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They shifted from a military school's regimented thinking to an outraged Marxist but not party member to an increasingly committed to the rule of law, and to the primacy of the individual, rather than any group, in the determination of rights to be preserved, even if those have to be fought...

I am 50 years short. Would my perspective on how views change help? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Two out of three isn't bad.

I think you get it. What should you and I do?

Do you remember which year that was?

Precisely. Even now, there is such a lot of noise, but nothing material. It's remained a paper thing; even today, nothing is being done for them. Nothing.

If you remember this, you will also remember not to fall prey to the generalised political opinions of the film.

Brilliant note. My cousin married a Sri Lankan Tamil, and he has a bookful of stories of the encounters they have had, including encounters in India where he was posted in Bengaluru as something very senior in INTEL. Others, from locations all over the world, as quite ordinary people from...

Father's side Dhaka. Mother's side Barisal.

Easily. They were going for concentrations of Hindus. By then, Hindus had concentrated in the cities, so they saw the worst slaughter. I nearly broke down seeing the video of the execution on Dhaka Varsity grounds. Jagannath College, where my grandfather taught, was also supposedly a Hindu...

This is precisely my fear; before the performance in Taiwan, the Chinese might try a dress rehearsal in Ladakh/Spiti & Lahaul/Ngari Prefecture - Pithoragarh/ Chumbi Valley/Arunachal Pradesh, with any one target or in any combination. They will take the following steps: Very careful and...

Not to fall into the trap of those idiots who can't see what is in front of them, and under their noses, I do want to point out that today, 100% of the people in the Valley want to lead normal lives, as some of them have seen in TV shows, and in personal visits down to the plains. Of these, a...

That's interesting. I do use ginger a lot, particularly with carrot, but in general cooking besides; in Indian cooking, except specifically religion-bound dishes, ginger and garlic are both used. Ginger tea is famous, but I would like to try more ginger in general food and see how it works.

@RogerRanger Have I scared you away already?

The Crown Reserve Police became the Central Reserve Police, 300,000 strong today (benchmark figures 1.2 million for the Indian Army) organised in 200 battalions of about 900 constables each (135 per company, 7 companies =) 945 to be precise, each headed by a Commandant, that being approximately...

Hah! You Brits did it to us in India. There was this formation called the Crown Reserve Police, and there were two or three other formations - the Eastern Frontier Rifles and the Assam Rifles - all of which exist at the moment in independent India, in Igor out of the dungeon, hungry and willing...

It has had very different effects on different people. Friend of mine had a VERY bad case, and ended up with severe debility, his lungs affected, his heart affected. His doctor told him that he was not sure, but it might take my friend many months, running into years, to recover.

As a film, it is a film. We may like it, we may dislike it, we may be deeply moved by it. It remains a film. What has been done to it is to turn a human tragedy into a weapon of war. What has also been done is to cast into shade the much older genocide (in the real sense) in Jammu, and the...

The thread is open once again, for comments.

@Jackdaws Any comments? That is, over and above your observation that the vast majority of Indians did not know about this.