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Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Capt M Kumar - 07-15-2010
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh had written in the controversial article: "In this (Maoist) issue, I have differed with Chidambaram's strategy that does not take into consideration the people living in the affected areas, who ultimately matter. He is treating it as a purely law and order problem without taking into consideration the issues that affect the tribals. When I raised these issues with him, he said it was not his responsibility."
"I strongly believe it is his (Chidambaram's) responsibiltiy to take a holistic view of the issue and put it up to the cabinet rather than opt for a narrow sectarian view."
Singh further wrote: "I have been a victim of his (Chidambaram's) intellectual arrogance many times." http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/No-regrets-for-criticising-Chidambaram-Digvijay-Singh/articleshow/6171925.cms
Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Guest - 08-02-2010
Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar in a shani temple.
Puja over,Countdown starts - Shashi-Sunanda temple trips set off wedding plan buzz
Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Guest - 08-02-2010
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Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar in a shani temple.
Puja over,Countdown starts - Shashi-Sunanda temple trips set off wedding plan buzz
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Well, after beating Hindus on ritual, he himself is busy appeasing God with all rituals. <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - BlessedAgni - 08-18-2010
[url="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/13/c_13443806.htm"]61 trucks loaded with 300 tons of explosives go missing in central India[/url]
Quote:NEW DELHI, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Some 61 trucks loaded with over 300 tons of explosives have gone missing in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official said Friday.
"The trucks were sent from a state-owned factory, Rajasthan Explosives and Chemicals Limited, in Dholpur to a private company called Ganesh Explosives in the state's Sagar district. But it never reached there," the official said.
A massive search is on to track down the trucks as fear is mounting that if the explosives, including detonators and gelatin sticks, reach the wrong hands it could be devastating, he added.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan Explosives and Chemicals Limited has claimed that it can't be blamed for this disappearance as it sent explosives only in trucks authorized by the company.
"We hand over the explosives to those who have the license. And they then dispatch it on their truck. Now, whatever happens to that explosive thereafter, we are not responsible for that," Y.C. Upadhyay of the company said.
Anyone care to bet when the next terrorist strike will occur?
Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Capt M Kumar - 09-06-2010
Congress has 208 members in the 545-member lower house of parliament, with allies taking it past the half-way mark required to pass ordinary legislation. The slim majority puts it at risk of losing a confidence vote.
Also, if the opposition manages to capitalise on high prices, the Congress party could be hit in major state elections in early 2011, including in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. But these elections remain months away and any voter backlash could be mitigated by boosting increased social spending with money saved from fuel subsides and telecom spectrum sales. http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-51286120100904?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FINtopNews+%28News+%2F+IN+%2F+Top+News%29
Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Capt M Kumar - 01-26-2011
The Maharashtra Gazetted Officers Mahasangh, which called for the strike, said Class-1 and Class-2 officers are shaken by the murder and lower-level officers would also join the protest. "Protest marches will be taken out across the state. Employees will join immediately after registering their attendance," said G D Kulthe, general secretary of the mahasangh, a representative body of gazetted officers in the state.
Read more: Maha officials to protest murder with a strike - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maha-officials-to-protest-murder-with-a-strike/articleshow/7365080.cms#ixzz1C78BirtQ
Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Guest - 03-22-2011
God & social good lure IITians by the dozen
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/God-social-good-lure-IITians-by-the-dozen/articleshow/7757686.cms
Prashanth G N, TNN | Mar 22, 2011
BANGALORE: A significant recruiter at the IIT campuses across the country, completely unheralded at that, is GOD. Scores of IITians are finding a career in spiritualism to be a more uplifting option than i-banking or technology.
Four students from IIT Guwahati and IIT Chennai recently joined Iskcon Bangalore. Many others from IIT are working with Art of Living(AOL), Ramakrishna and Sringeri Mutts, Chinmaya mission, Mata Amritanandmayi ashram, and Shirdi Sai Baba ashram. Iskcon, Bangalore, at 18, has perhaps the largest number of IITians working in one city.
