KARGIL VIJAY DIWAS - JAI HIND....

Today is VIJAY DIVAS: 26th JULY, 1999 we captured our last hill from Pakistan.
But... we lost some of our most valuable, great, brave, warrior BROTHERS.

I SALUTE to all those who have pledged their lives, for our PEACE - JAI HIND



This salute is for those who... :

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Lost their lives, trying to save the lives of millions of Indians
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Thought that Country comes first and their own family later.
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Bravely faught the war
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Gave everything that they had.. without expecting anything in return.
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Never slept nights together so that we could sleep peacefully.
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Left their wives and children... for the safety of the Nation


I see that Americans have this yellow ribbon on their cars, which expresses how grateful they are to their troops... I really liked that Idea.




Here's a song to our troops, who sacrificed their precious life for us! - By Russ Morgan

Around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon
She wore it in the springtime
And in the month of May
And if you ask me why the heck she wore it
She wore it for her soldier who was far far away


Far away, far away
She wore it for her soldier
Who was far, far away

Around the block she pushed a baby carriage
She pushed it in the springtime
And in the month of May
And if you ask me why the heck she pushed it
She pushed it for her soldier who was far far away


Far away, far away
She pushed it for her soldier
Who was far, far away

Behind the door her daddy kept a shotgun
He kept it in the springtime
And in the month of May
And if you ask me why the heck he kept it
He kept it for her soldier who was far far away


Far away, far away
He kept it for her soldier
Who was far, far away


And this one, in our own Language :)

aye mere vatan ke logon
tum khoob laga lo naara
ye shubh din hai ham sab ka
lahara lo tiranga pyaara
par mat bhoolo seema par
veeron ne hai praan ganvaaye
kuch yaad unhein bhi kar lo
jo laut ke ghar na aaye

aye mere vatan ke logon
zara aankh mein bhar lo paani
jo shaheed hue hain unki
zara yaad karo qurbaani

jab ghayal hua himaalay
khatre mein padi aazadi
jab tak thi saans lade vo
phir apni laash bichha di
sangeen pe dhar kar maatha
so gaye amar balidaani

jo shaheed...

jab desh mein thi diwali
vo khel rahe the holi
jab ham baithe the gharon mein
vo jhel rahe the goli
the dhanya javaan vo aapane
thi dhanya vo unaki javaani
jo shaheed ...

koi sikh koi jaat maraatha
koi gurakha koi madaraasi
sarahad pe maranevaala
har veer tha bhaaratavaas
jo khoon gira parvat par
vo khoon tha hindustaani
jo shaheed...

thi khoon se lath-path kaaya
phir bhi bandook uthaake
das-das ko ek ne maara
phir gir gaye hosh ganva ke
jab ant-samay aaya to
kah gaye ke ab marate hain
khush rahana desh ke pyaaron
ab ham to safar karate hain
kya log the vo deewane
kya log the vo abhimaani

jo shaheed...

tum bhool na jaao unko
is liye kahi ye kahaani
jo shaheed...

jay hind jay hind ki sena
jay hind, jay hind, jay hind


I was listening to this song today... and I am amazed the kind of patriotic feeling it brings out in you....

दिल्‍ली की ओर बढ़ चला मॉनसून

दक्षिण-पश्चिम मॉनसून के कारण पूरे मध्य प्रदेश, गुजरात, छत्तीसगढ़, बिहार और पूर्वी उत्तर प्रदेश के कई भागों में सोमवार को बारिश हुई. इससे पिछले कुछ दिनों से जारी भीषण गर्मी से लोगों को राहत मिली है. साथ ही इन इलाकों में जल्द ही खरीफ की बुआई शुरू होने की उम्मीदें भी बढ़ गई हैं.

