Bharat Rakshak

I am hiyaring that EditorSRR is "out" for a few days, sorry.

New Article:

"Unforgiveable Mistakes: THE KONGKA-LA INCIDENT. 21ST OCTOBER 1959" by Vivek Ahuja.
Fire away!

Also, Pathma, sorry about the confusion. EditorSRR see email sender name, EditorSRR use email sender name.

Fixed now, I hope. Thanks!

editorSRR wrote:Fire away!

Dear editorSRR,

The name has still not been fixed.

http://brmsrr.blogspot.com/

Thanks.

Pathma

What name?

Okay, thanks man.

Still the surname is Nagalingam, not Nagalinkam.

I came across this thread recently. Wondering about the LaTeX. I have used Miktex for a long time with TeXniccentre as a frontend for my students. It is better to download the entire Miktex archive and then install from that local archive. Another option could be LyX - not a great deal for old-TeX hands (I personally do not need its WYSIWIG features). But LyX for windows installer (get the full network installable bundled version off their wikidownload - main page www.lyx.org) in the full bundle version will install miktex and other graphical software (a pain in classic LaTeX). This frontend has a nice interface and does make life easier for LaTeX newbies. If you are planning simultaneous html versions tex2html (part of full MikTeX) could be useful. If you have any specific LaTeX questions for the articles, you can post it and I can try to be of help.

N, check your gmail..
{Done, thx. All reviewers are "incognito" like ISI - n}

New paper:

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE..

by one of the usual suspects..
Blast away...

editorSRR wrote:New paper:

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE..

by one of the usual suspects..
Blast away...

For some reason, I couldn't post my comments on the site. Here they are:

1. There is at least one known instance of a Pakistani involvement in suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. It happened on 30 Apr. 2003 in a Jazz event. As for Iraq, though no Pakistani suicide bombers have been known so far, LeT footsoldiers have been involved in fighting the US Army.
2. In the section on 'Non-State Actors", mention must be made of Al Badr and IJT (Islami-Jamiat-e-Tulaba, Student Wing of Jamaat-e-Islami). Both of them were involved extensively in East Pakistan in 1971 and later in Kashmir.

Your comment should have shown up by now, thanks. Due to the kind attentions of certain entities, we had to go to a system where comments must await moderator approval, like the comments on Marvi Memon's BLOG. So many admirers....

BTW, Sridhar, could u pls email me (address is on the site, anyway it is editorSRR at gmail)? Need to take u up on an unwise claim u made about having various TEX/LATEX templates handy. Its time to decide how to convert the articles into a uniform format for publication.

Thx.

Dear editor SRR, Can you please make the process of article submission for SRR transparent? Have been getting requests on the subject.

The article length limits and the guidelines as to whats allowed and whats verboten and the e-dhak to send it to.

thanks, ramana

ramanaji:

The link to the submission page is given above in this thread. Exactly what do these dear Potential Authors want in "transparency" beyond what is given there? Like, are they capable of reading the first 2 lines of the first post on this thread?

Length constraints if any can be figured out by actually taking the time to view some or all of the articles submitted there - IOW, what is "acceptable" varies quite a bit.

What is "verboten", well... the reviewers (incl. the editors) decide that on an article-by-article basis. Obviously nothing that can't be posted at BRF will be OK to publish in BRM/SRR. Articles need to be original, or in some rare cases, merit reproduction from other places with permission if the reviewers say that this is worthwhile.

Without discouraging any really motivated authors, may I suggest that people who have serious issues in doing the above, are realistically NOT potential authors?

Any reason why they can't email the editor themselves, as in "can't find the email address" despite everything above? If I DO give the email address again here, how is that going to help those who can't find it above? Why would I seriously hope to get good, thoughtful, well-researched articles from people who log on to this forum or at least browse it, but then sit around : "Huh! Hwhat's SRR? It's not "TRANSPARENT" ??

Sorry if I seem like I have less than 400% tolerance for unreasonable whining, but, yes, I do.

Main Requirement For Submission of Articles to BRN/SRR: ACTUALLY DOING THE RESEARCH AND WRITING THEM.

Two points in addition:
1. Articles to SRR MUST have well-researched references and some point(s) to make, well-defended, not just grandiose opinions.
2. Articles for BRM need not have references, but must have sufficient original public interest for BRM enthusiasts to still be valuable despite lack of references. In many ways that's more challenging than SRR articles.

