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Miscellaneous: Jesus lived in India? A new film to explore link

There are many who believe that during his missing years, from the age of 12 to 30, which are not accounted for in the Bible, Jesus lived in India and Tibet.
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LetsDiscuss: CHIDAMBARAM, THE NEW SARDAR PATEL: LESSON FOR INDIA

If there is one good that has come out of Mumbai 26/11, it is the appointment of P Chidambaram as India's Home Minister. It has driven home the almost completely forgotten lesson that
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LetsDiscuss: DALIT EMPOWERMENT: THE MAYAWATI EFFECT

What Mayawati has done for dalits is transformational and will lead to the dismantling of oppressive caste practices, if not prejudices yet, with a speed that many even now scarcely believe is possible.
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News: INDIA'S SECURITY CHALLENGES: WHO CARES!

Unfortunately, in India, national security is often viewed as an unpleasant and unnecessary intrusion into and against national development. The natural, and uninformed, if I may add, Indian impulse is to unilaterally "give in". A perfect example of this debilitating disease is a column by author Chetan Bhagat
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LetsDiscuss: DOES INDIA NEED "FEDERALISM" LIKE JINNAH WANTED?


Jinnah-struck Jaswant Singh is now re-discovering the virtues of federalism. Unless he is saying it only to spite the parivar that he was with for a long time, it seems that like the man he now admires, he is also not able to see federalism...
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LetsDiscuss: CHINA GETS DANGEROUS, BUT NOTHING CAN MOVE INDIA

The posture is getting increasingly aggressive and the objectives more and more dangerous. But,no matter how dangerous China gets for India, India's response will not change. Nothing can move its leaders. They will keep helplessly parroting that India's ties with China are fundamentally healthy.
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LetsDiscuss: KARGIL AND POLITCAL DEBATES: NAUSEATING INDEED

More than 62 years after Independence, a former Chief of the Army Staff has had the courage to publicly voice what the whole nation has been feeling for a long time and what a lot of citizens and lower ranked soldiers have been saying for years.
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LetsDiscuss: MYANMAR LOST TO CHINA: INDIA'S ENCIRCLEMENT COMPLETE

Forget the threat from the Taliban or Pakistan. The real threat upon India is not from the West. It is from the forgotten, far away East. The Chinese have just signed a deal that will complete the encirclement of India on land and sea from all sides
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LetsDiscuss: ZAKARIA'S AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY: SALVAGE OR SURRENDER?


Essentially what Zakaria is saying is that the US should cut a deal with elements of the Taliban who have no links with the Al Qaida, effectively hand over Afghanistan back to them and withdraw its troops from that country. Would America want Afghanistan to revert back to virtually the same conditions it was in before 9/11, minus the Al Qaida?
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LetsDiscuss: ALL CYLINDERS ON FIRE, WHERE IS PAKISTAN HEADING?


Really, are Pakistanis that dumb? People with even elementary intelligence will not continue to fool themselves into believing for so long that they can keep playing with fire and making a fool of everyone else, and yet emerge triumphant at the end of it. Particularly when things are falling apart all around them.
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LetsDiscuss: SAY SORRY TO THE NATION MR. SPEAKER


The all too familiar scene that has become synonymous with India's Parliament was enacted once again for the nth time on February 19, 2008. A number of MPs rushed to the well of the Lok Sabha with aggressive intent, shouted like there was no tomorrow and made sure that no business of the House could be conducted.
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LetsDiscuss: INDIA NEEDS TO READY ITSELF FOR A POST-PAKISTAN SCENARIO


In an interview with CBS, President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan is fighting for “survival” in the face of an onslaught by the Taliban who have “established themselves across a large part of the country”. When were such words heard last from the President of a country?
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LetsDiscuss: LOCAL SUPPORT MUMBAI 26/11: INVESTIGATION STINKS


Just as Pakistan was responding to the dossier sent by India to it, Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor sprang a surprise on the nation by admitting to the media that local support was indeed given to them. Within hours of that statement came the retraction...
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LetsDiscuss: MUMBAI 26/11: LOCAL SUPPORT AND VOTE BANK POLITICS


Narendra Modi, for all his well publicised faults, has a knack of bringing back into focus issues that should have never gone out of it. A couple of days back, he said that the "smallest of persons knows" that a terror attack of the scale that was launched on Mumbai on November 26, 2008, could not have been launched without some local support. The UPA government, according to him, was shying away from taking any action due to vote bank politics. Home Minister P Chidambaram responded by evading a direct answer and by asking in turn whether Mr. Modi was in contact with Pakistan.
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LetsDiscuss: WILL CONGRESS FINALLY DUMP SP?


Will the Congress dare to go in for elections alone in UP? With just about 8% of the vote share and certain victories limited to the two constituencies represented by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, conventional wisdom suggests that it will be suicidal for the party to do so. Really?
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