Artificial Amnesia

Hello reader

How are you today? Last week has been exciting because I travelled, it was a pilgrimage. But for me, it was something different I had been to one of the oldest temples in South India that is Rameshwaram and Trichy.

I visited some stone temples which were built centuries ago by our ancient men whom we think as old, but the fact is they were more advanced than even the most brilliant scientist to date.

Do you think I am underestimating the current generation of brainchildren and progenies like Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, CV Raman, Madame Curie the list is almost endless I am not even close to them, but I can be sure our ancient people were equally brilliant!

All of us would have visited ancient buildings built by the high kings when India was at the peak of its prosperity; there was a time where diamonds were sold on the roads just like vegetables and fruits and funds were released abundantly to build temples.

So why do you think the king of the day felt that building temples were more critical and gave importance to as he expanded his kingdom, I am not exaggerating this because we have evidence. If we travel to both North and South India where we can visit places like the Madurai Meenakshi Temple, the Sundareswaran temple, the Srirangam temple, the Sun temple of Orissa, the darasuram temple the famous Ellora caves Kailash Temple and of course the Vijayanagara and Hampi Heritage temples.

The musicial pillars of Vijaya Vittala temple at Hampi, Karnataka,India

Do you think that we have not decoded the actual messages that our ancient people wanted the future generations or the present generations to understand when they are we visit these temples?

Before I answer there is one fact which we need to understand which the present historians or the archaeologists have missed out; there is a general misconception that ancient people had lesser IQ and builders used simple tools like chisels and rock hammers to build these complex megastructures. I think that is not at all logical because if we look at the accuracy and precision which is shown by the artist in the stone carvings, we will be pretty sure they used something very modern may be more advanced than the present power tools.

How could they have created such high polished and smooth pillars
by just using simple tools?

When I was travelling last week, I searched the history of Rameshwaram temple on the internet, and I came across this YouTube channel called phenomenal travel videos which are presented by Praveen Mohan an archaeologist and a researcher of all ancient structures around the world.

He has given numerous analysis on many temples which just stunned me, and it is so unfortunate that no mainstream historian or an archaeologist is trying to do some in-depth research regarding this.

We Indians have a habit of not acknowledging that our tradition and culture is unique and it is invaluable. We have still not realised that this one weakness helped the British Empire to conquer India and rule for 89 years, we all feel sorry about the way Indians were exploited and also executed by foreigners who didn't mean anything to us.

But we have to blame ourselves because we never valued our tradition and culture and maintained Unity. We fell prey to easy westernisation and industrialisation. There is still a mind-boggling question which always haunts to date, what would India be without the British invasion? I have yet not got the answer for that maybe you can help me with some inputs in the comment box.

The reason I had to mention British Empire is that they were smart people who saw Indian culture and Indian temples and have implemented many of the ancient technologies which are used in our temples. The easiest and famous example which I can quote is the musical pillars of Hampi; there is evidence that one of the British Architects was so impressed with these pillars of Hampi that he removed one of the cornerstones and tried to find out how it works but was unsuccessful.

As this is my first travel blog; I will keep it brief and end it here by leaving the thinking to you.

Next time when you visit a historical place try to observe the sculptors and decode in your language so that we can unearth the real history and try to create an awareness of the pseudo-history which we have learnt all these years and try to tell the world the real prosperity of India which was lost to the guns and arrogance of the British invaders and the naive and sheepish attitude of the politicians who fabricated history the way they wanted.

We have all been made to forget Indian culture and tradition through the vernacular education and orthodontic systems which we follow which is the reason for this artificial amnesia.

I will write a sequel to his blog after I do some research and can present you with some examples to understand better about what we discussed today.

Thanks for your time have a great week ahead.

What is history, but a fable which is agreed upon?

-Napoleon Bonaparte

Helios

Forgotten people

Hello reader

Hope you are fine today

Don't read success stories, you will get only the message, read failure stories you will get ideas to success.

 -Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Here is something new about this blog. I have tried to write this using Google voice typing. We all should try it use it was an amazing way to save time and also more productive.