Length constraints if any can be figured out by actually taking the time to view some or all of the articles submitted there - IOW, what is "acceptable" varies quite a bit.

all that is needed to be done :

select and copy a published article from SRR and paste it in a word processor like MS word/open office etc and see how long it is.

doesn't take much to figure that out !

The ones on the BLOG are already paginated (i.e., they are pdf, not html), so the length can be readily seen.

So editorji,
There are two formats Opinions- BRM and papers/articles - SRR?


Also we are trying to encourage new submissions and hence a non-judgemenatal approach might be helpful.

Thanks for the clarifications.

ramana

I think some writers will find this useful.

Narayanan:

Its easy for me to say this since I wont be doing the work and we quite appreciate you have better stuff to do. However, please do consider this seriously...

The LCA has made its 1000th flight recently and there have been quite a few developments on that front. A lot of sub systems have been developed and are being integrated and a Mk.2 version is being planned. Given that you last article on LCA was when it had made its first flight and in response to Adm. Nadkarni's "article", we (the members of BRF jirga) think its a good time for you to write a review article on the LCA now taking into consideration the new developments.
Given your expertise in this matter, you should be able to do that in a matter of few minutes onlee

strongly second that (and third that and fourth that, if such a thing is possible).

k prasad and rakall has hunted up enough info to create a nice li'l article.

I'll gladly collect articles and stuff if that would help in any way.


BRjingos, please consider making a request on this to n^3 ji a priority, even if it is on other threads. (I give full permission for neo BENIS to be used for such psychological pressurization purposes, till he relents ! )

ASK him to write an article on LCA wherever he is seen !

bliss N^3, bliss to do the writeup...

(loved the pic)

Are N^3, Rahul M , SSridhar and other respected oldies on a sabbatical or something?

Editorji, Article submitted for BRM.

Regards.

Posting from Mav's blog.

I notice Shyamd has requested suggestions for article topics for BRM.

I would like to suggest the following : "Improving Economic Surveillance Through National Technical Means". Such an article could focus on new technologies and their applications to emerging problems in currency surveillance, economic productivity monitoring, financial information security, revenue intelligence, narcoeconomic controls, etc... in present day India.

wrt occasional calls for a printed version of BRM/SRR (RIP! )

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/techn ... ag.html?em

With a new Web service called MagCloud, Hewlett-Packard hopes to make it easier and cheaper to crank out a magazine than running photocopies at the local copy shop.

Charging 20 cents a page, paid only when a customer orders a copy, H.P. dreams of turning MagCloud into vanity publishing’s equivalent of YouTube.

Whats up with the SRR? I see one new article updated for 2009 but none of the other articles mentioned in this thread.

am i in the right place?

ummm. that new article was put up on an express request. not exactly part of the regular SRR update.

Any volunteers have access to Adobe InDesign? I happen to have access. Issue can be generated fairly quickly.

BELOVEDS!

I just noticed that the entire index of articles published in BRM and SRR since 1999 is available at this url. Some urls are not working, but then one can go hunt those down at the archive site itself.

I plan to use this to refer to this extensive library of articles - had no idea there were so many and on so many topics.

New article:

SIZZLE OR FIZZLE: THE INDIAN NUCLEAR TEST SOAP OPERA


Shiv Sastry

Paper No. SRRP04010901, Security Research Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, October 2009.
Comment Away!

BTW, we will happily entertain 1 or 2 articles explaining the "fijjal" line too - and put them up for comments.

EditorSRR has no bias.

To all software gurus:
At the bottom of each BRF discussion page it says-
Users browing ... X, Y, Z, MSN(Bot), and ### visitors.....

What is this "MSN(Bot)"? Is Bill gates snooping on BRF and watching who are posting, or what?

Sorry for this naive question.

Sir,

What if we can re-define SRR to STRATEGIC Research Review???

Do you publish articles relating to space programs (if someone happens to submit a respectable paperwork)?

Regards.

[grumble grumble]

editorSRR is not a human sounding name.
please conform to forum guidelines

[/grumble grumble]

Maybe it is pronounced "EditorSaar!"? Ever heard of Farokh ENGINEER? Nari CONTRACTOR? Pervez MUSHARRAF? What is wrong with, say Abdul_Chakrapani EDITOR, hain?

