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A point that needs to be remembered is that the Indian Army is a volunteer Army; there was in the past no directed recruitment taking place. However, recruiters do act lazy and open recruitment camps in districts that already have a tradition of 'going for soldiering'.

An ignorant remark by Khalidi. The demoticisation of the Indian Army is quite far advanced. Even the 'named' regiments are no longer completely exclusive; the three Sikh regiments (two Sikh, one Punjab) being the exception proving the rule, with their very small numbers.

The British Gurkhas recruit exclusively from Nepal, in sharp contrast to the Indian Army. So all 4,000 of them are Nepali. In contrast, about 20% of the 7 Indian Gorkha regiments, that together number 40,000, so 8,000 in numbers, are Indian citizens. So, too, the ethnic Gorkhas in the Assam...

LOL. Leave him alone. Sikhs do NOT form a massive bloc; only the Punjab Regiment, the Sikh Regiment and the Sikh Light Infantry are exclusively Sikh; these are far outnumbered by non-Sikh formations, although Sikhs are to be found in every arm, in every specialisation, including the Navy and...

FAKE NEWS.

Ah, now it's clear. Let it keep sitting in the mess. Logical.

He and his clueless companions have done the most extreme damage to the poorest of the Indians. Their rather confused ideas extend only to the protection of the caste interests of the shopkeeper, the feudal tyrant in the villages extracting the right of the first night (and every subsequent...

Personally, I plead guilty to three charges out of the four levelled - there has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the Gandhi family is a cancerous growth on the Congress. I wish they would vanish into the wilds of Venezuela, or sub-montane Italy, and leave us alone to muddle...

Completely agree with your points.

Great work: yes, indeed. Best: well, that's debatable. My money is on a clutch of Indian companies, Mahindra and Eicher included, who are doing great work. There was a little known metal trader on LME even 40 years ago (yeah, I know), and I used to wonder if they'd survive, and they did. Their...

Wholly agree. This was based on some original work on an Indian model years before, and M&M had the good sense to take a wide assortment of advice from off-roaders in the specifying and designing stages. It is still to be found in the forum Team-BHP. Take-away - ask the potential end-user...

Who said anything about 'Rinse'?

will respond after reading it thoroughly. Many thanks.

This is dubious. Does Pakistan have a legislative provision for the right to free speech/expression? If so, then this is expressly to be permitted. If not, not.

The latest critic is the Minister, Nitin Gadkari. His caustic criticism of the National Highway of Authority has gone viral.

Personally, I think this is a non-issue. No individual or collection of individuals following a system of faith has the right to be offended by the actions of any other individual. That possibility simply does not arise; it is a system of faith, of faith maintained on intangible and unprovable...

Misleading, in one or two sections, to the point of causing astonishment. In other sections, a realistic portrayal of the situation as it is, and not, to the chagrin of the people in power in Delhi, as it is wished to be. Please read further for a detailed response to your message, and, inter...

To be honest, I have had rather more pungent exchanges than this courteous and well-mannered one on PDF itself, in its original avatar. There were no repercussions.

If we look at the previous record of what transpired, especially during the Round Table Conferences, the matter by no means is as binomial as might appear with the context of August 1947 alone. It is a reality, unfortunately for one set of arguments, that the process of gaining independence...