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Contents

1 Holi 2 Kashmir 3 Flag 4 picture of holi 5 National sport 6 Images

Holi

Can we have a picture of Holi festival, showing how it is celebrated/worshipped in India, and also respecting the idealness and philosophy of what Holi stands for...

We could... If you could contribute this picture it would be great. You'd have to make an account first. Also, if a website could freely licence an image to us, it would be great to replace the current image.  =Nichalp (Talk)=

Kashmir

I want to have a separate section which says plight of kashmiri people. All pakistanis watching this please add content so that we can show true face of india. OmerFa 03:01, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

By all means, add verifiable facts, but in the Kashmir article. -- Sundar (talk • contribs) 04:10, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Before OmerFa (talk • contribs) starts a flame war here by introducing disputable or possibly POV claims here, I just want to point out that OmerFa has vandalized India according to this diff of India (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=India&diff=prev&oldid=15437549) and upon a request not to vandalize pages, vandalized/blanked my user page according to this diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ragib&diff=prev&oldid=15437653) of my user page, and then further retaliated with vandlization according to this diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Bangladesh/Intro&diff=prev&oldid=15450217) of Wikiportal Bangladesh. India is an example of a nicely written article, and has gained featured article status, and it doesn't need to be ruined by addition of countless facts to the status quo. In case you *really*, neutrally want to add content on plight of the Kashmiri people, there is ample space to do that in the Kashmir article, or Terrorism in Kashmir article. Please do not mess up top level country articles. Thanks. --Ragib 04:23, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ragib wants to show me in bad light. That is not very surprising. He is from Bangladesh, not from Kashmir or Pakistan. He cannot feel what pakistanis feel for fellow muslims. I doubt from his name that he is a muslim, but we Pakistanis feel for Bangladesh because you are also a muslim country. Unfortunately muslims fought with muslims instead of fighting indians together. we still are in favour of one muslim country and we will always support other muslim countries. The genocide of Bangla people is indias propaganda. OmerFa 04:33, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I am refraining from comments as your vandalism above, and the comments here speak for themselves. The attempt to incite me or others here into flaming you wouldn't work. Please try to actually *contribute* something to wikipedia. Thanks. --Ragib 04:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Omar, if you are entitled to harbour an anti-India feeling as a free citizen of this world, but wikipedia does not. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia which tries to potray the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. There are numerous blogs and forums in the internet that you may vent your views on; but not here. This is not a site to discuss politics neither is it a place to make condescending remarks on wikipedians of different countries. See wikipedia:no personal attacks. This article about India is on the country as a whole, there is absolutely no need of adding a section on Kashmir here. Even the map is as unbiased as possible. There are a shortage of Pakistani contributors, why don't you improve on Pakistani articles instead to conteract the North America/ Europe dominance? Your vandalism is easily reverted; blanking an article is not a delete. Attacking other's countries' pages isn't going to make you a Pakistani patriot, writing good articles on Pakistan for the world to read will. There are a few Pakistani editors I know who take keen interest in India related articles. You are a newbie here and we are giving you two choices: contribute in a constructive manner from now on, or be prepared to be blocked. =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:37, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Flag

color of the Flag of india is not correct. the top strip will not be yollow ! it should be saffron .

I'm glad to know you too feel so. I thought my monitor was at fault. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:17, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

picture of holi

I do not think the picture of holi is taken in India !!

Do you have a better and free one to replace it with? =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:29, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

I suggest to replace the Holi picture with a Diwali picture. I also would prefer Nataraj instead of Vishnu/Narasimha picture. IndiBoy 23:54, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) The picture here. Nataraja (http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Siwa-nataraja.jpg), I guess is in the public domain. IndiBoy 04:01, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have reverted your edits. 1) The Nataraja image does not have a licence. We cannot put up an unfree image on an atricle that meets Featured Article standards. Also a metal? idol has little representation of India's history as compared to a clay one. 2) Could you get a more representative but *free* image of Diwali? The current image is a little dull. Diwali is a colourful festival, and though I support replacing the current Holi image, I'd prefer we keep the Holi image till a more colourful and free image is obtained. =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:22, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

I thought both the images were free because they were from wikipedia itself. But I still think the two images should be replaced.. IndiBoy 09:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You have to check the status of the images to see if they are free. Some images may not be free and it is incorrect to assume that all images here are free. Images in Wikimedia commons are all free. By all means change the images. Keep in mind the following points before changing:

1. Is the image free?
2. Is the image representative of the text alongside?
3. Is the image colourful?
4. Is the image stunning? (hard to obtain such kind of works of art)

=Nichalp «Talk»= 09:54, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Too bad, I reverted the holi image back since the GPL is disputed. Also I would suggest replacing Narasimha image by something like Trimurty (http://www.templenet.com/images/elephanta.jpg). Is there any public domain image available? IndiBoy

Would anybody mind if I replace Vishnu/Narasimha image by The sun temple at Konark (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wheel_of_Konark%2C_Orissa%2C_India.JPG)? IndiBoy

I realise that the Holi image is not tagged. The uploader of the Diwali image allows PD usage. So we put the Diwali image for now. I have no probs with the Konarak image if you give it a good caption. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:47, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

I would prefer it we could have some images on Indian people. With the Holi image gone, people are missing. commons:Category:India might have some. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:07, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

National sport

India's national sport is field hockey !!!! I knew that it is kabaddi. =Kxd23 «Talk»=

It is field hockey. -- Sundar (talk • contribs) 14:17, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hockey [1] (http://www.tourindia.com/insignia/sport.htm) =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:32, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Kabaddi is the national sport of Bangladesh, *not* India. Field hockey is India's national sport, as seen in the link above. Thanks. --Ragib 15:44, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Images

Dear anon 130.237.79.106. Please do not left-align the images. It looks ugly on 800x600 resolution. Also do not add too many images to this page. It makes loading difficult. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:34, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

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