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The zero degree prime meridian would have been known today as the Avanti meridian. Just like it was intended by the people who invented celestial navigation- Indian astronomers.
Europe acquired this ability from India only in the 16-17th centuries- triggering the colonial waves.
To find your way at sea with the sky as your guide, you need to know your latitude, longitude & loxodrome. THAT requires accurate trigonometric tables.
Which was the only place such tables were found?
Kerala where Madhava used calculus to obtain them.
Correct to 9 decimals!
Who published those EXACT SAME trigonometric values under his own shameless name in 1607?
Christopher Clavius
How did he obtain them?He didn't know calculus!
Jyestadeva's disciple Sankara Variyer(authored Yuktidipika) as well as the Portuguese Jesuits met under the Raja of Cochin
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Why learn Sanskrit?

Because it is the oldest recorded language on Earth
Because many of the greatest intellectual strides were scripted on its palm leaves
Because an ocean of information & wisdom remains untapped in its granthas
Because it is the only bhāṣā that can unite India
Because it has the potential to turn all Indians irrespective of his/her religion into patriots
Because it can resolve many of the conflicts plaguing us if revealed & taught truthfully
Because the most glorious pages of our history remain condemned to oblivion yet preserved in it
Because it has the most perfect grammar ever laid down
Because it is the closest daughter of PIE, the source of 445 IE languages spoken by over 40% of humanity.
Because, too great to die, it is still spoken by thousands
Because most of the words in your mother tongue is sanskrit!
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Indians like blind fools celebrate the Gregorian calendar's new year

They have forgotten the ancient panchānga & its history
That colonialists forcibly replaced it with their imperial yet inferior calendar
That the Gregorian reform was done with it's help

Teach it to everyone!
The Gregorian calendar with it's superstitious AD-BC notation was used as an imperial & religious tool to hammer church history on the world. Today it is taken as an unquestionable fact by all of humanity that this system validates the life of Jesus.
ckraju.net/hps-aiu/Escapi…
Why does no historian with 'secular credentials' protest this? Why is it that even the best scholars, once indoctrinated with western version of history, is mentally unable to question so many flawed decisions? Why?

Won't there be another wave of #IntoleranceDebate if we try?
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"Constitutionalism is the modern political equivalent of Rajdharma, the ancient Hindu concept"
- says Michael Kirby, ex- judge of the Australian apex court in a @the_hindu article today.

Do you agree?
If I may, Rajadharma is the sacred onus on those in positions of power to discharge their responsibilities righteously- not just 'lawfully'

Constitutionalism, through the lens of Indian tradition, is only another smriti philosophy taking over whence Manu & Yajnavalkya faltered.
According to the author of this article, a 49% reservation does NOT kill merit NOR threaten the principle of equality of birth. But if just you push it to 59%, it suddenly and miraculously destroys meritocracy & equality.

Do you agree?
thehindu.com/news/national/…
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