This account, @MarioNawfal, constantly pushes fake narratives, often using AI-generated videos. @PIBFactCheck should take notice. @DelhiPolice and @MIB_India should have this account banned in India. It is a repeat offender.
In the 1990s, India was facing a Biological Colonization. If Dr. R.A. Mashelkar had not stepped in, we might have ended up paying a royalty to a US corporation every time we used turmeric on a wound/exported Basmati rice.
In 1997, a Texas-based company called RiceTec was granted a patent by the USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) for Basmati Rice lines & grains. They claimed they had invented a superior strain of rice. Mashelkar realized that if this patent stood, Indian farmers would be barred from selling their own rice under the name Basmati in the US. It was a theft of Geographical Intellectual Property.
He did not just shout Injustice. He assembled a team to find Genetic Fingerprints. They proved that the new rice was actually derived from Indian germplasm that had existed for centuries. The USPTO was forced to strike down the majority of the claims.
2 researchers at the University of Mississippi were granted a patent for the use of turmeric in healing wounds. To a Western patent officer, this was a novel invention. To an Indian, it was something their grandmother did every day. Mashelkar produced an ancient Sanskrit text as Prior Art. The USPTO demanded a translation. He provided evidence from the Journal of the Indian Medical Association dating back to 1953 + ancient Ayurvedic texts.
This was the 1st time in history that a patent granted to a US entity was successfully challenged & revoked based on the Traditional Knowledge of a developing country.
Mashelkar also realized that India could not fight 10000 legal battles every yr. He needed a Scalable Solution. Patent officers in the West were not malicious; they were just Data Blind. They could not read Sanskrit/Tamil/Persian. If a discovery was not in an English journal, it did not exist in their system.
He hired 100s of experts (Ayurveda practitioners, IT engineers, & Patent lawyers). They took 500000+ formulations & converted them into a digitized Shloka to Code format. The data was rendered in English, French, German, Japanese, & Spanish.
Today, India has signed agreements with the USPTO, the European Patent Office, & others. Before an officer grants a patent, they run a TKDL Scan. If the herb/method is in the library, the patent is rejected instantly.
आप्रा द्यावापृथिवी अन्तरिक्षं सूर्य आत्मा जगतस्तस्थुषश्च ||
apra dyava-prthivi antariksam surya atma jagatas tasthuaas ca ||
"Filling space & earth, atmosphere, the Sun is the soul of all that moves and all that are stationary (on Earth)."
- Ṛgveda 1.115.1 (~ 3500 years ago).
The Prime Minister's Office:
Pakistan Defence Minister’s call for Israel’s annihilation is outrageous. This is not a statement that can be tolerated from any government, especially not from one that claims to be a neutral arbiter for peace.
India did the right thing not getting in any way involved in this nonsense war. Nothing about anything makes sense here.
Just secure our own interests and keep growing.
In the last 15 years, India has made unprecedented gains in science, technology, social & economic upliftment - transforming lives of 100s of millions of people. While the world is embroiled in conflicts, India has silently & steadfastly continued on its path of historical development (nuclear energy program, women’s reservation etc). Our media too must evolve - beyond their obsession with “brokers”.
Karadka inscription (South Canara, now Kasaragod Keralam) is dated 1st century BCE. It reads “kaḻakoā Bhaṭṭāṉ magaṉ śaruma”—kaḻakoā Bhaṭṭa’s son Sharmā—a Brahmin name. That puts Brahmins in Kerala a century before Jesus was born.
#Brahmins#Keralam#TuluNadu
Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.
The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.
This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.
A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.