For a long time, solar power has been very much hated from a cost-benefit standpoint but things are starting to turn around for the technology. Around the world, progress is being made to make solar power a viable alternative.
America grew from a colony to a superpower in 200 years.
With over 800 military bases around the globe, the US is easily the most powerful nation on earth. But it wasn't always this way. The US once played an insignificant role in global affairs. In this 8-minute video, you can see the transformation.
With two Indian soldiers mutilated in Poonch, the country, and not just the government is livid. And yet again, the government has issued strong statements. While the Sports Minister has said that terror and sports don't go along, a delegation of 50 Pakistani students was sent back on the advice of the Foreign Ministry. Clearly the cultural ties with Pakistan have taken a severe beating. But is severing cultural ties the answer? The Indian Army has obliquely hinted at military reaction at the time and place of its choosing. In response to the claims of beheading of Indian soldiers by the Indian Army, the Pakistan Army has denied any such occurrence. On this edition of We The People we ask: Can India do better? Is there anything we can do other than diplomatic statements, surgical strikes, and banning Pakistani players and artists from the country? These actions might satisfy public anger in the immediate term, but do they actually advance India's long term interest?
The new year is barely a month old but 2017 has already seen filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali being attacked by a fringe group on the sets of his next film 'Padmavati' and protests against author Taslima Nasreen at the Jaipur Literature Festival. On We The People, we ask: has the argumentative Indian become overly sensitive? All over the world, the right to expression is subject to reasonable restriction, but have India's myriad restrictions crossed the threshold of reason?
Missionaries Of Charity Scandal And The Truth About "Mother" Teresa
The recent baby-selling scandal in the Missionaries of Charity brings questions around an organization that has always operated in very shady ways. In this video, we will talk about the fountainhead of that organization, Mother Teresa, who was declared a Saint by the Vatican in 2016.
Her popularity and the reverence people have for her has been due to the most successful PR/Marketing campaign of the last century by the Church. On closer scrutiny, however, we come to realize that "Mother" Teresa was not all that she was touted and marketed to be. In fact, her ideology, her opinions and the treatment she meted out to the people in her care, make it quite clear that she was no saint.
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*Ground Report - Target 2025: Shift in India's defence production*
This Ground Report focuses on the paradigm shift in India's defence production scenario. After the Make in India campaign was launched by Prime minister Narendra Modi, the defence sector underwent several changes. A new thrust was given to the sector in order to make it not just self reliant, but also a big exporter of defence products. To achieve this, the NDA government came up with Vision 2025.
During world war II, about 1,000 Polish children travelled all the way to India where Jam Sahib took personal risks to make arrangements at a time when the world was at war and India was struglling for its Independence. He built a camp for them in a place called Balachadi, 25 km from his capital city Jamnagar.
In the film, five survivors shared their experience of how they got a new life and second homeland in India.
The film begins with the journey of the lead protagonist Wieslaw Stypula, a survivor, now 8o years old, who travels all the way from Warsaw to Jamnagar and Balachadi in Gujarat.
"Our relationship with India stretched back to World War II when India opened her heart to the Polish refugee children and offered them both home and human warmth. We shall never forget the generosity of spirit," said Piotr Ktodkowski, Poland's ambassador to India.
Doordarshan (National Broadcasting Network), Government of Gujrat, NinA (National Audiovisual Institute) and TVP (Telewizja Polska) from Poland have co-produced "A Little Poland in India".
Contrary to what Western historians want us to believe, Alexander failed utterly in his India invasion. This is the truth behind Battle od Hydapses fought between Alexander and Poros on the banks of Jhelum.
Alexander’s invasion of India is regarded as a huge Western victory against the disorganised East. But according to Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the largely Macedonian army suffered a fate worse than Napoleon in Russia.
In 326 BC a formidable European army invaded India. Led by Alexander it comprised battle hardened Macedonian soldiers, Greek cavalry, Balkan fighters and Persians allies. The total number of fighting men numbered more than 41,000.
Their most memorable clash was at the Battle of Hydaspes or The Battle at the River Jhelum against the army of Porus, the ruler of the Paurava kingdom of western Punjab. For more than 25 centuries it was believed that Alexander’s forces defeated the Indians. Greek and Roman accounts say the Indians were bested by the superior courage and stature of the Macedonians.
Two millennia later, British historians latched on to the Alexander legend and described the campaign as the triumph of the organised West against the chaotic East. Although Alexander defeated only a few minor kingdoms in India’s northwest, in the view of many gleeful colonial writers the conquest of India was complete.
In reality much of the country was not even known to the Greeks. So handing victory to Alexander is like describing Hitler as the conqueror of Russia because the Germans advanced up to Stalingrad.
In 1957, while addressing the cadets of the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, Zhukov said Alexander’s actions after the Battle of Hydaspes suggest he had suffered an outright defeat. In Zhukov’s view, Alexander had suffered a greater setback in India than Napoleon in Russia. Napoleon had invaded Russia with 600,000 troops; of these only 30,000 survived, and of that number fewer than 1,000 were ever able to return to duty.
So if Zhukov was comparing Alexander’s campaign in India to Napoleon’s disaster, the Macedonians and Greeks must have retreated in an equally ignominious fashion. Zhukov would know a fleeing force if he saw one; he had chased the German Army over 2000 km from Stalingrad to Berlin.
Alexander’s troubles began as soon as he crossed the Indian border. He first faced resistance in the Kunar, Swat, Buner and Peshawar valleys where the Aspasioi and Assakenoi, known in Hindu texts as Ashvayana and Ashvakayana, stopped his advance. Although small by Indian standards, they were very tiny kingdoms, they did not submit before Alexander’s killing machine.
The Assakenoi offered stubborn resistance from their mountain strongholds of Massaga, Bazira and Ora. The bloody fighting at Massaga was a prelude to what awaited Alexander in India. On the first day after bitter fighting the Macedonians and Greeks were forced to retreat with heavy losses. Alexander himself was seriously wounded in the ankle. On the fourth day the king of Massaga was killed but the city refused to surrender. The command of the army went to his old mother, which brought the entire women of the area into the fighting.
Realising that his plans to storm India were going down at its very gates, Alexander called for a truce. The Assakenoi agreed because the old queen was too trusting. That night when the citizens of Massaga had gone off to sleep after their celebrations, Alexander’s troops entered the city and massacred the entire citizenry. A similar slaughter then followed at Ora.
However, the fierce resistance put up by the Indian defenders had reduced the strength – and perhaps the confidence – of the until then all-conquering Macedonian army.
In his entire conquering career Alexander’s hardest encounter was the Battle of Hydaspes, in which he faced king Porus of Paurava, a small but prosperous Indian kingdom on the river Jhelum. Porus is described in Greek accounts as standing seven feet tall.
In May 326 BCE, the European and Paurava armies faced each other across the banks of the Jhelum. By all accounts it was an awe-inspiring spectacle. The 34,000 Macedonian infantry and 7000 Greek cavalry were bolstered by the Indian king Ambhi, who was a rival of Porus. Ambhi was the ruler of the neighbouring kingdom of Taxila and had offered to help Alexander on condition that he would be given the kingdom of Porus.
Facing this tumultuous force led by the genius of Alexander was the Paurava army of 20,000 infantry, 2000 cavalry and 200 war elephants. Being a comparatively small kingdom by Indian standards, Paurava couldn’t have maintained such a large standing army, so it’s likely many of its defenders were hastily armed civilians. Also, the Greeks habitually exaggerated enemy strength
