On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 20:07 +0530, Venkat Mangudi - Silk wrote: > We, many Indians, believe that we invented our discovered most > things.
Would you be able to say if anything was invented or discovered at all in India? As far as my recent reading goes, there are some interesting things that happened in India but they happened in a period of such great antiquity that they are all dismissed as mumbo jumbo. This is ironic because the ancestors of many people on this list were responsible for retaining a memory of some of those things until the education system in India was modified to ignore those earlier things and learn what we know now. And at least some of what we have been taught is absolute nonsense. Lies concocted for academic and racial convenience would not be an exaggerated expression to use in this regard. The persecution of TamBrams in Tamil Nadu is a direct consequence of the fake history that has been conjured up for us which we otherwise digest with gusto. It is another matter that there was little personal loss and much personal gain for those who chose modern education. But there has been some loss because most of us don't even know what we don't know because we have been told that what has been rejected is not worth knowing. Strictly speaking that is not true, apart from the fact that it impacts Indian psyche in so many ways that most people do not seem to recognize. shiv
