Panchkula Afternoon 1250.,PM,Tuesday, 24th April, 2007. Well the very Idea that we are on a reconstruction of Dreams Run be it the Great images Taxila, Vikramsila or Nalanda , Nagarjunisagar of an arrested civilization as on the marauders interventions in early 13th century with vandals ( our Islamic hordes )torching classrooms , dorms , lecture-rooms and collected palm-leave manuscripts in hundreds and if not in thousands makes cold shiver / creeps run down one's midriff. Ah! this fate, why we suffered ? a tragic historical nemesis eight hundred years ago? Are we once again not running the risk of being torched out of cultured renaissance forged after English created socalled contempoary India out of feuding castes, tribes and narrowminded local Zamindars who would not unite ,and would rather be hanged and fettered in isolation than develop a common -front to remain Indian and free Indian.After 250 yrs. of Plassey and 150 yrs. of Ghadar ,it appears we Indians are back to be dissolved into local chauvinism and tribalistic caste, Kin and kindred in XXIst century, once again, to return to virginal fertility of this love of Localism eating the very possiblity of a contemporary Indian Civilization that could vibe and express the great truths of Amitabh, Gandhi or Shankar and Kamban or Bhavbhuti , Mira , Tulsi or Tiruvalluvar or Subramania Bharati or Rabi Thakur and Nirala...Varahmihir ,or Srinivas Ramanaujam,Satyen Basu , Khurana or Abdus salam...Raman...We are the epigoni of a great society fallen to Philistinism.D. Goel by perfidious albion
RE:Naland - A dream Reconstructed in Contemporary India
by Sachin Panemangalore on Apr 24, 2007 01:39 PM Permalink
your comment is strange...is there anything wrong in doing again what we used to do correctly ? Its like saying ..if being a cyclist I had an accident and hurt my head badly..I will not ..ever ride the cycle. What they are saying is "I am about to ride the cycle, this time it will have stronger breaks and gears, a suspension to rest my rear..a helmet to guard my head."
Why disregard what was ours, well if pythagous theorem was expressed by Aryabhatta, then why not call it the Aryabhatta theorem ?? When the devnagri script has more vowels then english ..then why are we discussing this in the roman script. I am not born in an India ruled by the Brits nor the Moghuls. I am born in the democratic republic of India. I will ride my cycle ...for I have the knowledge of falling and hence I will not fall.
RE:Naland - A dream Reconstructed in Contemporary India
by Dream Girl on Apr 24, 2007 01:21 PM Permalink
You deserve to be a professor at Nalanda... all the best...
