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Shefali Vaidya narrates the story of horrors that Goa and the Hindus of Goa had to go through under Portuguese rule, the deceitful conversions to Christianity, the Court of Inquisition initiated by Francis Xavier, and the plight of Hindu residents of Goa to safer lands.
One of the world's oldest Geometrical Inventions are from India. 99% of the people today are not aware of this Scientific Hertiage of The Great Indian Subcontinent! Here are our 2 cents to bring this back to light!
Ancient India made a significant contribution to the development of the modern world through its extensive knowledge traditions, which we now recognize as the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) or India's Knowledge Traditions through several programs run all across India. One such Faculty Development Programme (FDP) has been organised by IIT Kharagpur (NOV- DEC 2022), i.e., Bauddhika Atmanirbharta, with special reference to Science and Technology. The topic of this lecture is Chemistry in Ancient India: Sources and Texts, i.e, Rasayana Shastras. Where Prof V Ramanathan talks about philosophical grounding of Indian Science, Ayurvedic sources regarding chemistry, the treatises on chemistry such as Rasaratnasamuccaya, Rasarnava, Rasajalanidhi etc, and practical translations of texts through experiments.
Indian historical tradition reckons the chronology from Svāyambhuva Manu to the Mahābhārata era in terms of the elapsed number of Manvantaras and Mahāyugas (Chaturyugas). Unfortunately, those scholars who later updated the Purāṇas had erroneously deemed the increased calandrical duration of Chaturyugas as a given fact, and on that basis, narrated the chronological history of ancient India, resulting in, since antiquity, the loss of the true chronology from Manu to Mahabharata. The research found that the epoch of the end of the 28th Krita Yuga of the Vaivasvata Manvantara would be the strongest basis, if it is accurately established, to retrieve that lost chronology.
The Hindu way of life is mostly based on Vedic Science. As such, the outcome expected is a function of the knowledge of the practitioner. This talk will explain the science behind three of the most commonly practiced rituals: daily puja, abhisheka and homa.
Over many thousands of years, the brilliant celestial nightly displays over the unpolluted dark skies of ancient India led to astronomy becoming an integral part of the rhythm of life, paralleling the cosmic cycles, as ancient Indians sought to make sense of the skies, leading to building up of an enormous corpus of astronomy knowledge. In this talk, the speaker highlights several fascinating facts about ancient Indian astronomy, bringing to fore the deliberate distortions injected by Western agencies.
The grand narrative of India is the narrative of it's knowledge traditions. India has a continuous textual tradition which needs to be traced and built.
A hard hitting controversial documentary exploring the events that lead to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 in Amritsar and the subsequent effect on the country. The single most bloody event defining the British Raj, in which hundreds of innocent unarmed men, women and children were mowed down within ten minutes. Following closely after the massacre was the dehumanising curfew, crawling and flogging orders
Michael Cremo is coauthor, with Richard Thompson, of Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race. He is also author of Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory.
Prakhar Shrivastava is a popular and acclaimed media professional with over 2 decades of TV journalism in Bharat (or India) with mainstream media channels like India TV, Zee News, आज तक Aaj Tak (India Today), NDTV and News 24. Currently, he is Senior Consulting Editor, DD News.
From Rigveda to Higgs Boson: A Journey in Science. A talk by Vivek Sharma.
Vedic Science is scientific, practical, and indispensable in this modern age. The Vedic tradition is founded upon the complete knowledge and practical application of the ultimate reality—the unified field.