Is India The light of world........

Your statistics come from where? Because HPI of Australia is worse than HPI of India.

Dying in front of a tv set alone from a heart stroke after 3 Pizzas a day and McDonald McFries, is better than dying on the street being hungry?

 

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Indian civilization is one of the oldest and still surviving.

 

"Max Muller an extremely important German-born Sanskritist who spent most of his career at Oxford". By yazata.

Yazata , What facts make you think Max muller is extremely important

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Müller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Books_of_the_East

 

India was destined to be intriguin, right from start. Through platetectonics : India is a chunk broke off Africa, swam the oceans and rammed the Asian subcontinent some 50 - 75000 ? years back, the reason no other place in asia has a species variety, both flora, fauna and animals, thts stacked up in India. (modern day Madascar and India swam along together).

The torque and fury of mother earth, gave rise to the highest peak on earth's surface, The Mt.Everest, 8848meters, on The Himalayas ( The abode of Snow). Over the Milleniums the Himalayas played an important role shapin her climate, Land, rivers . And in her lap mankind, civilisation and culture flourished.

 

“If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow – in some parts a very paradise on earth – I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most full developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant – I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life – again I should point to India.”
—Prof. Friedrich Maximilian Mueller, What can India teach us. Lecture at University of Cambridge, 1883.

 

I voted yes.
I would also vote yes for China.

Professor Mueller is a wise man I think.
Or should that be was?

 

Müller's English translation of Kant's most famous tome is getting a fresh dusting-off / contemporary revision these days. Even though Norman Kemp Smith's version of Critique of Pure Reason eventually replaced Müller's in popularity, there's the possibility of Smith having borrowed considerably from the very predecessor work he disparaged:

"Norman Kemp Smith professed little esteem for Muller's work. Yet the deeper motivation for him to deride Muller may have been to obscure the degree to which Muller's work is present in his own. He took over large parts of Muller's terminological and syntactical skeleton and rebuilt the text around it with the trained ear of a native English speaker, very often re-arranging Muller's phrases without changing anything substantial in them. One could suspect that he worked more from Muller than from Kant, because occasionally he commits the same unlikely errors as Muller. For instance, he mistakenly adds an 'etc.' at the end of the bracket that reads `(imagination, wit)' on page Bviii. The only other edition, German, English or otherwise, to make this mistake is Muller's. Muller inadvertently placed the 'etc.' in two brackets that each list two words and are separated by only two lines. Only the bracket idealism, scepticism, etc.)' is correct, however, while the bracket `(imagination, wit, etc.)' above it should have no 'etc.' It is not objectionable, of course, to improve the work of a predecessor. With some more modesty and generosity, however, Kemp Smith might well have called his translation a substantially revised and terminologically improved Muller." http://www.wordtrade.com/philosophy/german/kantiancritiques.htm

Why resurrect Müller's semi-forgotten accomplishment? Apparently yet another opportunity for newer scholarship to try to finally get it right, since a couple of recent attempts didn't wholly satisfy some experts, either:

"Since Kemp Smith, there have been two more translations, one by Werner Pluhar (1996), another by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood (1998). This is not the place to praise their merits or to condemn their shortcomings. Let it be noted that the Guyer/Wood translation is not the definitive translation and edition of Kant's Critique that it was marketed as, if only because it is littered with a sinister number of errors, among many others the confusion of `appearance' with 'intuition' on at least thirty occasions."

 

C C says Muller made a mistake , n these guys lead the light : Kant ,Norman Kemp smith, Werner pluharm ,paul guyner and allen wood...

C C, is a valued senior senior member......Lets see, if his words have a meaning........... Contribute.........

 

check this out

 

hmm aren't we all individually a light in the world?

 

because of dewali

 

Just hubris and floral language for visiting "India" to see the "Hindu" culture

Btw the word "Hindu" and "India" are not even a "Indian" invention it was developed by a Macedonian and also Persians and Afghanistans.

Alexander the great renamed the River "Sindhu" as "Indu" and loosing the S made ideally for Greeks to speak more easily it became "Indus"

Alexander invaded India and the Macedonian forces then called the land east of the "Indus" as "India" the original vedic name for this area was "Bharath Varsha"

When the Persians and Afghanistans arrive they then changed it from "Sindhu River" to "Hindu River" to name northwestern provinces of India where the Sindhu River is, the name became popular in the last 1300 years and now remains "Hindu" but this isnt vedic.

 

Due to rising population, the number of slum dwellers rising in Indian cities. Slums area always lack by some basic necessities of Life clean water, electricity and sanitation. The inhabitants are mostly rickshaw puller, seasonal small vendors, house maid servants with a family income ranging from a meager sum to a less than meager sum.

After a hard and low-earning working day, most of the men spend their daily earnings on homemade illicit liquor. Status of woman’s in slum is not respectful, they used to do prostitution to full fill their basic needs to survive. The slum population is constantly increasing: it has doubled in the past two decades. The current population living in slums in the country is more than the population of Britain.
List Of Top Indian Cities Living In Slums:


http://www.walkthroughindia.com/lifestyle/major-slum-areas-in-top-indian-cities/

 

Africa, India, Australia and Andaman Islands : when was the last time in history , they where one and civilized human race could just live, talk and walk across all four places. And which humans, sharing a common blood line did that and still inhibit in all four places, beating mother earth for a million years ?