Bharat Rakshak Celebrates Five Years!

[justin]

Searching on the net for "bharat bhakshak" , I
found "bharat-rakshak"
And since then I am addict ..

So what can I say but " Tum Jiyo Hazarro Saal ...." to everybody who have in some form or the other kept the wonderful site going on and on..

Jus

[S Bajwa]

Congratulations BR.. Well done Rakesh...

[MN Kumar]

Hello All,

Its been a great time at Br.What else can i say. asplendid effort by the BR Admins in keeping this torch alive.

Great job Rakesh. Surely will miss you. Remember the logo wala Naresh. Its me man. Sorry couldnt comeup on time.

Jai Hind
Naresh

[VKumar]

Rakesh,

How can I thank you and the BR team enough. I wonder how I would have spent my time-at home or at work-but for BR.

Come back soon.

Till then,

BEST OF LUCK!

[JCage]

BR has been a second home to me for the past few years.I have learnt so much here.
Thank you Rakesh for keeping this "dream" running along with your fellow admins.
Wish you all the luck and success in your future endeavours.

Regards,
Nitin

[Amitabh]

Congratulations and thanks to the hard-working Mr. Koshy and the BR team!

[Chandra]

Congrats BR! Rakesh, my best wishes for all your future endeavors.

[Kaushal]

Congratulations and thanks to Rakesh and the BR team for one of the best maintained defense sites in the world, kaushal

[Pennathur]

All the best Rakesh! Great job! And keep in touch. We need some road-side Romeos to liven up the scene!

[Anant]

A hearty congratulations to all of the administrators and folks who make it work. I've been addicted to this site for many years now and I hope you guys can supplement my addiction for many years to come. All the best.

Anant

[Philip]

Well done old bean.You have earned a rest from loading all that ammo fired over the last 5 years through BR!The bandicoots musn't celebrate too hard because Kaps will be taking charge of the attack from now on.Shiver me timbers!
Cheers once again.We'll do another Bombay meet when you're next in town.

[JE Menon]

Rakesh, mone, you've done a great job with BR and it is sad to see you go. Best of luck in your next moves and do visit BR as often as you can. The admins will miss your dynamism.

[saint]

congrats br folks... when i was searching for indian nuke related items on google and got a cache of discussion of br forum - during 1999/2000. Found this website. I was off and on. Nice place where one can easily get adicted.

A few things striked me was whatever happens to good old discussions - who does the archive? Is there any read-only links from BR to those archives.

I also felt many good threads are found but sometimes only fewer posts relates. A summary of the thread discussion by admin or thread creator before it is closed would be great. Of course, no use if it ain't to be archived. Why I felt about the archive necessity was there goes a great deal of time into thoughts for writing them and can't be fetched later. It also preserves the forum history in a lively form.

I am also amazed at the technical and political knowledge level of the forum members. May be this is true with all Indians.

Its more than BR for its content - example the history and current affair forum.

KIT

[GGanesh]

Good Luck and God Bless

[Vinay J]

Great Job, Rakesh & Co.!! You guys have done INDIA proud. JAI HIND!!

[jaikiran]

Rakesh,

will miss your warning in the news thread for the week:P

and the regular but detailed and a lot of BR Updates...

Jai.

[Prem]

great job!! well done, congratulatons and best wishes for future endeavours!!

Jai Hind

prem

[Aditya Vikram]

congrats to the admin of BR and Hope they keep up this Great website running

[shiv]

Originally posted by Rakesh Koshy:
as I have decided to take a bow and leave Bharat Rakshak. We all need change in our lives from time to time

Rakesh Koshy
BR Webmaster

Psst! Hey Shiv - Veer Madarasi, Adi Kollu! Adi Kollu! Adi Kollu!

What!?

Adi kollu to you too. You're not leaving us now!!!

[Samir]

Rakesh,

Al tbe best for the future. If it makes you feel good about BR, you should know that all the IAF boys I talked to on my latest trip home were very glad to hear about the site, its progress and so on. I sensed a certain pride that comes from knowing that someone is backing them up. I'm not sure they feel that way vis-a-vis the press (certainly not the MiG-21 pilot who bitterly complained about the language used for his jet in the papers!)

Cheers,
Samir

[maz]

Yo RK, where exactly are you going man?
Are you on crack or something? How can BR be BR without you?

call me at home.

[Rajeev]

Good luck Rakesh and have a wondeful time ahead .

[Ajay K]

Congratulations BR team for the 5 years of doyen service under the leadership of Rakesh Koshy.
Keep the good work going.
Best of luck !

[Guest]

Rakesh, I know how you feel about quitting. After years working on my site I found the excitement wearing off and the feelings of lethargy and motivation being problematic.

