The story of India is not a story of a nation which is just 60 years young.
The story of India is a history of an ancient civilization thousands of years young. In fact, the only ancient civilization in the world whose ancient culture and science still exists and thrives in the world.
The World’s Largest Democracy [...]

Today is the 60th Anniversary of Pakistani Independence and that of the partition of India . But given the fact that, the common man on the streets of Pakistan has been a victim of the state of Pakistan, there is very little to celebrate in Pakistan.
In 2005 Pakistan ranked 34 in the list of Top [...]

The culture of the ancient Egyptian civilization does not exist any more!!
The Sumerian civilization does not exist any more
The Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Incas, Aztecs, none of these ancient civilizations exist today..
Even the Chinese is a Communist country today with great destruction of its Buddhist culture by the communist forces..
What exists and survives and thrives even today [...]

The Equation
Nature=God or God=Nature
This is a mystic equation from the ancient Indian vedic culture. Which is why you find 33 crore Gods in Hinduism which is based on the ancient vedic culture of India. When it says nature is God, every form of nature, every part of the universe becomes God.
All animals, trees, sun, [...]

Now this is what I call a real innovation, the kind of innovative thinking India needs to make it a true developed nation and a super power.
This one is not from an Indian youth who is below 25-30 years, but from a retired Chennai based Indian engineer, Venkataraman, who is still young at heart and [...]

Well, yes, it happens only in India!

On the eve of 60th anniversary of Indian Independence have some glimpses of some of those things that happen Only in India
Below is a three part video from CNN-IBN on It happens only in India. See how anything that enters India from outside, gets absorbed into India, [...]

The Success
Recently I had been to forum mall to buy few blank DVDs as I wanted to back up some of the data in my computer..
As usual I asked for the Moser Baer DVDs, and the store guys informed me that they didn’t have stock of that brand, and offered me to buy DVD [...]

This is a follow up post in response to the responses received to an earlier article of mine – Stronger Rupee = Stronger India
How to build a Stronger India?
Well, As I have pointed out in the article, innovation is the key to build a real super power out of India, because to become a [...]

Ashoka The Great… one of the greatest emperors of ancient India…
Who reigned from 273 BCE to 232 BCE as a great Mauryan Emperor..
Ashoka means “without any sorrow”
He was also called “Dev?n?mpriya” meaning the “one who is beloved of the Gods”.
The famous science fiction writer, H G Wells once said about Ashoka,
“ In the history of [...]

We are aware of the search functionality in the internet and on our local desktops
We can search for specific information in the internet using search engines like Google..
We can search for specific documents, email messages etc in our local desktop
Now what about searching ourselves?
Today morning I had forgotten about where I had placed my bike [...]

The four pillars of a democracy are

Legislative (the Government, Ministers, MP, MLA etc)
Executive (the IAS, IPS officers, bureaucrats, etc)
Judiciary (the Courts)
Press

We know that the Legislative in India is corrupt.. not functioning anywhere near the expectations.. politicians are corrupt to a large extent.. there are criminals too. etc and lot more etc
Similarly [...]

The incredible Indian percussionist, THE BEST in the world, Shivamani
Below are two videos of his performance, worth enjoying
In the second video below see how amazingly he plays using spoons, tins and plates as his instruments!
He has mastered percussion like anything.. he can get good beats out of almost everything.. you can see how in the [...]

One of the blog readers asked me a question
A very simple question.. but for which I don’t know the answer
The question was How to attain salvation?
One of the reasons for which I have my photo in the blog.. bcos many people get mislead by my name Gurudev , thinking that I am some saint who [...]

65 millions years ago!!
At the end of the mesozoic era..
Let us assume that the dinosaurs never got destroyed..
Let us assume that the mighty asteroid that hit earth or the super volcano that erupted or the global climatic change that took place never happened 65 million years ago..
So the dinosaurs moved on in the evolutionary ladder.. [...]

Hydro electric power projects – generating electric power by building dams against rivers, is what becomes an act of terrorism against nature when common sense beats sense
common sense says we all need developments.. all states want to be developed. make more money, improve their economy, satisfy their energy needs
sense asks.. well, fine.. but at the [...]

I am a great fan of the music maestro Ilayaraja
Today somewhere read that he had once composed a song using only three swaras.. or the three keys.. i.e sa re ga in classical Indian music.. or in western notations C, D and E
Got inspired by this great gifted musician and I composed a tune with [...]

This is something that we should ensure that it DOES NOT happen in India.
Nobody thought that this would happen so soon.. China can finally say that it is ahead of US… China is now the largest… No, I am not talking about development.. I am talking about pollution China is the now the [...]

Disclaimer: Don’t take it seriously, I mean the disclaimer.. just a crazy funny thought below
Was sipping the tasty coffee in the office canteen.. and a superluminal thought passed by.. yes thoughts are always superluminal.. they travel faster than light.. which is why time travel is possible in your thoughts.. you can think about [...]

When I was in the school once I had read that Jupiter just missed from becoming a star! In other words it was a failed star and became a planet!
Jupiter as we know is the largest planet in the solar system, about 2.5 times larger than all other planets put together.. If it had been [...]

I was shocked to see this link sent to me by one of the blog visitors!
A person who had a three wheeler 15 years ago, today has sold over 5500 (let me repeat again, it is 5500) plots in Delhi !!
A person who sold tea in North Delhi 15 years ago, today has 52 luxury [...]