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Boot lickers like u might even go to the extent that Rahul Gandhi (Raul Vinci / Raul Gandy) invented the plane n other discoveries.
Insulting vedic heritage is something that earns your bread n butter.
I wonder, how come “the print” got their hands on such a piece of news, while I couldn’t spot even a single main-stream news company or at least AICTE, making such an announcement or reference. Just another old stupid click bait trickery from the print, to make fool out of readers and shell BS out of their acutely infectious minds. With all our rebels without a cause, interpreting this fictional piece of sensational news as per the level of intellectuality & boldness they have attained within the last 4 years, first & foremost need to hold on to their liberal judgments for few minutes and search out for a guy named “Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade”. That might not ease your pain in the rump or control your sick inside to respond to my comment without spoiling another moment, but shall certainly add to the untouched & unbiased sector of your intellectual mind.
Wow! So many blind believers in the comments! Shameful… Just shameful.
Batteries existed in the vedic age yet they understood agni as the only source of energy?
And they had planes flying in the vedic age too. Yet they didn’t know there was world beyond the Himalayas!
What next? Aryabhatta invented the zero on a Quantum Computer?
A philosophical hypothesis is not a working model. It is not a scientific invention. An epic is a work of fiction. This is the same as saying H.G. Wells invented the Time Machine because he wrote about it!
I am a NIT student and I get to see how the Hindutva mentality is being slowly injected into young minds to create a generation of brainwashed propagandists. Funny how they talk about it being Indian culture. Last I checked Indian does not = Hindu. So how about including Islamic medieval pseudoscience texts? Why not Rumi’s philosophies about space and time? Why not the mechanical knowledge of so many tribes across India?
May be because it doesn’t fit the RSS’ agenda.
Our educational institutes have been our politicians’ Jantar Mantar. Even though we have some of the best brains of the world, potential for cutting edge research and innovation, these institutes are left catering to the whims of people who could barely pass class 12. Resulting in a country that could have the economy of a superpower but works at call centers for some MNC’s cheap labour. It has been too long that our education system has been used as an indoctrination system.
It is time we, the youth fixed things – Next year, 2019.
You are conflating two things – a minister saying stupid things and the course being introduced. There is no doubt that Indians made a lot of mathematical and scientific discoveries which are not credited to them. What is needed is a balanced approach – there is no need to become a bhakt of ancient India but also there is no need to laugh at their achievements. There should be a systematic and appropriately skeptical study of the available texts and credit should be allocated where it is due – and it should be done without hyperbole.
Thankfully we have understood our lost education and vedic reference, still many of them seems to be shocked on this move, Strange but this people must be too busy in following what britishers are sucessfull enforcing, it will take time but we will again have our vedic knowledge restored till other century.
The story is totally incorrect….As far as RSS backing is concerned. RSS had no idea of this being done. The journalist has no proof to the effect it seems…she simply wants to politicize academic work.
It’s a great initiative. But the journalist should produce documentary evidence for RSS endorsement. Just because it’s heritage and ancient Indian Philosophy including Buddhism it is not right wing. Negates a log of hardwork by some serious experts.
The battery as described in the Agastya Sahmita can be prepared by any High School / College with easily avilable materials . Infact students from a local college from Pune demonstrated the working of this battery to visitors during a seminar conducted by The Deccan College. The manuscript was disovered by the late K Vaze in the year 1920 in Ujjain in a bundle of ancient manuscripts. I also would recommend inclusion of Chumbak Mani a solar cell like substance developed and studied by scientists of IIT ,Mumbai under a CSIR project.
We no longer need to blindly accept the credit to western nationals for many discoveries & inventions since archeological surveys & innumerous evidences clearly indicate that civilized society with advanced technologies existed in India much before invasion of Portuguese….Or even Mughal invasion.
Time to rewrite textbooks of school level too.
Monkeying around with anything – ancient texts or modern science – has nothing to do with reality or knowledge. It’s a product of shallow minds, often with an agenda.
The beauty of India is in her infinite capacity to assimilate, and the best works in art and craft, music, literature and dance have come out of liberals not propagandists.
Absolutely for it. It is high time WE know what is OURS and take pride in being Indians. We have been made to foolishly follow what the British wanted us to learn without giving credit to our ancient knowledge, invention and discoveries.
Are you serious?
I’m sorry if you were being sarcastic.
Like cow exhale oxygen…..
What all these people are putting up as facts is what they ‘believe’ to be true. In order to prove it, they have to furnish tangible proof (not just statements of ‘experts’) which state what they say to be true. Just by saying these things doesn’t mean that they existed in truth. If they actually exist in truth, furnish the proof. Otherwise these things make us look like a bunch of fools on the global stage. Then you can forget about calling India as ‘Vishwaguru’.
So you believe India invented battery 5,000 years ago and Indians were using battery then?
Right. There were only stupid filthy Indians and Bretons in the old world. Silly India, again, the Land Of The Bizarre!
Boot lickers like u might even go to the extent that Rahul Gandhi (Raul Vinci / Raul Gandy) invented the plane n other discoveries.
Insulting vedic heritage is something that earns your bread n butter.
