वैसे भी युलर इत्यादि किसे चाहिये…???

दोस्तो, इसके शीर्षक पर मत जाइए। मेरे इस ब्लॉग का उद्देश्य युलर आदि महान गनित्विज्ञयो के योगदान को कम करना या उनकी आलोचना करना कतई नही है। (वैसे भी मेरे द्वारा कुछ कहने से उनकी सेहत पर कोई फर्क भी नहीं होगा।) मेरा उद्देश्य लोगों को इस सभ्यता द्वारा गणित के क्षेत्र में किये गये योगदानों से अवगत करना है। जो कार्य पश्चिमी सभ्यता के लोगों द्वारा १३-१४ सदी बाद किया गया वह इस देश के आर्यभट्टो, भास्कराचार्यों ने उनसे हज़ार वर्षों पहले कर लिया था। आज लोगों को यह तो पता है कि यह महान गणित्यग थे; लेकिन इनके योगदान के नाम पर ज़्यादा-से-ज़्यादा लोग शुन्य के आविष्कार इनसे जोड़ देंगे। लेकिन सच यह है कि इन व्यक्तियों का योगदान इससे कई गुना अधिक है। दुनिया कि छोड़िये, भारत में भी यह बातें कोर्स कि किताबों में पढ़ाना शायद मना। आख़िर भूरे आदि-मानव कि औकात कि वह इतना सोच सके…।
खगोल विज्ञान एवम गणित के क्षेत्र मे इनके द्वारा किये कार्य को अगर इनका नाम दिया जाये तो किसी का क्या घट जाएगा? लेकिन नहीं, हम तुच्छ - गुलामी कि पैदाइश - इतने महान कार्य कैसे कर सकते हैं। और इस बार में किसी उड़ने वाले यन्त्र या विनाशकारी हथियारों कि बात नहीं कर रहा; मैं बात कर रह हूँ - theoretical maths & astronomy - कि जिसका प्रमाण भी उपलब्ध है।
मैं उत्सुक व्यक्तियों के लिए कुछ कडिया दे रह हूँ; ज्ञान वृद्धि कि इच्छा हो तो देखियेगा…
सुभाष काक (detail papers)
विकिपीडिया (in brief)
Indian Maths (Student paper)

English Translation

Who needs Euler et al anyways…???

Hey… don’t take me wrong guys… I ain’t here to criticize these guys or question their intellect (anyways I do not have enough credentials to do that). I just wish to make you guys aware of Ancient Indian Mathematicians and Astronomers - those who existed on this Earth a millennium before these Western genius - and their priceless but ‘worthless’ contribution in the field mathematics and astronomy.
What if I ask you about the Indian contribution in these fields. Probably, you wouldn’t remember anything other than the contribution of Zero. But guys, this isn’t true - India’s contribution is many times greater. Much before Euler et al were giving solutions to basic algebraic problems, Indian Mathematicians and astronomers had already done it. And folks, here I am not talking about some mystical things like aeroplanes or WMDs (which many - myself included - believe and claim that were an integral part of ancient civilizations, but let us not talk about this now); I am simply talking about theoretical Maths and documented results. Some of these include Solution of equations, Value of π, Use of irrational numbers, geometry, solid geometry (around14h century), etc. etc.
Indeed this contribution is priceless but why then I called it worthless? Because of just one reason - is this work contributed to them - No…..!!! I ask you why is this work not given their name. Something which is written, which has proof that can satisfy anyone - whats the problem in attributing it to them?
I have few links for those interested and wish to update their knowledge database.
Subhash Kak (detail papers)
Wikipedia (in brief)
Indian Maths (Student paper)

