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For a lot of people this will be very out of the box myth busting ideas & we may get some curses too. But that's ok. It's a part of the debate & discuss - tark-vitark Indic process that makes Indic civilizational essence priceless for humanity. We are as ok with constructive curses as we are with accolades All myth busters will be accompanied by facts logics & simple numbers MYTH - If rich Indians or NRIs donate more to poor Indians then poor will become rich, India will be developed and we can win civilizational war. Hence more NGOs & donors are essential (albeit Indic NGOs) OUR EXPLNATION - if this were true then sub Saharan Africa & South Asia would have been most developed & wealthy areas as they have been getting maximum donations and hand outs since almost 2 centuries from few philanthropists. But reality is that they are the worst in terms of quality of life - if your myth was true then how did that happen. Simple arithmetic Number of NRIs as a % of Indian population = 2.5% Number of rich resident Indians as a % of Indian population = 2.5% Other upper middle class that can donate = 10% So that makes total donor base as MAXIMUM OF 15% of population Total middle class that don't need direct donations but cannot donate either = 25% So that leaves poor people that need hand outs/donations = approx 60% So 15% of well to do people are going to donate for 60% of people in abject poverty. And mind you we are grossly exaggerating the number of actual donors as it'll not be 15% of population - but still lets go with best case scenario Assume on average that 15% donor is making INR 10,00,000 per month (averaging the donor population out) - highly inflated Let's assume each donor of the 15% donor population donates average 3% of income (again high hopes) = INR 30,000 So in 100 people 15 donated 30,000 per month. Total donation = 4,50,000 Distributed to 60 poor people = INR 7,500 extra Assume poor makes INR 20,000 a month (exactly as per current per capita) Which basically is good for temporary needs of the poor but does not make us equal to developed country by a FAR shot!!! Coz they're still making only INR 27,500 which is still very poor in relative terms for the world!!! Your per capita will still SUCK even in the unimaginable scenario that EVERY SINGLE upper & upper middle class individual will donate 3% of income religiously every single month with HIGHLY inflated numbers. So now do you see the compete futility of donations as primary means of development? Donations are extremely socialist & tactical & are in no way substitute to real increase of wealth. Any country that has really increased the wealth of its citizens has done it not via freebies but by giving people opportunities of generating employment via access to credit, business friendly policies, minimum corruption at top level, strong work ethics, offering education to all, unification using some nationalist factor and using resources creatively Donations have severe limitations & though they display a good heart & good intention they have extremely limited use in actually changing the economic league of a nation So donations are not bad but more of time pass or feel good for rich people. Those who really want to make a differnence in fundamental economics of a nation should opt for one of the following 1) policy making 2) politics & associated help 3) entrepreneurship & actual job creation 4) creation of intellectual & cultural capital 5) Creative of self sustaining & self financing philanthropic systems And keep dole out & bhiksha as last resort or mere feel good factor
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Sushil

Chinese dealing with Uighur #muslims
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Daulat Ki Chaat (दौलत की चाट ), a special winter dessert in streets of Old Delhi. Made by churning cold, thick creamy milk and infusing the froth with saffron. Served after sprinkling powdered sugar and khoya (खोया). #streetfood #food #dessert #india #nikon

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सात लाख रूपये दीजिये, 'राधे माँ' आपकी गोद में! पन्द्रह लाख रूपये दीजिये, आप उसे किसी फाइव स्टार होटल में डिनर करवा के आशीर्वाद ले सकते हैं! तब भी वो देवी है मूर्ख हिंदुओं के लिए.. . 'निर्मल बाबा', जो लाल और हरी चटनी से भगवान की कृपा को दिशा दे रहा है, वह भी पुज रहा है.. 'रामपाल' के जो भक्त हैं, वे कबीर को पूर्ण परब्रह्म परमात्मा मानते हैं.. . 'ब्रह्मकुमारी' वाले हैं, जो दादा लेखराज के वचनों को ही गीता बताते हैं और परमात्मा को बिन्दुरुप बताते हैं.. 'राधास्वामी' के अनुयायी अपने गुरु को ही साक्षात् ईश्वर का अवतार मानते हैं। मतलब वेद और पुराण गलत.. . 'आसाराम' के महान् भक्त उसकी पोल खुल जाने पर भी सड़कों पर आसाराम के गुण गाते फिरते हैं.. और 'राम रहीम' के फॉलोवर्स ने तो अंध श्रद्धा की सीमाएं ही लांघ दी.. हिन्दुस्तानी मुस्लिम भी कुछ पीढ़ी पहले तक हिंदू ही थे। भारत में रहने वाले जैन, बौद्ध, कबीरपंथी, अम्बेडकरवादी, मांसाहारी, शाकाहारी, साकारी, निराकारी सब के सब हिन्दू ही हैं। लेकिन हिंदुत्व आखिर है क्या, यह उनको नहीं ज्ञात.. . कब जागोगे हिंदुओं? तुमने स्वयं ही "वैदिक सनातन धर्म" की सबसे ज्यादा हानि की है। कोई विदेशी इसका जिम्मेदार नहीं है! और कुछ नहीं तो "तांत्रिक फकीर चाँद मियां" को 'साईं बाबा' बना के पूजने लगे.. लाखों हिंदुओं के हत्यारे उन ख्वाजाओं और गाजियों की मजार पर जाकर अपनी नाक रगड़ने लगे! अरे जिन्होंने जीते जी हिंदुओं की गर्दनें कटवा कर उनसे मीनारें बनवाई, हिंदुओं को तलवार की नोंक पर मुस्लिम बना कर 'गाजी' की उपाधि ली, वो मरने के बाद हिंदुओं की मनोकामनाएं पूरी करेंगे क्या जाहिलों? . सच में हिंदुत्व का ऐसा विकृत रूप देखकर दुःख होता है। लोग मुझसे पूछते हैं कि, "भाई तू हिंदुत्व को लेकर इतनी टेंशन क्यों लेता है? जैसा चल रहा है, चलने दे!" उन्हें समझना चाहिए कि धर्म को बचाने के लिए किसी ना किसी को तो आगे आना ही होगा। मैं इस धर्मयुद्ध में एक सिपाही हूँ, जो अपनी अंतिम साँस तक धर्म की रक्षा के लिए लड़ेगा.. . धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः 🚩 #AD
