And for your kind information, it is not just Indian men who show their manly talents here, you will see even women showing their manly talents better than most men out there.

As others have said, killing unarmed animals is not a manly thing to do, what is manly is what you see in this show – breaking bricks with you forehead via martial arts, Indian martial art forms including Mall Kambh, bending your body like anything using Yoga, playing with fire, and what not.

Coming back to the allegation that Indians do not engage in adventure, I guess you are not aware of the kind of treks and other sports that we have in India today. Just because it is not shown in channels like discovery or NG does not mean that it does not exist. I myself have been trekking for the past 8 years. The western ghats and himalayan regions in India are one of the best places in the world for adventure games. Rafting in river Ganga near Rishikesh is one of the top spots in the river rafting world, and even Brad Pitt came there to get that experience. The kind of adventure games which exist in the Himalayan region are on par with any western society. The only difference between west and India here is that till yesterday most Indians were poor people and hence had to feed themselves and their families first before venturing into adventure or research. All these luxuries matter only after you have enough for your daily bread. Just go and ask those thousands in the US who lost their jobs and went bankrupt in the recent subprime crisis to go and do some adventure sports

Today thanks to its people and enterpreuners most Indians are able to earn adequate and the poverty has come down considerably. India is developing today INSPITE of its politicians. And now such people have enough time to look beyond earning the daily bread. Kusti and Garadi Mane have been in Indian for thousands of years, and today its western version is WWF and wrestling. Martial Arts originated in India, Kalarippayyattu of Kerala is the mother of all modern marital arts, and is practiced in Kerala even today, and was taken to China by Buddhist monks, and there is a written record of this even today at the Shaolin monastery in China. From China it spread to Japan and then to rest of the western world, so I guess west need not teach India what being manly is. Indians know how the britishers stabbed brave Indian kings and soldiers in the back.

The female gender you are talking about, Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, why was she hated so much by President Nixon of US and Henry Kissinger? Why they used derogatory words against her? Because she refused to budge to their pressure and went ahead with the war on Pakistan and liberate Bangladesh? The manly west then was busy funding terrorists via Pakistan to fight the communist USSR in Afghanistan, and today the same terrorists are against US and so the same west has declared a war on terror today.

To say that India is ranting on its glorious past, which other civilization on this planet can claim a continuous history of over 5000 years? Where are all those old Incas, Aztec, Mayan, Mesopotomian, Egyptian, Babylonian civilizations today? In all those places today the invaders are thriving and these civilizations have gone without a trace except for their few ancient monuments and excavated relics. On the other hand in India today inspite of numerous invasions starting from the Greeks, Turks, Huns, Mongolians, Mughals, Ghaznis, Ghouris, to recent British, we still continue to recite the same ancient vedic hymns in our temples thousands of years old even today, unlike these other civilizations and inspite of numerous invasions we never got destroyed. Isn’t that manly enough? Where are the zoroastrian parsis today in Iran? We gave them shelter in India, and today they are one of the most successful business communities in the world like Tatas. Indians are indigenous to India, where were the ancestors of today’s Americans 250 years ago? Can anything be more manly for a civilization than maintaining its continuity for more than 5000 years, inspite of numerous invasions?

Female is the real divinity. Men fight for women, not the other way round. People can be born without a man via test tubes but not without a woman. All other societies are male chauvanistic and so dont do female worship, only hinduism has the richness to worship deities in both genders, and to those who know the vedas – the supreme God is referred to as IT being genderless, not as any male or female.

The Indian dance forms are great art forms which take years of dedication to practice and perform and it is derogatory to term them this way. Just because men do not perform such acts in other parts of the world does not mean that it is bad. Pretending and performing as being something you are not is not easy and that is why it is called an art. And I guess you have not read about brave men going for hunting in India if that is the braveness you are talking about. India has fought much more wars than any other country and is still fighting. Look at how many wars the british lost in India before resorting to their cunning tactics. The first to use Rockets in a war was the Indian king Tippu Sultan who used them against the British in the Anglo-Mysore war which the British lost. The sword of Rana Pratap was so huge and heavy that it simply cut across both the opponent king and the horse he was riding at the same time into two. The sword of Tippu was stolen away by the British and kept in their museum only to be recently won in an auction by an Indian and brought back to India. They still have their British museum and queen’s palace filled with all items looted from India. A mighty British army could not withstand a half-naked fakir Mahatma Gandhiji and what is the use of being so manly then? They were literally begging with Gandhiji to send Indian soldiers to fight with them in the second world war against the Germans. Wasn’t Subhash Chandra Bose masculine enough to build a large army single handed, which otherwise would normally only belong to a country and fight the British as if some country had attacked them? If only Germany had succeeded in making the first atomic bomb during the second world war, all the western maleness that you are talking about would have been gone without a trace today

