Recovering the Indic hard disk

If your laptop hard disk failed or crashed. You had important data on that hard disk it will be a big loss. The Indic civilisational hard disk had crashed. We are attempting a recovery.

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The Indic wisdom was created over 10,000 years theorised, tested, experimented, researched, and all this was documented. While this ocean is mostly genuine tested knowledge, there are also theories yet to be tested, mistakes and errors, fake knowledge, misinformation and what not. It covers areas of history, science, human psychology, medicine, wellness and what not. Our Indic past created a vast ocean of knowledge.

This knowledge was attacked first by the Islamic conquests and later by Christian colonisers. Islamic burnt libraries, killed the teachers and destroyed the educational system. The Christian colonisers stole the manuscripts, broke and took away the treasures and burnt the rest. The wiser Indologists of the British empire tried the data recovery process. It was soon perverted and the depraved Nehruvian historians distorted the entire process. Regardless, we are now left with a knowledge base that is deleted or corrupted and we are reconstructing it using modern methods.

In effect, we are attempting a real recovery for the first time since the beginning of Islamic invasions.

But there will be challenges

On the computer, the recovery software reads whatever bits and pieces of files it can. Then it would piece these together. You would expect some files to be corrupted, others partly recoverable, some lost forever, but many you will get back. Then the software will attempt to reconstruct the partial files and possibly may improve your recovery.

Our experience in the recovery of our civilisational hard disk will be no different. The various elements of the culture we are uncovering are like recovered files. Some are completely intact, others are morphed, some others corrupted, some lost forever. We do not know the context of the creation of many. We may not know the chronology of many of these texts or parts of it as some were modified later etc. We will run into conflicting errors – we may find some text says something while other says something totally different.

Thus, we may find some argue about the “intention” of Ram, the relationships of Krishna, the character of Indra, etc. We may also find elucidated theorems with proofs about planetary motions, plastic surgery etc. but we may also find claims of flying planes and weapon systems we cannot comprehend. The details of many manuscripts, their annexures, and references are still not available for us to validate or invalidate the claims. These confusions and errors are inherent to the recovery process. The process by definition makes a lot of mistakes.

So how do we deal with it?

We must remain persistent and patient. First, deep and rigorous research is required into what knowledge was written and when. The knowledge is also dispersed across the country – some in texts up north, others in texts in the South. Some is embedded in customs and rituals, other is encoded as dramas and plays. This vast knowledge will take time to collect, more time to reconcile and even more time to interpret and make sense of it.

We may find our ancestors were more advanced than us in some aspects (psychology or strategy possibly) and not so advanced in other aspects considering they were working on these things more than 1000 years ago. They may validate or disprove some of the fundamental assumptions we take for granted. But to know for sure we must give them the benefit of the doubt. Our elders did a lot of good things, they would like us to pause before making judgements.

Finally, the goal of this knowledge is not to take us back to 10000BCE but to propel us to 10,000 years ahead. How, we will discuss, in the next post.