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LOL. When I was a member of a tent-pegging team, the other two were Sardars, so I got to wear a turban for the runs. I still wasn't shaving properly though, so that's where it stopped, with the turban.

It is really difficult to agree to the merging of Hindutva with the general concept, both the religious and the ethnic sides of the concept, of Hindu. Hindutva has very little to do with Hindu. Its principal promoter was an atheist. Please don't hit back with the information that an atheist...

I agree, that would be idiotic. Racist? I don't know.

Present, Sir. He wasn't referring to me, though. He was talking about Brother John.

I think I replied to you somewhere. Going back to the original theme, somebody who turned completely toxic on PDF is a present employee at the Serum Institute. He likes to keep his real-life identity secret, lest some ISI operative come in and cut his throat. You will no doubt guess who he is.

I wouldn't waste my time, if I were you, on members of a nascent Hindutva lobby that seems to be in the making.

All uniformly of Indo-Aryan descent, through the well-known linguistic branches and descendants of western Prakrit. Prakrit itself was a derivative of Indo-Aryan, while Sanskrit was a highly artificial codification, of great sophistication and power, by a single source in the 6th century BC. It...

And the culture follows, along with the genes?

<groan!> Where are face-palm emojis when they are really needed? @Nilgiri Are we encouraging a Hindutva/revisionist lobby on this forum?

A fallacy in itself, based on an imaginary identification of a single solitary image of an ascetic-like figure that caused sympathetic minds to jump to the conclusion that that is Rudra of the Vedas, identified with considerable expenditure of muscle power to the Siva of Puranic Hinduism...

Yes, yes, and 'Mandir Wohin Banega*'. Feel free to vent. No fact is changed thereby. *For those Sassenachs not familiar with the trends of the cow-belt, it has been discovered that the site of the legendary temple that always was and always will be has been found to have an underground river...

LOL. Naughty, naughty..... The experience you report is not one that one would wish to share. My sympathies, but those nightmares should not force any sufferer to get into a conceptual strait-jacket to punish those inflictors of pain.

An interesting assertion, but an assertion. There is no evidence that the Indus River was a conscious choice of a civilisational or cultural centre. It was a convenient waterway, at a time when the major conurbations were trading centres with enormous trading markets extending to the Syr...

You do understand that this is because of the accident of discovery of the most prominent sites on the banks of the Indus. It has no value other than this historical accident. The locals, just to make a point, had totally lost all memory of this culture and these remains.

Unfortunately, the reverse is also true. Indians, too, tend to identify, depending on their bias, either with invaders who spoke a downstream version of PIE, or a highly doubtful, primaeval master-culture that cannot be proven to have existed other than by arithmetical calisthenics aligning...

Bullshit. This is, again, revisionist reconstruction of an entirely imaginary civilisational construct. We really don't need a Hindutva version of palaeology.

This is speculation. There is nothing to show a direct and provable link. Chauvinism shouldn't come into scientific and academic matters. I really wish these overtones were absent. @Nilgiri

Completely agree with you. I have been holding forth on this precise exact same theme not even fifteen minutes ago on another forum. @Saiyan0321 would have seen it there.

The Harbaksh vs. Manekshaw choice was not as easy as Major Amin makes it out to be. General Harbaksh Singh's own chief of staff, had a great deal to say about his boss, and much of it was not good to read.

There have been a number, a large number of offers, but our geniuses the politicians still have to figure out how to deal with these offers.