This is a textbook case of stereotyping and branding – something anyone who is reasonably educated should be aware of.

Hate the terrorist. Hunt him down and proscecute him under the full extend of India Law. Heck, if that means hunting down some of our own who terrorize the streets of Mumbai and Pune, then so be it. The law must be fair and impartial.

Do it, and I promise, Pakistani people will have reason to hate the terrorist who for no reason involves them in wars that they never wanted to sign up for.

Indians have a notion of self-importance that every pakistani, instead of worrying about making a living and feeding his family, starves to death waiting to wage war on us. Give up this stupid inferiority complex people – not everyone cares about you a whole lot.

What we need to guard against is that they just may start caring. If we brand everyone, then we involve them in a war they don’t like, and when that happens, a person turns desperate.

A terrorist is someone who spreads terror amongst people – I can name at least one Maharashtrian who had spread terror for months throughout Mumbai. Journalists – ready to blame “Maharashtrian people” for it? Let’s see your guts.

my belief about “purpose of human race”.. there’s none.. coz if we look at the SOCIAL ANIMALs without the undue emphasis on the SOCIAL part of it, we are at the end of the day ANIMALS!! Thus competition or group-ism, is but natural.

As far as the cannibalistic nature of the competition we’re discussing, it takes me to the point where i disagree with you archis, “When the challenges offered by nature became too measly….”, i believe whatever we invented are challenges by nature itself; unless we are considering the HUMAN RACE to be so far superior than NATURE, to say MAN MADE is not natural, because our spoken language means it differently and because we are separate from nature. Frankly, WE are (part of) NATURE too.

This brings me to the point where i agree with you Atul, we do need a set of rules to survive without (an apparent) chaos.. but then, don’t two perfectly discplined herds of lions, foxes, dogs etc. fight in the jungle?.. why do we separate our “RELIGIOUS” fanatics from those herds?.. because we understand the underlying, probably unnecessary, logic behind religion and do not the same way understand what underlies the herds’ motive(s)?

Again i agree with you Archis that some humans are animals and share the animal instincts of instantaneously satisfying hunger above and below the waist.. and rules or whatever that comes out of our order making.. has sufficient advantage-taking opportunity for satisfying these hungers.. and (as humans can think longer term, it’s supposed to) keep doing so for a long time!

The other side of rules is also to curb competition. By imposing crap like morality on the majority, the few in minority who have no morality can take advantage.

How many times have we been backstabbed by people who made us feel guilty for failing? It happens more often than we might think. In competition, the rules of the game are not followed by all parties and the ones that do are meant to do so in order to put them at a disadvantage.

But yeah, generally your thoughts are correct. A large part of rules and laws did come out of a raw desire to find a better mating partner and nothing more. When the challenges offered by nature became too measly, we invented castes, religion, and a whole lot of artificial labels and titles to help us compete.

The purpose here is to do transliterate and not translate. Translate can be really painful simply painful coz it adds context to it. Transliterate on the other hand is phonetic conversion from one script to other. We need to map the phonemes of the languages to each other that is important.

Atul.

If you want to translate the content written by them in your preferred language over a IM then you may be interested in rosy.
(caution: marathi is not supported in google translation)

You also mentioned a call (and then you want to finish this as a weekend project ) if you want to translate voice then there is a way for that. See Bonn synthetic system.

I will happy take part in your efforts of finishing this project if its still in progress.

Thanks
-shivaji