Shastri Philip

Five rupees is nothing for most of my readers. Not even if I ask them for 5 rupees a day — for the sake of a healthy India, because if India is healthy, all of us are blessed.

Just by Potassium permanganate worth Rs. 50, divide into 10 parts, and give one of them to the roadside teashop that your frequent every day. Show him how to make a solution. Ask him to drop all cups, saucers, and tumblers into it for five minutes before the final washing.

This is not a difficult thing to do, but by doing that you would save hundreds of people that month from getting amebic infection and other kinds of infection that are spread through shared drinking vessels.

If you can find ten people whom you can persuade to do so, the 50 rupee that you invest will eventually result in tens of thousands of healthy people, hundreds of thousands of saved man hours, and millions of rupees saved.

We need to work for the welfare of India. We talk about projects worth millions of rupees. Sure, they are needed. But there are thousands of things that can be done for our Motherland for far less. So less that it is embarrassing even to speak of the small amounts involved.

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The word Blog, and particularly Weblog, conjures up images of personal diaries in the minds of old timers.

[Photograph: the author with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Based upon the principles of quantum physics, the equivalent optical magnification of this machine exceeds 200,000X. It is used to study the surface of materials in the physics of extremely small things]

However, just as every other technological breakthrough has been adapted for a wide variety of uses in the net-world, blogs and the blogging platforms are now finding wide application. More so because of the ease with which blog software can be used to create exceptionally attractive and readable websites even by novices. Any number of plugins are available to make the blog platform a virtual Swiss Army Knife.

With things being so, I urge Indian bloggers to launch more Science-related blogs because ultimately almost all material progress in society comes only through science (where science is defined as an objective study of the material and the non material world).

The spread of science in any country results in long-term prosperity — at every level of life, as I will mention in the forthcoming articles.

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The India of my childhood (the 1950s) was a poor India. Money was scarce, food was scarce, and good cloths were a luxury. Thus it was easy for me to believe the false propaganda that India has always been a poor nation that needed a bit of help from Europe for its upliftment.

Time has come for truth to be told, for our national pride depends both upon what we are and also upon what we were. Ancient India was known to be a house full of gold, and that is the reason why all kind of people came from the north-western borders for the loot. And loot they got because of the divisions within the country.

It is business that made India rich. Business in every conceivable thing. So much so that coins were common in India around 1000 BC. What is more, instead of being made of base metals (that comes out of the present-day mints), almost all coins were of silver. Hundreds of thousands of them have survived! There were also plenty of gold coins, but it has not survived in that great numbers due to loot, melting, and the smaller number in any country of currency of the highest value.

Consider this only as a seed-thought to my readers to look into the great past that India had, and then declare it to boost the morale while we ride crest of financial bliss.

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A theme repeatedly found among many Anglophiles is that India was totally illiterate and intellectually defunct when the British came to rule us, and that it is they who brought light to India. A slogan repeated often transforms into a “fact” in the unconscious mind of the listeners.

Two statements made by British writers often come to my mind. The first one in effect said/implied that the knowledge/wisdom of the greatest native Indian scholar was not more that that of a tenth standard boy of Europe. The second one in effect said that all the books written by natives at that time would not fill even a single European cupboard.

Interestingly, the very Europeans burned thousands upon thousands of precious handwritten material on one pretext or another. They had a few centuries to do that, and they did their job without going on a holiday. In spite of that, more than one million handwritten manuscripts are said to have survived in India.

The biggest question now is, the Europeans burned, destroyed, and plundered handwritten manuscripts from India for two centuries or more, and in spite of that reportedly more than a million identified manuscripts are left in India. The number of yet to be discovered manuscripts might be ten times that figure. On the other hand, the British have no comparable ancient written wealth to show.

The question now is, did we ever need education from a group of people who did not have anything comparable when Indian sages were authoring multi-volume treatises? The statement that the British gave us education is a modern lie. They probably gave us the Western education, with all its moral ills, but they were not the first to bring education and literacy to India.

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When there is a fire, most people pour water on the top of it. Experienced people direct the jet to the root of the fire — the place were the inflammable material really is.

Only a few people in any given society at any given time recognize the root cause of everything, things that move the society. Then they go about influencing at that level. This is what the British did in their long drawn-out process in enslaving India. Most people saw the enslavement at the physical level, but the real subduing took place at the invisible level.

They left, but the scars remain. Nay, the slavery remains. Worse, it becomes stronger each day exactly the way many strong drinks become stronger with time. Today the media, the education system, even the very through process of educated Indians is permeated with ideas alien to India and the Indian ideals. We need to change this mental slavery.

Shastri Philip will work towards this goal of freedom and empowerment. Come and join us by interacting with us, critiquing us, and also by spreading the word.

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