So today I want to I want to discuss some people who have given this world meaning and also created milestones for themselves and also to others during their time.

The motivation behind me to write this blog he is a movie which I watched recently called The Darkest Hour it is based on the life and Critical times of the biggest empires in the world that is that is the British Empire it is based on the life of Winston Churchill

Even though there is a good amount of negativity around Winston Churchill’s methodologies and also the damages caused for the British army and claiming more than 3 million lives for which he is referred as genocide monster, and also an  Indian hater who called the Bengal famine as the fault of Indians multiplying like rabbits! And also withheld the aids which were offered by other countries like France and US, which lead to the death of millions.

But still, if you look at the best out of worst in Winston Churchill you see a patriot inside who for saving his land from the fascists took all possible paths and defend his land successfully which led to the decline of Hitler and the end of world war 2.

Similarly in India there was a great man whose ideas were very futuristic and also very promising, and he is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who built an army which we all know called the Indian National Army not only in India but he tried to converge other parts of the world also to fight against the British imperialism he took a strategy to unite the Prisoners of War against the British, many sceptics who say this is what which actually drove away  British from India more than the Quit India Movement which is of course is debatable .

Can you imagine the determination which this man possessed that he could build his own Army to fight against British?  how many of us were ready to do if you are in Subhas Chandra Bose’s shoes we read a lot of Quotes regarding courage, commitment and also patriotism but don't you feel this is actually a practical example which you can try to explain to the youth of this Nation.

 Netaji is located in different angles by different people because he tried to join hands with the darkest soul who lived in this world Adolf Hitler, but going to the half glass empty half full approach don't you feel the primary objective was to make India free from the exploitation of the whites. We hear a lot of political discussions even today about Subhas Chandra Bose and his suspicious disappearance in the plane crash at Taipei, Japan. half the time we are always trying to get a joy feeling that Subhas Chandra Bose did not die in that air crash and lived on till the  late 1970s which are so recorded, understand even now the death of Netaji is a mystery but instead of finding answers to a big conspiracy which I don't want to comment who is involved, why can't we concentrate on what Netaji wanted his dream India to be and try to become more clear in your views and mature as a society.

The next person whom I want to talk about is also great he is the architect of the governments today he respective whichever political party is in power have you guessed I'm already? If you are still haven't let me tell you he is Dr BR Ambedkar we all know his name because the moment we say and talk about this great person we only get one thought in mind that is he fought against untouchability in India, even though we know that Ambedkar was the chairman of drafting committee for our constitution he has also worked in uplifting India in many ways he was the first law minister of India he was the first to reject the idea of the Aryan invasion theory in his book written by him in 1946 titled who were the shudras, Ambedkar views Shudra being part of the country of world in Indo Aryan society but became so  degraded after the inflicted many tyrannies on Brahmins.

According to Ambedkar, the Rig Veda says Aryans, Dasa and Dasyus were competing religions groups’ not different people.

Do you know the Reserve Bank of India was based on the ideas that Ambedkar presented to the Hilton young Commission?.

After the brief overview of 3 personalities among others I would like to end this passage by saying let us try to be us and not someone else, make a mark for ourselves and bring good to the society without expecting returns and make people realize that they could also think in similar lines like how we do and try to achieve something.

Thanks for your time have a great week ahead.

Helios

Con game

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Hope you are fine today.

I would prefer to even to fail with honour than win by cheating.

-Sophocles

Banks have always been safe houses of deposits of the common man in any country, but lately, the banking industry has become messy with scamsters inside and outside these mammoth organisations.

Do we release who is the biggest victim if such scams keep happening its none other than us the depositors of the bank.

Recently we all came across this shocking news of a scam valuing to more than ₹11400 crores and still counting.

This shameless scamster Nirav Modi and his team of scamsters are now part of one of the biggest scams in India.

Just to give a brief idea of this scam in laymen terms, it is class one loan fraud where there are loans taken from the bank without any collaterals or even basic procedural controls and swindling bank money resulting in stock devaluation.

