WikiBooks - Playing the Guitar, LaTeX typesetting.

WikiBooks on playing the Guitar :
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guitar

WikiBooks on LaTeX typesetting :
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

Rajiv Malhotra on Westernized background

On his own "Westernized Background" and how it is perceived.
http://rajivmalhotra.sulekha.com/blog/post/2004/04/the-westernized-side-of-my-background.htm

"We have an ancient Indian tradition of engaging the 'other' using a technique called purva-paksha. This means you must first study the other's viewpoint very seriously and become an expert in it. Only then can you debate against it."

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On the other hand, the west has invested serious resources to study Indian culture and thought rather than ignoring it. RISA is merely one example to prove my point. This started with the Jesuit College about 500 years ago that translated Sanskrit works into Latin (including many in science/mathematics still not declassified by the Vatican). Later it became more sophisticated Indology in 19th century: EVERY major European university had Sanskrit text studies as a large department. Today this is done not by the British Empire but mainly by the US Government, the churches, and various US private foundations funded by MNCs wealth. Today's South Asian Studies replaces colonial Indology as the west's purva-paksha of Indian thought and culture.....

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The Avatar enters the theater of mundane life to teach how to live in the mundane kshetra.

So today's teachings must be for today's kshetra, which happens to be western dominated. Krishna starts with a SWOT analysis (SWOT means Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) of both sides of the war, when he explains to Arjuna the capabilities of each of the main participants. This is called competitive analysis, an example of having knowledge of the kshetra – a very practical thing

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Kerala School of Mathematics, Kerala Astronomers...

* Kerala Astronomers and Eurocentrism
http://varnam.org/blog/2009/01/op-ed-in-mail-today-kerala-astronomers-and-eurocentrism/

(From Varnam -- http://varnam.org/blog/)

* Neither Newton nor Leibnitz - The Pre-History of Calculus and Celestial Mechanics in Medieval Kerala

http://www.canisius.edu/topos/rajeev.asp

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