unknown facts about Indian history

    Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will always be plentiful. However, freshwater—the stuff we drink, bathe in, irrigate our farm fields with—is incredibly rare. Only 3% of the world’s water is fresh water, and two-thirds of that is tucked away in frozen glaciers or otherwise unavailable for our use. As a result, some 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water, and a total of 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month of the year. Inadequate sanitation is also a problem for 2.4 billion people—they are exposed to diseases, such as cholera and typhoid fever, and other water-borne illnesses. Two million people, mostly children, die each year from diarrheal diseases alone. Many of the water systems that keep ecosystems thriving and feed a growing human population have become stressed. Rivers, lakes and aquifers are drying up or becoming too polluted to use. More than half the world’s wetlands have disappeared. Agriculture consumes m...

Martial Art Of Deadly Kalaripayattu Kalaripayattu (kalari-paya-ttu) is an ancient martial art indigenous to Kerala. Kerala is a small state from the southern part of India and famous for its rich cultural heritage. Experts say it to be the mother of all modern martial arts, including the famous Kung-fu. Bodhidharma was the one who first taught this deadly fighting style to the monks at the Shaolin monastery. Since then, kung-fu has slowly evolved to a similar but different martial art sharing its root with Kalaripayattu. Being the oldest in all martial arts today, the exact time of its origin is still unknown. However historical evidence suggests it came into existence around 5,000 BCE. It was said to be the crudest form of all existing martial arts ever known to humans. But unfortunately, the practicing style of today is much diminished as the British were afraid of it and placed a ban during the 19th century. Then in the 20th century, the British re-allowed the practice o...

India is considered as a traditional country but the world is unaware of our contributions to this modern world. Our theories were used as a base for many concepts such as weather forecast, astronomy, astrology, aviation etc. India has developed some of the best mathematicians the world has ever seen. Many of these geniuses were not given credit for their work. An exhibition was held to spread awareness on India’s rich scientific heritage. The exhibition coordinator, Ashish Manjramkar stated:  “Very few of us know that speed of light was known to Indians in Vedic period. A shloka says that the speed of light is 2202 yojana per half nimish. Yojana is a unit of distance which equals to 9.06 miles and half a nimish (nimishardha) is one tenth of a second. The figure is very close to the modern measurement of speed of light.”  When we talk about gravity, the first name that pops into our heart is “Sir Isaac Newton”. In school we all have been told the story of how Newt...

Oral Tradition Of Preserving History Indian traditions and cultural intricacy have always fascinated me, At the same time it also stirs up the confusion of my existing knowledge even more. Indian history as we know is very old and ancient. Therefore, it has developed a unique way of preserving our ancient wisdom through folk storytelling. The sages of that time must have realized the need for storing, recording, and preserving the ancient wisdom safe for the future generations. How did they do it? Well, they abstracted the primary essence of wisdom into cultural traditions to record our history safe from outside invaders and other natural mishaps. If you’ve noticed the brilliance of our sages, they always knew that any written knowledge can be lost, stolen, forgotten, destroyed, damaged, but oral tradition is much harder to destroy and damage. This tradition of passing on ancient wisdom to the future generations through hearing and reciting age-old oral stories is called sh...

Science Of Vedic Mathematics India has always been a repository for great scientist and mathematician since the ancient era.Even when people from other parts of the world didn’t have any idea about what numbers and science were. Takshashila (tak-sha-shila), which is believed to be the world’s first university, was built before the early Harappan civilization. Unfortunately, the university was destroyed by the Huns (a nomadic tribe from central Asia) in the 5th century. Why am I telling you this? Because some facts are very hard to believe. When it comes to acknowledging the supremacy of India’s role in the area of scientific findings, it gets even more dubious. Because, we only know India by what it is today – a developing country struggling to keep up with the already developed western nations. If you are aware of some basic science then you would know that mastering any field of science without having a solid understanding of mathematics is nearly unachievable. T...

Education System Of Gurukul I am a 1st year student of Amity University Rajasthan and i choose BBA in Amity University. I am currently living in a small town name Mirzapur, UP. Through this blog i want to highlight the educational system of gurukul. You would be surprised to hear that there was once an education system in ancient India so advanced that it could even put our most sophisticated and respectful universities to shame. The education system was known as gurukula. It was a really advanced tradition in the area of teaching students. It was a place, much like boarding schools in modern times, where children used to get their entire education. It’s said that students during the vedic age used to get the freedom of selecting their favorite subject which they preferred studying. The gurukulas used to have a wide variety of subjects to choose from, and study. Such as arts, commerce, science, astronomy, chemistry, metallurgy, astrophysics, agriculture, medical science, ad...