There was Dr. Gunatilake from Sri Lanka who began by blaming Indian Govt for the misery in SL and RAW for assisting LTTE. Dr. Motvani in the chair of the session objected to this and the Sri Lankan speaker sat down, but Kaushal intervened and Elst persuaded him to continue. His paper itself was superb, bringing out clearly the macroscopic trend of Christo-Islamic jehad world-wide with special emphasys on Asia supported by some very meticulous statistics, and some entirely new eye-opening trends.
Special session on Geopolitics and History stole the limelight (and crowds) away from the parallel session on Transmission of Indic scientific traditions to the west in which number of speakers were apparently more than the listeners (but some good discussion was conducted in this session moderated by N Achar).
Geopolitics and History session was chaired by Nalpat, Uday Bhaskar, and Shivaji Singh. Some nice analysis but as the mercury was falling outside, so also the spirit. Scholars were near-unanimous that nothing is working well on Geopolitics front, and there was a sense of alarm in the end. Nalpat's convincing analysis showed that India itself might cease to exist in next 25 years, if situation is not radically modified. Shivaji Singh did his best to bring the mood back to optimistic with examples from history, but not succeeded completely. A telugu brAhmaNa, a local temple priest joined towards the end, and speaking in saMskR^ita and hindI, made keen points that were overlooked by others.
and dinner is announced...
Special session on Geopolitics and History stole the limelight (and crowds) away from the parallel session on Transmission of Indic scientific traditions to the west in which number of speakers were apparently more than the listeners (but some good discussion was conducted in this session moderated by N Achar).
Geopolitics and History session was chaired by Nalpat, Uday Bhaskar, and Shivaji Singh. Some nice analysis but as the mercury was falling outside, so also the spirit. Scholars were near-unanimous that nothing is working well on Geopolitics front, and there was a sense of alarm in the end. Nalpat's convincing analysis showed that India itself might cease to exist in next 25 years, if situation is not radically modified. Shivaji Singh did his best to bring the mood back to optimistic with examples from history, but not succeeded completely. A telugu brAhmaNa, a local temple priest joined towards the end, and speaking in saMskR^ita and hindI, made keen points that were overlooked by others.
and dinner is announced...