That’s like harnessing a telescope to a Vedic chant and expecting the stars to spin closer. Illustration by Gemini AI A friend forwarded a WhatsApp message written by K Sahadevan, Malayalam writer and social activist. The central theme is a concern for science education and research in India. The writer bemoans the fact that in India science is in a prison conjured up by Narendra Modi. The message shocked me. I hadn’t been aware of many things mentioned therein. Modi is making use of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Centre for Study and Research in Indology for his nefarious purposes projected as efforts to “preserve and promote classical Indian knowledge systems [IKS]” which include Sanskrit, Ayurveda, Jyotisha (astrology), literature, philosophy, and ancient sciences and technology. The objective is to integrate science with spirituality and cultural values. That’s like harnessing a telescope to a Vedic chant and expecting the stars to spin closer. The IKS curricula have made umpteen r...
I was horrified by this comment of his. He has single handedly managed to give yoga a bad name.
ReplyDeletePrecisely. He is doing a terrible disservice to the real yoga, yogi and Hinduism itself.
DeleteI was horrified...I really was! But, honestly, I was never a fan of Baba Ramdev.
ReplyDeleteThinking people can't be his fans. He is more an entertainer and entrepreneur than a yogi.
DeleteI think he is foolish to cut heads of his probable customers, the current situation in country is like ' Andher Nagri Chaupat Raja'
ReplyDeleteHe could not even pass class 8. What can we expect of him?
DeleteI have felt the same about him Matheikal, I think it was the time when Anna Hazare was in news and this guy suddenly became politically famous. Don't know what the true intentions are anymore!!
ReplyDeleteFair is foul and foul is fair, as Shakespeare's witches said.
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