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I think it was in the first quarter of 2010 that Marathi films got higher revenues than Bollywood. The only problem is that despite Marathi being a native language for me, when there aren't any subtitles I have an easier time understanding Hindi movies because the Marathi movies use "shudha"...

Don't complain too much. One thing is for sure: haviZsultan is not a hypocrite and has been speaking out against attacks on minorities in Pakistan.

Studying Shivaji's idealism and motivation, I can't help but think that he was a Deccan nationalist. I think his main motivation was not religious. Criticize Aurangzeb all you want, but his religious oppression was limited to destroying temples and taxing non-Muslims, in contrast to people like...

Guess who my avatar is. ;)

Iraq begins process of expelling Iran dissidents | Reuters Good riddance. :yahoo:

Nevertheless, it would be difficult in the heat of war to distinguish between Israeli and American forces. It isn't inconceivable that an American ship could get hit. America's had friendly fire incidents from both Iraq and Israel in the past for example.

Marijuana and alcohol are much safer than tobacco, heroine, and cocaine. Thus, the former should be allowed (and make sure doctors tell people not to drink/smoke too much), while the latter should be banned.

This Arab-Iran rivalry is so divisive. Now even Israelis are fighting with each other.

The Aryans were around long before Buddhism was invented...

Again, Hannibal had at most 80 elephants in that battle. The Romans successfully used anti-elephant tactics against them. But you can't use anti-elephant tactics against several thousand elephants.

Why would they ban that? They think bebo isn't good looking enough to be an ISI agent or something?

I've been to Detroit. On the scale of nice cities in America, Detroit would rank near the bottom.

Kerala is no paradise and has some faults (mainly people having to work abroad to bring in money). Nevertheless, it's a shining example of development in the third world and shows the dramatic effects a strong socialist system can have on the quality of life. Going forward though, Kerala needs...

That's a false map. Here's the real map:

The article seems to contradict observed fact. The Western media is all too happy to complain about Soviet totalitarianism and denounce the Katyn massacre despite the sketchy evidence surrounding that event (I've met a Polish guy who says the Nazis did Katyn and then blamed it on the Soviets)...

Exactly. He's a villain. Be happy he didn't look like this:

No those are the crazy taliban types that are incapable of being challenging villains. The ISI guys will probably be portrayed as sinister guys in trenchcoats.

He had like a few dozen elephants which scared the hell out of the Romans. By the third Punic war all his elephants had already passed away. Consider what would have happened if Hannibal had somehow managed to bring several thousand elephants with him.

Normally I complain about the ISI obsession in the media. But in this case Agent Vinod is a spy film. You have to include the ISI at some point in the film.

The Indian armies of the Mauryan and Gupta empires were also quite disciplined. And the Romans did held little if any technological advantage over them. I'd love to see the ancient Roman army deal with several thousand elephants. It's a little harder to compare the Chinese to the Romans...