Hindi translation

हिन्दी

अब आप सबने इतना सिर पर चड़ा दिया है तो कुछ लिखने का प्रयत्न किया जाये :P|
आज से कुछ साल पहले तक मैं (हिन्दी के मामले में) काफी हद तक कट्टर था| मुझे लगता था कि अगर भारत में ही हिन्दी का सम्मान नहीं होगा आने वाले सालों में यह भाषा तकरिबन खतम हो जायेगी| यह बात तब कि है जब मुझे globalization के बारे में कुछ खास मालुम नहीं था और इतिहास पढ़ते-२ अँगरेज़ एवम अंग्रेजी से मुझे खुन्नस हो गयी थी|उस बात को कम से कम अब ८-९ वर्ष हो गए हैं और इन सालों में जितना ‘official’ काम मैंने english में किया है, पहले कभी नहीं किया होगा| फिर भी अब, इस समय अगर मुझसे पुछा जाये कि इस भाषा का भविष्य क्या है तो मैं यह कतई नहीं कहूँगा कि यह भाषा ‘मर‘ जायेगी| हाँ, यह हो सकता है कि इसके ’structure’ में कुछ बदलाव आजाये बलकि मैं तो यह चाहूँगा कि हिन्दी और ‘flexible’ हो क्योंकि कोई भी भाषा कि जीवन-रेखा कि लम्बाई इस तथ्य पर निर्भर करेगी कि वोह कितनी ‘flexible’ है तथा अपने अन्दर क्या-२ ‘accomodate’ कर सकती है| मानव सभ्यता के आरम्भ से ना जाने कितनी भाषाएँ काल का ग्रास बन गयी हैं और जैसे -२ समय चक्र बढ़ता जाएगा ना जाने कितनी भाषाएँ काल का ग्रास बन जाएँगी| आज से २०० वर्ष पहले तक ‘english’ नामक भाषा का विश्व स्तर पर देखा जाये तो नामो निशाँ तक नही था लेकिन आज वो किस ‘position’ पर है सबको मालुम है| इसके पिछे १ महत्वपूर्ण कारण ‘obviously’ यह है कि , जिसका पैसा उसकी बोली| लेकिन १ और करण यह है कि ‘english’ अब ‘imperial english’ नहीं है बलकि ‘hinglish’, ‘chinglish’ etc etc का mixture बन गयी है तथा इस नयी भाषा को बोलते समय लागों को यह नहीं लगता कि वोह किसी ओर कि भाषा को गले लगा रहा है। और आज हमे लगता है कि हिन्दी खतम हो जायेगी-’its not coz english is eating it up but coz theres is a new language called hinglish’| साहित्य कि दृष्टि से देखा जाये तो मैं मानता हूँ कि यह गलत है लेकिन अगर इतिहास कि दृष्टि से देखा जाये तो ‘obviously its something natural’.
१९६५ के हिंन्दिभाषियों के ‘chauvinism’ एवम अदूरदर्शिता के कारण हिन्दी दिलों को जोड़ने कि जगह बाँटने का काम कर गयी। लेकिन जिस तरह ‘english’ दुनिया भर में फैल रही है उस तरह हिदी अब कम से कम भारत में वह स्थान पा रही है जो स्वतंत्रता के बाद ‘non-hindi speaking’ राज्यों पर ‘उनकी नज़रों में’ थोपा जा रहा था। मैं इस बात को नहीं नकार रहा कि दक्षिण भारतीय राजनितिक दलों ने हिन्दी को आधिकारिक भाषा बनाने वाले निर्णय को ‘आर्यन invasion theory’ से जोड़ के अपना उल्लू सीधा किया; लेकिन इसका मौका उन्हें दिया किसने?? क्या कारण था कि राजगोपालाचारी जैसे व्यक्ति जो आरम्भ में हिन्दी को आधिकारिक भाषा बनाने के पक्श में थे बाद में ’status-quo’ बनाये रखने के समर्थक बन गए?? क्या कारण है कि दक्षिण भारत में ‘english’ बोलने में लोगों को आपत्ति नही है लेकिन हिन्दी अछूत है/ ‘थी’?? इन सब सवालों के जवाब में फिलहाल मैं एक ही चीज़ कहूँगा - अगर शुरुराती दिनों में ज़ल्दबाजी नहीं कि गयी होती तो आज का माहौल कुछ ओर होता। अगर दक्षिण के लोगों को विश्वास में लिया होता कि हिन्दी के कारण ‘central jobs’ में उन्हें फर्क नहीं पढेगा तो इतना गहरा ‘साऊथ-नॉर्थ’ ‘divide’ आज नहीं होता। फिर भी किसी ने कहा है जो होता है अच्छे के लिए होता है - हिन्दी आधिकारिक नहीं होने के कारण आज हम ‘globalization’ के फायदे उठा पा रहे हैं साथ ही इन फायदों के कारण हिन्दी के कट्टर विरोधी (hopefully) कम हो गए हैं।

