Bharat Rakshak home page on 28 January 2007 |
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| URL | bharat-rakshak.com |
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| Commercial? | Non-profit |
| Type of site | Military information and community website |
| Registration | Optional (required for forum) |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Seetal Ramesh Patel |
| Launched | 1 July 1997 |
| Alexa rank | 36,589 (January 2012[update])[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Bharat Rakshak ("Defenders of India") is a website devoted to discussing India's military affairs. It was started and is run by military enthusiasts.
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Bharat Rakshak was started in April 1997 by bringing together the individual websites of Indian Defence enthusiasts.[2] The website was officially launched on 1 July 1997 by Seetal Patel and Rupak Chattopadhyay. While the concept of Open Source intelligence, as defined by the United States intelligence community, is still evolving in India, Bharat Rakshak has been cited as a website that could be held in the same category as its western counterparts.[3]
The site gained some notoriety in December 2007, when it was cited for leaking the Official War Histories written by the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) that had remained classified for sometime.[4]
On 15 August 2000, Bharat Rakshak launched a sister website called Amar Jawan. Amar Jawan website is dedicated to the personnel of India's Armed Forces, it means "Immortal Soldier" in Hindi.