How did Hindus Become Vegetarians? #12 GT,

Traditionally a buffalo was slaughtered in many communities on the last day of Durga Puja (Dassera). Visit any Gorkha regiment on dassera day to watch the buffalo being despatched in one stroke of the khukri.

Among bengali's it has been replaced by a goat or more commonly today substituted by a pumpkin.

How did Hindus Become Vegetarians? #3, nkg

"Ram had tried to trap the deer to gift to Sita"

I'lll try to find the reference if you insist, but seems like Sita's favourite food was venison cooked with rice and vegetables :-)

We all come from a hunter-gatherer past. The "Dandakaranya" was a huge forest. It stands to reason that people would partake in the wealth of such a forest, including its animals.

How did Hindus Become Vegetarians? I dont see what is so controversial in this article. The most famous book on this topic is "The Myth of the Holy Cow. by D. N. Jha. a histroy prof at U of Delhi.

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20021101fabook10064/d-n-jha/the-myth-of- the-holy-cow.html

Nirad Chowdhuri has also written very well on the topic in his book "continent of circe"

The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes The war against Serbia and independence for Kosovo was part of the Atlantic alliance's desire to extend the boundaries of NATO further east. The various "color" revolutions in ex-Soviet republics (Rose/Orange/Tulip) and allies (Bulldozer revolution) is part of teh same plan. These plans are developed and incremented at regular intervals at the CIA and state department. An historically weak Russia provided the opportunity to get the ball rolling.

Thus, Kosovo is no canonical example which will be broadly applied by the western alliance to extend "liberty". It will be used as a precendent when appropriate in the larger geostrategic framework and ignored when it is not helpful. You may view this as "hypocrisy", others will view it as reality.

A History of the Pakistan Army by Brian Cloughley #246

very interesting comments fuzair. On the topic of the French war in Algeria, have you seen this movie?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0058946/

If not you definitely must do so (there is an english version as well).

1857-What Really Happened-A Reconstruction ok this is what wikipedia says:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Presidency

"The other important institution which emerged in this period was the Bengal Army, by far the largest of the three Presidency armies, which until the Indian Mutiny in 1857 recruited mainly Rajputs and Bhumihar Brahmins from Purbiya."

1857-What Really Happened-A Reconstruction Quote:
"Later as I read more I discovered that only one out of seven or eight rebel sepoys was a Hindustani Muslim while the rest were Hindustani Hindu Rajputs!"

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that most of the rebels were from the Bengal Army which was recruited mostly from present day UP/Bihar, why are 6/7 rebel sepoys Rajputs?

Dillu Ram Kausari: The Hindu Poet who Loved The Prophet yeah, we have all kinds of nutcases in India

The need for De-Bhuttofication of the Pakistan People\'s Party #298

correct me if I am wrong. I have not lived there but I never heard of any hindu mandir's in Bahrain Qatar or Abu Dhabi.

The need for De-Bhuttofication of the Pakistan People\'s Party #298

also, I dont know why you mention Nigeria where at most 50% people are muslim (many nominally) so and the state is officially secular.

The need for De-Bhuttofication of the Pakistan People\'s Party #298

Shah-ji I have lived in Kuwait aur yeh aah sarasar jhoot bol rahen haein!

Here's the story. The Bengali-Hindu's in Kuwait wanted to have "durga-pujo". Of course there was no chance of having anything religious out in the open so a "secret-mandir" was constructed in one persons flat. A hall was rented for the "cultural" festivities, now was the dilemma it could not be advertised (flyers etc) as "hindu". Advertising as "bengali cultural" would attract Bangladeshi muslims who might give the game away.

by the way several such "secret" mandirs have been raided in Kuwait and people arrested-deported.

so much for Kuwaiti tolerance!

The need for De-Bhuttofication of the Pakistan People\'s Party At UIUC, among the best large engineering schools in the country, here is faculty list in a few fields:

Department of Computer Science:

Indian/Indian origin:
Sarita Adve
Vikram Adve
Narendra Ahuja
Chandra Chekuri
Indranil Gupta
Anil Hirani
Ravi K. Iyer
Laxmikant Kale
P.R. Kumar
Natasha Neogi
Madhusudan Parthasarathy
Janak H. Patel
Manoj Prabhakaran
Saurabh Sinha
Umesh Thakkar
Nitin Vaidya
Pravin Vaidya
Mahesh Viswanathan

Pakistani/Pakistani origin:
Gul Agha

Electrical and Computer Engineering:

Indian/Indian origin:
Ahuja, Narendra
Iyer, Ravishankar K
Jain, Kanti
Kumar, P R
Kumar, Rakesh
Patel, Janak H
Patel, Sanjay Jeram
Naresh R. Shanbhag
Srikant, Rayadurgam
Vaidya, Nitin H
Viswanath, Pramod
Veeravalli, Venugopal V.

Pakistani/Pakistani origin:
Nil

Mechanical Science and Engineering:

Indian/Indian origin:
Narayana R. Aluru
Placid M. Ferreira
Shiv Gopal Kapoor
Prashant G. Mehta
Srinivasa M. Salapaka
S. Pratap Vanka

Pakistani/Pakistani origin:
Nil

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering:

Indian/Indian origin:
nil

Pakistani/Pakistani origin:
nil

Civil and Environmental:

Indian/Indian origin:
KUMAR, Praveen
SIVAPALAN, Murugesu

Pakistani/Pakistani origin:
Arif Masud

Twin Blasts in Rawalpindi leaves 27 dead, 70 injured #132,#135

I too must put in my do-paise on Reza Aslans book. I liked it a lot as well, specially the part where he deals with pre-islamic monotheistic thought in Arabia. I have heard people complain though that his treatment of the Shia-Sunni schism is shia biased.

His treatment of Islam in India is not so detailed though. I pointed out some factual inaccuracies in his section on India (He thought that the "Bengal Army" in 1857 was predominantly Bengali!) and he was nice enough to reply.

The Horse and The Zebra I`m sure we all could see the Rafi`s and Shazi`s we know in this story.

My congratulations, very nicely written Rafi-bhai.

Rest in Peace Pakistan (1947-1974) so zeemax got number 666, how appropriate.

Rest in Peace Pakistan (1947-1974) I see Manto posted this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita

have you looked at what`s happened to exchange rates recently?

(Not that it matters anyway, nominal GDP/capita was never useful as a measure of human development)