Indian Knowledge System
Posted: 09 Oct 2012 10:53
Disclaimer:
It is good to swim in the waters of tradition, but to sink in them is suicide.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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We have continuous traditions in many domains of knowledge. Sometimes they were forgotten or we have been made to forget it. Such, traditions has its beginning in the Vedas.
We have:
Various Technologies, Logics/Ethics/Sociology/Philosophy, Languages, Governance, Drama, Architecture, Justice, Mathematics/Astronomy/Agriculture/Ayurved/Trade and Commerce.
They are being visited and revisited time and again, forgotten, revived and such cycle. The economics of these traditions is still not estimated or understood. Neither they have been exploited fully. Potential is enormous and so revenue and employment generation.
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some efforts:
http://www.ciks.org/
http://www.ciks.org/focus.htm
some books:
http://www.indianscience.org/ (rajiv malhotra's efforts)
Indian Knowledge Systems by Kapil Kapoor, Avadesh Kumar Singh
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It is good to swim in the waters of tradition, but to sink in them is suicide.
- Mahatma Gandhi
******
We have continuous traditions in many domains of knowledge. Sometimes they were forgotten or we have been made to forget it. Such, traditions has its beginning in the Vedas.
We have:
Various Technologies, Logics/Ethics/Sociology/Philosophy, Languages, Governance, Drama, Architecture, Justice, Mathematics/Astronomy/Agriculture/Ayurved/Trade and Commerce.
They are being visited and revisited time and again, forgotten, revived and such cycle. The economics of these traditions is still not estimated or understood. Neither they have been exploited fully. Potential is enormous and so revenue and employment generation.
***
some efforts:
http://www.ciks.org/
http://www.ciks.org/focus.htm
some books:
http://www.indianscience.org/ (rajiv malhotra's efforts)
Indian Knowledge Systems by Kapil Kapoor, Avadesh Kumar Singh
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Please share discuss news/articles