We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made . – Albert Einstein
The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea [...]

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I suggest that you read the following earlier blogs of mine (if you havent read them already!) before we untie the next knot of the alien twist. This will give you a clear picture about the basics before we move forward
Modern Science and Ancient India
Ancient Nuclear War
Iron [...]

While writing a piece of software I got this thought about a feature that could be provided in programming languages (at least I am not aware of any language which has this feature)
Usually when we want to assign a value of a variable “a” to another variable say “b” all we do is write
b=a;
Now consider [...]

“Indeed we had arranged for five people to sing the anthem. But then we cancelled it as we have foreigners on-board here. They should not be embarrassed while we sing the anthem.”
These were the exact words used by Mr N R Narayan Murthy when asked about why the singing of Indian national anthem at a [...]

Every time God wanted to do something good to this world, he did not come here to do it by himself, instead he created a Child.
Thats how Einstein was born, Buddha was born, Swami Vivekanada was born, Lincon was born, Ilayaraja was born, Basavanna was born, and so are we all
So the idea of life [...]

1/6 of humanity lives in India! 1/6 of India is at polls now! Yes I am talking about the UP polls, where 1/6 of India live
Elections are going on at UP for the state assembly. The so called IT folks of UP are all over India ranging from the silicon valley of India, Bangalore in [...]

Well, many of you may not be aware that OBC (Other Backwards Classess) are not a constitutional creation in India unlike the SC and ST
When the constitution of India was created under the supervision of great people like Dr B R Ambedkar, they saw the needs to provide reservations for the socially backward classes categorized [...]

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In this part of the series, I will talk about Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the ancient Indian language of the vedic era and is the mother of all Indo European languages including modern english
http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/sanskrit-mother-of-european-languages-says-prof-dean-brown/
http://www.thevedicfoundation.org/valuable_resources/Sanskrit-The_Mother_of_All_Languages_partIII.htm
Sanskrit was introduced on earth by the eternal sages of vedic era. There has [...]

‘Partition of India in 1947? Well thats what I believe was the biggest political blunder in modern world history.
Look at the chain of events that follow this Historic Blunder:
-> India gets divided in 1947 bcos of pressure from islamic fundamentalists, political opportunists and more than anything else by the British who fear that if undivided [...]

In this series of blogs I am going to put forward my case about whom we know about as Gods in true form being aliens who visited earth in those ancient times and who gave us the technology which we had lost for a long time which is been hidden in the ancient Indian [...]

Chinese people have always wanted democracy. Do not forget the fact that China is 1/6 of the world similar to India in terms of population. There ends the similarity. While India is an open democracy China is a closed communist state. The state is constantly suppressing its people of democracy, denying them freedom, has snatched [...]

The power of open source is that it is not proprietary and is available to all, modifiable by all which constantly increases the quality of the product and moreover is a symbol of independence from monopolistic proprietary standards. Moreover, in the commercial software you have to upgrade as and when new releases are available else [...]

Looks like the CPI(M) left government in West Bengal lead by Buddhadev Bhattacharya is determined to simulate its ideological brother China’s brutality and suppression of democracy and people’s rights and wants to create situations like Tianenmen square in India.
The red party wants the blood of its citizens to paint its party offices. On March 14 [...]

Around 350 AD – Gupta Empire, Ancient India
An iron pillar weighing over 6 tonnes, more than 7 metres tall is constructed in a single forge and is erected on top of the Vishnupada hill (somewhere in modern central India) with sanskrit inscriptions on it in the brahmi script about the great gupta ruler Chandragupta Vikramaditya.
Later [...]

This is exactly whats going on in India in the name of reservations.. reverse discrimination.
A student with 90% score is denied his rightful seat in an educational institution just because there is another candidate who belongs to the politicians created class called OBC even though the OBC candidate has a much lower score in the [...]

Use the word impossible with great caution. Only those who can risk going too far can see how far they can really go.
So here we have two bureaucrats who did exactly the same. One is Mr T N Sheshan, whom we all know as the man who made the Indian public aware about the existence [...]

I read this article about researchers being able to store “E=mc2 1905″ in a bacterial DNA. Genetic material is becoming the biological harddisk. Bacteria will be the future thumbdrives, USB drives and what not.
You dont need to take backups any more as bacteria replicate themselves in no time you will end up with multiple copies [...]

Check out this wonderful link..
Rising Giant

With a combination of nano technology, biotechnology and information technology humans in the future can have a 24/7 health monitoring system in and around their bodies.
Tiny molecular nanobots will be designed as expert systems on general health monitoring and will be injected into our body where they will stay forever. They will be travelling via [...]

Does HIV virus kill a person? No Does AIDS kills a person? No
Well, AIDS is a situation where HIV virus has destroyed the entire immune system in the infected person’s body leaving the body vulnerable to attack by any tom, dick and harry virus or bacteria. The body with AIDS wont be able to fight [...]