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From: Balarama Varanasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 April 2008 12:45:16 PM GMT+05:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [BCB] The lesser known aspects of kAmasutra and
panchatantra
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Hi friends:
Important thing about Kama Sutra, other than being a treatise on
human sexuality is that it is snapshot from the Knowledge Society,
when India was the most developed nation on the planet, when all
countries looked up to India with much owe compared to how we look
at America now. As couple of friends have shown interst, I am
copying the four-page text I have sent earlier as an attachment into
the email itself.
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Demystifying Cultural Wisdom of Ancient India
Importance of Kama Sutra, which has nothing to do with sex at all,
is that it is an Application Area of an ancient Global Standard on
Concurrent Program Management. This aspect demystifies everything
about ancient India - lesser known aspects of Vedas, Sastras,
Sutras, Manusmrithi, Ramayana, Mahabharatha, and Kama Sutra, and the
Indian Caste System.
Remember that we study that an ancient Indian Universities at
Nalanda, etc., were destroyed. It is not a University, which was
destroyed but Standardization Institute. Ancient Indian Grama is not
a village. Ancient India prior to the Colonial Power wasn’t rigid
feudal society, which depended on the repression of the
underprivileged, as it is in the case of Western Racial
Discrimination. Colonial Power recorded as four thousand castes.
Instead it was a vibrant knowledge society with thousand
Professional Services Exchanges, which shared the Standardization.
You need to understand how Professional Services Exchange (PSE)
works. Each Grama was a PSE. The Purpose of a PSE is to democratize
knowledge and services – making Professional Development Courses,
and Professional Services available and affordable through. This is
done through Service-Credit system, which empowers you to earn
Service Credits by offering Standardized Services to any Service
Aspirant, which you can redeem to obtain other Standardized Services.
India still has the limitation that 1600 engineering colleges and
400 management colleges of India just produce workers- no fair
chance for these professionals to become innovators and
entrepreneurs. This can be overcome if we understand how Knowledge
Society of ancient India worked.
If we understand this intuition of PSE, immediately before Jan 26,
2008 we would be able to roll out Virtual Technology Incubator,
which gives a fair chance to become innovators and entrepreneurs to
all 500,000 engineering graduates and 100,000 management graduates
every year. Regulatory regime of India committed serious mistake by
allowing the opportunity to become Innovator and entrepreneur only
to the students of the few premiere colleges. Most of these
graduates are being absorbed as intrapreneurs and employees of MNCs.
In Sanskrit, Kama Sutra means Structured Approach to realize a
defined Objective, Human Sexuality being just one Application Area,
and the Structured Approach being Concurrent Program Management. I
will give you notes on Concurrent Program Management, explained with
respect to a contemporary Global Standard in Project Management
published by Project Management Institute, USA.
I am not interested in researching Kama Sutra, because of the side-
effects :-) But those of you, who wish to, should buy yourself
Sanskrit equivalent of thesaurus known as Amarakosa. You take the
Body of Knowledge on Concurrent Program Management and how PSE
works, which I can give you. You will find one Interpretation, which
empowers you to visualize how PSE of ancient India worked, where
Kama Sutra as we know today is one Professional Development Course.
The Product has the signature of the process through which it was
reconciled. Be warned of the side effects and keep away if you don’t
have a healthy relationship and a dynamic/supportive partner :- )
Researchers could get very attached to the combinations of choice
of words that indicate it to be a treatise on sexuality. As far as I
know, reconstruction of one Interpretation as a Standard on
Concurrent Program management requires group effort. This is because
we are all products of a society subjected to perversions. The way I
believe Kama Sutra was reconciled is as follows. It empowers you
bright people to decode it as well as publish the next version :-)
Principles and Practices of Standardization is very boring, tiring,
hard work. See the number of people who expressed interest in your
session Vs. those who signed up for my session. If I teach PMBOK®,
unless the client needs, and you are hired by MNC, I don’t think
people would have patience to go through the subtleties. One of the
side effects when we democratize Program management principles is
that young kids with hormonal gush in their private moments are
creating funny misinterpretations to the context of human sexuality.
Only the 1% who researches the analytical process of
standardization needs to go through the rigor. If I explain how
Concurrent Program Management is performed through cross-validation
of Concurrent Project Management and Concurrent Operations
Management, except for the 1%, others would be lost.
Emotional arousal enhances human ability to observe and to pay
attention to the subtleties. Thus it takes lot of effort to teach
the standard and let the other person pay attention to all the
subtleties. The bits given by their peers help the stakeholders
grasp the subtleties very easily. An Application Area reconciled
through the award winning bits given by a large group would become
very respectable Professional Development Course on Human Sexuality.
So when PSE requires recertification, people prefer to get the
necessary Professional Development Units by attending the
Professional Development Courses in Application Areas of their
choice rather than going through rigorous standards.
That was both the strength and weakness of ancient India. They
could democratize Program management Principles to masses with
examples from Project Context they could relate to easily. Not many
people care if we promise 30% improvement in Productivity of an MNC.
But 30% improvement in Stakeholder Satisfaction might make/break
modern relationships.
But the weakness was when only few thousand certified Professionals
with analytical knowledge on standardization was forced to shut up
by the colonial power, and the victims were given money only after
projecting the rulers as magnanimous deities and the educated as the
selfish. India is still in the state of socio-economic collapse
caused by the Colonial Power. It can relieve itself the minute a
critical mass of professionals knowledgeable on how it was done can
be created.
Why can’t we empower the Academia? Why can’t we empower the
Voluntary Sector with contemporary Global Standards? I am sure the
government wouldn’t have budget for it, at least if we realize and
start building PSE through Voluntary Effort, we can make progress
through self-help instead of waiting on the governments which flaunt
their right to rule instead of accepting the responsibility to serve
before the helpless citizens who are forced to choose among the
feudal parties, which don’t have democratic principles instituted
within the party itself.
Characteristic of Sanskrit is that each word has multiple meanings.
In Sanskrit to English dictionary, colonial power only chose the
wrong meanings. Now English dictionaries also have thesaurus.
Remember the accusation that one community didn’t teach essential
knowledge on how to become innovators that history of ancient India
was about repression of women, etc.? You need to know a few things
to do balanced research.
I believe that talented graduates of IITs and IIMs understand that
every must have core values, and it should publish contemporary
operational definition how its activities are leading to the
fulfillment of the core values. All India Council of Technical
Education (AICTE) was formed in 1945, prior to Indian Independence.
It was modification of British Educational Model known as McCauley
Model of Education, which as a state policy of the colonial power to
remove opportunity to become innovators and entrepreneurs for the
educated citizens of colonial India.
Regulatory Economy model of Independent India thought that too much
of innovation would blow up the feudal system. So they only allowed
opportunity for innovation in only handful of premiere institutions.
Now let’s visit back the accusation about the cultural wisdom of
ancient India that some community denied fair chance to become
innovators for others? This is their defect, which they accused on
earlier model, and indoctrinated the citizens who aren’t aware of
the earlier model believe that the past is also discrimination in
order to justify current discrimination.
In ancient Indian approach, opportunity to University Education (to
cope up with the limitation of capacity) is given to the few, who
were proven in the test of their social aptitude. This is relevant
to reservations. Consider the communities fighting that they should
have whatever percentage of reservations. With due respect for the
communities which believe in the necessity, let’s study the social
impact. Defect in the entrance tests of premiere institutions is
that emotional intelligence is not tested. Ecosystem supporting
Innovation and Entrepreneurship removes the necessity for the
reservations, and clears the confusion about the Caste systems- two
things at a time.
We should provide necessary orientation and professional
opportunity how these professionals can contribute back. PSPI
recommends creation of Virtual Forums with Video conferencing and
high-speed Internet across all colleges so that the grads of
Premiere colleges collaborate with the students of states colleges
as team members to address the pressing problems of India instead of
just being groomed from day 1 about the luxuries of a career in MNC
and the case studies of America. Increase in the fees collected from
the students of premiere institutions is a big concern, as it makes
them unavailable for the society, for most of the student’ can’t
afford the studies without a loan, can’t pay the loan without a job
in MNC, and can’t think of developing India, and don’t have time to
do so even if they feel the pinch in their heart.
And also there is confusion why competency in Sanskrit is necessary
for higher education. We can explain this very easily if you know
how Concurrent Program Management works. A standard is a body
reconciled through voluntary consensus. Say just like we have
different communities fighting for their Perspectives, if you
understand how PSE works, there would be existing users for
different standardized Services. If you revise/modify, remove
Standardized Services of PSE, their interests are affected. Groups
fight fanatically if they are cornered without rehabilitation support.
In music, dance, poetry, competitions, the content is developed
using the Standardization Principles of Concurrent Program
Management. Say we give you 100 constraints, and ask the
participants perform without violating those constraints. Those who
fail to pay attention to the constraints which were given before
hand, are likely to rake up emotional outbursts from other
stakeholder groups. It is true that not everybody who succeeds in
the knowledge competitions is likely to succeed in devising
meaningful Standardized Services. It is also true that people who
are affected by a Standardized Service sometimes propose innovative
solutions to problems where the graduates of premiere colleges of
India failed.
