Comments on: Notes from India

By: Satyabhashnam

Satyabhashnam — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:11:14 +0000

@Shantanu: The relentless march of “Hinglish” comtinues.

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Shantanu bhai, this is exactly what annoys me the most. Check this article on the so-called Hindi newspaper Navbharat Times (नवभारत टाइम्स).
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85 % ऑस्ट्रेलियाइयों ने माना, नस्ली पूर्वाग्रह है
छात्रों पर बढ़ते हमलों के बीच एक नए सर्वे में कहा गया है कि 85 पर्सेंट ऑस्ट्रेलियाई यह महसूस करते हैं कि देश में नस्ली भेदभाव फैला हुआ है।
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Just like any other Hindi newspapers or news entertainment channels they have completely dejected the use of Hindi numerals (१,२,etc.) and Purn Viram (पूर्णविराम ।). Now even percent is written in Hinglish as पर्सेंट instead of proper Hindi as प्रतिशत (Pratishat). Ha, what am I saying. Their newspaper’s name itself is in Hinglish: टाइम्स.

I have noticed PTI is the worst of all these culprits. Most of these newspapers and channels use it as resource and they write the worst Hindi Samachar articles, so their crap is then all over the place. They are all what they call themselves, Urdu Khabar.

By: B Shantanu

B Shantanu — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:05:38 +0000

Thanks Indian!

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@ Vedic Indian: Disagreement is fine…It sharpens the mind! So I welcome it…and I hope to see you here more often.

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@ Bhavananda: “On the face of it, Brian Greene’s “Elegant Universe” didn’t sound so bad to me – except that there’s not a shred of hard evidence to back it up.”

That is true…when it comes to these questions, so much is still speculation…

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@ DD: Thanks for the suggestion…I might just do that. Thanks for the link to the Discovery programme…I will have look.

By: Dirt Digger

Dirt Digger — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:39:49 +0000

@Shantanu,
The section about Prof. Brian Cox is a post by itself and would appreciate it if you moved it out of the unrelated topics. Recently I watched a similar program on Discovery where they discussed the search for the dimensions of space and intelligent life using the newly launched Kepler space telescope http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/23/kepler-seti-alien.html
In some ways even the most advanced of technologies find it quite difficult to confidently answer the most basic of questions about the origin of the universe.

By: Bhavananda

Bhavananda — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:33:28 +0000

For those who’s been reading (even a bit of) Vedic scriptures none of this should come as a surprise. Remember how, a few years back, thousands of scientists met in Europe to conclude that Pluto is not a planet – many of them may not have heard of “Navagraha stotra” and that Pluto was never a part of the Solar system. The cycle of “something being proved” followed by the same thing being “disproved” is, sort of, endless in modern science. Today we’ve one theory for something, and tomorrow something else will explain it correctly. Light used to be particles (corpuscular theory) and then it became a wave (de’Broglie’s theory) and today it is both!

Without a unified theory for consolidate QM and relativity, it looks like that a theory of universe will settle for something that of light. On the face of it, Brian Greene’s “Elegant Universe” didn’t sound so bad to me – except that there’s not a shred of hard evidence to back it up. Last I heard, the Large Hadron collider was to probe the existence of the critical particle, graviton, but its yet to start working.

By: Vedic Indian

Vedic Indian — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:01:23 +0000

Hi Shantanu,

It was re-assuring to hear your talk in Imperial colleage at London. I am saying “re-assuring” as your dedication and commitment towards saving India from itself has given me some much searched assurance that not all us Indians are rooted in our sorry bottoms watching the hard earned nation going down the pan. I have been going through your blogs in the last few weeks and, to be honest, cannot say that I agree with all yours views but, as they say, something is better than nothing.

Will follow this blog closely from now onwards and will contribute in whatever little way I can.