A very very happy dasara to everyone!!

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Friends,

I've been trying to organize some thoughts on the development of Indian "national culture"... a term favoured by the American historian Carroll Quigley... and the concomitant evolution of our civilizational narrative.

The following articles are a historical analysis of how the unique course of our development has contributed to the shaping of our national psyche and political landscape. Like most articles on these sorts of subjects, they probably contain a lot of hot air <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> However, I hope they include the germs of a few useful ideas that might spark productive discussion.

Rather than reproducing the entire articles here, since they're quite lengthy, I'll provide links to them on my blog. Please read and comment if interested... on this forum, on the blog website or wherever.

I.F. Admins, thank you for your kind indulgence, and please move this thread to a more suitable section of I.F. if you see fit.

On The Psyche of Nations, Part 1

On The Psyche of Nations, Part 2

On The Psyche of Nations, Part 3

Afterthought on Quigley's Analysis: The Indian Political Spectrum

Civilizational Narrative and the Hindu Identity, Part 1

<b>Thy name is sovereign-i-ty!</b>

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Okay, that's fine; but at least learn how to say the word! From president and prime minister down to every blatherskite (TV anchors included) continue to mispronounce "sovereignty" that has lately latched on to their tongues and is sticking like glue to paper? Speechifying and preachy men and women have suddenly discovered that their sovereignty is under threat! <b>Never mind if their country is going south as Americans call going bankrupt; never mind if Zardari goes a-begging to New York with a kashkol and is promised donations,</b> but we don't know how much from "Friends of Pakistan" (our London-based envoy Wajid Shamsul Hassan is being credited for this beggarly brainwave); and never mind if the country itself has suicide bombers on the loose, waiting to kill.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Cheers <!--emo&:beer--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cheers.gif' /><!--endemo-->

About 8 years ago
Rajiv Malhotra sent out an email alert on Prema Kurien
but the foolish US hindus ignored it and she has come up with an anti-hindu book

I shall investigate this book in this thread

<b>Indian-Elections</b>


mods, I think there was a thread for this...could not find...please merge.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Congress has broken my heart: Amar Singh
PTI | September 16, 2008 | 00:56 IST

Terming the defection of four Samajwadi Party Members of Legislative Assembly as 'betrayal' on the part of the Congress, party general secretary Amar Singh has said that the party has broken his heart.

"Congress party has betrayed us by engineering the defection of four MLAs of our party. They have not only broken my party, but also my heart," Singh said while addressing a tribal convention ahead of assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh.

"We wanted to fight against communal forces with the Congress, but now no alliance will be forged with it and the SP will field its candidates on its own in all the 230 seats in MP," Singh said.

However, he said that he is a 'Kshatriya' and will abide by the commitment his party has given to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to cooperate with her party in Uttar Pradesh.

"We don't have any complaint with Sonia or Rahul, but leaders of Madhya Pradesh roaming around them have cheated us," Singh said while referring to the defection.

Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party for its failure to fulfill promises, he said that the state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a 'champion of announcements' as he had made announcements worth Rs 40,000 crore in the state against the total budget of Rs 21,000 crore of the state.

http://www.rediff.com///news/2008/sep/16amar.htm
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/282...istian-art.html

I have a suspicion, can someone confirm

Indian xtians who migrate to the west, are actually treated as ****s and made unwelcome in white churches ?

It'll be interesting to see if the sexists comments made by Olberman, Mathhew, and all other TV blabbermouths against Hillary will repeated against Palin.
They better walk on eggshell or they'll be will be taken to woodshed if they try what they did earlier in the year.

Kosi may wipe out 2 districts in Bihar
26 Aug, 2008, 0416 hrs IST,Ashok K Mishra, ET Bureau

BIHAR’s sorrow, the Kosi, has changed its course near Kusaha village in Nepal for the first time in the last 50 years after breaching the East Kosi afflux embankment threatening millions of lives. Over 12 lakh people are trapped between the old and the new streams of the river leading to plans for unprecendented evacuation effort in the northern part of the state.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar has appealed to the people of the twin districts of Madhepura and Supaul, that may be wiped off the map, to abandon houses and find shelter in relief camps.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/P...how/3405389.cms

AoA!! Praise the holy lord
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Sonia (aka Antonia) Maino and her sycophants suffered a massive defeat when a New Jersey court threw out the lawsuit brought upon those who placed a full-page advertisement in the New York Times against Sonia Maino. Congratulations to the victors!<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Details to come. Others can add.