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The first sentence is indisputable. The debatable question arises only for those who are not Indian citizens. Everybody is the USA, with the exception of the native Americans, are descended from immigrants. Most of them do not get hyphenated. Has George Bush ever been described as a...

Wow, the level of racism here would shame an upper caste Hindu. "Adivasis" and other aboriginal people are despicable for you, eh?

The only sensible post on this thread, as an answer to the title. To nitpick though, maybe it is improper to consider anybody belonging to one of the indegenous Indian races to be Indian. Governor Bobby Jindal recently made a remark about wanting to be just called American, and not...

I have met him, at a certain marathon. :) He was already a centenarian then, and finished the marathon in good time. I couldn't. :(

No, that has not happened yet - faster than light travel has not been experimentally observed. But do note that faster-than-light is not impossible for some kinds of particles. It would not contradict relativity, and definitely not the "e=mc^2" equation. The nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors...

That's a bit inaccurate - the special and general theories were not two different revisions, with one being a revised and corrected form of the other. Both are equally true. As the names suggest, the 'general' theory happens to be more inclusive and applicable to more situations than the special...

Indians had a collective identity long before UK even existed. Just because your country's sense of a collective identity began only in the 20th century, doesn't mean that Indians share your identity crisis. I remember reading in an essay by RK Narayan, that Indians back then were taught the...

That post speaks more about your sectarian hatred than anything else. It explains a lot about your country. No, those posters are definitely not Pakistanis.

21-Gun Salute for Martyred Colonel Santosh Mahadik, A Village Mourns Its Son Satara, Maharashtra: Colonel Santosh Mahadik, the 38-year-old Indian Army Officer who died in an encounter with terrorists in Kashmir on Tuesday, will be cremated with full military honours in his home town Satara...

I could recite the 'Lays of ancient Rome' from memory when I was 16, and still can. :) I was wondering about the other one, specific to Siachen. That is why I called it a 'verse', rather than a poem.

On that, you are absolutely right. It is almost criminal that the IAF wants the very latest and greatest on the Tejas, while their pilots fly ancient migs in large numbers. The Tejas mark 1 is much more capable than at least 300 fighters currently in service. Logically, they ought to be...

Yes, yes. The point is that your post was so laughably off the mark. You were boasting how Pakistan cleverly assembled a foreign fighter, while India was too stupid to do so. The fact is that India meanwhile was not just assembling, but manufacturing a beast of a fighter at a squadron a year...

I thought that was CGI. Where is that verse from?

Umm..and you think India didn't? While Pakistan managed to assemble 50 low tech JF-17s, India was queitly manufacturing MKIs. HAL has already manufactured 140 or so, and will make lots more. And before that, HAL has manufactured and assembled mig-21s, jaguars etc. The total number of fighters...

He didn't even go to jail. He went to a juvenile detention center, which is meant for the protection, treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile deliquents. I cannot condone extra judicial vigilantism, but in this case...

In the UK and US, for some very serious crimes (and this would qualify), the perpetrators are tried as adults. In UK, from what I remember, the sensational cases of Mary Bell (a creepy ten year old girl, the youngest murderer in modern British history), and the killers of Jamie Bugler (Thompson...

Yet another young man who has been "Quartered in snow, silent to remain; When the bugle calls, he shall rise and march again."

It is completely unjust that in India, juveniles are not tried as adults for crimes like these. This seventeen and a half year old "juvenile" deserved the noose.

Correct, and that was due to the scientific and industrial revolution in Europe. Rationalism, the enlightenment, the scientific method and the consequent industrial revolution, all allowed them to invent superior weaponry, and to cheaply mass produce them.

For one thing, the testosterone levels in the body has nothing to do with abilities as a fighter pilot. If you are trying to link testosterone and aggression and flying abilities, that is rather tenous. I would say the samee for grip strength too, I'm not sure how that translates into a better...