We are a week past celebrating Hanuma Jayanti.

The day Hanuma, son of Vaayu, who wanted to Eat up the Sun god ('cos he thought it was a tasteful berry), was born. Hanuma, whose parents then contrived for him to lose memory of his strength until really required.

Hanuma, who found in his Bhakti of Sri Raama, the strength, and learned of it when goaded, reminded and guided by Jaambuvanta.

The ParamaBhakta whose Bhakti was so immense that Sri Raama had to find a trick to keep his own vow to slay someone protected by Hanuma’s Raama -Bhakti.

India is the land of Hanuma, of Sri Raama, whose birth we also celebrated about 2 weeks ago. In *this* land with such Hoary Heroes, such Gods: A PurushOttama, a King, a God who goes on a 14- year Exile to keep his father’s word, a Bhakta whose Bhakti matches the intensity of the skills and Warrior skills of even the VishnuAvataara he worships. In this land, in this age, with such stories so widely known, apparently, we forget to find Inspiration, Bhakti and Courage from their deeds.

In between the days we celebrated the Birth of such heroes, I got to see lamentations, of our “inability” either as a society or as a people. “Oh! we can’t ever build Twitter in India: Our Manpower just isn't good!” “Oh! we can’t be the best at XYZ thing cos, you know, everybody (i.e. US, Russia, China, Japan and the like) are already good at it!”

I read such lamentation and I can’t understand where such Colonial thinking comes from.

You and I: YOU and I, we owe our freedom from the British, our Rights, our Current status as a Free nation, Free People, the Spectacular, unheralded, unseen act of throwing off the British Yoke: by those who were Inspired by Hanuma, by Sri Raama. GandhiJi was inspired enough to ask for Raama Rajyaas his goal for India after the British were overthrown. That was no mean coincidence.

Imagine getting freedom by striking work.

No, don't imagine.

We basically did that. (alongside tactical assault in places of importance).

Such a humongous, Magnificent thing, that we can’t even comprehend it many times. Many of us don't even WISH to believe it, it is that Magnificent.

Current thinking laughs at it, because, in their Binary thinking, there is only one way to do it: Fight bloody battles all over. Well, let us compare with an example, what happens when Continent Sized Nations try that.

Across, the Himalayas, beyond Tibet, the Chinese were fighting for their own freedom from Japanese-British occupation. That bloody war wasn't just a drain on them and their soldiers: They fought everywhere, in city streets, in villages, wherever. Then there was a Civil war Between two factions, which led to the Civil War that killed Crores.

Not Content with winning that Chinese Civil War, Communist China then invaded Tibet. Then started a “great experiment” called “Great Leap Forward” which literally killed Crores more. Not only did it kill, it impoverished and turned upside-down the food chain, logistics and other things in a hitherto unseen scale outside Soviet Russia.

For the majority of that time, India was building our people up, starting Immunization programs, keeping us all fed.

You and I, and possibly a generation or two before us, haven't seen a famine in India. In Democratic, Hindu-ruled India. Famines were seen almost every decade of British Rule.

The current crisis, where you are reading this sitting at home, or wherever you are “Locked-down” at, has its roots in the Chinese “Cultural Revolution” — “Great Leap Forward” experiments of Communist China & Mao. The Mao-made (not a typo) famines it created and the lack of food supply meant that people had to eat anything available to survive: including wild animals. Crores of People died regardless of such an idea. Those wild animal markets still abound, and Communist China’s overseas ‘mouthpiece’ Global Times was touting the Wuhan delicacies just a few days ago!

Not. Kidding.

Aren’t you glad that within India’s borders, we don’t have a Plague because some Communist-Leftists-Nazis decided to do random (i.e, Bat-Shit-Crazy) ideas testing and everybody had to survive by eating rats and what not?

You should be.

That is all great, but weren't you talking Tech?

I was, I am. Tech isn't just silicon, it also gets into food, into freedom, in our ways of thinking. Technology is just a complicated word for a tool and tooling process.

But Technology doesn’t happen in a vacuum, or without a vision and without Belief.

First, a little bit of history. The first modern that rockets that Sort Of went past the Earth’s atmosphere were German, not American, not English/British, Russian or Japanese. Everything the Americans or Russians subsequently developed into their Space missions or Lunar missions came from stealing the work of German (Nazi) scientists or directly stealing the Scientists themselves: including the missiles and moon landing. World War-II that ended in 1945 was a gift to both countries that way.

The first Lunar missions successful were in late 1960s: a good 25-year gap after poaching the brightest and best research at its peak. In comparison, India’s first modern rocket was in 1979-80. By 2007–8, we had sent spacecrafts to the Moon, by 2014, we sent them to Mars as well: almost entirely indigenous efforts, and succeeding the first time on our Mangalyaan as well:

No one else had succeeded in their first attempt at Mars. EVER.

The Interplanetary Voyager Rockets took about 40 years since the US poached the German scientists. Think about it.

Are you still thinking we have bad tech or bad human resources or such? Are you going “But 99% of them think our Human Resources are not great”?

Are you?

Only 1% get to do elite stuff, that is why they are elite, whether in India or anywhere else. 90% of US is obese, overweight and seconds from a heart attack, but it needed only 1 Mark Spitz or Michael Phelps to get 7 or 8 medals in Swimming: it doesn't mean you can put any American in a pool and they’ll win an Olympic medal, No. They don't send Mikey, who can barely get out of his SUV and run out of breath before he reaches his door to the Olympics.

Now onto the Twitters, the Googles, The Facebooks, and what not.

You know how they are now. They look “invincible”? Do you know how they were before? 10 years ago, none of them looked anywhere like that. Facebook was amongst the slowest websites to load, yes it didn't fail, but did you ever see how many people who played Farmville etc.,complained? Look it up.

Gmail, launched in 2004, was frequently facing problems in 2010–12. Constant outages, not showing inbox after logging and what not.

Twitter, oh twitter. It had a full Hashtag fest and Meme for its outages, all through 2009, 10, 11, 12, 13. It was called #FailWhale: didn't stabilise until late 2013.

In fact, even as I write this, just couple of days ago #TwitterDown was trending because it was down.

This was why the “DownForMeOrEveryone” websites started in the first place! :))

All three and more are Prime to be disrupted now, because, they are “established” and have pissed off enough people with their policies. Facebook has Privacy issues, Google shuts down random stuff the White-Nazi-Liberals oppose,

Twitter suspends anyone who doesn't Tow the White-Nazi-Liberal (see Note) line, employs those who Hate Hindus with gusto, suspends accounts of anyone who remotely criticises Sickular behaviour.

(Note: White-Nazi-Liberal line: where anything that is deemed Politically incorrect or Not Possible by White Liberal Establishment is dismissed or deemed Fake: This was the model of the Nazis, now sold to non-Whites now as ‘Liberalism’).

In 10 years, we will have many more Billion-User platforms. We will have more disruption.

Promote Indian Tech, with Indian stories that aren't always “West”-friendly. There is a huge market for this.

Bring in Indian virtue of Freedom of Speech being to Express and not to Offend.

The Pie is yours!

So, before signing off, here’s a request:

Next time, even if, like Sri Raama, you don't go saying “Mother and Motherland are more dearer to the heart than Heaven”, at least look for the Hindu/Indian positives. There are many, I tell you!

BajrangBali ki Jai! Jaya Sri Raama! :)

 

 

Image Credits: Karan Acharya's drawing sourced from The Asian Age