hi all, I´m back after a break and so many people to reply!
TO Pakorah
India did go help Srilanks because othervise they would lean on China- which was very much interested in getting a foothold on Indian Ocean waters- so that was a strategically right move.
LTTE didn´t kick out indian army from Srilanka- Only Prabhakaran could claim this stupid thing. India withdrew because the Srilankan Govt itself was going lax on the war front with LTTE and was rather preparing to have Talks with them. So you cannot fight for someone anymore when the party involved is not that much inclined to fight itself! So that was a strategically fight move again. India has identified LTTE as a banned terrorist outfit, as have man yother countries, including USA. Still it´s Srilanka itself that doesn´t ban it and accepts it as a political force. This is their own dirty local politics- to keep Tamils happy.
Krishna was Dark. and a lot of north indians are dark too- though there are more dark people in south india. They paint krishna Blue in the paintings just for convenience- because a person painted Black would look ridiculous. It is widely recognised that both Krishna and Ram were dark in complexion in the Ramayana and MAhabharata. Actually the name Krishna itself literally Means BLACK. And still it is widely known that Krishna was born in Mathura- which lies n Northern part of India.
There can be fair people in south as well- example is Aishwarya Rai!
wing thing said:
That's totally incorrect. Azim Premji is nowhere near the third richest man in the world.
you are right. The list i posted here was around 3 years old. And Azim Premji was rather correct at that time, but now it´s Mittal. and we´ve got nothing against NRIs while boasting!!
About Sanskrit- well i just took it and pasted- i don´t know a word about computer software programming so i can´t tell anything with authority about it!
Ya- sure all these figures are to be taken as with a pinch of salt- but isn´t that what we always do when we just wanna get proud of something?
allergic said:
I feel it is kind of racial profiling to lable a particular community to be particularly good at maths.
And i don´t think there is anything Racial about feeling good about your own countrymen!
racial profiling! Sure, the fields medal count is low, and I see how low the brown population is within the mathematics department (at least at my university); BUT, most of the brown students do excel at Math, at the elementary and secondary levels (I think that is what that quote was referring to). My choice would have been to go on with the mathematics stream at university, but I chose bio, thinking that I needed to do it for med... ahhh well... I know what I'll do in my next life.
