in Godhra the previous night & the conspirators immediately made arrangements for collecting about 140 litres of petrol from a nearby pump on the night of 26 February 2002.
T he next day when the train arrived in Godhra, Hasan Lala, after forcibly opening the vestibule between
coaches S-6 and S-7, entered S-6 and threw burning rags setting it on fire.
A dismissed CRPF officer named Nanumiyan, and Maulvi Husain Haji Ibrahim Umarji, a cleric in the town of Godhra the masterminds behind the operation.
The report concluded that the train was attacked by thousands of Muslims from the Signal Falia area.
That BURNING ALIVE of 59 Hindu women. children & men by a Muslim mob was the trigger, to the riot that followed, in which both Hindus & Muslims were killed.
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After Galwan Valley (June 2020): the strategic reset
1. Indian gain of heights (the turning point)
Aug–Sept 2020: India pre-emptively occupied dominating heights on the Kailash Range south of Pangong Tso.
#StepsBeyondEdison
Dr. Gurtej Singh Sandhu (born October 24, 1960) is an Indian-American inventor and semiconductor technologist renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to memory and storage technology.
As of early 2026, he is recognized as the 7th most prolific inventor in the world by U.S. utility patents, having surpassed Thomas Edison’s record.
Patent Count: He holds over 1,432 U.S. utility patents (surpassing Edison's 1,093) and more than 2,200 patents worldwide.
Key Innovations: His work includes pioneering developments in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), pitch doubling, and oxygen-free titanium coatings, which are essential for manufacturing high-performance DRAM and NAND memory chips used in modern smartphones and supercomputers.
* As a problem long acknowledged by Hindus, the subject of many reform movements and the worlds longest running, "affirmative action" program, it still continues to rear its ugly head in Hindu society.
* What should long ago have vanished in the bright light of Constitutional freedoms, free speech, anti-discrimination laws etc, persists, though it has been waning rapidly with education & debelopment
#TipOfTheIceberg
America has done horrifying thingsin the last 80 odd years, and much before that if you count what they did to the native Indians and the slaves they brought from Africa.
composed of millions of decent young men and women, doctors, nurses, teachers, scientists, researchers, filmmakers, adventurers, musicians, playrights who constantly give us another picture of America...the promised Land..the land of the free and the brave..
And, of course, it helped that you were a very rich country, which held out aspirational models for the world in every area of human endeavour.
Why is this sounding like an objective eulogy. Has America died?
He reminds me of an affectionate, loyal hound who has an unkind mistress, who keeps the door closed on his face; but will still bark angrily at strangers to keep them out!
Sanjay Jha represents, in essence, all that is wrong and confused about our civilization..
Why we lost our way and wallowed in serfdom..
Fought with one another and sold our common future at the altar of stupidity..
He and his ilk, like stubborn children, bent on drowning in deep waters, must be dragged- kicking and screaming- to safety, and the shore of a new dawn.
Sanjay Jha is to be more pitied than censured.
He is the mutt, who stands guard outside the door of the