Bharat Rakshak

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I testify that I read discussion some where about a book by an author I don't remember about Muslim invaders treating Hindus well and giving them laddus so it is not correct to say Muslim invaders destroyed temple. Although I'm not a historian, I can say when Muslim invaders came with flowers it wa...

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Lot of painstaking work done by Chaanakya and Prasad - kudos to them! (Of course, Hon' Judges are the real heroes) The landmark judgment has a similarity of climategate - a la Pachauri. This can pave the way in future for another gate - Ayodhyagate or Eminent_Historian.gate, or secular-historygate ....

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India successfully test-fires Agni II missile

India [ Images ] on Monday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-II missile intermediate range ballistic missile, with a range of 2000 kms, from the Wheelers Island off Orissa coast.

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But coming back to the question , yes if IA did formulate the GSQR and persisted with it and DRDO did built a superior tank and IA now says it does not need it ( again its a unsubstantiated claim ) , then who is responsible for fixing all this mess ? ( if there is indeed a mess lot of assumption on...

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Austin saar - just a question, why should the IA not be questioned if they formulate the GSQR, and later disown the product? Bodhi asked similar questions which you sideline and choose to ignore. For the buck to stop at CCSA, it has to start somewhere - and it starts at IA. So, if T-90 is ordered in...

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I voted for 1 and 4. IMHO, for India 1 has been better than 2. As I can see it - TSP is in far worse condition today than it was 10 yrs back. I tend to attribute it to US presence. US has an enviable record of destroying the place of their action - be it Vietnam or Iraq. So, the longer Unkil is pres...

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Agni-1 test-fired off Orissa coast India on Sunday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, short range ballistic missile (SRBM) Agni-1 from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island, about 100 km from Balasore off Orissa coast. "It was a fantastic mission c...

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Vertical-launch version of BrahMos test-fired

"The missile was launched at 1130 hours today from Indian Navy ship INS Ranvir and it manoeuvred successfully hitting the target ship. It was a perfect hit and a perfect mission," BrahMos aerospace chief A Sivathanu Pillai told PTI.

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India's missile defense test fails Though the exact reason behind interceptor missile's failure to take off was yet to be ascertained, preliminary analysis suggested that the target missile might have deviated from its stipulated trajectory, leading to lack of proper coordination, the sources said.

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Narayana Rao wrote:how to go to this GDF am not finding it anywhere can any one hlep

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My sincere condolences to the bereaved families!

So, we are enlightened now that such attacks cannot be taken as an attack on Pune, forget about India.

So true - why should we be deprived of the pleasures of likes of RR Patil from the scene as was the case on 26/11?

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Welcome Kedar! And thanks for the excellent material on Maratha war.

Expecting more in future.

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I have been to Puri Jagannath Temple and I can confirm there is no such checking or verification. The fact is that no one is being checked and verified for their caste etc before entering the temple. And this leaves a clear possibility that few belonging to the so called "Dalit" community,...

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Thanks Narayana Rao ji, nice and inspiring post.

We need more of such posts. May be of Vijaynagar empire.

Please extend my thanks to Kedar also.

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Any death is a tragic loss of life. But in Harry's case, this is much more than that. What a prodigy and what a talent! Imagine the quality of defense reporting India could see only if he had lived longer. But even at this young age - he will be "survived" by his quality work. My heartfelt...

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^^Great article and analogies above by Sri Irfan Husain. Good read. Far from growing up the packees have been growing down only. And yup, I fully expect someone or the other to point out how such tendencies exist in India also, etc. Of course not! Such tendencies do not exist in India. Not even in ...

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Vipul wrote: Today, as the nation celebrates 'Vijay Diwas', it is worth pondering that General Jacob is not on any official invitation list.Is this how we treat our heroes?

If its true - then really sad.

PS: Saw RayC's post later. Thanks.

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...one of the hostages who was murdered in cold blood by the terrorists at the Chabad House. The audio recordings which came into my possession documented the discussions between the gunmen and their masters concerning the fate of the hostages, and the outcome was a short burst of gunfire. That mom...

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I distinctly remember him for his saltpeter comment in another thread and those words echoed in my ears for long time, that "India exported the saltpeter and, by that had the whole world blown up, including India"!

Sad to note this tragic loss.
May your soul rest in peace!

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My definition of Indian-subcontinent: India, Sindh, Balochistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Malaysia, Maldives, and Mauritius. RamaY ji, just wondering - Sri Lanka is not in your calculation, or it was just an inadvertent omission! Also, we have close cultural and historical ties ...