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THE STORY OF KHUKRI AS TOLD BY CAPTAIN ALLAN RODRIGUES TO COMMEMORATE NAVY WEEk 23rd December 2010 Dear Ms Ameeta Mulla Wattal, I am an ex- Indian naval officer who left the service honourably in 1994. I live in New Zealand, and work in Australia and New Zealand these days. This email refers to an article you wrote some five years ago very poignantly, on your father the Late Captain Mulla, pondering why he chose to go down with his ship. The article obviously struck a chord with many of your readers, and in the way of the internet, travelled the world before it entered my mail box a few days ago, via a social network maintained by the 42nd NDA and 51st IMA course. I did not know your father personally, but I feel I have always known him and for what he stood for, all of my adult life. I missed the fighting in 1971 as I was cadet in the NDA at the time, and only passed out and joined a warship at sea in June 1972, six months after the war ended. In the event I became an Anti Submarine specialist and along the way, I ended up commanding three warships including INS Himgiri (also an anti submarine frigate, although a more modernised version of the original Khukri). I retired after 20 years, joined industry, and eventually moved across the Pacific and the Tasman Sea to New Zealand. I only say this because it has some context to the comments I make below, on the decision by your father to go down with his ship. In doing so I hope to capture the circumstances (and perhaps the greater purpose) of why captains of warships in extreme circumstances, take such drastic actions that seem to lack purpose or reason (particularly to the public at large). I am sure many naval officers of senior rank and certainly more qualified than me, may well have commented at length after reading your article. I just felt I might throw some light on a take that has largely been neglected. I know the pain never goes away and I apologise for any anguish I might give you in the process, but I do believe that Captain Mulla did something for the service that night, that has not been either understood or recognised, by both the navy, and the public at large. The Indian Navy of 1971 was a different beast from the one we have today. Little was known about Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) at the time. We commissioned our first submarine in 1968 in the then Soviet Union, and had barely begun operating a fledgling submarine arm by 1970. Pakistan by contrast, had been operating submarines since the early sixties. Ships like the Khukri and Kirpan supposedly specialised in ASW, formed the vanguard against the fight against Pakistani submarines. They had little in the way of operational experience against submarines, and even less knowledge about the ocean environment. The physics of detection can be explained in simple non technical terms. The Khukri had sonar called the ‘Sonar 170’. which was the best we had at the time. It had a maximum range (in laboratory conditions) of only 1500 yards. We knew little about the harsh nature of the environment underwater. The seas in the tropical waters off India’s coastline are heated up in the morning and afternoons, raising surface temperatures to ambient levels. The worst effect is in the afternoons. The laws of physics then apply. They literally bend the sonar waves downwards, severely limiting detection range. Since deeper waters are ice cold, there is meeting point of the warm waters on the top and the cold waters below. This meeting point is called the 'layer' where the sonar beam bounces off and is almost totally reflected upwards. There is very little penetration below the layer. These layers lie between 30 and 60 metres depth in tropical waters, and are exploited by expert submariners who are able to hide under it. It took us another 15 years after the war, all which I was professionally involved with in one way or then other, to fully understand the nature of anti-submarine warfare, and to learn how to work with the physical limitations imposed by a hostile ocean underwater environment. Submarines on the other hand are not as handicapped, as they do not need to transmit on their sonars to detect a ship. Their engines are silent. They can consequently listen out for a warship and even identify a type of ship and its signature from the sound of its engines. Skilled submariners hide beneath the layer and approach with stealth. They only transmit at the last possible moment when they need a final range to fire their torpedos. Warships at sea in 1971 (and Captain Mulla in particular) would have been more than aware of these limitations. They would have known two simple facts (a) That a submarine at sea would have already detected a surface ship long before the ship had even reached any kind of detection range; (b) That even if the warship did detect the submarine, it would be at the penultimate moment, when the submarine had already fired, (or was on the verge of firing) its torpedoes, giving the warship a few minutes at best, to take avoiding action, let alone counterattack. The Pak submarine that sank the Khukri used its environment to maximum advantage. In hind sight and over the years, we developed better sonars and better tactics. We employed dedicated ASW aircraft with sonobuoys and magnetic detectors, helicopter with dunking sonars, and yes we spent a lot of time learning the harsh facts of the ocean environment we were forced to operate in. This is the context in which