Joseph T Noony
Reason is precious, but culture birthed reason. A Doctor & aspiring writer. History of Math, Philosophy, Vedic/Indo-European history. Revival of Indian Idealism
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Further confirmation that agriculture was an indigenous development in India. "Our resultsโcombined with archaeological evidence of XI cultivation for >9,000 years in both India...
At least reformists should be bold enough to abandon Mullerian dates like '600BC' for Apastamba. He was one of the- -Fathers of Geometry.'SulbaSutra' or 'rules of chords' is the ol...
Only by the mid 16th century did Europeans learn the Indian technique of determining latitude by celestial observation of the pole star. The Julian calendar simply was simply not e...
Most IndoEuropean tribes did not remember where their homeland was by the time they composed literature. But the ancient Zoroastrian text Vendidad give a list of 16 ancestral lands...
Jesuits, 'soldiers of Christ', aren't your average priests. An order founded in 1540, it had great emphasis on scholarship, learning native languages and unorthodox approaches to m...
Certain vested interests see India's logic defying diversity of tribes & languages as a weakness to be exploited. But it is a true 5000 year wonder. Modern India tries its best to...
Tipu was inviting Napoleon & Zaman Shah Abdali to invade India. At the same time he was committing fanatical religious atrocities against neighbouring states and weakening them aga...
The most radical thinkers produced by ancient India. Each opened a new branch of learning or caused paradigm shifts in prevalent thinking of society-or sometimes- the whole species...
"Among other nations it is usual to turn the country into wasteland during war. But in India it is inviolable. The tillers of the soil, even when battle rages, are undisturbed by a...
Nalanda vs Avanti observatory "What if earth & the heavenly bodies are in free fall?" Buddhist astronomers "We are not falling! It is the property of the earth to attract objects...
Gems of Nalanda "In emptiness, there is no good or evil. No 'liberated beings' freed of karma. Such notions are delusions. But we must ensure happiness for all living beings. For...
In one of his works, Adi Shankara asks a question way beyond his time- 'When you close your eyes and imagine things, how are those images formed? An image needs light. What is the...