Bharat - 'the light of the world'

I was surprised to hear about India from westerners while I was travelling in Malaysia, Russia and in other parts of the world. Most people relate India with rape and spirituality a very strange paradox indeed. It is true that rape cases happen in India but it is definitely not true that rape happens only in India. Many people in India believe that the west doesn't miss an opportunity to throw muck at India and they also believe that the rape case was exaggerated. No doubt that the infamous Nirbhaya case shook the entire country and millions came to streets to protest against. There are apprehensions in the minds of girls if they can do a solo trip to India or not or whether they too will be raped. It is a debatable topic indeed and I leave it to the discretion of the reader to make up their mind to get the facts right. However before you make a picture of India some of the facts that are written below you make like to go through them.

 India was not a great country in its past, even today India is a great country. It is a nation that showcased to the world how a strong colonial rule can be bought to an end by non violent resistant. Genesis of reading and writing comes from India;Yoga, Ayurveda, Astrology, Numerology, Astronomy, Chess, the game of hockey, the first university of the world, cataract surgery, cure of leprosy, jute cultivation, USB, trigonometry, advanced mathematics, Pentium chip, sugar, metallurgy are some of the gifts that India gave to the world. Today, India grooms some of the best IT engineers, Doctors and Business administrators of the world. CEOs of Pepsi, Google, Microsoft, ArcelorMittal(world's largest steel making company) and many more reputed companies are of Indian origin. India has sent a satellite to the Mars and is the only country in the world to have succeeded in putting a probe into Mars orbit in the very first attempt. The cost of India's Mars mission was $74 million compared to recent Hollywood movie 'Gravity' who's cost was $100 million. India is the biggest democracy of the world where people of different faiths live together, majority of people living in India are Hindus(80%) but India never thought of becoming a Hindu nation unlike its neighbors Pakistan and Bangladesh which are Muslim nations. India is a home for Tibetan refugees and Tibetan government operates from India. 

Some great thinkers thoughts about India 

Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), generally known as Max Müller, was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology.

Romain Rolland (French: 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Did India have a rich past? Did India deteriorate? Till what extent did it deteriorate? We leave the readers to find these answers on their own. Thank you for reading this blog. We salute the greatness within you.