Vedic Science

A great video/presentation showing contribution of vedas to the world of mathematics and science

Elephant India (unbound)

Just putting down a thoughtful para from India Unbound by Gurcharan Das:

The Economist has been trying, with some frustration, to paint stripes on India since 1991. It doesnt realize that India will never be a tiger. It is an elephant that has begun to lumber and move ahead. It will never have speed, but it will always have stamina. A buddist text says, "The elephant is the wisest of all animals/the only one who remembers his former lives/and he remians motionless for long periods of time/meditating thereon." The inversion between capitalism and democracy suggests that India might have a more stable, peaceful, and negotiated transition into future than, say China. It will also avoid some of the harmful side effects of an unprepared capitalist society, such as Russia. Although slower, India is more likely to preserve its way of life and its civilization of diversity, tolerance, and spirituality against the onslaught of the global culture. If it does, then it is perhaps a wise elephant.

It is indeed proving itself as a "wise elephant" by emerging in the knowledge based economy. However, this did not happened gradually! I liked a word "Tinkerer" used by Das, he refers that Indians are not Tinkerers but conceptual people. There was always a resistance for manual labor by brahmins and denial for knowledge by Shudras. A tinkerer is one who combines both the knowledge and manual labor and produces innovation. This was the reason there was no industrial revolution in India as compared to other developed countries. However the industrial age is gone and Indian has proven itself in the knowledge age. Indians have wrestled with abstract concepts of the Upanishads for three thousand years, invented zero; just as spiritual space is invisible, so is CYBERSPACE and hence again a "Wise Elephant"

Ganpati Bappa Morya!!!