Message to the Young
By
Pragna Bharati
&
Sri Hanuman-Mani Education & Culture Trust
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• 160m (16%) in the age group 17 to 22 years
• 67% Indians are below age 30 years
• Graduating 10m per year
– 450,000 Engineers ( but only 80,000 Diploma Holder)
– 70,000 MBAs
– 60,000 MCA
• 2 mln are in ITES sector where the average pay is
2 to 5 times in other sectors
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• IITs, IIMs and some other institutions have
established a global brand for India – Land of
the Talented
• When I was in China, Portugal, Greece I noted
them equating India with IT & software !
• India now recognised as the source of best
economists, financial analysts, mangers, scientists
and engineers.
• Ageing USA “ imports” Indians for brain-work; it
“imports” Mexicans for menial work & so keeps
up to hegemony
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• Europe does not import Indian S&T and other Profs; it
imports culturally incompatible Muslims for menial work;
so it suffers decline
• USA wants India as an ally; Indian Nurses, Indian Truck
drivers, accountants, lawers..
• BPO, KPO help us move up the value chain. Indian CEOs
for the world top companies.
• Hinduism alone values and promotes cultural an d
religious & radial diversity
• Abrahamic religions are mutually annihilative and
predatory on others
• Intellectuals of the world look to India for all values
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• Our economy is booming inspite of anti-Bharat
government of alienated persons/parties ( 44 of
them in the Prlt.)
• By year 2050 the world order will be China, India,
America, Russia, Brazil
• We have to equip ourselves to be a super power
economically, militarily, intellectually and
spiritually.
• Read what the world’s noblest & wisest think of
us.
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BHARAT MAHAN!
(Intellectuals estimate of India)
India is the only country which never
invaded any foreign country
“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20
centuries without even having to send a single soldier
across her border”.
- HU SHIH, Former Ambassador of China to USA
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BHARAT MAHAN!
“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
“In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so
elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my
life; it will be the solace of my death”.
-SCHOPENHAUER
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Bharat Mahan!
• World’s first Universities:
• Takshasila – 800 BC; 10,000 foreign
students, 52 subjects
• Nalanda & Vikrama Sila
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BHARAT MAHAN!
“If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country
most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that
nature can bestow-in some parts a very paradise on earth - I should
point to India. If I were to asked under what sky the human mind
has most fully developed the choicest gifts, has most deeply
pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solution of
some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who
have studied Plato and Kant - I should point to India. And if I were
to ask myself from what literature we here in Europe, we who have
been nurtured almost exclusively on the thought of Greeks and
Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that
corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life
more truly human, a life not for this life only, but a transfigured and
eternal life -- again I should point to India”.
-MAX MULLER
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BHARAT MAHAN!
“India was the motherland of our race, and
Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages; she
was the mother of our philosophy; mother,
through the Arabs, of much of our
mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of
ideals embodied in Christianity; mother,
through the village community, of selfgovernment and democracy. Mother India is in
many ways the mother of us all”.
-WILL DURANT
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BHARAT MAHAN!
“Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I
have felt that some unearthly and unknown light
illuminated me. In the great teaching of the
Vedas, there is no touch of the sectarianism. It
is of ages, climes, and nationalities and is the
royal road for the attainment of the Great
Knowledge. When I am at it, I feel that I am
under the spangled heavens of a summer night”.
-HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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BHARAT MAHAN! :
Science & Technology
 Bhaskaracharya (5th century AD) calculated the time
taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds ofyears
before the astromer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit
the sun: 365.258756484 days.
 The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh
6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived
from the Sanskrit words NAV Gatih. The word navy is
also derived from Sanskrit ‘Nou’
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BHARAT MAHAN! :
Science & Technology
Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and he
explained the concept of what is known as the
Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th
century long before the European mathematicians.
 Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India.
Sridharacharya propounded quadratic equations in the
11th century.
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BHARAT MAHAN! :
Science & Technology
The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans
used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big
as 1053 with specific names as early as 5000 BCE
during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used
number is Peta: 1015.
 The place value system, the decimal system was
developed in India in 100 BC.
 India invented the Number System.
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 Zero was invented
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BHARAT MAHAN! :
Science & Technology
 Sushruta is the father of surgery, 2600 years
ago he and health scientists of his time
conducted complicated surgeries like
cesareans, cataracts, artificial legs, fractures,
urinary stones and even plastic surgery and
brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well
known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical
equipment was used. Deep knowledge of
anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology,
digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity
is also found in many texts.
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BHARAT MAHAN! :
Science & Technology
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to
humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated
Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Yoga and Ayurveda
are fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
 The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was
built in Saurashtra. According to Saka King
Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake aptly called
‘Sudarshana’ was constructed on the hills of Raivataka
during Chandragupta Maurya’s time.
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Socialism: Wise thoughts from
Sri Nani Palkhiwala
• Socialism as practiced in India has been a
fraud: Our brand of socialism did not result in
transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor but
only from the honest rich to the dishonest rich
• The sleeping sickness of socialism is now
universally acknowledged – but not officially in
India… The public sector enterprises are the
black holes, the money guzzlers and they have
been extracting and exorbitant price for India’s
doctrinaire socialism.
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Socialism: Wise thoughts from
Sri Nani Palkhiwala
• A law suite once started in India is the nearest thing to
eternal life ever seen on this earth….
• History will record that the greatest mistake of the
India Republic in the first 50 years of its existence was
to make less investment in human resources-education,
family planning, nutrition and public health-than in
brick and motor dams and factories.
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Socialism: Wise thoughts from
Sri Nani Palkhiwala
• Over taxation corrupted the national character
overtly. The nation survived only because the
tax system continued to breathe through
loopholes and the economy used to breath
through window of tax evasion.
• We have too much Government and too little
administration; too many laws and too little
justice; too many public servants and too little
public service, too many controls and too little
welfare.
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money
You cannot keep out trouble by spending more than you
earn
• You cannot build character and courage
by taking away man’s initiative and Independence
• You cannot help men permanently by doing for them
what they can do for themselves
-Abraham Lincoln
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Finally
• Be the most accomplished students, all
employable, enlightened, ignited
• Read and know your true history how Bharat
resisted and eventually triumphed over aliens
• Samskrit, Dharma and Bharatiyata and our
samskriti bind us together. Religion and language
don’t bind as much as culture does.
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Remember & revere (1)
• Bharat, the most richly endowed country
• Valmini, Vyasa,Kalidasa
• The ( un-named) Vedic Seers, Sri Rama, Buddha,
Mahavira, sankara, Nanak
• Vidyaranya, Samarth Ramadas
• Kautilya (Chanakya),Sri Krishna
• Lokamanya Bala Gangadhar Tilak, Gandhiji,
Sardar Patel, Dr. Ambedkar
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Remember & revere (2)
• Bhaskara, Aryabhatta, Baudhayana, Sridhara
Charya, Charaka, Sushruta
• Taksha Sila, Vikrama Sila, Nalanda
• Your Mother, Father, Guru
• Sahanaavavtu, sahanau bhunaktu, sahaveeryam
karavaavahaih , maa vidvishavahaih
• Realise the truth
“Aham Brahmaasmi
Tat tvam asi”
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Dhanyawad:
Thank You
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