Wednesday 10 June 2015

Truth behind the first supercomputer of India

So this is the story of India's first supercomputer PARAM 8000.
In 1980's, our the then PM Rajiv Gandhi went many times to US and begged(literally!) in front of US president Ronald Reagon for procuring supercomputer for our country. Ronald Reagon ignored him every time and when our PM didn't understand his signals, he finally told him in direct words. During this time many scientists in our country were persuading him that we have the capability to develop supercomputer on our own but he haven't believed them. Finally when US president humiliated him, he reluctantly gave orders to develop supercomputer to our scientists. And then miracle happened within three years and our scientists develop PARAM 8000 and created history by becoming the first developing nation who created its own supercomputer.
P.S. I haven't gone through the whole list of answers, so sorry if someone had already written on this.

Thursday 2 April 2015

Macaulay's letter to British Parliament



Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician.
Once Stated in British Parliament
"I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in the country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation."