Sarathi

Five rupees is nothing for most of my readers. Not even if I ask them for 5 rupees a day — for the sake of a healthy India, because if India is healthy, all of us are blessed.

Just by Potassium permanganate worth Rs. 50, divide into 10 parts, and give one of them to the roadside teashop that your frequent every day. Show him how to make a solution. Ask him to drop all cups, saucers, and tumblers into it for five minutes before the final washing.

This is not a difficult thing to do, but by doing that you would save hundreds of people that month from getting amebic infection and other kinds of infection that are spread through shared drinking vessels.

If you can find ten people whom you can persuade to do so, the 50 rupee that you invest will eventually result in tens of thousands of healthy people, hundreds of thousands of saved man hours, and millions of rupees saved.

We need to work for the welfare of India. We talk about projects worth millions of rupees. Sure, they are needed. But there are thousands of things that can be done for our Motherland for far less. So less that it is embarrassing even to speak of the small amounts involved.

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Blogging is one of those Disruptive Technologies that can transform society – or at least a part of it. Since aim of Sarathi is transformation of India, I would encourage bloggers and potential bloggers to pick up areas and topics that can bring this about. One of these areas is Science-blogging.

Science-blogs can do transform the society in ways beyond imagination. All what is needed is a will to do something for Mother India.

Take the problem of Amebic infection in the country. It is estimated that a large proportion of Indians have got it, some get treatment, but most of them get it back quickly. The problem is our lifestyle – insufficient washing of hands.

Medical Doctors who are into Community Medicine opine that as much as 80% of the spread can be prevented by simple washing of hands with soap. People should do that before they eat their food, after they leave the toilet, and after they travel in buses and trains (where their hands collect copious amounts of these micro organisms). Bloggers can educate people, and they can also motivate these people to educate others — particularly servants and menial workers in their homes.

Can science blogging help India? You bet it can!

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The word Blog, and particularly Weblog, conjures up images of personal diaries in the minds of old timers.

[Photograph: the author with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Based upon the principles of quantum physics, the equivalent optical magnification of this machine exceeds 200,000X. It us used to study the surface of materials in the physics of extremely small things]

However, just as every other technological breakthrough has been adapted for a wide variety of uses in the net-world, blogs and the blogging platforms are now finding wide application. More so because of the ease with which blog software can be used to create exceptionally attractive and readable websites even by novices. Any number of plugins are available to make the blog platform a virtual Swiss Army Knife.

With things being so, I urge Indian bloggers to launch more Science-related blogs because ultimately almost all material progress in society comes only through science (where science is defined as an objective study of the material and the non material world).

The spread of science in any country results in long-term prosperity — at every level of life, as I will mention in the forthcoming articles.

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The India of my childhood (the 1950s) was a poor India. Money was scarce, food was scarce, and good cloths were a luxury. Thus it was easy for me to believe the false propaganda that India has always been a poor nation that needed a bit of help from Europe for its upliftment.

Time has come for truth to be told, for our national pride depends both upon what we are and also upon what we were. Ancient India was known to be a house full of gold, and that is the reason why all kind of people came from the north-western borders for the loot. And loot they got because of the divisions within the country.

It is business that made India rich. Business in every conceivable thing. So much so that coins were common in India around 1000 BC. What is more, instead of being made of base metals (that comes out of the present-day mints), almost all coins were of silver. Hundreds of thousands of them have survived! There were also plenty of gold coins, but it has not survived in that great numbers due to loot, melting, and the smaller number in any country of currency of the highest value.

Consider this only as a seed-thought to my readers to look into the great past that India had, and then declare it to boost the morale while we ride crest of financial bliss.

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