Enigma Solution

Historically, it has always been that, a small minority group lands up ruling the majority.  Take the case of Britain's rule over India. With just 40,000 British soldiers and 1600 British Civil Servants, Britain a relatively small island, located 7,000 kms away, ruled the undivided Indian subcontinent of [ 300 million people , enabling it to extract US$45 Trillion of wealth for themselves from India in a mere 173 years (1765 -1938). The British were able to achieve this remarkable feat only because of their employing a large number of Indian soldiers and civil servants. Such Indians, are also known as 'Coconuts' because they are brown on the outside, white on the inside. Indian in looks but British in thinking and attitude. The British understood that Indian education and society was at the centre of India's fabulous prosperity. Thus millennia old Indian education institution of Gurukals that taught a variety of subjects in traditional Indian languag...

Every society has some form of social stratification. In India this was originally done on the basis of one's knowledge, skills and merit, called ' Varna ' Over the centuries it kept on degrading until it came to be based on birth rather than merit. Thus powerful non meritorious groups cornered most of the rights and wealth and oppressed the weaker. This lead to the easy conquest of India by foreign invaders initially Muslim and later European. The promise of Islam to the downtrodden was, that they would be released from their social bondage and be equal amongst all others. This hope was dashed for the people who converted from Hinduism to Islam still remain unfulfilled, and in fact have gotten worse. Little known to most people is that Muslims of the Indian sub continent are still subject to exploitation, not by others, but by their fellow Muslims. Since there is no acknowledgement of the caste system and distinct and fairly rigid social stratification in Musl...

        On this Republic day of 26th January, let us all step back for a moment and  admire some  awesome facts about a magnificient land. We the people have  to listen to own hearts and  rediscover our greatness to build a better India  and a better world The challenges we face our immense and probably more than anywhere  else in the world.  We are surrounded by an unruly, violent and dangerous  Pakistan, a  beligerent and  aggressive China and a ravaged Myanmar.  Yet it is even more astounding that the most diverse nation on Earth, with  hundreds of  languages, all religions and cultures, is not only surviving, but  thriving. Bharat the nation we know as India. Land of spirituality, tolerance, compassion, diversity, wisdom and wealth, where  Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism were born, which is the sec...