If with just a couple of centuries of history west can rant so much about its glorious past saying columbus, greeks, romans and what not, why can’t India with thousands of years of history. I am not sure who considers world’s fourth largest army and fourth largest economy weak, dead looser country while at the same time people in the west today fear about their jobs being lost to somebody from this dead looser country to which their own multinationals are flocking to, to gain an entry to its markets.

But having said that, its not as if West is some God, or that everything that is Indian is Bad. West has its own drawbacks, and so does east. There are ample points to criticize west, as well as east. At the same time there are also ample points to praise both east and west. And of course our rich history, science and ancient heritage does belong to us, you cannot expect everybody in the society to do something great that stands on par with their ancestors. Just because there is a murderer in India can somebody say that India should not claim Gandhiji’s non-violent heritage. Just because somebody in US makes racist comments today, can we say that US should not claim its heritage of Abraham Lincoln? There are great ayurvedic research institutes in India even today who are coming up with herbal alternatives to modern allopathic medicines which cause allergies and side effects. Western multi national companies are like giants who never allow any alternate systems which challenge their supremacy to evolve. Just see how many researchers are protesting in the west that these MNCs are not allowing alternate energy sources based on solar and other forms to be piloted on large scale. I know how western medical system has made entire societies in their countries addicted to tablets (unnecessarily).

Coming back to worshiping females, its not just female or not just male, its both genders that are worshipped in India and in Hinduism and that is its uniqueness. Society need not be male chauvanistic either. The moment you say female deities should not be there, you are creating another taliban, another al-qaeda, another male dominated society where women are only second level citizens. Worshiping female deities does not mean not punishing women who err, just like the way worshiping male deities need not mean that males will not be punished if they commit crime

History is about talking ancient positives and negatives, if talking about ancient achievements is parroting ancient times, then no country should teach their history at all to their current generations! In fact talking about ancient achievements is required, because that gives current teenagers positive moral boost to do more and achieve more, and that is precisely what China is doing today. Chinese cities are far better and more modern than most of western cities (if you have been to China), and the current generation there parrot a 10 times more than Indian about their rich ancient history, and they criticize the west a 100 times more than Indians do. At this pace, very soon in the near future, all the world’s tallest, largest, biggest , smallest, technological marvels will all be found in China, not in the so called supreme west. US owes a couple of trillion dollars to China today, not the other way round.

One of the world’s largest armies – the Indian army, one of the largest contributor to UN peace keeping forces, the largest internal armed forces fighting terrorists and maoists in Kashmir, North east, and all other places, the border security forces of India which have built world’s highest motorable roads in the toughest mountain terrains of Himalayas, one of the world’s largest economies today and supposed to be third largest overtaking Japan very soon, a country in which almost every single western company has an outsourced office, a country to which all the western MNCs are flocking up to get an entry into its market, a country whose population of youth under the age of 30 is larger than the entire population of US – if this is not male like then I wonder what is

India has its own issue, and every country has. The US you are talking about is over two centuries ever since it got its Independence (and that after a bloody history of killing most native Americans), on the other hand India has just got its independence just about 60 years away, and what India has achieved is much much more in these 60 years. Where was US at its 60th independence day and where is India at its 60th Independence as one of the world’s largest economies and growing powers? Ask anybody in the US about the term they have introduced called Bangalored , somebody got Bangalored in US means he/she lost job to someone from India, mostly from Bangalore. Americans fear an Indian city not the other way round, haha, that itself makes India more masculine isn’t it, in India we have no such term referring to any American or western city

Why does Obama refer to India and Bangalore every time in his speeches? India is on the right path, we just need to get rid of these sick politicians and clean up the bureacracy and administration. The future belongs to India and China, not the west. India as a continuous civilization has survives for over 5000 years, west is relatively in that sense too young to advise the east.