Several serious unsavoury features of Bol.wood, NO ONE sd forget: 1) LINKS WITH THE UNDERGROUND. Dawood Ibrahim and Jotta Shakeel made their first billions through Bd and smuggling. Bharat Shah, remember? 2) Links to prostitution, drugs and huge BLACK-MONEY 3) Funds driving terrorism, hawala and other channels undermining INDIA 4) Introducing VULGARITY in songs, "choli ke peechay kya hai", SOFT PORNOGRAPHY for e.g., in dances - the forward pelvic thrust was never part of any Indian dance until introduced by Bd. Many foreign countries regard Bd movies as "soft pornography". Yet the Censor Board here has different standards. The Board's main focus seems to be to observes "sickularism" as the other Media do. Moral standards are not its concern, so it seems. Every other country has banned showing smoking and drinking. Not India. 5) Therefore, social and family issues are not that well depicted in Bd. But some serials do a better job. 6) In some serials, characterisation and dialogues are better than Bd. AYURVEDA / SIDDHA / UNANI / HOMEO - -
Invasions from 11th century on did interrupt Indian medicine and technology. We have evidence that surgery was very well develoed. Scholars with medical background are needed to research the available Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam works. There are many at the Saraswati Mahal Library in Tanjavoor. Fakes are a problem. Sorry power cut must switch off.