ships put to sea in 1971, against an adversary who was well versed in using submarines to maximum advantage. Our own ASW ships had little in the way of riposte or as much experience we would have liked to have had before the war of fighting submarines. In the event every sailor at sea recognises a moment of truth, when all of his training and skills are put to the ultimate test. It is the moment when the ship beats to quarters and goes into action against an enemy in sight, or an enemy that has been detected. Khukri and Kirpan were operating in submarine infested waters. The ship would have gone to 'action stations' against a submarine many times over, in the days and nights preceding the sinking of the Khukri, sometimes for genuine reasons, sometimes for false alarms. All of this would have exhausted the crew and formed the 'fog of war' that hindsight experts, armchair generals/admirals and the public at large never quite get. Each time the crew of the Khukri beat to quarters and battened down for action, a clarion call would have been broadcast on its tannoy “Hands to action stations _ assume first degree anti-submarine readiness - assume damage control state one condition Zulu”. The crew of the Khukri would have known fully level, that they were going against a committed enemy, and that the dice were loaded against them. Each of them would have been wondering whether they were going to come out of the action alive or dead. This is an age old fear that men have, and then learn to conquer, when they go to sea and to war. It is the nature of the beast. The army and the air force face similar issues, which they deal with in their own inimitable way. The people most at risk on board the Khukri that night would have been its technical departments; engineering and electrical officers and sailors, closed up at action stations in the bowels of the ship three and four decks below the waterline, keeping the engines and the machinery running, so that their captain could fight. Each of them knew if a torpedo were to hit, it would do so well above where they were located, and that the chances of them surviving would be a lot less than those sailors who were fortunate to be located on the upper decks, and above the waterline. it takes a special kind of motivation to get these men to go down into the bowels of a fighting ship whilst in action against a submarine. they do so each time out of a sense of duty that the ship cannot fight without them and mostly because they recognise that one single unspoken truth… that their captain will not forsake them; that their captain will not leave them behind. that is the crux of the why, and the reason why captains at sea honour this unspoken agreement. Captain mulla would have known that many of his boys were trapped (but yet alive) in the bowels of his ship when it went down, in the few minutes after the torpedoes hit. he tried to help as many as he could, but i suspect he could not bring himself to save himself, whilst his boys were dying down below. that he chose to go down is a personal decision, perhaps even a moral decision; but it was a decision that set a standard that will save lives in future actions. it forced all of us who came after him, and who were privileged to command men in peace and war, to recognise that undeniable and unspoken bond between fighting men … that you fight your ship against an enemy (or the ocean in a storm), with what you have, and to the best of your ability, and that come what may, you never forsake your troops or leave a man under your command, behind you. What Captain Mulla did that fateful day has had an enormous and positive impact on the service he loved and on the men who continue to serve it to this day. It reminds every one of us chosen to command of the qualities of leadership needed under duress, and of the ultimate responsibility we have to the families of the men we command; "You never forsake your men – You never leave a man behind". I know that this hardly helps when trying to explain all of this to the family of a captain who makes the ultimate sacrifice. Nor does it assuage the grief of a young girl trying to understand why her father chose to voluntarily die, rather than save himself. For a fledgling service post independent India trying to forge its own traditions independent of the Royal Indian Navy of yore, the impact was enormous. It was one of the many actions in the 1971 war that made us equal partners with the Army and Air force in the defence of independent India. I am reminded of the last few stanzas of Ronald Hopwood?s classic poem 'Our Fathers' that I quote below. “When we've raced the seagulls, run submerged across the Bay, When we've tapped a conversation fifteen hundred miles away, When the gyros spin superbly, when we've done away with coals, And the tanks are full of fuel, and the targets full of holes, When the margin's full of safety, when the weakest in the fleet Is a Hyper-Super-Dreadnought, when the squadrons are complete, Let us pause awhile and ponder, in the light of days gone by, With their strange old ships and weapons, what our Fathers did, and why. Then if still we dare to argue that we're just as good as they, We can seek the God of Battles on our knees, and humbly pray That the work we leave behind us, when our earthly race is run, May be half as well completed as our Fathers' work was done”. My wife Sharon and I wish you and your family a great Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year 2011. If you or your family do visit New Zealand do look us up. Allan Rodrigues DirectorNE

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Francois Gautier

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