If you are interested in either mathematics or East Indian ancient sciences, you should check this out:

http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~mikel/sriyantra/sriyantra.html

Very interesting, I grew up seeing it but never looked into Math or Geometry side of it!

 

BlogMap has now around 250 Indian Bloggers - thanks to Thennavan for offering to integrate his collection with BlogMap.

Just stumbled upon this: Mukul has a nice post on India 2020. Check it out.

Just finished reading an article (Genocide on the farm : Green revolution turns red) by Devinder Sharma, who takes a look at why small and marginal farmers are suffering in India due to a faulty industrial and economic farming model in India.

While I haven't done enough research to check the facts, some of the author's points are just painful and gut wrenching; he also asks an important question too:

"Politicians were always known to be insensitive to human sufferings. What about the educated, part of the so-called intelligentsia? What about the bureaucrats, celebrities, industrialists, academicians, media and the burgeoning middle class? Aren’t they as guilty as the politicians? And what about the global economic and development policies that actually exacerbate hunger, and that too in the name of removing hunger? "

So far, in the popular media,  I have only seen the showering accolades to some of the "vision 2020" works done in the State of Andhra Pradesh; but for the first time, I'm reading a completely conflicting report. 

I can't help to wonder, "who is clueless here? the policy makers? the media? or the public who believes the media and the policy makers?"