The anguish shown by two impeccable patriots

The anguish shown by two impeccable patriots 

“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?”

~~~ Abdul Kalam (President of India) once with utmost disgust asked the scribes

Ancient India’s Achievement in Sciences

Posted on June 19, 2011 by admin

It has been my long-standing conviction that India is like a donkey carrying a sack of gold – the donkey does not know what it is carrying but is content to go along with the load on its back. The load of gold is the fantastic treasure – in arts, literature, culture, and some sciences like Ayurvedic medicine – which we have inherited from the days of the splendor that was India.

Modern India will find her identity and the modern Indian will regain his soul when our people begin to have some understanding of our priceless heritage. A nation which has had a great past can look forward with confidence to a great future. It would be restorative to national self-confidence to know that many discoveries of today are really re-discoveries and represent knowledge which ancient India had at her command. World thinkers have stood in marvel at the sublimity of our scriptures.

~~ Nani Ardeshir Palkhiwala (Indian lawyer & philanthropist)

Father of Botany - Sage Parasara

Parasara had early explained the structure of Plant cell in the Sanskrit work "Vriksha Ayurveda" and explained the phenomenon of the Photosynthesis (process of self-nourishment in the plants) in the fourth chapter (Vriksha sharira Dharma sastram) of the same book.

Knowledge of botany (Vrksh-Ayurveda), discussed in India's Rig Veda. Sage Parashara is called the "father of botany" because he classified flowering plants into various families, nearly 2000 years before Linnaeus (the modern father of taxonomy). Pharasara described plant cells - the outer and inner walls, sap color-matter and something not visible to the eye - anvasva. Nearly 2000 years later Robert Hooke, using a microscope described the outer and inner wall and sap color-matter.