u/rmk_1808

Important milestone, certainly a underrated player but has now become an important member.

I thought somebody would have already posted, but it looks like nobody has. Happy 387th Birthday to the wonderful city we all call home.

I was reading about Operation Bluestar, and one thing that I could not understand was why more effort wasn't made to reduce the number of civilians who were still inside the Golden Temple before the army started its operation.

As per the Wikipedia entry, the civilian casualties were at least 4,000-5,000, but I am not sure if we will ever know for sure the exact number.

 Though the actual military Operation began on the morning of 04-Jun-1984 there was firing into various buildings of and near the temple complex to assess the training of the supporters of Bhindranwale that was undertaken by the CRPF. This itself was a clue to Bhindranwale and his supporters that Operations could start any day, so there was no element of surprise which could prevented the civilian evacuation or kept the area beyond the limits of civilians

On 02-Jun-1984 the army soldiers began taking control of the city of Amritsar, more escalations and it was now clear that the Operation was imminent.

But even on 03-Jun-1984, the day before the operation started, there were at least thousands of pilgrims still inside the temple who had no warning of what was about to happen.

I know the Army had some initial thought that Bhindranwale and his supporters would surrender and would not want bloodshed and a military operation to happen inside the Golden Temple, but a young Sikh officer posing as a pilgrim was sent on 02-Jun-1984 on a recon mission to the complex. He noted defensive preparations, so it should have been clear that Bhindranwale supports will fight till the bitter end, but still no effort was made to warn or evacuate the civilians inside the temple complex.

Did the Indian Govt and the Army got it completely wrong or were the civilians mostly pilgrims, forcefully kept inside as human shields to prevent military action?

Just as little says a cool night after a really long time. Hope the day time temperature gets better in coming days.

Question as per the title, tried investing in a few International MFs like ICICI Pru NASDAQ,Motilal Oswal Nasdaq 100 FOF,Mirae FANG all 3 are not accepting any funds either lump sum or SIP/STP mode was wanted to check if there are any funds which are still accepting fresh purchase. Was investing through MF Central will it make any difference if we do if from the MFs site directly?

Another example of what good writing can deliver. Appreciation to the Director Subash K Raj for sticking to his guns for delivering a full fledged action movie and not including unnecessary elements like a comedy track, a love angle and message for the society. There are some generic elements like corporate villian and an endless stream of bad guys to beat up but that did not affect overall feel of the movie too much. I thought they could have kept the John Kokken character hidden and revealed him at the end. This perhaps could have opened possibility to a sequel with Arjun and his Sister's back story added. May be they can still do it.