Opening a thread to discuss ideas on selling or spreading Indian culture.



Per Mudy's advice in the 'Indian Movies' thread - will be donating my Hindi movies with English subtitles to local library. :guitar

I'm all for +ve psy ops.



I'd like others to contribute their experience/ideas in this area. Hopefully this thread will be kind of an 'action' thread than just plain old :argue yak-yak thread.

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Moderator note: It would be good if you could define what you mean by "Vedic mathematics". Do you mean mathematics in the Vedic texts? or is it the mathematics of the late achArya bhArati tIrtha? My recommendations for the thread are the following:

1) Ideally broaden the topic to include all Indian mathematics and astronomy, Vedic and post Vedic.

2)If you just want to discuss bhArati tIrtha's mathematics then specifically say so in the title.

3)If you want to just collect links then you may use the link archiving facility instead of a new thread.





If admins permit, I would like to collect information on vedic mathematics in this thread. Thank you



[url="http://www.magicalmethods.com/moodle"]http://www.magicalmethods.com/moodle[/url]



k.ram , I have broadened the title of this thread to include all the sciences of Indian antiquity. For now this will prevent thread proliferation, if we get a lot of contributions on Vedic Mathematics we will change the topic again to Mathematics, If you have a problem with this , email me Kaushal

Please use this thread as a collection folder for anyone and everyone, in & outside India, of Indian origin who's treacherous to our motherland. For right now please limit to people in politics and power in India, we can expand later as the need be.



This thread should not be limited to people of any particular community or group, however please do not play the 'Equal-Equal Game' by blaming a person of another group trying to spread out the blame equally.



The reason I'm starting this thread is to make a list of people who are living of our country's resources but not loyal to her. In short, their loyalty lies outside India yet they don't. And we need to know who these great souls are?



 





PS. No inter-group dislikes under the disguise of finding traitors, please.



For example, we have Mr. X from Party 'A' and Mr. Y from party 'B.' Y doesn't like X, or say a decision of Mr. X caused Y, or his party, a lot of heartburn then Y can dislike X or hate X with all his heart but still.........Mr. Y still cannot call Mr. X an anti-national.

Hyundai to export cars made in India

Oct 2 2003,



Hyundai Motor, South Korea's biggest automaker, will export Atos Prime hatchback cars made in India to North America for the first time, said B.V.R. Subbu, president of the Indian unit.



DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler unit will sell the Indian-made Atos in Mexico as a Dodge, beginning next year, replacing a model made in South Korea, a U.S. spokesman said.

:ind

Please limit this focus to premodern (prior to WWI) warfare touching on the following:

1)Weapons and their working.

2)Tactics

3)Strategies

4)Economics of premodern warfare.

Please keep this more technical: General history dicussions could go into the other history folder.



Thanks



For starters I am posting some web logs I posted elsewhere.

I would like to use this thread to solicit your views on how we can accomplish our goals of propagating positive views and educating people about India.



Fellow forum members, I believe that one of better ways to make our voices heard is by publishing our thoughts as a monthly magazine in a coherant, well organized and professional manner.



These are my thoughts. I encourage you to comment and make any suggestions.



The magazine will have following sections:

1) Front Page

2) Table of Contents

3) Editorial (an executive summary of the issues covered by the articles)

4) Articles (about 4 to 8)



In section 4, we will have one article as a monthly executive summary (hopefully humorous) of happenings in our forum.



In the first issue or so, I suggest we stick to 2-3 book reviews and one or two historical perspectives about India (which seems to be our forte currently).



If you need to contact me personally, please email me at o_vijay at yahoo.com

Added 11/2/2003 - I just changed the title of the thread, since i wanted to avoid thread proliferation



I thought it would be useful to collate information on the various temples of India, information that may be useful for travellers. I am almost certain that no one Indian is aware of the rich bounty and totality of all temples , that still survives from medieval times. Many of course were rebuilt or restored during the British era or after Independence



I found this site to be fairly comprehensive, one which gives a synopsys of each temple that it covers. Obviously these are only medium to large scale temple complexes and do not include small structures which exist in each neighborhood. These temples are a veritable photographers paradise, especially in this age of digital photography



[url="http://www.templenet.com/"]http://www.templenet.com/[/url]



The site has broken down the temples according to deity, as well as by state.



some excerpts

Quote:Abodes of Shiva , is a mega-presentation describing Shiva temples all over India, with emphasis on the 275 temples glorified by the hymns of the Tamil saints of the 1st millennium CE.

