1001 THINGS EVERY INDIAN SHOULD KNOW
Book Details
Author(s)Bhaskar Menon
PublisherUNDIPLOMATIC TIMES
ISBN / ASINB00B2FZJFS
ISBN-13978B00B2FZJF6
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
"1001 Things Every Indian Should Know" is an unprecedented collection of facts and analyses about India and its role in the world. It is an essential antidote to colonial brainwashing and historical illiteracy. It tells you about the Vedas, the oldest of humanity's literary creations, and how it is joined at the hip to the caste system. It tells how India became united in its diversity and how that is related to its famous spiritual nature.
In relating the millennial story of the oldest civilization to continue with an unbroken continuity of tradition into the 21st Century, the book also brings into focus the country's enormous impact on the world. The "Universal Soul" (Param Atma) of Upanishads became the God of the Semitic world. The "sunnyata" that Buddhism conceived as the creative emptiness at the heart of reality laid the basis for the Indian invention of the Zero, perhaps the most revolutionary advance in the history of mathematics.
The book traces the evolution of Christianity and Islam from the Indian perspective and tells how Hindu concepts gave rise to monotheism.
It also puts Europe in Indian perspective and explores the complicated brain-games with which Britain kept control of a far more populous country. It tells how the British Empire did not really end when the structures of colonial rule were dismantled in the second half of the 20th Century; it segued into a global black market that is now estimated to be twice the GDP of the United States.
The enormous power of that new Empire has been used to support and promote organized crime globally, generating trillions of dollars in profit. It has also been used for an unremitting assault on India over the last 65 years. The book tells how and why that has occurred.
Britain and India are polar opposites. One invented the industrial revolution and the modern corporate apparatus of the market economy; the other has a rich material culture but its traditional approach to reality is essentially spiritual. Despite the end of colonial rule the interaction of the profoundly different approaches to reality of the two nations has continued into the 21st Century and it will decide the fate of the world. The book tells of that interaction in terms of Mahatma Gandhi's life and legacy, and Britain's deeply negative response.
The empire of crime supported by Britain's money-laundering system (aka the global black market), is under increasing pressure from bank regulators in the United States and the European Union. Its most lucrative enterprises, the drug trades out of Afghanistan and Colombia, are also endangered by American military pressure against British proxies controlling them. In Colombia a peace process is under way, and Pakistan's military spy agency, the ISI, is caught in a confused melee as that country teeters on the verge of becoming a failed state.
Reviewing the bloody history of Britain's past record in defending its imperial interests, the book warns that it could precipitate a major military crisis in South Asia or global hyperinflation. Either would push the world into irreparable systemic crises.
Even if we can avoid such mega-crises, the prospect is dismal. The globalization of industrial civilization has brought the world into a situation of deep interlocked crises that have grown steadily worse despite all efforts by governments for over four decades. The book explains why that is so.
How do we deal with this situation? Governments have shown themselves incompetent for half a century. The book recommends how ordinary people can organize to take back the world.
In relating the millennial story of the oldest civilization to continue with an unbroken continuity of tradition into the 21st Century, the book also brings into focus the country's enormous impact on the world. The "Universal Soul" (Param Atma) of Upanishads became the God of the Semitic world. The "sunnyata" that Buddhism conceived as the creative emptiness at the heart of reality laid the basis for the Indian invention of the Zero, perhaps the most revolutionary advance in the history of mathematics.
The book traces the evolution of Christianity and Islam from the Indian perspective and tells how Hindu concepts gave rise to monotheism.
It also puts Europe in Indian perspective and explores the complicated brain-games with which Britain kept control of a far more populous country. It tells how the British Empire did not really end when the structures of colonial rule were dismantled in the second half of the 20th Century; it segued into a global black market that is now estimated to be twice the GDP of the United States.
The enormous power of that new Empire has been used to support and promote organized crime globally, generating trillions of dollars in profit. It has also been used for an unremitting assault on India over the last 65 years. The book tells how and why that has occurred.
Britain and India are polar opposites. One invented the industrial revolution and the modern corporate apparatus of the market economy; the other has a rich material culture but its traditional approach to reality is essentially spiritual. Despite the end of colonial rule the interaction of the profoundly different approaches to reality of the two nations has continued into the 21st Century and it will decide the fate of the world. The book tells of that interaction in terms of Mahatma Gandhi's life and legacy, and Britain's deeply negative response.
The empire of crime supported by Britain's money-laundering system (aka the global black market), is under increasing pressure from bank regulators in the United States and the European Union. Its most lucrative enterprises, the drug trades out of Afghanistan and Colombia, are also endangered by American military pressure against British proxies controlling them. In Colombia a peace process is under way, and Pakistan's military spy agency, the ISI, is caught in a confused melee as that country teeters on the verge of becoming a failed state.
Reviewing the bloody history of Britain's past record in defending its imperial interests, the book warns that it could precipitate a major military crisis in South Asia or global hyperinflation. Either would push the world into irreparable systemic crises.
Even if we can avoid such mega-crises, the prospect is dismal. The globalization of industrial civilization has brought the world into a situation of deep interlocked crises that have grown steadily worse despite all efforts by governments for over four decades. The book explains why that is so.
How do we deal with this situation? Governments have shown themselves incompetent for half a century. The book recommends how ordinary people can organize to take back the world.