History of India indicates a repeated pattern, where the Knowledge
Society is being seized by tyrants, it evolving into a Knowledge
Society again, again being seized and so on. PSPI researches on
demystifying what’s going on. Most of us know that Sanskrit is best
suited to Computers. That is for the beginners, linguists and
foreigners. In fact, cultural wisdom of India is a treasure trove of
Standardization Principles, Architectures, Program Management
Principles, etc.
Service Oriented Architectures and Service Oriented Infrastructure
and collaborative forums like BarCamps are hot topics in Web
Technologies. PSPI plans to present evidence how ancient Indians
successfully used Service Oriented Architectures, and how Ancient
Indian Societies were collapsing when the manual implementations of
Service Oriented Architectures were manipulated. Interestingly,
ancient Indian SOAs can be automated with modern Internet based
SOAs, thus removing the error-prone human element in order to
empowers India to become a Vibrant Knowledge Society once again and
get rid of the confusion about the Caste System.
BarCamp supports exchange of Information. PSE is advanced and
supports exchange of Services. But while BarCamp is an existing
Product, PSE should be built. But just as Wind Tunnel Data is
essential for Rocket Science, ancient Architects left their
signature, which can be decoded by modern Information Technology
Professionals, with adequate training in how Standards work and
modern principles of abstraction, object oriented and service
oriented designs, etc.
Let me explain how democratization of knowledge works. Say for
example, if I wish to democratize Project Management, we need to
devise grades in competencies. If all courses are offered through
PSE, most of the participants don’t realize the necessity for higher
grade trainings. So the Service Standardization / Customization take
place only with lower grade competency, by choice. The services
reconciled with higher grade competency fail to have mass appeal.
Even if the communities with higher grade competencies isolate
themselves, there is no demand for higher grade Project Management
to the context of Service Standardization. However, exploding
knowledge requires study of patterns, archival of obsolete
Standardized Services, which earlier inspired consensus. Even
thought the Service becomes obsolete, elements of it can be combined
with other Services to inspire consensus for newer services.
Another element of PSE is data warehousing competency of the
society. Again as a Company moves to SMPA-2, SMPA-4, SMPA-8 before
moving to MPPA, necessity and sufficiency of a Data Warehousing
Architecture is linked to financial commitment. Once architecture is
selected, unless migration is justified and resources are approved,
society can’t move to upgrade. Certainly a few individuals take
advantage of limitations. In addition, citizens’ perception of
Identified Process defects depends on their Project Management
Competency and the Data Warehousing competency of the Society.
Migration Problems of ancient Indians, which we can minimize the
inconvenience through Component Architectures is as follows. Once
the higher grade competency people establish the necessity for
improving the competency used for Process Standardization, there are
still challenges. While the consensus for the Point of necessity of
higher competency is inspired, there is a challenge of customizing
the body of knowledge of higher grade competency being used to the
context of archiving obsolete services to the context of
standardization of new services.
This inspires consensus for regulatory regime for the transition
period. We have a mess with one group preferring standardization
with lower competency, one with higher competency and yet another
one insisting on cross-validation of two, yet another insisting the
cross-validation of prior three, yet another seeking cross-
validation of prior four, etc. To survive this chaos, knowledge
societies engage the services of people who lack Project Management
Competency, to archive the behavioral knowledge. Mythology and Kama
Sutra are highly resilient; they survive, while the standardization
institutes face economic sanctions by regulatory regimes.
Sanathana Dharma is a truce negotiated with the plea that obsolete
knowledge would be communicated as cultural heritage. But once the
society understands Service Oriented Architectures, they overcome
the limitations causing the failure of previous PSE. Representative
democracy is the regulatory regime. Representative Democracy that
accepts the responsibility to make Services available and affordable
through funding for Autonomous Standardization Institutes solves the
Problem. By the way Rajya does not mean monarchy but statutory
authority through which standards are published. India can’t afford
to keep President and Government roles as substitutes for honorary
roles of Monarchs, and making Rajyasabha subservient to political
parities. Another wave of liberalization is due where Professionals
liberalize the Academia and the Voluntary Sector. Dharma is about
giving a fair chance for everybody to become Innovators and
entrepreneurs. It requires comprehension of Concurrent
Program management and Processes of PSE. Enough said.
