and happened to tune into AM 1450 (some Christian radio) and caught some USA network news or some such thing...there was this general world news and the UK sailors stuff and out of the blue the "news person" said [paraphrasing] that there is a news report on the...

Gus

TSJones wrote:Is Christmas day a national holiday in India? Seriously.

Yes and so is Good Friday (IIRC).

Too bad Easter is on Sunday, else that would also be a holiday.

If we get Alok's plan of rotating weekly holidays, maybe that would happen...

Gus

Hopefully this will make the politicians to move their behinds :P (or capitulate in private :eek: ) http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7454_1898345,000800050001.htm?headline=ULFA~threatens~to~kill~leaders~in~Assam ULFA threatens to kill Cong leaders in Assam Indo-Asian News Service Guwahati, January...

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