I wonder, how come “the print” got their hands on such a piece of news, while I couldn’t spot even a single main-stream news company or at least AICTE, making such an announcement or reference. Just another old stupid click bait trickery from the print, to make fool out of readers and shell BS out of their acutely infectious minds. With all our rebels without a cause, interpreting this fictional piece of sensational news as per the level of intellectuality & boldness they have attained within the last 4 years, first & foremost need to hold on to their liberal judgments for few minutes and search out for a guy named “Shivkar Bāpuji Talpade”. That might not ease your pain in the rump or control your sick inside to respond to my comment without spoiling another moment, but shall certainly add to the untouched & unbiased sector of your intellectual mind.
let the book be printed/ distributed abroad too, so that we become a laughing stock worldwide.
Good move
Wow! So many blind believers in the comments! Shameful… Just shameful.
Batteries existed in the vedic age yet they understood agni as the only source of energy?
And they had planes flying in the vedic age too. Yet they didn’t know there was world beyond the Himalayas!
What next? Aryabhatta invented the zero on a Quantum Computer?
A philosophical hypothesis is not a working model. It is not a scientific invention. An epic is a work of fiction. This is the same as saying H.G. Wells invented the Time Machine because he wrote about it!
I am a NIT student and I get to see how the Hindutva mentality is being slowly injected into young minds to create a generation of brainwashed propagandists. Funny how they talk about it being Indian culture. Last I checked Indian does not = Hindu. So how about including Islamic medieval pseudoscience texts? Why not Rumi’s philosophies about space and time? Why not the mechanical knowledge of so many tribes across India?
May be because it doesn’t fit the RSS’ agenda.
Our educational institutes have been our politicians’ Jantar Mantar. Even though we have some of the best brains of the world, potential for cutting edge research and innovation, these institutes are left catering to the whims of people who could barely pass class 12. Resulting in a country that could have the economy of a superpower but works at call centers for some MNC’s cheap labour. It has been too long that our education system has been used as an indoctrination system.
It is time we, the youth fixed things – Next year, 2019.
Islam didn’t exist in ancient India, u fool
He said medievel. Where are your eyes.
Agni is the source of all energy. Agni is Sun, Heat, Solar. Where do you charge your battery?
I agree
It should be taught in Sanskrit
I fully endorse the view that Charles Darwin theory of evolution is total rubbish.
You are conflating two things – a minister saying stupid things and the course being introduced. There is no doubt that Indians made a lot of mathematical and scientific discoveries which are not credited to them. What is needed is a balanced approach – there is no need to become a bhakt of ancient India but also there is no need to laugh at their achievements. There should be a systematic and appropriately skeptical study of the available texts and credit should be allocated where it is due – and it should be done without hyperbole.
Thankfully we have understood our lost education and vedic reference, still many of them seems to be shocked on this move, Strange but this people must be too busy in following what britishers are sucessfull enforcing, it will take time but we will again have our vedic knowledge restored till other century.
The person who posted this, is he/she a science/engineering student?? I wonder.
Unfortunately media in India is agianst Indian knowledge. Hence such news are always given in negative views..
The story is totally incorrect….As far as RSS backing is concerned. RSS had no idea of this being done. The journalist has no proof to the effect it seems…she simply wants to politicize academic work.
It’s a great initiative. But the journalist should produce documentary evidence for RSS endorsement. Just because it’s heritage and ancient Indian Philosophy including Buddhism it is not right wing. Negates a log of hardwork by some serious experts.
The battery as described in the Agastya Sahmita can be prepared by any High School / College with easily avilable materials . Infact students from a local college from Pune demonstrated the working of this battery to visitors during a seminar conducted by The Deccan College. The manuscript was disovered by the late K Vaze in the year 1920 in Ujjain in a bundle of ancient manuscripts. I also would recommend inclusion of Chumbak Mani a solar cell like substance developed and studied by scientists of IIT ,Mumbai under a CSIR project.
We no longer need to blindly accept the credit to western nationals for many discoveries & inventions since archeological surveys & innumerous evidences clearly indicate that civilized society with advanced technologies existed in India much before invasion of Portuguese….Or even Mughal invasion.
Time to rewrite textbooks of school level too.
Monkeying around with anything – ancient texts or modern science – has nothing to do with reality or knowledge. It’s a product of shallow minds, often with an agenda.
The beauty of India is in her infinite capacity to assimilate, and the best works in art and craft, music, literature and dance have come out of liberals not propagandists.
Absolutely for it. It is high time WE know what is OURS and take pride in being Indians. We have been made to foolishly follow what the British wanted us to learn without giving credit to our ancient knowledge, invention and discoveries.
Are you serious?
I’m sorry if you were being sarcastic.
Like cow exhale oxygen…..
What all these people are putting up as facts is what they ‘believe’ to be true. In order to prove it, they have to furnish tangible proof (not just statements of ‘experts’) which state what they say to be true. Just by saying these things doesn’t mean that they existed in truth. If they actually exist in truth, furnish the proof. Otherwise these things make us look like a bunch of fools on the global stage. Then you can forget about calling India as ‘Vishwaguru’.
So you believe India invented battery 5,000 years ago and Indians were using battery then?
Right. There were only stupid filthy Indians and Bretons in the old world. Silly India, again, the Land Of The Bizarre!