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By PragyanSharma Polavarapu In the great Age of Discovery ,explorers, inventors, discoverers,philosopher took a daring scientific view and wanted to understand many unknown and frightening things of nature like travelling to ends of the great seas and oceans. Till then the sailing ships moved from one port to next known port very carefully . They did not venture into the great unknown oceans—probably due to fear that entire oceans will tumble into unknown abyss from the end of flat table earth! But in Age of Discovery a great truth appeared to have dawned on many senior experienced weather beaten sailors that oceans are not so frightening and that the earth is round and that if one sailed straight in forward direction he most probably may return to his home port after at least two or three years. They half believed and half doubted the words of natural philosophers( scientists and university scholars) that earth may be a huge round sphere. The time was 15th and 16th centuries and ...

By PragyanSharma Polavarapu India achieved independence only in 1947 after 300-400 years of foreign domination and exploitation . India is a land of about ten major languages which had developed literatures for 1000 years. Each language is spoken by not less than 30 to 40 million people . India is birth place of great philosophies –the great ancient Aryan Vedic philosophy , the Ramayana-Mahabharatha philosophy,the great Buddhist, Jain and Sikh philosophies etc. In India people of different races existed since ten thousand years and established their own cultures and customs with great vigor . But many tens of millions of people of weaker sections lived in utter poverty and neglect for untold centuries in spite of great reform movements by great people like Lord Buddha. People of different races and unreachable faraway geographic regions formed into different castes and sub castes. The castes were mainly to protect their racial and cultural identity. The subcastes were like modern ...

By PragyanSharma Polavarapu English is modern world language . It is used by not less than a hundred countries for doing government work, commerce,banking, education,scientific and technical research . Let us study contribution of English to the world’s pool of sublime knowledge. English is the mother togue of people of England . It was a Germanic language and its grammar and sentence structure are somewhat similar to German. Four centuries back English had old archaic words and old spelling which cannot be understood now. In those old days all government and diplomatic work,commercial and banking work were conducted in Latin language . Later many English writers developed English language for literary work. The spellings were archaic. The language can be only half understood now. Example –the works of Chaucer and Spencer. In latter Middle Ages England was developing as a great military and economic power. It controlled the seas. The economy greatly prospered and schools were being...

By PragyanSharma Polavarapu Old India like old Greece is famed for its philosophy of extreme beauty ,art ,morality and spirituality. In fact some of our philosophers claim that entire philosophy ,art and spirituality were invented in India. But we are not narrow- minded. "Let streams of knowledge flow from every area of world. Let winds of knowledge blow from every corner of the world" --our philosophers said. There are great philosophers in world from ancient to modern times .In ancient Greece and Rome there were great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus , Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelias etc. In medieval and modern Europe there were great philosophers –Sir Francis Bacon, René Decarte, Spinoza, George Berkeley, Voltaire, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Jean Paul Sartre etc. There are great scintillating and sublime eastern philosophers ancient to present–Maharshi Vyasa, Lord Buddha ,Lord Mahaveera, Acharya Nag...