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Thanks for the translation guys. I put the audio into an audio editor to get sound clips and discoveerd something disturbing. In the exchange described below - I have added in red the words of a desperately frightened woman who cries "Please don't kill me" just before the gunshots are hea...

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and he has the full pucca punjabi military english accent... (in my opinion) The way he uses "gonna" and "sabbath" are very American and totally non subcontinental. That guy has IMO lived in America. The manner in which the handler in question speaks urbanized urdu with punjabi ...

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The point is - the acts of terror planned and conducted at such level, will always be ahead of the curve. There might be and will be many lessons learned from the 26/11. However, what if they take it to another level - even if nuke option might be far-fetched, what about biological or chemical warfa...

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SBajwa wrote:These people are 400% pakistani punjabis (musharraf speak) from around the Lahore!!

I second that. The diction and flow quite matches the guys from that area.

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उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् । वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततिः ।। (North of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains The country of Bharat lies and contains his children) Thanks Pulikeshi, for bringing out those beautiful lines! Though, the said region in the verse, from north...

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Having lived in Colaba and worked in Nariman Point not so long ago, I could relate to the carnage much more. Almost all the areas involved in the terror attacks, I used to be around there (lived in Vile Parle, too). When I saw the attacks being telecast on TV, it was a shock of my life, I couldn't b...

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I feel that right from its inception, Pakistan will face some very serious problems: 1. The incompetent political leadership will pave the way for military dictatorship as it has happened in many Muslim countries. 2. The heavy burden of foreign debt. 3. Absence of friendly relationship with neighbo...

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Will ask you but perhaps it might be a good idea if you downloaded that channel 4 video and saved it on your HDD so I can ask for translation from some specific timeline. Usually it is snatches of conversation lasting a few seconds. I have downloaded the Channel 4 documentary on my HDD. Please let ...

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Why NFU against an adversary which is hell-bent on destroying India and uses plausible deniability for all their terrorirst acts? As is amply evident and further emphasized by 26/11 - if at all, any nuke attack by TSP against India could be carried out with impunity while claiming plausible deniabil...

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shiv wrote: But I may not be able to do it before the anniversary tomorrow.

If you are overburdened and the time-line is to be met - please let me know if I can be of any help in this regard.
The video clip idea (with transcript of conversation, terrorist-handler only) seems good.

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Video clip query: Could someone please listen carefully and repeatedly to translate what the shot terrorist says towards the end - "Mujhe fire lag gayi toh aakhri ....??" http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/cybersurg/wotsit/th_translate1.jpg Shiv - its, "mujhe fire lag gaye hein, du...

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Former NSG Chief recounts the day of terror

J K Dutt, who headed the NSG and operations on 26/11.

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BijuShet wrote:
Rahul M wrote:there are many lawyer politicians in India, sibal for example.
To keep Psecs happy add Arun Jaitley to the list too saar.

Why leave poor Ravi Shankar Prasad

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Contrast this with the Purohit/Pragya treatment. It pays to be a terrorist/terrorist supporter in India True. I was wondering why the Narco test is not conducted on Rahul as it was so swiftly done in Pragya/Purohit case. After all, by all accounts - this Headless (chicken) (Headley) case is much mo...

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Pakistan is in a fix The moron still thinks that the current mess is due to the economic policies. Once the TSP fine-tunes the economic policies, the problem can be solved in a jiffy, simple. They will never understand that its because of the skewed priorities of the state and the peoples apparatus...

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Uzbeks too are fighting for Taliban Allegedly and reportedly, if few Indian(s) caught in TSP suspected of creating trouble - without delay its declared by TSP as India's hand in TSP, India fomenting trouble, India funding Taliban blah-blah ... By the same token, if 200 Uzbeks are known to be fighti...

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Uzbeks too are fighting for Taliban According to some reports, there are some 1,500 Uzbeks with Hakimullah Mehsud, but sources inside the Taliban revealed that hardly 200 trained Uzbeks militants are taking part in the war. Usman Jan is the head of all Uzbeks militants in the area. He succeeded Tah...

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India may test nuclear capable missile today

Agni - V

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This is third part of POK -II not fully successful: Scientist thread. In the due course, the discussion has been consistently changed from 'Not fully successful tests' (S-1) to 'Do We Need TN at all?' This has branched out to a new thread, 'Deterrence'. If the current trend suggests something, it ap...

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Its being suggested that the small fission weapons are sufficient to serve as nuclear deterrent for India. Also questions are being raised on the efficacy or utility of TN weapons in Indian context ..its in this context that I mentioned 'forget TN'. Its not a conclusion, its an observation. Sure it...

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