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Nuclear Power, Solar Cookers and Alte..
In ten years global population is expected to increase by one billion people. If each of these persons should require power equivalent to a 50 watt bulb then the additional power required would be 50,000 MWs, which equals to investment in establishing new 100 X 500 MW power plants.If used properly as we do with fire, nuclear power is a source of clean energy as long as nuclear waste is processed for recycling. I am for nuclear power as we have only few choices to serve the energy needs of global...
| K Bhatia |
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For the love of kith and kin
It is hard to determine the extent to which parents today can go towards promoting their kids, to make them famous. This is truer in case of the parents in the urban areas. Having hailed from modest background with little or no scope to harness their skills and develop their talents with their financial prowess they want to ensure that the opportunities are made available to their children. There is nothing wrong with this mentality. Its indeed commendable to ensure that you make provision for y...
| U Prabhu |
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Satire: interview Min Renu Chow..
Arti Buchawala, a senior correspondent of BBC (Bharat Broadcasting Corp, New Delhi) gets to interview the Honorable Central Minister of India for womens Affairs, Renu Chowdry, whose popularity ratings have shot up sky high in the secular media of the land, and who won cudgels from the elitist women groups. Her forceful attack on the Hindu Taliban, Sri Rama Sene leader Pramod Muthalik has earned immense praise from her mentor, Sonia Gandhi, but also more prominently strong support from the CPLF (...
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Chaddi Cheerleaders Of India
Mangalore has recently gained international notoriety- as the battleground of great Indian culture war according to the esteemed New York Times. This must be the culture clash between the primitive Hindu India and the liberated pub drinking iconic Westernised India. Krishnas galantry in saving Draupadi has been razed to the ground by Muthaliks men who forcefully stopped the modern maidens from their right to drink and dance in Amnesia. This news was followed by that of alleged kidnapping of an M...
| Subroto G |
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Mumbai meet: New Hindu Renaissance
Dr Swamy sums this up as: We Hindus are under siege today; and we do not know it !! That is, what is truly alarming is that Hindu society could be dissembled today without much protest since we have been lulled into or lost the capacity to think and act collectively as Hindus. Hindus of India and the World unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains! We have to wage a heroic cultural and intellectual war against lethal International forces that have come together today to destroy Sanatana Dhar...
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Shaktivad: Epilogue (Part III)
Shaktivad is neither a new tradition, nor another philosophy about the absolute truth, of which we have too many, but a reminder of essence of all our ancient traditions, which is very much prominent in the Hindu cultural practices and history, which helped the Hindu tradition to flourish in the pale of human history and survive through the dark days of aggression. Indeed, it was the mentality of Shaktivad, which led Lord Krishna to rudely shake Arjun from his tamasic (borne out of ignorance) de...
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Shaktivad: Hinduism (Part II)
The ancient Hinduism was verily a Shaktivadidoctrine. The Vedas, the principal scripture of the Hindus, is a great guidance for the human society. It has placed the greatest emphasis on suppression of the asuric elements of the society and cultivation of knowledge. The focus of the Vedas is the constant war between the devas (people with divine traits) and the asuric people. And, all the hymns are for those, who lead people against the asuric elements. Similar is the tune of the Chandi, where th...
| S Maitra |
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Book Review: Collapse of Evil
Jared Diamonds very interesting book, Collapse, fits well with the current situation in India. He has written a book, which describes how civilizations collapse. In short it says if the decision makers are insulated from consequences of their action, that nation is doomed to fail. In other words if the policy makers are not representative of the vast majority of people, if they are elite, foreigners (in case of invasion & occupation) and insulated from the consequences of their action that civil...
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Reclaiming India
The attacks on Mumbai are reminiscent of the first Arab incursions, by sea between 634 and 637 AD through Thana, Broach and Debal. These were repulsed and led to incursions through land routes in the Northwest between 650-711 AD. Muhammad Bin Qasim finally succeeded in occupying parts of Sindh in 712 AD. In contrast to the 70 years it took to occupy Sindh in face of Hindu resistance, the Islamic armies had conquered Persia, Syria, Egypt within eight years of the Prophets death. North Africa was ...
| Subroto G |
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Shaktivad: The Vision for Action (Part I)
Scientifically, it is impossible for anyone to choose a course of action, which does not belong to any of these three categories. Without understanding the nature of these three categories of thought, it is impossible to pursue the right path. This is true for our personal life as well as for our collective (social) life.The thought for suppression of others, is known as asuric thought and the doctrine, which endorses such thoughts, is called asurvad (an asuric doctrine). Asuric people and asuri...
| S Maitra |
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"Secular" Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award for national service. The order was established by Dr Rajendra Prasad, President of India, on January 2, 1954. Today, there are 41 Bharat Ratna winners in India, the last being Bhimsen Joshi. And yet, there are noticeable absentees. Mahatma Gandhi, the most conspicuous but since he was already elevated to the father of the nation, his posthumous soul automatically opted out of the race. But there was no Sardar Patel either, the iron man of India until 1...
| S Basu |
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Pakistan"s Unholy Trinity
It may sound simplistic. But true nevertheless. India cannot parley with Pakistan because Pakistan does not want to. This is the inevitable conclusion that one reaches after days of pondering over the issue, meticulously dissecting every facet of the problem and confronting every argument with a counter thought. The very premise of Pakistan militates against détente with India. The off and on diplomatic goodwill is but a meaningless quirk of an underlying malignant malady.The complex charade tha...
| Vivek G |
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A lesson in life - at large
Life has always taken so many absurd twists and turns that I have stopped keeping its counts. Shifting over five professions, namely software programmer, web designing, marketer, writer, editor and now publisher cum administrator, I have come to but one conclusion: If you are capable, if you can believe in you. opportunities knock on your doors.Its not easy to quit a job, for many. I have quit over forty times! You think I am lying? No-way! Its completely true. I have only quit, never was once t...
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Growth: Best Antidote for Poverty
Sixty-one years ago leadership of two newly independent nations in South Asia embarked on two divergent paths for nation building. Ignoring consequences of the choices of 61 years ago, in 2009, to frame an Op-ed by mining statistical economic data alone may lead to stepping on a dung-pile, if not careful. For example, a pundit used statistical data to frame an Op-ed to rhetorically ask, How long will India and Pakistan continues to beg, borrow and steal to fight each other? ...
| K Bhatia |
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Narendra Modi as Prime Minister - Part I
The recent drama that evolved when Anil Ambani, Sunil Mittal, Ratan Tata and other industrialists lauded Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at the investors summit in Gujarat, claiming his leadership as national level material and wishing that person like him should be the next leader of the country, was quite interesting and deserves an honest appraisal....
| Arindam B |
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