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Tidy little village there!

Thankfully. If a violent nature and irresistible thirst for conquest are the pre-requisites for 'strategic' thinking, i would rather be 'unstrategic'.

Beautiful.

thankfully, unlike some other religions, 'Hindu' is not a political or strategic ideology or even a religious identity. we have no fanatic dreams of world conquest, we do not have the childish itch for global dominion, we have no reason to impose our version of things. We have not attacked a...

The army must be congratulated for protecting Hindu religious sites in Kashmir. I have seen CRPF camps around every Kashmiri Temple which i visited when I went to Srinagar this June, the first time in my life. Kashmiri Pandits have their own religious traditions, and temples like Hanuman...

Fantastic pictures! Guys we must take a moment to laud our mates on SSC, without whose selfless contributions this thread would not have been here..

A sutra debate is in progress. This is the only living example of the Indian debate tradition of vivada.At one time such scenes could be seen everywhere from Gandhara and Takshashila in the north, and Kanchipuram in the south in the thousands of traditional schools in India. The Indian system of...

Music which classical music enthusiasts will appreciate. Hindustani and Carnatic are the two main formal meta-traditions, with each having their own distinctive schools and lineages. Please post your favourite songs. Classical Music from the subcontinent welcome. As an intro Ustad Ali Ahmed...

I have heard about it but also that it is declining. Isn't it blatantly forbidden in Islam ?

Its more of a HR job but anyway it is good. Perfectly good projects have turned into disaster due to the lack of proper planning. great start.

Sharda, mmm the presiding deity of Kashmir. May be in the future, Kashmiri hindus be allowed to visit the temple of Mother Sharda.

lolol Kashmiri Pandits dont even recognize the caste system as it is prevalent in India. Brahmins have had a culture of education, even girl education, at times when even well off Thakurs did not send girls to school. My grandmother, though not from a well-off family, was educated and became...

my bad. i confuse it with the niqab. anyhow, i do not understand why is it such a big issue if it has not been absolutely mentioned in the Quran. Whatever happened to islamic jurisprudence. I also understand that the Quran doesnt mention any woman wearing the hijab other than Muhammad's wives.

Your hijab is my problem because it is an insult to my humanity. I cannot trust a person, because unconciously it strikes me, that a person who is unwilling to show her face, is a person that can hardly be trusted.

And also that the name was Zarathushtra, which refers to 'the owner of old camels'. Now it is translated as Zarthosth. Avestan is also spectacularly similar to Vedic Sanskrit, with places named as Baghdad - Baghdata-'gift of God'. Iran is ofcourse, a contraction of the name called Ariyanam...

this, gentlemen, is a fine example of the difference between literacy and education.

iranians and parsis are our civilizational cousins. i am happy to see that Iran, though officially Islamic, has not denounced its ancient culture, and symbols of its Zoroastrian past have not been purged. So much so, that the name for Salat (the Muslim Prayer ritual) is also given as...

english translation and literature then, and computer science ? i dont believe its so simplistic.again it is unthinkable to restrict admits based on gender.

i never got the gender part..not allowing adult (? let us assume atleast physically) men and women (lets not make it cute with 'girls') must be quite unhealthy. to interfere in the sexual selection process, fiddling with nature. workforce ? it seems the courses under ban (allegedly) are...

a poignant statement. may be they do this because they dont fear social backlash ? the agency never said it was giving the description of a 'model' citizen, whatever that is supposed to mean. it just reports an underrepresented (?) facet of society, which makes the article interesting and...