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As an Indian, Rajpopat’s this comment struck a chord - > Some of the most ancient wisdom of India has been produced in Sanskrit and we still don't fully unders

As an Indian, Rajpopat’s this comment struck a chord - > Some of the most ancient wisdom of India has been produced in Sanskrit and we still don't fully understand what our ancestors achieved. We've often been led to believe that we're not important, that we haven't brought enough to the table. I hope this discovery will infuse students in India with confidence, pride, and hope that they too can achieve great things. I can definitely attest to wondering why a country so old hasn’t added much to human scientific advancement. Maybe the knowledge is locked away behind hard to penetrate language.

dagmx 4y ago
Hasn’t added much? India used to be a hotbed for science , especially numerical and mechanical science in the old pre-industrial age. https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/11-ancient-inventions-discoveries-of-science-that-india-gifted-to-the-rest-of-the-world-338417.html https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/11-ancient-inventions-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_... Even in the modern era, the country has done tons of important research especially in medical fields. This is also disregarding the work of Indians who did a ton of amazing research outside India. But otherwise, if your question is why they haven’t contributed as much in a relative sense versus western countries, maybe you’ve forgotten, but India has been subjugated for many centuries, under various rules. The Mughals, the British, the Dutch, etc… It’s one of the youngest countries today if you count from when it gained freedom. It took many decades for it to be financially stable and regain much of the infrastructure needed to compete with the west. So as an Indian myself, I’d urge you to put your countries history in context instead of putting it to some ancient texts locking it away.
spaceman_2020 4y ago
If you were living in India in, say, 1250 CE, you might have looked at present day Greece or Italy or Germany and wondered the same. History is very long. Human memory very short. Civilizations have their crests and their troughs. What's up today might be down tomorrow
naruvimama 4y ago

dagmx 4y ago

Hasn’t added much? India used to be a hotbed for science , especially numerical and mechanical science in the old pre-industrial age. https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/11-ancient-inventions-discoveries-of-science-that-india-gifted-to-the-rest-of-the-world-338417.html https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/11-ancient-inventions-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_... Even in the modern era, the country has done tons of important research especially in medical fields. This is also disregarding the work of Indians who did a ton of amazing research outside India. But otherwise, if your question is why they haven’t contributed as much in a relative sense versus western countries, maybe you’ve forgotten, but India has been subjugated for many centuries, under various rules. The Mughals, the British, the Dutch, etc… It’s one of the youngest countries today if you count from when it gained freedom. It took many decades for it to be financially stable and regain much of the infrastructure needed to compete with the west. So as an Indian myself, I’d urge you to put your countries history in context instead of putting it to some ancient texts locking it away.

spaceman_2020 4y ago

If you were living in India in, say, 1250 CE, you might have looked at present day Greece or Italy or Germany and wondered the same. History is very long. Human memory very short. Civilizations have their crests and their troughs. What's up today might be down tomorrow

naruvimama 4y ago