But I could never stop cause the daily diet of Bharat Rakshak Forum is addictive and reduces stress of everyday life.

BTW everyone I am searching for Indian war movies which I might have missed here http://users.senet.com.au/~wingman/hkk.html

Movies not only on the major wars but can also be about Pakistans proxy war against us. Anything that has footage of soldiers, tanks, planes.

I am also interested in old movies like Burma Rani(1945), Manasamrakshanam and En Magan. In Burma Rani, three Indian airmen were forced to land in Burma and eventually free the country from Japanese occupation with the help of Indian resistance movement in the state. The plot revolves around a Rani (an Indian girl in Burma) who helps the airmen. T.R.Sundaram played the role of a Japanese commander made-up to look like Hitler.

The good thing about Bharat Rakshak is that the webmasters will change but the site will live on forever.

Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Bharat Rakshak

[Raja Ram]

Nakul:

Another movie with a WWII background "Andha naal" (That Day) a Sivaji Ganesan starrer. He is an anti-hero spy for the Japanese in it. No songs at all in this movie and it was one of his earliest ones. Quite a gripping story line and he IIRC he calls on the radio guiding japanese bombers to bomb Madras ( The High Court compund was destroyed in an actual bombing by the Japs during the war)

[Raj Singh]

Congratulations!

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Nakul

>BTW everyone I am searching for Indian war movies which I might have missed here http://users.senet.com.au/~wingman/hkk.html

There was a movie called Jai/joy Bangladesh which came in 1972/73. It was one of those quickie ones, made by I S Johar, but was quite a hit movie. Movie was about 1971 war and the heroine was some Chaudhri from Bangladesh.

If I recall correctly, there was another movie called Lalkaar, made by Ramanand Sagar. Stg. Dharmendra, Mala Sinha.

Added later...

One more movie that comes to mind is called Saat Hindustani. It was Amitabh Bachan's first movie and was made by Khawaja Ahmed Abbas. It was about liberation of Goa from Portuguese. Not sure if this movie will fit your criteria of war movie.

[Rajeev]

BR is among top 20998 sites on web

not bad when you come to know that there are billions behind !!!

[Kuttan]

have decided to take a bow and leave Bharat Rakshak. We all need change in our lives from time to time

Likely story

I too have been planning such tearful farewells etc. for a long time - like today when I tagged along to Supreme HQ's workplace bright and early, imagining that the absence of web access would let me get a lot of things done while she gets some urgent stuff done ... it turns out that web access here is so fast that I can visit all these threads that I have not had time to visit before.

[Pathmarajah]

Great website, monay! You are the man!!!

Adi kollu all the way for the rest of your life.

[Muppalla]

BR is a great successful story.

I just can't believe that Rakesh is leaving. Wish you best of luck in your future.

[pratyush ojha]

I have been a regular lurker since 2000 January. And it feels good to be a part of this great effort.

[Sachin]

Three cheers to Bharat-Rakshak and Rakesh Koshy who made BR what it is today.

Hooray....

Auld Lang Syne

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Or friendship e'er grow cauld?
Should we nae tighter draw the knot
Aye as we're growing auld?
How comes it, then, my worthy friend,
Wha used to be sae kin',
We dinna for ilk ither spier
As we did lang syne?"

[Bibhas]

Ooops, Looks like I almost missed this event.

Three Cheers for BR. Hip Hip Hurray! A Very Happy birthday to BR.

Rakesh you can't leave us like this. :whine:

Wishing u best of luck.

[harishn]

Rakesh, this is my first post here. If this site is anything to go by, u'r a born leader because u chose to share u'r dream. All the best for u'r future. May all u'r dreams come true

[member_4498]

BR is a tribute to our Great Country. The sense of community among the thousand tongues that visit BR is truly great. The abundant confidence and love will ensure, that despite difficulties, India will surge ahead.

I take this opportunity to whole heartedly thank the concievers of Bharat Rakshak for what they created. The fact that BR is so big, *important* and *helpful*, is a sign that God is with us.

Rakesh, thanks for doing what u did. No amount of praise is enough. Best of luck...

Also thanks to everyone else -- admins and forum members -- BR is going great guns and so is our country.

Thanks.

[abhischekcc]

Well, hellooo.

I have been away for some time and look what happens, the BR anniversary.

How should I pay my tribute?
Well, I have been to foeums of a number of countries, and none of them matches up to the standard of BR in tems of quality (not wthstnding the occaisional fight ).
And so I say - If Bulletin Boards could win wars, we would be a superpower.

Well done Rakesh.

[Phil]

Updated Indian Army's Senior Officers List:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/New.html