The glorious past and us

Ref: a YouTube video was posted as a conspiracy theory questioning why Mount Everest was not named after an Indian.

You can’t take away the fact that Sir George Everest surveyed not only India or the Indian subcontinent but even as far as New Zealand.

Event today in India, the milestones are the ones that were laid down by the British with the help of the Gurkha Regiment. I am surprised that they are not demarcated in miles but rather kilometers and meters. How many of you have seen the subclass stones which are laid out every 200 m.

The office where Radhanath Sikdar calculate the height of Mount Everest and rushed to the surveyor generals office is 3 km from my home.

We must give the credit to the British that they did not name the peak in the name of any Emperor or Empress of the time, but in the name of the employee .

I don’t know why do we get excited every time you see a video indicating the glorious past of India? 

We must not forget that it was some enlightened people of the British and the French colonies, who made us realize our own great scriptures, and are great past .

Our forefathers and ancestors may have made discoveries but they were all lost to us and we were making precious little use of it if you make the exception of  Sawai Jaisingh who made 5 Jantar Mantars.

We keep harping upon Charak , Sushrut , Patanjali and the like.

But why in 3000 years, we could not set up a strong healthcare system with organized clinics and hospitals .

Surely the diseases were not that new that they did not find mention in the scriptures.

It is also a fallacy that our ancient discovery and inventions were not recorded they are very much documented and are found, but only in English publications discovered and translated by the British.

The great Indus valley ,various buildings, Buddha viharas all were discovered by the British French or Portuguese.

We keep saying that Turks and mongols attacked us.

But why did they attack us and how did they manage to get a strong hold? 

How is it possible for someone to come and fight effectively with the resident army? 

All over the world there is a clear proof that the aggressor has never won a war In the land of the defender, then how was it that in India after the other foreigners had a foothOld but we never learnt any lessons.

We kept ourselves divided like the European countries before the first world war and for amongst ourselves exactly like the two world wars were fought.

Hell even the Kamasutra had to be discovered by someone and translated to us to

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Check the above Google coordinate 

Do you see that road called NainSingh Road?

All the blue part is actually within the campus of survey of India and the 150 m part connecting up to Canal Road is the one that is open to the public .

I have yet to meet a single person in Dehradun who either knows the name of this road or the importance of  Nain Singh.

The above video shows the importance of one man called Ramanath Sikdar.

Why no one knows about Nainsingh who was a spy of the survey of India and is the single person who has mapped the entire forbidden city of Lhasa. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nain_Singh

No one in the entire history of mankind before him was ever allowed to walk the streets of Lhasa .

He discovered and recorded the topography of entire Lasa with the help of a single compass and a thermometer which he used to Calc ululate the altitude of Lhasa because he did not have an altimeter.

Our glorious past has everything to do with the annihilation of Buddha and his teachings and his followers whom we threw out and decimated within 500 years of his existence.

Had his teachings not been retained by a small country called Burma- he was lost till the world

We all know that the martial arts were developed by the Buddhist monks, but nobody ever tried to find out why they did it.

After all what things of material importance would this monk have that could be looted by the thieves as they were flying to Japan, China, and other countries why would their life be at risk? 

We ourselves don’t like to ask questions .

After reading the above wiki article on Nain Singh Rawat would you even for a second not call him a Risshi or a researcher.

His knowledge was simple and pure- nothing about British or ancient , it was just knowledge.

The British never disapproved of our astronomical knowledge ( pun intended) or our discovery of zero. 

They probably built modern edifices on our ancient knowledge.

I am not an Anglophile but I do like to mention quite often that when we were fighting was with each other, Shakespeare was penning masterpieces that we torture our children with now.

So we don’t know if the war was more dangerous or Shakespeare 😊