mar 23rd
with the bbc and this dev benegal (who made the horrible 'english, august' with that execrable bose fellow in the lead role), i am sure the film will come out as an uncle tom story, with the genius looking like some kind of idiot-savant (remember the dustin hoffman-tom cruise film) who was rescued from obscurity by kind white guys who thought of him as some performing monkey.
also, expect a lot of disparagement of hinduism in the film. after all, ramanujan explicitly said that his genius was a gift from the goddess of namakkal whose blessings enabled him to come up with his remarkable insights. so the film will smirk about how 'primitive' ramanujan was. of course, they all will not have any better answer as to what genius is all about, and the blessings of a goddess are as good an explanation as any.
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Not half the publicity or accolades given by India to a true genius as compared to <various half-baked 'intellectual giants'>
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Sriram
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so the film will smirk about how 'primitive' ramanujan was. of course, they all will not have any better answer as to what genius is all about, and the blessings of a goddess are as good an explanation as any.
--- Interesting, isnt it ? That
many were willing to take his
mathematical insights, but not
his insight into how he got his
insights ?
If they seriously begin to look
for explanations, it will be
good for everyone. For then,
they will have to enquire into
the very origin of thought, and
that will lead them to the
source. The source of
everything. It will lead to
Brahman.
Then they will agree with the
Hindus.
Surprisingly a lot of new age
thought in America (not UK)
is very open to such ideas.
It is only people who are
stuck with narrow western
religious beliefs who have
closed minds.
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sriram, i edited it.
pennathur, is there anything in today's india that one can truly be proud of? thanks to 50 years (and counting) of nehruvianism, there is nothing. so one has to look at the past to realize that indians can do great work. this is the issue of role models.
isn't it amazing that even under extreme racism under the brits, there were men of true genius such as c v raman, ramanujan, and j c bose? but *nothing* whatsoever under 50 years of nehruvian education: not *one* earth-shaking invention or discovery from india. that's because nehru, nurul hassan and now arjun singh, and everyone in between, have successfully destroyed indian education systems and even the very idea that india could produce any breakthroughs. and by wiping out sanskrit, and turning universities into private sinecures for fellow-travelers. the example of k n panikkar, an offensive marxist who knows no sanskrit, running the sri sankara sanskrit university, is only the most egregious example.
Is there a meaning to the name nizhal yoddha?
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