@ShefVaidya Babus don’t care about BJP or other party. They keep their eyes closed for a fees. Without fees, you cannot get anything done despite following all rules.
40 years in shipping gave me one unusual qualification as a historian: I had no academic orthodoxies to protect.
When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I followed the sea lanes backwards into deep antiquity. Without exception, they converged on the Indian subcontinent. This was not the book I had intended to write.
I must give credit to my editor, who gave an unknown author with a controversial approach, an opportunity. His first attempts to find peer reviewers encountered significant resistance. The argument that India sat at the centre of ancient world trade, not its periphery, was considered, to put it gently, inconvenient.
What I found, and what I could not stop finding, is that placing India at the centre of world history does not simply revise one chapter. It cascades. Correct the starting assumption and you are forced to reconsider the origins of mathematics, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, religion. Each conclusion leads to another. I came to call these the collateral heresies.
My three books explain the architecture of how they connect.
If you work in a field where received wisdom is protected by institutional interest rather than evidence, you will recognise the pattern. The question is whether the evidence eventually wins.
The connection b/w the South Indian Murukku (that crunchy, coiled, savory snack we all love) & the ancient medical treatise of the Sushruta Samhita is 1 of the most brilliant, hidden examples of how ancient Indian snack food was originally engineered as preventative medicine.
When people think of the Sushruta Samhita, they immediately think of plastic surgery, rhinoplasty & complex surgical tools. But Sushruta was a holistic genius. He knew that the ultimate goal of medicine was to ensure a patient never needed surgery in the 1st place.
Volume 1 (Sutra Sthana, Chapter 46) contains an entire, massive section dedicated to Ahara-tattva (the nutritional science of food). And this is where the fascinating origin story of the Murukku begins.
In the Sushruta Samhita, Sushruta categorizes deep-fried pastry items under the broad family of Bhakshyas (cooked, chewable foods). Among them, he singles out a distinct item called Śaṣkulī. Over centuries, as the Sanskrit word Śaṣkulī traveled across different regions of India, it underwent phonetic shifts: In the North & West, the word evolved through Prakrit into Chakli (retaining the circular, coiled meaning).
In the South cultures translated the physical action of making it, twisting the dough giving us the beautiful descriptive name Murukku (which literally means twisted in Tamil).
Sushruta was deeply concerned with the concept of Agni (metabolic digestive fire). He categorized foods based on whether they were Guru (heavy to digest)/Laghu (light to digest). He noted that deep-frying grain dough in ghee makes it highly caloric & strength-giving (Bala-vardhana), but it can be incredibly heavy for the stomach.
To fix this chemical problem, ancient Indian cooks did something brilliant that Sushruta documented: they introduced Masha (Black Gram/Urad Dal) into the rice flour matrix. By mixing rice flour with roasted, ground urad dal, they created a complete amino acid profile (rice is low in lysine but high in methionine, while dal is high in lysine but low in methionine).
A few might think why did Sushruta spend time documenting a fried, coiled snack in a medical text meant for surgeons? Because of shelf-life & thermodynamics.
In ancient India, monks, traders & soldiers traveling across vast empires needed food that met 3 strict scientific conditions:
- It could not contain moisture (water causes bacterial spoilage).
- It had to be compact & physically rigid so it would not crumble into dust in a horse carriage.
- It had to be nutrient-dense to sustain high physical exertion.
By taking the Śaṣkulī dough, piping it into tight, concentric, interlocking coils (which structurally reinforces the snack against breaking) & deep-frying it until 100% of the water content evaporated, ancient Indians invented the ultimate preservative-free, shelf-stable survival ration.
When you hear the crunch of a Murukku today, you are literally tasting a recipe that was vetted, chemically balanced & medically approved by the Father of Surgery himself, Acharya Sushruta, 1000s yrs ago.
So, the next time you serve Murukku/Chakli with tea, you can proudly tell your guests: You are not just eating a snack. You are consuming a highly engineered, ancient Ayurvedic military ration designed to preserve human tissue :))
@theskindoctor13 This is a very common practice to bypass all rules and safety measures by paying monthly fees to the responsible inspectors. Unfortunately, responsibility is always fixed for the owners and not of the officials. In my opinion, responsible officials should be booked and arrested.
This is an extremely important thread for the Indian Gen Z.
1 Why is the Cockroach Janta Party a threat to national security?
Why are they operating from the USA?
Who is behind Abhijit Dipke and his party?
Keep reading this thread for the complete answer.
भारत माता, भारत माता।
एक विदेशी प्रधानमंत्री जॉर्जिया मेलानी द्वारा जारी किया गया यह वीडियो इतना सुरीला है कि बार बार सुनने का दिल करता है।
सिर्फ देशद्रोही ही इसे पसंद नहीं करेंगे।
Stop saying that i am from South India or i am from North India, Instead say that you are from the South Part of India or the North part of India. This small correction will make a difference and it unifies the Nation.
- Jagadguru Sri Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati Sannidhana.
@eOrganiser Who is this Hindu who is expecting a pure veg food in a mix restaurant operates a M? I feel this Hindu deserves to be beaten for his unfair expectations.
हिन्दू युवक बहुत ध्यान से पढ़ें। आप भटक रहे हैं।
1. हिन्दू धर्म मूलतः पराक्रम-धर्म है।
भक्ति भी धनुर्धारी राम, चक्रधारी कृष्ण, त्रिशूलधारी शंकर, कालस्वरूपा काली, दुर्गम को जीतने वाली दुर्गा की होती है।
यहाँ हर देव-देवी के हाथ में अस्त्र है।
भक्ति शक्ति का पूरक है, विकल्प नहीं।
2. हिन्दुओं का आदि शास्त्र अपौरुषेय वेद कहता है -
रुजन् मृणन् प्रमृणन् प्रेहि शत्रून् (अथर्ववेद 4.31.3)
शत्रुओं को तोड़ता, मारता, प्रबलता से मारता हुआ आगे बढ़।
यह है मूल सनातन वैदिक धर्म। वेद से बढ़कर कुछ प्रमाण नहीं।
वेद का हर दूसरा मंत्र युद्ध, शौर्य, उत्साह, शक्ति की ही बात करता है।
3. आप में यह शौर्य नहीं तो आप "बिना खड्ग बिना ढाल" वाले किसी अन्य धर्म को मानते आए हैं।
4. हिन्दू के लिए अभय व शौर्य का कोई विकल्प है ही नहीं।
गीता के दैवासुर गुणों का वर्णन करने वाले अध्याय 16 का पहला शब्द क्या है - अभय।
5. यदि सच्चा हिन्दू बनना है तो बजरंग बली को आदर्श बनाएँ - सतत घोर तपस्या, शक्ति, नीति, बुद्धि, विद्या, वेद, वीरता, स्वर्ण चरित्र, सत्त्व, असम्भव को सम्भव करने का हठ।
6. वीर भोग्या वसुंधरा शाश्वत सत्य है। इसका कोई विकल्प नहीं।
अतः संत तुकाराम के आदेश का पालन करें। गुण्डप्पा बनें।
है साहस सच्चे सनातन वैदिक हिन्दू धर्म को अपनाने का?
- संजीव नेवर "गुण्डप्पा"