'We are calling companies to set up assembly plants for mobile phones while all the components are imported.''Only the last turn of the screwdriver is done here. And you call it self-reliance,......
'Bharat is a name that is 7,000 years old.''We are not saying the name of the country should be changed from India to Bharat; we only recommended that the stress should be on Bharat.' Photograph:......
In the ancient world there is a great deal of give and take and reciprocal learning.India was an integral and important constituent of such interchanges of goods and ideas. A fascinating excerpt......
'The debate between mythology and "rational" science in India is at least as old as Aryabhata and Brahmagupta and, to this day, has not been resolved in the Indian popular thinking on science.'......
'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.''Nobody tried or convicted Aryabhata just because he said Rahu-Ketu is nonsense.''Some Indians take the extreme view......