great people:
Nobel Laureates
Co-memorable speeches/talks attended
Visited Ashrams and other holy places:
Quotations from various sources
Macaulay:
It is scarcely possible to calculate the benefits which we might derive from the diffusion of European civilisation among the vast population of the East. It would be, on the most selfish view of the case, far better for us that the people of India were well governed and independent of us, than ill governed and subject to us; that they were ruled by their own kings, but wearing our broadcloth, and working with our cutlery, than that they were performing their salams to English collectors and English magistrates, but were too ignorant to value, or too poor to buy, English manufactures. To trade with civilised men is infinitely more profitable than to govern savages. That would, indeed, be a doting wisdom, which, in order that India might remain a dependency, would make it an useless and costly dependency, which would keep a hundred millions of men from being our customers in order that they might continue to be our slaves.“ : From Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Speech in Parliament on the Government of India Bill, 10 July 1833,” Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, selected by G.M. Young (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957), pp. 716-18 ( Context: Slavery was abolished in Britain but not in EIC territories in 1834)
“A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia”
- Prof. Jerome Friedman – MIT – Physics Nobel - Venue : IIIT-Allahabad (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/index.html)
- Prof. Kroto – Chemistry Nobel http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/
- Prof. Cohen Tannoudji - Physics Nobel (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1997/index.html)
Co-memorable speeches/talks attended
- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam – IISc Centenary Conference - 2008
- Dr. Sreenivas Sampalli – Infosys, Mysore - 2008
- Prof. Jerome Freedman – IIIT-Allahabad - 2008
- Shri. Sundarlal Bahuguna – NTSC, Dehradun - 2007
- Dr. SK Pal – SCSVMV University, Kancheepuram - 2008
- Prof. Krotto – IIIT-Allahabad - 2008
- Prof. CNR Rao - IISc Centenary Conference - 2008
- Dr. Kasthuri Rangan - IISc Centenary Conference - 2008
Visited Ashrams and other holy places:
- Shree Ramana Ashram, Thiruvannamalai
- Budha's birth place, Lumbini, Nepal
- Aurobindo Ashram, Puducheri, TN
- Swami Chinmayananda's Samadhi, Himachal
- Krishna's palace, Dwaraka
- Ayodhya, Faizabad, UP
- Gandhiji's birth place, Porbanthar
Quotations from various sources
Macaulay:
It is scarcely possible to calculate the benefits which we might derive from the diffusion of European civilisation among the vast population of the East. It would be, on the most selfish view of the case, far better for us that the people of India were well governed and independent of us, than ill governed and subject to us; that they were ruled by their own kings, but wearing our broadcloth, and working with our cutlery, than that they were performing their salams to English collectors and English magistrates, but were too ignorant to value, or too poor to buy, English manufactures. To trade with civilised men is infinitely more profitable than to govern savages. That would, indeed, be a doting wisdom, which, in order that India might remain a dependency, would make it an useless and costly dependency, which would keep a hundred millions of men from being our customers in order that they might continue to be our slaves.“ : From Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Speech in Parliament on the Government of India Bill, 10 July 1833,” Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, selected by G.M. Young (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957), pp. 716-18 ( Context: Slavery was abolished in Britain but not in EIC territories in 1834)
“A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia”