Bharat Rakshak

Dhoni's is the man!!!
He has such an awesome personality and aura around him.

Much props to Gautam on his wonderful batting display!!!
Congratulations to all Indians around the world.

ravi_ku, Ideally close to 100% of the children should be becoming literate and we should be educating the illiterate adults as well. I wish they had published the number of years of schooling per each person as well. They will be probably doing it in the final census results. If you look at the 2011...

I cannot believe that literacy rate has only increased by 9% points this decade from 65% to 74%, especially because it had such a heartening growth in the 1990s from 52% in 1991 to 65% in 2001. I expected it to be in the 77-80% range this census.

^^^ISB hasnt turned out to be a great model of a university IMO...A first class teaching shop, yes..A uni? not at all..Despite all that funding, it remains a place where a 1-year post grad programme (an oxymoron IMO) is run primarily on guest faculties...A uni cant be made on guest faculties... ISB...

Devesh, I fail to understand the significance of only concentrating on agriculture or lift irrigation based projects for Telangana in the big picture. Agriculture should not be the sole focus of our strategy for improving the lives of our people be it in T or in SA. I am not saying that we should no...

If there is a chernobyl type disaster at one of these units, what would be the effect of that on the US west coast. The north pacific jet stream carries winds from around Japan to the US west coast. Should people living on the US west coast be concerned and be prepared for some eventuality and fallo...

Link (youtube) to Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan's speech in the assembly regarding the destruction and desecration of statues of great personalities of the past:

Dr.Jayaprakash Narayan Lok Satta Party Assembly Speech on Million March at Tank Bund

The demolition of only certain statues and not others appears to be a pre-meditated act on the part of the T-leadership, a rampaging mob would not be able to distinguish for the most part the residency of the person represented by the statue. I really hope that the perpetrators are brought to justic...

This is a sad day in our history! 17 statues of Andhra greats destroyed Pro-Telangana mob dumps Andhra heroes' statues in lake These statues were an immense source of pride for me (as for many others I believe) while travelling on the Tank Bund road. The pride and joy I felt on seeing these statues ...

I think we would not have a problem with either creating new states or a clamour for creating such states if we had the following things in place: 1. Every Indian regardless of where she was born or where she currently resides will have the same opportunity (as every other Indian) to own land, own/r...

Merchandise trade deficit projected to be $ 132.0 billion or 7.7% of the GDP in 2010-11 and $151.5 billion or 7.7% of GDP in 2011-12.

From Nihat's post, the above line implies, 2011 GDP is $1714.28 billion and in 2012 GDP is going to be $1967.53 billion.
Nice!!!

There are similarities between Sanskrit, German, and Latin because they all fall under the Indo-European family of languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages It is believed that most major languages of Europe, Iranian plateau and northern India have a common ancestor language ca...

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A disgusting article in the HuffingtonPost by Michael Hughes. U.S. silence on Kashmir emboldens India's nationalists, empowers Taliban http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hughes/us-silence-on-kashmir-emb_b_783419.html If you read the article you wouldn't be faulted for assuming that it probably wa...

he obviously has the blessings of 10 janpath to be taking such a activist posture on big projects like posco and navi mumbai airport. yuvraj hopes to get lots of votes in tribal areas... Or is it the right hands were not greased or not greased to the extent desired for the environmental clearance t...

I am glad that there were no major mishaps during the commonwealth games and that they were conducted in a satisfactory manner after all the organizational troubles leading up to the games. Now is the perfect time to hold everyone who was responsible for conducting the games accountable for their co...

China vs. India: The Hare vs. the Tortoise The verdict? Over the next 10 years, look for the Indian stock market to outperform China- for India’s tortoise to over take the Chinese hare There were some factual errors in the article. The author mixed up nominal and PPP per capita GDP data for the two...

An article by "Sadanand Dhume" about the opaque family rule of the Gandhi's and medieval God-King like status that has been bestowed upon them by other congress politicians: India's Gandhi God-Kings A quote from the article: For the family, this opacity clearly has benefits. It keeps them ...

An excellent article in the huffington post about the futility of the recent trust building excercise (talks) between India and TSP. India Too Complacent About Pakistan Complicity in Mumbai Attacks I am amazed that Indian press actually chastised Pillai (according to the author), about the timing of...

Naxal commander killed in police encounter in Andhra Pradesh

The Andhra Pradesh police shot down S Ramarao alias Ganesh, the self-styled Naxal team commander of CPI-ML New Democracy Group, in an encounter in a forest area in Warangal District on Tuesday.

"What's mine is mine, what's yours we negotiate" Same for both countries, no? I don't get why the two countries don't just say "what's mine is mine, and what's yours is yours." No Sanjay it is not same for both countries. By conceding the fact that Tibet is chinese territory Ind...

India Shows Off New `World-Class Hub' at Delhi Airport http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/delhi-building-airport-terminal-faster-than-beijing-may-spur-india-growth.html The facility took only 37 months to build. That’s faster than the 45 months China took to complete the terminal in Beijing t...

Also in 2nd tier cities, you can not find a house maid to help for laundry, dishes and clean up for less than Rs. 300 a day. Its more like Rs. 500 to pay for doing laundry, dishes and moping the floor on a daily basis if you want the maid to come on time every day. This is for a large house about 4...

Would You Trust a Country That Named Its First Nuke Test 'Happy Buddha'?

Another one of those whiny articles. This time from Russ Wellen in the Huffington post. He claims that India is a rogue state for not signing the NPT.

From the article in BBC posted by SanjayM The country - like India - has never signed the NPT. It too has a small nuclear arsenal. And, more worryingly, proliferation experts say it has a terrible record of selling nuclear technology and knowhow to third countries. [/b] What sort of baltant lies do...

The power of nightmares China’s proposed sale of nuclear reactors to Pakistan will intensify nuclear rivalry with India. But the damage will go far wider Another one of those whiny pieces from the Economist about how India got off lightly in its nuclear deal with the US and how it set such a danger...

Damn, I thought the manned flight was going to be in 2015. But nothing wrong in waiting as long as we get there! As ISRO chief was saying it will take 7 years from the approval of funding. I think that the expectation earlier on was that it would be approved by 2008/09 and take 6-7 years after that...

Lok Satta leader JayaPrakash Narayan's attack on naxal(in telugu though) Jayaprakash Narayan's attack on Varavara Rao and the Naxalite ideology needs to be heard by all Indians not just the Telugu speakers. Varavara Rao and his ilk who overtly support Naxalites/Maoists need to be effectively counte...

Mods, Every week or so I get this error when I try to access any BR thread: " General Error SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Too many connections [1040] An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists. " It persists for 30 mins or so and returns...