Anoop, my impression is that papers on Space stuff and any strategic stuff is welcome. I have no idea why it is called "Security" Research Review instead of "Strategic", but I agree that would be a great step if it is possible.

Pervez MUSHARRAF?

enqyoob wrote:Maybe it is pronounced "EditorSaar!"? Ever heard of Farokh ENGINEER? Nari CONTRACTOR? Pervez MUSHARRAF? What is wrong with, say Abdul_Chakrapani EDITOR, hain?

Anoop, my impression is that papers on Space stuff and any strategic stuff is welcome. I have no idea why it is called "Security" Research Review instead of "Strategic", but I agree that would be a great step if it is possible.

Sir,

I will try my fortunes in wrting an article for the BR Monitor and Security Research Review as soon as i get some free time. It is my understanding that doing such things are much harder to complete and since writer is expected to take full responsibility on what he writes, words must be choosen with extreme care.

I just thought " Strategic Research Review " would better personify the true essence of the publication.

Regards.

Yes, of course, it takes sheer genius and "extreme care" etc., and all the authors are ppl who run 10km uphill both ways at 4AM every day, rain or shine before heading over to the gym... There's the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Fiction, the Bharat-Ratna and then there is BRM/SRR for the Real Geniuses ....

Seriously, Anoop, go to the main BR site (nor forum) and go to the Bharat Rakshak Monitor / SRR site there. Spend a few minutes browsing past articles on various topics. You wil get a much better sense of how these things come out.

The phrase "when I get time" is a killer. Go by the Nike slogan instead. It takes about the same time to compose the first draft of a paper as it does to do the average homework assignment for high school / college classes. But... you can't just throw it over the wall and expect the reader to decide if your answer is right. So it takes a couple of days thinking about it while walking around, to go back and do a re-write. At that point, if you think you have justified what you are saying with facts etc., PROOFREAD, and SEND IT IN.

Besides, it is web-based. We can update it a couple of times. You will find most of your glaring errors when you read it after it is published.

And you will eventually realize that Editors can't read, and are anyway, waaaay too lazy to do so. Check articles in REDIFF, Times Of India etc. No intelligent simian could have read those things before publishing them. AFAIK, none of those would hire EditorSRR.

enqyoob wrote:Yes, of course, it takes sheer genius and "extreme care" etc., and all the authors are ppl who run 10km uphill both ways at 4AM every day, rain or shine before heading over to the gym... There's the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Fiction, the Bharat-Ratna and then there is BRM/SRR for the Real Geniuses ....

Seriously, Anoop, go to the main BR site (nor forum) and go to the Bharat Rakshak Monitor / SRR site there. Spend a few minutes browsing past articles on various topics. You wil get a much better sense of how these things come out.

The phrase "when I get time" is a killer. Go by the Nike slogan instead. It takes about the same time to compose the first draft of a paper as it does to do the average homework assignment for high school / college classes. But... you can't just throw it over the wall and expect the reader to decide if your answer is right. So it takes a couple of days thinking about it while walking around, to go back and do a re-write. At that point, if you think you have justified what you are saying with facts etc., PROOFREAD, and SEND IT IN.

Besides, it is web-based. We can update it a couple of times. You will find most of your glaring errors when you read it after it is published.

And you will eventually realize that Editors can't read, and are anyway, waaaay too lazy to do so. Check articles in REDIFF, Times Of India etc. No intelligent simian could have read those things before publishing them. AFAIK, none of those would hire EditorSRR.

LOL

I just joined in the brf, took a decision to try to write an article only yesterday (after realizing space page is not up to date & details on agni missile are deleted), so basically, what i meant was, i am yet to decide what to write........anways, like your style of humor (very crude and yet on the dot).

I am following your advice, will go through the SRR, before i make a writing or submission. I am currently preparing for some job interview/exams, hence the phrase, when i get free time.

Oh, i almost forgot, i do maintain the habbit of wakeing up at 2.00 am and go cycling for a total of 20kms starting at around 4.45 am.

Regards.

Anoop. A. wrote: since writer is expected to take full responsibility on what he writes, words must be choosen with extreme care.

Don't worry too much Write first - you will have a chance to modify if you get flak when it goes up on the editors blog. Getting the writing done is important.

@ Editor
Will article related to economics (or economy of a India) will be accepted? I would like to write a piece on "new Economy" based on India.
Please comment!

Why not? I think that's a fine topic.