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Elders becoming flag bearers of political toxicity
Kaun raja hai bhai aaj kal … the ignorance of commoners
Before advent of formal democratisation and/or republicanism and emerging of more rational science guided human consciousness, world was ruled by various kings, princes, Jamindaars kinds, who used to take over charge as caretakers or keepers or just plain usurper of territorial authority.
Civilisational progress keeps developing linearly upwards
I am waiting for the day when AI generated images and videos too, like the one in circulation these days claiming greatness of our ancient Rishis who could do surgery and were discoverers of many laws of science which westerners stole from India, would source genesis from some ancient myth and try to prove how advance those mythical characters were.
Civilisations have been progressing and developing linearly upward over 8000 years. People in olden times too were aware of many processes and procedure like days, months, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and surgery but learnt from sheer observations. Some resourceful ones recorded that too when they learnt to write and found something to write on like clay tablets, or rocks or even some leaf. However they never could anywhere explain the logic for the conclusion they arrived at. Gods of many kinds and their divine actions, charms and magics were their excuses to explain what they otherwise observed.
Mesopotamians, and Sumerians at least 7000 years before were making canals, developing languages and were writing on astronomy and medicine on tablets which are available to verify today. SURGERY was common in Mesopotamia too some 6000 years back. It was common in several places in later civilisations too. Not that Indians might not have known these things. May be, but those experiences or even of say Mesopotamians, no where can be compared to modern science to make false claims of suprematist greatness using fakery.
To associate Newtons findings to falling apple is kiddish. Newton's observation was not restricted to just recording somewhere on dry leaf what he observed. He went ahead and developed full theory and scientific reasoning around his observations and proved those laws for universality using complex mathematics and by submitting his finding to critical analysis and peer review and were later led to consistent practical purposes and inventions. All those finding of various hardworking men during past 6 centuries have led us to have today tools like aeroplanes to fly to foreign lands to become NRI and enjoy AI which creates such fake videos to covert and indoctrinate even educated, experienced elders into mediocrity.
Real history is different
World always existed beyond Kandhar and Sindh and prosperously too. Most of the history of the world here and also away from boundaries of the subcontinent as we mean India today, is as what had happened, though of course doped, some what faked and exaggerated with narratives ordered, commissioned, inspired, by powerful rulers as well, still vastly established and corrected with modern tools of investigative archeology, literature and language.
Obama's comments on India: Whataboutery would be considered admittance
Credibility of Obama among global statesmen is undoubtedly on much greater pedestal than even most of the leaders holding formal statuses as heads of states. It would be immature to confront his opinion with juvenile arguments chastising him for his personality and background and his mistaken faith and also on irrelevant and connected topic of wars US fought in middle east under his presidency. It’s highly unlikely that global audience would consider Obama’s opinion as biased and based on hearsay just because we disagreed with him and countered with our rebuttal so clumsily.
Subir Raha
Raha was compulsive smoker, loved single malt and he indeed used to break accepted norms for that and for pushing his agenda and his opinion. Some times he did conduct little harsh or acted bit too quickly publicly ruffling egos of colleagues and subordinates, albeit avoidable indeed when we recapitulate that conduct. However such strong headed persons are known to always keep some little aberration that makes their stories romantic and readworthy when we look back !!! We should focus on what defined such a person in overall perspective of achievements he delivered as Chairman of ONGC.