Here’s what actually happened on Jan 28^th, 2018.

Punjab National Bank (PNB), the country's second-largest public sector lender, is now in the middle of a ₹11,400 crore transaction fraud case.

On Wednesday morning, PNB informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has detected some "fraudulent and unauthorised transactions" in one of its branches in Mumbai to the tune of $1771.69 million (approx). Following the announcement, the share price of the State-owned bank plunged 10%.

Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) received two complaints from PNB against billionaire diamantaire Nirav Modi and a jewellery company alleging fraudulent transactions worth about ₹11,400 crore, the Press Trust of India reported. This is in addition to the ₹280 crore fraud case that he is already under investigation for, again filed by PNB.

Who is Nirav Modi?

Nirav Modi, the billionaire in the middle of this controversy, is a luxury diamond jewellery designer who was ranked #57 in the Forbes list of India's billionaires in 2017. He is the founder and creative director of the Nirav Modi chain of diamond jewellery retail stores and is the Chairman of Firestar International, the parent of the Nirav Modi chain, which has stores in key markets across the globe. His designs have been worn to the Oscars by 'Hidden Figures' star Taraji P. Henson and to the Golden Globes by Dakota Johnson, among others. Actor Priyanka Chopra is the brand ambassador.

How the fraud was detected

According to the complaint filed by PNB with the CBI on January 28, the fraudulent issuance of Letters of Undertakings (LOU) was detected at the Mid Corporate Branch, Brady House in Mumbai.

A set of partnership firms -- Diamond R US, Solar Exports and Stellar Diamonds -- approached the bank on January 16 with a set of import documents and requested for Buyer's Credit to make payments to overseas suppliers. The firms have Nirav Modi, his brother Nishal Modi, Mr Nirav's wife Ami Nirav Modi, and Mehul Chinubhai Chokshi as partners.

Buyers Credit is, typically, a short-term loan facility extended to an importer by a bank to finance goods and services. It is a common mode of transaction in international trade where a bank extends credit to the importer and a finance agency based in the exporter's country guarantees the loan.

As there was no sanctioned limit in the name of the firms, the branch officials requested the firms to furnish 100% cash margin for issuing the LOU for raising the Buyer's Credit. At this, the firms contested that they have been availing this facility in the past; but the branch records do not corroborate this.On digging further, the bank officials discovered that two of its employees had fraudulently issued LOUs in the past without following prescribed procedures and approvals. The employees had then transmitted SWIFT instructions to the overseas branches of Indian banks for raising Buyer's Credit without making entries in the banking system to avoid detection.

The complaint also said that the funds so raised for the payment of the Import Bills have not been utilised for such purposes in many cases.

As per the FIR, five of the SWIFT messages (SWIFT is a messaging network used by financial institutions to securely transmit instruction) were issued to Allahabad Bank in Hong Kong and three to Axis Bank in Hong Kong.

What will happen now?

One of the worrying aspects of the scam is that in its statement, PNB says that based on the fraudulent transactions, other banks appear to have advanced money to the customers abroad. It goes on to add that these transactions are contingent in nature and any liability arising out of these on the bank will have to be decided based on the law and genuineness of underlying transactions.

Meanwhile, Joint Secretary of Department of Financial Services Lok Rajan said “I don’t think this is out of control or too big a worry at this point. That is my broad sense.”

However, the ₹11,400 crore scam comes at a time when the Central government is attempting to provide a breather to ailing PSBs, having announced a ₹2.11 lakh crore capital infusion to the sector in October 2017.

As of now, as Reuters opined, the only good that could come out of the affair would be some fresh consideration to implementing better practices in public sector banking.

Source: www.hindu.com

So the conclusion is that this was a hand in glove operation.

I urge the Government of India to use all its intelligence agencies to track this fraud down and take stringent action against such scamsters and bring them to justice and adjudicate them with the highest punishment available.

I would like to leave you with a question if the oldest banks have such type of insiders who help white-collar criminals get away then what is the belief in which we lock our money in banks?

Thanks for your time.

Helios.