Vedic Maths
Watch a video on simple mental mathematics to add big numbers without paper or calculator:
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Read more on Vedic Maths from here.
NRI marriages - an ugly reality!
You are a NRI or a wannabe NRI and a bachelor?
Please read this.
Also you may read about the yeomen service being rendered by Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) to help the victims of Anti-dowry law in this news item.
What’s al-Qaeda’s take on the iPhone?
I stumbled upon a very interesting paradigm on Ipod in an article by By Jefferson Alberry II in The Register. Here is an excerpt:
In-depth analysis In a fortnight during which just about everyone on the planet, excluding naturally those in a coma or temporarily indisposed up some tributary of the Amazon, has offered their two bits’ worth on the launch of Apple’s iPhone, it comes as a bit of a surprise that al-Qaeda has dismally failed to contribute to the brouhaha.
We should add that Afghanistan’s fun-loving Taliban have also maintained a resolute silence on the matter, but since they’re violently opposed to absolutely everything, except hanging people from construction cranes and blowing up giant Buddhas, it can be taken as read that they consider the device an insult to Islam.
Click here to find out more!Quite how Ozzie bin Laden views the paradigm-redefining iPhone remains, therefore, a mystery. It’s possible his organisation has been too busy working itself into a tizz over the Salman Rushdie knighthood announcement to consider the matter, but we’re certain al-Qaeda has enough righteous indignation to throw two simultaneous strops.
So, the options are as follows: al-Qaeda is so angry about the iPhone’s inflated pricetag, lack of user-changeable battery and 3G capability that it is planning something really big; or Ozzie’s sidekick Ayman al-Zawahir has been stunned into reluctant admiration by Apple’s audacious UI and crisp-as-a-Baghdad-winter-morning MP3 playback.
Read the rest of the story here.
Dr. Koenraad Elst - an appeal
An appeal for help for Dr. Koenraad Elst
Dr. Koenraad Elst, born in 1957, is a well-known Belgian scholar. His initial fields of research included Iran and China, and very soon India, to which he devoted his PhD thesis. He has visited India frequently over the years, and has studied many of the issues concerning Hindus and Hindu society in India. He has articulately defended Hindu causes through about 20 well-researched books and numerous articles.
A few of them are:
- Ram Janmabhoomi Vs. Babri Masjid (1990)
- Ayodhya and After: Issues before Hindu Society (1991)
- Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam (1992)
- Indigenous Indians–Agastya to Ambedkar (1993)
- Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate (1999)
- Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism (2001)
- Gandhi and Godse: a Review and a Critique (2001)
- The Saffron Swastika: the Notion of “Hindu Fascism” (2001)
- Who is a Hindu (2002)
- Ayodhya: the Case against the Temple (2002)
- Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria Versus Hindu Sanity (2007)
Dr. Koenraad Elst has often lectured in the U.S.A. and also in India. In 2004 for instance, at the invitation of a few of us, he visited Coimbatore, where he gave three lectures on current issues.
Because of the support he extended to Hindu causes — although based on reasoned arguments and massive research — Dr. Koenraad Elst’s academic career, which should normally have been very bright, was thwarted, and his finances were always precarious or worse.
In recent years, his health has suffered too, and he was diagnosed with a case of degenerating heart muscles that would sooner or later require a heart transplant. With the practice of yoga and an Ayurvedic treatment, Dr. Koenraad Elst was able to stabilize his condition for some time. However, earlier this month, his condition deteriorated and he had to be admitted to the ICU of the University hospital in Antwerp (Belgium), where he still is, as his heart can no longer function on its own. He is now on an international waiting list for the graft of a new heart.
A few friends of Dr. Koenraad Elst in India and abroad have spontaneously offered to contribute to the medical expenses. Contributions will be taken from India to Europe later this month by a friend of Dr. Koenraad Elst.
Anyone who wishes to contribute should send by post a DD in the name of “Dr. Gautam Sen” to the following address:
Mr. Ashok Malik,
C 383 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110 024
Please add a covering note to specify that the amount is a contribution for Dr. Koenraad Elst. Contributions should preferably reach before June 25.
Dr. Koenraad Elst, the crusader of truth!
Dr. Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. During a stay at the Benares Hindu University, he discovered India’s communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict. While establishing himself as a columnist for a number of Belgian and Indian papers, he frequently returned to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interview Hindu and other leaders and thinkers. His research on the ideological development of Hindu revivalism earned him his Ph.D. in Leuven in 1998. He has also published about multiculturalism, language policy issues, ancient Chinese history and philosophy, comparative religion, and the Aryan invasion debate.
He has also done extensive research on Islam and has written many articles and books unraveling the mysteries of that enigmatic religion.
You may obtain more details about his life and work from his web site.
His health is in bad shape presently. He is fighting for his life in a hospital at Antwerp, Belgium. He needs a heart transplant very badly. If you like to lend a hand, please send an email to his brother or sister at Jeroen.Elst at clt.kuleuven.be or kristien.elst at skynet.be.
Please do your bit to the cause of Hinduism by helping him!
There is more nothing than something!
Sounding weird?
It is true. Roughly 74 percent of the universe is “nothing,†or what physicists call dark energy; 22 percent is dark matter, particles we cannot see. Only 4 percent is baryonic matter, the stuff we call something.
Wanna know more about the stuff called “Nothing”?
You may visit this page and get wised up on “20 things you did not know about Nothing”.
Is Sufism any different from fundamentalist Islam?
“No”, avers David Frawly in his book, Awaken Bharatha : A call for India’s rebirth.
He dispels many myths and misconceptions about Sufism in his well-written book. The gullible Hindus of India tend to be too credulous about the bona-fides of Sufi mystics as moderating influence on Islam. But unfortunately this is not true. Islamists of any hue cannot change their basic tenets like annihilation of infidels and spreading of pan-Islamism.
You may read excerpts from his book in this web site.
The following excerpt from Wikipedia page on Sufism vividly exposes the real colour of Sufism! Read more
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Researchers in Nottingham University in England have found that mothers who shun meat or fish and swear by herbivoral existence are more likely to give birth to daughters than carnivores! The reason: It is theorized that vegetarian diet stresses the mothers' body so much that only the stronger (read - female) embryos survive! -
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