Beyond the Universe

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(10-05-2018, 01:14 PM)Rishi Wrote: That's not a good reply. 

For sure is not good, that's why Berkeley was a subject of many jokes... Western civilization is materialistic by nature and Western people tend to trust 100% to their eyes and ears while Indian civilization is a spiritual and Indians were always tending to go beyond the visible things. 

Look at Taj Mahal - what we see - something almost unreal, kind of mirage or maya, a building who is going in any moment to "evaporate" in the air. Such a building is not possible to be created outside of India.

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Conseption of "maya" is the soul of India. Recently I red a historian Valdemar Hansen's book "The peacock throne'", he says: "Whatever it is, it seems native to India: an enigma embracing its own history yet curiosly impervious to any moment in time. The Taj suggests an endurance beyond now and then, beyond tideless Jamuna river that seeps as its foundations. Now and then are maya - illusion, a freakish pattern of impermanence. Three hundred and more years of history can be palimpsested with the transparency of layers of cellophane, and may well be an Indian illusion."

So, in what way should go India now in 21 century, could she become a new China? Indians were always been very good in dealing with things who are invisible and cant be touched with hand - philosophy, mathematics etc  and were always very weak with dealing with everytning which can be touched by hand. Could modern India can start produce gigantic quantities of material goods as China - refrigerators, radios, cars and become an industrial super power as China - I don't think that it could hapenn in full degree. India should follow her own way - become a economic superpower in producing not goods, but services who cant be touched by hand - IT technology, softwear, film industry and others - hence to become an post-industrial age economy of information. Do not try to became as the West or China.
Indian film industry should also try to became competitive in the world markets and probably later in this century Bollywood to become equal to Holywood, but that needs a lot of reforms and ambition. Reply