Re: India’s proud heritage
It was indeed strange to hear Modi said that so I looked it up in Rediff which had a fuller version. It is to do with a speech opening a hospital, looks more to shame Indians into better cleanliness and primary healthcare. A leader uses whatever language the people understand to push them forward.
Nobody is denying the state of knowledge and technology was far advanced in ancient India than now - except nobody in India or abroad understands how they did it.
Transplants, invitro, number system manipulations, flying machines using different propulsions, sound barrier shenanigans, space flight, molecular mayhem, end and resurrection of time, remote material manifestations…it is a scientist’s duty to dream first. Without that we are doomed as a race.
We don’t know how but we can certainly use these what can only called ‘claims’ as guides to areas of dreaming.
But having lost the methods, all you have is the heritage but the present is poverty. Is it so wrong to use Hindu accomplishments from Hindu mythology to motivate a country that is full of Hindus?
This is the part of the speech that makes me think as above.
"It is embarrassing to compare healthcare facilities in our country with those available abroad. Neonatal mortality is a matter of grave concern and so is maternal mortality.
“When a child falls into a borewell, families sit in front of TVs and the media gives a running commentary as gloom prevails everywhere, but we are hardly aware that hundreds of children die soon after being born. Many times, the mother and child both die for want of primary healthcare,” he said after inaugurating the refurbished and partly newly-built H N Reliance Foundation Hospital.
Thanks for pointing this out. Its interesting how WE start salivating and jump to conclusions at the mere mention of that dreaded four letter word - MODI
