And obviously, KFC wouldn’t be targeting folks who eat at “Subba’s” or spend Rs. 35 for a “bhar pet”, or would they?

I am talking about ‘Asia Kitchen’, ‘Golden Dragon”….where “pet bhari bhari khako” would come to about 350-400.

“If you break it down to customer segment, choice, food habits and lifestyle, taste, presentation, brand name etc. (my opinion, not backed by any data or management philosophies)…yes KFC and esp Mcdee would be cheaper compared to ‘conventional’ food.”
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Some imagination you got Mr. Pradhan

1 Plate Sabjee bhat- Rs 20 [IC]
1 Plate Chicken/Mutton/Fish – Rs 30 [IC]
1 Plate salad/Papad – Rs 10 [IC]

Total… Bhudee Futin jel khako…. Rs 60…

1 KFC burger – Rs 80 [IC]
1 McDonalds burger – Rs 55 [IC]
1 KFC full meal [includes 1 burger/sandwhich, one small bag of potatoes fries, one coleslaw, one pepsi/coke] – Rs 130 to 180.

SO KFC and McDonalds are cheaper then conventional food hai??? Chakkai parnu…

Moreover.. I eat at Subba’s [near upper Club Side Darjeeling]… bhar pet SUngur ko masu… kaalo daal and bhat costs me Rs. 35…

May be in Ktm conventional food is costlier

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Is this para, words of Respected Brig Gurung or Gorkhas Daju?

If it is not Brig Gurung, then which part of the article is the conclusive closing statement of Brig, after defining the imminent security dangers of the chicken neck? Does his piece end with point No 30?

Amex transferable?

“3[371C. (1) Notwithstanding anything in this
Constitution, the President may, by order made with
respect to the State of Manipur, provide for the
constitution and functions of a committee of the
Legislative Assembly of the State consisting of members
of that Assembly elected from the Hill Areas of that State,
for the modifications to be made in the rules of business
of the Government and in the rules of procedure of the
Legislative Assembly of the State and for any special
responsibility of the Governor in order to secure the
proper functioning of such committee.
(2) The Governor shall annually, or whenever so
required by the President, make a report to the President
regarding the administration of the Hill Areas in the
State of Manipur and the executive power of the Union
shall extend to the giving of directions to the State as to
the administration of the said areas.
[Explanation. — In this article, the expression “Hill
Areas” means such areas as the President may, by order,
declare to be Hill areas.]
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Is this going to be the much talked about “Interim” arrangement?? WITHOUT DILUTING / SCRAPPING the demand for a separate State as stated by the WB Chief Secretary in the third tripartite?

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We thought Nitesh already has the proofs in his statements here.

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Perfectly said!

“The Nagarik newspaper welcomed the restaurants, saying they gave “an opportunity for Nepalese customers for cheaper and better food and an alternative.””

how do we reconcile these two lines from the same report…unless in Nepal the normal laws of economics don’t apply..or could it be that the newspaper was talking about Nepalese customers who having had their pockets strained by Michelin star rated restaurants that dot Thamel would now have KFC to fall back upon in these hard times???

first of all try understanding gravity from the point of view of general relativity…..

imagine your self on an elevator moving with constant velocity or to simplify the matter at rest(still constant velocity)…if you drop something in it, it would accelerate downwards with ‘g’ (the so called acceleration due to ‘gravity’)…now if the same experiment was being carried out on an elevator in outer space traveling upwards with acceleration ‘g’, the ball would still fall with acceleration ‘g’….meaning the results would be the same, from which Einstein postulated the equivalence principal: ‘no experiment conducted in a closed system would allow you to distinguish between a gravitational field and uniform acceleration’….
one consequence of this is that if you were on an elevator coming down to earth with acceleration ‘g’ you would feel weightless….the same way you would feel weightless in far out space….and there would be no way to internally discover whether the weightlessness was due to elevator falling with ‘g’ or because you were in far out space……

now regarding light..
imagine you were in an elevator and your friend (the same guy who shouted about reincarnation from around the corner )with a torch light was outside it…we can think about three distinct situations…
(i) if your lift was at rest and your friend shone the torch…you would see that the light traveled straight….
(ii) if your lift was traveling at a constant velocity relative to the person outside, light would travel along a straight line path away from you…i.e. a straight line path angled away, while to the bloke outside it would still travel in a straight line
(iii) your lift was accelerating…the beam in this case would follow a curved path (ok no bending) away from you….

now (iii) has got profound implication because if light curves in an accelerating elevator then according to the equivalence principle it would curve in a gravitational field too…

so the question of light traveling in ’straight line’ does not arise at all…in spacetime (the four dimensional fabric of which the universe is made) light travels along a geodesic path between two points…if the geodesic is curved, the path of light is also curved…
now anyone who has flown intercontinental flights can tell us that the shortest distance between two cities isn’t always a straight line…(in a globe, the longest distance between two points is in fact a straight line)…..

“and has neither geographical, nor historical or social bases.”

Thanks..

Theba

Ref. to understand the theory of Rajputisation, please refer to the original studies by Ranajit Guha on the same.

Ofcourse Bengal has a distinct ‘flavour’,which it has developed over the years through amalgamation of different races and cutural contact with many more – for eg. the tribal roots as well as Aryan influence, the intrgration of the region into the Hindu fold, with tribal elements like mother goddess worship being retained…, the muslim influence, the British influence as well as influences from diff. ethnic groups from other parts of India and beyond, have all contributed to this fantastic melting pot of culture, and this is our ‘flavour’, and we are proud of it.

Could Rabinnath or Michael Madhusan be what they became without coming into contact with the west? In Tagore’s music, dance forms, and philosophy, we see a ‘wholeness’ and internationalism that is only possible in a culture that is ‘genetically’ inclusive as the ‘Bengal’i.

About Gorkha, of couse originally Gorkhas ARE those who hail from the Gorkhas province in present Nepal. We all know about the history – PN Shah and his conquests, and the defeat by the British and formation of Gorkha regiments, etc. And about Guru Gorkhanath, plese refer to the studies on Rajputisation/ Hinduisation of the Gorkhas…. there have been studies on these.. which show the process by which the tribals gradually were inducted into the hindu fold, through the cration of a ‘legend’. This hinduisation process was common….in the peripheral areas of the hindu fold where the services of a saint or brahman was used to create a legend for the ruling family, which made possible for their ‘induction’ as Kshattriyas. The ‘lowly’ in the social ladder ofcourse joined the hindu fold as OBCs and lower castes…

The argument for creation of Gorkhaland in Darjeeling is akin to the creaton of a Bihari land in Assam for example, or a bengalistan in the silicon vally of USA… it is quite an ‘outrageous’ demand actually and nither geographical, nor historical or social bases.

It is ofcourse a ‘political demand’ made to serve certain political purposes/ interests.

Hope I made myself clear.

Happy Thanks Giving day.

ENTREPRENURSHIP OF HIGEST CLASS IS COMING UP IN SIKKIM BECAUSE OF THE INITIATIVE AND HARD WORK OF PEOPLE. SIKKIM HAS GREAT FUTURE.

Since I was not convinced with your idea of bending light rays, let me throw some light on the light again (pun intended) from different angle of incidence. Btw, please not be taken this as an attempt to put you down or challenge your might or something more sinister, these are my arguments that can be defended, clarified or even proven wrong if I am wrong.

I hope you would acknowledge the points about the light mentioned below:

(i) that its ray travels in a straight direction (in fact shortest distance between two points, smaller the distance lesser the energy and more stable the transition process) in vacuum (where there is uniformity in refractive index)
(ii) that it bends only when there is something which can distort the space-time geometry (e.g. strong gravitational force) as predicted by Einstein theory.
(iii) that obstruction (e.g. wall, humans, water etc.) along the path of propagation merely reflect, diffract or absorb or in other word change the course of the ray but the reflected/diffracted ray will still be propagating along a straight line….until it bumps into another obstruction..to repeat the same story again..

Now, if you see it (the phenomenon mentioned in (iii)) as a bending ray, it is grammatically correct but wrong in some sense of word just like your sentence“the elephant is a bird that sings in spanish”.

My idea of “bending” is a banana-shot going inside the goal post after circumventing an obstruction/shield of defenders and not the one that hits one of the defenders, resulting in deflection and an unfortunate goal.