Rajen-da,
Good to get your response. Now about facts - would you not agree that most
Hindus hail Krishna as one of the Hindu heroes and believe that he lived in
India thousands of years back --- I wanted to put that on Wikipedia page of
Krishna - and they asked for facts -- what do you expect me to do? I believe
wiki is a good example of people over the globe trying to have "sameness" -
even here there is bias.
Second, on Jesus's wiki page I added a comment that many Indians believe that
Jesus came to learn his skills in India (and I added a BBC report on that with
weblink) and that was deleted - saying this is no research evidence -- for
Indian news on Indian culture even an obscure reference (with no weblink) in
any newspaer article in remote India is considered okay by its editors --
incidently for Jesus they have stopped anyone from editing the page. Anyone is
free to write anything about Krshna , Ram etc -- thats free for all.
whats that to do with facts? Thats plain bias.
Umesh
Rajen & Ajanta Barua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Umesh:
What you are saying is right.
The West has a Eurocentric view of the world. They claim that the basic
foundation of the Western Civilization, especially on science, is mainly based
on Greek civilization. They even donot like to give proper credit to the
Indian and Chinese contribution in mathetics and other science. I would say,
the West is still in the Dark Age. However, they have a point. Indians
basically donot have any record of what they did. If you want to counter the
present Eurocentric view, the best (and only way) is to debate will SOLID
facts and figures and not with rhetoric.
If you have any specific issue, I would be glad to discus.
Rajenda
----- Original Message -----
From: umesh sharma
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 7:04 PM
Subject: [Assam] Indian reality versus Western mythology
Some days back a student of Indian origin born and raised in US was
surprised to learn that India had a glorious history - he hardly believed me
though.
And it did not surprise me since I have come to realize that every
civilization wants to promote itself as the best - Greek and Roman
civilization are promoted as ideals (closely followed by Egyptian one) --
Indian and Chinese ones are lesser ones.
Greek Toga costume parties are common features of Western univs just like
Indian kurta, dhoti are picking up in Indian college fashion shows.
However, the problem is that Western historians/scholars of non Western
spheres call themselves (and each other) as the world's foremost/only
reliable experts on their chosen area of expertise - namely hows and whys of
other civilization. Most believe (I believe) that those in non-western
world/developing world are too naive/unscientific/non-modern/non-rational to
understand and appreciate the distinction between good and bad; and right
and wrong.
I believe a lay westerner is more tolerant of others' views than these
experts (whose reputation and even careers depend on promoting what they
have always held as true).
I just created a wikipedia page called Hindu Reality -speaking against this
tendency (I'm sure someone will come along and remove my arguments).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_reality - I just checked --someone has
deleted the page itself.
Wiki seems to be about might is right -
Any comments?
Umesh
Umesh Sharma
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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