Indians past glory

Yesterday I read an article on global economic history written by a German, in which I came to know that in the first millenium Indians controlled 30% of world trade. Indians were the best traders. Indians were the largest ship builders until the year 1700 AD.

Indians traded with Japanese in the east and to with Romans in the west which no other countries or communities did at that time. India was the richest country in the world. The kings of India was the richest persons in the world.

Many more superlative were used to discribe India and Indians. The article further said that by the middle of this century India and China again will the super powers of the world.

The above informations were new to Indians. Many Indians do not know their own history and their own potential. There are communities just by convertion of religion claim they to had contributed to science discoveries, but their ancestors not even converted to the religion when the discoveries were made.

The greatness of the Indians can be used to build intelectual confidence among the present generation of Indians.

Indian Calenders and Mathematics

There are six main calenders in the world. They are as from east, Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arab Jews and the Roman which is know as Gregorian. Indian kaliyuga calender is 5108 years old as at 2008 and the calender works perfectly with modern science.

Indian mathematician Varahamira perfected Indian calender as 365.25875 days in a year which is 365.2536 days in a year.

Tamilans celebrate Aadi 18( Aadi peruku) which fells on the 18th day aadi month is a day Kannagi burnt Madurai and on that day, in Cauvery Pum Pattinam, the highest tide of the year will occur.

Every thing works perfectly. So well calculated.

Aryabatha discovered "pi" which India's present to the world. Indians discovered sine formular in trigonometry which led to the discovery of cosine and tangent.

There are lot of contributions by Indians to science and mathematics which the present generation is ignorant.

In order to give intelectual confidence to our students these information must be brought to the knowledge of our Indian students.

Arab learnt the mathematics from Indians and passed the same to the Western world.

China in 2020

Japan was the first Asian nation to defeat an European nation in a war. South Korea paralleled Japan in Economic development in the 1980s. Chinaopened her door after the death of Chairman Moa by Deng.

China's vision is to be Master of Every thing in the world. They are having impressive economic growth for the last 30 years. Their goods have been flooding every country at affordable price.

Their superemacy had displayed in the 2008 Olympics. First Asia country to top the list as most number of gold medals collected in Olympics history.

China's vision is to master of everything, producing goods needed by every culture and religion in the world, mastering every art and sports and best in every thing possible.

Only if there is competition to sing "devaram" in Olympics I won't be suprise China winning a gold medal in that.

We Indians are not serious in doing any thing. Only if every one of us work with a common vision we can be the best. Indians have the intelligence and greater level of sense of survival with which we can be excellent.

Knowing ourselves

Recenly I read a book by Amirtha Sen, titled "Argumentative Indian". He wrote on history of India and about Indian contribution to science and mathematics. I recommend every Indian should read this book to know about ourselves. I will write about the content of the in te near future.

We should also read books by APJ. Abdul Kalam. He had written several books, and all are fine books. He wrote on future generations.