वैसे मैं आप लोगों को यह भी बताना चाहता हूँ कि इस विषय के ऊपर लिखने कि मन में क्यों आयी…
हिन्दी blogosphere में कई बार मैंने लोगों को यह शिक़ायत करते हुए देखा है कि आजकल ‘ढंकी’ हिन्दी विविध-भारती के अलावा कहीँ नहीं मिलती लेकिन मैं उनसे एक बात जानना चाहूँगा… आप ढंकी हिन्दी किसे बोलते हैं?? वह जो आज से ५०-१५० वर्ष पहले परिभाषित करी गयी थी (sanskritization of hindi) या जो आज से ८००-९०० वर्ष पहले अस्तित्त्व में आयी थी… हिन्दुस्तानी?? और सही मायने में कहा जाये तो मेरे ख़्याल से हर १ जना अपनी अलग हिन्दी बोलता है। और अगर आप देवनागरी लिपि पर ’senti’ हैं तो मैं यह कहना चाहूँगा कि यह लिपि भी मात्र १००० वर्ष पुरानी होगी। यह सच है कि ‘change’ या बदलाव मुश्किल होता हिया लेकिन यह भी एक सच है कि बदलाव ही ऐसी चीज़ है जो हमेशा स्थिर रहती है!!!

Sources:
mixture of sites on www
‘Sccop’ by कुलदीप नायर
Further Reading:
Hegemony of Hindi: ToI editorial where author talks about HEGEMONY of Hindi; biggest IRONY being he/ she is writing in ENGLISH :). Though what is written is somewhat true but its something natural according to me. But as I said earlier…what English is doing in the world, Hindi is doing in India…!!! And its good for the sake of the Nation.
The Hindi Haters: A blog on IBNLive. See the comments and you will realize why i gave this link.

सही है गुरू !!!

सही है बॉस!!! बहुत समय बाद आज मैं ब्लॉगर पर आया & to my surprise I found Hindi transliteration… !!! मस्त है यह चीज़ तो… rather seriously कहा जाये तो इसके कारण हिन्दी लिखना बहुत सरल maxxx हो गया है| इससे पहले मैंने कुछ particular s/w use तो किये थे लेकिन उन्हें उपयोग करना इतना आसान नही था| काफी चीजों का ध्यान रखा गया है| manual correction तो न के बराबर करने पढ़े… ( पढ़े लिखने में सबसे ज्यादा समय लगा :)) | अब तो हिन्दी में कुछ ढंकी चीज़ लिखने में मज़ा आएगा… बहुत मज़ा आयेगा… हु हा हा हा

Numerology Doubt

Hi budding, novice, expert - numerologists

I have a small doubt regarding a small concept in Numerology, typically wrt my own DoB.
I was born on night of 2nd November rather 3rd November as time was 0020 hrs. (Indian Standard Time). As per this info my DoB comes out to be 3rd Nov. But now there is a cache: if I consider the local time of the place of my birth it comes out to be slightly more than 20 mins earlier. Therefore, in such a case my ToB comes out to be something less than oooo hrs. and hence my DoB in such a scenario will be 2nd Nov (time lets say 11:50 p.m.). When I create my astrological charts etc. softwares automatically take care of such an issue as input is Local Time ans Latitude & Longitude while creating it but when I talk in terms of numerology what DoB should I use 3rd or 2nd.
BTW what DoB a person should use if he is born at EXACTLY 0000 hrs. - just out of curiosity I wish to know how you numerologist will consider that particular case. Anyways do not forget to answer 1st question :).

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Rs. One Lakh Car: An open letter to Tatas

Dear Mr. Tata,

Since you have announced the plan to roll out Rs. One Lakh Car, I have been more than happy because now a large number of ‘middle-class’ families of this Indian land will be able to fulfill their dream of owning a four wheeler. No, no… please don’t worry this letter is not regarding your legal-illegal, I don’t know, land acquisition/ grabbing in Singur(W.B.) as I am in no way related to those poor farmers and your plant will give me an opportunity to fulfill my dreams of owning a four-wheeler. May be some of them have died protesting your grabbing… oh…..sorry, acquisition but it doesn’t matter to me… and why the hell should it matter??? Ohhhh…. shit I am drifting from the actual topic… I am not writing to bash you for Singur-its strictly between W.B. Government and you, and who am I to question this???
I am writing to you to thank you for making this car and fulfilling every ‘aam aadmi’s‘ dream of owning a car. Wow… its great!!! Now, thanks to you, every xyz (without being dis-respectful to any xyz reading this) can buy a car without ever giving a damn about the fuel, traffic or parking. I want to ask you a simple question-have you really thought about the affect that your Rs. 1Lakh car will have on Indian economy, the burden this Rs. 1 Lakh car will create on the already over-loaded infrastructure of this nation. With already roads jammed with traffic, so much problem with parking, unordered traffic, won’t this car make the condition worse for the poor roads. I certainly believe your motive behind this car is the profit and probably(…huh!!!), to fulfill every aam aadmi’s wish. But did you ever thought about the way this car will decrease our energy security or rather, increase our energy insecurity. Hydrocarbons, which are slowly joining the list of rare resources and which are now the cause of wars (courtesy Iraq :P), don’t you think increase demand of it will unnecessarily burden our Nation’s economy. I am saying this because people will still buy this car and in large numbers. Someone who could easily buy a bike earlier but can’t think of a car will now add a few ten thousands and buy your dream car. Have you ever thought of bringing a model which is fuel efficient or use such energy-source which will cause less-pollution or be renewable. Don’t you think its your duty to first solve this problem and then go for creating you dream. Besides fuel can’t you even see our nation traffic and parking spaces. With this four-wheeler storming the roads, one can only expect the condition to deteriorate. Government won’t do anything and condition, definitely, will go from bad too worse.
But still I know people will buy your cars, you will still make profit, people will definitely fight on road while driving your dream-car, traffic condition will definitely go haywire, drive for unusually long hours to travel small distances (alas!!! if you could provide them with better roads and parking spaces) and prices of petrol will definitely rise.

Regards
Shubham Lahoti

p.s: blog after 3 months

पुरातन सभ्यताएँ एवम् उनका विज्ञान

मनुष्य हमेशा से अपने पूर्वजों को मुर्ख समझता आया है और वह कभी यह बात मान नहीं सकता कि आदि(!!) मानव ने ऐसे कार्य कर रखे हों जिन्हे करना उसके बूते से बाहर हो (कयी उदाहरण हैं - बाद में)। आज के वेज्ञानिक सिर्फ जितना वह खोद सकते हैं उतना सच मानते हैं और उसके अलावा जो होता है उसे बेबुनियाद कह के सिरे से खारिज कर देते हैं। वह यह मानने को तैयार ही नहीं होते कि उनकी भी कुछ सीमा (परिमितता) हो सकती हैं। अभी हाल ही में मेरी (गिद्ध सी :D) नज़र इस लेख पर गयी; समय हो तो ज़रूर पढ़येगा।

वेदिक सभ्यता

मेरे जैसे ‘हिन्दु/ वेदिक धर्मोन्मत्तों (fanatic) ‘ के लिये एक खुशखबरी-
रूस के एक गाँव में विष्णु भगवान कि ७-१० सदी के समय कि मुर्ति मिली। संपूर्ण लेख यहाँ देखें।
लिंक १
लिंक २

The Maths behind SEZs

I always wonder if creating umpteen number of SEZs in India a decision of which general public in India can be proud of or are they just being carved out for the purpose of providing the few lucky-ones with an ample opportunity to make money on the cost of hundred and thousands of those who cannot afford to even earn their daily bread. Are SEZs really that great as promised and proclaimed or is it just that the media inputs only that much information in the public mind which the government & those few chosen-ones want the public to know. While searching for these questions, I luckily got my hands on a great article which not only discusses the pros & cons or rather only cons of SEZs but also compares the Chinese and the Indian model. After reading this article I realized what a SEZ really is but unfortunately, I am sure, such articles and the brutal truth won’t reach the general public of India. Some excerpts from the article:

