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Looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The zombie like Vadakayil followers including Enigma and this anonymous fool only imbibe all the negative aspects of the captains personality and none of the(few) positive. I mean look at this amith Mishra   January 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM hi capt is japan still occupied nation i mean The "patriot" Japanese are technically still an occupied people as U.S maintains troops there and dictates its foreign policy. Not to mention Japanese women go out of their way to reject Japanese men and couple with American males be they tourists or GIs   Of course our unbalanced captain never gives a straight answer as that's not his style and goes off in a bizarre tangent because...PERCEPTION!   Anyway where did I see those claims before about Japan ,its patriotism and their women. Oh yes... here ( scroll to the section in bold )   ysv_rao October 27, 2014 at 9:15 AM I suppose this is how Vadakayil supporter...

We are talking about an incredibly courageous, resourceful, resilient and patriotic individual who by defying stereotypes and conventions had a fall out with Gandhi(then at the zenith of his influence), gave the British the slip under house arrest in Calcutta, travelled to Peshawar in disguise ,travelled to Kabul, disguised himself as an Italian, met with Adolf Hitler , raised an Indian army from scratch ,fought the Allied powers against overwhelming odds, dealt with fractitious politics with the Axis powers who were ambivalent about him and participated in submarine warfare. And his death remained an unresolved mystery for the next fifty years complete with near mystical sightings of him in Japan and Taiwan. Surely you would assume about movie about his incredible individual would be something like Patton meets Das Boot and then some.But alas, the project fell into the hands of Shyam Benegal and as the result the feature is as exciting ...

"Give me your tired , your poor ,your huddled masses, yearning to break free" says the inscription at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. An appealing sentimental advertisement for the open heartedness of the American people. The problem is that is not quite what the founders envisioned and they were not bigots for doing so. It was based on a poem composed by a socialist Emma Lazarus.There were many caveats in the founding documents, one of which being the Preamble to the Constitution which states "promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States ..." Posterity can mean many things but most likely here it refers to kin or blood descendants. Now to be sure, the Founders were an eclectic and somewhat eccentric lot. Benjamin Franklin didn't care for Germans and preferred Jewish to Catholic immigrants. But in general they preferred Northern Europea...

I must say I am very concerned about the near juvenile level of meanderings on Justice Katju's blog. Is this a hard headed individual with decades of legal experience at high level under belt?It seems more like the output of reasonably bright but a bit wet behind the years political science college junior. Judge(heh) for yourself What is worrying is that he thinks highly of Rosseau. The godfather of modern liberalism. Also our friendly neighborhood captain is a frequent poster spammer on his comments board. The captain is a fan of his seemingly. That about says it all.

I wished to correct the coarse and degrading(to women) explanation of Karva Chauth and pati vrata. I post below Kunal Singh's take on this matter. Mr Singh was a prolific Indian American poster on Hindu theology and history in soc.culture.indian newsgroups.Many if not most of  his posts are available in deja.com. His knowledge and understanding of the Vedas which stemmed from an unbiased and independent mindset seemed unparalled. He is responsible for my taking great pride in my heritage and encouraging to learn more about Vedic culture and looking at our religion with a fresh pair of eyes. I will be posting more of his observations here Meaning of Pati Vrata   Most people's definition or understanding of a 'pati vrata nari' comes from badly made Hindi films where a woman is holding her husband's feet while he kicks her repeatedly insisting that she will never leave him.  But then such popular interpretations of 'pati vrata' are easily contradict...

I came across this article from Sabhlok City blog where he points that an estimated 200 tonnes of gold are sitting under Indian ground due to mismanagement by the Indian management of its mines. Of course the first instinct of most would be extract it as soon as possible and the underlying assumption would be that it would greatly improve the Indian economy. But I'm not so sure. Firstly there is already a great deal of gold in hands of private individuals but it does precious little to propel the economy as it part of the great Indian parallel hidden economy. There is a great of production and monetary transaction which simply does not figure in the official GDP. Let us be very aware of what these precious metals entail:Brutal civil wars have been fought in Africa and elsewhere over possession of what is considered a rare resource. But is it that precious and rare? India historically was not lacking in gold mines but what made it rich was not relentless min...

Contrary to the propaganda promoted by the Hindu pacifist who crow that we laid down for each and every conqueror and turned the other cheek to religions such as Islam and Christianity who inflicted untold damage to our civilization, actually ancient Hindus were far more tougher and no nonsense breed. Only slowly we are becoming aware that we were a militarily powerful people who celebrated heroism and physical courage , no thanks to the defeatist NCERT/JNU style education. However it was believed that no matter what no Hindu could be provoked to do something as dastardly as destroy a mosque. Now mind you, I don't like destroying mosques or cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad , or burning Korans as I believe these are anti social and destructive pursuits. However at some point you begin to realize that radical Muslims(whose active terror groups are at the most 5%) source of strength come from the silent majority of Muslims who either tolerate it ,ignore it or pa...

Once again a certain blogger came up with a bizarre post on how noble and pure Indian women really are until they are corrupted by the Rothshild media! I am vaguely sympathetic to the latter idea in that women are more suggestible to power of peer pressure and popularity than men. But then we come across a contradiction in such claims, if Indian women are so noble and stalwart , how do they so easily fall prey so outside influence Simply put, the values of Indian men and women are defined by the culture which predominates at any given. This is true of any society. If Indian men are no longer as heroic as they used to be , then that is only because our society and institutions no longer value honor , courage and assertiveness as a net good. While certainly there is an emphasis of chastity in our culture, such values ring hollow without the male role of protector being adequately fulfilled. Are we going to sit here and pretend that most Indian women are sati/savitir pavitra naa...

Apparently our dear Captain Vadakayil cant resist gloating about his blogs impressive stats and claims that if his blog was monetized , he would be swimming in riches. And he doesn't do so due to his "principles" Now this claim is inaccurate and twisted in too many ways but let us examine them step by step Monetizing a blog is something I am quite aware as I am tinkering with it myself. As you may have guessed I am a google adsense subscriber. Now keep in mind it took nearly TWO MONTHS for Google to approve my blog for me to use adsense as an ad broker so to speak. How it works is that if someone clicks on my the ad, I get a small percentage of the what the placer of the ad paid google. Hence more viewers, the more clicks and hence more ad revenue. However there are many caveats to Google AdSense which is why the probation period for blogs are so long 1) Ad sense uses pretty sophisticated algorithms to scour your blogs content and match with other blogs. This...

As Kejriwal and Hazare are on their way to becoming foot notes in India's political history, let us examine the nature of their idealism and why despite its noble intentions is ultimately toxic. The younger readers may not be aware how it was to grow up in the later stages of the Indira Gandhi era. You are talking about dictatorship, involuntary sterilization, nationalization of vital industries and ,despite the green and white revolution, India asking for food aid from the likes of Nixon (who along with his virtual second in command Kissinger referred to Indira as a witch and Indians as bastards during the 1971 liberation of Bangladesh) I was in primary school during the late stages of that era(Rajiv Gandhi) ,even so I couldnt help notice how pathetic the situation was. We had to wait nearly two years to get a landline phone (and we considered ourselves lucky for not waiting three) . Paying our utilities was a torture as well pretty going to the bank ,post office or any gover...