How to be on Time courtesy Guy Kawasaki
Secret files on Veer Savarkar and others kept in London
Transcript of the Dec 4 Discussion on Mumbai Attacks over at the CounterTerrorism Panel
Did Jesus really say to Love Your Enemies? courtesy Andrew Sullivan
The discussion on INS Arihant over at Bharat-Rakshak.com forums.
All the past weekend posts here.
Stay Healthy, Stay Safe. Enjoy the weekend.

Stumbled on this last week…
Excerpts from Why this silence on organised anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh? by Dr. Richard Benkin (July 23, ’09):
Reports began trickling out of Bangladesh this spring about an anti-Hindu violence in the heart of its capital carried out in three stages: March 30, April 17, and April 29. A community of approximately 400 Hindus was reportedly going about its business when “hundreds of Muslims” suddenly descended on them and demanded they quit the homes where they and their families had lived for the past 150 years. Witnesses …

This post is really an extract from a discussion on one of the Yahoo! groups I subscribe to. The discussion was triggered by an email from Prof. Michael Witzel in which he wrote (amongst other things):
….I know that whatever I say will be distorted to no end by “argumentative Indians” (per Amartya Sen).
In response, Ashok-ji Chowgule wrote the following comment which I found worth sharing (emphasis mine).
If one were to read Prof Amartya Sen properly, he is actually saying that this concept of ‘argumentative’ is a positive one. Issues are …

How many of you missed this? I did (emphasis added).
Prior to the 13th round of India-China boundary talks, Indian defence and security agencies reported an increased spurt in “intrusions” and “incursions” by the Chinese, particularly in the western sector.
Not suprising.
But this is worrying:
…on June 1, a combined Indian Army-ITBP patrol was intercepted by the PLA in Depsang Bulge and forced to turn back after the PLA planted vehicles in front and behind the Indian patrol vehicle and escorted it back across the Chinese “perception of the LAC”. Later in the …

I first heard about “Sharada Tirtha” (Sharada Temple) when I stumbled on these photographs on the net. A search led me to Varnam’s post from which I learnt that while “Sharada Peeth” was as important as Somnath, Multan and Thaneshvar in olden times, it does not find any mention in History books (nor does it find any mention in the Wikipedia list of Hindu Temples in Pakistan) .
Curious to find more, I ended up on this site which noted:
Kashmir contains the famous Sharda Temple where Sankara ascended the Sarvajna Pitha(the …

We have so little trust in the character of the people we elected that most of us wouldn’t invite them into our homes for dinner, let alone leave our children alone in their care
- Glenn Beck, Talk-show host*
* From “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense” mentioned in TIME Magazine’s story on Sarah Palin (July 20 ’09)
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