मह्यम् dārśansūtra

India's dilemma of modernity and indigenization: a mirage of atmanirbhar bharat. Recent 'atmanirbhara bharat' announcement by prime minister of India has set goals to make India self reliant and strategically autonomous.                                           ( image credit TOI ) Discussions around these topic end up with complaints of india being not good at manufacturing further blaming china. Let's document reality of gap between India’s economic profile and state of  affairs first. Before that we need to first understand basics: Stages of human evolution Stone age : illiteracy, societal violence, cannibalism. Bronze age: illiteracy, centralisation, reduced violence, human sacrifice Iron age : literacy, centralisation, reduced violence, end of human sacrifice, mob violence Industrial age: high literacy, heavy centralisation, heavy social upheaval , state monopo...

India's place in Changing Chinese worldview                                               ( image credit:ft ) Talking of india china relations first thing that comes to our mind is border clashes and a rogue enemy state. Indian influence on china is not just of Buddha.  It is so ancient that word china itself comes from sanskrit word cīna . Indian uttarkuru settled in Xinjiang's tarim basin during Vedic period. indian influence is not just limited to thought and philosophy but it goes to the extent of identity itself, unfortunately this is a goldmine not digged by anyone and hence not counted in chinese worldview. Proto chinese language was heavily influenced by proto Indo-European language. "I have traced about 1500 cognate words,roughly two-thirds of the basic vocabulary in Old Chinese....found in all spheres of life including kinship, animals, plants, hy...