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This tweet by a retired wealthy industrialist with too much time on his hands and no idea what to do with it illustrates what is wrong with India.
He extols the virtues of a clay water storage unit, the surahi, from the mid-20th century.
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He extols the virtues of a clay water storage unit, the surahi, from the mid-20th century.
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Of course, while he lives in unimaginable luxury, the likes of which we can't dream of.
It's a foolish comparison, because the surahi can only store and cool water by a few degrees, whereas the fridge can cool anything, preserve food, and make ice (needed for his scotch).
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It's a foolish comparison, because the surahi can only store and cool water by a few degrees, whereas the fridge can cool anything, preserve food, and make ice (needed for his scotch).
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But that didn't stop Indian twitterati from going ga-ga over his tweet. Why?
Because if there's one thing guaranteed to give you applause in India today, it is hearkening to the past.
Our grandparents had the most wonderful life. Our country was great in the good old days.
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Because if there's one thing guaranteed to give you applause in India today, it is hearkening to the past.
Our grandparents had the most wonderful life. Our country was great in the good old days.
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The oldest evidence of counting in India, dating back to the stone age (11,000-8,000 years ago) is the tally marks engraved on a soft white tropical wood cut to look like a dagger or knife. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics 
Regularized decimal system of number words to express quantity was well established in Vedic corpus (Rig Veda). #IndianHeritage #Mathematics
One of the classical language of India, Tamil is unmistakably decimal in its number names. But the numbers were non place value with special symbols for 10, 100 e.t.c #IndianHeritage #Mathematics