Abodes of Vishnu is a special presentation highlighting the 108 temples of Vishnu all over India glorified by the Tamil saints of the 1st millennium CE.



Templenet presents Abodes of Shakti, a presentation featuring  temples dedicated to the worship of Shakti, or the feminine aspect of Divinity.



Abodes of Skanda describes temples and shrines dedicated to Skanda located in Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka.



Templenet presents Abodes of Ganesha, a comprehensive presentation featuring shrines dedicated to the worship of Ganapati the elephant faced God..





Templenet is a premier site conceived and published with the objective of showcasing India - The Land of Temples in cyberspace. Indeed, India is rightfully The Land of Temples, as Egypt is The Land of Pyramids. Thousands of temples dot the landscape of the entire sub continent - bringing to focus, a vibrant - live art gallery, showcasing achievements in art and architecture over a two thousand year period, in a manner never seen in any other part of the world. Regional variations lend dramatic contrasts to lifestyles across the subcontinent, and the stunning variations reflective of this diversity - as  seen in temple styles across the region can be an enthralling experience even to a mildy interested tourist.



In the arena of cyberspace, Templenet presents to the world a  world of temples, reflecting the grandeur and the stunning diversity of temple styles across the nation. At the geographical level, it provides an index to temples by region, where temples are described in detail with approprite illustrations. Sifting legend from history, these descriptions throw complete light on the origin, religious significance, history, architectural and sculptural grandeur, beliefs and legends, worship protocols, festivals and tourism related information. In addition, the various sections on architecture, festivals, beliefs provide a whole range of descriptive articles on related subjects. A glossary of terms acquaints readers with terminology related to temples.



Templenet is an ongoing selective presentation on an extensive research project on Indian temples - sourced, authored and directed by Kanniks Kannikeswaran.

Indians in the last 200 years have different kinds of history

One is puranas which have beenc arried over for atleast 1000 years



Other is the history as written by foriegn invaders



Indians have been living with both of them for several centuries and have not debated on the force of history.





It is the study of History with the intent to find out laws that will enable predictions in the domain of

today's power dynamics. Sadly, this is a far cry from the approach adopted to the teaching of History in India today, where a

Macaulayan education system dumps thousands of irrelevant facts into young minds effectively resulting in mental constipation.





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THis thread is to study the general perception and the image in the minds of Indians with a std education.

India's verbal adherence to the UN Charter has been unequivocal. This, despite the fact that the UN platform has been singularly hostile to Indian aspirations both in the J&K issue as well as the de facto Nuclearization of India. The following is the speech by ABV. By and large it is a good speech, probably written by one of those Babus who stood first in the IAS exam.



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He had this to say to his old friend Mush ,

Quote:Yesterday, the president of Pakistan chose this august assembly to make a public admission for the first time that Pakistan is sponsoring terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. After claiming that there is an indigenous struggle in Kashmir, he has offered to encourage a general cessation of violence within Kashmir, in return for "reciprocal obligations and restraints".Touche for ABV. obviously how can the terrorist state 'encourage' a general cessation of violence, if they do not already have a measure of influence and control over the jihadis and are constantly encouraging the jihadis in their murderous game.







We totally refuse to let terrorism become a tool of blackmail. Just as the world did not negotiate with Al Qaida or the Taliban, we shall not negotiate with terrorism.an excellent point. In my recollection this is the first time that an Indian PM has called the Paki actions blackmail.







If we do so, we would be betraying the people of Jammu and Kashmir, who defied a most ferocious campaign of violence and intimidation sponsored from across our borders, and participated in an election, which has been universally hailed as free and fair. This was an unequivocal expression of both determination and self-determination.







When the cross-border terrorism stops - or when we eradicate it - we can have a dialogue with Pakistan on the other issues between us.







While on this subject, I would also like to point out to the president of Pakistan that he should not confuse the legitimate aspiration for equality of nations with outmoded concepts of military parity.