बंगाल की खाड़ी में निम्न दबाव का क्षेत्र
भारतीय मौसम विभाग के निदेशक बी. पी. यादव ने बताया कि बंगाल की खाड़ी में निम्न दबाव का क्षेत्र बनने से पूरे मध्य भारत के अलावा राजस्थान और पश्चिम उत्तर प्रदेश में दक्षिण मॉनसून का विस्तार हुआ है. उन्होंने कहा कि अगले 2 दिन में मॉनसून का उत्तर-पश्चिम भारत के और क्षेत्रों में विस्तार हो सकता है. यादव ने कहा कि उत्तर प्रदेश और उत्तराखंड के शेष भागों व पूर्वी राजस्थान के कुछ भागों में दक्षिण पश्चिम मॉनसून के विस्तार के लिए स्थितियां अनुकूल हैं. अगले 2 दिन में पश्चिमी तटवर्ती इलाकों में भारी बारिश होने की संभावना है.

आइला की वजह से हुआ नुकसान
मॉनसून केरल के तट पर सामान्य रूप से एक सप्ताह पहले 23 मई को ही पहुंच गया लेकिन उड़ीसा और पश्चिम बंगाल में आए चक्रवाती तूफान आइला की वजह से गायब हो गया था. इस वजह से प्रायद्वीपीय इलाकों में अपने सही रास्ते से आने में मॉनसून को एक महीने का वक्त लग गया. आमतौर पर इसमें एक हफ्ता ही लगता है.

बारिश का अनुमान घटकर 93 प्रतिशत
कमजोर मॉनसून की वजह से मौसम विभाग ने बारिश के अनुमान को 96 प्रतिशत से घटाकर पिछले हफ्ते 93 प्रतिशत ही कर दिया था. हालांकि मौसम विभाग का कहना है कि जुलाई और अगस्त में मॉनसून इस कमी को पूरा कर देगा. जुलाई और अगस्त ही खेती के लिहाज से अहम महीने हैं.

Mumbai set to zip on Bandra-Worli sea link

Mumbai is ready to set foot on a traffic-busting 5.6-km road link across the sea that promises to sharply cut down travel time between the southern island city and its north-western suburbs.

Beginning Tuesday, the impressive Bandra-Worli sea link will be thrown open to limited traffic. A massive laser display lit up Mumbai’s skies on Monday in the run-up to the inauguration.

The sea link will cut down the usually 45-minute peak-hour drive from Bandra to Worli to just seven minutes. The daily traffic volume on this route exceeds 1.4 million, leading to traffic snarls. As of now, Mahim Causeway is the only connecting link between the southern island city and the northwest suburbs.

The cable supported eight-lane link is an engineering marvel in itself. It’s India’s first open sea bridge and weighs equivalent to 50,000 African elephants. The steel wire used to build the bridge equals the circumference of the earth. The bridge is 63 times the height of Qutab Minar and constructing it has required 90,000 tonnes of cement.

Of the eight lanes, only four will be opened to public for now. The remaining lanes will be operational once the Worli-Haji Ali section is complete.

Almost 4,000 vehicles are expected on the link during peak hours. Access to the bridge will be controlled through toll plazas on both the Worli and Bandra side. The one-way toll of Rs 50 could hit a lot of commuters though.

The Bandra-Worli sea link is just the first phase of the ambitious 20-km Western Freeway project. The second phase of the project, linking Worli to Haji Ali, will take another four years. The government has still not awarded the contract to the two prospective bidders.

The third phase will connect Haji Ali to Nariman Point. The revised proposal for this stretch is awaiting approval.

WE ARE INDIAN

Abstract:

Since the beginning of the 90s, indigenous peoples have become an important, symbolic population for the Latin-American legal and political regimens. This situation is rather astonishing. For centuries, being an “Indian” was synonymous of primitivism and savagery and the legal politics designed for them were written with the white ink of assimilation. Now, due to the favourable legal and political context for indigenous identity, peasants and other rural populations want to be and become Indians. This process of ethnic re-emergence has created the immediate need for legal operators of construct a strategy of constitutional adjudication that controls those processes, while at the same time helps to produce and reproduce such a valuable population. It is a specific form of bio-legality in which legal forms are designed to produce, reproduce and control a specific population. This paper analyses the constitutional creation of the indigenous legal subjectivity in Colombia from the perspective of legal-knowledge regimens. In this process, the anthropological knowledge blends with constitutional adjudication to create a regime that defines who can be regarded as an “authentic Indian” and, at the same time, excludes those populations that does nor fit the regimen’s discourse about indigeneity.