Editor,
India is set to become the world’s youngest country by 2020 when 64 per cent of our population will be in the working age group. Given that the West would start aging, this will offer India the most effective resources. However, according to Global Hunger Index – 2017, only 9.6 per cent of our children, between 6 and 23 months of age, receive adequate diet and 97 million children in India are underweight! Thus Indian economy is going to face a gigantic problem of unhealthy and unskilled work-force in the future, which will further degrade our resources into liabilities. Ironically, according to a study, two-thirds of food to feed 600 million poor Indians is lost as hungry millions do not have enough purchasing power to buy the same. Now, government itself can buy it from farmers with minimum support price (MSP). It will certainly stop the incidence of farmers’ suicides. The excess food can then be distributed to students in addition to the midday meal. This will attract more students to school and address the issues like illiteracy, school dropout, child labour, hunger and malnutrition.
Yours etc.,
Sujit De,
Kolkata
India’s impact on Western intellectuals
Editor,
Sitting on the beach, staring at the pale blue sea I am wondering if the world is really spherical. I can clearly see the flat, never-ending sea of water and thought to myself, how did we find out the world was actually a spherical shape? Thanks to my Yoga teacher and my association with this ancient discipline that brought me in touch with the amazing book called ‘Great Minds on India’ by Salil Gewali, which answered my question and took my knowledge of the ancient Indians much further than I could have imagined. Indian sages asserted that the earth was spherical many centuries before the Greek’s speculation over this idea. I quickly realised that the science and the literature of modern times is far behind compared to the ideas expounded by ancient Indians. This book truly demonstrates that India affected the cutting edge world; these are cases of extraordinary individuals that helped society in different ways, who gave credit to India’s disclosures and discoveries.
Salil Gewali’s book demonstrates to us how ancient Indians impacted present-day science, mathematics, philosophy, linguistics and others. The book initially alludes to one of the most eminent individuals ever – Albert Einstein. It tells us that Einstein said, ‘Without Indians no advantageous logical revelation would have been made,’ meaning that without the “numeric framework”, that Indians discovered it would not have been conceivable.
Dick Teresi recognized that Indians discovered that the earth circles the sun and realized that a planet’s path is elliptical a great many centuries before the thought was acknowledged inside Europe and the rest of the western world. Dick Teresi is an exceptionally famous author and columnist, who was best known for authoring ‘Lost Discoveries.’ Archibald Wheeler trusts that the Indians knew “everything” and in the event that it was conceivable to decipher their old dialect, we would have every one of the responses to every one of our inquiries. He was the co-creator of ‘The component of atomic splitting’ by Niels Bohr. Wheeler is the researcher and coined Black Hole, who is also instrumental in the development of the Hydrogen Bomb.
Erwin Schrodinger, a splendid physicist, trusted that blood transmutation from India is an unquestionable requirement as it spared other-worldly pallor. Schrodinger was the designer of Wave Mechanics, which is one of the best logical creations of the twenty-first century.
One of the best hypotheses, the ‘Hypothesis of relativity’ is a hypothesis made by the ancient Indian sages and is “light year”. Light years are utilized as a part of room terms right up to the present and is educated in science ponders within school foundations. This was said by Alan Watts, who was a logician and a standout amongst the most productive scholars of 20th century.
Indians also investigated the importance of natural laws, (many yet to be discovered by the modern scientists) the nature of the soul, the birth of the universe, and what is past the cycle of life, birth, and demise, the connection between body, mind, knowledge, and soul. Their vision addressed the idea of holiness, the pre-eminent planning power that may underlie normal laws. To put it plainly, they tried to know everything that the psyche can appreciate—from the particle to unendingness, the making of the universe, and its significance. The source of different branches of science, craftsmanship, and theory ascribed to this human advancement are genuinely exceptional results of India’s “Jijnyasa”, or urge to want to know with clear vision. Finally, I choose to close this letters with the opinion of a pioneering philosopher of German romanticism August Schlegel – ‘Even the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans appears like a feeble spark before the Vedanta’.
Yours etc.,
Bernie David Holt,