Spiritual Inc is besting India Inc because it offers to these high achievers a combination of personal upliftment and social service. Dinesh Ghodke, who runs the world youth programme at AOL packs a B.Tech Metallurgy from IIT Mumbai. Ghodke gave up a plush Rs 2 lakh per month job at Deloitte Touche to work full time for AOL. "In my second year, I had taken an AOL course. The first day of that course was the turning point in my life. The knowledge imparted was profound. I immediately felt my friends, sister, brother should all try it. The course, I felt was a fantastic platform for individual and social growth. I then organised courses myself. Along the way came the realisation that spirituality was a powerful tool that was replicable, sustainable and meaningful. And once I saw the organisational work that AOL was doing, I immediately felt spirituality was my calling."
For Iskon's Satya Gaura Chandra Dasa --an M.Tech from IIT Chennai, who had worked with American MNC, Novell Software -- a lecture by a muslim, Russian professor, on the Bhagavad Gita, "was the turning point in my life. I took a step to understand life in the spiritual sense."
"And then he gave me a book - Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers. In the book, a foreigner asked Prabhupada - `We speak of perfect answers, but a perfect question, what's that?' Swamiji explains a method of life that completely changed my perception of religion. I was looking for spiritual intellect. I got it there. Service to people and society with God at the centre of it was what moved me. I knew this had to be my quality too."
Spiritualism and social service prove to be hard-to-resist combination to bright young minds fed up with the routine life and wondering `Is this it?'
Bhakta Vikas, M.Tech in Electronics from IIT Guwahati, who was working with Tejas Networks as an hardware engineer, and Bhakta Venkateshwaralu, M.Tech in digital signal processing from IIT Guwahati, who was working with Sony as a software engineer, said routinism of life caught up with them. "Going to work, coming back home, eating, sleeping, back to work again, maintaining some relationships, fighting now and then was all that we were doing. We felt we were wasting our lives. We were experiencing loss of meaning.
We wanted wholesomeness. That was when we came in touch with
Prabhupada's writings. It changed us completely - the absolute intellectual rigour with which swamiji has articulated happiness and God."
The Aakshay Patra programme was a major hook. "Feeding 13 lakh children with 170 people working for it. We realised Iskcon had the training and knowledge to blend spiritual and social service. After visiting and seeing first-hand the service-oriented nature of the temple, we decided to take the plunge and did so on the same day," they say.
Quote: "Nothing was giving me a sense of completion. Things changed when I took my first meditation course. All aspects of my life became easier and relaxed. Then came the most inspiring moment - when I listened to Sri Sri at the ashram. I felt here was a man living his ideals. I felt I too needed to live my ideals. I finally chose my passion - where I would not feel I had compromised - it had to be spirituality.It was not a hasty decision. Perhaps my IIT background gave me the courage to choose my passion."
Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Capt M Kumar - 04-09-2011
India's main strength lies in it's ability to have maintained democracy for 60 odd years while all others who became independent around the same time have failed. The wellspring of the Indian democracy has been the strength of it's Constitution and institutions. These are above all issues and above all people. They're not perfect by any means but need to be upheld to ensure that every issue goes through the same due process. That is democracy.
If Anna Hazare has a problem, and does not want to use the courts, then let him deal with it in the ultimate manifestation of public opinion ââ¬â the ballot box. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Why-Hazares-protest-is-very-harmful-for-India-in-long-run/articleshow/7922714.cms
Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - Capt Manoj Singh - 08-24-2011
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Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - rhytha - 01-23-2012
Pretty intresting documentry of india in 1968 by directory Louis Malle, i was watching something else and ended up watching this intresting documentary ... <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />
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Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2 - rhytha - 01-23-2012
The shooting of thillana mohanambal...the beautiful hema malini before she entered bollywood/shoolywood...
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