All these exemptions will mean a revenue loss of more than Rupees 1.75 lakh crores to the state exchequer after five years. Although this staggering amount is enough to feed the country’s 320 million people who go to bed hungry stomach for a number of years, or provide guaranteed employment to at least two members of each of the rural families for the next five years, this is a ’small price’ that the nation must pay to keep for the royalty tag for the rich and beautiful.
You may call it ‘the biggest land-grab of the century’ or term it as ‘open-loot’; the powers that be are simply not deterred. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has repeatedly said that the SEZs are the need of the day. No wonder, agricultural land, which is a scarce commodity, is suddenly available in abundance. Unmindful of the fact that the per capita land holding is already at an abysmally low of 0.25 acre, the government is using the draconian Land Acquisition Act 1854 to further purchase any land that it sets its eyes on. In the first phase of clearances accorded by the government, a total of 1.25 lakh hectares of prime agricultural land are in the process of being acquired. In the second phase too, almost an equal area would be obtained.
One of the biggest SEZs is coming up near Mumbai. Spread over 14,000 hectares, it is coming up predominantly on double-cropped land.
Another major SEZ proposed in Jhajjar adjoining New Delhi is spread across 10,000 hectares and is again gobbling double-cropped land. Interestingly, both these SEZs, proposed to occupy a landmass larger than the suburb of Gurgaon, are yet to be officially approved. In Mangalore, one of the promoters is the government-owned ONGC and 2,200 hectares of double- and even triple-cropped land is being acquired for setting up a SEZ.
The CPM government in West Bengal has acquired some 400 hectares of fertile land for the Tatas to set up an automobile factory at Singur, near Kolkata. Technically speaking Singur is not a SEZ , but what makes the deal politically significant is that the State government has actually acquired the land at cost of Rs.140 crores. It has then been made available to the Tatas for a mere Rs.20 crores, one-seventh of the cost price. Even that can be treated as a loan for 5 years.
The setting up of the princely estates is being primarily justified on account of employment generation. The premise is that it will create 5 lakhs job opportunities. Does this kind of employment generation mean anything for India? This question has been conveniently ducked, and for obvious reasons. Now let us examine the ground realities. It was at the beginning of this century that some 75 lakh people, more than the population of Switzerland, had applied for a mere 28,000 lowly paid jobs in the Indian Railways. For a country, which is on a fast track information highway, this does not mean anything significant except for statistics. Even if you were to employ five lakh out of these 75 lakh, isn’t that a mere drop in the ocean? Millions of assured jobs can be created if the total amount of revenue loss - Rs 1.75 lakh crore - and the several times higher public sector investment to follow is used for employment generation.
Food security too is no longer the national priority. Otherwise, no sensible government would have at any cost tinkered with the country’s dwindling ability to produce food for its own population. Our own conservative estimate shows that the nation will suffer a loss of Rs. 250 to 400 crores from the reduction in area under cultivation of food grains alone. Foodgrain production is expected to drop by at least 4 to 5 lakh tonnes a year. I remember these are only conservative estimates. In case of land under high value crops, the losses would be much higher.
Take the case of Pepsico’s entry into Punjab in the 1980s. The multinational giant promised to create 50,000 jobs. In reply to a 1991 parliamentary question, the Ministry of Food Processing in acknowledged that the company had created only 482 jobs, of which 210 were unskilled workers.
It is therefore a free-for-all activity. If you can mobilize political support by hook or by crook, you can rest assured that you are on the right path to royalty. Whether you finally deliver what you promise is something that you can leave to the consultants to take care of. What is more significant is that nowhere else in the world will you find such a pliable government and a supporting bureaucracy like in India.
In China, from where India drew inspiration, only six SEZs - at Shenzhen, Shantou, Xiamen, Zhuhai, Hainan and Pudong - have been set up so far. These economic zones, all in the public sector, came after a lot of debate and deliberation, and all of them are situated along the coast. Faced with shrinking cultivable land, the Chinese SEZs have come up only in wastelands. In India, all these norms have been thrown to the wind. World over, there are only some 400 special economic zones. If it was such a productive and useful activity, why hasn’t the world woken up to the promises that Dr Manmohan Singh’s government has been making? The SEZs cannot, and will not, create economic magic, but this has not been the reason for setting them up. They are essentially aimed to create a series of affluent islands amidst the cesspool of poverty, hunger and deprivation. Oases, or pockets of effluence for the rich and elite, who find the poor an eyesore.